Saturday, July 26, 2025
Fascism Begets Fascism
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Once Again, The Official COVID Narrative Goes Up In Flames
It's 2025 now, five full years after the "novel coronavirus" that became known as COVID-19 made its official debut. Aside from a few dead-enders and true believers here and there, nearly everyone has long since moved on from the pandemic, which officially ended somewhere between the second half of 2022 and the end of the first half of 2023, depending on the country and whose source you follow.
And just recently, a pair of new studies came out that were pretty damning indeed about practically everything that was done during the pandemic in terms of countermeasures. That's in addition to all of the other studies we at the TSAP have cited over the years.
One new multi-country study found that school closures were basically useless or worse than useless, at least in the long run. Specifically, they found no correlation between school reopenings during ether Delta or Omicron, and trends in adult Covid deaths and hospitalizations. This is especially damning to the narrative because the biggest justification they had was that the school closures weren't to protect the kids themselves so much as to protect the adults around them, consequences to the kids themselves (and boy, were there plenty!) being a mere afterthought. Thus, even on their very own Machiavellian and cold utilitarian terms of essentially using children and teens as human shields to protect adults, such medium- to long-term school closures have clearly been shown to be an EPIC FAIL, and need to be permanently removed from any serious consideration going forward.
Another study, this one in Japan (arguably the mask and jab champions of the world), found that the jabs were also quite counterproductive indeed in terms of contracting the virus. That is, the odds of contracting Covid actually increased with the number of jab doses, which is negative efficacy. Wow. And adjusting for confounders only made this perverse correlation even stronger:
The odds of contracting COVID-19 were higher among vaccinated individuals compared to unvaccinated individuals, with an unadjusted OR of 1.65 (95% CI: 1.27-2.14, p < 0.001) and an adjusted OR of 1.85 (95% CI: 1.33-2.57, p < 0.001).
That explains how Japan, a country with one of the highest jab rates in the world, has had roughly a DOZEN waves (!) of the virus, give or take depending on who's counting, and how the biggest (and deadliest) waves of them all didn't come until AFTER the jabs. Let that sink in. Oops, maybe they should have thought of that possibility BEFORE bringing these jabs to market in the first place.
But wait, there's more! That same Japanese study also looked at other behaviors as well. As one Redditor, MembraneAnomaly, put it so well:
This bit is very interesting:
Preventive behaviors assessed included regular gargling, mask-wearing, bathing frequency, avoiding crowded places, room ventilation, eating habits, sleep patterns, exercise habits, and maintaining humidity in living spaces.
Behavioral analysis indicated that a reduced frequency of bathing and exercising was significantly associated with higher COVID-19 infection rates (p < 0.05).
Now look at the table under "Demographic characteristics" to find p-values for the association between reducing bathing and exercise and contracting COVID (0.016 and 0.01), compared to mask-wearing (0.644) and avoiding crowds (0.664). Nuff said! Stay healthy, exercise, keep clean - and dump the mask!
Great advice indeed, which is basically what used to be called common sense. Which unfortunately, is not nearly as common as it should be. (For those who are unfamiliar with what p-values mean, this means that the effect of masks, even in the land of mask champions, was statistically insignificant, indistinguishable from being due to chance.)
And just in case anyone cries "but source control!", the fact that Japan has still had a dozen or so waves even with all of that masking really puts the lie to that specious claim too.
So jabs and masks are also revealed once again to be useless, and in the case of the former, worse than useless. Again, masking for the general population should also be permanently removed from any serious consideration going forward, and any vaccines in the future for any disease need to be properly designed and properly tested before we even THINK about unleashing them on the public, and certainly never forced or coerced in any way.
And just like with masks, we have already completely laid waste long ago to any case for lockdowns and business closures and and stuff like that as well. Those were the easiest to debunk, in fact. And again, going forward, those need to be removed from any serious consideration as well.
