Written by Tom Trust
Something I have never grasped is our government’s complete blind spot on face coverings. “We follow the Science”, they burble; which only leads me to conclude that the Scientific – and Medical – advice they have been receiving has been worse than dreadful. I have seen and heard comments attributed to “Government Scientists” which compare the size of the Coronavirus with the size of the gaps between the various materials used in face masks. The Corona virus measures about 125 nm (nanometers) across. That is 125 BILLIONTHS of a meter. Tiny. The gaps between the threads of even a very finely woven cloth are like the proverbial barn door to a Coronavirus particle.
So the gaps between the fibres in many types of face-covering are larger than the diameter of a virus. This appears to be the basis of the advice given, that face masks are ineffective against viruses. Well, balderdash! How are Covid-19, and many other types of germ, transmitted? (By the way “germ” is a non-scientific word which refers to any virus, bacterium, fungal spore or single-celled animal which causes an illness.) They are mainly transmitted in droplets sneezed, coughed or merely breathed out by an infected person. These droplets are of varying size, some so small as to be classified as “aerosol particles”, themselves smaller than the gaps between the fibres in the average mask or other face covering but many large enough to be intercepted by the aforementioned mesh of threads.
Probably everyone (still) reading this will have worn a scarf around their face during a very cold snap. You will have discovered that the inside of the face covering becomes damp. That is the moisture you have been breathing out. If you are carrying a respiratory infection, like a common cold, then there will be many germs trapped in the moisture in the scarf, rendering them incapable of escaping to infect anyone nearby. Some of the aerosol particles will be trapped, despite their diminutive size, because of electrostatic attraction between them and the droplets of fluid already held in the face covering.
The scarf can be washed or merely left to dry (yuck!) in which case the germs will be destroyed or die – eventually, in the latter case. This is not rocket science. It does not constitute a guarantee of preventing the spread of the infection; it does not filter out 100% of the viruses around; but it does cut it down and the evidence is that it cuts it down quite a lot. Just bear in mind that if a virus has your name on it (albeit in tiny writing) it will get you no matter what precautions you take!
I have been Skyping a school friend who lives in Manila who told me months ago that there, the Philippine Government made the wearing of a face covering compulsory in public. Along with other measures such as social distancing and the shutting down of certain businesses like in so many other countries, it has kept its infection and death rates way below the world average, in a population quite a lot larger than ours. They gave out information that, for example, the material from which the common T-shirt is made can be used in the back-room manufacture of a face mask. This statistical evidence was available months ago.
Masks are described by those opposed to protecting those around them from any germs they might spread as “muzzles”. This is to descend to the level of those opposed to Brexit who deliberately and repeatedly used emotive words such as “crashing out” or “cliff edge” to denigrate Brexit: though, of course, one purpose of a muzzle on a dog is to protect those in its vicinity from being harmed by the dog; which is actually what masks are helping to do amongst us humans. So perhaps it is not quite as bad as crashing out over a cliff edge!
Of course it needs to be recognised that one very non-Scientific reason for our Government not making the wearing of face masks compulsory was that back in February there was simply not even enough PPE for our NHS and Care Workers, never mind the population as a whole. That’s to the shame of our Governments since the 2016 pandemic simulation which revealed the kind of things that needed to be done, just in case, but which were simply left undone. That’s down to May’s Government, really. Just recall that in 1939 the then Government saw to it that every member of the population had a gas-mask – just in case – produced at considerable expense and involving a far greater production effort than sewing a dining-table’s worth of home-made masks!
All the thousands of people in the UK who started making masks at home needed to be embraced and organised into a nation-wide distribution network – but the Scientific advice was that “there is no evidence that masks are effective” (or, as I interpret it, there is therefore no evidence that masks are not effective – so better wear one just in case). Now our namby-pamby government has “advised” that users of public transport and now shoppers should wear a face covering. Who is left to police this but the transport and shop staff. Oh, and you only have to say you are asthmatic and we all have to believe you and let you get away with not wearing one. Advice, advice, advice, that’s all we get when what we need is leadership and enforcement.
