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"The article quotes five MDs, asking them what they learned from the Covid period and how they expect their practices will change."

The question should be what did the public learn about medical professionals during the COVID scamdemic.

If asked most would say they learned that healthcare institutions are run by mediocre individuals who are captured by the pharmaceutical industry and most physicians are spineless and ignorant meekly doing what they're told by corrupted apparatchiks who intimidate them with fear of retribution. And they also learned that in the end, nobody really gives a f--k about the patient, hence medical providers willingly practice inane protocols even if it irreparably damages the young and healthy.

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I’ll never trust a medical professional, scientist again, that’s for sure. Politicians are even worse though, endemically corrupted.

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Just an anecdote, but I have pretty severe seasonal allergies to various forms of pollen. My wife usually handles yard work during pollen season, but when she was sick I had no choice but to head out there. Strapped on a 3M respirator and headed out to take care of the yard. Reduced the symptoms somewhat, but not entirely.

If my industrial strength respirator couldn't stop pollen grains, what are the odds that a cheesy cloth mask is going to stop even smaller particles? There were a couple of industrial hygiene experts who stated that these masks would not work, but apparently their opinion was not worth of consideration since they don't sport an "MD".

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I can't recall which state it was, but there was a US state that removed the mask regulations thanks to Stephen Petty's testimony.

Mostly though, from what I saw, maskers were impervious to data or expertise or logic-- they wanted to believe that the masks worked, so they could be doing "something," and since so many doctors wore them and recommended them, and everyone around them was wearing a mask, "it had to be" true.

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Layman here, but to confirm part of what he says: (Following per wikipedia)

Pollen grain size = 2.5 to 25 microns (millionth of a meter.)

Virus size = 20 to 300 nano meter (billionth of a meter).

Thus, a virus is indeed many times smaller than a pollen cell. Even the biggest virus is nearly an order of magnitude* smaller than the smallest pollen: 2.5 um = 2500 nm; 2500/300 ~= 8 times smaller.

*A fancy-ass way of saying "ten times." Why use clear, simple language when you can obfuscate?

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My conclusion as well. Whenever I see a person on the street wearing a surgical mask I more often than not think: Dupe. But then I try to put it out of my mind because who knows, maybe that person has an outbreak of cold sores or maybe he just lost a tooth, or she just had plastic surgery, or something. I believe people should be free to do what they want with their own face. Mask requirements never, ever should have been imposed on the public for a virus, and if they return I will fight them.

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One my favorites:

Stephen Petty, Certified Industrial Hygienist, Testifies Before the New Hampshire State Senate

From a clip of industrial hygienist Stephen Petty testifying before the New Hampshire State Senate Health and Human Services posted on YT. About 15 minutes total.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3dnkbKoj4A&t=61s

The clip is taken from from the over 4 hour long hearing that was lived- streamed on March 30, 2022, in which Stephen Petty appears at 2:17:34 .

You can find that original source here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZb3ND7Q1B8&t=0s

TRANSCRIPT - TWO EXCERPTS

00:18

STEPHEN PETTY: My name is Stephen Petty. I'm a certified industrial hygienist, certified safety professional, professional engineer. I've been working 45 years in the field of health and safety. I spent my entire life trying to protect workers and the public from toxins, I've sampled for anthrax, biotoxins, the whole list. I've been in over 400 cases named with respect to exposure control and exposure and PPE [personal protective equipment]. And most recently I testified in the state of Kentucky, and a result of my testimony the mask mandate was overturned statewide.

So let me introduce the topic of industrial hygiene. Industrial hygiene is not well understood by many. We have a lot of physicians talking about industrial hygiene, it's not their field. Industrial hygiene is the science and art devoted to anticipation, recognition, evaluation, control of environmental factors and stressors that can cause you to be sick, make you feel bad, or even kill you. And I've testified 400 times in those sorts of cases.

The problem is that we have a lot of physicians talking about things like that, and they be perfectly talented folks, but it's not their sandbox. When I'm in trials we have a physician that talks about the disease, and I talk about exposure and exposure control and PPE.

The last physician, that talked earlier, I'm here to show you that every statement he made is false.

1:42

[END OF FIRST EXCERPT]

SECOND EXCERPT

PARTIAL TRANSCRIPTION, CONTINUED

(6:32) The problem is, you cannot seal a mask by definition. A mask that seals is a respirator.