And so once again, like the song says, the official Covid narrative goes up in flames...in 24 frames.
(Mic drop)
UPDATE: One of the very few bright spots in the new Trump regime is that RFK Jr. (if confirmed) would of course be a decent bulwark against this sort of thing happening again under his watch. And while Trump himself is not exactly trustworthy, to put it mildly, he did begin the process of pulling the USA out of the World Health Organization.
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Case Closed: Masks STILL Don't Work
(This is a repost of an article from February 2023, as we thought the reader might need a reminder now in light of current events involving mask zealots.)
A major new gold standard Cochrane review study has come to a conclusion that only the utterly brainwashed would consider at all shocking at this point: masks don't really work to stop the spread of respiratory viruses. Never did, and never will. Not even the vaunted N95. Handwashing is likely modestly effective, but masks are basically a joke overall, and not a very funny one either.
This concurs with over a century of research that came out overwhelmingly in support of the anti-mask side of the debate. In fact, by 1919 it was practically settled science that these devices aren't anywhere near what they were cracked up to be, a consensus which prevailed until March 2020. Then the pandemic narrative took over and turned the science upside down for nearly three years straight, while any studies were to the contrary were systematically file-drawered for far longer than those supporting the narrative. And now the entire pandemic narrative has collapsed faster than formerly healthy young athletes on the field after being jabbed.
We recently noted how the ever-insightful Ian Miller has so thoroughly debunked, deboned, sliced, diced, and julienned the pro-mask arguments, and laid waste to their utterly scorched remains for good. And be sure check out the excellent Fargo study from Josh Stevenson et al. about masks for kids as well, likely the very best one yet, with the very least biases or confounding. Spoiler alert: masks STILL don't work. Not for kids, not for adults, not for no one.
Oh, and let's not forget the dreaded Foegen Effect as well. And other harms as well, see here. That literally makes masks WORSE than useless. Jettison them!
To the anti-mask side: you are now hereby overwhelmingly vindicated, and really always have been in fact. You have literally passed the biggest functional IQ test in all of modern history. To the pro-mask side: we are still waiting for you to apologize. Yesterday. And to those who switched jerseys anytime after February 2022 (that is, only when it became socially acceptable to do so), you are fooling no one.
QED
UPDATE: Some may pedantically point out that "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence", therefore "no one can really say" that masks don't work. True, you cannot (definitively) prove a negative. But given the totality of the research and real-world evidence, it would be slothful induction (if not magical thinking as well) to still believe that masks have any sort of net benefit at all. If they did have a net benefit, it would have been self-evident long ago. We need to see the forest for the trees.
"But...but...they worked in Japan!" See here for a good debunking of that myth as well.
And in case the pro-masker zealots pathetically trot out the fatally flawed Boston school mask study in desperation, rest assured that Ian Miller has successfully laid waste to that one as well. And so has the ever-insightful Emily Burns, as well as Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, one of the authors of the Fargo study.
Oh, and another study found that masks in HOSPITALS make no difference to infection rates. Thus, if they don't even work in hospitals with all of their universal multilayered precautionary measures, they simply don't work at all, period.
UPDATE 2: A re-analysis of the infamous Boston mask study has now thoroughly debunked it.
UPDATE 3: For more on the harms of masks, see here.
UPDATE 4: And another school masking study can be found here as well, co-authored by the aforementioned Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg. Again, surprise surprise, masks STILL don't work. Period.
UPDATE 5: And that's before we get into the toxins that can be emitted from some types of masks, including the vaunted N95.
UPDATE 6: Pushback works. Contrary to Carl Jung's famous saying, what you resist does NOT persist, as long as you resist enough. DO NOT COMPLY!
UPDATE 7: Looks like masks are even more harmful than we thought, especially for children.
And finally, see here about the ultimate success of one of the most anti-mask (and anti-lockdown) countries in the world, Sweden. As a result, we think "Stockholm Syndrome" should really be called "Melbourne Syndrome", because #SwedenGotItRight.
