Coronavirus: Thread

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The New Yorker Promotes "People's CDC" And Mask Mandates Forever

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-activism/the-case-for-wearing-masks-forever

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/study-comparing-cloth-masks-n95s-stirs-controversy
https://imgur.com/a/7wLdVdn

When the science no longer supports the establishment narrative, the
science no longer matters.  This is the lesson we have learned time
and time again over the course of the past few years when it comes to
covid mandates and vaccine cultism.  Americans in particular have been
whipped with incessant claims since 2020 that the "science is settled"
when it comes to mask restrictions, lockdowns, mRNA technology, etc.
Yet, as time passes, every "conspiracy theory" asserted by the
anti-mandate crowd turns out to be true.

This, however, is not stopping the covid cult (made up mostly of
political leftists) from blindly marching forward as they cling to the
sweet taste of ultimate power they experienced from 2020 - 2021.  They
just can't let it go.  The pandemic world is their ideal world, and
they continue to reveal their addiction in a steady outcry for ongoing
restrictions.

The New Yorker has recently joined the trend for perpetual medical
tyranny with an article titled 'The Case For Wearing Masks Forever' in
which they promote the concept of a new politicized version of the
CDC, called the People's CDC, which ignores the actual science and
enables the irrational fears of covid obsessives.

The People's CDC is made up of academics, doctors, activists, and
artists who believe that the government has left them to fend for
themselves against Covid-19.  They believe the CDC’s data and
guidelines have been distorted by powerful forces with vested
interests in keeping people at work and keeping anxieties about the
pandemic down.

This is a fascinating juxtaposition of previous narratives.  Two years
ago, anti-mandate movements argued the exact opposite - That data and
guidelines had been distorted by powerful forces vested in keeping the
public afraid and under control.  As it turns out, the anti-mandate
crowd was right about everything.  The public was being lied to about
the effectiveness of the masks, the effectiveness of the lockdowns and
the effectiveness of the vaccines.  Establishment institutions have
been forced by the wider dissemination of scientific data to admit
this reality.

And now, leftists are livid. They feel betrayed by the very government
agencies that once fed their craving for fear.

The People's CDC admits they don't really know what their larger goal
is, only that they are seeking to provide an "alternative source of
information", one that essentially reinforces their ideological
assumptions.  It should be noted that when conservatives and liberty
activists tried to share scientific information that was contrary to
the establishment narrative, it was these same leftists that cried for
censorship and called anti-mandate groups "dangerous".

The difference between the two groups is stark, though.  On the
conservative side, the goal was clear and concise - Stop the draconian
mandates because they are politically motivated and are not based on
legitimate science. The goal was to separate politics from science.
On the leftist side the broad motivation is to inject activism into
science; to make science as political as possible.  This is a truly
dangerous and destructive endeavor.

The group suggests that ongoing mask mandates are essential to dealing
with the spread of covid.  Members even claim that opposition to masks
is predominantly among white people, and that anti-masking is rooted
in "white supremacy" and eugenics.  Many minorities are also
anti-mask, and the fact that The New Yorker would even entertain such
drivel highlights the downfall of mainstream journalism.

The People's CDC notes that they take issue with the way that the real
CDC emphasizes individual choices over collective action.  This was
not the case a year ago and it really still isn't the case today.
What they are likely more upset about is that the CDC gave up on
collective enforcement because such measures failed to pass scientific
scrutiny and the scrutiny of the public.

The official median Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) of covid continues
to sit at a mere 0.23%.  Meaning, on average over 99.7% of the
population is not at risk of dying from the virus.  This is a number
which every establishment institution seeks to avoid mentioning
because it lays bare the insanity behind covid fear mongering.

The CDC has openly admitted that masking is not very effective, noting
that the cloth masks which were widely required in public
establishments across the country do little or nothing to prevent the
transmission of covid.  At best they acted as a placebo, at worst they
represented as symbol of submission to collectivist authority.  While
N95 masks are purported to be more effective, recent studies show that
the N95 offers no more protection than cloth masks.

States in which masking was widely enforced did not see any
significant reduction in infection rates or death rates over states
that had no mask mandates.  In fact, the rates are almost identical.

This is the kind of information The New Yorker and the People's CDC
never mention.  That's what happens when science is tainted by
activism - The quest for truth becomes an annoyance rather than the
primary mission.

What the covid debate really amounts to is a conflict between those
that support individual liberty vs those that do not.  Those that
think society should be group focused and think that individual choice
is a threat vs those that see the group as an abstraction exploited to
take away people's freedoms.  Collectivists see the covid mandates as
a vehicle to further their cause.  They don't care if the science
contradicts their aims because the point is ultimately not public
health and safety, the point is to elevate the ideology of the group
over the individual.  This is why anti-mandate champions often refer
to people like those in the "People's CDC" as cultists; they desire
ideological alignment to the detriment of all other concerns,
including reality.