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Reply #270 - Oct 24th, 2022 at 12:32am
 
ShellShilo wrote on Oct 23rd, 2022 at 10:54pm:
Dnarever wrote on Oct 23rd, 2022 at 7:31pm:
The protections of Mask Distance and isolation worked. It is not a false dichotomy. Had that been the case deaths would not increase when this process is removed.


I think you are missing the point. Regardless of masking, distancing, lockdowns, or vaccinations, the case numbers and deaths have been increasing since day one. Remember, before there were vaccines, there were only 999 people dying from this virus. What is it now? 




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the case numbers and deaths have been increasing since day one.


Yes its an addition affect - nobody who is dead will become undead.

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before there were vaccines, there were only 999 people dying from this virus.


Pre Vaccines the virus struggled to get a hold because of Lock Downs, Distancing and masks. Places in the world who didn't do this or were too late were in a heap of trouble and ten's of thousands if not more died.
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Reply #271 - Oct 24th, 2022 at 12:44am
 
ShellShilo wrote on Oct 23rd, 2022 at 10:54pm:
Dnarever wrote on Oct 23rd, 2022 at 7:31pm:
But at very significantly lower rates in places that were locked down distancing and wearing masks.


Are we looking at the same numbers here? And, I'm sure that the people who thought their dead loved ones would be safe because they followed these protocols, might disagree with you. The issue is NOT the rate in which these people are dying. The issue is why they are dying in the first place.



Nobody ever said that the protocols were perfect. Virtually every outbreak was caused by people breaking the rules.

As you say above we had about 999 deaths pre vaccine and their loved ones would have been very upset. However the point here is that the places where there was no lockdown or it was done too late tens of thousands died at best. The US did it badly and over a million people died.

What this means is that a lot more people have living loved ones than would have been the case.

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The issue is why they are dying in the first place.


They caught covid and it killed them is the why. I don't see the cause of death as the important bit, minimising the number of deaths is the valuable part.
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Reply #272 - Oct 24th, 2022 at 9:04am
 
ShellShilo wrote on Oct 23rd, 2022 at 1:50pm:
Carl D wrote on Oct 22nd, 2022 at 8:25pm:
Sprintcyclist wrote on Oct 22nd, 2022 at 7:32pm:
I think due to the mass vaccinations, most people having had covid  and declining death rates, the overall risk has greatly abated.
I do not think it has been declared 'over'.

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.........  Thu 15 Sep 2022 05.00 AEST
The end of the Covid-19 pandemic is “in sight”, the World Health Organization has declared, after revealing that weekly deaths from the virus around the world were at the lowest level since March 2020.        .........




Ah, yes. "The end of the pandemic is in sight".

Which was immediately 'pounced upon' by the media as meaning "the pandemic is over" and our governments did nothing to correct this misinformation from the media. No surprise there.

And, they also conveniently ignored this part:

Quote:
The director general of the international health body, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told a press conference: “Last week, the number of weekly reported deaths from Covid-19 was the lowest since March 2020.

“We have never been in a better position to end the pandemic – we are not there yet, but the end is in sight.

“A marathon runner does not stop when the finish line comes into view, she runs harder, with all the energy she has left. So must we.

“We can see the finish line, we’re in a winning position. But now is the worst time to stop running. Now is the time to run harder and make sure we cross the line and reap the rewards of all our hard work.”

Tedros added: “If we don’t take this opportunity now, we run the risk of more variants, more deaths, more disruption and more uncertainty. So let’s seize this opportunity.”


Needless to say - Australia (and most western countries) are not doing that and they've "stopped running". In fact, here in Australia they've removed all remaining Covid protections such as masks and isolation for infected people.

And now, more newer vaccine and antiviral evading Covid variants are arriving (probably already here like XBB from Singapore - could be spreading in Perth right now since we have many flights to and from Singapore every week here).

Australia wouldn't be able to see the pandemic finish line even with the largest optical telescope on earth at the moment.


No one has removed any of these protection protocols, that has been protecting us all from a viral apocalypse. But they have removed the thousand dollar fines and arrests, the closing down of businesses, the suspension of our personal freedoms of movement and speech, and our freedom of choice for non-compliance.

You are still free to wear masks, take as many boosters as you like, keep away from people, and stay locked-up in your home if you choose to. How you choose to deal with this virus is your choice, and your business. And for others, also their choice, and their business.

In spite of all the media hype and disinformation, this is NOT MERS, the Bubonic Plague(bacterial), Smallpox, or the Ebola virus. This is a medically treatable flu virus. Clearly, solely being vaccinated will not prevent everyone from being infected, transmitting, or dying from this virus.

Do you even wonder why there have now been 15 variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus? Can you think of any childhood virus with so many mutated variances? So why this virus? Could it be that this type of vaccine is ineffective? Could it be the specificity of the immune-acquired antibodies is a bit too specific?

