The most obvious thing with masks though is that there's zero concern with hygiene. During the enforced masking regime people pulled out masks from here, there and everywhere. Someone told me her boyfriend's mask was black inside. Surely, the mask promoters wouldn't argue that a mask that's black inside provides effective protection ... but if there's ZERO concern with hygiene and filthy masks weren't tested then, a priori, how can masks be argued for? I've heard staff in operating theatres don't even put their own masks on.
If they really felt masks were effective then they'd surely only argue that they must be fresh and clean (they're the only masks they tested in any case) and they should have had a system whereby people were supplied with masks in bulk and there was some way of monitoring hygiene, eg, perhaps they could have had a different colour for each day of the week or some such.
It is so bleedingly obvious that masks were just about control and nothing to do with health.
I've recently had an online to and fro with someone spouting the propaganda buzzwords and pushing links at me but when I asked her to explain how determining a case using a test that was an admitted non-diagnostic test was not medical fraud ... she went all quiet.
People's intellectual dishonesty really makes me despair. I cannot fathom how so many people think it's perfectly OK to go quiet when they cannot respond to a challenge to their belief. I just do not comprehend it. I couldn't do it. I mean, sure I can understand it of people who are obviously dishonest people but I have friends who are essentially very honest people but when I challenge their belief they simply do not respond ... and steamroll on with whatever belief it is they have despite the fact that I have presented good evidence that it doesn't stand up to scrutiny and to which they have no response. If you cannot respond, you automatically know there's something wrong with your belief.
Oh dear lord.
The most obvious thing with masks though is that there's zero concern with hygiene. During the enforced masking regime people pulled out masks from here, there and everywhere. Someone told me her boyfriend's mask was black inside. Surely, the mask promoters wouldn't argue that a mask that's black inside provides effective protection ... but if there's ZERO concern with hygiene and filthy masks weren't tested then, a priori, how can masks be argued for? I've heard staff in operating theatres don't even put their own masks on.
If they really felt masks were effective then they'd surely only argue that they must be fresh and clean (they're the only masks they tested in any case) and they should have had a system whereby people were supplied with masks in bulk and there was some way of monitoring hygiene, eg, perhaps they could have had a different colour for each day of the week or some such.
It is so bleedingly obvious that masks were just about control and nothing to do with health.
I've recently had an online to and fro with someone spouting the propaganda buzzwords and pushing links at me but when I asked her to explain how determining a case using a test that was an admitted non-diagnostic test was not medical fraud ... she went all quiet.
People's intellectual dishonesty really makes me despair. I cannot fathom how so many people think it's perfectly OK to go quiet when they cannot respond to a challenge to their belief. I just do not comprehend it. I couldn't do it. I mean, sure I can understand it of people who are obviously dishonest people but I have friends who are essentially very honest people but when I challenge their belief they simply do not respond ... and steamroll on with whatever belief it is they have despite the fact that I have presented good evidence that it doesn't stand up to scrutiny and to which they have no response. If you cannot respond, you automatically know there's something wrong with your belief.
I share your despair Petra.
Such outwardly visible and necessary signs of compliance during the pandemic which had zero to do with infection control.