This study is the first RCT of cloth masks, and the results caution against the use of cloth masks… Moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks and poor filtration may result in increased risk of infection. Further research is needed to inform the widespread use of cloth masks globally. However, as a precautionary measure, cloth masks…
Category: New Normal
Vaxxter reports “The Hidden Agendas of Masks, Distancing, and Tracing”
For too long now, health officials sold us that donning masks and other face coverings, such as bandanas, would somehow slow the spread of the nano-sized virus, SARS-CoV2, which causes the symptom complex referred to as COVID-19. Their theory doesn’t hold water. It has no precedent in medicine or science. Speaking with several veteran nurses…
The Guardian reports “Naomi Klein: How big tech plans to profit from the pandemic”
As the coronavirus continues to kill thousands each day, tech companies are seizing the opportunity to extend their reach and power. Tech provides us with powerful tools, but not every solution is technological. And the trouble with outsourcing key decisions about how to “reimagine” our states and cities to men such as Bill Gates and…
Yahoo News reports “Should face masks be mandatory nationwide?”
Despite the pushback, some lawmakers have called for a nationwide mask mandate. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said a federal mask requirement is “long overdue.” The Democratic governors of New Jersey and Illinois have also called for a national mandate. Both President Trump and Vice President Pence have expressed opposition to the idea. “Certainly a national mandate is not in order,” White…
WSJ reports “Do Lockdowns Save Many Lives? In Most Places, the Data Say No”
The speed with which officials shuttered the economy appears not to be a factor in Covid deaths. Do quick shutdowns work to fight the spread of Covid-19? Joe Malchow, Yinon Weiss and I wanted to find out. We set out to quantify how many deaths were caused by delayed shutdown orders on a state-by-state basis….
Doctor to Orlando Medical News: “Why Increasing Number of Cases of COVID-19 is NOT Bad News”
In marked contrast to measles, shingles, and other infectious disease, “cases” of COVID-19 do NOT require the presence of ANY symptoms whatsoever. Health departments are encouraging everyone and anyone to come in for testing, and each positive test is reported as yet another “new” case of COVID-19! Hence, anyone who has a positive PCR test (the nasal…
Real Clear Politics reports ” How Fear, Groupthink Drove Unnecessary Global Lockdowns”
In the face of a novel virus threat, China clamped down on its citizens. Academics used faulty information to build faulty models. Leaders relied on these faulty models. Dissenting views were suppressed. The media flamed fears and the world panicked. That is the story of what may eventually be known as one of the biggest…
The Hill reports “The COVID-19 shutdown will cost Americans millions of years of life”
Our governmental COVID-19 mitigation policy of broad societal lockdown focuses on containing the spread of the disease at all costs, instead of “flattening the curve” and preventing hospital overcrowding. Although well-intentioned, the lockdown was imposed without consideration of its consequences beyond those directly from the pandemic. The policies have created the greatest global economic disruption in history, with trillions…