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First some context, I live in Northumberland County which is in Eastern Ontario. It's farming country, orchard land. If you've been out this way you not doubt have seen The Big Apple complete with it's yellow mask as you drive along the 401. It is also overwhelmingly white, and we have our share of racists out here.
Maybe the mask on that Apple should be replaced with a white hood?
Like everywhere Northumberland County has a lot of frightened people, terrified of catching this Covid bug. They're easy to identify, they're the ones walking alone outside, nobody within 100 metres and they're masked up. That or they're driving alone in their cars with a mask on, even if it's a convertible.
And you see them at the dog park, something of a local gathering place out here, although now it's restricted to no more than 5 people at a time. When the conversation invariablly turns to Covid, because it always does, you can bet that some masked up face will start complaining about "those people" from places like Brampton, Mississauga, or some other part of the GTA.
This is what fear does to people, they show off their true colours. Those who either refuse to wear a mask, or who only put one on when absolutely required are a far more tolerant bunch. That's because we're not irrationally afraid, not of Covid, and not of "those people" from the GTA.
They do it politiely, they don't use blatantly offensive terms, but we all know the dog whistles they blow. It's because "those" people don't share our values about health and safety, how "they" live differently with so many generation in one household.
Please save it, if you're frightened of Covid stay in your basements and spew your hateful garbage at the wall. If it wasn't for the trucking and warehousing industry where many of "these people" work there wouldn't be food on the grocery shelves, even out in the lily white parts of the province.
Be kind, and if you can't be kind...then stay home.
Anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows that social media is an ocean of ignorance, almost any theory or belief, you can find people claiming to have definitive proof. Dr. Tam and Michelle Obama are men, Joe Biden is an alien, John F. Kennedy didn't die and is living somewhere in Antarctica....whatever.
In point of fact I don't care most of the time. Whether the earth is round or a dome covered disc, (or a flat rectangle) has zero impact on my life. Same with the moon landing, whether we've been there or if the whole thing was staged, the impact on me and basically everyone I know is zero.
"What"??? "The moon landing was faked"??? "That's it, cancel the cottage this summer, we're staying home now"!!!
The Covid-19 vaccines though, that's another matter. There is a lot of false information being spread around, both by those who are either opposed or skeptical, as well as with those who either have had it, or can't wait to roll up their sleeves.
Sadly, in today's world most people are completely ignorant of what science actually is. For many people they think it's a yes or no answer, something that is either right or wrong. "What does the science say"? This common question is most often posed by those who haven't the foggiest idea of how to even define science.
Science is not a yes or no, it is not a simple right or wrong determination. Science is a process, and it is evolving constantly. That which is accepted as true today can later be seen as false with the emergence of new evidence, and then it can go back to true with newer and better evidence. Science is rarely ever "settled".
Let's talk about the Covid-19 Vaccines
My facebook account has been suspended for 24 hours. It wasn't because I shared false information, it was because I called out someone's ignorance about these shots. Pointing out someone ignorantly sharing false information is justification for a stay in Facebook Jail according to our technocratic masters.
Here is the false information being shared that I responded to:
No vaccine on Earth has ever had "Long term side-effects". They do their job, then the body disposes of them. There is no such thing as a DNA vaccine. The mRNA vaccine does not teach the immune system how to build a virus. It simply introduces a pathogen that prompts an immune response.
That false information is still up, my response was deleted and I've been banned from posting for 24 hours because of this reply:
No words for this level of ignorance....name for me one other vaccine that has sent spike building instructions for your cells, or instructions to build any component of any virus.
Saying that all vaccines are the same is like saying all pain medication is the same, so shut up and take your Oxycontin and don't worry about it....if you think it's incredibly addictive with the very real potential for overdoses, then you're a conspiracy theorist.
Is it true that no vaccine has ever had "Long term side-effects"? No it is not, the rushed Swine Flu vaccine of 1975 was withdrawn for precisely that reason. There are loads of scientific papers and articles on it, but for those who like things in an easier to digest format, here is 60 Minutes reporting on what happened, and their indictment of the profit driven Pharmaceutical Industry.
And it is also absolutely 100% true that all the Covid-19 vaccines are the first ever agents authorized that send instructions into the human body telling our cells how to construct the component of a virus, in this case the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein.
Informed consent requires that ALL information be shared, not just that which encourages a desired behaviour. These vaccines have already showed clinically documented risks of blood clotting, severe allergic reactions, bell's palsy, and in the case of a recent study out of Israel, the potential to potentially increase the risk of getting Covid rather than reducing it.
None of these shots has completed its clinical trial. Moderna's will be the first to finish with an estimated study completion date of October 27, 2022. Pfizer's is slated to be completed in January of 2023, AstraZeneca's in February of 2023.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04470427
The risks of adverse events and deaths is said to be very rare, but then for younger healthy people, having a serious case of Covid is also rare. But with all that being said, if someone decides to roll up their sleeve after being made aware of ALL the facts, that should obviously be their right. The old: "My body, My Choice" slogan certainly applies here, and equally so for those who wish to decline.
Most are now aware that China has commenced anal swabs to test for the novel SARS-Cov-2 virus due to the fact that the anal cavity has been found to carry a larger viral lode than deep in the nasal cavity. That has lead to the discovery that passing wind spreads aerosols containing the SAR-Cov-2 virus, and all its variant strains.
Studies indicate that people can fart as often as 25 times a day on average, which is concerning to officials at Canada's healh agency the Centre for Disease Disinformtion.
Canadians engaging in sexual intercourse with people outside of their immediate households had already been advised to use so called "glory holes". Now officials are going to be mandating triple layer under garments to control the spread of the novel virus due to flatulence.
Kudos to the leader of Ontario's official opposition, NDP leader Andrea Horwarth, for bringing to my attention an open letter written by the Ontario Nurses Association to Premier Doug Ford.
The letter calls on the province to mandate precautions for airborne transmission of SARS-Cov-2. Specifically it calls for the province to procure and issue PPE that can prevent infection by airbone aerosols which can hang in the air for hours and even get into venilations systems.
Airborne aerosols have long been established as a mode of transmission, and obviously surgical and cloth masks aren't going to keep out something as small as an aerosol. The fact that nurses and other health care workers continue to be infected "at record rates", speaks to the fact that surgical and cloth masks are useless against aerosols.
Thinking that sucking air through a piece of cloth or even a surgical type mask???? That it's going to stop an aerosol!!! That is akin to thinking a wall will stop illegal immigration. But some people like a fantasy if it plays to their fears and biases.
Just look at the mask a painter wears sometime, tightly sealed with filter type respirators. Those painter masks are to keep out paint droplets, which are exponentially larger than aerosols.
If you want to see how a proper mask is tested, here's a video a friend shared with me.
But hey, if you think some piece of cloth is going to keep an aerosol out, then you probably think Iraq has weapons of mass destruction hiding someplace, or that Trump is a super honest and decent guy.
Or follow Dr. Fauci's advice. If one loose fitting piece of dirty cloth won't keep an aerosol out, then try two.
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