Posted on 05/01/2023 3:07:45 PM PDT by lightman
“The absence of evidence of effectiveness is not the same as having evidence of ineffectiveness,” chirps Jennifer Nuzzo of Brown University’s School of Public Health in the latest bid to explain away the Great Mask-Mandate Fiasco of 2020 onward.
That is, she ignores the elephant in the room: For years, Public Health Inc. lectured America to mask up — and kept them out of their kids’ schools and countless public places if they didn’t — on the basis of no evidence at all.
Her New York Times essay is yet another effort to deflect from that betrayal, after the gold-standard Cochrane scientific review of mask mandates’ effectiveness found they made “little or no difference.”
Obscenely, Nuzzo turns this into an argument for spending more money to study mitigation efforts — that is, a cash windfall for everyone in her public-health field — so that they can give better advice amid the next once-in-a-century pandemic.
But that dodges the real question: Why did they lie to us?...
And why won’t Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Centers for Disease Control and the whole public-health establishment apologize even now?
OK: Lab data suggest that if everyone masks up relentlessly in exactly the right way (ideally with more-expensive N95 masks or better), it could somewhat reduce transmission of bugs like COVID.
But the evidence as of March 2020 (and still) was that people just don’t work that way: They don’t cover their nose, or wear the mask tightly enough or whatever.
Trying to make everyone do it was nothing more than public-health theater, not science....
It was never about “following the science”; it was about protecting — abusing — their own air of authority.
And now the liberal establishment is trying to “stop the spread” of . . . awareness of their betrayal...
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I kept my eye of what was going on in Sweden and came to the conclusion that the draconian Covid mandates were about conditioning people to accept authoritarian rule.
Fancy-salaried types wanting to exude their knowing air and authority were willing to curtail rights as found in our founding documents, all for the fake premise of "caring" and all for the real goal of exercising their penny-ante power.
i wore a bandana
i felt like i was robbing the stage coach
i felt like i was robbing the stage coach"
And you could get your prescription filled right afterward. Call it a win!
I so hate these “public health officials “ over paided government drones
Public health officials in every country peddled the same garbage. I am very disappointed in countries like Japan and Singapore, whose medical establishments are smart enough to have instantly seen through the lies but pushed the same brand of Fauci/CDC fascism on their own people, anyway - and harder than US authorities did.
The CCP virus/bioweapon quickly became the platform by which big Pharma could achieve its global “trial” of mRNA jabs through making most of the population scared to death...or naively believing that submitting would lead to “freedom” from lockdowns and masking.
Full disclosure: I believe that some version/variant of mRNA will be the silver bullet for slaying most cancers; but big Pharma phear$ the end of its chemo”therapy” toxin gravy train.
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