Maybe we should stop targeting only the spike proteins. And, let our naturally-produced antibodies target ALL of the virus(instead of only the spike protein). In this way, it doesn't matter what the new variant form looks like. Our natural antibodies will attack and erase.

How do we stop any virus? They are microorganisms that are neither dead nor alive. There are more viruses on earth, than there are stars and planets in the universe(10^31 power). Even 10% of the human genome(DNA) contain viral genes. Viruses have been on earth for over 3.5 billion years before man. And, they will be here long after we're gone. So good luck with your race analogy. In reality, there is no finish line. 

Don't listen to the media. They are the fear-mongers who created this climate of viral-phobia. Now they're  just back-peddling, to save face.




That was clear from the very first day the media got involved.
The propaganda was laughable, yet the masses were frightened into submission.



Then add to the media hype, bill gates.
That prick sat on TV scaring the crap out of people, while he funnelled hundreds of millions into his account, sorry, foundation.
He donated hundreds of millions to media, why?
He had a financial interest in pushing mandatory vaccines, as did half the politicians. Look a pallachooks father.
This insider trading needs thorough investigating, but it will never happen properly.
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Re: Mask mandates didn't do anything
Reply #273 - Oct 24th, 2022 at 9:08am
 
Dnarever wrote on Oct 24th, 2022 at 12:44am:
ShellShilo wrote on Oct 23rd, 2022 at 10:54pm:
Dnarever wrote on Oct 23rd, 2022 at 7:31pm:
But at very significantly lower rates in places that were locked down distancing and wearing masks.


Are we looking at the same numbers here? And, I'm sure that the people who thought their dead loved ones would be safe because they followed these protocols, might disagree with you. The issue is NOT the rate in which these people are dying. The issue is why they are dying in the first place.



Nobody ever said that the protocols were perfect. Virtually every outbreak was caused by people breaking the rules.

As you say above we had about 999 deaths pre vaccine and their loved ones would have been very upset. However the point here is that the places where there was no lockdown or it was done too late tens of thousands died at best. The US did it badly and over a million people died.

What this means is that a lot more people have living loved ones than would have been the case.

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The issue is why they are dying in the first place.


They caught covid and it killed them is the why. I don't see the cause of death as the important bit, minimising the number of deaths is the valuable part.


Ouch….. Undecided
See the photos earlier in this thread of the list of deceased doctors? I’ve watched a lengthy interview with Dr. William Makis, many families of those deceased doctors reached out to him about it knowing his stand on the situation.
It’s obvious the families see the cause of death as the important bit.
Yes… minimising the number of deaths is valuable…..
I’ve been saddened this past week…. the community in Idaho, and my family there with young kids have been shocked by the sudden death of their beloved jiujitsu instructor (Professor Derek Cleveland) suddenly died from a massive heart attack. Young fit trim good looking male in his prime of life. I shared the news with my family here in Oz…. they look at his photos and it renders them speechless.
Just another statistic that “died suddenly”. Embarrassed Embarrassed
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Reply #274 - Oct 24th, 2022 at 9:16am
 
Captain Caveman wrote on Oct 24th, 2022 at 9:04am:
ShellShilo wrote on Oct 23rd, 2022 at 1:50pm:
Carl D wrote on Oct 22nd, 2022 at 8:25pm:
Sprintcyclist wrote on Oct 22nd, 2022 at 7:32pm:
I think due to the mass vaccinations, most people having had covid  and declining death rates, the overall risk has greatly abated.
I do not think it has been declared 'over'.

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.........  Thu 15 Sep 2022 05.00 AEST
The end of the Covid-19 pandemic is “in sight”, the World Health Organization has declared, after revealing that weekly deaths from the virus around the world were at the lowest level since March 2020.        .........




Ah, yes. "The end of the pandemic is in sight".

Which was immediately 'pounced upon' by the media as meaning "the pandemic is over" and our governments did nothing to correct this misinformation from the media. No surprise there.

And, they also conveniently ignored this part:

Quote:
The director general of the international health body, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told a press conference: “Last week, the number of weekly reported deaths from Covid-19 was the lowest since March 2020.

“We have never been in a better position to end the pandemic – we are not there yet, but the end is in sight.

“A marathon runner does not stop when the finish line comes into view, she runs harder, with all the energy she has left. So must we.

“We can see the finish line, we’re in a winning position. But now is the worst time to stop running. Now is the time to run harder and make sure we cross the line and reap the rewards of all our hard work.”

Tedros added: “If we don’t take this opportunity now, we run the risk of more variants, more deaths, more disruption and more uncertainty. So let’s seize this opportunity.”


Needless to say - Australia (and most western countries) are not doing that and they've "stopped running". In fact, here in Australia they've removed all remaining Covid protections such as masks and isolation for infected people.

And now, more newer vaccine and antiviral evading Covid variants are arriving (probably already here like XBB from Singapore - could be spreading in Perth right now since we have many flights to and from Singapore every week here).

Australia wouldn't be able to see the pandemic finish line even with the largest optical telescope on earth at the moment.


