The SCIENTIFIC truth is that if I am not sick I cannot infect anyone. Period. Full stop. No alternative possible.
What keeps this thing going, the reason it had and has legs to reach around the world, is the idea that you can be sick—and thus contagious—and NOT KNOW IT.
This serms dim witted to me. First off, asymptomatic spread is just not possible. If you test postive for antibodies but were never sick, YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM DID ITS JOB. The virus got in and was promptly bounced out on its head by the guardian at the gate.
The WHOLE THING, this entire global mind fuck—arguably the most damaging practical joke ever played on humanity, which continue accruing costs with no benefit for a generation or more—rests on the idea thar for a day or two I might be infected but not know it.
But on any given day what are the odds of this? I personally have been exposing myself to unmasked at work and in bars for over a year now, and have not suffered a sniffle that was not beer related.
And is it not logical to ask what the most LIKELY source of spread is? Is it presymptonatic people? How many of those could there be?
No, as the Swedes—who are done, and suffered a third less death than us—and others pointed out long ago, MASKS CREATE A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY.
They CERTAINLY do not protect from the illness. The Danes showed that.
But they ALSO do not work as source protrction. And what they do do is give people with mild symptoms—a headache in one actual case I know, mild allergies in another—the erronepus idea that even though they are in public they are protecting others. They are not. Almost no one is wearing masks rated for any medical purpose whatsoever. Most seem to choose masks based on their graphic designs or comfort, and almost no one wears masks which have been tested for ANYTHING.
We know the best masks, fitted perfrctly, are only rated down to particles 3x bigger than the viruses they are trying to stop. We also know masks never worked fir the flu and smallpox, and that they weee tried numerous times.
In my view, DeSantis, Abbott, Noem and other governors should BAN mask wearing. This woukd in my view cause the mildly symptomatic to stay home, and serve the cause of honest science by providing large control groups.
And it would be a no more more egregious curtailment of liberty asking people who want to wear masks not to than demanding that those who do not wsnt to WEAR masks. The science in my view favors banning them outside true medical settings wearing genuine medical masks.
All these are things I have said or implied more than once. Here is what hit me this morning: the physical virus, as an actually existing microorganism with describable properties has morphed into the minds of many into a psychological contagion, against which the mask is a magical protective amulet.
Never mind that the virus does not transmit outside: I see pictures of people on bikes and even motorcycles wearing masks BUT NOT HELMETS. What they protecting themsrlves from? PHYCHOLOGICAL contagion, which is say a panic attack relatedto scientifically wrong ideas that have nonetheless been pushed into their heads by a relentless panic based media, which is leveraging this induced terror to MAKE MONEY.
You create the problem, then sell the cure. Its a profitable business model, evrn if an odious one.
Here is my prediction: the first Stare to ban masks will see dropping infection rates immediately.
And I will add that if we could test fir mental health damage as easily as we test for COVID, the results woukd br truly TERRIFYING.
This is a global crime I truly think will murdet—and that is the word—more people than the Nazis. I honestly think in the next ten years 100 million or more people will die from the RESPONSE to this not-very-dangerous disease than would have if sanity, goodness, competence, and science had prevailed.