There will be a second spike. Here in Cornwall, my wife and I wear a mask when shopping. I have bought a reusable denim one (I like denim) and a Union Jack one (Brexit!). We are beginning to see an influx of untested, unmonitored holiday makers who seem to feel entitled to a holiday. How decadent we are! That infection and death numbers will rise is hardly in doubt and we only have a weak, inadequate and poorly-advised government to blame.
Don’t forget the threat of ‘right-wing’ terrorism which is growing all the time as the police will tell you. As if we did not have enough with the virus.
Thank you kind Guest. At last – common sense! As a libertarian, who also happens to be a microbiologist, can someone tell me why the right wing have so taken against this simple and effective measure? (well, effective if you use your mask properly – a few government sponsored ads sorely needed on this subject)
I see masks referred to as face nappies and muzzles – glad to see I am not the only one to make the analogy with protection from the wearers viral load and protection from a dog’s bite. Perhaps it is time to remind readers of those who wear face coverings in their everyday job – day in,day out. All the sterile pharmaceuticals and biologicals, including vaccines, are procuced in ‘clean rooms’. All the operators are not only wearing face masks but are fully gowned up. What about surgeons – and their team in the operating theatre, performing a long, complex procedure? I bought a crop spray mask to wear shortly before lockdown, it left a nasty mark down my face after just 30 minutes hanging round for hubby’s prescription in the chemist. Imagine having to wear that all morning or afternoon several times a year. Then there are the staff in FULL PPE in the ICU caring for Covid-19 patients. And people are complaining about wearing a cloth mask for the time it takes to ride the tube to work or do the weekly shop?! This makes my blood boil.
The weave of the fabrics that masks are constructed from are larger than virus particles? Yes. That’s why a triple layer construction is recommended. Even the materials, from which sterilising filters used in pharmaceutical manufacturing are made, do not have pore sizes which are an absolute 0.2, or 0.1 micron, rather the organisms are trapped in the matrix as they are pushed or pulled through.
No evidence? Sorry folks,Covid-19 deaths were lower in 198 countries where mask wearing was a cultural norm or government policy. (did you know in Japan, wearing a mask with a cold dates back to Spanish flu?) Then there are the specifics. A masked traveller with a cough, flew from China to Toronto and had Covid-19. The 25 passengers sitting closest all tested negative. 2 infected hairdressers in Missouri failed to infect 140 clients who visited the salon while they were ill.
We should have been told to wear masks in indoor public spaces in February. If they wanted to protect the respirator grade mask supply for NHS PPE people should have been told to wear triple layer fabric. Yet another Government omission which led to the UK being put into lockdown – 2 weeks later than the optimal timing! Incompetence and lack of scientific nous, not conspiracy
Us rightists know that this is government power and control measure that’s why and it’s a wedge.
If you think people should take ‘simple measures’ to protect life here’s some you MUST support.
1. Wear masks and gloves all the time in public including at work or in the pub. In fact no pubs or restaurants since consumption means mask off. Permanently. There are always germs and viruses around. If you care about life?
2. Ban using private cars and bicycles – they crash and harm thousands
Any objection Ms Windsor?
We can then start banning stairs and DIY which are bloody dangerous. Oh and revive Labour’s plan for annual inspections of homes to check hot water temperature. Burns are common. Happy then?
There are reasons for surgeons etc; but this is a power and control exercise by the Govt to see how far they can go. Why are they so coy about giving a risk-benefit analysis? If they get away with this they will proceed to worse outrages and think we are ready to roll over and accept a COMPULSORY vaccine. So we have to stop this nonsense now. Besides which people look b…..y idiots in their nosebags and just need a pair of asses’ ears to complete the Look. Maybe that’s the next humiliation in store.
