"NYU's new 'Daily Do's and Don'ts' appears to mean Don't think'" by Mark Crispin Miller
NYU's new "Daily Do's and Don'ts" appears to mean "Don't think"
Under COVID at our colleges and universities, students must keep their mouths shut as well as covered
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It was almost a year ago, in September of 2020, that I came under heavy fire at NYU (and beyond) for encouraging the students in my propaganda class to read through all the scientific literature on masking, then make up their own minds as to the wisdom of mask mandates.
As that scandal heated up—a gaggle of department colleagues trying to have me fired for discouraging my students from wearing masks, among many other crimes that I did not commit, thereby libeling me, for which I am now suing them—I spoke out, at every opportunity, against such thought-policing at a university, on the premise that higher education ought to be the opposite of training for compliance, and, therefore, that questioning the rules is not just permissible but necessary in a free society.
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Now, as for masking: Since that malicious hoo-ha one year ago, "the science," as the Blue Pods piously invoke it (without ever reading any of it), has copiously reconfirmed what now appears to be the fact that masks do not prevent transmission of respiratory viruses. Back then I got in trouble for suggesting that my students start by reading all eight randomized, controlled trials on the subject, all of which had found that masks don't work. I was actually mistaken, since there were more than eight such studies; and, by now, there are 47 studies variously finding that such muzzles—masks and respirators—don't work; and, no less important, there are now another 32 studies finding that prolonged masking, far from keeping everybody "safe," is itself a serious health hazard, sometimes fatal—the risk especially severe for children. (Last spring, three Chinese teenagers, living in three different provinces, dropped dead while running laps with masks on—a story that made news in China and Japan, and almost nowhere else; and, since then, other instances of mask-related injury or illness have all gone unreported by "our free press.")
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/47-studies-confirm-inefectiveness-of-masks-for-covid-and-32-more-confirm-their-negative-health-effects/
https://markcrispinmiller.com/2020/09/masking-ourselves-to-death-corrected-version/
And by now there is, as well, abundant further evidence beyond "the science" per se that (this is getting tiresome) masks don't work. As Tom Woods in particular has pointed out time after time, "cases" of COVID-19 have actually spiked after mask mandates were imposed, in states from coast to coast, and in nations all around the world; while, last year, "case" rates spiked even in South Korea and Hong Kong, where masking is near-universal. Last year in the US, moreover, the COVID fatality rate was slightly lower in states without mask mandates than in those that had imposed them. Looking at "the science" on the health hazards of protracted masking, it seems more than likely that the practice has made people more susceptible to COVID-19 (as it has, demonstrably, made people more susceptible to bacterial pneumonia).
So, in light of everything that we who try to keep up with "the science" (rather than just genuflect before it) know, what's the basis for mask mandates now—especially in schools? Why make young children wear them, when they are at no risk at all from COVID-19, and don't transmit it? (In all the history of this preposterous crisis, there is not one known instance of a child transmitting COVID to a teacher, or to anybody else.) Considering its utter needlessness, and the damage masking does to children's minds and bodies—weakening their immunities, dulling their intelligence, and stunting their social and emotional development, as well as simply traumatizing them—there is, quite literally, no excuse for forcing children to wear masks in school, or for pretending that it's something other than an exquisitely sadistic form of child abuse.
And what about the mask mandates in colleges and universities? Is there some scientific rationale for them, or are they just as gratuitous, and pointlessly punitive, as the mask mandates for grade schools? Since "the science" aforementioned holds for young adults as well as children, those mandates too are indefensible on any rational grounds, and therefore inexcusable (as are the "vaccine" mandates now imposed on college students all throughout the nation, and beyond).
To anyone whose eyes are not wide shut, it should, by now, be quite clear that the purpose of such worse-than-useless mandates in our colleges and universities—where students go, at staggering expense, not just to learn from their professors, but, no less, to meet, and get to know, and thereby also learn from, other people their own age, from far and wide: the purpose of mask mandates there is obviously not to keep those students "safe" from one another, or the faculty from them, or the other employees from anybody else, but to teach all of them to (as Dr. Fauci put it, chucklingly) do what they're told, and just follow the rules in this (now-permanent) "emergency," always keeping their mouths shut as well as covered, and steering clear of one another, since any unauthorized gatherings might get them into trouble.
Here's a good example of exactly what I mean, sent out today by NYU to the entire "community." Tell me: Is its purpose to protect our health, and finally bring an end to this "pandemic"? Or is it meant to urge compliance with "the rules" forever, eternal vigilance against "the virus" in oneself, and a knee-jerk obedience to the commands, and acquiescence in the judgment, of NYU's COVID surveillance system?
If there's a scientific argument in favor of these "Daily Do's and Dont's," I'd like to hear it, as long as it's still legal to discuss it.
NYU Returns
Daily Do's and Don'ts
Your quick guide to daily habits to keep yourself and others safe
DO wear a mask covering nose and mouth indoors at all times
DON’T come to campus, class, or work if you feel sick or are displaying COVID-19 symptoms
DO the Daily Screener each morning before coming to campus (preferably before you’re at the front of a line waiting to get into a building) or participating in a University-sponsored activity and present it when entering NYU buildings or off-campus events
DON’T join indoor gatherings and outdoor crowds where people aren’t wearing masks
DO promptly report COVID-19 symptoms using this form
DO carefully follow any instructions from the COVID-19 Prevention & Response Team about testing, isolation, quarantine, etc.
DO eat outside whenever you can
DON’T eat anywhere indoors other than a private office (door closed) or designated eating area
We all have an individual and collective responsibility to keep each other safe.
Questions?
Visit the NYU Returns web hub for the most up-to-date and complete information.
Students:
nyu.edu/nyureturns
Administrators, Staff, Faculty: Email PeopleLink
Urgent after-hours inquiries, call (212) 998-1155
New York University
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
Source: NFU
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