Notes on “Travels to Maskladesh”
Corrections have been made to the analysis of the study from Bangladesh! Namely, I was too generous to the study in a few respects. The corrections are outlined in the footnotes.
I have also added a bit of wry comment at the end, regarding the hallelujah for the Bangladesh mask study issued by The Atlantic on Saturday.
Additionally, while no changes have been made to the analysis of the CDC Marin County study, it has come to my attention that the mainstream understanding of the study appears to incorrectly attribute the cases appearing outside of the primary “outbreak” classroom to the teacher. From the literally demented Wall Street Journal meltdown appearing today (line-breaks added):
At a California elementary school, an unvaccinated, unmasked and infected teacher [not “unmasked,” but “briefly unmasked while reading, according to reports collected by the study”] spread the virus to more than half [55% of…] the students in the teacher’s immediate classroom in late May.
The teacher also infected six students in a separate grade [nope; separate outbreak1] and another four [3] parents and four siblings of students [“the teacher” did not infect these individuals; rather, a limited number of the children in the teacher’s classroom went on to spread the virus in their homes, including to fully vaccinated parents (the fourth parent was associated with the separate, smaller outbreak)].
In all, contact with one infected teacher led to 26 more cases in the school community [just 19, and the separate smaller outbreak clearly demonstrates that the teacher may plausibly have only amplified, not caused the outbreak, and is therefor not responsible for all 19 cases].
I may update “Maskladesh” to more strongly highlight the correction it offers to this incorrect reading of the CDC study, but I remain uncertain of how prevalent the misapprehension is (within the media itself; obviously within the vague, chaotic understanding of much of the overstimulated general public, the unvaccinated teacher is CDC-verified to have literally taken the form of a bat and flown into the bedrooms of every child in Marin to cough into their open mouths, necessitating that the children all be herded to Belvedere, where they will spend the rest of their lives as a leper colony).
The WSJ story also points to the high relevance of the Marin study’s demonstration of mask and vaccine failure, which is only redoubled by the mass outbreaks in schools in which staff are still obsessing over Pandemic Theatre to the greatest extent permitted by state law but to no avail (though the article instead naturally takes it as a given that schools in these states are being punished by God for not covering all children’s faces in sacred cloth), as aptly demonstrated by one of the central anecdotes in the article:
Aaron Baker, who was fully vaccinated in March, felt a cough coming on behind his cloth mask as he was teaching […] He tested positive for [SARS-CoV-2] that day.
“That’s all it took - five days,” Mr. Baker said. [Never mind that it is entirely possible that Baker was infected outside of school, and the timing is a coincidence.]
Coming Next Week
I will finally be posting the follow up to the brief outline of Immune Equilibrium offered in “Die Herd”!
This, it turns out, will dovetail quite a bit with the evolutionary “culture/consciousness” model advanced by Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying in their newly-released book, which they have been previewing weekly on their podcast all summer. This has generated several noteworthy episodes, but yesterday’s was incredibly compelling in particular, both on its own and as a summary of and argument for their model.
Additionally, I may attempt to formulate some type of comment on the bizarre apparent trend of American hospitals suddenly placing so many patients on ventilators again, even early on in treatment, as if to intentionally kill the unvaccinated, and possibly finally venture an ivermectin hot take.
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As concluded by the study itself:
On May 22, students in a another classroom, who differed in age by 3 years from the students in the class with the index case and who were also ineligible for vaccination began to experience symptoms. The two classrooms were separated by a large outdoor courtyard with lunch tables that were blocked off from use with yellow tape. All classrooms had portable high-efficiency particulate air filters and doors and windows were left open. Fourteen of 18 students in this separate grade received testing; six tests had positive results. Investigation revealed that one student in this grade hosted a sleepover on May 21 with two classmates from the same grade.