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Stephen Petty's @pettypodcast1 remarks to the North Carolina Legislature on the futility of masks as a health intervention. Long but worth reading:

"Regarding the proposed language:
This language is simply nothing more than a power grab in the name of public health and safety with implementation language not based on any real science.
If moved forward, this proposal will be impossible to implement by the public due to incorrect and vague language, will provide no effective mitigation from infectious diseases, and will actually cause great harm to the public based on misleading so-called science. The harms will be greatest to our children.
Some key points regarding the actual science in my 80+ slide presentation and three supporting documents (attached):
-CDC cannot be trusted with the science – (masking – no masks, masks, no masks, masks – no science changes its position 180 degrees twice in two years. The 6-foot distancing rule has no basis in science; Dr. Fauci recently admitted this.
- Face coverings (masks) cannot and do not protect individuals from respiratory diseases - >100 year old science beginning at least in 1919.
Face coverings and respirators in your proposed language have been conflated. Respirators are PPE, face coverings are not – see either CDC or OSHA.
-Masks by definition cannot be sealed; masks that can seal are called respirators.

Imagine being in President Trump’s shoes for a moment on J6 as you get word the Capitol is getting swarmed…

- You were considered a near lock to be a two-term president in February of 2020

- You delivered one of the best economies ever seen for 3 years before China unleashed a lab grown virus on the planet

- You warned states repeatedly of the dangers of mass mail-in voting, but Democrats forced the measures through anyways

- You watched as election officials caved to COVID fear mongering to relax election integrity measures violating election laws and state Constitutions

- You witness 51 “intelligence officials” collude with Big Tech to censor a bombshell story about a laptop that directly implicated Joe Biden

- You campaign tirelessly to sold-out arenas crisscrossing the country with historic enthusiasm

- Your opponent is a two-time failed candidate, disqualified for plagiarism, who barely survived the primary, and then barely left his basement during the campaign

- You win 74,222,958 votes, more than any other presidential candidate has ever won

- You learn that somehow 159,633,396 people voted, the largest turnout in U.S. history, breaking the previous record by 20 million votes — the first time more than 140 million people voted and the highest % turnout in 120 years

- You somehow “lose” by 42,000 votes in 3 states among a host of irregularities, drop box scandals, and controversies and despite winning practically every bellwether county and state