I understand when the elites use their power and position to circumvent laws intended to insure fairness. Like if the governor parks in a handicapped parking spot even though he isn't handicapped, sure, he thinks that he is so important and his time is so crucial that it supersedes the needs of handicapped people.
But the purpose of mask and social distancing mandates was supposed to be to protect the masked/separated person from catching a deadly disease. If the big shot politicians really believed that wearing a mask would save them from suffering and death, would they have used their power and position to ignore the rules? (Do I need to rattle off examples? California Governor Newsom at the football game, speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi at the hair dresser, Michigan Governor Whitmer at the restaurant, etc etc) Surely not. They would have used their power and position to make sure that they got the best masks available. They would probably have a staffer standing by with spare masks just in case anything happened to the one they were wearing.
The only possible conclusion is that when the politicians made these rules, they themselves didn't believe for a moment that they actually did anything to protect the wearer's health. They're not just hypocrites and elitists. They are liars.
(By the way, it doesn't matter if YOU are convinced that masks save lives. My point is that the people who made the rules don't believe it.)
John, I think you've made a far greater impression than you may realize. Your articles have been generating troll activity. Bless their hearts - they will remain Covidiots 'til their dying breath - possibly from Covid or fatal TDS😏
Those in positions of authority who have promulgated lies, ignorance, and fear porn these past 2 years deserve a reckoning. Once this country rights itself, which may be sooner rather than later, that will happen. The consequences cannot be severe enough.
Thank you, John, for writing this column. I'm happy to see some researched feedback to the authoritarian push by the so called "people who follow the science." I've been vaxxed and boosted, but I get mad when I hear the shame and blame nonsense about unvaccinated people killing other people by spreading Covid. Where are the apologies to them, now that we know the vaccinated are also catching it and spreading it? Yup, them apologies are never coming
It is well established that science progresses best when people in authority decide which theories are true and which are false, and then censor and silence anyone who attempts to spread the theories they know to be false. This prevents people from wasting their time pursuing theories that the authorities know are false. Just think how much further along science would be today if the authorities had managed to shut Galileo, Pasteur, etc down effectively so that they hadn't been able to spread their crazy theories. Or something like that. At least that's how liberals explained it to me.
Ridiculous. Clearly we now see you're a victim of QAnon science, GOP ignorance, and the last White House guy's never-ending failures and lies. When you go back to college to finish that degree, try taking classes in medicine and science. They'll help you learn how research works, especially new diseases. It takes years, trial and error, occasional challenges, before solutions are perfect, or even refined. You may have never heard of them, but we used to have smallpox, mumps, measles, and lots more. But through the decades (not one or two years), scientists developed clear analyses, new meds, better healthcare practices. Maybe your education at Trump "University" was fun, even though useless. But I hope you're one of the students who at least got some of the wasted money when DJT was fined $25 million.
You call yourself a doctor? What a joke. You are no more than a left wing ideologue and a troll, evidenced in not having anything to back up your foolish statements, only your hatred for Trump. If you know anything about viruses it is this, viruses that cohabitate in the animal world along with in the human world cannot be vaccinated against. This is evident in the common cold and flu that we have no vaccines for, and Covid is in that category. The other viruses that you mentioned only live in the human world, hence can be vaccinated against with the use of dead or weakened forms of said virus. You failed virology 101. You play a doctor on TV and nowhere else.
I hate to say this, but if you are a doctor, perhaps you might want to see about getting a refund yourself? You're definitely suffering from TDS, which there is no vaccine for, but avoiding MSNBC and WaPo is definitely indicated. By making ad hominem attacks on John, you ignore the fact of political attacks on anyone who dares to question the party line, in fact you join right in yourself. One of the political facts you chose to ignore was how Biden and Harris each attacked the "Trump vaccines" when they were campaigning to defeat Trump, then after they won, not quite being able to understand the reluctance by many people to trust those same vaccines. What demographic group has the lowest vaccination rate, and the highest percentage of Democrat voting? As usual, claiming the mantle of savior while selling Blacks down the river. And the whole "de-platforming" and "canceling" anyone who questioned the possibility of a lab leak- was that after scientific investigation, or just anti-Trump politics? Stick with listening to Maxine Waters, Maizie Hirono, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Reid, and they'll rubber stamp what you want to hear. BTW, if you're still convinced that Fauci is just a truth teller who only follows the science, go back and read what he was telling Americans about AIDS and the risks to heterosexuals way back in the 80's.