The mortality rate from Covid has been grossly inflated by TPTB. I’m more afraid of what this this corrupt Govt is up to behind the scenes, and its collusion with mafia Big Pharma. They want to FORCE us to be guinea pigs for very dangerous vaccines that could cause brain damage and death. They claim vaccines are safe yet huge sums paid annually for vaccine damages.
An interesting article that reflects the fear induced irrationality that is all too prevalent.
If you are very frightened, ill or frail and wearing a face mask makes you feel safe then wear one. No one will think badly of you. But do not let your actions, your choice be imposed upon others.
If you are healthy and robust then a face mask will restrict your breathing, reduce your oxygen intake and allow expelled ‘germs’ to re-infect you. But the real damage is not to do with the physical properties of face mask wearing, it is to do with the mental and social damage.
We are social animals, we communicate with language and body. A slight change in facial muscle conveys meanings, all sorts of meanings.
Such a sorry state when fear drives us behind a bit of cloth covering our face. Be human, breathe fresh air, communicate and live.
I for one am not going to wear a face mask and it honestly worries me. Not because of a corona virus but because of human psychology. The corrosive and divisive psychology of fear. Yes I have fear but I am going to grit my teeth and stand up for my freedom of choice.
I don’t have to write this bit, but just to counter the stupid argument about putting others at risk I would repeat that if you believe you are vulnerable wear a mask and let everyone else get on with their lives. If you are worried about the irresponsible deplorables not wearing face masks, risking a virus laden aerosol traversing ‘the gap’ and penetrating your mask then might I suggest taking an extra mask with you and fit it across the one you are wearing thus doubling your protection.
Please don’t be a bigot, protect yourself yes, but don’t play out your fear on others.
If we cannot see what is happening to our society then we surely are doomed.
This quote has been used before but it sums it up perfectly in my opinion. I repeat it only for all those who do not need to wear a face mask but do so for social safety and the safety from the fear of others. Science has nothing to do with it.
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety” Benjamin Franklin
Lim . Absolutely.
Kim.. Abject apolagies.
Kim. Agree entirely. And I think the “plandemic” fearmingering and the confusion and re masks etc are all a massive smokescreen to cover one hell of a dirty giant stitch up En Coulisse. A classic case of “Look there’s a Squirrel.” While everyone’s attention is diverted on the squirrel, a thumping great bear is coming up behind them. While some of us are shuffling around fearfully behind masks, the global Reset takes place, the ushering in of Technocratic One World Communism which will be hell on earth.
PS Watch this to see whats coming
🙂
Well done Kim. I’ve always chuckled at the ‘social animal’ label – said ‘well I must be anti social then’. BUT just shopped local. Wore scarf round mouth/nose so as not to risk embarassing staff. Smiled at something said. Then realised they couldn’t see my smile!
Spot on with ‘do not let your choice be imposed on others’.
Yes – well said, Kim.
But Pauline – if you feel you must wear a covering (as you say, not to risk embarrassing staff, I feel the same) why not fashion a loose one out of clear plastic? Easy enough to do. It won’t grip tightly, but to those of us who believe this is all cosmetic scare-mongering, that actually doesn’t matter much. And plastic is easy to clean, and impenetrable AND your lovely smile will be seen, and, I’m sure, appreciated.
You can buy clearish muzzles on the internet too – but they’re probably Chinese and take ages to arrive.
Let our smiles be seen! It’s just one small step, and we might start a trend.
Hear hear. My liberty does not end where their fear starts as someone said.
Thank goodness for this reply after the drivel I could only bear to half read from the supposed microbiologist in the top comment. Or was it someone from the 77th brigade putting out misinformation.
The mask is a mind control device ready for the RNA / DNA vaccine which will alter your genetic code so you are no longer technically human and will be owned/patented by Bill G. Wake up sheeple or this will end in the death of the U.K., your families, everyone you hold dear, probably most of the world. Don’t look to Johnson for help, he wants you dead as well. He’s a globalist after all I’m afraid to say.
