Are COVID-19 Response Based on Science?

Are COVID-19 Response Based on Science?

Thomas Allen

[Editor’s note: Presented below is a letter-to-the-editor on COVID-19.]

Caesar Cooper claims that science guides him when he issues his edicts concerning COVID-19. Whatever guides him, it is not science.

Like other respiratory viruses, COVID-19 spreads via the air, not just via droplets or touching contaminated surfaces. COVID-19 has a diameter between 0.06 and 0.14 microns. Virus-laden saliva or respiratory droplets are between 5 and 10 microns. N95 masks, the best mask commonly available, can filter particles as small as 0.3 microns. Thus, it may prevent most respiratory droplets from escaping, but not aerosolized viruses, which are three times smaller than the holes in the mask. Cloth masks can block only 30 to 60 percent of respiratory droplets, but they do not protect against aerosolized viruses. Thus, using a mask to protect oneself from COVID-19 is like a person hiding behind a chain-link fence when someone is shooting at him.

Even the CDC has a study dated May 2020 posted on its website that claims that masks are ineffective in preventing the spread of respiratory viruses. Also, in its guidance dated June 2020, god-on-high, the World Health Organization (WHO), claims that healthy people gain no advantage in wearing face masks.

Moreover, Cooper must consider social distancing a hoax. If he really believes that social distancing prevents the spread of COVID-19, he would insist that protesters remain six feet apart. Further, he would limit the size of protests to no more than 50 people. Any protester violating these edicts would be arrested.

He requires others to obey his edicts on face masks, social distancing, and crowd size. So, why does he not require his kindred-in-arms, the protesters and rioters, to obey his edicts? Surely, he values his kindred more than he does churchgoers and attendees of a Republican convention. The logical conclusion is that he knows that his edicts are hoaxes and are not based on science. Thus, they must be based on politics, the lust to control.

Additionally, the number of cases and deaths related to COVID-19 is overstated. The tests used to identify infections of COVID-19 do not distinguish between COVID-19 and other coronaviruses including some that cause the common cold. Also, the US government encourages the States, hospitals, and doctors to overstate COVID-19 cases by paying them more for COVID-19 cases and deaths. Often people who die of other causes, such as car accidents, cancer, and heart attacks, who are diagnosed with a coronavirus are listed as dying from COVID-19 per CDC guidelines.

Copyright © 2020 by Thomas Coley Allen.

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