Me: Why are you still wearing a panty on your face?

Branch Covidian: Because of the Covids!

Me: There’s 45 years of professional studies in literally every Western nation that cloth and paper masks can’t stop viral transmission.

Branch Covidian: But we have new science!

Me: You have a couple of meta studies that didn’t account for demographics, movement patterns, or environment, that at their most tortured showed a 1.9% reduction in transmission, well within normal modeling error.

Branch Covidian: Science says masks work! We need to wear them for 4-8 weeks!

Me: You said that 26 weeks ago, and now you say it’s worse than ever. Obviously, by your standards, that didn’t work.

Branch Covidian: Not everyone wore them! Deniers!

Me: US compliance is over 80%, on par with most of Europe, the exceptions largely explained by medical exemptions. And either way, you claim it didn’t work. Which is odd, because the death rate was back to normal before you started all that.

Branch Covidian: But case count is higher!

Me: No, test count is higher, but you’re using PCR tests far beyond their 30 cycle standard.

Branch Covidian: It’s so pervasive you have to dig deep to catch it!

Me: So at 35 cycles, you’re testing 100 thousand times over the normal sensitivity. At 37 cycles, 10 million times, at 40 cycles, 10 billion times, and at 45 cycles, you’re dialing the sensitivity up 1,000,000,000,000,000 times beyond what is considered standard. Approximately, but still.  Doesn’t that seem a little excessive? It’s literally homeopathic medicine.

Branch Covidian: I follow the science!

Me: Yeah, I’m just going to get on with life.  There are far bigger issues for me to worry about.

Covidian: Wow! Are you a paranoid conspiracy nut! Don’t get too close to me!

 

My David Prowse Story:

Dave and I were on a first name basis. We met multiple times at conventions, starting in the 1990s. The first time, he bought a few items at my booth, and I advised him one of the items was prohibited in the UK (He had homes here and there at the time).  He commented he'd just stuff it in his kit bag, it wasn't as if he was a criminal planning to harm anyone.  I guess it worked.

He wasn't as tall as I expected, and I asked about that and his overall fitness (still good), that he hadn't gotten fat like some pros who stopped.

He said the height loss was from hip surgery, and that, "You have to keep working out, it's a lifestyle, and once you're in, you need to maintain it."  Then he added, "But you have to remember, at my biggest, I was only four inches bigger than Arnie."

"ONLY." Four inches. Bigger.  Than Arnold Schwarzenegger. So, a 64" chest. No big deal.

Sure, there were bigger builders by then, though most of them are just knotty and lumpy and not as well formed.

But damned few.

The year GenCon moved to Indy, I was setting up, and he and Jerry (Jeremy Bulloch) were part of a celebrity autograph ring.  I walked past and said, "Hey, Dave!" 

"Hi, Mike."

I said we were doing dinner later, Chinese, did he want to come along?

He said the hosts had plans for them, but thanks.  

I said he should stop by the booth when he got a chance, right over there. And he did.

The amusing part was one of the teenagers early in line, waiting for an autograph, who exclaimed, "He just calls him, 'Dave'!"

Yeah, dude, actors have names too.

The autographed pic I have of Dave as Vader reads, "Impressive. Your knives are impressive."

Yeah, I heard it in James Earl Jones' voice, too. But it was Dave who wrote it.

That's the latest bleat from the Bidet camp about "Dealing with loss."

First, not a single state has yet certified their votes, and at least 5 are either still in count or in legal dispute.  NJ hasn't even started counting (they start in about 6 hours from this post).  We know how NJ is probably going to go, but there is a process here.

Look, if you're positive Joe Bidet and his side ho are going to win, what's the problem with waiting for the actual count? You know, that thing that legally determines the election? They count, he wins, no problem. That's how we do it in America. They haven't determined House or Senate, either.

Have you forgotten your boy Al and his 47 recounts in 2000, every single one of which he lost? We don't even have the first count yet.  We know what the media says, but last I checked, they're not mentioned in Art II, Sec 1, Clause 3, or the 12th Amendment. (I furnish those as a courtesy, since I know Demorrhoids are unfamiliar with the US Constitution, and regard it as some Satanic verse.)

What would a prospective employer think about waiting for the tally? That depends on your job.