(Mic drop)
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Latest Mask Study Reaches A New Low (Which We Didn't Even Think Was Possible At This Point)
Just when you thought that The Science (TM) couldn't get any lower, it reached a new low today. The latest pro-mask study, a preprint which has yet to even be peer-reviewed (though will probably be pal-reviewed at some point), is a classic example of cherry-picked junk science not even worth the paper it is printed on.
The ever-insightful Ian Miller of Unmasked does an excellent job of taking it down here. In a nutshell, the so-called "systematic review" study took 1732 mask studies, and only looked at a whopping....13 of them. That is less than 1% of all of the studies done to date, so why did they disregard over 99% of the evidence that they found? Probably because it wasn't exactly flattering to the pro-mask side, that's why. And the 13 studies they did include, with a combined sample size of only 243 people, of course yielded implausibly (and laughably) high estimates of mask effectiveness. This clearly has "cherry picking" written all over it.
And that's before we even get into the obvious fatal flaws in at least some if not all of those 13 studies (lack of generalizability, not done in real world conditions, no comparison group, and of course small sample size). Also, all studies after July 2020 (!) were arbitrarily excluded, because reasons. This is apparently what passes for The Science (TM) these days, and it has gotten increasingly desperate now as the narrative has thoroughly collapsed by now. We are now seeing naked Lysenkoism without so much as even the pretense of scientific integrity anymore.
We recently noted how the same Ian Miller so thoroughly debunks, debones, slices, dices, and juliennes the pro-mask arguments, and lays waste to their utterly scorched remains for good. And check out the latest new study from Josh Stevenson about masks for kids as well, likely the very best one yet. Spoiler alert: masks STILL don't work.
A recent Australian study confirmed via experiment that surgical masks (and by extension, cloth masks as well) are utterly useless against aerosolized viruses, as are even N95s unless they are properly fit-tested and NO mistakes are made. The latter, of course, does NOT apply to the general population, as Germany unfortunately learned the hard way when their general N95 mandate failed so spectacularly to contain or control their Covid outbreak.
Masks didn't work in 1918, and they clearly didn't work in 2020 or 2021 either. So anyone who thinks they will somehow work in 2022 or beyond, clearly has their head in an anatomically impossible position. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is a functional definition of either insanity or Lysenkoism (same difference).
UPDATE: Looks like masks may be even worse than we thought. From the Foegen Effect to the various questionable chemicals and microplastics in the masks (as well as in the Covid tests and disinfectants too), these things may very well be exacerbating, perpetuating, or even causing Long Covid as well (to say nothing of the jabs). Plus there is also the issue of bacteria and mold growing on the masks, as well as impaired O2/CO2 exchange. An excellent article that makes such a case can be found here. For all of the times that the TSAP had ever foolishly advocated masks to any extent back in 2020 before belatedly changing our stance, we certainly do apologize.
2023 UPDATE: Still further evidence against masks, especially for kids, can be found here as well.
Sunday, December 12, 2021
Over 400 Studies On Our Side
BREAKING NEWS: According to Dr. Paul Alexander, here are now over 400 studies that expose the utter failure of all of the COVID-related mandates and compulsory restrictions in the real world, and ZERO studies of even halfway-decent quality that show the opposite with any real confidence. Once you exclude all of the fatally-flawed and poorest quality studies, and look at enough real-world data points, one can firmly conclude that all of these measures have done far more harm than good on balance. And they should NEVER, EVER, EVER be repeated. Like, ever.
