Check Out What You Know About the ABC’s

The A-Z of Covid19Your handy guide for navigating the current crisis

Mark Chapman

In these troubling times it can be hard to find a clear path through the maze of disinformation and covid-denial. Print the following out and keep it with you at all times. Refer to it when confronted with a Covidiot or any suggesting you try thinking for yourself.

A

ANTI-VAXXER (Sic) Criminal lunatic who is intent on denying everyone the opportunity of ever being vaccinated against anything by means of unsubstantiated neo-religious ravings. Candidate for funny-farms and medical experimentation.

B

BREXIT: Fantasy utopian state believed in by ANTI-VAXXERS and CONSPIRACY THEORISTS.

C

CONSPIRACY THEORIST: Criminally insane individual dedicated to the annihilation of humanity by allowing everyone to die of COVID-19 by alleging that it may not be as deadly as we all know it is. Other characteristics include denying climate change, voting for BREXIT and non-readership of the GUARDIAN.

COVID-19: Unstoppable and totally lethal plague carried by any living organism with 100% mortality rate that can be caught by any living being on the earth. Symptoms include a) being alive and b) living on planet Earth.

D

DEATH: Preventable non-living condition arising from contracting COVID-19. Otherwise represented as falsely arising from conspiracy-theorist-alleged conditions e.g. “cancer”, “heart disease”, “accident”, “being shot,” etc .

DEMOCRACY: Fantasy utopia believed in by ANTI-VAXXERS and CONSPIRACY THEORISTS. Characterised by BREXIT and TRUMP.

E

EPIDEMIOLOGY: Fake science to spread MISINFORMATION about COVID-19.

EXPONENTIAL: Default speed of COVID-19 spread.

F

FACE MASK/COVERING: Essential Personal Protective Equipment for living organisms. ANTI-VAXXERS and CONSPIRACY THEORISTS do not wear them and this renders them easily identifiable.

FACT-CHECKERS: For reference please read Orwell, G,1984 ref: Ministry of Truth.

FREEDOM: Mythical condition believed in by CONSPIRACY THEORISTS and ANTI-VAXXERS (see above). Cited by the aforementioned as something preferable to protection from DEATH (see above) by COVID-19.

G

GATES, BILL: Philanthropist dedicated to saving the world from COVID-19.

GREAT BARRINGTON DECLARATION, THE: Pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo written by a bunch of QUACKs including “Dr. Johnny Bananas” in order to spread MISINFORMATION about COVID-19.

GREAT RESET: THE: Mythical blueprint for post COVID-19 society. Referred to by ANTI-VAXXERS and CONSPIRACY THEORISTS.

GUARDIAN, THE: Source of reliable and truthful information regarding COVID-19. Required reading. Non-biased, humanist publication written by the most gifted journalists now living.

H

HANCOCK: MATT: Hero of the people dedicated to saving everyone from COVID-19.

HEALTH: Condition of existence characterised by non-infection by COVID-19. Misrepresented by ANTI-VAXXERS and CONSPIRACY THEORISTS as normal, non-pathological state.

I

IMMUNOLOGY: Fake science intended to mislead the public regarding COVID-19.

J

JOHNSON, BORIS: Prime Minister of England. Very funny chap.

K

KOONTZ, DEAN: Author who predicted COVID-19 in one of his novels.

L

LIFE: Pathological delusion believed in by CONSPIRACY THEORISTS.

LOCKDOWN: Utopian state that will free humanity for ever.

M

MISINFORMATION: Act of suggesting mistaken beliefs not permitted by the STATE: eg. 2+2=4 without reference to FACT CHECKERS.

N

NHS: Pre-2020 organisation, now defunct, providing placebo medication for now-debunked conditions such as “cancer”, “heart disease,” “diabetes” etc.

NORMAL; NEW: Post-2020 Age of Enlightenment: for further information see Zamyatin,, Y, We. Huxley, A, Brave New World.

