Your friendly neighborhood Certified Industrial Hygienist here, reminding you that unfitted N95 respirators worn by untrained people are no more effective than cloth masks, which is to say not effective at all.
NBC's Today show does a segment about getting kids to wear KN95, N95, and surgical masks wherever they go *plus* how N95s are great because they "very snug" and there's not a lot of air...getting in," so you can't breathe in air, meaning you're keeping Covid away or something
@AntonioB79
@realginnyrobins
Fabrication. One, it’s illegal. Two, once you control for variables the difference disappears. Three, if women really could be paid 70% of men’s salaries, some businesses would hire only women.
@Democrawonk
This is a bad take. The Republican rank-and-file are sick of wars, and want them to stop, period. The Democrats have become the War Party.
Focused protection: To minimize mortality, older and other high-risk individuals are better protected, while the young live near normal lives to minimize collateral damage from lockdowns. Sign the
#GreatBarringtonDeclaration
@DrEliDavid
@ShadeFrost
The ACTUAL experts in the field have been saying this entire time. The OFFICIAL experts called us cranks, charlatans, and worse.
@denisethedowner
Misinformation. You cannot claim any efficacy at all without a quantitative fit test. Untrained people wearing unfitted N95s might feel good about it, but there is a negligible benefit.
I need to vent. I feel like this is what my life has been like for the past 3-4 years - every time I get ahead, a seemingly intractable problem appears. (Courtesy of a valet at a nice restaurant).
Dumbest Graphic Ever. COVID aerosols do not follow ballistic trajectories but distribute outward in Gaussian fashion and stay suspended for hours to days, getting sucked in through the gaps in your mask. FAIL.
@JoMarksberry
@ScottAdamsSays
It horrifies me. Because it’s not usually the elites who suffer in revolutions, dying in the mud for a lie, it’s the poor plebs, Mussolini and Ceaucescu being two exceptions.
@espiers
Absolutely untrue. I was deemed an essential worker, but to be allowed to go to work I had to carry a letter with me at all times authorizing me to drive on roads, to be outside, etc, and this was in a suburban / rural area of New Jersey, and this requirement was not rescinded.
@ZubyMusic
I spent six months working in Trinidad & Tobago in the late 90’s, loved the place, the culture, and the people. But in a country that is 40% black, 40% East Indian, and the rest white and Chinese, I found the same dreary race rhetoric coming out of media and academia. Depressing.
@YALiberty
@SenatorBrakey
“The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, 'See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk.”-
Harry Browne
@tweettruth2me
Electricity in the US is massively centralized in a way that other energy modes are not. Much easier for them to turn you off, with no alternative provision available.
@pmcdunnough
The Bangladesh RCT showed zero for cloth masks. When the data for surgical masks was independently analyzed, the 11% efficacy completed disappeared.
@doc_gero
Yep. Without question this is deliberately cultivated by our power elites, to keep the liberals on board and keep them and conservatives at each others throats so they don’t notice what those people are up to.
@placentadoc
No. Our COVID-19 policies never worked because they are completely without any scientific basis. I feel bad for your grandparents and wish them a speedy recovery.
@DrEliDavid
@ShadeFrost
Yep. Virtually all maskers are wearing an ineffective device used inconsistently. There was never any way that this was going to work at the population level.
@ppisciot
@bethanyshondark
@pantermurphy94
@RyanMarino
Distance learning is the complete opposite of homeschooling. It’s public school trash curriculum beamed out into homes because teachers are scared of a chance of dying that’s lower than the chances of being killed driving to school.
Remember folks, this is the woman largely responsible for what has been done to your kids. Do not let her get away with doing that, then calling you a racist for objecting.
@nycexpatmom
I’m not convinced Trump had any idea how badly he screwed up his chances of re-election, nor that he played right into D hands. But I would never go so far as to declare that the Democrats definitely didn’t fool with ballots in counties they controlled in swing states either.
@Brave_Stunning
I was just reading about a quasi-famous session musician who was prosecuted for child porn, and did not go to jail. Evidently the rich and well-connected get a pass.
@NBroadsword
@13WHAM
Nearly every tribe was in a constant state of warfare with each other for tens of thousands of years, they never developed a concept of capital goods. But if Ben and Jerry are serious, they should give the property to the local tribe in exchange for a 100 year lease at market.
@nycexpatmom
NOTHING the US does has any meaningful impact on climate. Even if we completely shut down our economy, China, India, Brazil, Russia and the rest would simply swamp any US decrease in CO2 emissions.
In her journal article, Zeynep Tufekci, who got CDC to advise masks in 2020, wrote: “Ritual and solidarity are important in human societies and can combine with visible signals to shape new societal behavior…a visible signal and reminder of the pandemic.”
@MattWallace888
COVID-19 vaccinations prevented 3.2 million deaths and 18.5 million hospitalizations in the United States from December 2020 through November 2022, according to a new report Tuesday from the Commonwealth Fund and Yale School of Public Health.
@DavidJuncker
For respirators, “Passing a fit test” is the end of a long process of specification, design, engineering, testing, certification, QA/QC, then a respiratory protection program, then training, then medical qualification. Why don’t we just glue them to people with silicone? 🤡
@ImpeachingTrump
@TheView
The teachers were never in any more danger at school than in the grocery store or the nail salon. You’re just spouting teachers union propaganda.
I think I’m just going to start muting the maskers. Arguing with them is fruitless because they have made up their minds. And most of them are jackasses.
@michaelsharmapa
@sameo416
So, engineers don’t design medical devices like joint replacements, pacemakers, heart-lung machines, LVADs? I think you missed a few things.
@vlamers
You aren’t living in the real world. Cloth masks do zero. Surgical barely better. N95 have limited efficacy with fit testing and training, zero without. All carry some risks, respirators are riskier than cloth masks.
@BOKBASIL
No. You are confused. The state claims a monopoly on the use of force and violence in society, and uses that violence toward all of its goals. Libertarians and anarchists say that this is immoral, that all action in society should be voluntary and peaceful.
@ajlamesa
From 2021. “Infection fatality rates ranged from 0.00% to 1.63%, corrected values from 0.00% to 1.54%. Across 51 locations, the median COVID-19 infection fatality rate was 0.27% (corrected 0.23%)”
@ninaturner
Inflation creates poverty. Central Banks create inflation. The cost curve for the entire society is shifted to the left. Inflation is effectively a steeply regressive tax on all income, including wages and entitlement payments.