After reading of the first case, I could read no more. My blood pressure shot up and I was on the verge of shouting. Will try to read the rest later. As to the following questions; “How does something like that happen? How does scientific consensus become "misinformation" within just a few months, without any change in the actual science? How is it that institutions continue imposing mask mandates despite overwhelming evidence in the opposite direction?”, the answer is; because we allowed it.
Pretty early on, maybe late 2020?, I heard an industrial hygienist (a profession I had never heard of) presenting to a school board or town council about the complete ridiculousness of a mask mandate for a virus.
Is it possible this entire global operation was a psychological test, like the prisoner experiment at Stanford or Milgram experiment at Yale? If so, I think it has proven that the majority of people are willing to do ruthless things to their fellow man very quickly and with little hesitation.
When they tore up the pandemic preparedness plans across the world, I knew it was no longer about science. We left our church of 20 years because of the refusal of the leadership to take a stand against the tyranny. We found another church that welcomed everyone regardless of vaccine status and didn’t require mask wearing.
There is no mention of the over exposure to carbon dioxide while wearing a surgical or an N95 mask. In 2012 the CDC sponsored a study where they learned that persons wearing an unvented N95 mask were being exposed to carbon dioxide levels as much as 7 times over the OSHA exposure limit. There is a risk of organ damage at those levels. I contracted a certified industrial hygienist to measure what a person was breathing inside a surgical mask for 8 hours. The sample was analyzed by a certified lab and handled under chain-of-custody protocols. The data was legally defensible in court. I measured carbon dioxide levels that were 2 times over the OSHA exposure limit. Finally, on page 5 of the OSHA Respiratory Protection Handbook for Hospitals it clearly states that surgical masks are not protective against small particulates.
Tough to read these accountings. I personally was opposed to all of it from day one. There were so few of us that said NO! Never went along with any of it. Had some problems with resistance along the way like getting escorted off an Alaska flight like a criminal by an agent in black for not picking my mask up between bites as was dictated to me by a flight attendant while everyone was boarding. I missed a connecting flight because of this as well. It so devastating for those of us that have seen from the beginning the destruction of our freedoms as individuals to make a choices for ourselves, the fear mongers who prayed on the naivety of the unsuspecting American people in mass. As the truth comes to light the current reality still stands that so few of the perpetrators of these crimes have not been held accountable nor paid any price for what they have done. Hope I live long enough to see the day!
There were conclusive studies done over 40 years ago that proved that those ridiculous face diapers don't prevent the spread of viruses or even most bacteria, which are 20 times larger. It's absurd that anyone bought into this fraud.
Don’t worry about Dr. Jerome Adams, though I was gravely alarmed when he showed people how to use a bandana as a mask; he was gently led back to Indiana whence he came and the RINO good old boys assisted in securing him a professorship at my alma mater, Purdue University. A low point for Purdue, that we, the citizens are helping pay for.
This is an important topic, but your question of how this happened has already been answered. The recommendation was political pressure from the White House that stemmed from a paper written by Dr. Scott Gottleib, then associated with the American Enterprise Institute. I lay it all out here. https://twitter.com/EileenChollet/status/1429583099487207427
This all still makes me furious. As an RN, I could not believe the masking madness. I had to quit my job working at Anschutz School of Medicine when they KNEW masking was useless, yet mandated them and other ridiculous measures like installing plexiglass barriers everywhere. I don’t hold out much hope for the next version of the pandemic. Far too many sheeple and way too few brave souls.
But anyone who knows science knows that the science, hard science, natural science doesn't change speedily at all. It takes a whole lot of evidence, studies, reviewed, replicated, critiqued, changes to science must survive all attempts to disprove new theories before previous hard, natural science theories are changed. Which doesn't happen in a crisis, under panic.
What wasn't clarified in the pronouncement that "the science changed" was that they were referring to the *type* of science that changed. The Fauci's changed from hard, natural science to soft, social science. Pseudoscience. Behavioral Science specifically - let's call it BS for short.
Epidemiologists are trained in both hard science like microbiology, and soft science like behavioral psychology. Epidemiologists believing they must keep a population apart to "slow the spread" ostensibly to save lives resort to psychological manipulations to keep a population apart. And early on in March/April, 2020 the epidemiologists decided the population wasn't getting the message and staying apart as they needed to. Ignoring the hard science that once respiratory influenza is in a community there's no stopping it. At most limiting interactions could slow spread for about two weeks, after which any infectious agent is too widespread to do anything about it.
