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"PAUL: It’d be one thing if we were told you have to give up your liberty, you have to give up your freedom, we’re going to save your life. But what if you have to give up all your freedoms and they’re wrong on the science?
Every one of the mandates — and you look in country after country, state after state — you look at when the mask mandates went in — the incidents went up exponentially after the mandates. Restaurants, nobody can eat in a restaurant, there’s no science behind any of that." “If Fauci has his way, you’ll never give up on the mask,” warned Paul. “It’s all about submission. They want you to submit to their will, whether there’s any science. In fact, like on schools, I’ve been telling Fauci for six months, the evidence is that if you open schools, you will not get a surge. The whole world accepts it, except for Dr. Fauci. He finally accepted it last week, six months after I started showing him the evidence.” https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/12/20/exclusive-rand-paul-masks-are-all-about-submission/
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I have many concerns about the new mRNA vaccines for COVID-19, but I will save those for another post. In this segment, I'd like to do a brief thought experiment. The Pfizer and Moderna trials did not test whether their vaccines prevent people from getting infected by the virus. Let me repeat that: The Pfizer and Moderna trials did not test whether their vaccines prevent people from getting infected by the virus. Their focus was on whether people in the study got symptoms.
This means that people who get vaccinated could still catch COVID-19, but the odds of them getting sick are much smaller (if the predicted efficacy rate is correct). This also means that these people could still possibly spread the virus. I foresee this potentially becoming a big problem. Supposedly, asymptomatic spread is already an issue, but soon it may become a much greater concern. Most of the people who get the vaccines will think they are immune, but if they are not, they could unknowingly become super spreaders. They will not stay home if they are sick because thanks to the vaccine, they won't have symptoms. They will likely become lax with their personal hygiene and extra precautions. In effect, they'll let their guard down. I think this will make life even more risky for those who choose not to get vaccinated. On the other hand, recent studies have shown that viral spread from asymptomatic people is extremely unlikely. If this is true, it'd be huge because all this time, the "experts" were saying the opposite. https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2020/12/12/here-are-answers-to-6-burning-questions-about-covid-19-vaccines A large, Danish study was just published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The results are interesting, and there are a few limitations as well.
Conclusions: The recommendation to wear surgical masks to supplement other public health measures did not reduce the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate among wearers by more than 50% in a community with modest infection rates, some degree of social distancing, and uncommon general mask use. The data were compatible with lesser degrees of self-protection." Limitations: Inconclusive results, missing data, variable adherence, patient-reported findings on home tests, no blinding, and no assessment of whether masks could decrease disease transmission from mask wearers to others. Here's the study: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817 And here's a short summary from The Federalist: https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/18/major-study-finds-masks-dont-reduce-covid-19-infection-rates/ If you could sum up the 2020 election in a few minutes, this is it. Whitlock makes an excellent point.
Democrats are trying to steal the election right in front of our eyes. I pray that love wins. video.foxnews.com/v/6207560822001#sp=show-clips 
This will most likely be my last update on the number of daily cases in OH. DeWine pushed out his statewide mask mandate on 7/24/20, and it's clear that masking the public does not work. There are probably several reasons why, but the data speaks for itself. Ohio is not the only place where we've witnessed the ineffectiveness of masks. After the mandate, the number of daily cases fluctuated up and down, as if masks had no positive effect. Now we are seeing cases on the uptick again. Here's my custom graph, and one from the ODH website, which basically shows the same thing. For those interested, you can continue to track all the stats here: coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/covid-19/dashboards   When Governor DeWine issued his mask mandate for Ohio on 7/24/20, he began an experiment. It has been said that if we all wore masks for 4-6 weeks, the pandemic would be under control. Here we are, over two months later, and, well, I think the data speaks for itself. I graphed the data below using numbers directly from the ODH website. Just to show that I'm not trying to pull a fast one, I've also included a screenshot of their own graph from today. Masks are most definitely being worn in OH by most people. In fact, they are even being worn in situations where they are totally useless (like while driving alone in a car). Yet, the daily case trend stays the same, and recently it's started increasing. Mr. DeWine, your experiment has failed.   Straight from the mouth of a politician. They know they truth, but will only say it when they think they're not on camera. Ooops!
https://twitter.com/yrnf/status/1311065135667204096 This is an interesting read. One trial showed that hospital workers were more likely to catch an ILI when wearing masks vs no masks at all. Excerpt and full article here:
Only one randomised trial (n=569) included cloth masks. This trial found ILI rates were 13 times higher in Vietnamese hospital workers allocated to cloth masks compared to medical/surgical masks, RR 13.25, (95%CI 1.74 to 100.97) and over three times higher when compared to no masks, RR 3.49 (95%CI 1.00 to 12.17). 4 https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/masking-lack-of-evidence-with-politics/ |
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