No one has removed any of these protection protocols, that has been protecting us all from a viral apocalypse. But they have removed the thousand dollar fines and arrests, the closing down of businesses, the suspension of our personal freedoms of movement and speech, and our freedom of choice for non-compliance.

You are still free to wear masks, take as many boosters as you like, keep away from people, and stay locked-up in your home if you choose to. How you choose to deal with this virus is your choice, and your business. And for others, also their choice, and their business.

In spite of all the media hype and disinformation, this is NOT MERS, the Bubonic Plague(bacterial), Smallpox, or the Ebola virus. This is a medically treatable flu virus. Clearly, solely being vaccinated will not prevent everyone from being infected, transmitting, or dying from this virus.

Do you even wonder why there have now been 15 variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus? Can you think of any childhood virus with so many mutated variances? So why this virus? Could it be that this type of vaccine is ineffective? Could it be the specificity of the immune-acquired antibodies is a bit too specific?

Maybe we should stop targeting only the spike proteins. And, let our naturally-produced antibodies target ALL of the virus(instead of only the spike protein). In this way, it doesn't matter what the new variant form looks like. Our natural antibodies will attack and erase.

How do we stop any virus? They are microorganisms that are neither dead nor alive. There are more viruses on earth, than there are stars and planets in the universe(10^31 power). Even 10% of the human genome(DNA) contain viral genes. Viruses have been on earth for over 3.5 billion years before man. And, they will be here long after we're gone. So good luck with your race analogy. In reality, there is no finish line. 

Don't listen to the media. They are the fear-mongers who created this climate of viral-phobia. Now they're  just back-peddling, to save face.




That was clear from the very first day the media got involved.
The propaganda was laughable, yet the masses were frightened into submission.



Then add to the media hype, bill gates.
That prick sat on TV scaring the crap out of people, while he funnelled hundreds of millions into his account, sorry, foundation.
He donated hundreds of millions to media, why?
He had a financial interest in pushing mandatory vaccines, as did half the politicians. Look a pallachooks father.
This insider trading needs thorough investigating, but it will never happen properly.


Captain…. Exactly re: media push!!!
You will love this….

https://youtu.be/MyNJdLSE9FQ


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Reply #275 - Oct 24th, 2022 at 9:44am
 
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In August 2021, Newcastle Coroner Karen Dilks recorded that Lisa Shaw had died “due to complications of an AstraZeneca COVID vaccination”.
 
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Reply #276 - Oct 24th, 2022 at 9:52am
 
Sophia wrote on Oct 24th, 2022 at 9:16am:
Captain Caveman wrote on Oct 24th, 2022 at 9:04am:
ShellShilo wrote on Oct 23rd, 2022 at 1:50pm:
Carl D wrote on Oct 22nd, 2022 at 8:25pm:
Sprintcyclist wrote on Oct 22nd, 2022 at 7:32pm:
I think due to the mass vaccinations, most people having had covid  and declining death rates, the overall risk has greatly abated.
I do not think it has been declared 'over'.

Quote:
.........  Thu 15 Sep 2022 05.00 AEST
The end of the Covid-19 pandemic is “in sight”, the World Health Organization has declared, after revealing that weekly deaths from the virus around the world were at the lowest level since March 2020.        .........




Ah, yes. "The end of the pandemic is in sight".

Which was immediately 'pounced upon' by the media as meaning "the pandemic is over" and our governments did nothing to correct this misinformation from the media. No surprise there.

And, they also conveniently ignored this part:

Quote:
The director general of the international health body, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told a press conference: “Last week, the number of weekly reported deaths from Covid-19 was the lowest since March 2020.

“We have never been in a better position to end the pandemic – we are not there yet, but the end is in sight.

“A marathon runner does not stop when the finish line comes into view, she runs harder, with all the energy she has left. So must we.

“We can see the finish line, we’re in a winning position. But now is the worst time to stop running. Now is the time to run harder and make sure we cross the line and reap the rewards of all our hard work.”

Tedros added: “If we don’t take this opportunity now, we run the risk of more variants, more deaths, more disruption and more uncertainty. So let’s seize this opportunity.”


Needless to say - Australia (and most western countries) are not doing that and they've "stopped running". In fact, here in Australia they've removed all remaining Covid protections such as masks and isolation for infected people.

And now, more newer vaccine and antiviral evading Covid variants are arriving (probably already here like XBB from Singapore - could be spreading in Perth right now since we have many flights to and from Singapore every week here).

Australia wouldn't be able to see the pandemic finish line even with the largest optical telescope on earth at the moment.


No one has removed any of these protection protocols, that has been protecting us all from a viral apocalypse. But they have removed the thousand dollar fines and arrests, the closing down of businesses, the suspension of our personal freedoms of movement and speech, and our freedom of choice for non-compliance.