But because the population wasn't getting the message and staying apart like "experts" were telling them to the BS-informed epidemiologists leaned into the toolbox of psychological manipulations to help them get the message, by gosh! We were diagnosed by BS artists that we "suffered" from "optimism bias." A BS term. And their chosen prescription to treat "optimism bias" became "fear amplification." Another BS term. And masks amplify fear.
What Is Optimism Bias, And How Is It Affecting Our Response To The Pandemic?
They knew masks didn't work if hard science, natural science was the efficacy they were to be based on. But they decided the psychological "fear amplification" efficacy of masks was needed to cure us of our "optimism bias."
Health Affairs is one of the leading Behavioral (psychological manipulation) Health publications in the world. It was even cited by Chief Justice John Roberts in his ruling upholding Obamacare:
The only efficacy of masks has always been known by health officials to be symbolic, psychological mind-farkery. "Fear amplification" (aka "terrorizing") to make us take them seriously and do what they said. No matter if what they said to do had already elapsed in efficacy after the two-week "slow the spread" medical science efficacy had expired.
This. This explains how the science changed suddenly on masking in March-April, 2020. Hard, natural science was sidelined so that soft, social science could lead the pandemic response. Pseudoscience changes very, very fast, Like when BLM/Antifa riots beautifying St George rendered pandemic restrictions to be lifted, albeit temporarily. One social science priority, police violence and systemic racism became more important than another social science priority, infectious disease prevention. Pow! Speed of science! Only pseudoscience changes that fast, not real science.
All of the answers of the great mask reversal is found lurking in the intentional ambiguity of the word, "science." Instead of endless debates over how the hard science studies clearly demonstrate masks are ineffective at preventing any biological infection from an airborne pathogen perhaps those of us fighting the lunacy and damage that masking is responsible for should redirect our efforts at calling into question the *type* of science the epidemiologist's claims masks are effective is based in. So that we can once and for all have the long-overdue debate over how our government leaders use psychological manipulation to achieve their public policy goals. And what threats rise to the level of applying sophisticated mind-farkery that will set neighbor at neighbor, friend at friend, family at family, deprive children of their psychosocial development, have parents kicked off of airplanes because their two year-old wouldn't keep their mask above their nose...because that child and her parents weren't doing their part to "amplify fear." Like mask-wearing hijackers did on airplanes prior to 2020. And bank robbers.
The psychological manipulation of Behavioral Science-based epidemiology (BS artistry) prescribing masks to amplify fear because the population was diagnosed as suffering from optimism bias was decided on by an "Illusion of Consensus" of a small group of experts that must be fully disclosed and extensively debated for future attempts to apply BS on an unsuspecting public in such divisive and damaging to society ways. Turning an entire population into de facto terrorists should never be acceptable for any public policy goal. We get to the bottom of The Great Mask Reversal by questioning the *type* of science.
It was a control move by Fauci and Co., easily pulled off on the ignorant masses. The average person would have a reflex reaction and believe masks were protective, and not think deeper than that. Society at large is very uneducated on human biology; they are basically illiterate, so you can tell 'em anything with an air of authority and they will without question continue the messaging for you. Having a master's or doctorate in history, or law won't help one make informed decisions regarding mRNA technology itself, but it only takes common sense to know any drug experiment is risky. The masks were filthy and carriers of pathogens that were inhaled as well as the fibers, but since a lot of people do not wash their hands leaving the bathroom, the gross hygiene issue was ignored in favor of a pathogen that cannot be barred by paper masks. Ignorance is a terrible thing, it kills people.
Of course masks don't work. Neither did lockdowns or mandating a "vaccine" that was essentially useless for the young and produced nasty side effects. But the real question is why did we kow tow to this authoritarian repression. And why did we allow police to get away with Stasi like tactics? Every one of the clowns how made these policies - and those who thuggishly enforced them - should be exposed, fired and jailed.
It was "political science"...inundate the people with fear, exaggerate the problem to exponential heights while controlling the narrative thru controlled news organizations....pay hospitals exorbitant amount of money thru Medicare such that they will blackmail physicians with their jobs if don't fall in line....you get the picture...better yet...just review the history of Hitlers rise to power.
Thanks, the list of how people were threatened and abused by these ridiculous but draconian mask mandates is pretty awful. Can someone please advise whether the picture with the warning is real or a meme? Since when?
After reading of the first case, I could read no more. My blood pressure shot up and I was on the verge of shouting. Will try to read the rest later. As to the following questions; “How does something like that happen? How does scientific consensus become "misinformation" within just a few months, without any change in the actual science? How is it that institutions continue imposing mask mandates despite overwhelming evidence in the opposite direction?”, the answer is; because we allowed it.
