The Shame of the Covidians (compare, Maryland, government, federal)
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This is a data set of 4 people, there are many more hairdressers in Australia/Victoria than 4 who tested +, I'm sure. It's easy enough to cherry pick data you like when you select 4, with no inclusion/exclusion criteria given on why those 4.
And I'm sure by close contacts, they meant husband/wife and children. This is obviously very different from an employee you briefly talk to during the course of your day.
This not much different than the stories people here hear, of how only the vaccinated are catching COVID. When you have enough people, you have enough stories. 4 people, chosen on none provided criteria, I very much doubt only 4 hairdressers tested + in all of Victoria.
The set was those hairdressers who tested positive during the study period. Remember it is Australia. There were only 1200 cases overall during the study period.
They looked at close contacts in the salons and compared close contacts outside the workplace. None of the exposed colleagues or clients of the infected stylists became infected in the salons. About half of the contacts outside of the salons did.
The set was those hairdressers who tested positive during the study period. Remember it is Australia. There were only 1200 cases overall during the study period.
They looked at close contacts in the salons and compared close contacts outside the workplace. None of the exposed colleagues or clients of the infected stylists became infected in the salons. About half of the contacts outside of the salons did.
It is evidence to show that masks reduce transmission.
You cannot compare transmission at the workplace to that in the home. I think this is common sense. There are no controls here, there are only 4 examples, we don't know if these were the only 4 who tested + in the time period [the study doesn't make this explicit]. If you want to call this evidence, then it's very very very weak evidence.
Why not just use the CRT from Bangladesh? That used over 300,000 people, and employed randomizations and controls.
The bribes should have been a red flag for everyone.
I didn't buy this story from the beginning, but the bribes and cringey propaganda (the stupid songs, Fauci dolls and attire, "influencers" on social media, dumb sell out celebrities), and the censorship should have smacked all of you awake, but you all just couldn't admit you might have been had. And there are still too many who still believe all of it.
You cannot compare transmission at the workplace to that in the home. I think this is common sense. There are no controls here, there are only 4 examples, we don't know if these were the only 4 who tested + in the time period [the study doesn't make this explicit]. If you want to call this evidence, then it's very very very weak evidence.
Why not just use the CRT from Bangladesh? That used over 300,000 people, and employed randomizations and controls.
'We' were right, meaning you lay conservatives. Odd that it used to be the far left in that position, but it is what it is.
A few very important things are left out here.
First off it is the medical side that makes these determinations. And yes we were 'wrong' in the sense as the virus changed, the facts and recommendations changed. No one could know things things before the mutations. Only best and experienced guesses as they related to the current virus and Pandemic. You have to think about real time decision making, not retrospectively where it is always much easier and of may not be timely.
Masking and vaccinations worked much better with the original viral strain. And then with time the vaccines waned in strength as the Delta took over changing the whole picture. Masking became less useful as the Delta was much more transmissible. One major reason that it took over in the first place. And contributed to the failing of the vaccines as far as preventing transmission.
And on and on...
But please blame it on we the medical side, not these 'Covidians', whoever they may be.
It was largely Left wing government officials who were driving the narrative.
They saw an opportunity to use Covid as a political weapon against Trump and they jumped at it.
Problem is that "trusting the science" also required abandoning common sense.
Remember calling people grandma killers for being outside without a mask?
Arresting people for surfing alone?
Shutting down small businesses while big box stores and fast food restaurants stayed open?
If masks were so effective, then why were used masks never treated as medical waste instead of being casually discarded as trash and litter?
I always placed my used mask into a sealed bag in a waste container in my garage after wearing it. That others did not isn't evidence that masks were ineffective. It's evidence that people did not care to handle them properly.
Covid was the perfect "fear peddling" mass control excuse the govt. could hope for. Well, expect for climate change - that nebulous, non-calculable enemy that is sure to effect common people but not the elite. Same thing, different name, based on junk science -- and govt. knows it. It is all about controlling you.
I always placed my used mask into a sealed bag in a waste container in my garage after wearing it. That others did not isn't evidence that masks were ineffective. It's evidence that people did not care to handle them properly.
It does show that mask mandates are worthless though.
If you put through an intervention that is too cumbersome to follow, it will fail. It's much like the hospital gown/glove policy to prevent transmission of MRSA/VRE. It failed when it was put to a CRT, to prevent transmission of those bacteria. It's hypothesized that the reason it failed as that a few people were not so careful, hence the policy failed. But regardless the reason, if the intervention is too cumbersome to be followed to perfection, and if slight deviations from perfection render it useless, then it makes mask mandates useless except to aggravate people.
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