I understand when the elites use their power and position to circumvent laws intended to insure fairness. Like if the governor parks in a handicapped parking spot even though he isn't handicapped, sure, he thinks that he is so important and his time is so crucial that it supersedes the needs of handicapped people.
But the purpose of mask and social distancing mandates was supposed to be to protect the masked/separated person from catching a deadly disease. If the big shot politicians really believed that wearing a mask would save them from suffering and death, would they have used their power and position to ignore the rules? (Do I need to rattle off examples? California Governor Newsom at the football game, speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi at the hair dresser, Michigan Governor Whitmer at the restaurant, etc etc) Surely not. They would have used their power and position to make sure that they got the best masks available. They would probably have a staffer standing by with spare masks just in case anything happened to the one they were wearing.
The only possible conclusion is that when the politicians made these rules, they themselves didn't believe for a moment that they actually did anything to protect the wearer's health. They're not just hypocrites and elitists. They are liars.
(By the way, it doesn't matter if YOU are convinced that masks save lives. My point is that the people who made the rules don't believe it.)
John, I think you've made a far greater impression than you may realize. Your articles have been generating troll activity. Bless their hearts - they will remain Covidiots 'til their dying breath - possibly from Covid or fatal TDS😏
Those in positions of authority who have promulgated lies, ignorance, and fear porn these past 2 years deserve a reckoning. Once this country rights itself, which may be sooner rather than later, that will happen. The consequences cannot be severe enough.
Thank you, John, for writing this column. I'm happy to see some researched feedback to the authoritarian push by the so called "people who follow the science." I've been vaxxed and boosted, but I get mad when I hear the shame and blame nonsense about unvaccinated people killing other people by spreading Covid. Where are the apologies to them, now that we know the vaccinated are also catching it and spreading it? Yup, them apologies are never coming
It is well established that science progresses best when people in authority decide which theories are true and which are false, and then censor and silence anyone who attempts to spread the theories they know to be false. This prevents people from wasting their time pursuing theories that the authorities know are false. Just think how much further along science would be today if the authorities had managed to shut Galileo, Pasteur, etc down effectively so that they hadn't been able to spread their crazy theories. Or something like that. At least that's how liberals explained it to me.
Ridiculous. Clearly we now see you're a victim of QAnon science, GOP ignorance, and the last White House guy's never-ending failures and lies. When you go back to college to finish that degree, try taking classes in medicine and science. They'll help you learn how research works, especially new diseases. It takes years, trial and error, occasional challenges, before solutions are perfect, or even refined. You may have never heard of them, but we used to have smallpox, mumps, measles, and lots more. But through the decades (not one or two years), scientists developed clear analyses, new meds, better healthcare practices. Maybe your education at Trump "University" was fun, even though useless. But I hope you're one of the students who at least got some of the wasted money when DJT was fined $25 million.
You call yourself a doctor? What a joke. You are no more than a left wing ideologue and a troll, evidenced in not having anything to back up your foolish statements, only your hatred for Trump. If you know anything about viruses it is this, viruses that cohabitate in the animal world along with in the human world cannot be vaccinated against. This is evident in the common cold and flu that we have no vaccines for, and Covid is in that category. The other viruses that you mentioned only live in the human world, hence can be vaccinated against with the use of dead or weakened forms of said virus. You failed virology 101. You play a doctor on TV and nowhere else.
I hate to say this, but if you are a doctor, perhaps you might want to see about getting a refund yourself? You're definitely suffering from TDS, which there is no vaccine for, but avoiding MSNBC and WaPo is definitely indicated. By making ad hominem attacks on John, you ignore the fact of political attacks on anyone who dares to question the party line, in fact you join right in yourself. One of the political facts you chose to ignore was how Biden and Harris each attacked the "Trump vaccines" when they were campaigning to defeat Trump, then after they won, not quite being able to understand the reluctance by many people to trust those same vaccines. What demographic group has the lowest vaccination rate, and the highest percentage of Democrat voting? As usual, claiming the mantle of savior while selling Blacks down the river. And the whole "de-platforming" and "canceling" anyone who questioned the possibility of a lab leak- was that after scientific investigation, or just anti-Trump politics? Stick with listening to Maxine Waters, Maizie Hirono, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Reid, and they'll rubber stamp what you want to hear. BTW, if you're still convinced that Fauci is just a truth teller who only follows the science, go back and read what he was telling Americans about AIDS and the risks to heterosexuals way back in the 80's.