You are still free to wear masks, take as many boosters as you like, keep away from people, and stay locked-up in your home if you choose to. How you choose to deal with this virus is your choice, and your business. And for others, also their choice, and their business.

In spite of all the media hype and disinformation, this is NOT MERS, the Bubonic Plague(bacterial), Smallpox, or the Ebola virus. This is a medically treatable flu virus. Clearly, solely being vaccinated will not prevent everyone from being infected, transmitting, or dying from this virus.

Do you even wonder why there have now been 15 variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus? Can you think of any childhood virus with so many mutated variances? So why this virus? Could it be that this type of vaccine is ineffective? Could it be the specificity of the immune-acquired antibodies is a bit too specific?

Maybe we should stop targeting only the spike proteins. And, let our naturally-produced antibodies target ALL of the virus(instead of only the spike protein). In this way, it doesn't matter what the new variant form looks like. Our natural antibodies will attack and erase.

How do we stop any virus? They are microorganisms that are neither dead nor alive. There are more viruses on earth, than there are stars and planets in the universe(10^31 power). Even 10% of the human genome(DNA) contain viral genes. Viruses have been on earth for over 3.5 billion years before man. And, they will be here long after we're gone. So good luck with your race analogy. In reality, there is no finish line. 

Don't listen to the media. They are the fear-mongers who created this climate of viral-phobia. Now they're  just back-peddling, to save face.




That was clear from the very first day the media got involved.
The propaganda was laughable, yet the masses were frightened into submission.



Then add to the media hype, bill gates.
That prick sat on TV scaring the crap out of people, while he funnelled hundreds of millions into his account, sorry, foundation.
He donated hundreds of millions to media, why?
He had a financial interest in pushing mandatory vaccines, as did half the politicians. Look a pallachooks father.
This insider trading needs thorough investigating, but it will never happen properly.


Captain…. Exactly re: media push!!!
You will love this….

https://youtu.be/MyNJdLSE9FQ






Lol's, that was absolutely hilarious.
So good in fact that I watched it twice.
Thank you.

Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin
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Reply #277 - Oct 24th, 2022 at 2:52pm
 
Hmm...

https://twitter.com/pres23119270/status/1584340166793367552

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Ha, my hairdresser asked if I was going on holiday, I said no, and he commented that people only wear masks when they're off on holiday because they don't want to get sick before it. So they know they work, just can't get past the shallowest thinking.


Yes indeed.

And... directly above that Tweet:
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Reply #278 - Oct 24th, 2022 at 4:41pm
 
Hi Dnarever. Let me address your points. Although, they do sound more like parroted platitudes and media soundbites, than informed opinions. IMHO

Dnarever wrote on Oct 24th, 2022 at 12:32am:
Yes its an addition affect - nobody who is dead will become undead.


I certainly agree that these numbers of deaths are the  accumulative totals over the past 1,003 days(25Jan.,20-24Oct.,22). Of course this total represents an average of 15.5 people(out of 26M) dying from/with covid-19 each day. This represents just 0.00006% of our population each day. At the risk of being callous and insensitive, these numbers are just too small to justify our sledgehammer response to this level of threat. We almost destroyed our own country and our own people. 

Does this additive concept extend to the number of cases reported as well? Remember, these numbers also include the people who have only tested positive for the virus(not the disease). But lets ignore this for the moment. There are 10.3M total covid-19 cases today. This represents a daily average of 10,269 cases since day one. This represents only 0.04% of our population per day. Clearly the overwhelming majority of our population, was NOT infected over this entire 1,003 day period. Yet some people claim that almost 40% of the Australian population is infected. Aren't they aware of this additive concept?

Before vaccines were available, there were 28,947 cases reported over the 397 day period. This represents a daily average of 73 cases being reported each day. That's 140X less than the daily average over the entire period. This represents only 0.0003% of the population being infected each day. This was before vaccines. Again, not worth this level of panic. 

Dnarever wrote on Oct 24th, 2022 at 12:32am:
Pre Vaccines the virus struggled to get a hold because of Lock Downs, Distancing and masks. Places in the world who didn't do this or were too late were in a heap of trouble and ten's of thousands if not more died.


I really think that you're just rationalizing what you really want to believe as being true. The rest is just more parroted media soundbites, and disinformation by omission. I'm afraid that the facts just don't support your beliefs.

No matter how much you try to make the facts fit your beliefs, they will never fit. More deaths and cases DID occur AFTER all the medical protocols were in place. In fact, many times more deaths and cases.

If you believe that a virus is sentient, and couldn't maneuver through any restriction protocols, then we have a very different understand of what a  microorganism can and cannot do.

Dnarever wrote on Oct 24th, 2022 at 12:44am:
Nobody ever said that the protocols were perfect. Virtually every outbreak was caused by people breaking the rules.


This is the same copout excuse the government uses to maintain its win-win integrity. It certainly is NOT perfect. In fact, it is laughable and immature. Does any rational mind think that you can get 26M people to keep 2 meters apart? Or, wear a mask 24/7? Or, would passively accept sticking a poison into their body? Or, would voluntarily change their lifestyle, under legal duress? All because of a flu virus no more lethal than the measles or Hepatitis A. 

