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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Helmet efficacy test
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 07:47:58 -0500
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On 4/16/2025 4:25 AM, John B. wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 04:16:27 -0400, Catrike Ryder
> <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 09:02:16 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:46:46 -0400, Catrike Ryder
>>> <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:20:51 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 4/15/2025 12:15 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>>> On 4/15/2025 8:56 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But here, the rise in anti-vax was driven by upper class
>>>>>>> suburban mothers and Hollywood celebrities who skew soft
>>>>>>> left.  (as with any social phenomenon there are of course
>>>>>>> many flavors of opinion and politics)  It was unusual
>>>>>>> before that quack Wakefield (1998?) but snowballed after
>>>>>>> that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The anti-vax movement was driven by ignorant anti-
>>>>>> scientists. Yes, it's bounced around the political spectrum,
>>>>>> but the often deliberate ignorance has been and remains
>>>>>> constant.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, I agree with that.  Wasn't helped by deliberate lies
>>>>> and not only by Wakefield.
>>>>
>>>> I submitted to two doses of the Covid "vaccine," and then I realised
>>>> that the jackass who was directing it (Fauci) and all the other scams
>>>> (masks and six foot spaces) was partially responsible for creating
>>>> Covid.
>>>
>>> Strange isn't it. The vigorous enforcement, of exactly the same rules,
>>> that you describe, were blamed for Thailand's rather amazingly low
>>> Covid rates and deaths..
>>>
>>> U.S.  Total cases per 1 million population - 337,912
>>>           Total Deaths per 1 M population       - 3685
>>>
>>> Thailand Total cases per 1 million population - 68,069
>>>                   Total deaths per 1 M population - 494
>>
>> I suspect there were many factors involved. Fauci admitted that the
>> cloth masks were worthless and that the six foot rule came out of thin
>> air. The places in the USA that had the strictest rules and the most
>> vigorous enforcement faired no better. IMO, it was all smoke and
>> mirrors.
>>
>> FWIW my wife and I got Covid even after taking the vaccine.
> 
> 
> I have no idea what Mr Fauci said about anything but I would comment
> that doctors and medical staff wear them in Thailand, Singapore,
> Indonesia, and medical evacuation airplanes to my personal experience.

I agree it's a popular custom. but the size of viruses and 
the pores of masks make that theater at best.

If you can breathe without difficulty and if it's not well 
sealed at the edges, you're not blocking viruses.

Regular hospital masks can be and probably are effective for 
bacteria but the size scales are radically different for 
viruses.

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971