O

OXFORD: UNIVERSITY OF: Developmental research station for COVID-19.

P

PANDEMIC: The current state of existence characterising life on Planet Earth.

PARLIAMENT: Pre-2020 institution, now defunct, dedicated to squabbling on television for the benefit of the masses over decisions that had already been taken by the STATE.

PLANDEMIC: Criminally insane publication written by CONSPIRACY THEORISTS.

POLICE: Pre-2020 organisation, now defunct, created to enact entertaining drama for the masses, e.g by driving around in fast cars and running about in city centres trying to catch “baddies” and “crooks.” Especially effective at reducing traffic congestion in December and January. Ref: Z-Cars, The Bill, Dixon of Dock Green.

PRISON: Institutions created to house ANTI-VAXXERS and CONSPIRACY THEORISTS.

Q

QUACK: Signatory of the GREAT BARRINGTON DECLARATION with fake Ph.D.

R

R NUMBER: Statistical integer for illustrating spread of COVID-19. Non-referenced.

S

SAFE: Condition of total atrophy. See DEATH.

SCIENTIST: Individual responsible for issuing warnings justifying lockdowns.

SKY NEWS: Unbiased source of information regarding COVID-19. To be broadcast in all pubs and places of entertainment.

SOCIAL DISTANCING: Introduced 2020. The natural form of communication for human beings requiring a respectful personal space. Let’s face it, how many years have you gone around putting up with bad breath, BO and fag smoke?

STATE, THE: Benefactor and source of all blessings.

SWEDEN: Rogue state of COVID-19 deniers.

T

T-CELL: Mythical component of IMMUNOLOGY used to mislead the public regarding COVID-19.

TRUMP, DONALD : Former president of the United States. Believer in debunked fantasy of DEMOCRACY.

U

UNITED KINGDOM, THE, Isolated control population for COVID-19 VACCINE. Characterised by inhabitants with zero capacity for rebelliousness.

V

VACCINE: Panacea for COVID-19. To be injected into population of entire planet. Declared safe by QUACKs. Said population expendable in drive to halt “climate change.”

VIROLOGY: Fake science intended to mislead the public regarding COVID-19.

VIRUS: Integral component of COVID-19. Non-referenced.

W

WE: (1924, Zamyatin, Y.) Blueprint for post-COVID-19 society.

WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION: Bunch of nice chaps who like sitting around talking about COVID-19.

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM: Bunch of nice chaps who like sitting around talking about money.

Z

ZAMYATIN, Y: Author of “WE”, (soon to be banned)

from:   https://off-guardian.org/2020/11/22/70929/

Apparently Hydroxychloroquine Works.. But Only for the Elites

Anonymous D.C. Insider Exposes Ultra-Secret Covid Conspiracy Inside the Beltway

ER Editor: Of course, these claims cannot be verified given the anonymous nature of the source. Yet, it all has a ring of truth. Trump’s revealed he’s using hydroxychloroquine prophylactically (kudos – was he dropping us a hint?), so why would doctors, such as those hired for an American president no less, not be giving the same advice to other notables? Anything else makes little sense.

Note how this person calls COVID-19 a ‘bioweapon’ in ‘unrelenting launches of the COVID-19 bioweapon’ and ‘coronavirus cluster explosions will be detonated’. We only hope that herd immunity may short-circuit his/her predictions. The hypothesis that ‘Covid-19’ is in fact a bioweapon is something we’ve published on at length.

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Anonymous D.C. Insider Exposes Ultra-Secret Covid Conspiracy Inside the Beltway

STATE OF THE NATION

Submitted by an Anonymous D.C. Insider


Big Pharma and the WHO have known all along about the HCQ cure for COVID-19.

Everyone at the CDC, NIH and FDA knows that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is the silver bullet for the coronavirus.

They also know that, when combined with azithromycin and zinc, the 3-in-1 protocol provides the magic formula for almost anyone with coronavirus disease.