Dr. Alexander's article discusses compulsory non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as lockdowns, shelter-in-place, school closures, masks and mask mandates, etc. and essentially debunks them all. Scratch that, he debones, fillets, slices, dices, and juliennes each and every one of these sacred cows, and pretty much lays waste to their remains. However, his article does not touch on the most recent addition to the mix: the now ubiquitous "vaccines" and the disgustingly tyrannical mandates and passports of same. That is where the ever-insightful Steve Kirsch comes in, noting that these jabs literally kill more people than they save, and a fortiori for children to the tune of 117 to 1. And that data was largely before the boosters became widely used, so that is most likely a lower bound for the adverse effects going forward if we continue on the path we are on. They are also known to be very "leaky" (i.e. they don't stop transmission), and are thus NOT fit for the purpose of mass vaccination even if they were somehow perfectly safe (which they're not).
Thus, to put it in medical terminology, "the therapeutic window is closed" for all of these mandates and restrictions, period. We must scrap the whole lot of them, cold turkey, never to repeat them again. And the same is clearly true for these "vaccines" themselves, with maybe the exception of some extremely vulnerable and high risk individuals who still have yet to receive them for whatever reason. Plenty of early treatments and prophylactics exist that completely obviate any need for these jabs, we just need to stop denying and censoring them, and start using them. And yesterday is NOT soon enough!
FINAL THOUGHT: If anyone still thinks that vaccine mandates or passports are somehow necessary OR sufficient to prevent another lockdown, well, we've got a nice bridge over the Danube River we'd like to sell you. As they are now learning the hard way in Europe, you cannot bargain with the devil and hope to come out in one piece! Cold turkey is the only way out of this mess for good, period. When you try to meet insanity and tyranny in the middle, you will always lose, each and every single time.
UPDATE: Looks like Sweden, who famously eschewed lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccine mandates, has ultimately been vindicated after all. Their cumulative all-cause excess mortality per capita (by far the best indicator of all) was well below the European average, and believe it or not, not very different from their neighbors when you include all of their neighbors. And Brazil, who had a reputation for being lax, and even Belarus, Nicaragua, and Tanzania, who largely ignored the pandemic, also fared quite similarly to their much stricter neighbors as well in terms of excess deaths. And here in the USA, we see that Florida's excess death rate was roughly equivalent to California's despite the latter being much, much stricter overall than the former, AND despite the former also having a much older and fatter population as well. Game. Set. Match.
Another study finds that babies born during the pandemic have stunted development compared to babies born before the pandemic. Interestingly, no significant difference was seen between babies born to mothers who contracted the virus during pregnancy and those who did not. Rather, it was the mothers' stress from all of the panic and lockdowns that had a toxic effect on the babies across regardless of the virus itself. Let that sink in for a moment. Now add in all the ubiquitous antisocial distancing and masks they experienced during early childhood as well, and it gets even worse still.
As for the Nu Xi Omicron variant, it is looking more and more like an intellectual checkmate for the purveyors of the official narrative. Both "Team Vaccine" and "Team Zero Covid" are about to eat some serious crow, while the inevitable transition from pandemic to endemic has been greatly accelerated.
And now, the CDC has finally decided to pull the plug on the fraudulent PCR test, effectively December 31, 2021. Because they know that the gig is up, the narrative has been completely laid waste, and effectively ending PCR testing is literally the only way they can declare "victory" over Covid at this point.
Don't forget to check out this deep dive by the ever-insightful Julius Ruechel too.
Friday, November 26, 2021
WTF Happened To The Left ?
Sunday, October 24, 2021
Cold Turkey Is The Only Way Out
We at the TSAP have said it before, and we will say it again, shouting it from the rooftops. The ONLY way out of this madness is to go cold turkey from all of these restrictions and mandates. Period. And yesterday is not soon enough!
