I don't think kids should have to wear them, they are young healthy and I think it would be good if their immune systems were to be exposed to the virus to create a natural immunity against it. When it comes to adults I think it should be a choice as to whether they want to wear one or not and people should respect each others decisions. I use to get one really bad cold a year before covid but since I started wearing a mask in the stores I haven't had a cold since covid started, not like I use to. There was two times I felt something coming on and I started the American Online Doctors protocol using Immune C Plus which has quercetin in it and within a day my symptoms were gone. Right now I just use a cotton mask that was issued to us when I was a census worker last year because cases are so low, but if they went skyrocketing back up I'd go back to my n95. I take other precautions also, window always down or cracked when others are in the car. Adults sit in the back if no kids back there so they aren't right in my face. I just don't trust the government and this is the best way I feel to protect myself now that you can't go shopping at 1, 2, or three in the morning anymore to keep away from crowds. I really miss being able to do that. I don't wear them outside but if I was going to go somewhere where I'd be in a crowd next to people I don't know I more than likely would. I still won't go sit in a restaurant. Covid has drastically changed life, I even wonder if we will ever get back to some form of the way things use to be. After going back over a lot of things that Trump once said I really do believe when he said "This is a very contagious virus that we have tremendous control over" March 15, 2020. "If (corona virus) comes back though it won't be coming back in the form that it was, it will be coming back in smaller doses that we can contain...or it's possible it doesn't come back at all" April 22, 2020.
You see if you sit down and go back over things that he has said without all the hype that came attached to it you will see a pattern develop where he's telling you straight to your face what the deal is and he apparently loves doing it. You just don't notice it because of all the controversy surrounding his remarks. I think the biggest blunder people miss at this point out of all of them and based on the research I have done is "Make America Great Again", he meant it, not you, not I, not Americans but America by selling us out on energy like they did with manufacturing. People are so emotionally attached to wanting to go back to the way things were they can't see he was never talking about them.
I really do think they control it. I am not of the mindset to be trusting them. Think about the implications here, there are many. You could literally hold countries hostage using covid as a threat. You could set off more contagious strands in area's of the country where you want population decline. You could set it off in area's known for high demographics of heart disease, diabetes, etc., Yeah I wish I could feel like I could put my guard down but I am going to do what I feel is necessary to try and keep from letting them kill me.
To make mask-wearing as safe as people like to think it is, you would have to wear the masks everywhere except in your home and only take them off there when you live alone. You would have to change the mask every few hours, never touching your face or pulling it down and touching it even for a moment, because the effect would already be switched off.
Every surgeon knows this, masks in everyday life can and will never be worn properly because everyday life is not a surgical operating space. It has long been known in professional circles that masks in everyday life are completely useless for a general public in this respect and merely reflect the mental aspect of their wearers (being perceived as safe, as a sign of respect or whatever). The psychological part plays a huge role and the medical explanation is ignored because people simply want to ignore it.
It is safe to say that correct mask wearing, as dictated in laboratories for example, does not in fact happen in everyday life and just observing everyone wearing masks in public confirms this to an overwhelming degree. People sweat, cough and breathe under their masks worn over several days, you see traces of makeup, even in dentists' offices, and sheer dirty masks everywhere.
It is far from reality to assume that life takes place under strict laboratory conditions and insane to even claim or want to do so. But that is what everyone would have to do in order to have some kind of protection.
It has to be stated that here the psychological aspect of both (mask wearers and mask non-wearers) is opposed to each other. Thus, it is not acceptable that the psychology of one is played off against the psychology of the other because, if one brings the mental condition into the field, both groups do not (cannot) do justice to each other. This has opened up a field of conflict that the legislator has brought into being without having fulfilled its obligation to prove that the resulting benefit is worth the harm. Which it cannot possibly do, for the aforementioned reasons.