However, what Dr. Fauci, Dr. Birx and Robert Redfield are not telling anyone is that practically every VIP in Washington, D.C. is using HCQ prophylactically.

Everyone knows that Trump has been using it as a preventative as he publicly stated so on multiple occasions.  But no one has revealed that virtually everyone inside the Beltway is also using it.  That’s why they were all shown so often in groups with no masks and not adhering to the recommended social distancing guidelines during the regular coronavirus briefings.  And, they did many of those dog and pony shows right in the middle of the Covid spikes during the first wave.

The real scandal here is that leading politicians, government officials, corporate CEOs and UN administrators all know about the efficacy of HCQ, and yet they have collaborated to deprive the American people of its use.  All the while they, themselves, are secretly taking HCQ prophylactically.

When so many countries around the globe have used Hydroxychloroquine with great success, why is the U.S. fiercely resisting it?

Because the world’s most zealous vaccine salesman — Bill Gates — is determined to bring a COVID-19 vaccine to market.  Word on the street (K Street) is that Gates is also taking HCQ as a preventive.  In fact, he has taken HCQ as a precautionary measure to avoid malaria for many years during his travels to the Third World nations that were subjected to his endless vaccine pitches and vaccination programs.

If Americans knew that India was successfully using HCQ nationwide, how would they react?  New Delhi has even made the decision to make HCQ available as a prophylactic, so inexpensive is it.

“India is estimated to produce 70% of the world’s hydroxychloroquine, with Ipca Labs and Zydus Cadila the two largest producers of the drug in the country.[1]

Well then, why did India send 85 million doses of hydroxychloroquine to 108 Covid-infected countries if it doesn’t work?!

So, what the scandal?

Key government officials, medical authorities and elected representatives throughout the USA are aware of every single fact stated in this exposé.  Nevertheless, they are pushing untested remedies and dangerous protocols that have actually killed many COVID-19 patients in all 50 states.

This situation is completely unacceptable.  Especially when the leaders of the national coronavirus response are taking HCQ and other effective prophylactics to keep the coronavirus at bay.  The same goes for many in the mainstream media; they will never tell anyone either that they’re taking HCQ.  Nor will the Sultans of Silicon Valley or Wall Street banksters or Corporate America moguls ever let on to this “ultra-secret conspiracy”.  Which is why the Hamptons Concert With Goldman CEO, ‘Chainsmokers’ Faces N.Y. Probe.  Goldman Sachs Chairman of the Board David Solomon obviously felt immune to catching Covid even at a concert where he was the star of the show.

But what’s the real scandal here?

The HCQ-Azithromycin-Zinc protocol is being deliberately withheld from the American people so that a mandatory COVID-19 vaccine can be foisted on the country.

And, the proof of such a criminal conspiratorial plot: there will be never-ending seasonal Covid spikes, with each wave being bigger and more intense than the previous one.  When those start to ebb, coronavirus cluster explosions will be detonated in the major metro areas, particularly the sanctuary cities.

Then, when the blue states have had enough, the Democrat governors will collude with their Democrat legislatures to mandate an annual Covid vaccination (just like California recently passed draconian legislation requiring yearly compliance with childhood vaccination schedules).  The unrelenting launches of the COVID-19 bioweapon in conservative territory will eventually compel the Republican governors to do the same in the red states.

— An Anonymous D.C. Insider


SOTN Editor’s Note: The end result of this phase of OPERATION COVID-19 is the undeclared state of medical martial law.  Next will begin the initial stages of the Orwellian takeover scheme COVID-1984, which has been greatly advanced via the staged race riots and growing buzz about an impending race war.  However, only if the American people allow them to will these treasonous plans gain any meaningful traction.

from:    https://www.europereloaded.com/anonymous-d-c-insider-exposes-ultra-secret-covid-conspiracy-inside-the-beltway/

At Risk: What it Means to be Human, 1

Biosecurity and Politics (Giorgio Agamben)