That means, effective immediately:
- No more lockdowns, hard or soft
- No more curfews
- No more business closures or capacity restrictions (unless voluntarily)
- No more closures of anything
- No more mask mandates, anywhere
- No bans or restrictions on gatherings or events, public or private
- No restrictions on places of worship
- No more travel restrictions, whether international or domestic
- All schools fully open, in-person, no antisocial distancing, masks optional
- All colleges fully open, in-person, no antisocial distancing, masks optional
- No more mass testing of anyone without symptoms. Otherwise, use rapid testing first. For the PCR test, reduce the cycle threshold to 25
- No more quarantines of anyone without symptoms
- No vaccine mandates, coercion, discrimination, or Covid "passports" of any kind, anywhere, period
And as long as there is no major outbreak locally, hospitals and nursing homes should also return to normal as well 100%. It is LONG past time to stop denying visitors, and stop artificially and arbitrarily delaying and cancelling so-called "elective" procedures and treatments. And with the proper early treatment and prophylaxis, hospitals will NOT be overwhelmed anymore than during a typical flu season. As for the staff, aggressive rapid testing should be done regularly regardless of vaccination status (as vaccinated people can still catch and spread the virus), and preference should be given to staff who are naturally immune because they have already had the virus and recovered (and are thus the very least likely to catch and spread the virus). That's it.
Heresy, I know. But it has been nearly two years now, and for better or worse, the virus is here to stay. It cannot be eradicated at this point, as that train has left the station long ago. We really only have two choices now and forever: 1) learn to live with the virus, and be honest about it, or 2) learn to live with the virus, and pretend otherwise.
It has been observed that it is historically extremely rare for any respiratory viral pandemic to last longer than 18 months. And they seldom have more than two major waves, three tops. Yet here we are. So all of our trying in vain to outsmart the virus, and/or hide from it, only served to drag it out that much longer, more painfully, and with out-of-season waves as well. And plenty of collateral damage on top of all that as well.
This only ends when We the People finally stop complying with these mandates, cold turkey. Or at least when a critical mass of people do so.
So what are we waiting for?
Friday, September 3, 2021
The Progressive Case For Mask-Free Kids And Schools
WARNING: You may wanna sit down when reading this, as this article will slaughter so many sacred cows that it will lead to the mother of all barbecues!
It's September 2021, back to school time for millions of children and teens, and if your thought we would not still be having this inane and insane masks for kids debate 18 months after the start of the pandemic, you would unfortunately be very wrong indeed. The debate is greater than ever before, and largely split along party lines (Republicans against forced masking, Democrats in favor) because reasons. I mean, you KNOW things are bad when Ron and Rand Paul end up sounding like the voice of reason!
The progressive left is VERY foolish to cede the moral high ground to the right on this issue. And it WILL come back to bite them, perhaps as soon as the 2022 midterms. Just like it always does eventually.
There are of course some genuine progressive voices desperately shouting into the wilderness to "Unmask Our Kids" yesterday, but they keep on getting silenced and censored by the thought police. A prime example is this excellent article (preserved in archive on the Wayback Machine) in Forbes online magazine by a progressive teacher (and founder of Zigazoo) named Zak Ringlestein. He notes how traumatic and toxic it is to children's mental health to subject them to prolonged forced masking, antisocial distancing, and the whole New Abnormal agenda in general. And he also notes how utterly classist it is in its effects towards poorer children, if not its intent. The cowards over at Forbes abruptly took the article down, of course, because well, you already know why.
As we have noted before in previous articles, there is absolutely NO scientific reason to support forcing anyone to wear face masks in general, and that applies a fortiori for children. Not as PPE, not as source control, not as anything at all beyond mere symbolic window dressing and placebos, since we know now that the COVID virus is truly airborne just like cold and flu viruses. Not only have mask mandates (in schools or in the community) not done a LICK of good in stopping the virus or even making a noticeable dent in the epidemic curves for anyone in the real world, but for children (who are at less risk from COVID than they are from the flu, and are statistically unlikely to be COVID superspreaders either), masks are likely to be more harmful to their physical and mental health and social development when used regularly for prolonged periods of time.
You really want to reduce airborne virus transmission in schools? Ventilate, ventilate, ventilate! If you lack high-tech air system upgrades, don't wait, just open the damn windows and doors. Problem solved. Next.