Watch Vernon Coleman videos. The red pill is there for those brave enough to take it and fight this war.
Dr Carrie Madej for the RNA vaccine.
How can this writer explain why the WHO itself says that ”masks” (yes, muzzles) are generally ineffective, but that their main advantage is to remind us that rules must be obeyed?
Perhaps he might also have addressed the fact that once we have ”fought” the virus for several months – by hiding from it behind these muzzles, by remaining behind our sofas, compromising our own and our children’s immune systems by practising purdah – our fight might be declared to have been effective and all our shields lowered. However, it won’t have magically disappeared into the ether, but will still waiting out there to infect us. Does he think we should therefore remain banged up and muzzled in perpetuity?
It will be most interesting if he will come back and address us if a ”second spike” appears later this year. Perhaps he might tell us how this could possibly happen when we’ve been muzzled/banged up/antisocially distanced/constantly disinfected/etc etc in order to avoid such an event.
I did a mega groceries shop today to beat the muzzle imposition. About 20% of the shoppers were muzzled. The earlier advice given by the fat controller to wash or sanitize hands regularly and not touch your face was forgotten. They were adjusting and lifting and constantly fiddling with their masks -not by the strings but putting their fingers on the soggy bit full of their saliva and gunk, then selectingng their apples,tomatoes and so on. Foul and gross!
Strange times indeed – Love the idea that Big Pharma is concerned that the epidemic will be over before they have a vaccine to make billions with – Nappy Face is even more iconic than the empty streets of the pointless Lockdown (see the Sweden model) and clearly shows power over the individual and to our masters delight intimately demonstrates they are doing something even though for months the official science was that masks outside of hospitals are as pointless as Lockdown has turned out to be – This spoof is rather entertaining ….at least a conspiracy gives more of a sense of purpose than the months of error after error – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQcvuftqXFY
Err . . . yes Mike. ‘Mr Trust’ does SEEM o.k. but who is he? who does he speak for and why?
Yes, I wondered.
He also does not give any evidence to his claims.
What evidence, for instance, is there, that wearing face masks reduced the infection rates in Manilla?
I suggest none at all.
The article read like a government propaganda missive sadly.
He completely failed to justify compulsory wearing of face masks.
I think that he speaks for no one but himself !
Nothing wrong with speaking for oneself though, is there.
Tom Trust. We already know that. Face covering may give some limited protection in some circumstances.
Do you not understand WE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT BEING FORCED TO LIVE IN A TOTALITARIAN POLICE STATE.
Unfortunately, this whole hysteria about pandemic has been totally invalidated by unproven and perhaps falsified data. As Wuflu deaths have mounted, suddenly no one has died from old age any more. But even on these dodgy data, the survival rate comparing cases and deaths appears to be +/- 99.4 % recovery. I suspect a lot more have died from panic, missed operations and treatment and loneliness.
LETS TRY TO SAY SOMETHING GOOD ABOUT MASKS !
They don’t give you the virus !
Wearing one will give you about a 5% benefit chance !
Even for that benefit, they should be used once only !
MY TAKE IS, that this is Kidology upon all of us !
Authority needs to advertise the need, so we are all being used by them !
What is the safe way to discard a used one ? – No advice is given, other than burning !
We must do something. – This is something, so we will do this !
Tell me again Mike who said your last sentence? It’s so appropriate.
Err . . . . How do we burn the things. Mustn’t have coal/coke/wood burning stoves. Camp fire? No! – Global Warming. We’re all going to die!
It seems to many of us that our Government does NOT have our best interests at heart.
We, the normal law-abiding, tax-paying citizens were effectively locked up, yet every Tom, Dik and Hassan was allowed to fly in and disappear into the community. Hassan’s cousins still arrive illegally, in their thousands, by boat.