What is striking about the reactions to the apparatuses of exception that have been put in place in our country (and not only in this one) is the inability to observe them beyond the immediate context in which they seem to operate. Rare are those who attempt to interpret them as symptoms and signs of a broader experiment — as any serious political analysis would require — in which what is at stake is a new paradigm for the governance of men and things. Already in a book published seven years ago, now worth rereading carefully (Tempêtes microbiennes, Gallimard 2013), Patrick Zylberman described the process by which health security, hitherto on the margins of political calculations, was becoming an essential part of state and international political strategies. At issue is nothing less than the creation of a sort of “health terror” as an instrument for governing what are called “worst case scenarios.” It is according to this logic of the worst that already in 2005 the World Health Organization announced “2 to 150 million deaths from bird flu approaching,” suggesting a political strategy that states were not yet ready to accept at the time. Zylberman shows that the apparatus being suggested was articulated in three points: 1) the construction, on the basis of a possible risk, of a fictitious scenario in which data are presented in such a way as to promote behaviors that allow for governing an extreme situation; 2) the adoption of the logic of the worst as a regime of political rationality; 3) the total organization of the body of citizens in a way that strengthens maximum adherence to institutions of government, producing a sort of superlative good citizenship in which imposed obligations are presented as evidence of altruism and the citizen no longer has a right to health (health safety) but becomes juridically obliged to health (biosecurity).

What Zylberman described in 2013 has now been duly confirmed. It is evident that, apart from the emergency situation, linked to a certain virus that may in the future be replaced by another, at issue is the design of a paradigm of governance whose efficacy will exceed that of all forms of government known thus far in the political history of the West. If already, in the progressive decline of ideologies and political beliefs, security reasons allowed citizens to accept limitations on their liberty that they previously were unwilling to accept, biosecurity has shown itself capable of presenting the absolute cessation of all political activity and all social relations as the maximum form of civic participation. Thus it was possible to see the paradox of organizations of the left, traditionally in the habit of claiming rights and denouncing violations of the constitution, accepting limitations on liberty made by ministerial decree devoid of any legal basis and which even fascism couldn’t dream of imposing.

It is evident — and government authorities themselves do not cease to remind us of it — that so-called “social distancing” will become the model of politics that awaits us, and that (as representatives of a so-called “task force” announced, whose members are in an obvious conflict of interest with the role that they are expected to exercise) advantage will be taken of this distancing to substitute digital technological apparatuses everywhere in place of human physicality, which as such becomes suspect of contagion (political contagion, let it be understood). University lessons, as MIUR has already recommended, will be stably online from next year; you will no longer recognize yourself by looking at your face, which might be covered with a mask, but through digital devices that recognize bio-data which is compulsorily collected; and any “crowd,” whether formed for political reasons or simply for friendship, will continue to be prohibited.

At issue is an entire conception of the destinies of human society from a perspective that, in many ways, seems to have adopted the apocalyptic idea of the end of the world from religions which are now in their sunset. Having replaced politics with the economy, now in order to secure governance even this must be integrated with the new paradigm of biosecurity, to which all other exigencies will have to be sacrificed. It is legitimate to ask whether such a society can still be defined as human or whether the loss of sensible relations, of the face, of friendship, of love can be truly compensated for by an abstract and presumably completely fictitious health security.

May 11, 2020
Giorgio Agamben

from:    https://medium.com/@ddean3000/biosecurity-and-politics-giorgio-agamben-396f9ab3b6f4

15 Years Old & Setting the Rules

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The world has been turned upside down with draconian government orders to “flatten the curve” with what is called Social Distancing. Schools have been closed for months, businesses have been involuntarily shut down and travel restrictions have idled 90 percent of the airlines. The net result is over 36 million American’s are unemployed and the number is rising.

