Makes life as a vendor x100 easier!

Less COVID transmission

More than 70% of communication is non verbal. Our brains translate thousands of pieces of visual facial info in a second. Block this and our minds display stress signals that can deeply disturb us over time...

im opposite, im autistic, the visual facial cues have to be processed and that takes time, wearing a mask means i can relax and not worry about having a huge grin(really a nervous grimace) when someone tells me their mum has died.

That’s an interesting perspective. I’m guessing masks are here to stay, I just want them to be voluntary...

Arab women the world over are sucking their teeth.

They have been wearing masks in heavy populated countries (China/Japan/Thailand) since MARS Virus a few years ago. And in the bigger picture they got a handle on it rather well. Same with Covid they didn't take a bigger hit as we have. I can't see how wearing masks isn't a wise choice in close proximity to other people

I think it's all about the effectiveness of the masks.

Proper NHS PPE worn by nurses and doctors yes, but a cotton mask pulled out of a pocket every now and again, after touching numerous things in the meantime, then readjusting it with hands every 30 seconds is probably about as much use as an inflatable dart board.

Just my 2p

Cheers BB

With the science to back you up now;)

it worked for the venetians

As much as I hate the things... I like being incognitio, or at least thinking I am.

They have been nothing more than a nuisance to most people but you have to weigh up the pros and cons of wearing one, right now the pros are outweighing the cons.

Just our two cents.

One Love
-SMONKEY

They are dehumanising, antisocial and have become a comfort blanket for the insecure and the effects on society will be long lasting.

Lots of steamed up glasses

I duno but at least everyone has stopped moaning about hoodies and burkas

Less concern of pathogenic transmissions, of viruses brought back from breaking the earths gravity and a go ahead punching portals in the stratosphere. Also a great opportunity for big global heath services.

more anonymity in places that love to use surveillance to gather information on their populations

Job opportunities for the highly educated scientists from the upper unemployed

"A new study on face masks highlights their inefficacy, lack of safety and ability to cause physiological, psychological and long-term health problems, which may culminate in immune suppression, worsened chronic disease, accelerated aging and premature death"

https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/12/cdc-study-finds-overwhelming-majority-of-people-getting-coronavirus-wore-masks/

The main reason for wearing masks is to stop the spread of transmission. They primarily stop infected people spreading the virus and their preventative use is limited at best. I think it's missing the point saying you can wear a mask but still catch a virus. That's not the main purpose even if it does have some positive effect in reducing your chances of catching a virus.

we now interrupt this conspiracy thread for an actual fact. thanks bigga

Fewer ugly people to look at?

mistrust

I’ll throw my hat in and say the primary effect has been mass mental illness:

“I just stare at that little box with my face in it and pick apart my appearance,” she said, noting that her distress is affecting her job performance. “My double chin seems six times larger, my eye bags are too deep of a purple, etc … Even when there’s a heatwave and my apartment is close to 90 degrees, I’ll wear a turtleneck that I can pull up. I pack on thick makeup that makes my skin peel.”

Going out in public with a black surgical mask that covers her chin and sunglasses that cover her eye bags provides Miller with an escape from that sense of scrutiny.

“I 10,000% plan on wearing it for the foreseeable future,” she said. “After a full work day of worrying and not being able to focus on my actual job, it just feels nice to blend in. Simply put, I’m sick of being perceived.”

Personally it’s not for me... I just wear the magic exempt badge ;)

The Fibonacci Sequence

#2

One is all. All is one.

As Within, So Without. As Above, So Below

brilliant realisation

Those with real wealth have large families.

The struggling middle classes awash with debt and both parents working full time jobs to give them that slightly nicer existence than those on benefits are the ones struggling to reproduce.

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the squeezed middle class evaporate.

rich people have fewer children

Boris Johnson looks like a little girl in that photo. Franklin D Roosevelt was dressed and raised as a girl in his early years.

All the alchemy and trans nonsense is something elites have been practising for years..

It's interesting that you include a photo of BJ in this topic because both he and his father are absolutely in favour of decreasing the population. Stanley Johnson has written tonnes of books about it - fiction and non-fiction. One of his books was even about a 'deadly virus' that decimates the population. It's not presience, it's planning. Both Johnsons are admirers of Indira Gandhi who force-sterilisied millions of indians. Here's an interesting article written by BoJo in the mid-noughties, from his own website:

Not sure, but all I know is that evolution is producing more poor people now and our technology is having diminishing returns from all that we invest in it. The daily wake up rush rush rush to the city, bigger this better that. More money , more power. The cycle of American western society. Drone like lower middle classes buying products continuously to pay the share holders of large corporations their dividends and profits. Then we are fed advertising 24/7 and one sided news channels/papers/social media that fits corporate agendas and profit…… that are owned by these exact people…….it’s a cycle that never ends.

poverty is very consistently decreasing
https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/april-2022-global-poverty-update-world-bank

We've gone full circle, all the way back around to phrenology.

bump

facial recognition cameras should be banned!

problem is the entity needed to ban them is the entity imposing them.

very true although the european parliament appear to be making some moves to at least regulate its use. Shame about brexit!