"But we can't do that! What if there might be an active shooter at some undefined point in the future?" Well, unless all windows and doors are literally bulletproof, which they usually are not, keeping them closed 24/7 is really just security theater. Kinda like how masks are really just public health theater. And neither one sees the forest for the trees.
Friendly reminder to adults who are still scared: N95 or greater masks are currently abundantly available for self-protection, and are at least somewhat effective in that regard if fit-tested and used properly. And any adults who still feel the need to use them as an extra layer of protection when around children are perfectly free to do so. Voluntarily.
Clearly, all of these mandates fail the Martian test: that is, could you explain it to a Martian without sounding like an idiot? (You can't.) And they also fail the 2030 test: that is, would you still be willing to follow these mandates in 2030, since the virus is endemic and will almost certainly still be around in 2030, 2040, 2050, and beyond? And given the long-term health, developmental and economic consequences already baked into the cake from the past 18 months of restrictions, all of these mandates also fail the Iroquois seven generations test as well.
There is nothing at all even remotely leftist or progressive about forcing masks on anyone, especially children. Unless by "leftist" you really mean totalitarian, and by "progressive" you really mean technocratic, of course. Nor is it even particularly communitarian either, given how utterly corrosive it is to genuine community, unless of course by "communitarian" you really mean communist or antisocial. And it is certainly not in any sense utopian, unless by "utopian" you really mean, well, dystopian.
There is nothing green either about producing billions or trillions of disposable "paper" (actually, polypropylene plastic) masks only to see a good chunk of them end up in the Earth's oceans. Unless by "green" you really mean greenwashing and ecocidal.
And contrary to a very poorly written article in Ms. Magazine of all places a year ago, there is certainly nothing at all feminist about forcing anyone to cover their faces. Unless by "feminist" you really mean "inadvertently emulating certain countries and groups that one claims to dislike, to one degree or another", and not seeing the irony of it all.
And finally, take a look at the rest of the world. The USA is one of a very few countries that forces masks on children under the age of 12, let alone as young as two! And many of those few other countries that did at some point have now since relented (and hopefully repented!), making the USA a rather lonely country in that regard. But in one way that is sadly not a surprise, given the great American pastime of scapegoating children and teens for adult problems. And yes, that even includes Florida at the local school district level, with "rebel without a clue" teachers and administrators openly defying their governor, Ron DeSantis, who is doing his very best to put an end to this complete and utter madness once and for all.
Make no mistake, at this point, no one can intellectually honestly say that these mandates are really about science. They are all about power and control above all else. And worse, they are ultimately a convenient segway into COVID vaccine mandates for kids as well. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is truly scary indeed, given how woefully undertested these experimental gene therapy "vaccines" really are, particularly for children. If there was ever a hill to die on, this absolutely has to be the one!
UPDATE: When the pro-mask crowd inevitably trots out this slanted review of their favorite cherry-picked studies, be sure to point out that those studies are either 1) modeling studies and not real-world studies, 2) look only at adults and say literally nothing at all about children or schools, 3) have very weak effect sizes and/or low-quality, 4) have not been consistently replicated, 5) conflict with literally decades of research evidence to the contrary, 6) short-term studies that found short-term effects that did not really pan out in the real world in the long run, 7) do not address the potential long-term harms of prolonged forced masking, or 8) all of the above.
Take a look instead at this excellent article that sums up the latest actual science on the matter of masks for kids. Spoiler alert: it does NOT make the pro-mask side look like winners at all, to put it mildly.
As for the latest cherry-picking CDC "study" of the effects of mask mandates in schools, well, let's just say that if you torture the data enough, they will confess to anything. There are so many confounding variables not controlled for, not least of which are contact tracing (or lack thereof) and virus testing rates, since according to the CDC's own rules, if both people were wearing masks at the time, that is not considered an "exposure" and thus not automatically tested. Yes, really. And more tests generally means more "cases", particularly if there are no symptoms.
