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Bash's avatar

The takeaway here is not that masks work or that they don't

Its that public health officials should never, ever, ever, ever, ever, be given the keys to society again, and that individual liberties need to be fortified against such intrusions in the future because THEY WILL KEEP HAPPENING otherwise

Public health - when it has NO POWER - only has truth. The lies are hand in hand with the power

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Vinay, I am thrilled you have come away from the "they could be bioplausible" which was the first place I butted heads with you on this subject in one of your earliest pieces. They were never bioplausible -- the Cochrane Study basically uses information that was mostly available before this all began. I admire your ability to change when the facts are as strong as these are -- and I think it has honed the lens through which you view all of this. You have come a long way since you started writing this stack.

The follow-on pieces are clear. We need to dismantle, permanently, the current public health apparatus and rebuild it from scratch using some other paradigm. It has been an abject failure in every way. It has shown itself inimical to public health and, short reconstitution, will never be a trusted modality again...and it needs to be.

As importantly, we need people (I am one, you are one with a much bigger bully pulpit) to get our fellow practitioners to STOP with this idiocy -- your department chair at UCSF is the archetype for what NOT to do. Must be a biatch for you. My patients want to hear the truth. They will over a short time have come to hear of this. Shouldn't we be LEADING in ripping off masks, refusing to wear them in our institutions/clinics and stopping the ridiculous harassment of patients that will not wear them?

If not us, who? If not now, when?

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