Vindicated

Vincent J. Curtis

26 July 22

Spectator editors might not wish to remember, but back on 1 August 2020 I sent them an email entitled “The futility of masking.”  In it I said that unless the mask was an N95 or stronger, it was useless for preventing the transmission of the COVID virus.  Worse, it could induce a false sense of security.  Two years on, that observation has finally been made by no less a personage than Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the video clip in which he made the admission is below:

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/07/26/fauci-masks-have-to-be-well-fitted-and-high-quality-like-an-n95-or-kn95/

The lesson here is that the Spectator ill-served the public by playing pom-pom girl to the The Man, and suppressing voices that challenged the received wisdom of the day in the interests of achieving “the goal” whatever it was.  Keep people from getting sick, I guess.  It is a fact that “masks” failed to prevent waves 2,3,4,5, and 6.  There should be enough data in that to at least make one wonder at the efficacy of masks after they were held to be the reason for escaping the logic of the first wave lockdown.

Now we have Dr. Deborah Birx admitting on the Neil Cavuto show on July 22, 2022, that they knew the vaccines weren’t going to prevent infection.  They “overplayed” the effectiveness of the vaccine.  (Why? went unasked and unaddressed.)  Nevertheless, Fauci, Birx, et al suppressed the use of early therapeutics, but now that Pfizer has its new, expensive one is out, Paxlovid, Birx is out there hyping it.  The excuse for vaccination devolved into that it reduced severity of symptoms – maybe.  Half the people who died in the U.S. were fully vaxxed.

(Let that sink in.  Those most in the know knew that the vaccine story was bunkum, and that were overselling its benefits.  If that was known, do you really think the pressure to get people vaxxed would have been even attempted, let alone be so successful?  Your getting vaxxed was supposed to save grandma’s life.  But if it were known that the vaccines didn’t stop infection and spread, how effective do you think that line of argument, fallacious as it is, would be?  Why not just get grandma vaxxed?)

All the failings of The Man were documented in real time by yours truly, and the Spectator ill-served the public by playing pom-pom girl to the authorities who plainly didn’t know what they were doing, were floundering, and were obviously doing stuff just to make it look like they had a handle on things.  I don’t know what the Spectator got out of it by suppressing challenges to the received narrative.  I know progressivism believe in rule of the experts, but when the experts are lost, you need to get another set of experts.  Those calling B.S. with effectiveness on those in charge are the pain telling you that something’s wrong.

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 I invite readers (and skeptics) to review my many blog postings on COVID starting in mid-March 2020.