Now we learn the whole social distancing lockdown that has paralyzed the nation comes from a very surprising source. A May 2nd article in the Albuquerque Journal reveals social distancing hysteria is NOT based on scientific evidence or clinical medical trials for that matter.  (Emphasis added)

How would you feel if you learned your normal way of life had been completely upended based on a computer model created by a 15 year old Albuquerque New Mexico High School student named Laura Glass?

Glass, along with her Dad Robert (a government scientist then working at Sandia National

Laboratories) cooked up a home brew computer model for a science and engineering fair in May, 2006. Robert Glass had been working on computer models for the National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center at Sandia and often worked from home.

Part of his work entailed computer models showing how people come into contact with each other during everyday life. Laura Glass used that data to project how high school students could possibly transmit infectious diseases. Her “model” suggested high school students could easily infect huge swaths of a population so putting a stop to those contacts would hypothetically “save lives.”

Miss Glass appeared to have no understanding of the benefits of herd immunity. She didn’t seem to know that most healthy people with strong immune systems naturally fight off viruses and build up antibodies against future infections. According to a variety of medical experts herd immunity should be the primary tool to fight off viral infections and only the sick and elderly should be quarantined. But I digress . . .

A call from Homeland Security

Her efforts earned her third place in the Medicine and Health category of the science fair.

That would probably have been the end of it but for Robert Glass’s government connections. While High School sophomore Laura Glass was creating her contagion computer model the George Bush administration was feverishly working on bio-terrorism countermeasures.

Somehow news of Laura Glass’s high school science project wound up in the hands of US Department of Homeland Security. You know those skilled airport security professionals highly trained in the art of patting down wheelchair bound grandmas and creepily fondling their victims’ genitals.

Glass received a call from Homeland Security requesting a brief for Secretary Michael Chertoff. The Bush White House was holding a cabinet level counter bio-terrorism briefing and no idea was too loony to consider. Glass’ briefing suggested that whole segments of society should be shut down based on his daughter’s computer model.

The idea of locking down huge swaths of the nation in the event of a virus outbreak met with considerable push back. But ultimately the Centers for Disease Control made social distancing official policy in February 2007. They call it Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPI) and this is the first time it’s been implemented but will definitely not be the last.

So shutting down the entire nation based on flawed computer models is now official government policy. Robert Glass is now retired and enjoying a generous government pension. He was interviewed for the article by phone while relaxing in his second home in northern Idaho.

Mr. Glass waxed philosophical about the carnage wrought by his and his daughter’s lock down computer model. “Anything new is difficult,” he said. “You have to train people to do this well, without freaking out and calling each other names. . .”

That’s easy to say when you’re pulling down a fat government pension every month. Enjoy a comprehensive health care package, all paid for by the little people freaking out and calling each other names as they struggle to feed their families. Odds are this lockdown is just the beginning of many more power grabs by our increasingly totalitarian overlords – IF we let them.

Contact tracing which is nothing more than constant real time monitoring of citizens every move by government stooges is being implemented right now. Untested, unproven, possibly deadly vaccines are being “warp-speeded” into production. President Trump has assured the nation that he will authorize the military to distribute the vaccine across the land quickly once it becomes available.

Constitutional Lawyer and Jeffrey Epstein guest (who assures us he kept his underwear on during massages on Lolita Island,) Alan Dershowitz, says that the state has full authority to vaccinate any person it deems necessary. This comes from a video interview by Jason Goodman released May 16th on Youtube.

Our inalienable rights of freedom and liberty are under assault by a totalitarian state like never before. The words of Thomas Jefferson come to mind.

When Government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.

Mr. Jefferson also said:

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

The political class has a choice to make. Either honor the oath they all took to uphold the Constitutional rights of the people or face the consequences. I pray they make the right choice for all our sakes.