Dnarever wrote on Oct 24th, 2022 at 12:44am:
As you say above we had about 999 deaths pre vaccine and their loved ones would have been very upset. However the point here is that the places where there was no lockdown or it was done too late tens of thousands died at best. The US did it badly and over a million people died.

What this means is that a lot more people have living loved ones than would have been the case.


You are again simply rationalizing what you want to be true. Every time you speculate what could be true, it also means what could also NOT be true, right? In reality, almost 16X more people have died, and over 350X more cases have been reported after vaccines were available.

No amount of convoluted logic can rationalize these facts away. This was a media circus from the very beginning. Unfortunately, there are far too many right-brain dominant people, who are genetically predisposed to this level of media pathos. And, I really don't think that the public safety was very high on the government's list of priorities.

Dnarever wrote on Oct 24th, 2022 at 12:44am:
They caught covid and it killed them is the why. I don't see the cause of death as the important bit, minimising the number of deaths is the valuable part.


Viruses do NOT kill their hosts. It is our immune response to the pathogen that can kill us. Considering the fact that over 98% of all victims recover, this makes this level of fear almost borderline phobic. 

Anyway. I have a feeling that this will just become another rabbit hole to fall into. Unless you want to focus only on the points I've raised(I will list them if you want), instead of just parroting more of the same media soundbites and disinformation, I think we should just agree to disagree. Smiley

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Reply #279 - Oct 24th, 2022 at 4:46pm
 
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The Face Mask Folly in Retrospect


It has been known for decades that face masks don’t work against respiratory virus epidemics. Why has much of the world nonetheless fallen for the face mask folly?

The droplet model

Many health authorities have relied on the obsolete ‘droplet model’ of virus transmission. If this model were correct, face masks would indeed work. But in reality, respiratory droplets – which by definition cannot be inhaled – play almost no role in virus transmission. Instead, respiratory viruses are transmitted via much smaller aerosols, as well as, possibly, some object surfaces. Face masks don’t work against either of these transmission routes.

Fake science

For decades, studies have shown that face masks don’t work against respiratory virus epidemics. But with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and increasing political pressure (see below), suddenly studies appeared claiming the opposite. In reality, these studies were a mixture of confounded observational data, unrealistic modelling and lab results, and outright fraud. The most influential fraudulent study certainly was the WHO-commissioned meta-study published in The Lancet.

Asymptomatic transmission

Another factor contributing to the implementation of mask mandates was the notion of ‘asymptomatic transmission’. The idea was that everybody should be wearing a mask because even people without symptoms might spread the virus. The importance of asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic transmission is still a matter of debate – up to half of all transmission might occur prior to symptom onset –, but either way, face masks simply don’t work against aerosol transmission.

Political pressure

Several political factors contributed to the implementation of mask mandates. First, some politicians simply wanted to “do something” against the pandemic; second, some politicians thought face masks might have a “psychological effect” and might “remind” citizens to stay cautious (if anything, it had the opposite effect: creating a ‘false sense of security’); third, some politicians used mask mandates to enforce compliance and pressure the population into accepting mass vaccination.In addition, there was a vicious circle involving science and politics: politicians claimed to “follow the science”, but scientists followed politics. For instance, the WHO admitted that their updated mask guidelines were in response to “political lobbying”, not new evidence.

The media

Perhaps unsurprisingly, most of the ‘mass media’ amplified the fraudulent science and the political pressure driving mask mandates. Only some independent media outlets and some truly independent experts questioned the validity of the underlying evidence. However, their voices got suppressed as dubious “fact checking” organizations eagerly enforced official guidelines and throttled or censored many articles and videos critical of face masks.

“Surgeons wear masks”

Surgeons wear masks, so they must be effective, right? This was another notion contributing to the face mask misunderstanding.In reality, surgeons wear masks not against viruses, but against much larger bacteria, but more importantly, studies have long shown that even surgeons’ masks make no difference in terms of bacterial wound infections.

Misleading memes

To convince low-IQ social media users of the effectiveness of face masks, several unscientific memes were created. The most notorious one probably was the “peeing into your pants” meme, shared by many ‘health experts’ (really). Many of these memes exploited the fact that most people simply don’t realize how small and ubiquitous viral aerosols really are.

Doubling down

After mask mandates had been implemented globally and billions of dollars had been spent on masks, it soon became obvious – once more – that masks simply don’t work against respiratory virus epidemics (see charts below). But at that point, neither politicians, nor ‘health experts’, nor duped citizens who had to wear them for months wanted to admit this anymore.

Instead, some ‘health authorities’ doubled down and enforced outdoor masking (even on beaches), double-masking, or N95/FFP2 masking, to no avail. The one novel scientific insight produced during the coronavirus pandemic was that even N95/FFP2 mask mandates have made no difference at all.

