The Tyranny of Fauci Returns
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COVID. COVID. COVID. Will we never hear the end of it!
Unbelievably, New Yorkers were told to 'mask up for Labor Day' amid Covid variant superspread fears.
We are familiar with these “triggering” words such as “variant”, “superspreader”, “mask up”, and so many more, that three years ago we never thought about but that now dominate our lives.
In California, the state that sets the trends (sadly), Mask Mandate Update: California Officials Address Rising COVID Cases
On Thursday, officials with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health held a press conference to speak about a rise in new COVID-19 cases, saying that over the past week cases have doubled.
During the press conference, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer was asked about the potential return to mask mandates and if the county would ever make them mandatory again.
"'Ever' is not a word I'm comfortable with. There's not that level of certainty with this pandemic. I'm never going to say there's not going to be a time when we all need to put our masks back on. I am going to say we certainly don't all need to put our masks back on now. We are at a place where people make their own assessment," Ferrer said.
It hit the White House, just like it’s Groundhog Day, every day now. Jill Biden positive for COVID, President Biden tests negative.
Celebrities are jumping on the bandwagon.
Metallica reschedules Arizona concert thanks to COVID.
"Unfortunately, COVID has caught up with James," the band shared in an Instagram statement, along with a photo of Hetfield's tattooed hand and a positive COVID test.
At the same time that we are being told to “mask up”, the New York Times (of all places) published a story that should have shattered the myth:
The Mask Mandates Did Nothing. Will Any Lessons Be Learned?
However, it’s not as big a victory as you would think. It’s published in the section “Opinion Piece”, even though it sites an irrefutable scientific study.
The most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies conducted on the efficacy of masks for reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses — including Covid-19 — was published late last month. Its conclusions, said Tom Jefferson, the Oxford epidemiologist who is its lead author, were unambiguous.
“There is just no evidence that they” — masks — “make any difference,” he told the journalist Maryanne Demasi. “Full stop.”
But, wait, hold on. What about N-95 masks, as opposed to lower-quality surgical or cloth masks?
“Makes no difference — none of it,” said Jefferson.
What about the studies that initially persuaded policymakers to impose mask mandates?
“They were convinced by nonrandomized studies, flawed observational studies.”
What about the utility of masks in conjunction with other preventive measures, such as hand hygiene, physical distancing or air filtration?
“There’s no evidence that any of these things make any difference.”
These observations don’t come from just anywhere. Jefferson and 11 colleagues conducted the study for Cochrane, a British nonprofit that is widely considered the gold standard for its reviews of health care data. The conclusions were based on 78 randomized controlled trials, six of them during the Covid pandemic, with a total of 610,872 participants in multiple countries. And they track what has been widely observed in the United States: States with mask mandates fared no better against Covid than those without.
In response to the scientific study, CNN actually confronted Dr. Fauci on the idea that perhaps masks don’t work.
As we all know, cult leader Fauci doesn’t like being questioned. He did what he does best, spoke some mumbo jumbo in his street-smart New York voice, about how masks are effective on an individual level, so the study really doesn’t mean anything (huh?).
“We’re talking about an individual’s effect on their own safety. Not the overall effect on the pandemic as a whole.”
Well, if masks have an effect on an individual level, then they would have an effect on the pandemic as a whole, wouldn’t they? You can see why Fauci gets along with politicians so well. They speak with conviction, stringing words together, creating sentences that sound impressive, but if you ask yourself, what did they actually say, it wasn’t anything.
If Fauci wants to talk about the population as a whole, the NYT article addresses that:
But when it comes to the population-level benefits of masking, the verdict is in: Mask mandates were a bust. Those skeptics who were furiously mocked as cranks and occasionally censored as “misinformers” for opposing mandates were right. The mainstream experts and pundits who supported mandates were wrong. In a better world, it would behoove the latter group to acknowledge their error, along with its considerable physical, psychological, pedagogical and political costs.
As for an organization like the CDC admitting its fault:
Don’t count on it. In congressional testimony this month, Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, called into question the Cochrane analysis’s reliance on a small number of Covid-specific randomized controlled trials and insisted that her agency’s guidance on masking in schools wouldn’t change.
One of the greatest crimes was masking children in chemical-laden face diapers 8 hours a day, even during outside exercise. They will never admit it was wrong, they will just keep on doing it because they are modern-day SS commanders, and they are just following orders.