Pretty early on, maybe late 2020?, I heard an industrial hygienist (a profession I had never heard of) presenting to a school board or town council about the complete ridiculousness of a mask mandate for a virus.
Masking the kids is what drove me completely mad.
Is it possible this entire global operation was a psychological test, like the prisoner experiment at Stanford or Milgram experiment at Yale? If so, I think it has proven that the majority of people are willing to do ruthless things to their fellow man very quickly and with little hesitation.
When they tore up the pandemic preparedness plans across the world, I knew it was no longer about science. We left our church of 20 years because of the refusal of the leadership to take a stand against the tyranny. We found another church that welcomed everyone regardless of vaccine status and didn’t require mask wearing.
There is no mention of the over exposure to carbon dioxide while wearing a surgical or an N95 mask. In 2012 the CDC sponsored a study where they learned that persons wearing an unvented N95 mask were being exposed to carbon dioxide levels as much as 7 times over the OSHA exposure limit. There is a risk of organ damage at those levels. I contracted a certified industrial hygienist to measure what a person was breathing inside a surgical mask for 8 hours. The sample was analyzed by a certified lab and handled under chain-of-custody protocols. The data was legally defensible in court. I measured carbon dioxide levels that were 2 times over the OSHA exposure limit. Finally, on page 5 of the OSHA Respiratory Protection Handbook for Hospitals it clearly states that surgical masks are not protective against small particulates.
Tough to read these accountings. I personally was opposed to all of it from day one. There were so few of us that said NO! Never went along with any of it. Had some problems with resistance along the way like getting escorted off an Alaska flight like a criminal by an agent in black for not picking my mask up between bites as was dictated to me by a flight attendant while everyone was boarding. I missed a connecting flight because of this as well. It so devastating for those of us that have seen from the beginning the destruction of our freedoms as individuals to make a choices for ourselves, the fear mongers who prayed on the naivety of the unsuspecting American people in mass. As the truth comes to light the current reality still stands that so few of the perpetrators of these crimes have not been held accountable nor paid any price for what they have done. Hope I live long enough to see the day!
There were conclusive studies done over 40 years ago that proved that those ridiculous face diapers don't prevent the spread of viruses or even most bacteria, which are 20 times larger. It's absurd that anyone bought into this fraud.
Don’t worry about Dr. Jerome Adams, though I was gravely alarmed when he showed people how to use a bandana as a mask; he was gently led back to Indiana whence he came and the RINO good old boys assisted in securing him a professorship at my alma mater, Purdue University. A low point for Purdue, that we, the citizens are helping pay for.
This is an important topic, but your question of how this happened has already been answered. The recommendation was political pressure from the White House that stemmed from a paper written by Dr. Scott Gottleib, then associated with the American Enterprise Institute. I lay it all out here. https://twitter.com/EileenChollet/status/1429583099487207427
And I had loved ones accusing me of being a science denier. Those same people to this day are completely blind. My mom is still masked up.
This all still makes me furious. As an RN, I could not believe the masking madness. I had to quit my job working at Anschutz School of Medicine when they KNEW masking was useless, yet mandated them and other ridiculous measures like installing plexiglass barriers everywhere. I don’t hold out much hope for the next version of the pandemic. Far too many sheeple and way too few brave souls.
"The science changed! At the speed of science!"
That's what Fauci and health officials said.
But anyone who knows science knows that the science, hard science, natural science doesn't change speedily at all. It takes a whole lot of evidence, studies, reviewed, replicated, critiqued, changes to science must survive all attempts to disprove new theories before previous hard, natural science theories are changed. Which doesn't happen in a crisis, under panic.
What wasn't clarified in the pronouncement that "the science changed" was that they were referring to the *type* of science that changed. The Fauci's changed from hard, natural science to soft, social science. Pseudoscience. Behavioral Science specifically - let's call it BS for short.
Epidemiologists are trained in both hard science like microbiology, and soft science like behavioral psychology. Epidemiologists believing they must keep a population apart to "slow the spread" ostensibly to save lives resort to psychological manipulations to keep a population apart. And early on in March/April, 2020 the epidemiologists decided the population wasn't getting the message and staying apart as they needed to. Ignoring the hard science that once respiratory influenza is in a community there's no stopping it. At most limiting interactions could slow spread for about two weeks, after which any infectious agent is too widespread to do anything about it.
But because the population wasn't getting the message and staying apart like "experts" were telling them to the BS-informed epidemiologists leaned into the toolbox of psychological manipulations to help them get the message, by gosh! We were diagnosed by BS artists that we "suffered" from "optimism bias." A BS term. And their chosen prescription to treat "optimism bias" became "fear amplification." Another BS term. And masks amplify fear.