Four months after Covid-19 was officially the preferred cause of death… we are to be made to wear masks.
The “Science” seems dodgy and based on old Soviet Union theories:-
Lysenkoism… science was guided not by the most likely theories, backed by appropriately controlled experiments, but by the “desired ideology”. Science was practised in the service of the State, or more precisely, in the service of ideology. The results were predictable, but one could be “disappeared” for saying so.
Cognitive Dissonance… The term describes a mental state that arises when a person possesses knowledge or beliefs which conflict with a decision he has made. In the context of Government and the management of the response to Covid-19, senior officials were confronted with the inherent conflict brought about by knowledge that the adopted strategy could not work, and was not working, and their decision to persist with that strategy.
Research indicates that cognitive dissonance has a particularly powerful effect on behaviour when there are strong pressures to justify initial decisions. The less justified those decisions, the greater will be the dissonance. Furthermore, the inability to admit error increases with the degree of seriousness of the error made: the more serious the error, the more bizarre will be attempts to justify the unjustifiable.
That its actions are destroying the very fabric of the National economy is of little importance, compared with its overpowering need to prove itself right. A change of tack would amount to an admission of error. This is not an option.
So, what is the current“desired ideology”?
CONTROL.
Control indeed Richard; now they know how to exercise it and the likely response. Not good information for government to have.
Yes Richard and the latest squad of Tom Dik and Hassan are all males of military age.
Plus the overdue downturn can be blamed on a black swan event.
Viruses like this are around us all our lives. If this was a truly dangerous virus, then the government would have been compelled to issue surgical masks. I find it rather concerning that so many citizens are happy to follow communist countries in doing what they are told without question.
Once we go down the route of obeying without question, democracy and civil liberty will go. Having travelled extensively in China and Asia Pacific I have worn breathable masks in the metro when I had a cold. Most people wear masks when they are ill so they can travel to and from work. In Asia it is considered non negotiable to stay at home when you can get to work. In order to protect those around you, masks are worn to catch your own germs and minimise risk for others.
The majority of people in the UK are not sick. In November and December last year I sat and watched dozens of people walking around with coughs and colds. We had the flu season and very many people were talking about a very nasty temperature and cough. Many were going home to bed because they felt so sick. Since the warm weather in March I have not seen one person coughing, sneezing or complaining of being unwell. The more I question this so called pandemic, the more I realise that British citizens have been living in fear of something for nearly twenty years. So much so, that many are now conditioned to do as they are told without any concern of what they are creating for the future. Our freedoms are being eroded daily and yet these people are too fearful of speaking out.
What happens when we are under a World Communist Government which Blair, Brown, Osborne, and May have all called for. What happens when people wake up to the real meaning of language like universal salary, coastal state, common purpose. All out of the little red book. Will they squeal at the knock on the door during the night or will these fearful souls be the snitches who caused their neighbour to ‘disappear’.
Don’t forget Soros, Gates and the appropriately named United Nations; all of which have openly declared support for a World Government and, in the case of the latter, a huge reduction in population. No wonder they want to infect us all by natural means or vaccination.
These masks are all about power and control, to break our spirit, dehumanise us and teach us obedience as if we were dogs. Utterly humiliating. Plenty has been written by the likes of Peter Hitchens and Vernon Coleman and UK Column and others, that they are of little use (it actually says that of some of the packs), and actually dangerous and unhealthy (hypoxia). Eg 2 Chinese children died wearing them while exercisin;g and you could pass out behind the wheel of a car. The Govt refuse to do a risk-bernefit assessment. And enforced preventative medical treatment appears to be against UNESCO Universal Declaration of Bio Ethicsand Human Rights. Bill Gates is probably laughing his head off as people meekly submit thus inviting further and much worse humiliation in preparation for compulsory VERY dangerous vaccine. Fancy a bit of brain damage anyone?.
You really are in Lala Land. Vaccines have virtually eliminated deadly diseases like polio, tuberculosis and smallpox in the UK.
