We’ve had a few years of COVID crazy during which the madness of masks, lockdowns, and more, has been well documented. The results? “The research indicates that mask mandates, lockdowns, and school closures have had no discernible impact of virus trajectories.” How much research?
There are over 400 of them.
In other words, what we knew about masks and lockdowns before COVID is still valid, and now we know a good deal more.
Bendavid reported “in the framework of this analysis, there is no evidence that more restrictive nonpharmaceutical interventions (‘lockdowns’) contributed substantially to bending the curve of new cases in England, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, or the United States in early 2020.” We’ve known this for a very long time now but governments continue to double down, causing misery upon people with ramifications that will likely take decades or more to repair.
The benefits of the societal lockdowns and restrictions have been totally exaggerated and the harms to our societies and children have been severe: the harms to children, the undiagnosed illness that will result in excess mortality in years to come, depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation in our young people, drug overdoses and suicides due to the lockdown policies, the crushing isolation due to the lockdowns, psychological harms, domestic and child abuse, sexual abuse of children, loss of jobs and businesses and the devastating impact, and the massive numbers of deaths resulting from the lockdowns that will impact heavily on women and minorities.
Women, children, minorities, lower-income folks.
These mandates are the worst political medicine. Actions enforced upon everyone “when we had evidence of a 1,000-fold differential in risk of death between a child and an elderly person.”
And they are still at it. Mask mandates are surging as quarantine, school closures, and vaccine discrimination policies rise.
Not one of these so-called remedies does what advocates claim. Many do the opposite. And they don’t want to hear that.
Advocates for these failed interventions, some of whom are emotionally co-dependent, will protest (too much), but the growing amount of research is compelling. There are over 400 research reports across a broad spectrum of locations and populations on these topics.
Lockdowns, Stay-at-home orders, School Closures, Social Distancing, Business Closure, Shelter-in-Place, Mask Ineffectiveness, Mask Harms, and the failure of these Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions to accomplish stated goals. And the real health damage they facilitate.
The Brownstone list is a big one and worth a look, which is why we shared it.
Debunk and Recruit
When your Liberal friends share a media report (one, maybe two) on how masks might work, this list includes actual research including (9) on why they don’t work, (97) that show they are ineffective, and (61) on how they may be (or are) harmful.
Roll them out like thunder, maybe not on Facebook. They’ll tag you with the missing context stage if they do not toss you altogether – even though you’ve got (potentially) 164 pieces of context.
Remember, (1) what they are advancing is political even if the water carriers do not know this, and (2) you’re not trying to convert zealots. You are using them to speak to the lurkers who are observing the “debate.”
To win them, you need to keep your cool, make sensible remarks, challenge obvious canards, and posit relevant questions. And share these links. Many people bought in and still toe the line but have reservations about some or all of it.
Their BS meters are quietly pinging.
You can feed the doubt and free their minds.
We’ll keep trying to help.
Note: GraniteGrok.com also has hundreds of posts that include additional research; use the search feature and your keywords to find it.
