The Covid Backtracking COntinues
Now it's the plexiglass barriers.
Anyone with half a brain knew these things were stupid.
Joseph Allen of the Harvard School of Public Health had been saying from the beginning that the virus was airborne, and that plexiglass shields weren't going to stop tiny floating droplets.
Only last month did the CDC fully acknowledge that the virus was airborne.
"We spent a lot of time and money focused on hygiene theater," Allen said.
Not a single study has found these barriers to do a bit of good; if anything, by interfering with ventilation, too much plexiglass has even been found to be slightly detrimental.
Epidemiologist Shira Doron of Tufts Medical Center, while admitting that "there's no research" in support of the use of plexiglass barriers, insisted on the principle: "If it might help, and it makes sense, and it doesn't hurt, then do it."
It's been on that basis that all kinds of crazy and stupid measures have been forced on us that practically everyone has to know don't actually do anything.
It calls to mind the anecdotal evidence we read about regarding people and masks. Even though they've been vaccinated and the CDC says they can take the masks off, people seem to keep them on for purely irrational reasons: to signal that they're not Republican, to "show respect," because everyone is doing it, and so on.
If there's any "science" in any of this, it isn't exactly obvious.
All right, two action items for you:
(1) First, a word of thanks to everyone who wrote to the Libertarian National Committee in response to yesterday's email about the SJW weirdos trying to get my speaking invitation for next year's Libertarian Party convention rescinded.
I mentioned that there's a fellow circulating a petition against my appearance. This is a person who -- as a libertarian! -- wrote in favor of the lockdowns. He's got about 200 signatures, mostly from people who have no idea who I am but who want the world to know they're against "bigotry" (which I'm sure is the very first word that comes to mind when you think about ol' Woods, right?).
So in the spirit of laughing at these clowns, someone else shot back with a counter-petition: that not only should I speak, but that the entire convention should consist of me speaking.
That one has nearly 4000 signatures now.
Feel free to add your name to it, because these evil bastards deserve to have the scoreboard run up on them: https://www.change.org/p/lp-national-tom-woods-to-do-the-entire-2022-lp-convention-by-himself
via Tom Woods