Sweden: The exception that proved the rule

Only very few countries in the world have resisted the face mask folly. The most famous example is probably Sweden (see charts below), which has also resisted the lockdown experiment. Naturally, Swedish coronavirus mortality has remained below the European average. But the many vicious attacks against Sweden by much of the international media showed just how difficult it has been to escape the global madness and follow the real science during this bizarre pandemic.

https://swprs.org/the-face-mask-folly-in-retrospect/


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Reply #280 - Oct 24th, 2022 at 6:06pm
 
Captain Caveman wrote on Oct 24th, 2022 at 9:04am:
That was clear from the very first day the media got involved.
The propaganda was laughable, yet the masses were frightened into submission.

Then add to the media hype, bill gates.
That prick sat on TV scaring the crap out of people, while he funnelled hundreds of millions into his account, sorry, foundation.
He donated hundreds of millions to media, why?
He had a financial interest in pushing mandatory vaccines, as did half the politicians. Look a pallachooks father.
This insider trading needs thorough investigating, but it will never happen properly.


Can't disagree with any of that. Money and power talks. Everything else walks.

Also, consider that the contracts between the Australian government and these drug companies are the dream deals of a lifetime. If any citizen tries to sue these drug companies for damages(adverse events), these companies are protected by the government against indemnity claims. Hence why the government has now a 2 tiered cap on all compensation claims.

If the government doesn't use-up its stockpile of drugs(vaccines), or misses a payment or a shipment, it will pay a very stiff penalty. Which can include paying out money from the government's own  treasury

Also, it won't be until 2099 that we can see the complete list of ingredients in these vaccines. And, compliance is NOT mandatory under their exclusive utility patent.

The Australian government has already invested $17B  into this Covid-19 response scheme. We have states competing to be the first with the best vaccine. But what good is a vaccine if no one will use it? That's where the media comes in. If we can turn everyone into vaccine junkies, we can make up any excuse we want.

True capitalism at its finest. The creation of a new market and culture.

I think what is most scary, is just how easy people can be manipulated. Are you familiar with the Milgram experiment? Or, the Asch Conformity and Stanford Prison experiments? Damn our herding instinct, and our need to conform.

If the media broadcasted everyday for a month, about the nutritional and health benefits of fresh s**t, I guarantee that that there will be many Australians willing to give it a go.



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Reply #281 - Oct 24th, 2022 at 6:27pm
 
Sophia wrote on Oct 24th, 2022 at 9:16am:
Captain Caveman wrote on Oct 24th, 2022 at 9:04am:
ShellShilo wrote on Oct 23rd, 2022 at 1:50pm:
Carl D wrote on Oct 22nd, 2022 at 8:25pm:
Sprintcyclist wrote on Oct 22nd, 2022 at 7:32pm:
I think due to the mass vaccinations, most people having had covid  and declining death rates, the overall risk has greatly abated.
I do not think it has been declared 'over'.

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The end of the Covid-19 pandemic is “in sight”, the World Health Organization has declared, after revealing that weekly deaths from the virus around the world were at the lowest level since March 2020.        .........




Ah, yes. "The end of the pandemic is in sight".

Which was immediately 'pounced upon' by the media as meaning "the pandemic is over" and our governments did nothing to correct this misinformation from the media. No surprise there.

And, they also conveniently ignored this part:

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The director general of the international health body, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told a press conference: “Last week, the number of weekly reported deaths from Covid-19 was the lowest since March 2020.

“We have never been in a better position to end the pandemic – we are not there yet, but the end is in sight.

“A marathon runner does not stop when the finish line comes into view, she runs harder, with all the energy she has left. So must we.

“We can see the finish line, we’re in a winning position. But now is the worst time to stop running. Now is the time to run harder and make sure we cross the line and reap the rewards of all our hard work.”

Tedros added: “If we don’t take this opportunity now, we run the risk of more variants, more deaths, more disruption and more uncertainty. So let’s seize this opportunity.”


Needless to say - Australia (and most western countries) are not doing that and they've "stopped running". In fact, here in Australia they've removed all remaining Covid protections such as masks and isolation for infected people.

And now, more newer vaccine and antiviral evading Covid variants are arriving (probably already here like XBB from Singapore - could be spreading in Perth right now since we have many flights to and from Singapore every week here).

Australia wouldn't be able to see the pandemic finish line even with the largest optical telescope on earth at the moment.


No one has removed any of these protection protocols, that has been protecting us all from a viral apocalypse. But they have removed the thousand dollar fines and arrests, the closing down of businesses, the suspension of our personal freedoms of movement and speech, and our freedom of choice for non-compliance.

You are still free to wear masks, take as many boosters as you like, keep away from people, and stay locked-up in your home if you choose to. How you choose to deal with this virus is your choice, and your business. And for others, also their choice, and their business.

