Chasing one’s own tail in contact tracing. Masks don’t stop viruses

Pratt on Texas - copyright Pratt on Texas all rights reservedI knew what bit of liberty quashing ramped up state intervention was coming next in the worst of states when I heard New York’s Cuomo whining about virus contact tracing. An earlier NBC headline read: “‘Army’ of contact tracers will be needed in coronavirus fight. Experts say that could cost billions..” Then you had this Q13 FOX headline “Hundreds more training to ramp up contact tracing in Washington state,” out of Seatlle. (Here’s an example of the same from Texas.)

Contact tracing is a job the public health system, your local health department, already does but just how important is contact tracing with the WuFlu today?

Given that we now have strong data from across the continent, from Florida to New York to the West Coast showing vastly more folk have been infected and didn’t even know it or it passed by as a mild annoyance, contact tracing, except maybe involving dangerous outbreak nexus points like group and nursing homes, seems a bit of the proverbial dog chasing its own tail.

Clearly what you see is those jurisdictions, with the heaviest tyrannical hands and who least want to give up the unprecedented near-dictatorial power people have ceded them out of fear and ignorance, is the taking of measures to ensure they can extend the use of such power over people as long as possible guessing few will loudly object to the basic task of contact tracing.

Virtue signaling with a mask.

And on the note of mask wearing being good mostly only for virtue signaling, the evidence for those who want to “follow the science” is that I am correct on masks being rather useless in blocking virus particles. I’ve now heard from several physicians re-affirming my point.

Anesthesiologist Joe Hnatek, M.D. wrote: “…All this stuff about the lack of efficacy of masks was well known back when I was in residency in the late 1980s. I guess some people didn’t get the memo.”

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