Tucker Carlson on the effectiveness of wearing masks for Covid 19

While this site has not taken a solid position on wearing masks, it has always taken the position that governments should not and even do not have the power to mandate mask wearing or even the shut downs, which we view as ultra-vires in both Canada and the United State as well as Great Britain. In Canada, the emergency act is still subject to the charters of rights and freedoms. So closing Churches for example, is still not something governments can legally do.

In this Tucker segment we see some of the dangers, and just some of them, of forcing populations to adopt things like this on a near whim.

Four items on Covid and Covid measures

1. CDC Study Finds Overwhelming Majority Of People Getting Coronavirus Wore Masks

A Centers for Disease Control report released in September shows that masks and face coverings are not effective in preventing the spread of COVID-19, even for those people who consistently wear them.

A study conducted in the United States in July found that when they compared 154 “case-patients,” who tested positive for COVID-19, to a control group of 160 participants from the same health care facility who were symptomatic but tested negative, over 70 percent of the case-patients were contaminated with the virus and fell ill despite “always” wearing a mask.

“In the 14 days before illness onset, 71% of case-patients and 74% of control participants reported always using cloth face coverings or other mask types when in public,” the report stated.

2. Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine Study Paused Due to Unexplained Illness in Participant

Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine study has been paused due to an unexplained illness in a study participant, the company announced on Monday.

“We have temporarily paused further dosing in all our COVID-19 vaccine candidate clinical trials, including the Phase 3 ENSEMBLE trial, due to an unexplained illness in a study participant,” J&J said in a statement on its website.

“Following our guidelines, the participant’s illness is being reviewed and evaluated by the ENSEMBLE independent Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) as well as our internal clinical and safety physicians.”

The company added that it is learning more about the participant’s illness, and that it is “important to have all the facts” before it shares additional information.

(Since no-one ever has “all the facts” its a decent bet that we will never have any of them)

3. Trump: ‘I Was Right About Damaging Lockdowns’

During his first rally since swiftly defeating coronavirus, President Trump again slammed lockdown policies, and declared that he was right about resisting them all along, after the World Health Organisation admitted that countries should not be using lockdowns as a way of controlling the virus.

“The World Health Organisation came out a little while ago and admitted that Donald Trump was right. The lockdowns are doing tremendous damage to these Democrat-run states where they are in lockdown,” Trump told the huge crowd in Florida Monday night.

“They corrected themselves today and said I was right,” the President reiterated

4. The phoney model used to force these measures

Two hour conference of epidemiologists on reaching immunity and against lockdowns

Note: We haven’t watched this yet but the assumption is, these doctors are against the measures which are destroying our society and believe that they are counter-productive. From the intro that much is clear. This is also an international conference.

At some point one wonders if Covid isn’t a thing leftist governments are using to divide us further and more aggressively as they are with black or white people, men and women, and every other possible crack in our taxonomy.

H/T EB.

Former Chief Science Officer for Pfizer Says “Second Wave” Faked on False-Positive COVID Tests, “Pandemic is Over”

From Hubpages:

In a stunning development, a former Chief Science Officer for the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer says “there is no science to suggest a second wave should happen.” The “Big Pharma” insider asserts that false positive results from inherently unreliable COVID tests are being used to manufacture a “second wave” based on “new cases.”

Dr. Mike Yeadon, a former Vice President and Chief Science Officer for Pfizer for 16 years, says that half or even “almost all” of tests for COVID are false positives. Dr. Yeadon also argues that the threshold for herd immunity may be much lower than previously thought, and may have been reached in many countries already.

In an interview last week Dr. Yeadon was asked:

“we are basing a government policy, an economic policy, a civil liberties policy, in terms of limiting people to six people in a meeting…all based on, what may well be, completely fake data on this coronavirus?”

Dr. Yeadon answered with a simple “yes.”

[Read the rest at link above]