In spite of all the media hype and disinformation, this is NOT MERS, the Bubonic Plague(bacterial), Smallpox, or the Ebola virus. This is a medically treatable flu virus. Clearly, solely being vaccinated will not prevent everyone from being infected, transmitting, or dying from this virus.

Do you even wonder why there have now been 15 variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus? Can you think of any childhood virus with so many mutated variances? So why this virus? Could it be that this type of vaccine is ineffective? Could it be the specificity of the immune-acquired antibodies is a bit too specific?

Maybe we should stop targeting only the spike proteins. And, let our naturally-produced antibodies target ALL of the virus(instead of only the spike protein). In this way, it doesn't matter what the new variant form looks like. Our natural antibodies will attack and erase.

How do we stop any virus? They are microorganisms that are neither dead nor alive. There are more viruses on earth, than there are stars and planets in the universe(10^31 power). Even 10% of the human genome(DNA) contain viral genes. Viruses have been on earth for over 3.5 billion years before man. And, they will be here long after we're gone. So good luck with your race analogy. In reality, there is no finish line. 

Don't listen to the media. They are the fear-mongers who created this climate of viral-phobia. Now they're  just back-peddling, to save face.




That was clear from the very first day the media got involved.
The propaganda was laughable, yet the masses were frightened into submission.



Then add to the media hype, bill gates.
That prick sat on TV scaring the crap out of people, while he funnelled hundreds of millions into his account, sorry, foundation.
He donated hundreds of millions to media, why?
He had a financial interest in pushing mandatory vaccines, as did half the politicians. Look a pallachooks father.
This insider trading needs thorough investigating, but it will never happen properly.


Captain…. Exactly re: media push!!!
You will love this….


Thank you Lols. Really loved this video. It really highlighted the absurdity of our governments behavior in this crisis. Thank God the adults took to the streets to stop this silly nonsense.

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Reply #282 - Oct 24th, 2022 at 7:40pm
 
ShellShilo wrote on Oct 24th, 2022 at 4:41pm:
Hi Dnarever. Let me address your points. Although, they do sound more like parroted platitudes and media soundbites, than informed opinions. IMHO

Dnarever wrote on Oct 24th, 2022 at 12:32am:
Yes its an addition affect - nobody who is dead will become undead.


I certainly agree that these numbers of deaths are the  accumulative totals over the past 1,003 days(25Jan.,20-24Oct.,22). Of course this total represents an average of 15.5 people(out of 26M) dying from/with covid-19 each day. This represents just 0.00006% of our population each day. At the risk of being callous and insensitive, these numbers are just too small to justify our sledgehammer response to this level of threat. We almost destroyed our own country and our own people. 

Does this additive concept extend to the number of cases reported as well? Remember, these numbers also include the people who have only tested positive for the virus(not the disease). But lets ignore this for the moment. There are 10.3M total covid-19 cases today. This represents a daily average of 10,269 cases since day one. This represents only 0.04% of our population per day. Clearly the overwhelming majority of our population, was NOT infected over this entire 1,003 day period. Yet some people claim that almost 40% of the Australian population is infected. Aren't they aware of this additive concept?

Before vaccines were available, there were 28,947 cases reported over the 397 day period. This represents a daily average of 73 cases being reported each day. That's 140X less than the daily average over the entire period. This represents only 0.0003% of the population being infected each day. This was before vaccines. Again, not worth this level of panic. 

Dnarever wrote on Oct 24th, 2022 at 12:32am:
Pre Vaccines the virus struggled to get a hold because of Lock Downs, Distancing and masks. Places in the world who didn't do this or were too late were in a heap of trouble and ten's of thousands if not more died.


I really think that you're just rationalizing what you really want to believe as being true. The rest is just more parroted media soundbites, and disinformation by omission. I'm afraid that the facts just don't support your beliefs.

No matter how much you try to make the facts fit your beliefs, they will never fit. More deaths and cases DID occur AFTER all the medical protocols were in place. In fact, many times more deaths and cases.

If you believe that a virus is sentient, and couldn't maneuver through any restriction protocols, then we have a very different understand of what a  microorganism can and cannot do.

Dnarever wrote on Oct 24th, 2022 at 12:44am:
Nobody ever said that the protocols were perfect. Virtually every outbreak was caused by people breaking the rules.


This is the same copout excuse the government uses to maintain its win-win integrity. It certainly is NOT perfect. In fact, it is laughable and immature. Does any rational mind think that you can get 26M people to keep 2 meters apart? Or, wear a mask 24/7? Or, would passively accept sticking a poison into their body? Or, would voluntarily change their lifestyle, under legal duress? All because of a flu virus no more lethal than the measles or Hepatitis A. 

Dnarever wrote on Oct 24th, 2022 at 12:44am:
As you say above we had about 999 deaths pre vaccine and their loved ones would have been very upset. However the point here is that the places where there was no lockdown or it was done too late tens of thousands died at best. The US did it badly and over a million people died.

What this means is that a lot more people have living loved ones than would have been the case.