What Is Optimism Bias, And How Is It Affecting Our Response To The Pandemic?
Wisconsin Public Radio, January 6, 2021
https://www.wpr.org/what-optimism-bias-and-how-it-affecting-our-response-pandemic
Seeing a masked face has the same exact effect on the brain as seeing a snake!:
Of snakes and faces: An evolutionary perspective on the psychology of fear
Scandanavian Journal of Psychology, November 19, 2009
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-9450.2009.00784.x
They knew masks didn't work if hard science, natural science was the efficacy they were to be based on. But they decided the psychological "fear amplification" efficacy of masks was needed to cure us of our "optimism bias."
Flu Masks Failed In 1918, But We Need Them Now
Health Affairs, May 12, 2020
https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/flu-masks-failed-1918-but-we-need-them-now
Health Affairs is one of the leading Behavioral (psychological manipulation) Health publications in the world. It was even cited by Chief Justice John Roberts in his ruling upholding Obamacare:
https://www.healthaffairs.org/about
The only efficacy of masks has always been known by health officials to be symbolic, psychological mind-farkery. "Fear amplification" (aka "terrorizing") to make us take them seriously and do what they said. No matter if what they said to do had already elapsed in efficacy after the two-week "slow the spread" medical science efficacy had expired.
This. This explains how the science changed suddenly on masking in March-April, 2020. Hard, natural science was sidelined so that soft, social science could lead the pandemic response. Pseudoscience changes very, very fast, Like when BLM/Antifa riots beautifying St George rendered pandemic restrictions to be lifted, albeit temporarily. One social science priority, police violence and systemic racism became more important than another social science priority, infectious disease prevention. Pow! Speed of science! Only pseudoscience changes that fast, not real science.
All of the answers of the great mask reversal is found lurking in the intentional ambiguity of the word, "science." Instead of endless debates over how the hard science studies clearly demonstrate masks are ineffective at preventing any biological infection from an airborne pathogen perhaps those of us fighting the lunacy and damage that masking is responsible for should redirect our efforts at calling into question the *type* of science the epidemiologist's claims masks are effective is based in. So that we can once and for all have the long-overdue debate over how our government leaders use psychological manipulation to achieve their public policy goals. And what threats rise to the level of applying sophisticated mind-farkery that will set neighbor at neighbor, friend at friend, family at family, deprive children of their psychosocial development, have parents kicked off of airplanes because their two year-old wouldn't keep their mask above their nose...because that child and her parents weren't doing their part to "amplify fear." Like mask-wearing hijackers did on airplanes prior to 2020. And bank robbers.
The psychological manipulation of Behavioral Science-based epidemiology (BS artistry) prescribing masks to amplify fear because the population was diagnosed as suffering from optimism bias was decided on by an "Illusion of Consensus" of a small group of experts that must be fully disclosed and extensively debated for future attempts to apply BS on an unsuspecting public in such divisive and damaging to society ways. Turning an entire population into de facto terrorists should never be acceptable for any public policy goal. We get to the bottom of The Great Mask Reversal by questioning the *type* of science.
It was a control move by Fauci and Co., easily pulled off on the ignorant masses. The average person would have a reflex reaction and believe masks were protective, and not think deeper than that. Society at large is very uneducated on human biology; they are basically illiterate, so you can tell 'em anything with an air of authority and they will without question continue the messaging for you. Having a master's or doctorate in history, or law won't help one make informed decisions regarding mRNA technology itself, but it only takes common sense to know any drug experiment is risky. The masks were filthy and carriers of pathogens that were inhaled as well as the fibers, but since a lot of people do not wash their hands leaving the bathroom, the gross hygiene issue was ignored in favor of a pathogen that cannot be barred by paper masks. Ignorance is a terrible thing, it kills people.
Of course masks don't work. Neither did lockdowns or mandating a "vaccine" that was essentially useless for the young and produced nasty side effects. But the real question is why did we kow tow to this authoritarian repression. And why did we allow police to get away with Stasi like tactics? Every one of the clowns how made these policies - and those who thuggishly enforced them - should be exposed, fired and jailed.
It was "political science"...inundate the people with fear, exaggerate the problem to exponential heights while controlling the narrative thru controlled news organizations....pay hospitals exorbitant amount of money thru Medicare such that they will blackmail physicians with their jobs if don't fall in line....you get the picture...better yet...just review the history of Hitlers rise to power.
Thanks, the list of how people were threatened and abused by these ridiculous but draconian mask mandates is pretty awful. Can someone please advise whether the picture with the warning is real or a meme? Since when?