Of course face masks work, we have been using them in hospitals for decades.
OK Harry Again, I agree that some vaccinations have been useful in the past. I had all those as a child. Up to now I’ve not had any ill effects from the annual flu jab. I’ve still had flu but probably not the one(s) I was protected from.
However the after effects of the Shingles vaccination were horrendous and my GP told me many others had the same.
Our health system is not perfect. The so called experts are not necessarily impartial. It’s a very nasty world out there and it gets worse and worse. You do whatever you like Harry. Believe whatever you like. BUT don’t force everyone else to do what TPTB say.
“Vaccines have virtually eliminated” lots of children in Africa, Do some research on Big Pharma and Gates. Your comment applies to back along when research and vaccines were not controlled by MONEY.
You’re the one in lala land , getting all your news from MSM (or working for TPTB) especially if you trust Bill Gates vaccines.So you cant see anything wrong with COMPULSORY vaccination with inadequately tested vaccines which I understand tamper with the DNA? Very serious vaccine damage does occur , theyre not risk free and the decision to have them should not be forced on us especially by a government we can’t trust. I get the impression totalitarianism doesn’t bother you overmuch.
In UK ; what about their track record in Africa ?
With apologies Harry, but Bring out the leaches. irresistable. ( I have absolutely no idea how to spell that . And spellcheck seems to appear and dissapear at will )
Also I remember after the fights against TB and smallpox. Identical.. Lots of graphs lots of fresh air etc.Have we got herd immunity now?
I also rememberMMR where half the population of motheres were part way through courses of several injections . Upon which Gov’t/NHS decided to get draconion and insist on MMR regardless. Their political bullying stopped it being gently being introduced And many justignnored the authorities. Measles is back Laying down the law only works for fools I don’tremember which political pratt that was.. but he was a superior example.
Quite. Whatever happened to science teaching in this country?
That IS interesting Mary – the reference to UNESCO – re compulsory ‘preventative’ medicine. If you are saying that compulsory vaccination is against international law please spread that message far and wide.
Then if masks save lives from viruses there are always killer viruses around so logically we must mask forever. Also you cannot let people eat in public since that means taking the mask off. No pubs or restaurants. Logically we should never unmask in public at all and presumably at home. Life will be great then free of fear. I trust Mr Trust is doing all this himself? He seems a responsible person and with a great nom de plume.
No, there are not always killers viruses around.
In the UK most have been eliminated by vaccinations.
Eg polio, smallpox, TB, rubella etc.
(Except where some idiots get a bee in their bonnets about the MMR vaccine for example.
Note: TB is caused by a bacterium, not a virus.
Obviously Harry has never heard of flu. What was it 50.000 excess deaths three or four years ago? Every year huge death numbers.
Correct MN and of course the FREE annual Flu Vaccine does what precisely? Who pays for it?
We know nothing about Mr Trust do we Mike Newland. I wonder who he speaks for.
He speaks for himself. It’s still permitted, after all. That’s why this article is titled ‘a controversy’: debate is the lifeblood of our society (or ought to be) and it certainly is the lifeblood of this site.
You’re right, of course, Viv. There is very little to be found in energetic and informed support of muzzles, except (I’m told) on Facebook. I’m not sure this is ”informed” but it IS enthusiastic!
Wasn’t getting at you Viv, or this wonderful site. Just expressing my own cynical opinion. I see someone else has likened the article to government propaganda.
Also, I’ve just read L Jones comment. As usual you have worked very hard to find Trust’s article and by gum hasn’t it got a lot of comment!
I keep banging the drum. The economic benefits developed over hundreds of years are at serious risk. .If we are going to waste time lets get ready for the next train through thr station. And that means research and preperation and abandonment of Treatments instead of cures. And improved education of us all.
