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Lon Guyland's avatar

β€œ Masks hinder communication, fog glasses and can be uncomfortable”

Oh. By what process do they fog glasses? By large volumes of air passing around the edges of the mask?

High school physics students (at least those of 20 years ago who weren’t preoccupied with applying pronouns) know that the filtration efficiency of a material is proportional to the pressure drop across it. Which means that better filters are more prone to leaks around the periphery. Most masks leak, badly. The filtration efficacy drops to zero where leaks comprise around 3% of the surface area of the mask.

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Reading about the cherry picking mask study is EXACTLY like reading about a guy named Ancel Keys and the cherry picking HE did decades ago in his attempt to prove that dietary cholesterol (and serum cholesterol) causes heart disease. Read The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz for further discussion. Anyway, he chose to include for his analysis only the countries whose data aligned with his foregone conclusions. Not to mention that his data was gathered in unreliable ways as it was... of COURSE the dietary recalls for folks finishing Lent are going to include less eggs and butter and such than is typical for their usual fare πŸ™„. When MORE countries with GREATER DIVERSITY of diet are included, his conclusions are shown for the scam that they were.

Sadly, we’re now in our third generation of folks being raised on high carb, low fat, veg oil-based diets. And just like masks have had their β€œunintended, unforeseen” consequences, so to have our dietary policies that are based on Keys’ work. Our soaring rates of diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, and yes, even cancers, are thanks to Ancel Keys and his bully ways.

Also, the Lancet *is considered by many people* as a most prestigious journal. However, weren’t they the ones who published the fraudulent HCQ study with the fabricated data early in the pandemic? Or was that NEJM? I think it was Lancet. πŸ€”. It’s pretty sad that we can’t even trust the journals anymore. Although they too have probably been corrupted for far longer than we have realized.

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