Re: Helmet efficacy test

On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 07:47:58 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 4/16/2025 4:25 AM, John B. wrote:

On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 04:16:27 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
 

On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 09:02:16 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
wrote:
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On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:46:46 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
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On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:20:51 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
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On 4/15/2025 12:15 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 4/15/2025 8:56 AM, AMuzi wrote:

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But here, the rise in anti-vax was driven by upper class
suburban mothers and Hollywood celebrities who skew soft
left.  (as with any social phenomenon there are of course
many flavors of opinion and politics)  It was unusual
before that quack Wakefield (1998?) but snowballed after
that.

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The anti-vax movement was driven by ignorant anti-
scientists. Yes, it's bounced around the political spectrum,
but the often deliberate ignorance has been and remains
constant.
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Yes, I agree with that.  Wasn't helped by deliberate lies
and not only by Wakefield.

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I submitted to two doses of the Covid "vaccine," and then I realised
that the jackass who was directing it (Fauci) and all the other scams
(masks and six foot spaces) was partially responsible for creating
Covid.

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Strange isn't it. The vigorous enforcement, of exactly the same rules,
that you describe, were blamed for Thailand's rather amazingly low
Covid rates and deaths..
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U.S.  Total cases per 1 million population - 337,912
          Total Deaths per 1 M population       - 3685
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Thailand Total cases per 1 million population - 68,069
                  Total deaths per 1 M population - 494

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I suspect there were many factors involved. Fauci admitted that the
cloth masks were worthless and that the six foot rule came out of thin
air. The places in the USA that had the strictest rules and the most
vigorous enforcement faired no better. IMO, it was all smoke and
mirrors.
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FWIW my wife and I got Covid even after taking the vaccine.

 
 
I have no idea what Mr Fauci said about anything but I would comment
that doctors and medical staff wear them in Thailand, Singapore,
Indonesia, and medical evacuation airplanes to my personal experience.

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I agree it's a popular custom. but the size of viruses and
the pores of masks make that theater at best.
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If you can breathe without difficulty and if it's not well
sealed at the edges, you're not blocking viruses.
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Regular hospital masks can be and probably are effective for
bacteria but the size scales are radically different for
viruses.

Medical staff don't wear masks to protect themselves from you, rather
its the first basic step in protecting you from them. Of course a mask
doesn't stop a microscopic bacteria but it does stop the moisture in
your breath that might carry the bacteria.

A bit sarcastic but all the medical folk that even today wear masks
where appropriate likely have some knowledge of the matter.

During the Covid days I asked a heart specialist whether all this mask
wearing had any effect on the usual "wet season" colds and coughs and
he replied,"there weren't any".
 
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Cheers,

John B.