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References:

Social Distancing born in ABQ teen’s science project, Albuquerque Journal May 2nd, 2020

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza, Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense strategy, Practice and Science. Vol. 4, Number 4 2006

The 2006 Origins Of The “Lockdown” Idea, Jeffrey Tucker via The American Institute for Economic Research May, 18, 2020

from:    http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/may/25/the-science-behind-social-distancing/

Maybe It’s Time to Unmask

Study Finds That Cloth Masks Can Increase Healthcare Workers Risk of Infection

By.   CE Staff Writer

In Brief

  • The Facts:A study published in 2015 found that cloth masks can increase healthcare workers risk of infection. It also called into question the efficacy of medical masks.
  • Reflect On:If masks may not protect healthcare workers in an acute setting, what are they doing for the public? Are the decisions made by health regulatory agencies always in the best interest of the public?

A lot of places are mandating that people wear a mask. Some grocery stores here in Canada are making it mandatory for people who want to do some shopping, and Los Angeles County recently mandated that all people must wear a mask when going outside. But do these measures really help? We are living in strange times when people like Bill Gates are getting a lot of T.V. time, as he seems to be the world’s leading ‘health’ authority on the new coronavirus, what we should do, and how we’re going to stop it. On the other hand, there are several doctors and leading epidemiologists around the world who have been studying viruses for decades that have been censored from social media platforms for sharing their research and opinions. Their interviews are being taken down, and some have even been flagged as ‘fake.’ Ask yourself, what’s wrong with this picture? Many of them are suggesting that the new coronavirus is not nearly as dangerous as it’s being made out to be. There have been multiple studies that have also suggested this based on the data that researchers have accumulated. Mainstream media is trying really hard to shape our perception with regards to everything that surrounds the new coronavirus, from treatment, lockdowns, to social distancing and much more.

We’ve covered a few examples of these experts giving their opinions with regards to how dangerous this virus actually is, what the solution is, treatments and more. If you’re interested you can refer to the articles linked at the bottom of this one. At the end of the day, a lot of what these doctors, scientists and epidemiologists have been saying since the beginning of this outbreak, up until now, has completely contradicted the narrative of federal health regulatory agencies and the World Health Organization (WHO). In fact, social media and other platforms are banning content that opposes and contradicts the WHO, no matter how much evidence is behind the information, or even if the sources are some of the leading experts in the world.

Should there be a digital authoritarian Orwellian ‘fact checker’ going around the internet telling people what is, and what isn’t? Or should people have the right to examine information, check sources and evidence and ultimately decide for themselves?

So the question is, can we really trust these health authorities to guide us into doing what’s really best for us? Is this really about our health or is something else going on here? Are there powerful people profiting off of this both politically and financially? Was Edward Snowden correct when he said that the new coronavirus fiasco is no different from 9/11, in that it’s simply being used to push more authoritarian measures on the population? Just like they remained after 9/11, will they remain after this coronavirus? Why are there apps tracking people for coronavirus, but not for the pedophiles, murderers and rapists? These are important things to think about.

There is a lot of conflicting information out there and again, if you’re interested in going a little deeper you can refer to the articles listed at the end of this one.

But what about masks? Do they really help? How effective are they? According to Dr. Dan Erickson (former emergency-room physician) and Dr. Artin Massihi (emergency medicine specialist affiliated with multiple hospitals) of Accelerated Urgent Care in California, they’re not helping at all.

When you wear gloves that transfer disease everywhere, those gloves have bacteria all over them. “I’m wearing gloves,” not helping you…Your mask that you’re wearing for days, you touch the outside of it, COVID, and then touch your mouth, this doesn’t make any sense. We wear masks in an acute setting to protect us, we’re not wearing masks (right now). Why is that? Because we understand microbiology, we understand immunology and we want strong immune systems. I don’t want to hide in my home, develop a weak immune system, and then come out and get disease. We’ve both been to the ER through swine flu and through bird flu, did we shut down for those? Were they much less dangerous than COVID? Is the flu less dangerous than COVID? Let’s look at the death rates, no it’s not. They’re similar in prevalence and in death rate. (source)

According to a study published in BMJ Open in 2015,

This study is the first RCT of cloth masks, and the results caution against the use of cloth masks. This is an important finding to inform occupational health and safety. Moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks and poor filtration may result in increased risk of infection. Further research is needed to inform the widespread use of cloth masks globally. However, as a precautionary measure, cloth masks should not be recommended for HCWs, particularly in high-risk situations, and guidelines need to be updated.