(6:49) In industrial hygiene, we don't look at solutions that do a little bit of good, that might help 1% of the people. We have a requirement that if we're going to provide a solution that helps the public, it better have at least a 90% relative risk reduction.

How would you feel if I walked in and I said to asbestos workers, "Let's put you in a mask, it might save 1% of you from asbestosis, but the other 99% will get it." I think I would lose all my licenses.

And by the way, asbestos fiber on average is 50 times larger than a covid particle and we have very high end respirators, PAPRs, that are used to protect asbestos workers. And I'm certified in protecting asbestos workers.

So, why in the world would you take a 1% solution when you need 90% when we have solutions like ventilation destruction and filtration that do meet that 90% requirement from industrial hygiene?

The other thing you hear about all the time is on page 12, you see the top, let's move on to N-95s. As I just said, we wouldn't even use an N95 for asbestos workers. But here's a study by Shaw et al that shows even for N95 where you glue it onto a board, and that's where most of these mask studies were done, they literally glue the mask onto a mannequin or a board.

Now do you glue your mask on your face? Of course not. So what happens, when it's not, so if it's glued on, they say well it has 43% effectiveness. What if you put a gap on it? Three percent effectiveness. And that's the real world.

So about masks, on page 13. On January 2, 2022 Scott Gottlieb, FDA Commissioner, on Face the Nation spilled the beans, he said basically masks don't work.

I've been putting real engineering controls in real schools for two years. You can imagine, as somebody who spent his whole life defending workers in toxic [?] trials and the public, how infuriating it is to see people propose solutions that cannot and do not work.

He admitted it.

We also had CDC file an admit on January 14 of 2022, well, these masks aren't very effective, so let's move to N95s. I said, no, no, no, no, let's move to engineering controls.

If you follow the CDC guidance, I said, what science changes its position 180 degrees in two years? Masks, no masks, masks, no masks. No science does that.

The other thing I want to point out is, on the bottom of page 15, and I wrote a 27 page letter to the CDC in February complaining about this, as well as to Fauci and the White House. Along with eight other industrial hygiene folks.

They say, well, we want to put children in N95s, and then they link you to the manufacturers' websites, including 3M. What does 3M say about N95s and children?

"NOT DESIGNATED TO BE USED BY CHILDREN."

And now also they say, well, as soon as you go to masks, you have got to start following respiratory protection standards which has all sorts of requirements. You can't just hand somebody an N95 and not incur a lot of liability if you don't ensure that they're fit-tested, that they're medically cleared to wear it, that they've been trained on how to wear it, and they've been trained on how to replace it.

So, on the bottom of page 16, we have industrial hygiene, as I said before, what we call the hierarchy of controls. Everybody agrees with this. The most effective hierarchy is engineering controls. The least effective would be personal protective equipment or PPE. And PPE for respiratory protection is respirators because you can seal respirators.

Now why are respirators on the bottom of the barrel for controlling hazards? Because they don't get worn right. You put somebody in, we know this from decades of doing this, you put a respirator on somebody for eight hours a day, they're going to break that seal. Guarantee it, it's not going to get worn right.

Well the interesting thing is, masks don't even fit in the hierarchy. They're below it. They're not even part of it.

Again, engineering controls is the solution.

Now what about damaged children? There's a lots and lots of data on this.

11:43

[END OF SECOND EXCERPT]

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

Stephen Petty's podcast is Petty Podcast https://rumble.com/c/PettyPodcasts

He is founder of EES Group, Inc. http://eesgroupinc.us/about/

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Another fave:

Public Safety Announcement on Mask Wearing

From a Union Electrician

https://mfany.org

https://mfany.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2021-09-17-public-safety-announcement-about-wearing-masks.mp4

TRANSCRIPT

ELECTRICIAN: Good morning everybody in Facebookland. I have a little public safety announcement for everybody. Let's talk about the air that we breathe.

[Holds up a yellow box approximately the size and shape of a cell phone, with a display screen, attached to a long clear tube]

This is a little gadget we use here. I'm a union electrician and sometimes we have to work in confined spaces. This gadget here will read here will read whether or not the air that you're breathing is safe. OK? It reads oxygen levels, carbon monoxide, methane. If the atmosphere you're working in, in an enclosure, a confined space, is not safe, the alarm goes off, and it will tell you, basically, get out before you die. Alright?