Explosive New Study Finds Face Masks May Increase Stillbirths, Testicular Dysfunction, Cognitive Decline IN KIDS
A new study by German researchers has concluded that face masks can cause carbon dioxide poisoning when worn even for short periods and may have contributed significantly to stillbirths when worn by pregnant women, as well as testicular dysfunction and cognitive decline in children, among other destructive health issues.
As reported by the Daily Mail, the research, published in the journal Heliyon, comprises a review of 43 previously published studies on exposure to CO2, mask-wearing, and pregnancy.
Swedish researchers previously found that the stillbirth rate increased from seven per 1000 births to 21 per 1000 births after the pandemic, while a leading UK hospital saw a four-fold increase in its stillbirth rate.
“Circumstantial evidence exists that popular mask use may be related to current observations of a significant rise of 28 percent to 33 percent in stillbirths worldwide,” the German researchers asserted.
They also note that research indicates “reduced verbal, motor, and overall cognitive performance of two full standard deviations in scores in children born during the pandemic.”
It might seem incredible that despite all of these dire revelations, we are back once again in this nightmare. But we shouldn’t be surprised. An abuser always gives the abused a moment of respite, a pat on the back while they explain how the abused can do better next time. Then, just when the horrors appear to be over, the assault returns.
Fauci is worried we won’t follow orders. He wants to help us—they all do. Abusers always want to help the abused; make them into better people, which means more obedient to orders and less able to think for themselves.
For those of us who have fought back, we still have our free minds.
We still have the ability to make a choice. We can still read and listen to various points of view. At the same time, we should be conscious that the information available to us is becoming ever more devious. We have access to various points of view, or so it seems, however, we are being funneled into listening or reading only what the algorithms have determined we agree with and so while we think we are exercising our free choice, the information we are receiving is becoming more and more repetitive. A sort of hypnotism. A brainwashing that we are not aware of. So, we must refuse that constant repetition. We must read all sorts of things. Yes, I keep saying it. If there is one thing you all remember from me, it is to read real books. Not inside the Vast Machine.
Yesterday, I was in the market, and I saw a mother and her two daughters at the checkout. The older girl, she must have been about nine years old, was sitting inside the cart. She had a shawl around her shoulders, and she was reading a book. She was completely immersed in the story. It was as if right there, in the middle of all that chaos of so many people buying stuff, she lived in a magical world of her own making. It was beautiful to see. I talked to her mother and then the little girl, who smiled up at me and said, “Yes, I love to read!” There is hope, when there are children and mothers and fathers like this.
I’ve been reading Father George Calciu’s Interviews, Homilies, and Talks. He was a political (religious) prisoner in communist Romania. I would encourage everyone to buy this book and read it. Put it on your shelf in a place of honor, easily accessible. It will bring tears to your eyes and inspiration to your heart.
In 1979, in prison I had many experiences. Ceausescu was very angry with me. I never spoke against him, I never even pronounced his name. I was speaking out against the regime, against the terror, against the forbidding of knowledge to young people….
As long as you know only what the government is offering you, you are not free; you are slaves. And spiritual slavery is worse than material slavery. The slavery of ideas is worse than the slavery of the body.
Do not be a slave of ideas—no matter even if you think they are the right ideas.
Practice what you preach, don’t just repeat what you have been told. There is little point to ideas, to professions of noncompliance or faith or determination or courage, without substance, without actions to back them up. Even as you put words into actions do not form a cult of hatred in response to the hatred and oppression from the regime. If those of us who oppose the regime return hatred for hatred, we become a mirror image of it. This is why humanity never advances. It just repeats the same horrors. The oppressed gain power only to turn on their oppressors.
These are the most exciting times to live in! We have the opportunity to create a new kind of revolution. One that fights tyranny with love, not hate.
The power of love over hatred was abundantly clear
at the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa. Peaceful protests, hugs, sharing food, joyfully playing with their children - all so contrary to attacks, verbal and physical, upon this group - highlighted the joy of love and true respect for the divine in humans.
What you're advocating is so important, Karen. We are always seduced by what I call The Allure of Easy, including falling into habitual patterns of blame, shame, and retribution. A good way to break out of that is to start small, in one's own life, by viewing others who don't see -- or can't see -- what's going on in the world with deep compassion. We've all been blind at times.
Thanks for this beautiful essay; you're such a bright light.