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Minutes from the Interview with the Independent
Firstly, I want to clarify why I wanted to do the interview. As someone with Health Science qualifications, I am aware of the science and an uneasy with the mask dogma. I wanted to provide an antithesis https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/face-masks-men-masculinity-coronavirus-lockdown-boris-johnson-b1077119.html
Firstly, I want to clarify why I wanted to do the interview. As someone with Health Science qualifications, I am aware of the science and an uneasy with the mask dogma. I wanted to provide an antithesis https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/face-masks-men-masculinity-coronavirus-lockdown-boris-johnson-b1077119.html
I firstly take issue with the headline. I knew it was about men, but only 1 question was about gender. However, it wasn't really relevant to the question. The headline was picked before the interview. Clearly. Make your own mind up
First, I was asked two questions, why don`t I wear a mask and do I worry about the impact on others:
Me: I do not believe individual liberty and free choice is some frivolous commodity that we should just give up without question. We were told at first the measures were to ...
Me: I do not believe individual liberty and free choice is some frivolous commodity that we should just give up without question. We were told at first the measures were to ...
protect the nhs, more measures have since been added and continue to be added, with the goal posts constantly changing. I worry where this ends. I worry it won’t end. Covid for most people is a mild illness. I think the measures are so disproportionate to the risk.
On the second question - Do i worry
I worry of the impact that widespread compliance of a measure, such as mask wearing, that has at best limited evidence, will have. We are about to enter another quasi-lockdown, of which people will lose their jobs and livelihoods.
I worry of the impact that widespread compliance of a measure, such as mask wearing, that has at best limited evidence, will have. We are about to enter another quasi-lockdown, of which people will lose their jobs and livelihoods.
of which people will lose their jobs and livelihoods. Foodbank usage is up 170%.
Not to mention the damage the lockdowns are having on the third world.
Not to mention the damage the lockdowns are having on the third world.
I was then asked 5 more questions:
1. Are you worried about being fined for being out without a mask?
2. Are you worried that by not wearing a mask you could be contributing to more deaths?
1. Are you worried about being fined for being out without a mask?
2. Are you worried that by not wearing a mask you could be contributing to more deaths?
3. How do you respond to stories of people who died from Covid after not wearing a mask?
https://metro.co.uk/2020/07/14/healthy-man-who-blasted-coronavirus-hype-refused-wear-mask-killed-12987711/
I mean, she sent me the link to this with question 3. Actually implying not wearing a mask caused this mans death. But it`s me who spreads misinformation.. LOL
https://metro.co.uk/2020/07/14/healthy-man-who-blasted-coronavirus-hype-refused-wear-mask-killed-12987711/
I mean, she sent me the link to this with question 3. Actually implying not wearing a mask caused this mans death. But it`s me who spreads misinformation.. LOL
4. When you read about the 43,000 deaths in the UK, does it make you reconsider your decision not to wear a mask at all and if not, why?
5. Do you own a mask?
5. Do you own a mask?
My Reponses - This is going to be a long thread: But I think its important that people see what the media do.
1: I am less worried about the prospect about the monetary fine than I am by the fact that the government has the power to police social decisions such as what we wear.
1: I am less worried about the prospect about the monetary fine than I am by the fact that the government has the power to police social decisions such as what we wear.
I am not a millionaire, and of course I would rather not pay a £200 fine. However, I feel this would be a small price to pay to safeguard against the dangers of authoritarianism and the encroachment on our civil liberties.
After all, many people, particularly those on the left, until recently proclaimed that this Government harboured racists within their ranks. Boris is regularly accused of being on the 'far right'. I find it strange that given this view people are comfortable.....
with a supposed far right leader having the power to put them under house arrest and tell them what to wear or suffer police consequences.
END of Question 1:
Question 2 - 2. Are you worried that by not wearing a mask you could be contributing to more deaths?
END of Question 1:
Question 2 - 2. Are you worried that by not wearing a mask you could be contributing to more deaths?
2: Has anyone considered that wearing masks may be contributing to the rising cases? We have more cases now than in March before mandatory mask wearing and social distancing measures, how can this be if masks work? My position on mask wearing is a mix of a protest for liberty...
d a understanding of the science, which for the past 40 years before political lobbying to the WHO, was in agreement that masks do not stop virus transmission in non-controlled environments. The science was also clear that any positive impact that mask wearing has is.....
Counterbalanced by possible adverse effects such as face touching, mask disposing etc.. The WHO released a tweet on 27/3/20 saying "If you do not have any respiratory symptoms you do not need to wear a medical mask.
Used alone masks can give you a false sense of security and a feeling of protection and can even be a source of infection". The WHO then changed this stance sue to 'political lobbying'. I am deeply concerned that a institution such as the WHO would change 40 years of scientific
consensus because of political lobbying. Are we oblivious to the dangers of this? On to the point of the false sense of security. One of the reasons the Gov has asked us to wear masks is to coax people out, with a suggestion they feel safer.....
This is exactly what the WHO originally warned against. I see this every time I am in the shops that people with masks on are stood close together, touching their faces. Sorry, but I stand with the scientific consensus of the past 40 years.
END OF QUESTION 2
END OF QUESTION 2
Question 3. How do you respond to stories of people who died from Covid after not wearing a mask?
Me: The suggestion that not wearing a mask had any impact in the gentleman dying is completely dystopian. According to a recent report by the ....
Me: The suggestion that not wearing a mask had any impact in the gentleman dying is completely dystopian. According to a recent report by the ....
Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (US), 85% of people infected with Covid either wore masks always or often. 70% of the 85% said they always wore a mask. How should this make mask wearers feel?
END OF QUESTION 3
END OF QUESTION 3
Question 4. When you read about the 43,000 deaths in the UK, does it make you reconsider your decision not to wear a mask at all and if not, why?
Me: If I thought that I needed to make a societal change because 44 thousand people have died, then I should have done the same...
Me: If I thought that I needed to make a societal change because 44 thousand people have died, then I should have done the same...
in the 6 months from October 2017 - March 2018 when there was a particularly bad flu strain and 55 thousand excess deaths. People struggle to quantify numbers, which is normal because they aren't exposed to death data on a regular basis...
44 thousand deaths to a Respiratory Infection in 12 months is obviously sad. But isn't uncommon. My non-mask wearing is no more to blame for the excess deaths in 2020 than you are to blame not wearing a mask in the 2017-18 Flu season, which took more lives than Covid...
Lets put this in perspective, the WHO in 2011 said that passive smoking accounts for 600,000 deaths per year. Other reports have that number higher at 1 million. If the 2020 mantra is to do all we can at all measures to save whatever lives we can,
facemasks are a the very bottom of a long list of things we could do.
END OF QUESTION 4
Question 5, do you own a facemask
5: No
END OF QUESTION 4
Question 5, do you own a facemask
5: No
I finished our conservation with:
Appreciate you wont be able to put that in verbatim. Just please don't portray me as a conspiracy theorist. Because I'm not. I know the virus is real. I just don't think the response is proportional to the threat.
Appreciate you wont be able to put that in verbatim. Just please don't portray me as a conspiracy theorist. Because I'm not. I know the virus is real. I just don't think the response is proportional to the threat.
Standard
@Independent I believe I free press. So this will go no further. But check your standards, this is debase
Who believes coronavirus poses no threat to him...
@Independent I didn’t say this. All the other things I said so I’m happy with. This I didn’t say and I have chat logs.
Might want to consider this
@Independent I didn’t say this. All the other things I said so I’m happy with. This I didn’t say and I have chat logs.
Might want to consider this
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