I present The Science behind masks(this is 100% of the science, as far as I’ve been able to determine over the past two years):
There is no doubt a properly fitted N95 would provide a decent degree of protection for the first couple of uses (since the filters are tight enough to keep out small viruses/particles), but the filters in those masks get clogged so fast (as the article I linked states) they become useless in a hurry.
It’s kind of like when cell phones first came out and people were putting foil over the speaker to “prevent radiation”.
A mask worn while social distancing is this time period’s “I’m with Stupid” shirt.
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I used to put my phone between my legs when driving, or at least until I heard about the radiation. Can’t risk the package.
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Look who’s finally getting the hint…
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/01/22/bill_maher_i_dont_want_to_live_in_your_mask_paranoid_world_anymore.html
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70 miles long?
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Let us not cheer this man, though. He only did it when he figured it was the popular thing to do. He has only one conviction, blue no matter who, no matter how, no matter what. Sure, he barely cracks half a million now, but he is a part of the problem not the solution. The second he can, he will jump back on the DNC choo choo.
I heard this fact the other day and it astounded me. It may sound irrelevant but it’s not. The data from the music industry shows that new music, music less than 18 months old accounts for only 10% of total consumption. Music made over 40 years ago accounts for the lion’s share of music consumed. Vinyl records account for 70% of music purchases.
Yet, if you follow what the media says, you would think the situation is reversed. That 90% of music consumption is new music, but it’s not. That is not the reality. Regular people don’t like any of this shit, art/ music is an indication of the times. People are reaching into the past because there is nothing for them in the present. I don’t think this is limited to music.
It’s personally good for me, because I just thought I was a old-fogy hating on the new generation, but the ‘new music’ is so bad, so plain, so unimaginative all functioning off the same beats and the same three cords masked in digital rigidity, with some bimbo saying trashy things.
It’s not just old people, the younger generation is listening to the Eagles, not Cadri boom-boom or whatever the media tells us is amazing.
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It’s simply past time to just disobey and make a hellacious stink.
Pathetic. Why not refute what he and guests have to say? Why not debate?
They are afraid of debate…which is why they try to control the argument with fear
they always say…“but all these people died”…
Risk assessment
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And don’t forget how hard it’s been for the deaf or hearing impaired (I am)
I read lips and with people wearing masks…I can’t hear or make out 50% of conversations
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This is from 1986, just to be clear.
Older (and probably much taller) version of Rogan
Back in October, Jerry Williams, a popular Boston radio talk show host, began loudly complaining on the air about Massachusetts` new mandatory seat belt law.
Anecdotal “evidence” that vaccines don’t work.
‘‘Ten years ago I was living in New York and my car caught fire from an electrical short somewhere under the hood. Had I been wearing a seat belt, I never would have had the chance to get out,’’ observed one Dorchester, Mass. man in a letter to the Boston Globe. For sure, I wouldn
t be alive today. There are some things you just cant get through when you`re all panicky.
The children can’t breathe wearing a mask. Also, seatbelt was a “device” in the same way a vaccine is an “experimental medical procedure”.
Beyond the debate over safety, critics of the mandatory laws argue that they pose a special problem for some passengers, such as the elderly, who find it difficult to manipulate the device.
In Boston, senior citizen groups have complained that frail older persons who travel to and from the doctor`s office by taxi are finding that cab drivers often refuse to assist them in buckling their belts, thus placing them in jeopardy of a citation.
And the seatbelt “debate” was politicized. Who could have predicted that? And yes, there was an anti-seatbelt caravan as well.
Here in the Bay State, the dispute has become so intense that it has already become a major issue in this year
s gubernatorial race. Democratic incumbent Michael Dukakis strongly pushed for passage of the seat belt law; his likely Republican opponent, attorney Gregory Hyatt, is a leader of the repeal move. People dont want to be told what to do. They believe in safety. They don`t believe in silly laws that treat adults like children, an angry Hyatt told reporters at a press conference last month during which he announced his group had collected some 60,000 voter signatures, almost twice the required number to put the issue on the ballot.
Again, from 1987, meaning 35 years ago.
Replace “seatbelts” and you’ll get the modern “arguments” verbatim.
Society is paying dearly for state safety belt laws. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being wasted by safety belt law supporters in order to make accidents more tolerable–more humane, according to the personal safety standards of the governor and the state legislature.
Vaccines don’t prevent infection:
A safety belt law will prevent not one accident. We do not need millions for more safety belt laws, for more safety belts, for more accidents; we need millions for more educated drivers, for more safely built vehicles and roads, in order to prevent accidents. Preventing accidents will save more lives than trying to make accidents more tolerable and more humane thorugh legislation.
What about all those vaccine-caused deaths? Maybe “natural immunity” is better?
There is nothing wrong with encouraging the use of a safety belt, or any safety device; however, there is a lot wrong with the unjust state mandatory safety belt use law. Also, while the use of a safety belt can, indeed, save a life in certain kinds of accidents, in other kinds of accidents it can take a life. Further, some persons have been saved from death only because they had not used a safety belt. Using a safety belt is not a guarantee of safety and must be the free choice of a person`s informed judgment.
The arguments are the same, the people making them are the same it’s only that the victims of this idiocy are in the hundreds of thousands and not necessarily the idiots themselves.
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I had this realization last week. The thought hit me “How have deaf/hard of hearing who rely on lip reading been able to function the last two years - it must be hell”.
@sparkyo
I am not surprised by this. Children learn movement patterns for words not only by hearing but by seeing how other mouths move when making the words. Heck, my 3 year old thinks mask wearing is a normal thing…
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Well if we overlook the fact that you’re comparing an invasive medical treatment to a strap with a buckle, the argument for mandating their use does seem quite similar. Why, you could take that same argument and mandate all kinds of behaviors from people. If saving lives with authoritarian public health mandates is the priority, why are you aiming so low?
Why not control what people eat? Calorie mandates could surely save hundreds of thousands of lives per year, freeing up vast amounts of vital resources in the hospital business.
Why not outlaw tobacco? Same benefits.
Why not outlaw alcohol? Same benefits.
Why not outlaw motorcycles? Same benefits.
Why not limit the speed of all vehicles? Same benefits.
Who needs a pool, anyway? All of those tragic drownings…
Don’t forget that racism has been declared a public health crisis too, with plenty of people who want to use the full weight of government to crack down on what they perceive as racism.
The ways we can use heavy-handed government power to save people from themselves are endless, as is the supply of moral busybodies ready to take control of your life.
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It’s been a bitch thats for sure
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