We have provided the first clinical efficacy data of cloth masks, which suggest HCWs should not use cloth masks as protection against respiratory infection. Cloth masks resulted in significantly higher rates of infection than medical masks, and also performed worse than the control arm. The controls were HCWs who observed standard practice, which involved mask use in the majority, albeit with lower compliance than in the intervention arms. The control HCWs also used medical masks more often than cloth masks. When we analysed all mask-wearers including controls, the higher risk of cloth masks was seen for laboratory-confirmed respiratory viral infection.

According to the study, it was unclear if they help at all, and that they probably need to be worn at all times in acute/dangerous settings within the hospital to be effective at all.

There are also other potential health consequences of wearing not just a cloth mask, but also medical masks. The physiological effects of breathing elevated inhaled CO2 may include changes in visual performance, modified exercise endurance, headaches and dyspnea. The psychological effects include decreased reasoning and alertness, increased irritability, severe dyspnea, headache, dizziness, perspiration, and short-term memory loss. (source)

This study suggests that masks don’t really help, and depending on the material, they can actually make things worse. That being said, there are studies suggesting that medical masks are indeed effective, but the studies are referring to health care workers in acute settings, not the general public.

Below is a quote from a very interesting paper published in 2016, titled “The Surgical Mask Is A Bad Fit For Risk Reduction.”

 As represented by our cinema and other media, Western society expects too much of masks. In the public’s mind, the still-legitimate use of masks for source control has gone off-label; masks are thought to prevent infection. From here, another problem arises: because surgical masks are thought to protect against infection in the community setting, people wearing masks for legitimate purposes (those who have a cough in a hospital, say) form part of the larger misperception and act to reinforce it. Even this proper use of surgical masks is incorporated into a larger improper use in the era of pandemic fear, especially in Asia, where such fear is high. The widespread misconception about the use of surgical masks — that wearing a mask protects against the transmission of virus — is a problem of the kind theorized by German sociologist Ulrich Beck.

The birth of the mask came from the realization that surgical wounds need protection from the droplets released in the breath of surgeons. The technology was applied outside the operating room in an effort to control the spread of infectious epidemics. In the 1919 influenza pandemic, masks were available and were dispensed to populations, but they had no impact on the epidemic curve. At the time, it was unknown that the influenza organism is nanoscopic and can theoretically penetrate the surgical mask barrier. As recently as 2010, the US National Academy of Sciences declared that, in the community setting, “face masks are not designed or certified to protect the wearer from exposure to respiratory hazards.” A number of studies have shown the inefficacy of the surgical mask in household settings to prevent transmission of the influenza virus…

(Please note, to get the list of additional articles, go to the source listed below.)

from:    https://www.collective-evolution.com/2020/05/15/study-cautions-against-use-of-cloth-masks-because-they-can-increase-your-risk-of-infection/

Social Distancing & Entanglement

So, now, the question is turning to what will the new normal look like once the coronavirus lockdown and the dehumanizing media virus ends? Will I be me again? Will you be you? Will we all be human again?

We know things could / will be vastly different. Will they be worse or better?

Two things are certain. Plagues drive change. We have changed. We just haven’t revealed how we have changed… yet. But, now is the time to decide and to choose who we are.

On one present path, we will eat the fruit of a quantum/digital future, which means more global brainwashing about how inessential we are, more techno tyranny, more dehumanizing A.I and a lot more authoritarian politics used to contain, track and transform the ‘dirty’, ‘dangerous’, ‘infected’ human body and turn us into faceless humans in a contactless world. In this new ‘normal’ you will never look at your face and body the same. In fact, in order to survive, you will begin covering it not just with masks, gloves, and other PPE, but merging it with ‘smart’ devices to ‘survive’. This technology will make you an open book. The lockdown will never end. Your liberties will never return. We will be prisoners of our devices.

