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The claptrap has scaled new heights. Few can forget the farce of the @WHO’s 8 June reversal on cloth mask effectiveness. This was unaccompanied by any evidence and occurred on the same day that the @WHO’s Chief Scientist, … 1/12 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/09/who-expert-backtracks-after-saying-asymptomatic-transmission-very-rare
… Maria van Kerkhove, confessed that asymptomatic transmission was very rare, in the process invalidating the entire point of mask mandates. The WHO went short science & long politics, forcing poor Maria to say that asymptomatic transmission was common—in models, of course! 2/12
Now, five months later and @hans_kluge, Regional Director of WHO Europe, raises the bar, saying 95% mask-wearing would be as effective as lockdown, on the same day that the 1st randomized control trial on masks revealed no significant benefit. 3/12 https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20201120_02/
This study confirms the meta-analysis of the last RCTs on masks amid a viral outbreak, dating back to 1918. Why so long ago? Because public health scientists haven’t been dumb enough to contemplate mask mandates since then. 4/12
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817
Although the comic timing of this muppet show is hard to surpass, this week’s absurdity is made yet funnier, not by the must-watch muzzled precision of his 95% utterance, but by his actually being correct for unintended reasons. How so? 5/12
Well, this week, researchers confirmed the same finding of lockdown ineffectiveness that @Pandata19 demonstrated in June: 6/12 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.604339/full
So Dr K is, in a strange way, spot on. 95% masking would indeed be as effective as lockdowns, which is to say, not effective at all. Were it not for a few billion yrs of life to be lost to lockdown & millions of children who'll die, making C-19 look like a picnic, I’d laugh. 7/12
It's tempting to pause for a moment’s gratitude to Dr Kluge for his acknowledgement that lockdowns are bad news, but then I recall that the WHO still has this impossible list of hoops to jump through before ending lockdown standing proud on its website: 8/12
I have empathy for ordinary people who have been misinformed by such corrupt scientists. I realize they wear masks because they believe they are protecting old folk, or maybe even themselves. 9/12
But I look forward to the day when they realize how they have been lied to, rip the darn things off, and unelect the inept and cowardly politicians who have destroyed lives, livelihoods, society and educations on a scale rivaled only by the Great Wars, Mao and Stalin. 10/12
It's good to hear Dr K say 40% of people are already not buying the BS, but we need to get the rest over the line & depose these freaks. Then the world’s decent & sensible people can start to rebuild & minimize the carnage. NOT by way of Klaus Blofeld’s asinine Great Reset. 11/12
As so often, life imitates art. My empathy often yields to a shudder as I run into Ionesco’s rhinos at the shops. His warning against the complacent slide into authoritarianism was intended for times like this. Don’t become a rhino! 12/12