I'm going to hold this up in front of my face here a little bit [holds the clear tube about an inch from his mouth] and it's fine, nothing happens, the oxygen is fine, everything is fine. OK?

Now, let's do this here, let's put on a mask. [Puts on mask]

Now we're going to take the oxygen or the meter again, we're going to stick it just inside of the mask here. And let's see what happens. I'm just breathing normal-- [Loud alarm goes off]

Oh my goodness look at that, look at my oxygen levels. [Shows flashing display as loud alarm continues]

Now they want everybody to wear these masks all day long. [Loud alarm and flashing continues] Now if this was happening in my work site we would have to get out of the confined space immediately because the air that we're breathing is not safe.

So now you're going to tell me that wearing this mask all day long is safe? [Removes mask and turns off alarm] It is not safe for you, it is not safe for your children to wear that mask all day long.

So I'm going to tell you what. Stick that up your factchecker, people! They don't work! They might stop droplets from coming out of my mouth, but to wear these all day long, it is not safe for you.

People, come on, wake up! These things do more harm to your body than anything else. Alright?

That's all I got to say, people. Stay safe and live free.

2:08

[END]

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And a fun one:

Snoqualmie Valley Marines Testing Masks with Bear Spray

February 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17FaG7mLEvo

TRANSCRIPT - EXCERPT

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Two marines, Gavin and Jeff, test various masks for their efficacy against corona virus. Gavin wears each in turn while sitting in a tent pumped full of bear spray. Gavin also wears a white Hazmat suit and goggles. This excerpt opens with Gavin and Jeff standing outside the testing tent.

5:03

JEFF: Now here we have KN95. This is the one that we're told is fantastic and this will protect you from everything.

GAVIN: Everything.

JEFF: Everything. So we're going to put it on your handsome marine face, over the nose. OK? That's, we're also going with the head cover here. Now I can't walk in there right now without anything. Just walking near the door makes my eyes burn and my lungs burn. It, and that was from a short 3 second burst of the bear spray. You sure you're up for this?

GAVIN: I'm ready to roll.

JEFF: Alright, You're going to earn–

GAVIN: [inaudible]

JEFF: More [inaudible] if you do this properly. You got it?

GAVIN: [inaudible] green ones.

JEFF: OK, here we go.

[Screen reads: KN95 Test]

[inside of tent, camera aimed at empty chair]

GAVIN [off camera]: Oh, it's bad.

JEFF [off camera]: OK, rolling.

GAVIN [entering the tent]: Oh, ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! It's really bad! [sits down in chair]

JEFF: OK!

GAVIN: Ha ha ha!

JEFF: How ya doing? Ready? Gas, gas gas!

GAVIN: Gas, gas gas!

[loud hissing sound of the bear spray entering the tent]

GAVIN: Ha ha ha! [coughing, laughing, coughing]

JEFF: How's that mask holding up?

GAVIN [coughing, stands up]: Ha ha ha! [inaudible]

JEFF: Can't stay?

GAVIN: Ha ha ha ha ha ha [returns to chair and starts to sit down again]

JEFF: You're doing great, marine.

GAVIN: This sucks, ha ha ha ha ha ha [walks out of the tent]

JEFF: Wait! Those masks are safe and effective!

GAVIN: [coughing, laughing, coughing] I got to–

JEFF: Safe and effective! How you doing?

GAVIN: Sucks! [retching loudly] Ha ha!

[cut to both men standing outside the tent, Gavin still wearing the KN95 mask]

JEFF: Hey, how could it possibly be that KN95 is designed to protect you from corona virus?

GAVIN: Science! [coughing and laughing]

JEFF: How could it possibly be? I think you're faking it.

GAVIN: [coughing]

JEFF: [laughs]

GAVIN: [retching loudly]

JEFF: He's clearly an actor.

GAVIN: Ah [inaudible]

JEFF: Alright.

GAVIN: [coughing]

JEFF: So. I can clearly see the mask protecting you and kept these these 3 -6 micron particles out of your nose and lungs, correct?

GAVIN: Yes.

JEFF: So clearly that KN95 is very effective.

GAVIN: Ah. OK.

JEFF: OK. Why don't we ah, take a pause, let you get some air, then we'll put on a cloth mask.

GAVIN: This thing is like filled with snot.

