CANADIAN SCIENTIST D.G. Goncourt reviews the medical literature on the effectiveness of face masks to control respiratory disease. A summary of his findings:
Masks and respirators do not work.
There have been extensive randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies, and meta-analysis reviews of RCT studies, which all show that masks and respirators do not work to prevent respiratory influenza-like illnesses, or respiratory illnesses believed to be transmitted by droplets and aerosol particles.
Furthermore, the relevant known physics and biology, which I review, are such that masks and respirators should not work. It would be a paradox if masks and respirators worked, given what we know about viral respiratory diseases: The main transmission path is long-residence-time aerosol particles (< 2.5 μm), which are too fine to be blocked, and the minimum-infective-dose is smaller than oneaerosol particle.
The present paper about masks illustrates the degree to which governments, the mainstream media, and institutional propagandists can decide to operate in a science vacuum, or select only incomplete science that serves their interests. Such recklessness is also certainly the case with the current global lockdown of over 1 billion people, an unprecedented experiment in medical and political history.
Common sense told us this was true many weeks ago. If face masks were effective, doctors and other health practitioners certainly would have adopted them a long time ago.
JAMES O’KEEFE with Project Veritas reports on the staging of a news story by CBS, which allegedly created a fake patient line outside a Covid-testing site in Michigan. “This is an explosive story,” says O’Keefe. It was exposed by an insider at the testing site who recorded conversations with employees.
The whistleblower appears on this report, and though he says people shouldn’t be afraid to come forward, he speaks with an annoying and creepy electronic voiceover. Otherwise, it is a good report.
The alleged staging by CBS is not surprising at all except to those who are living in a dream world. Television networks have been producing news for decades, which is not at all to say that everything they do is staged.
Malcolm Muggeridge, (1903-1990), the famous journalist who worked for major English newspapers and the BBC, reported on this phenomenon in his book “Christ and the Media,” published in 1977. He warned that television would be used — and was already being used — for mass deception:
I remember once returning to my hotel in New York and noticing on the way that a crowd had assembled outside what was obviously an embassy or consulate of some sort — I found out afterwards that it belonged to one of the Arab countries. There were the usual students assembled — bra-less girls, bearded men, holding slogans with placards on them; also a police van in attendance, and a number of cops standing by with their truncheons — everything set for a demo. ‘What’s going on?’ I asked, and was told, as though it should have been obvious, that the cameras hadn’t yet turned up. I lingered on, until they came, and watched them set up and start rolling. Then, ‘Action!’ whereupon, placards were lifted, slogans shouted, fists clenched; a few demonstrators were arrested and pitched into the police van, and a few cops kicked, until, ‘Cut!’ Soon the cameras, the cops, and the demonstrators had all departed, leaving the street silent and deserted. Later, in the evening, in my hotel room, I watched the demo on the screen in one of the news programmes. It looked very impressive.
He also wrote:
I don’t myself in any way equate the invention of printing with the invention of television. There are enormous differences between the two, and one of the most obvious ones is that the printed word — which I hold in veneration — is not subject to the same centralised control as television.
This is not quite true. We know the printed word too can be under centralized control, as it is today. TV news is more powerful though because it looks so darn real. Americans are living in a dream world and are literally hypnotized by imagery on the screen and the presumed authority of televisions news reports. The real problem is not the technology but the human impulse to surrender judgement and escape from reality.
“Future historians,” wrote Muggeridge, “will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster which no one knows how to control or direct, and marvel that we should have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.
Project Veritas has produced another good story, following up on its report on funeral directors who say death certificates are being falsely labeled as Covid deaths. Just a word of warning: Project Veritas has a slick feel that concerns me. Obviously, it has major funding, but I’m not sure where that is coming from. Stay alert, stay safe! Anything well-funded, anything that gets by the Youtube censors must be approached with caution, though I am not at all suggesting that this report is inaccurate.
There are people in China and America, some with connections to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, who are upset with reports that the coronavirus is linked to the lab. They want to blame President Trump for a plague unleashed by China. But it turns out there are many controversial labs in Wuhan. Some “study” viruses. Some produce fentanyl.
