via Instapundit: So, is the Covid case “spike” the result of citizens failing to wear masks and “social distance?” Or is it an example of the seasonal susceptibility commonly observed with respiratory viruses as some predicted this past summer.
This paper posits that UVB light stimulates production of cathelicidin and other antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in the skin. These AMPs are carried by the blood to the respiratory tract and enhance innate respiratory immunity. AMPs are also referred to as “natural antibiotics,” because they protect not only against microbes but also enveloped viruses, including influenza and coronaviruses.
The skin and respiratory tract surfaces play a similar role in the body – acting as a barrier between the body and the external world. Many of the same AMPs, including cathelicidin, are produced and act in the skin, the respiratory tract surface, the intestines, and some blood cells. Cathelicidin is carried by the blood.
This paper provides additional evidence that exposure to UVB in sunlight or artificial UVB sources, in safe amounts, depending on skin phototype (dark skin might need 5-6 times more exposure than light skin), is necessary for maintaining normal innate immunity. Vitamin D supplements cannot replace UVB exposure.
Here are some helpful graphs that that illustrate that there is no correlation between masks, social distancing and Covid spikes:
https://rationalground.com/mask-charts/
https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/29/these-12-graphs-show-mask-mandates-do-nothing-to-stop-covid/
I’m sorry, did you somehow believe that masks alone would bring the pandemic to a screeching halt? They are just one element in slowing the spread somewhat and keeping hospitalizations down. To prove they didn’t do that you would need alternative graphs showing those same areas without the mask mandates or voluntary increases in mask usage.
It’s actually mask wearing that slows the spread, not mandates. I think you guys believe that masks are supposed to be magic. This whole anti mask hysteria is Lysenkoism of the right.
I see very few people not wearing masks. It’s been like this since spring. Where I live we had “cases” numbering in the dozens back then. Now we have 1000. I’m going to go out on a limb and say the masks didn’t do anything.
So you’re admitting that masks don’t actually do anything to curb the spread of respiratory viruses? Thank you for finally agreeing with what many of us have been saying all along.
No one thinks they are magic Tim, they are however, a form of virtue signalling for the wokies, and a form of kow tow bowing to authorities that are chest thumping themselves with their new found feudal power, it is not going to get better, but will get far worse. On top of that, there will be an army of Karens standing guard to brow beat us, and report any antimask infidel. This mutant deadly wuflu, is less potent than a regular flu for death numbers, but a very convenient method of instilling fear into the zombie citizenry, to herd em like sheep into the new age of their global reset, and Davos cabal control, while they work to eliminate a third of the planet’s multitudes to better preserve the worlds resources for themselves and their mutant entitled offspring. JMHO!
Yet, we never once heard about the amount of people at the riots & protest wearing or not wears masks.
How many of them got the virus. I wonder why?
One of the best test groups you could ask, but they never did.
PS.. 30 plus years in medical. wearing all kinds of masks, and yes even the M-95.
FYI Tim
It’s actually mask wearing that slows the spread, not mandates.
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Most folks have no idea how to wear a mask. Cotton ones are a joke and most of all.
My wife is a head ER Nurse in the WA state and it’s a big hospital. the all wear M-95 masks are are still getting sick.
Plus if you care to read the WHO. They even say (if) you are not sick don’t wear them.
There is if one considers that masks are the problem.
jesus h christ it is a damn flu virus get your asses out and get over it. Use your masks as ass wipe.
This is insanity writ large. And not to sound like a broken record but flight tracked two incoming flights to Vancouver Intl. this morning. One from Shanghai China and the other from Guangzhou.
So what is Ms.”Young Global Leaders Forum member” Michelle Rempel crusading for today? Calling for action to help workers in the aviation industry.
Have you lost your fng mind Rempel????????
Get outdoors.
Get some Sun.
Avoid crowds.
Yep, there are many ways to reduce your chances of getting the virus besides just wearing a mask when indoors in a public place. Flights into Singapore since the pandemic have been carefully studied, with all passengers tested mulitple times and quarantined for two weeks. Findings? Since masks have been mandated, in flight transmission has become extremely rare. In one case there were two in flight transmission, but in that case, 29 of the passengers had COVID when they got on the flight. Pre-mask, a single passenger infected 90%of the people (11) who sat within two meters of him.
