I don’t like Farcebook. I spent ten years avoiding it. Unfortunately, I am now exposed to the mindset of people I once thought highly of and find that they are easily propagandised by the hysterical media and government diktat – even though they abhor the government and accuse them of lying. The level of cognitive dissonance is something that would fill a psychology textbook.
Anyway, someone who really should know better shared this video because it demonstrates that facemasks work.
Fucking Hellski! The particles from a spray-can are visible with the naked eye, viruses are so small you need an electron microscope to see them and still the idiocy persists. They guy who shared this is someone I always regarded as intelligent, yet despite me pointing to the evidence that face-masks are not a barrier to a virus, he still goes with Uncle Rob in his garden with a spray can. I mean, randomised trials that look at real world evidence are pointless, so too an understanding of physical size. We don’t need no steeenkin’ evidence, Uncle Rob in his garden with a spray-can knows best.
It’s at this point I am resting my head on the desk groaning at the stupid because it hurts so much. Science, like common sense, reason and logic has been laid to rest, having breathed its last, given up the ghost, turned up its feet, kissed the cruel world goodbye and gone to meet its maker.
We have entered the age of the shaman, where superstition and religious devotion have elbowed science out of the way. Social media has merely encouraged this wilful display of staggering ignorance and stupidity.
There’s an old saying often attributed to G K Chesterton:
When a man stops believing in God he doesn’t then believe in nothing, he believes anything.
I’m beginning to see that there might be something in that. Either way, stop the world, I want to get off.
On the radio there are now government funded ads warning us against sharing disinformation about Covid virus on the internet. Presumably we should only get our disinformation from official government channels.
Well, I guess so. Dr. Stella Immanuel was promptly expunged for daring to spread disinformation. How very dare she? Likewise a while back that couple of frontline doctors who also dared to challenge the narrative. This little hit piece sums it up nicely.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/28/facebook-twitter-youtube-pull-false-coronavirus-video-after-it-goes-viral.html
Look at the language used:
Widely accepted and “true” are not the same thing. In the Middle Ages, belief in a supreme being was widely accepted, doesn’t make it so, though. Belief is not the same thing as empirical evidence.
The extreme reluctance to acknowkedge the failure of masks to interrupt viral transfer in Japan always gets me.
Japanese have a culture of wearing masks when suffering from flu / cold, especially on public transport.
Japanese have had this culture for a.decade.or so at least.
Its been the biggest live experiment on face masks vs viruses on the planet.
So if facemasks are effective Japan should have a lower winter flu incidence / mortality than the US /Europe.
Answer – they’ve actually got a higher rate than US / most of Europe and same as UK, indicating that if anything masks assist with spread of aerosol virions.
https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/influenza-pneumonia/by-country/
At the moment, they are desperately seeking evidence to fit their policies. Now, where have we come across that one before?
It’s probably not that they assist with the spread, rather (as anyone with half a brain can deduce) that they force the wearer to constantly re-breathe any germs or other “nasties” they may already have. Somewhere on the ‘net there’s a video of sections cut from used masks being put in petri dishes to see what horrors they contain. Apparently, quite a few…
I ran across this football net analogy, seems very logical, but you need an electron microscope to verify it.
“After over 25 years working with nanoparticles – here’s what happens with a cloth face mask when you cough or sneeze. The larger droplets are caught in the mesh of the mask – they are mainly water filled with 100’s of thousands of tiny virus particles (if you’re infected). To scale – imagine a football hitting the back of the net and sticking there. Now imagine the football as a water droplet filled with tiny plastic balls about 1000 times smaller than the holes in the net – the net holes are roughly 10 cm so say 10 microns or about 1/10 of a human hair across. Now put a large fan on the goal line and set it to blow through the water football i.e. simulate breathing through the mask. You will get a plume of water droplets roughly 10 times the size of the plastic balls they contain (or 100 times smaller than the holes in the net) sent through the net into the stands. Your mask is now acting as a reservoir for the virus to be spread more widely. To go back to the football analogy – it would be better to have no net and allow the football to settle and slowly evaporate at the base of the advertising hoardings.
The only way this will help is if the mask is removed immediately after a cough or sneeze, disposed of (ideally contaminated waste burn bin), face and hands thoroughly cleaned and new mask fitted. Every cough or sneeze.”
At my local Sainsbury’s, which I have been frequenting for many years, I am on nodding terms with many of the staff and reasonable speaking terms with a few.
They have to wear face nappies and, because the stupid things are so inconvenient and uncomfortable. Wearing is pretty well universal for staff but rather tardy, nappy often not covering nose or just over the chin.
I had one on when I first went in last week in a similar manner. Law says wear one but nothing says you have to wear it properly.
Quite a few people didn’t have masks and apart from one, who had a sort of “what are you going to do about it” air about him, people just weren’t bothering. I didn’t see (I was looking) any dirty looks or anything else.
I took the nappy off soon after.
I live in Britain, not a third world shitehole big city. I think you all understand, and I think this explains what I observed.
London bubble bullshit really. Lockdown of over 50s? My arse!
Popped the car in for a service this morning. I had an email over the weekend explaining how the process was going to work. I did as they asked and left the service book on the passenger seat and walked in sans mask, dropped the key in the box provided checked the car in and no one said a word about my lack of face nappy. The staff weren’t wearing them either.
I think you may be right about the London centric thing. That said, I’m in Bristol and Bristol is a bit strange.
Although… Last week, despite the insistence on face nappies in Southmead hospital, I wasn’t the only one not wearing one and no one batted an eyelid. Sure, on the wards and in theatre, staff were wearing them, but out in the corridors and atrium, it was hit and miss among patients, visitors and staff alike.
Just looking at the bellylaugh online now. One byline ” supermarket workers facing torrent of “mask rage” as historic levels of abuse recorded”.
How far the bellylaugh has fallen (although the comments are quite polarized. Sensible British people are doing their best)
Third world rather than Britain I strongly suspect. In real Britain this whole thing seems to be just quietly fading away. Pointless compliance – letter of pointless law rather than spirit – in the tardiest way possible with indifference to any breaches (tempted to spell that breeches). Very British in other words.
Let the third world fizz with sanctimonious faux outrage.
Likewise I’ve steered clear of Facebook but
last evening I took a taxi to Tesco & return, getting back in the car my driver said
“I see you did not wear a mask and told that guy you are exempt”.
Naturally this led to a pleasant Covid/lockdown conversation during which he showed me his Facebook pages which included videos by Vernon Coleman and others. 34,000 followers but all in Turkish and Russian.