I think mask, much like your mother telling you to cover your mouth, slows the velocity and reduces the amount of virus in the air. As for totaling stopping infections I doubt that as much as it would with particles that don't land on your hand when you cover your mouth. I haven't been sick in nearly two and half years. Twice I thought I was coming down with something, one time when I was exposed before I knew family members had covid, but I did the protocol of American Frontline Doctors and it was short lived. I do live alone though, am careful to not let people get in my face, if I hear someone cough or sneeze I quickly move away. We have family gatherings outside in the summer but in the winter we basically have gone separate events with each family than all of us gathering up inside one house. Once we did but we increased the humidity. I think the most odd thing I noticed as a grandmother was the reduced nose wiping of the grand kids during all this. Before covid I was always telling them don't wipe your nose on your sleeve. Two grandson's have had it twice but got it from parents and not from schools. Their school district was slow to remove mask mandates while outlying districts removed theirs, they had outbreaks that followed. Still though when they finally got the all clear to stop wearing mask they, including the teachers were happy. I think when it was determined that younger healthier people were better off getting natural immunity it took a lot of stress off the schools. I am fortunate enough to live in a city that seems content to just let everyone decide what they want to do for themselves. Once you start forcing people to do stuff they don't want to do it makes it really difficult. I actually thought during the period of time people were forced to do it there was more hostility towards each other, once the mandates were lifted people stopped arguing with each other over it. I see a young person with a mask I just think they have an underlying condition just as they probably think I am doing it because I am older, the main thing is now is that everyone just seems to be content to make their own choice.
I cannot really rely on my perception as far as so-called infectious diseases are concerned. I would never have observed and interpreted anything that showed up in me as a cold or flu before 2020 so meticulously with Argus eyes. One was simply sick for some days, then healthy again. That was it. I never paid attention to whether I "might have caught it from someone" and I didn't care because it was normal to have a cold or cough or fever once a year or every two years.
It sounds to me like you are counting it a success for you not to have gotten sick in more than two years. I probably see illness a little differently. It's an expression that something needs to be cured, treated or put to rest.
For me, coughs and colds are part of a process where my body gets rid of waste, just as the excretion of liquids and solids is part of the necessary disposal (going to the toilet). Just as sweat and any fluids that come out of the body are merely an expression of the fact that the human being is getting rid of some substances that it can no longer utilise. So, for example, a cold and a cough are not per se something "to be avoided" for me.
For me, for example, the question arises of what to do with the nasal mucus or deposits in the bronchi if these processes are artificially interrupted or suppressed (e.g. with medication). How and where should these substances then go if they cannot be excreted through the usual transport routes? According to my logic, my body must then look for other ways, and possibly much more laborious ones, to get rid of what it wants to get rid of. Other organs are put under more strain and have to do more, for example.
Probably you know that fever is a process that helps the body to deal with the microscopic waste disposal mechanisms and my understanding is that the acute event of fever is a quick fix to speed up this process.
Of course, what we then notice of it is pain, great discomfort. But why should this be avoided?
From my point of view, the policy of the last few years has caused an immense avoidance attitude, which I basically consider to be very difficult. The consequences of avoidance (social contact and everything related to it) are the greatest horror for me personally and I cope with it very badly.
Anyway, thank you for your relaxed answer and I am pleased that you also see that it is possible to get along with people who think differently or that it is better not to hate each other. Nevertheless, the conflict still exists and I wish that people would not silence relationships to death.
I have read dozens of studies that people claimed showed masks stop viruses, and every one of them was so flawed that no such conclusion could be drawn from it. I am left with the statement that no study has ever shown masks to prevent viral transmission in practice.
They have tried to show masks work, but they've failed. When they couldn't show it with actual evidence, they tried to lie, trick people into thinking they did, or imply masks did with related data.
As my work sometimes requires masks, I have been long aware that OSHA regulates (or did) use of masks on jobs. Masks are harmful, in several ways, and one of the worst is that they cause hypercapnia. 13kppm is ~3 times higher than the point at which medical harm starts happening from CO2 in the air you're breathing, and I don't think kids somehow get more CO2 when masked than adults. I have quit doing work that requires masking, and I will not wear a mask as a talisman, or just because someone told me to.
I was born with my face exposed to the air my forefathers breathed, and I'll die that way.
Your right they don't stop transmission they only reduce the amount of viral load expelled from an individual or from what you might inhale. That's where people get confused.
What if what you call virus is just the bodies reaction to harmful electronic EMF waves. And that there are no VIRAL LOADS anywhere. That Sickness is a result of toxicity from a toxic environment?
Dr Kaufman explains the result from the toxicity, the body creates EXOSOMES and they are what the world calls viruses
I find it strange that this discussion of science and rational consideration of the natural world is undertaken by people selling supplies for doing magic. At ~30 minutes in there's an ad for such supplies.
