The Great Maskerade
The Great Maskerade
©2020 Ross Williams
Another virtue signal has been blinking
recently, ostensibly aimed at those who fail or refuse to accept the GroupThink
of the modern “progressive” [ironic term] socialist infantilism infecting this
nation. In all actuality, it serves in
the form of hopeful lamb’s blood upon the lintel for the secular socialist Passover
now occurring in various parts of the nation, and is a text-dense polemic that
begins “We Believe…”. You’ll see these
in front yards and pasted on the inside of shop windows as you drive around
town, often next to the laughably hypocritical Hate Has No Home Here. The
signs cannot be read while driving because the printing is too small, and
there’s too much of it. The left cannot
only not meme, they also can’t make effective political signage.
The first pious scold under “We Believe” − and there’s 6 or 8 of them,
depending on which version of the sign you happen to run across − is usually
“Black Lives Matter”. Just a head’s up,
homie: when the riots come to your town, this will not save you, nor will it
prevent your business or residence from suddenly and mysteriously catching a
flammable dose of peaceful protest.
However, an AR-15 might just do the trick. Pro tip: sit on the roof.
“We” also, according to these signs, “Believe No Human Is Illegal”. Yet many of the things they do may be. Such as… and I’ll just leave this out there… crossing
borders without permission, when such permission is required to cross a border.
Some also claim “We Believe Water Is Life”.
And, well, wine is mostly water; vita
vinum, after all, so … okay, fine.
I’ll give you that one.
But among the superficial
slogans that appears is “Science Is Real”.
…this, coming from the portion of our political spectrum that will
gladly inform you, whether you ask or not, that there are 57 genders. I had a brief internet conversation with
someone citing this infantile list of sneers and asked what, specifically, was
meant by this particular scold. Two
things, I was told. First, “global
warming is happening”, and second, “covid is real and not a hoax”.
I replied, well, first, the scientific method
is real, as well, and when the global warmers back up their computer-generated
hypothesis with even one predicted result which actually happens as predicted −
in the real world and not on a computer that has been gamed to giving desired
results − then we’ll talk. But not
before. And second, of course Shanghai Shivers is real; it’s the hysteria that’s the
hoax.
The conversation was ended at that point because I referred to Hong Kong Fluey
in a “racist” manner and he wasn’t going to indulge me further. So be it.
I’d have ended up giving him essentially the same lecture I’ve written
out dozens of times already.
SARS-Cov2, the bug that causes
the Hubei Heaves, is an actual virus. It
is from one of the families of virus that cause − in humans − the upper
respiratory malady called a cold. All types of cold have the potential to
migrate into the lungs and cause an infection there. A lung infection is called pneumonia, and it
is the manner in which colds and influenza kill most people. Some types of cold are more dangerous than
others, and migrate into the lungs far easier. This virus appears to be one of them, but
being a more serious variety of cold
does not stop it from being a cold. When
the pneumonia is caused by a virus it is very serious indeed. I say all this because this is the science,
and science is real.
If nothing is known about a
specific cold virus, then it is scientifically reasonable to make assumptions
about it based on other cold viruses until such time as more information is
learned about the new cold
virus. In January of 2020 almost nothing
was known about the cold virus which causes Shanghai Shivers. It is reasonable, then, to assume that it
will behave similarly to other cold viruses of its family. Other viruses in this family − indeed all
such upper respiratory infections − cause particular hardship on the old, the
young, and those whose immune systems are depleted by other illnesses. …which is why you don’t put infected people
into nursing homes full of those almost certain to be significantly more
impacted than the general public. And
when governors, and their “public health” directors, force infected patients
into nursing homes with uninfected residents, the scientifically expected
result is disaster. Science is, after
all, real. And disaster is what occurred.
What is also real is that the public policy actions of a handful of democrat
governors, on the advice of their “public health” “experts”, was a significant
inspiration in the deaths of tens of thousands, roughly half of our national
deaths. What is also real is that none
of those public officials are being investigated for criminally negligent
homicide − they knew better than to put sick people in with high-risk healthy
people, and they did it anyway. And what
is further real is that these democrat politicians are being lauded by the
press because while they were busy killing America’s old people by the tens of thousands,
they were making snide comments about Donnie Combover. Tens of thousands of people died as a direct
result of democrat policies, but the public criticism of the Orange Man made it
all worthwhile.
Because political science is also real.
Being all about the science,
“public health” “experts” are fully aware that sunshine is murder on
viruses. It is especially the
ultraviolet portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that kills viruses. So did “public health” “experts” advise that
people spend as much time outside as they can, partaking of public parks, outdoor
public swimming pools, daytime sporting events, the beach, and the like? Were indoor tanning salons declared an
“essential business”? Were they forced
to stay open and even extend their hours?
No, people were anti-scientifically told, “Stay Home, Save Lives”. Because political
science is more real, and far more important, than real science.
Not only does sunshine kill viruses through UV radiation, but it creates a
biochemical reaction in a person’s skin that creates a hormone − a secosteroid
− called vitamin D. Vitamin D prevents
viruses from being able to replicate, especially when combined with the mineral
zinc, and is an essential component of a person’s immune system. Because this is the science, and because
science is so real, politicians and their “public health” “experts” have
recommended that everyone spend as much time in the sun as possible, even to
the point of risking sunburn. Didn’t
they? No. Because the reality of modern science depends
on whose politics benefit from it.