Masks work. This doesn’t mean they offer perfect protection. Only small children expect things like perfect protection.
Of course masks “work” when you can’t social distance. Measures “work” to a degree; that in itself isn’t justification.
We could execute every impaired driver or speeder, that would “work” to reduce road accidents.
But at what cost? Masks are a minor hindrance, but don’t work per se, given very few people wear medical masks anyway.
Imo, cases will rise irrespective of any measures. The virus is among us and a bunch of positive tests change nothing.
We had our chance to achieve herd immunity over the summer when covid deaths plunged, now we wait out a vaccine.
But in typical government fashion, the people who follow the rules, who are not at risk, are blamed, like gun control.
I use the analogy of a radar trap, which detects speeders. If aircraft radar flew overhead, it would detect more speeders.
It does not follow logically there is an increase in speeding just because testing for it becomes more comprehensive.
Nor does it mean speeders will get “worse” unless we close the highways.
My beef is not with masks, other than they are a form of license to authoritarians. That is the virus we must check.
I want to know when we can gather in large groups again, to have a life, to not totally destroy entire economic sectors.
It does not matter . The freaking virus is no worse than the seasonal flu. Get your head out, it will not kill you. Jumpin jeezus, the virus is 300 times smaller than the best mask can filter out. Stupid , stupid. Everyone is officially stupid.
Well, vowg, everyone’s been unofficially stupid for a very long time, we might as well make it official.
Tim..
You know they have done many tests on the air flow in large aircraft.
Masks or not. The air in & out of the plane is moving quite fast.
Not that it matters, but when you look at places like LA and Seattle (homeless) who most do not wear and mask or even wear them the right way. How come their death rate isn’t thru the roof.
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Get some sun.
Our local Islamic preacher claims that beautiful Canadian women sunning on the beach with nothing on but a thong and tank top is the cause of this Kung Fu Chinese Virus, nature fighting back against naked women, naked Moose, Deer, Tree Frogs,
Also Tsunamis, Earthquakes, Volcano’s, Landslides, Avalanches, Coldest Winter in 200 years. etc .etc.
PBUH.
Get some sun? Where. This is Canada. I can’t drive to my place in Florida this year because people are freaking stupid. If I could I WOULD REMOVE EVERY IDIOT WHO IS AFRAID OF THE FLU FROM THE PLANET.
Then you’d be a very lonely guy vowg! At least that would eliminate one of the major problems under consideration by the Davos elite, how to preserve the planetary resources , mostly for themselves.
Just fly and rent a car. Trump never cut air travel to the US for pleasure travel. Time for real vitamin D.
Why didn’t all the maskless hobos and homeless die?
‘Cause they were mostly out in the sun?
Maybe tent fabric has built in antibodies?
They have very strong immune systems.
Maybe its their blood alcohol content.
Because it is not as billed. It exists but the hype is fake.
They are not very old and get Vitamin D.
In the Perfect People’s Canada, comrade, there are no homeless. How can that which does not exist die?
Or are masks the cause of the spike?
That’s my guess.
I will suggest the reading of this once more. Fauci co-authored a paper in 2008 about the Spanish flu. The upshot is that most people died from bacterial pneumonia from wearing masks. There was no penicillin then. It was not in use until WW2. The spike is also the result of massive incorrect tests. We sure have become stupid in the last 80 years.
Stan- good question. Has any authority made any comments on this?
I don’t think that masks either slow or prevent the virus. The charts provided by Edward Teach certainly show, at first, a drop in cases when masks were introduced but then – a rapid increase in cases. What happened?
One has to consider that ‘correlation is not causation’; that the first use of masks did NOT slow the infection rate; something else did. And the continued use of masks did NOT increase the infection rate; something else did.
At the moment, despite the overwhelming use of masks, the infection rate continues to rise. However, one has to ask – is this a genuine spread – or is it due to increased testing? That is – since people are being tested now, in ratios far above those tested earlier in the year – has the infection rate really increased? Or is it due to increased testing? And – one also has to ask – how serious are these infections? Have they moved into ‘cases’, i.e., requiring hospitalization? What’s the ratio of these hospital cases now – as differentiated from earlier in the year.
