Re: Helmet efficacy test

On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 20:39:54 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
wrote:

On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 07:42:59 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
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On 4/15/2025 9:02 PM, John B. wrote:

On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:46:46 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
 

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.

 
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..
 
U.S.  Total cases per 1 million population - 337,912
           Total Deaths per 1 M population       - 3685
 
Thailand Total cases per 1 million population - 68,069
                   Total deaths per 1 M population - 494

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I don't know but the general rates of obesity, diabetes,
heart disease are dramatically different between our
countries and all those associate with deleterious outcomes
with viral infections. Maybe significant, maybe not.

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Given the overwhelming enthusiasm -  there is no other word for it -
in doing everything possible to "fight" the disease I'm inclined to
believe it was that effort. Even today masks are commonly seen and
during the epidemic if you weren't wearing a mask people would shake
their finger at you and say "mask, mask". Shops and stores  checked
your temperature before you were admitted. Any public seating was
marked off in 6 foot lines. And all of this wasn't under the gaze of
some "big boss" it was the common ordinary man on the street enforcing
the rules.

Here in Florida the "enthusiasm" lasted for a couple of weeks, and
then most people ignored all the rules and went on with their lives.
There were always a few loonies who mentioned that I wasn't wearing a
mask, but they were easy to ignore and I could move them away by
pretending to cough.  I still see an occasional mask out on the bike
trails miles away from civilization or someone wearing a mask when
they're all alone in their car.

The whole thing was smoke and mirrors and people getting a thrill out
of giving orders to other people.

--
C'est bon
Soloman