Chlorine is an even greater
killer of viruses than ultraviolet light is, which is why “public health”
“experts” have advised everyone to go spend the day at any of a million
hyper-chlorinated public swimming pools.
Especially the outdoor public pools.
…except they haven’t. Because
they continue to be all about the political
science.
Despite not being as fatal to
viruses as ultraviolet light and chlorine, salt water is exceptionally harmful
to viruses. Which is why governors of
coastal states, at the advice of their “public health” “experts” so keen on
science, have ordered all salt water beaches to remain open and accessible to
the public − particularly during the day, in order to get the double benefit of
UV light, and the triple benefit of biosynthesis of vitamin D − throughout this
ordeal. …except they haven’t. Real science once again became secondary to
political power.
Alcohol doesn’t do an awful lot
to viruses. It kills bacteria like
nobody’s business, but doesn’t even make a virus dizzy. That is the science. Hand sanitizer is nothing but jellied
alcohol. Yet, politicians, on the advice
of their scientifically adept “public health” “experts” have mandated hand
sanitizer to be used before entering a wide assortment of public buildings −
like schools and hospitals. More “real
science”. So, since alcohol is so
effective in their new-fangled notion of science, wither bars and the internal
application of alcohol? It seems the
denial of science only works when it can serve the purpose of increasing
government power.
…which brings us to masks. A full century of science has told us that
wearing face masks for “public health” prophylaxis is either pointless or
counter-productive. The purpose of face
masks is to prevent a surgeon’s saliva or booger flakes from falling out of his
face and into the open wounds of the anesthetized patient on his operating
table. Saliva and boogers carry viruses
and bacteria, and if they were to enter the open wounds of a patient, it would
bypass that patient’s normal immune system barriers. Coupled with the trauma of having an open
wound, the additional pathogens may prove fatal.
Yet that science was completely
rewritten in March of 2020. Not because
the science itself had changed. The
science was, and remains, identical: it is pointless at best and
counter-productive at worst for the general public to wear masks for “public
health”. What changed was the political science. “Public health” “experts” are now advising −
and politicians [particularly democrat politicians] are demanding − that masks
be worn in public.
The wording of the
recommendation is critical. A recent
statement I came across declared “If worn
properly, a face mask can reduce the likelihood of infection between 50 and 85 percent.” All some people will see is, “masks
reduce infection by 50-85%.” But the key
words are “if worn properly.”
And the science tells us that
outside of a surgical or other highly controlled medical setting, masks are not worn properly. Ever.
Usually, the improper wear doesn’t amount to much, hence the wearing being
pointless. They don’t often do any
particular harm, but they also don’t do any good.
In order to wear a mask
properly, several necessary and mandatory steps must be taken:
1] Scrub your hands with soap
in the manner described on all the new hand-washing bulletins posted above the
sinks in public restrooms. Twenty
seconds, minimum, under the nails, and halfway to the elbows.
2] You must get a mask without touching anything except the mask. If you touch anything − the box the mask comes in, the counter the box is
sitting on, your hair as you loop it over your ears − your hands and the mask they
are touching are now unsanitary and must be disposed of. Return to step 1.
3] Once the mask is in place over your mouth and nose, it must never be
touched. By anything. You pull it down to expose your nose, or to
lollygag around your throat as you drive your car past all the pretentious “We
Believe Science Is Real” signs, the mask is now unsanitary; go to step 1. If you rub your nose with your wrist because your
nose itches … go to step 1. ANYthing …
go to step 1.
Failure to rigidly follow these
three steps will mean, in all likelihood, that your mask will not accomplish
what you fervently believe it will accomplish.
To wit: keeping you safe from others’ germs and others safe from yours. But it will also, in all likelihood, not do
any harm. What will do harm is when any of the first three steps are violated and
the mask gets saturated. And it will become saturated. Exhale on a mirror if you need to know why.
4] When saturated, the mask
must be discarded and replaced starting from step 1. Saturation means the fibers of the mask will
collect viruses and bacteria from the environment. A saturated mask becomes a fabric petri dish
worn on your face. This does cause harm… to the one wearing it.
But of course this is all science and
not political science, and the ones exhorting others that “Science is Real”
want everyone to ignore science and just put on a mask that science doesn’t
justify. “Get over it”. Do you want to know how to get over a
disease?
By getting over it. Catch it, become ill with it, develop
antibodies to it and survive it. There
is no other way. When enough individuals
do this, it’s called Herd Immunity.
Enough people have to be immune to it that when it comes around again −
and it will come around again − there
won’t be enough people who can get sick that it will devastate an entire
community, let alone the world. Those who
claim to be “public health” “experts” seem to believe that if we simply hide in
our basements long enough, like Creepy Joe has been doing, the virus causing
Hubei Heaves will simply give up looking for us and leave. That’s not how disease works. But they wouldn’t know, since it involves
understanding real science and not political
science.
You don't acquire herd immunity
without the herd getting sick in the first place.
What we're doing by trying to
hide from it is prolonging its presence, and making otherwise healthy people unhealthy by depleting their immune
systems through arbitrary − and scientifically unsound − "public
health" policy. People are not simply going to keep catching the scary new
disease, but because they have a weakened immune system they're going to catch
every other disease as well.
This disease is here, and it's
here forever. The sooner we understand that and get on with life the sooner it's
going to be irrelevant. And if you
wouldn’t stack the ill in nursing homes to infect those with already weak
immune systems, relatively few would die from it.