And- death rates? We know that the data is flawed, since hospitals are using the ‘Covid’ as ‘reason for death’ when the real reason is an underlying condition, with Covid akin to any other final-stage illness, eg, pneumonia.
So- a major problem is the data. We simply don’t have the empirical evidence and thus, we resort to rather simplistic causality of: Wear a Mask–>Prevent the Infection. Or -Stay Home –> Don’t get Sick; when we know that exercise, sunlight, fresh air – are vital to our health. And we set these simple sentences up as Truths rather than Beliefs.
However ET, there might be a tiny connection to the seasonal ability of colds and flu’s to grow in conditions most affable for them…like winter! As you state, we tend to get much less sunshine, less exercise, and go out less in Winter, and now we are containing our own personal little bacteria farms stuck on our faces. Strange how reality sometimes gets in the way of all the hifaluting opinions of experts, or comments from “authorities”. We are now nine months plus, into our two week mask mandates to “slow the spread”!
Has anyone thought about the Biden plan. Just wear a mask for the next 100 days and then all will be fine……
Stated another way, wear a mask until flu season is over and the vaccinations have progressed to a point where they are getting into herd immunity territory and all will be fine, and Biden can bask in the glory of “doing something” whereas all Evil Yellow Bad Man did was personally kill 300,000 people.
What happened to all the people that used to die because of the Flu?
I guess Bad Orange Dude cured them.
-So, is the Covid case “spike” the result of citizens failing to wear masks and “social distance?”
NO. The case spike is the result of Testing . The “tests” give a 90% positive result whether an individual has COVID19 or not.
‘The Virus’
The lie.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/12/virus-jack-kerwick/
Or is it just another set of bogus numbers?
If you believe the “Chinese Bioweapon spike” in numbers then you also believe that there were no underhanded shenanigans in the election.
People who wear masks touch their face a lot and adjust their mask.
But don’t sanitize hands after each touch to the face.
Then they touch all manner of other things that others will touch.
I’d say there’s a very good chance mandatory masks help spread Covid
It’s a farce.
When I go to the dentist I wash my hands, put on a mask, and have my temperature taken.
When I take it off I wash my hands, remove the mask, then wash my hands again.
At work I have a cloth reusable mask that I stuff in my pocket or wear on my chin when the cops aren’t watching.
Same as everybody else does.
Pfizer vaccine
“The ten-page “Reg 174 Information for UK Healthcare Professionals” describes the vaccine, how it is to be stored, diluted, and administered, and the trial studies carried out to test it. To be effective, the vaccine is supposed to be administered twice. In a section called “Fertility, pregnancy and lactation,” the guide says there is “no or limited data” on the vaccine. Therefore, it is not recommending its use for pregnant women. …” lite site news
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L- link to 10 page UK advisory for health professionals- Pfizer vaccine. Interesting…
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/941452/Information_for_healthcare_professionals.pdf
Why have a vaccine when there is a better way?
Another hard working educated doctor who is pissed off with guvament.
https://youtu.be/Tq8SXOBy-4w
via Scott Adams
Also if you validate the governments mandate for masks and support it, you support whatever other related mandatory actions they will deem necessary because you have validated that Covid is truly a pandemic requiring totalitarian actions and loss of basic freedoms.
So when forced vaccinations (and travel bans for non vaccinated) come – it will be because we accepted that masks and lockdowns were valid.
There is far more evidence that shows this is an exaggerated “pandemic” rather than a real one.
Its for all the marbles – subjegation of humanity.
And none of what various governments are enacting will ever be repealed. Unless people fight back.
Ward, “Subjugation of humanity”, The great global reset in a nutshell.The Davos crowd would love to commandeer that statement for their plans.
Hi Gerry – Strong laid it out years ago – Covid is the “incentive”
The United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) met in 1992 in Rio Janeiro. The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change was formed at that time. A major power broker and organizer behind the UN global warming agenda in Rio was the Canadian Maurice Strong.
“What if it were concluded, Strong romanticized, “that the principal risk to the earth comes from the actions of the rich countries? … Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring this about?”
“What we really need are massive incentives for the right kind of behaviour,” Strong explained at one seminar to an audience of roughly 400. “Economic incentives, but also moral incentives, ethical incentives, psychological incentives . . . fear.”