I am not particularly afraid of COVID in a personal way, since I am not old and I know it is more dangerous for instance to drive a car, but of course it is a concern to transmit it to elderly members of the family. For old people lethality is not some statistical error but rather significant.
Contrary to what Enlightenment-based postmodernism teaches us, humans are not meant to be atomised and alone
Stating this to emphasise the importance of evolutionary biology. When I say self preservation I mean you and your Tribe.
Having all people confined wearing masks is definitely out of the ordinary. It makes transmission of many other illnesses much difficult (most people I know had no flu or colds this year) and it definitely affects transmission of COVID too.
Unfortunately this is mostly conventional knowledge repackaged as fact - which it isn't. Maskwearing outdoors is useless and maskwearing indoors is debatable (unless it's a medical grade N95 type of mask)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/#!po=45.1389
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/m20-6817
The usage of masks by non-HCWs has never been propagated - up until April/May 2020. In my opinion it is mostly done to give the populace a fake sense of security and make the (fake) pandemic 'more visible'.
I am also not ruling out that there is a psychological element included. Establishing a strong frame and thereafter enforcing compliance on non-sensical measures definitely leaves the peasants demoralised.
Also want to 1. briefly mentioning the historical connection between slavery, maskwearing and punitative measures and 2. the well documented negative effects of long term mask wearing. For what it's worth
(most people I know had no flu or colds this year)
You don't eliminate transmission, you delay it.
Link is about a common cold outbreak at an isolated antarctic base (isolation for 17 weeks)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/epidemiology-and-infection/article/an-outbreak-of-common-colds-at-an-antarctic-base-after-seventeen-weeks-of-complete-isolation/1D3A49463583D06CEACE1CCF9C1A25B4
Aside from that the immune system needs resistance to get strong. Staying at home and washing your hands 20 times a day will get you sick. Ask astronauts about it.
I don't dismiss your graphs, but interpreting any situation with 100% accuracy by graphs is simply not possible, because there are hundreds of variables not present. Personal experience is less statistically significant, but has many, many more details. That being said, I very much respect your opinion and the facts you present cannot be simply ignored.
Real data doesn't matter anymore anno 2021 because TPTB will just manufacture their own data and the gullible masses will swallow it line, hook and sinker.
People like I (people outside the official Covid1984 narrative) hold no institutional power whatsover and therefore will forever fight a losing battle
Covid1984 has long been outed as one huge statistical gimmick. For the sake of clarity: no excess deaths in any country (continued linear growth rate from 1980 onwards), an IFR of 0.17-0.23, average age of the deceased (in Western countries) is 80+, comorbidites in 90+ percent of the deceased etc. Etc.
If anything the data coming from the globalist hellhole formerly known as Sweden would provide all reason to just knock it off with this nonsense
If old means sick then I would have to agree, but many of the elderly people which died this year would not have died without COVID.
Again, there are no excess deaths - anywhere.
Most 'waves' see a minor 10-20 percent uptick in mortality which is then followed by several months of lower than average mortality
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I value the decency in your post but the problem is that you are still paying lip service to the narrative. It's still within the confined boundaries of the plantation, albeit on the edges. I believe it was Noam Chomsky who said that TPTB have power over you because they have power over language. Or better said, they have the linguistic tools to create new realities. You are permitted to have a very lively and fiery discussion but only within pre-determined boundaries.
Cross those boundaries and you will be shouted down.
It's basic Hegelian Dialectics. Thesis-anti-thesis. Problem-solution. Action-reaction. But always remember who comes up with the thesis and therefore has the power to steer the solution (or synthesis) towards (in this case) more restrictions, more freedoms curtailed, more misery and more loss of power/wealth for you.