While that does not invalidate any actual rational statements or observations they make, it strongly suggests that the people behind the discussion are incapable of differentiating between magical and rational thinking.
That makes it necessary to very carefully consider their statements, because they clearly are incapable of reason. Dr. Kaufman may not be an alchemist or believe in magic, but the host does, and this suggests that Dr. Kaufman's hypothesis is acceptable only to people that believe in magic and alchemy.
Frankly, that's not a good look for such radical disagreement with allopathic medical science as Dr. Kaufman advocates.
Thanks!
From a morally compassionate understanding, I would even say (to use the stylistic device of exaggeration/radical formulations) that even if the contagion theory and the one about the immune system were undoubtedly correct, it would still be questionable whether measures taken for protection and defence are not already unacceptable for the sole reason that the defence against danger can only ever be a temporary act, but not a permanent state. Because, no matter how great a danger is, the time to meet it cannot be cancelled, but only postponed.
But postponing it indefinitely, as we are supposed to accept worldwide, is like a never-ending imprisonment, a fixation of the living in the inanimate.
Personally, I have decided not to accept the contagion theory (that is, even if it is true) as true, because I give the higher authority to another circumstance: That life between human beings is impossible if we classify the next person as a perma-danger. This attitude that the other person potentially threatens my life is so destructive that it does not outweigh any possible benefit for me. I can certainly see them: people who have always tended to feel uncomfortable among their species (crowded streets, crowds when shopping, full buses and trains, etc.) feel much more comfortable with the new distance rules.
But "feeling relieved or comfortable" is out of proportion to what is damaged in the interpersonal. Therefore, it is not really an acceptable reason to endure the cuts in everyone's psychosocial life.
I have heard these very statements: "The lockdown was a relief for me" or "it was good to be in quarantine", for me an expression of "since I cannot do anything good for myself, am unable to take time off, I welcomed the forced circumstance of having to do so (I would not have done it on my own). Similarly, people who have had to deal with serious illness say afterwards: "I needed that to get off the pace. I would otherwise have worked myself to death (drinking, gambling, etc. etc.).
And what can I say? Of course they are not wrong. They lived a life of extremes - stress and boredom - until they got sick. The mistake is to think that this form of personal responsibility can be replaced. By external strong events, like what we have been experiencing since 2020.
People try to find all kinds of arguments, rational as well as irrational, it often does not look like a good strategy but I am not so sure if it is always as counterproductive as you indicate it...
Greetings to you.
This is very true. I have also noted a great many people who didn't have to substantially change their habits during lockdown, because they avoided the proscribed activity as a matter of course anyway. While these folks didn't suffer changes in their day to day lives to the degree many of us did, I think it would be a mistake for them to think that made the lockdowns acceptable.
The problem for them is it could go the other way, and people could be ordered to assemble instead of avoid assembling, which they would find substantially disruptive. The problem is that personal authority over our sociality has been usurped, and regardless of whether one finds it uncomfortable to be highly sociable or not, it is critically vital that one themselves determine the degree of sociality they undertake, that such authority not be seized by overlords.
It is basically the power to corral the herd that husbandmen have over barnyard animals, and no human person should suffer being merely livestock.
Even if being corralled in the feedlot isn't troubling, the chute to the slaughterhouse surely will be.
Be well
Very true. An apt example of reversal of the image.
Although we both know that the opposite case, the order to assemble, is unlikely to happen. I think that, as you say, it would probably not have come about at all if very many people had not already lived an isolated life and fundamentally preferred such a life to sociability.
Some proudly publish that they have a "social phobia", with a palpable attitude that makes everyone who reads or hears such statements feel that there has long been social acceptance about it. Like saying that you "have an allergy".
Therefore, 2020 is an extreme expression of what has already been palpable and accepted in us humans long before this time, isn't it?
I can even understand why it is that people isolate themselves, are lonely or choose such a lonely life.
In a way, I have gone through such a process of distancing myself, even though I think it goes against my nature.
But who knows, it's very difficult to give yourself answers with simple cause and effect. Because, on the other hand, I think that I have entered an age anyway where I no longer have the quantity of relationships that I had when I was younger.
Probably the strangest and scariest thing for me is that we humans can exist in completely parallel worlds. Where the perception is suddenly so different from the other that you can hardly comprehend it.
Thank you, be well too.