In the US, the riot police are being defunded, so crowds of hooligans can, well, riot. In France, the riot police are being deployed to ensure that the French are wearing masks.
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France has deployed 130 riot police to the Marseille region to enforce mask requirements, as more towns introduced compulsory mask-wearing. From Monday, people buying and selling goods at outdoor farmers’ markets in the region are also required to cover their faces in a bid to reduce the infection risk.
France has registered its highest one-day increase in COVID-19 cases since May. Labor Minister Elisabeth Borne said in an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche newspaper that the government wants to expand mask use, especially in workplaces.” We must avoid a new lockdown at any cost,” she said.
I guess they missed the memo from Sweden? Lockdowns, mask orders, shutdowns, and quarantines for the healthy do not produce better results. They destroy people and economies on the way to the same results.
Dr. Gilbert Berdine, an associate professor of medicine at Texas Tech University’s Health Sciences Center, produced research showing that proves it.
New York is a lousy example, the worst on planet earth. They mismanaged the outbreak in a way no one ever imagined possible, even after lockdowns and the rest. New Yorks’s mortality in deaths per day per million was almost five times higher than Sweden, which had no mandates, no lockdowns, no masking.
The Pandemic is over in Sweden. And they never destroyed anyone’s lives or jobs or businesses. They never closed schools.
Meanwhile, in France, they are deploying riot police.
Across New England, we have states enforcing mask mandates. In New Hampshire, the creeping tyranny of public health trumps everything has seen a partial mask mandate, all of which accomplishes nothing but to delay the cycle of the virus working its way through its natural conclusion.
This flu that is less harmless to 99% of the public than the political response because to almost all of us, this is just another coronavirus for which we’ve already had built-in partial immunity. A point we shared a few weeks back when Dr. Simone Gold explained it. A process that Director of the National Institutes of Health Dr. Francis Collins discussed in a recent blog post.
Researchers found that “donors exhibited robust memory T-cell responses months after infection, even in the absence of detectable circulating antibodies specific for SARS-CoV-2, indicating a previously unanticipated degree of population-level immunity against COVID-19.”
Dr. Scott Atlas, President Donald Trump’s new advisor on the pandemic, said last month that emerging data showed that people who didn’t get infected had been found to have COVID-19 immunity. “This is probably due to this T-cell immunity, which is present, and is now shown to last for years,” he said.
They are confirming what Dr. Gold and thousands of other doctors have been saying all along. The most dangerous thing about COVID19 has been the political reaction, overreaction, the false-fear, and the destruction of lives and livelihoods.
It needs to end, but since it is political and not medical or scientific, don’t expect anything to change. That is unless you’d like to exercise your authority of your elected officials and convince them to change their tactics.
You are the only cure for what ails us. But then, that’s always been true. And the answer is not masks or distancing or hybrid schooling, it’s the same as it used to be. You treat and if necessary quarantine the symptomatic (hey, stay home for a few days) and the high risk. Everyone else, as you were. Just as if Democrats, the media were not destroying the economy to try and get one guy kicked out of elected office.