You are again simply rationalizing what you want to be true. Every time you speculate what could be true, it also means what could also NOT be true, right? In reality, almost 16X more people have died, and over 350X more cases have been reported after vaccines were available.

No amount of convoluted logic can rationalize these facts away. This was a media circus from the very beginning. Unfortunately, there are far too many right-brain dominant people, who are genetically predisposed to this level of media pathos. And, I really don't think that the public safety was very high on the government's list of priorities.

Dnarever wrote on Oct 24th, 2022 at 12:44am:
They caught covid and it killed them is the why. I don't see the cause of death as the important bit, minimising the number of deaths is the valuable part.


Viruses do NOT kill their hosts. It is our immune response to the pathogen that can kill us. Considering the fact that over 98% of all victims recover, this makes this level of fear almost borderline phobic. 

Anyway. I have a feeling that this will just become another rabbit hole to fall into. Unless you want to focus only on the points I've raised(I will list them if you want), instead of just parroting more of the same media soundbites and disinformation, I think we should just agree to disagree. Smiley



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Providing a lot of detail takes up as much space as you have been using which leaves no remaining characters available for comment. now zero left .
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Reply #283 - Oct 24th, 2022 at 7:51pm
 
ShellShilo wrote on Oct 24th, 2022 at 4:41pm:
I certainly agree that these numbers of deaths are the  accumulative totals over the past 1,003 days(25Jan.,20-24Oct.,22). Of course this total represents an average of 15.5 people(out of 26M) dying from/with covid-19 each day. This represents just 0.00006% of our population each day. At the risk of being callous and insensitive, these numbers are just too small to justify our sledgehammer response to this level of threat. We almost destroyed our own country and our own people. 

Does this additive concept extend to the number of cases reported as well? Remember, these numbers also include the people who have only tested positive for the virus(not the disease). But lets ignore this for the moment. There are 10.3M total covid-19 cases today. This represents a daily average of 10,269 cases since day one. This represents only 0.04% of our population per day. Clearly the overwhelming majority of our population, was NOT infected over this entire 1,003 day period. Yet some people claim that almost 40% of the Australian population is infected. Aren't they aware of this additive concept?

Before vaccines were available, there were 28,947 cases reported over the 397 day period. This represents a daily average of 73 cases being reported each day. That's 140X less than the daily average over the entire period. This represents only 0.0003% of the population being infected each day. This was before vaccines. Again, not worth this level of panic. 



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This represents only 0.0003% of the population being infected each day. This was before vaccines.


Results like this were not a by default position. The numbers were kept low because of the action taken. Places which failed to react went into emergency conditions with hospitals clogged up and bodies piled into rented cool rooms outside hospitals.

New York for example - A hub city which had covid19 present in numbers before anything could be done had an initial fatality rate of about 9.2% and 32.1% among hospitalized patients.

Had we left the barn door wide open we may have achieved similar numbers. Our success was due to the actions we took. Not the other way around.
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Reply #284 - Oct 24th, 2022 at 7:57pm
 
ShellShilo wrote on Oct 24th, 2022 at 6:06pm:
Captain Caveman wrote on Oct 24th, 2022 at 9:04am:
That was clear from the very first day the media got involved.
The propaganda was laughable, yet the masses were frightened into submission.

Then add to the media hype, bill gates.
That prick sat on TV scaring the crap out of people, while he funnelled hundreds of millions into his account, sorry, foundation.
He donated hundreds of millions to media, why?
He had a financial interest in pushing mandatory vaccines, as did half the politicians. Look a pallachooks father.
This insider trading needs thorough investigating, but it will never happen properly.


Can't disagree with any of that. Money and power talks. Everything else walks.

Also, consider that the contracts between the Australian government and these drug companies are the dream deals of a lifetime. If any citizen tries to sue these drug companies for damages(adverse events), these companies are protected by the government against indemnity claims. Hence why the government has now a 2 tiered cap on all compensation claims.

If the government doesn't use-up its stockpile of drugs(vaccines), or misses a payment or a shipment, it will pay a very stiff penalty. Which can include paying out money from the government's own  treasury

Also, it won't be until 2099 that we can see the complete list of ingredients in these vaccines. And, compliance is NOT mandatory under their exclusive utility patent.

The Australian government has already invested $17B  into this Covid-19 response scheme. We have states competing to be the first with the best vaccine. But what good is a vaccine if no one will use it? That's where the media comes in. If we can turn everyone into vaccine junkies, we can make up any excuse we want.

True capitalism at its finest. The creation of a new market and culture.

I think what is most scary, is just how easy people can be manipulated. Are you familiar with the Milgram experiment? Or, the Asch Conformity and Stanford Prison experiments? Damn our herding instinct, and our need to conform.

If the media broadcasted everyday for a month, about the nutritional and health benefits of fresh s**t, I guarantee that that there will be many Australians willing to give it a go.





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I don't care how fresh the s**t is I am not eating it.  Grin
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