aquascoot wrote on Feb 8^th, 2023 at 5:11pm:


Yes, the "noble warrior" has many barking orders. Kill him! They say. No, kill them!

Our warrior battles on, in his way.

Likewise, the Superior Man, he on the "narrow road to success", has many who tell him where to go. Go there! They say. No, go there!

The Superior Man treads on. It is a lonely road, a road few care to tread.

And yet, he must follow his own path, just as the Warrior must fight his struggles.

Step by step, and blow by blow, each must make his way, his jihad. It is so, is it not?

The Superior Man sees all and says ah.

Allah Uakbar, no?

MeisterEckhart wrote on Feb 8^th, 2023 at 8:59am:


In Australia in the year or so before the restrictions and protection was removed around 2,000 Australians died from covid. In about the same period after restrictions and masks were removed about 14,000 Australians died from covid. Vaccine existed before and after.

Dnarever wrote on Feb 8^th, 2023 at 9:04pm:

When you treat something like a religion, (or you're caught in an ideological contagion), you'll be prone to linking events without cause because it's convenient, feels good and confirms your cognitive bias.

The Chinese were all wearing masks after the sudden lifting of zero-covid and began dying by the hundreds of thousands.

Post data that confirms masks, lower in quality than the KN95, were/are effective against covid spread, then discuss.

Dnarever wrote on Feb 8^th, 2023 at 8:04am:


In 2021 there were zero deaths from influenza, and it was suggested
that this was as a side effect of wearing masks for COVID, physical
separation in public places, and lockdowns that year.  In the previous
two years in Australia, there were 938 influenza deaths.

AusGeoff wrote on Feb 8^th, 2023 at 5:33am:


Follow the science, Laffin' Boy.




In that context, a new, rigorous study that found masks did nothing to slow Covid-19 might have made the news. But no; a 305-page Cochrane analysis published globally on January 30 that assessed 78 high-quality scientific studies that included more than 610,000 participants has yet to rate a single mention in The Washington Post, The New York Times or on CNN, for instance.

Even passionate maskers, such as Baltimore epidemiologist Jennifer Nuzzo, conceded Cochrane reviews were the “gold standard” of evidence-based medicine and its latest mask study “a very serious undertaking”.

Cochrane found that surgical masks, the kind doctors wear in operating theatres to avoid accidentally sneezing into an open wound, did nothing to stop Covid-19.

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More embarrassing for Team Mask, those even more uncomfortable N95 masks made little to no difference either. Only hand washing seemed to work to prevent the spread of corona and influenza-like viruses.

“There is just no evidence masks make any difference. Full stop,” University of Oxford associate tutor Tom Jefferson, one of the study’s 12 authors, told Australian journalist Maryanne Demasi last week.

“In the absence of evidence, you shouldn’t be forcing anybody to do so,” he said, describing advocates of forced masking as “activists, not scientists”.

It turns out the billions upon billions of masks that were manufactured in response to government mandates and now are floating in oceans or piling up at rubbish tips were likely to have been a colossal waste. American multinational 3M alone produced 4.5 billion N95 masks in 2020 and 2021, according to Statista; the mind boggles at what the global total for all masks might be.

“Governments completely failed to do the right thing and demand better evidence,” Jefferson says. “At the beginning of the pandemic there were some voices who said masks did not work and then suddenly the narrative changed.”

Thankfully, the narrative is changing again, in part to a US House of Representatives Repub­lican majority that is determined to probe some of the madder aspects of the great madness.

“I had doctors who spent years in medicine telling me masks were not effective, and yet these were being forced on people and school kids,” Republican congressman Gary Palmer said last week at a congressional hearing that included US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention director Rochelle Walensky. “We’re seeing a devastating impact on their educational attainment, so it surprises me that the CDC didn’t do any follow-up testing even while this was going on.”

Wearing a mask sent a powerful message throughout the pandemic: I follow the science. Increasingly, it’s sending a different one: I’m a credulous goose. Or perhaps even, following new research in Frontiers in Psychology published last month: I’m not very attractive.

“Our results consistently demonstrated that self-perceived unattractive individuals were more willing to wear a mask, as they believed it would benefit their attractiveness,” the authors concluded.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/unmasked-the-failure-ofcovid-mandate...

MeisterEckhart wrote on Feb 13^th, 2023 at 10:25am:

Not hindsight at all. This not new information.
What IS new is that it can no longer be suppressed as 'misinformation".

MeisterEckhart wrote on Feb 8^th, 2023 at 9:24pm:


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I note that nobody has suggested a different cause ?

Put mask on people do not die - Take mask off people start dying. OK it could be something else that occured at the same time but nobody has any suggestion. There is one contender.

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Yet you happily dismiss the facts because it feels good and confirms your cognitive bias with the unsupported opinion based on  you're own ideological contagion.