A fascinating article in the Los Angeles Times reveals that before Wuhan became known for a virus killing tens of thousands of people, it was the main source of fentanyl, described as the deadliest drug to ever hit U.S. streets, which is also killing tens of thousands of people. Datelined Mexico City, the Los Angeles Times article began, “For drug traffickers interested in getting in on the fentanyl business, all roads once led to Wuhan.” It reported, “Vendors there shipped huge quantities around the world. The biggest customers were Mexican drug cartels, which have embraced fentanyl in recent years because it is cheaper and easier to produce than heroin.”
“The Chinese government is the world’s largest drug dealer,” says Senator Tom Cotton. “China has allowed fentanyl and other synthetic opioids to pour into the United States for years, killing tens of thousands of Americans.” Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer agrees, saying, “We must hold China, currently the world’s largest producer of illicit fentanyl, accountable for its role in the trade of this deadly drug.” Their Fentanyl Sanctions Act was included in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2020.
But now we find our nation engulfed in another made-in-China health crisis.
AN ONGOINGseries of articles at Coronacircus examines the possibility that the respiratory illness called Covid-19 is not caused by a new coronavirus, but occurs in people who test positive for the virus.
The author offers several hypotheses. For instance, could tuberculosis be a factor? He has not addressed the popular theory that the illness is caused by 5G wireless technology but I assume he will. These theories are just that: theories.
Salon À la Mode owner Shelley Luther was sentenced to seven days in jail for criminal and civil contempt and a $7,000 fine today for defying Governor Greg Abbott’s stay-at-home rules.
Dallas Judge Eric Moyé found Luther continued to operate her hair salon in violation of the governor’s order and in violation of a restraining order from the court.
She and her business are also each being fined $500 for every day… seven in all so far… that it was open in violation of the governor’s order. Judge Moye said the salon would continue to rack up a $500 fine for every day it remains open between now and Friday – when Abbott has said all salons can open.
Last week, Luther received a cease-and-desist letter from Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins ordering her to close the salon — and she publicly ripped it up. In defying the order, Luther has gained many supporters, among them the Open Texas movement. Several of her supporters were at court, and weren’t visibly displeased by her arrest.
Moye told Luther he would consider not giving her jail time, if she admitted that she was wrong, that she was selfish, and that she should apologize to the elected officials whose orders she violated.
You can view the video above in which Luther defends herself here.
Judge Eric Moyé is yet another Covid Bully, with no legal justification for barring people who pose no serious public health risk from engaging in commercial transactions. The only thing that keeps this bullying going is the complicity of the public.
Other officials, such as the Oregon sheriff John Gautney, recognize that the emperor has no clothes and are refusing to enforce the economic shutdown. Gautney pointed out the hypocrisy of the orders in a statement:
“If a business decides to open, that is a decision the business owner makes. If customers choose to shop with that business that is that person’s choice,” he said. “We are a free society and able to make decisions based on common sense. I see large businesses open every day with lots of customers and they are using safety precautions if they choose. The point is they have the right to choose. If the large stores can accommodate the large number of customers and operate effectively, why are we not letting the small business operate under the same guidelines?”
Plastic barriers are going up everywhere. Arrows on the floor show you which way to walk. Boxes show you where to stand. Paranoid Blockwarts are putting up signs threatening anyone not wearing a mask.
Hysterical little fascist creeps are reporting their neighbors to the police for letting their children play with other children. Millions of people are voluntarily downloading “contact tracing applications” so that governments and global corporations can monitor their every movement.
In Spain, they bleached an entire beach, killing everything, down to the insects, in order to protect the public from “infection.”
The Internet has become an Orwellian chorus of shrieking, sanctimonious voices bullying everyone into conformity with charts, graphs, and desperate guilt-trips, few of which have much connection to reality. Corporations and governments are censoring dissent. We’re approaching a level of manufactured mass hysteria and herd mentality that not even Goebbels could have imagined.
Meanwhile, they’re striking the mostly empty “field hospitals,” and the theatrical “hospital ship” is now gone, and despite their attempts to inflate the Covid-19 death count as much as humanly possible, the projected hundreds of millions of deaths have not materialized (not even close), and Sweden is fine, as is most of humanity, and … just like there were no WMDs, there is no Virus of Mass Destruction.
What there is, is a new official narrative, the brave new, paranoid, pathologized “normal.” Like the War on Terror, it’s a global narrative. A global, post-ideological narrative.