7:25

[END OF EXCERPT]

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Last one-- I have no many-- but this is perhaps the most important one. For so many people, especially children, the masks are a great cruelty.

Courtney Ann Taylor Stands Up to Gwinnett County Georgia school board over mask mandate

posted May 21, 2021

https://rumble.com/vhelk3-courtney-ann-taylor-stands-up-to-school-board-over-mask-mandate.html

TRANSCRIPT

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: From a podium below the dais, Courtney Anne Taylor addresses the 4 present members of school board, all four of whom are masked.

COURTNEY ANNE TAYLOR: [inaudible] its on TV when it comes to public parks [inaudible] I don't know if you've been to one of those lately but they're packed. There are no masks, there's no distancing, just people living their lives and there's children being children. And I want to be very clear about this. This has been going on for months. It has absolutely nothing to with what the CDC decided to suddenly flipflop on last week. OK, this has been happening.

So my question to you tonight for the four of you is, why do we as a society do all of these good things and great things and push us towards towards normal and wonderful but the six of you view my kindergartner as a threat to someone's existence? Because that's the way I'm seeing it. She's sitting at a desk, 6 feet apart from everybody, everybody facing the same direction, can she take her mask off? No. Why? Why? Because you view her as a threat.

My child is not a threat to anyone, so please stop acting like it.

The children in this county and the children in this country have been let down and left behind by the so-called grownups in this country for over a year.

MALE VOICE FROM AUDIENCE: Hear, hear!

[loud clapping]

COURTNEY ANN TAYLOR: I am asking you, I am begging you to stand up and to be adult with me right now, to be the adults that these children need us to be to pick them up and carry them out of this mess. Now this school year ends in 6 days and that mask requirement better be lifted. And we, we —

[loud cheers and clapping]

[inaudible] vaccine requirement in its place. It is not one or the other, it is freedom of choice for both. We are the children's parents and we make that call. Not you.

[loud clapping and cheering]

1:53

[END]

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Yes, that's one of the fellows that I was trying to remember. Good work.

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I learned long ago that no-one, absolutely no-one, will care about my health and my body more than I do... simply because I am the one who lives in it every day :)

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They either haven't been paying attention or are a bit idiotic. Neither earns or deserves my trust or respect.

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Nothing about early treatment? Or vax failure & deaths? 3 tablets? Vit C & D? IVM?

To review the official antiviral meds clinical safety data before using them?

That NPIs don't do anything for aerosolised viruses?

Back to school, I would say🤦‍♂️

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I agree wholeheartedly; I no longer trust the medical system (unquestioningly) with my health. I still see doctors, but beyond routine exams (e.g. blood test) I do my own research before taking any unfamiliar pill. While I've not suffered any damage that I know of, I now know for a fact that in the past I was given many treatments that were known to be of little to no value to the patient. For those interested, see my Stack. I'm still waiting for a doctor to take me up on my offer of "Let's sit down, look at a few studies, and then we can honestly discuss why you think this is a treatment I should undergo."

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Don't forget that the epidemic was growing exponentially which was frightening because that broke the laws of Mathematics. (Epidemics grow between zero and exponentially according to a logit-normal distribution.)

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It's the same in every profession for which significant academic schooling is required. There is a top layer of high-flyers who take their profession seriously throughout their career and keep learning after they graduate (with or without a PhD.) This is a thin sliver of about 1-3% of the total profession. Some of these remain in academia, but if they end up in the consulting professions, the best clients know exactly who they are, and so do the guides ranking the top tier professionals every year. These practitioners flock to the major white shoe firms and - once they make partner - earn millions per year. Then come the more-or-less-fine, the more-or-less-acceptable and the deplorable classes at roughly 30%, 30% and 38%. Very few of these folks move beyond the professionalism they had when entering the chosen field....other than what they learn on the job...they are simply out to collect on their years of investment without putting much more effort into it. So the chances that an average client (who doesn't manage a major multinational business) would ever meet the top-flight independent thinkers in any profession are extremely slight. I am sure I can't either, even if I am at the top of my profession. That's why these inane answers don't surprise me at all. And why I don't trust the cognitive/professional abilities of 99% of the medical profession, the media, the justice system, the police force, the security and intelligence agencies, academics, the educational establishment etc, etc.

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What I’ve learned is that you be been right to never have trusted them that much in the first place. And I’m a healthcare professional myself.

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Spot on.

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