"Study:" Even Though Masks Inflicted Permanent, Irrecoverable Developmental Delay On Children, Masking Them For Two Years Is Akshually Good Because... Masks Reduce Racism Or Something

I mean, if you can't see one third of someone's face, you can't tell what race he is.

I mean, obviously. That's why clerks robbed by criminals in ski masks can never describe the robbers' races.

Karol Markowicz:

Is there anything masking can't do? Except for control COVID spread, of course.

A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine purports to show that mask policies in schools work to contain COVID. But that's not all: The authors conclude, "We believe that universal masking may be especially useful for mitigating effects of structural racism in schools, including potential deepening of educational inequities."

Sure, masks help fix structural racism. Why not? And the next study will show masking fights climate change.

No, what this study shows is that much of the medical establishment continues to be intensely woke -- and deeply dishonest because of it. Just as the "experts" told us gathering in crowds wasn't OK in spring of 2020, but just weeks later protesting for Black Lives Matter somehow was.

This dishonesty is going to hurt us all for a long time.

As for this study specifically: It does not prove what the authors intended to. It's just the latest in a push by agenda-driven scientists, and the media who love them, to get people back in masks.
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Again, the problem isn't just with masking. It's that the medical establishment has gone fully woke. Wokeness goes hand-in-hand with forced conformity.

No one is allowed to step out of the woke lines -- though those lines are free to shift at any time. It's very Soviet.

Under those rules, you can't be critical of even this cockamamie study; you're supposed to see that someone squiggled some lines on a graph and pretends it "proves" something it clearly doesn't because you need to support your "side."

Inside the woke echo chamber, you even have to embrace insane ideas like "masking fights racism."

No one at the Times could write an article about how a study like this is gibberish. Medical professionals and journalists who point out the obvious, that the study makes no sense, will be quickly excommunicated.

It's sick, and it has to stop. This isn't science, it's politics -- and this woke cancer has to be fought until it's defeated.

Meanwhile, children are experiencing an epidemic in non-covid respiratory infections, because they've been locked down for two years and have not developed the basic natural immunities they were supposed to have developed by now.

The measures that helped keep us safe from Covid-19 over the past 2½ years -- lockdowns, physical distancing, wearing masks, washing hands -- also helped limit the spread of other viruses. As people return to school and work and take off their masks, those viruses, including respiratory syncytial virus and flu, are back in full force.

Most of those did not "keep us safe from covid," but do go on.

That "immunity gap" from the last few years is probably behind the "unprecedented" early surge in RSV infections this year, scientists say -- and it has thrown other seasonal respiratory viruses out of whack around the world.

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Cases of RSV in the United States started showing up in the spring and are now 60% higher than 2021's peak week, a CNN analysis shows, and that's probably an undercount.

Across the US, the number of flu cases has also been increasing a little earlier than usual. A handful of schools have seen large absences, and medical offices say they are seeing more people sick with other respiratory viruses at times that don't fit the usual patterns.

There have been similar unusual patterns in respiratory infections such as adenovirus, parainfluenza and rhinovirus in other countries, too.

Scientists think unparalleled actions of the pandemic had unparalleled effects.

Really? You mean if you subject a country's population to an unprecedented experiment for two years there might be deleterious effects? Effects you didn't plan for, because, again, this was an unprecedented experiment?

Wow, you Science-Believers (TM) sure don't know much about actual science, do you?

Ah, I mean, who cares? None of this was done to stop covid. It was all done as a competitive bidding game to show Who Has the Most Virtue and to create a demand for covid stringency that Trump could simply never meet, even if he'd wanted to, so that the 400,000 covid deaths could be blamed on him. (And the 700,000 deaths that occurred under Biden could also be blamed on Trump, for... some reason.)

posted by Ace at 05:13 PM

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