Arrrrrg!
Arrg arrrrg arrrrrrg.
I am so far behind in posting, where do I start? Let’s start with some personal experiences. The madness of the mask still has a firm hold on those within my ever shrinking orbit. Met with my brother-in-law and his wife for lunch a short while ago. They arrived before we did and were masked in the restaurant. Thankfully, they did not remark between bites and sips but their did Redon their compliance rags as soon as they stepped out side the restaurant.
Ran into a friend from our matsuri group in Asakusa. He pulls a rickshaw and I happened to see him there amongst a small group of rickshawmen. He was to only one masked. Last month’s meeting of our matsuri group was the first in which all were unmasked since all this silliness began. Tonight, three of the 10 in attendance were again wearing masks and one other had his under his chin. When I picked up my 10 year old from cram school yesterday, 3/4 of the kids that existed before he were masked.
Then we have this. I assigned my 1st year med students to brain storm and write lists from the activity to discover what was on their minds that may make a good speech topic. The first I collected had this.
I can not escape this madness. Amongst my family and friends, almost all are mad maskers. My wife has been clot shotted 5 times. My med students are obsessed with LGBTQWTF issues. The temptation to sell everything I own and by a whatever size sailing vessel and provisions the earnings from the sale allow and let the winds and waves take me where they will is almost overpowering.
Outrageous it is,but also accurate. I think it goes beyond communism and straight to totalitarianism.
On twitter there was a woman rejoicing on the return of masks being mandated at one clinic. She said , and I am paraphrasing, that she was simply looking for masking to be accepted again and was waiting for someone else to make the decision for her. Nothing about masks being the best strategy, or science at all, but rather...she just wanted them back and the only thing preventing her from wearing one is perceived acceptance.
I should underline and pin that. How many people are like this...simply waiting for the consensus.
Another guy on twitter has the #Davossafe hashtag on his account, and he burns calories creating charts, and as of late seems hell bent on making covid about kids. If you can't get kids as the victims (and they are trying to say there are a lot of Long covid Kids out there) then they will endeavor to try to make them vectors of the disease.
Do any search on Covid spread and children and early on it was known Covid was not being transmitted by kids. Another study was trying to delve into the mystery of it, but the truth of it is:
Children had mild to no symptomatic response to Covid.
Covid does not spread asymptomatically
Thus them being the primary source of transmission is a ridiculous notion.
As of late they tried to trot out a study that proved this using phone app thermometers. They were trying to pass off children's high temperatures as proof of Covid. Mr. #DavosSafe who probably even knew the study was a bust only posted a picture of the headline which was meant to scare people into once again accepting all of this BS.