THE California doctors who created a sensation by reporting on their experience with Covid and condemning the economic shutdowns are interviewed here by John Kirby with OffGuardian. Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Antin Massihi are emergency medicine physicians who run seven clinics in Bakersfield.
Their original press conference before ditzy, disbelieving reporters with an NBC affiliate received more than five million views on Youtube, which then deleted it. Massihi says they have encountered a lot of “anger and hatred” in response to their statements. “It doesn’t make much sense to us.”
Both these doctors remain calm, composed and unwavering in the face of intense opposition. They are rarities in a world where everyone seems fearful of taking an independent stand. They seem to have genuine compassion for the people suffering crippling anxiety because of the shutdown and with those who are not receiving medical care because they are too afraid to get treatment. I assume one of the reasons they have been able to go public is that they run their clinics themselves and are not afraid of getting fired.
“Is the collateral damage of Covid worse than the virus itself,” Erickson asks. He believes it is.
Erickson and Massihi make some statements that they don’t back up with data or that they contradict. For instance, they say the shutdown made sense at the beginning and then say the Swedish model, with no shutdown, seemed best.
IN THE previous post, we heard from a respiratory therapist in Harrisburg, where there are relatively few Covid patients and seems to be good care.
Gateway Pundit features a video made by a nurse from Nevada who has traveled to New York City to help Covid patients and is upset by the level of care in the city’s hospitals. She says that patients are being “medically mismanaged” and “murdered.” (Language warning!! I wouldn’t normally post someone who talks this way.)
“Am I the only one who is not a sociopath?” she says. The other nurses know the care is substandard.
In related news, less than one percent of corona fatalities in New York City were people with no other serious health problems.
PENNSYLVANIA continues in an almost total economic shutdown. Meanwhile, a respiratory therapist from Harrisburg says her workload is very low. She has worked with Covid patients and did not observe anything significantly different from other respiratory viruses. (Correction: She said they had lower than normal blood oxygen levels.) “I don’t personally watch the news because I don’t identify with what is being said,” she said. She worked an emergency room shift the other night and saw not a single patient in respiratory distress.
OFF Guardian does a second interview with Knut Wittkowski, who was head of The Rockefeller University’s Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design for 20 years and currently is CEO of a biostatistics company. (The first interview is here.) He talks about the criticism of him since he spoke publicly on Covid-19 and he examines the course of the virus.
This elderly scientist tears up a couple of times, upset at the consequences of the lockdowns and the harm he believes was done by not protecting the elderly in nursing homes adequately.
The interview includes some scenes in a restaurant. (I’m not sure where they found an open restaurant.) But the scenes are not the best and make him look a little tipsy.
HERE is official confirmation that the Covid Crisis is a stunningly bold manufactured crisis not based in reality.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, total U.S. deaths this year as of April 25 were three percent lower than the average number of deaths up until that point in 2017-2019.
Total deaths from Covid-19 were 37,308 as of April 25th, significantly lower than what was being reported in the news and by the Worldometer. Flu deaths were less than 6,000 for this year, much lower than previous years. In the 2017-2018 flu season, total flu deaths were over 60,000.
While weekly deaths were significantly higher from March 18 to April 18th, they plummeted to less than 50 percent of total deaths in previous years for the week ending April 25th. That was the week that many state governments and corporations continued to ratchet up security measures.
Am I missing something here? I invite readers to examine these figures and tell me if I have drawn wrong conclusions.
FROM C.S. Lewis, in God in the Dock: Essays on Theology Making of Modern Theology:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
PROTESTORS faced off with police blocking entry to the legislative chamber in the Michigan State House in Lansing yesterday. The Republican-led legislature voted to deny extension of Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home order, which was scheduled to expire today. They also authorized legal action against Whitmer.
In response, Whitmer, who plays a leading role in the gubernatorial cast of Covid Crooks, extended the shutdown until May 15 by emergency decree with continued restrictions until May 28th. The continued shutdown, as many doctors have said, will almost certainly make the virus worse in Michigan, as people suffer from weakened immunities from staying inside and avoiding contact with germs. The chillingly plastic-looking Whitmer seems unmoved by the ruin her policies have caused.
A nurse alleges that patients in New York City are receiving extremely poor care.
How many of the people who have died in New York and elsewhere would have survived if their family members were allowed to visit them? We will never know.
