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1/6 Almost every action we are taking to “limit the spread” ends up in some way increasing it, or causing it to be spread primarily among those at highest risk. Here are the 5 most egregious examples.
2/6: #1: MASKS: Even N-95s are only 12% effective with a 1% gap. Only HCW have fit-tested masks. Universal masking creates a dangerously false sense of security for high-risk people which must certainly lead to an increase in exposure & mortality.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.0c03252
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.0c03252
3/6: Hybrid learning increases # of contacts. Children go to school, interact with peers (most of whose masks are simple fabric w/10-20% gaps, if they are not being chewed on). On “off days” are supervised by someone else, often grandparents, some of whom may be very high risk.
4/6: Limiting Contacts: Many schools & other orgs now tell people not to socialize beyond school. Kids are ALREADY exposed to each other at school. This results in people arranging play dates and social outings w/people outside the school, expanding the exposure circle.
5/6: Telling those who can stay home, to stay home. This ensures that instead of working through the population in “egalitarian” fashion, the people exposed most are those who are unable to work from home—typically poorer and 2x more likely to live in multi-generational homes.
6/6: Giving the vaccine to healthy people, or people who have already had the disease. This is a disease with a 4000:1 age stratified risk. The vaccine should go to people who are at risk, not those whose risk is similar or lower than their risk of flu.
https://www.thepragmatist.co/post/bad-public-health-kills-100-000-americans-died-not-from-covid-but-trying-to-stop-the-spread
https://www.thepragmatist.co/post/bad-public-health-kills-100-000-americans-died-not-from-covid-but-trying-to-stop-the-spread
7/6: Most important, but forgot. Prioritizing hospital beds above their patients. This is what resulted in COVID+ patients being returned to nursing homes.
8/6: OUTDOOR mask mandates, which create a powerful DISINCENTIVE to being outside where people get vitamin D and exercise--the ONLY two things known to help reduce disease severity. (And if you don't think people are discouraged from going outside by having to wear a mask, well)
