This article is worth reading in its entirety, but here is the gist: all of this nonsense could have been treated scientifically with better ventilation systems, ideally coupled with UV light treatment of the air.
The one excerpt I will quote:
“To get a glimpse into that future, you need only peek into the classrooms where Li teaches or the Crossfit gym where Marr jumps boxes and slams medicine balls. In the earliest days of the pandemic, Li convinced the administrators at the University of Hong Kong to spend most of its Covid-19 budget on upgrading the ventilation in buildings and buses rather than on things such as mass Covid testing of students. Marr reviewed blueprints and HVAC schematics with the owner of her gym, calculating the ventilation rates and consulting on a redesign that moved workout stations outside and near doors that were kept permanently open. To date, no one has caught Covid at the gym. Li’s university, a school of 30,000 students, has recorded a total of 23 Covid-19 cases. Of course Marr’s gym is small, and the university benefited from the fact that Asian countries, scarred by the 2003 SARS epidemic, were quick to recognize aerosol transmission. But Marr’s and Li’s swift actions could well have improved their odds. Ultimately, that’s what public health guidelines do: They tilt people and places closer to safety.”
My commentary:
I have been reading since the outset that virus particles are really small, about .1 microns, and that there is every reason to think they exist as aerosols which move dozens and probably hundreds of feet, and linger for hours.
I have been reading for nearly a year that the best evidence is that hand washing makes no difference, and that surface contact just is not a form of transmission worth paying much attention to.
The best evidence, a year ago and now, is that transmission happens with sustained contact at close distance with an infected person in a poorly ventilated room, and that masks do NOTHING to prevent transmission at this distance.
In fact, I have been arguing for some time–and if anyone is allowed to gather the evidence and publish it I expect to be validated–that masks, because they create an illusion of safety where it is not present–actually work to INCREASE TRANSMISSION. It alters people decision making patterns and behavior.
Specifically, I think people are more likely to spend more time together when all are masked; and more importantly, I think masks rationalize being out in public for people who are mildly symptomatic–but not really sick, since most people who “get” this thing never seem to fall seriously ill– and thus contagious.
Thus, while it is true that a single person can fill a room with sickness inducing particles, this possibility is easily mitigated to a point very near extinction by increasing the relative humidity, increasing air flow, using HEPA filters on the air, and optimally treating it with UV light.
I remember proposing–really repeating proposals I had seen qualified experts make–that schools could be safely reopened without masks by putting fans behind the teachers, who were the only ones in most rooms at any risk of serious illness. Our children never were, even the ones in college.
And I proposed–again, repeating what I had read–that humidifiers, which more or less act to make the viral particles less mobile, less airborne, and vastly more likely to drop out of the air harmlessly, would buttress this effect.
And if we had added to this what the Great Barrington Declaration authors called “Focused Protection”, all of this could have been concluded long ago, with a fraction of the misery.
And on top of that, we could and should have focused on Nutritional Immunosufficienty, Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, and early treatment generally.
It is mind twisting, what has been done. There is truly no counter-argument. As I said over a year ago, I expected our Overlords to eventually say, “How could we have known?”
My answer, then and now, is “YOU COULD HAVE LOOKED”. You could have enabled dialogue, debate, INTELLIGENCE. There are no lack of qualified, smart people with opinions that have been trampled, attacked, and whose reputations have been ruined to the extent possible.
Robert Redfield himself received death threats when he took half a step away from the Official Narrative.
And if you want to discuss costs, what has been the environmental cost of dumping billions of masks in the ocean? Shutting down entire industries for a year? The psychological trauma of relentless fear of an aggressive an invisible enemy? The social fissures that have been deepened, the essential liberties that have been stolen, the LIFE that has been stolen.
All of this is a manufactured disaster, caused by BAD SCIENCE, which put another way amounts to LIES TOLD BY AN EMPOWERED ELITE AND DEFENDED THROUGH CENSORSHIP AND PERSONAL ATTACK, BY WHAT AMOUNTS TO A GLOBAL PROPAGANDA APPARATUS.
What is the difference between a man with a thick Southern accent saying THE BIBLE SAYS, and a man in a lab coat saying the SCIENCE SAYS, if neither view can be controverted or debated? I would suggest there is NO difference.
When propagandists insist “THE SCIENCE SAYS” this is no different in our current environment that the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages saying GOD SAYS, when they speak for God, channel God, and permit no dissent.
I hope daily we wake from this madness; that enough honest, decent, well meaning people wake from their somnambulistic trance to realize that we have been traumatizing people the world over–forcing them into extreme poverty, hunger and even starvation, depriving them of jobs, of hope, of peace and abundance–over NOTHING.
It is a global crime, one worthy of prosecution in the Hague. I mean that literally with no amendments. In important respects, it is one worse than most of the war crimes which have been prosecuted there in recent decades. More pain has been inflicted. More people have died, in many ways. All the deaths of despair directly related to the absolute dereliction of basic diligence amount to murders. Slobodan Milosevich killed a fraction of the number of people Anthony Fauci and the WHO have.