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Free Man
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Date: August 15, 2020 10:57AM
On Covid and other subjects, RFM and LDS seem to have more and more similarities.
Both issue commands to submit to authority. Both believe that one must follow government edicts to be a true believer. Someone sent me a photo of a sign in front of an LDS church with images of Jesus and a face mask. It said, “Face masks are required to call yourself my follower”.
Here people testify that we should doubt our doubts, and believe all from gov't and the mainstream media.
At both RFM and LDS, non-believers are shamed or shunned – covidiots, right-wing extremist conspiracy theorist. Or told you are a flat-earther anti-intellectual, science denier.
It is ironic to call those with doubts, anti-science. Because science is based on doubt and uncertainty. Science keeps changing. In addition, there is laboratory science, and applied science.
For example, masks may reduce virus expulsion in a lab under certain settings, but in the real world, might make things worse. I recently watched 5 EMTs by an ER standing 1 foot apart talking with their masks on.
Masks are considered by many to be magically protective, like garments or prayer. My SIL recently flew cross country with mask, on full plane, then was told to maintain 6 feet separation while departing. A lady told me she screwed up and didn't have her mask on while driving only herself to see me. Blind faith.
People cherry-pick information to fit their beliefs. In church, only positives are allowed, prayers that were answered, and negatives are suppressed. With Covid, only positives of lockdowns, school closures, masks, are allowed. Social media has censored some with doubts. We don't hear about the deaths from lockdown and fear – likely they will outnumber viral deaths. Failed businesses, unemplyment, suicides, and starvation in poor countries. Deaths from untreated heart attacks, cancer, mental health issues, etc.
In church, we use anecdotes to support beliefs, and so with Covid. News shows deaths from Covid, but not deaths from the lockdowns. Only certain deaths matter. Death is now suddenly a new thing, and each death is used as evidence of beliefs.
Many are confident they know the absolute truth about Covid, without looking at alternative views. There are numerous scientists, epidemiologists, physicians, who cast doubt on what we're told, but go unheard.
Many question the lockdown. We went from temporary flatten the curve to prolonging the pandemic, keeping young people susceptible and long-term threats to the more vulnerable.
There is a “Unherd” series of interviews of professors, epidiemiologists, scientists. I was just watching this one with Oxford epidemiologists/physicians. One is Director of Evidence Based Medicine. Discussion of all the uncertainty of data, no evidence that masks are effective (one has reviewed mask studies for 15 years), and masks may make things worse, how the lockdowns were misguided, failure to protect nursing homes, how hospitals spread infection, how media likes sensationalism, providing no context for deaths (no excess mortality underr age 50), seasonal vs pandemic theory, overall Covid fatality rate about like swine flu, (0.1-0.3%), etc. And their big question – will we now lock down “every time someone coughs?” With the devastation of lockdowns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3plSbCbkSAAnyway, I wonder how many would be willing to read the following source on Covid, which I would consider the equivalent of the CES letter. Updated monthly, with extensive references.
https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/I wonder how many would consider listening to these sources of professors, doctors, epidemiologists, scientists, scolars who question the popular narrative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2rbIDYczvYhttps://www.kusi.com/dr-kelly-victory-insists-people-ignore-the-hysteria-over-rising-case-numbers/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3plSbCbkSAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2ewxCPtw7whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUg8mocLlg0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUg8mocLlg0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK0Wtjh3HVAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RDffMCAujg