The most optimistic of all the things that have happened is the number of different firms and countries looking, And that’s pofit driven ( or economics , or not if lefties get their way )
There will be calls for a committee ( WHO ) to take control. But we all Know what happens there do we not,?
You get PHW or :- public health world . …. “To destroy us all “. Or they may promote PHE to show the way ( God help us..)
The way I see it is. CV 19 is an easy and simple and not very dangerous ( Global ) lesson and preperation for us. It couldn’t really be less disruptive so far,. And I like the Localism experiment. It looks successful to me.
Did China attempt any sort of tests or straregies . Have we? Of course not. & Panic.. Politics took precedence.
Incidentally, Why do we not wear the easily made the Transparent plastic squares and elastic. Masks. Much easier to make. more effective.. I think we are hypnotisedby the luvly pictures of China with everybody doing as they are told I am sure there have been many ideas. All stifled by committees who know .
Of course, Mr Spokes! The transparent coverings are much more user-friendly – more easily cleaned and also allowing for communication by way of smiles and lip-reading (there are many partially deaf people out here). Not so anonymous either. So they won’t be encouraged.
Spot on. Met
We have an immune system to do the job of killing viruses. If you compromise it by wearing an effective mask you’ll end up like the Boy in the Bubble. The very old, very sick and very fat and those on immunosuppressive drugs need to shield if they want to. The 99.75% of the population who are not going to die from this bad flu like illness should not have to have their lives and futures ruined for the sake of a few people at the end of their lives or to entice the weak minded out from behind their sofas.
Well said MTW! Not sure we should value the people we love any the less at the “end of their lives”, but your point about acquiring natural immunity is a crucial one, deliberately overlooked by the scaremongers. Furthermore, there is something deeply humiliating and dehumanising about the scare tactics and level of conformity required to morally coerce the population into wearing face nappies,
We are being forced to being germophobes to the point that life is no longer worth living.
It would be ironic if some other catastrophe (eg problems with supply and transportation of food, or a civil war ) caused us to die in our millions anyway.
absolutely spot on
When a new disease appears, our immune system may well NOT be up to the job. This being the case, you die. Fortunately we have vaccines which help in most cases.
In the time before we had vaccines, populations were decimated by pandemics.
Don’t you know this?
No Harry Again. That’s not quite right. When a new disease appears a ‘normal’ immune system reacts by investigating it and devising a defence mechanism.
The problem with AIDS for instance, is that it has invaded that same immune system. That is why we can not treat the actual AIDS virus. All we can do is battle against other ‘germs’ that a normal immune system would fight.
We are told that this corona/sars virus invades the cells of the lung tissues thus causing a viral pneumonia. But our normal immune system is still free to tackle the pneumonia, surely.
That’s why the elderly, COPD sufferers, asthmatics, people on immuno supressents etc are deemed vulnerable. Their lungs are already damaged or the immune system is supressed.
Calling it a Pandemic is in itself a somewhat misleading fear stoking move. Some statistics have shewn that it has not killed significantly more people than other flu viruses.
The point is that it is being used to CONTROL us.
Yes, indeed, MWT. I help an elderly lady (well over 90) who lives alone and relies on public transport. She is a chronic asthmatic and wearing a muzzle (which she’s done on more than one occasion) makes her feel very ill. She is stoic and brave, unafraid of the virus, and determined to live as normal a life as possible, so she would not ”shield” – but she is distressed because she is afraid of transgressing, has already been challenged by some jobsworth or insensitive person on a high horse (like this author perhaps) and therefore is now afraid to go out. Her life is being ruined by this and the insensitivity of smug, virtue-signalling people who think of no-one but themselves and their own self-righteousness.
On her behalf, and those like her, I am incandescent.
I feel particularly sorry for people like this. In Sainsburys there was a poster up about a Sunflower Lanyard they and Argos are providing which advertises hidden disabilities. I think this would let your friend regain the moral high ground from the Karens.
Thank you, MWT. I’ll certainly look into this.