Cost / Benefit

Dr Ryan Knopp, MD got endorsed by Cernovich, so that's something, from an endorser who keeps palming Berenson's balderdash on us, and occasional stupid gotcha takes. But anyway . . .

The deal is that masks work for large-droplet aerosols. These aerosols disintegrate to smaller droplets as they float in the air. The smaller the aperture, the more effective for the incoming aerosols - but of course eventually you're getting a mask cluttered in dried mucus and saliva going out, so the mask ends up a gag.

So it's not that Masks Don't Work; it's that they're of reduced effectiveness without distancing, and as time goes on they don't work as well. And a lot of those cloth masks start out working not as well. Better than nothing, mayhap.

We also have needed a conversation about masking "children" which includes anyone under 25 (for men) or about 20 (women). Richard Hanania has been banging on about Cost / Benefit Analysis. He's right. Knopp (no disrespect - as a rule after the first honorific, I tend only to keep using it when I'm being sarcastic... as with Doctor Jill Biden, Ed. D. or DOCTOR AMY BISHOP) would also have us look at Cost / Benefit when comparing the Myocarditis, vaccinated versus unvaxxed-CoVID.

50 / 1,000,000 for kids who get the "Clot Shot". If they are left to let 'er rip, that's... er, 500-3E+3 / 1E+6. Hey y'all, I never promised there should be no math on this blog.

That's one in a thousand myocard victims, aka the long-haul. You might like your odds especially if you're not one of the fat kids. But you might like 1/20,000 odds a lot better. If you'd even been paying attention in maths class. (The best odds in DenningerWorld are: don't get vaxxed, and don't get the bug, because the bug doesn't exist; in practice, the bug exists, so those are the two choices you got.)

The Cost / Benefit in 2020, therefore, was clear: sequester the kids, who'll probably be okay, so they don't infect their "Dad Bod" / "Mommy Pooch" parents, who might not be okay.

The Cost / Benefit in 2021 is clearer. Don't wear those stupid masks. Get vaccinated instead. Yes, that includes teenagers. That especially includes nurses - walk off the job, go do your nursing in Kandahar, they're more your speed.

And you may or may not want that booster later (for me, I calculate early next January). I'd say, you probably do. I'm not an obtuse idiot, and I remember hints about boosters in March. Pfizer were working on them in January, fools.