This is what passes for "The Science" these days.
Also see here as well. And lest you still think masks somehow work for and eradicated the common flu (!), see here as well. We really got a nice bridge we'd like to sell you.
FEBRUARY 2022 UPDATE: Seriously, this needs to end, and yesterday is not soon enough! To any teachers and staff reading this who are still worried, there are indeed some very cheap and low-tech ways to fight airborne viruses in classrooms that do NOT depend on masks or antisocial distancing. Build a DIY Corsi-Rosenthal box air purifier, open the windows/doors for fresh air, and relax and take a chill pill already! (And UV air disinfection also works well too, which has been known for over 80 years now.)
Oh, and now we see that the actual data from the updated version of the widely-acclaimed Bangladesh mask study shows that masks simply don't work at all in the real world, period. That, plus the Danish mask study, plus the past 100+ years of research are enough to conclude that any perceived benefits were basically spurious all along. We already knew they didn't work in 1918, and they sure as hell don't work now.
Sunday, August 29, 2021
How To Achieve (Functional) Zero COVID In TWO WEEKS Without Lockdowns, Masks, Or Vaccines (Updated For Delta)
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Saturday, August 7, 2021
And So We Learn Just How "Leaky" These Vaccines Really Are
- These vaccines are NOT the silver bullet that so many had hoped for, and putting all of our eggs into that one basket (at the expense of early treatment and prophylaxis like Ivermectin, HCQ, and budesonide, along with various vitamins and other nutrients like Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Niacin, Thiamine, Zinc, Selenium, Quercetin, Resveratrol, NAC, and the amino acid Lysine) was the very height of foolishness at best. Some would even call it mass murder for profit!
- These vaccines are NOT fit for purpose if the goal is to stop all infections, but might still be fit for purpose if the goal is to protect the vulnerable members of society from serious illness and death. And by now, they all have either 1) been vaccinated or 2) chose not to receive it, making that purpose largely academic now in nearly all rich countries, who thus now have a moral duty to freely share these now-abundant vaccines and their patents with poorer countries for all who want it, as there are of course plenty of vulnerable people there too. (As they should have done many months ago, but for corporate greed of Big Pharma.)
- These vaccines are mainly for self-protection, while any protection of the community is at best a bonus. Any argument to the contrary is essentially a specious and spurious argument.
- These vaccines do NOT prevent the evolution or dominance of new virus variants either. Anyone who still thinks so needs their head examined.
- There is ZERO benefit to public health from forcing or coercing people to get these vaccines, restriction of rights for the unvaccinated, and/or segregating the vaccinated and unvaccinated. And there is ZERO justification for such.
- If masks actually worked as source control, there would perhaps be some justification for requiring both vaccinated and unvaccinated people alike to wear them in certain high-risk indoor settings when community spread is at "substantial" or "high" levels, per the CDC.
- But since there is still really no hard evidence that surgical or cloth masks actually work meaningfully as source control at the macro level, even after a year and a half of data, that specious justification also collapses as well. They sure didn't work in 1918, and they don't work now. Rather, we should instead simply recommend (not require) vulnerable adults to correctly wear N95 (or greater) masks, which are now nearly as available and abundant as toothpicks, in such high-risk settings for self-protection. (See a pattern here?)
- When the proverbial fat lady finally sings, it would NOT be because of vaccines, but rather primarily from herd immunity via natural infection, along with perhaps attenuation (weakening) of the virus itself. In other words, just like every other flu or flu-like pandemic and epidemic in recorded history, essentially.
- The Great Barrington Declaration, along with its sister organization PANDA, were therefore quite right all along, by simply following the hard-won wisdom of the ages, and we were very foolish not to listen. We clearly have paid, and will still continue to pay, a very heavy price for our collective foolishness and hubris.