If you're in law, sociology, forensics, accounting, IT security, statistics, or any field involving math, your prospective employer would like to know you're detail-oriented and complete a task, including documentation and sourcing.

I suppose if you're the kind of worthless piece of shit who'd vote for a racist, rapist, child-molesting, anti-semitic, Nazi with Alzheimers and a prostitutor who boasts of jailing black men under false pretenses, and you're desperate for a job at Half Price Books or MSDNC, it might be an issue.

If the latter is the case, you might want to reconsider your life choices. 

 
Oooh! They said "period." That proves it.
 
First of all, who is "Lead Stories" and why are they credible?  What makes them "independent" and what medical credentials do they have?

They claim, without peer reviewed cites, that a mask with a 3 micron mesh that stops droplets couldn't possibly hinder gas flow, since gas molecules are so small.

Following this logic, you can put a pillow over your face, because the gas molecules are smaller than the pillow mesh. And you'll be fine.

Also, viruses are smaller than 3 microns. They can't have it both ways.

  

This is complete Branch Covidian bullshit, devoid of any science.  And just as a reminder, I'll drop this here again:


World Health Organization:

https://www.who.int/?fbclid=IwAR3QOlTdfeQ-_Bk7J4BlufjdtiwCbAPRouN4w0RH9keurPnGOtiYW4tBiIM

From the WHO: There is limited evidence that wearing a medical mask by healthy individuals in the households or among contacts of a sick patient, or among attendees of mass gatherings may be beneficial as a preventive measure.14-23 However, there is currently no evidence that wearing a mask (whether medical or other types) by healthy persons in the wider community setting, including universal community masking, can prevent them from infection with respiratory viruses, including COVID-19.

Prolonged wearing of the surgical mask causes loss of intellect potential and cognitive performance due to a decrease in blood oxygen and subsequent brain hypoxia. Note - some changes may be irreversible.

 

"Report on surgical mask induced deoxygenation during major surgery" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18500410

"Seventy percent of the patients showed a reduction in partial pressure of oxygen (PaO2), and 19% developed various degrees of hypoxemia. Wearing an N95 mask significantly reduced the PaO2 level"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15340662

"Wearing N95 masks results in hypooxygenemia and hypercapnia which reduce working efficiency and the ability to make correct decision."



CDC

Outside the health care and medical transport settings, CDC does not recommend the routine use of respirators. Most people who develop SARS become infected through contact with other people who are ill with SARS, not by breathing contaminated air. If a person does contact the SARS virus, it is most likely to be on a surface such as a door knob. The best protection from SARS in public places, (including workplaces other than health care and medical transport settings) is to wash your hands frequently and avoid touching your eyes or nose. [COVID is SARS-CoV-2]



National Institute of Health

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7277485/?fbclid=IwAR2rTT8kUlkSv_bvQjbFsJoHj8vuMsjm21vd8SeqpCAuy0fsz_IJyKKv8rs



"No direct evidence indicates that public mask wearing protects either the wearer or others."



U Minn

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/commentary-masks-all-covid-19-not-based-sound-data?fbclid=IwAR1lfzfwrFI-CEiy4WPD7ChiPqfBeXAvsalnD7ggpbE2YxOx-3sRjni3HhY  COMMENTARY: Masks-for-all for COVID-19 not based on sound data



A cloth mask or face covering does very little to prevent the emission or inhalation of small particles. As discussed in an earlier CIDRAP commentary and more recently by Morawska and Milton (2020) in an open letter to WHO signed by 239 scientists, inhalation of small infectious particles is not only biologically plausible, but the epidemiology supports it as an important mode of transmission for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.


https://principia-scientific.com/unmasked-revealing-a-shocking-medical-truth/?fbclid=IwAR1JW9KbERa63yZSsn6UkkIWDYvneJ-bwT7hH0BVMsX11hkTQZx3TanbB98



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Or this:
 
 
"He mean four more years of George Lopez."

You'd have to be a retarded shithead to believe that.
 
 
"When he said 'fraud,' he meant 'anti-fraud.'"  

How about, "if your retarded potato with Alzheimers is so fucking mentally incompetent that every sentence has to be translated, only a literal shithead would consider voting for him"?

But then, that's hardly a surprise with the Demorrhoids, more accurately known as the American Nazi Party.