Does anyone remember investigate journalism?

Remember a lot of the brave souls who had a good go at it though🍀🤜

I believe it does still happen, though not through organisations that are supported (through advertising) by Big Pharma companies. I believe USA and New Zealand are the only countries that allow pharma advertising - I'd like to think we'd have far more honest journalism if all pharma advertising was banned, but sadly the lack of pharma advertising in this country hasn't helped journalists uncover and report on the biggest scam of our lifetimes.

The biggest issue for me is that even before the outbreak the WHO was in the pocket of the Chinese. Ghebreyesus had got to the top based on their power voting and from the start he did what they told him to do and say.
The WHO has proved itself to be woefully unfit for purpose (and that’s a HUGE understatement), and the fact that it exists today almost unchanged and with Ghebreyesus still heading it I find absolutely mind boggling 😵‍💫😤

I remember at the start of this thing (before it came here and was only seen as a problem for China) that one of the 3-letter agencies reported a potential lab leak at Wuhan. They surmised this through a complete lack of mobile 'phone signals coming from the Wuhan site, and satellite images showing the normally-full car park being empty. I've no idea if any of this is true, of course, and haven't heard it mentioned again since. My understanding is that it'd take thousands of years for a virus to mutate 'naturally' (ie without gain of function research) into what it did, and that various 'markers' have been found that prove it's the result of gof research. I believe these markers are behind the Big Pharma court cases (suing each other) that are currently happening. So much information (from good, reliable sources, and leaders in relevant fields) that simply isn't making it onto mainstream media. If you're aware of the cover-ups happening then you have proof, if you needed it, that the media is not working for our interests and certainly isn't our friend. Sad times indeed.

It’s genocide imo the virus came out of a lab and they always new the vaccine was going to kill it’s very sad indeed that this has managed to happen but I struggle to believe it was an accident with tests being made before pandemic etc

Gain of function…

We get so used to our own minds that its hard to see how people can be so fundamentally different.

Best thing I’ve read here today. Facts.

says a lot biggz

Fascinating. There’s a really good BBC Horizon documentary on psychopathy. It features a researcher who was taking MRI scans of prisoners convicted of violent crimes and managed to associate inactivity in a certain part of the brain with psychopathy. He then decided out of curiosity to scan the brains of a few members of his family and found one of the scans matched the patterns of some of the prisoners, and it was his own brain. He then delved deeper and determined he was a psychopath however because he had a happy, well rounded upbringing, he still learnt right from wrong even though he didn’t have empathy towards others. They also discuss on the episode the evolutionary advantage of psychopaths and possible reasons of why the traits remain in the gene pool. It’s a really interesting subject!

yeah saw that, was pretty interesting...it's both nature and nurture that affects personality it would seem.

sounds amazing does anyone have a link?

Found it here

thank you

Tegmark is his mothers birth name which he uses as a pen name. Mr Schapiro is without doubt author of my 2 favorite books. His first book ' Our Mathmatical Universe' is the only book ive ever read twice. Sod global warming for the end of planet earth my money is on 'Death Bubbles'.

very inspiring, found this vid.

Great watch, thanks. I hadn't seen this one b4.

very cool, thanks

interesting, thank you

Yes but there has to be a critter out there depending upon it.

Yeah, it's called Britain

Ha! XD

Classic

Maybe it was a negative reality inversion!! :)

A Reality Inversion would be the symmetrical inversion of reality. Making it negative would actually cancel it out, leaving you with reality.

Copy and paste;)

Ha ha thanks :)
In fact I had never bothered to work it out but yeah its spot on. I got the phrase from "The Young Ones" , it was "Niel" the hippie who said it first. I must have watched that whole series a million times......

Wait a sec I saw this one its red dwarf right ? ;)

read this too, mud ting

They've been watching red dwarf :)

Lol just posted the same thing then scrolled down and saw this

:) did you watch the new episode?

yeh lol
so the books were read to me by my mom when i was growing up to teach me to read
always loved red dwarf since

This is insane ! Who would have ever thought !

Explains the film tenet.

Switch the scanner off and on again….normally sorts it out 👍

i had a feeling this was the case :)

thanks for the interesting post, earth does not have a water shortage, it has a salt surplus

I like to think that the black hole we're supposed to be moving towards, is actually the black hole that we came from. It explains why the universe is expanding since it could be the after effects of black hole travel

Penrose is a legend!
I think that we will loose the term big bang in the coming years..

Seems a more conservative explanation otherwise you have to deal with what different thing existed before universes.