“Public Authorities [Have Turned] the Precautionary Principle on Its Head”

Masks and respirators do not work” begins the excellent “review of science relevant to COVID-19 social policy” that James Nellis forwarded to me. The author has surveyed the “extensive randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies, and meta-analysis reviews of RCT studies” to find they “all show that masks and respirators do not work to prevent respiratory influenza-like illnesses, or respiratory illnesses believed to be transmitted by droplets and aerosol particles.” Even better, he excoriates Our Rulers for their demonic insistence that we muzzle ourselves: “The present paper about masks illustrates the degree to which governments, the mainstream media, and institutional propagandists can decide to operate in a science vacuum, or select only incomplete science that serves their interests. Such recklessness is also certainly the case with the current global lockdown of over 1 billion people, an unprecedented experiment in medical and political history.”

This analysis is invaluable, not only because the writer, “Denis G. Rancourt, PhD Researcher, Ontario Civil Liberties Association,” proves the harm masks do us but also for his “endnotes” directing us to his sources.

Which brings up an intriguing point: where has the American Civil Liberties Union been during these months of masks, lockdowns, quarantines and other horrific violations of “civil” liberties? Yeah, the silence has been deafening. And even the one or two regional offices that “protested” Our Rulers’ decrees might as well not have bothered.

Once again, the ACLU proves it has never been about freedom but always about centralizing power.

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9:34 am on July 14, 2020