Lies are not just Fast, they are also Powerful
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes”. That quote is often attributed to Mark Twain but no one really knows for sure that it is his. The unknown origins do not, however, diminish the truth in the statement. Lies also defy Newtonian physics. The bigger the lie the less energy it take to accelerate it.
In March of 2020 politicians told an enormous lie and with the help of the media that lie was in every country within hours. The Truth on the other hand has travelled much more slowly. We are closing in on 2 years and the truth has reached very few people. The truth is that there was never an emergency. There was never a reason to do any of the things that were forced on us.
Lies are not only fast they are powerful. The truth that there was no emergency has finally managed to reach most countries now. Unfortunately the truth has largely fallen on deaf ears. When confronted with a truth that contradicts the lie people overwhelmingly reject the truth. Such is the power of lies.
Take masks for example. Masks had been studied to death prior to the March 2020 great lie. The science was clear, mask do not affect the spread of airborne respiratory viruses. That well established science did not prevent serial liars like Anthony Fauci from lying about, and recommending masks.
On the strength of that, lie masks were mandated almost everywhere. Every time infections dropped the media reinforced the lie by telling us that the drop was due to masks and other pointless measures. The media was of course conspicuously quiet as infections soared when everyone was masked. While the media was supporting the lie some scientists took the opportunity to evaluate what really happened. Multiple studies like this one proved the futility of masks.
Here is a plot from the study showing when the mask mandate was dropped it made no discernable difference.
It is not surprising to find out, again, that masks do not work. It was ridiculous to expect that mask could stop a virus when the weave openings are hundreds of times larger than the virus. There is a reason why filters are rated by the smallest particle that they can stop. An 80 micron filter cannot magically stop 0.1 micron particles.
So we knew masks could not work before we were forced to use them. All of the data collected over the last 20 months has reinforced those conclusions yet countries are turning to masks again. Masks are a very powerful lie that governments are taking to ridiculous extents and I have a personal example that illustrates just how ridiculous.
My daughter teaches science. She asked me to help her teach heat transfer. Heat transfer was one of my best marks in University. In the last 3 decades as an Engineer I have used heat transfer concepts hundreds of times. I was more than happy to help my daughter with this. Here is the kicker. In order to teach science I must wear a mask. The reason is obvious to anyone who does not understand science. I must wear a mask that cannot prevent viral transmission so that I do not transmit a virus, which I do not have, to the students. A virus that does not pose a real threat to any of the students even if I had it. It is hard to get less scientific in a science class.
The government of Alberta will not let you teach science unless you prove to them that you either do not understand science or are willing to ignore it in favor of politics. Still I have decided to do it anyway. If I can teach some science and more importantly teach young people to think, maybe their generation can pull us out of this. My generation is a lost cause. The lie was just too powerful.
It doesn’t have to be a powerful lie when people are too ignorant to look for the truth. Sheep!!
Excellent write up. When will this idiocy end?
It will only end when we stop complying