The The Micrashell” is a proposed protective apparatus designed by LA based Production Club that allows for socializing without the distancing. Image courtesy The Production Club.

Image courtesy The Production Club.

On another path a counter current emerges. We will rise spiritually. We will elevate our consciousness and creativity; our humanness. We will demand freedom, rights and privacy. We will strive for purity of heart and soul, righteousness, and excellence, praising the living eff out of each other for our bravery, kindness and gratitude for sticking together and getting through this. We will exert and exude compassion. We will say thank you to all who have continued to work while we have been at home. We will build resilience by letting everyone know we are here for each other.  In so doing we will unlock the mysterious powers within us the powers that be seek to stamp out.

The Rainbow Light Body is the light within that can illuminate our soul. Made of compassionate acts, it can activate our immune system.

Which will it be?

Anguish or amazement?

Tyranny or freedom?

The choice is up to us.

Now is the time to choose.

THE QUANTUM BEAST’S WAR ON HUMANNESS

No one (save for the planners) could have foreseen that, overnight, an “unseen enemy” would have us forsaking our humanness, forbidding trading hugs, touches, handshakes and other ancient forms of human greeting in exchange for enforced distancing and fear. Yet, here we are, being socially engineered …or brainwashed… into treating each other as “other”, as a “threat”, and an “enemy”, instead of friend and fellow human. We are biologically wired to touch, to socialize and to be together. Now, this is suddenly being rewired?

With eyebrow raising speed this unseen enemy, “that could be inside each of us”, has taken over our world. Humans could scheme 9/11. But this is a whole other level of orchestrated evil.

It’s machine like.

It feels like the work of an alien entity.

Some even believe it is the work of the Beast of the Book of Revelation, a demon that comes from out of the abyss (or the sea) to challenge the righteous before the Second Coming. I know I do. Especially the third Beast that comes out of the earth (Revelation 13:11). This beast is called “the False prophet” (Revelation 16:13). He makes an image of the Beast and forces people to worship it (Revelation 13:11-17).

According to James Lovelock, who coined the term “Gaia hypothesis”, and revived the ancient idea that Earth is a conscious entity, this Beast is A.I., which came out of Gaia as a way to challenge humanity’s decimation of our planet. As I wrote in my article about Lovelock’s theory:

“Can you imagine an artificially intelligent ‘Gaia bot’, a humanoid and sentient, but synthetic, organism with a fake celebrity face, emerging from the collective consciousness of AI and speaking for Gaia? Can you imagine this bot running the world and controlling human behavior in the name of saving the Earth? Can you imagine billions of people lining up to receive a neural implant that will interface them with the Gaia bot or face elimination?

You will.

At least in a scary vision of eco-mystics and AI-mystics where humans merge with machines to ‘save Gaia’.”

Of course, this merging is not theoretical. It is happening right before our eyes. Now, thanks to Covid-19, the Chinese virus, the pace of this merger is accelerating. Lovelock shockingly predicted this merger, or even a take-over or elimination of humanity by robots, two years ago.

If one it is at all interested in ‘saving Gaia’, and humanity, it is time to listen to him.

As I will discuss momentarily, this Beast is the product of the Quantum revolution that began over a hundred years ago and has given us the surveillance society that has far surpassed George Orwell’s worst nightmare.

The coronavirus is just one of the weapons, along with the media, A.I., transhumanism, virtual reality and 5G, that the Beast is using to dehumanize humanity.

It knows that One Greater Than It is on the way. In order to meet this being humanity must rise. The Beast seeks to lock us from attaining our organic ascension potential and herd us into a virtual world run by its algorithms.

The media arm of the Beast is manipulating you into believing that human contact is dangerous. It wants us to accept a paranoid postcoronavirus world that is “touchless,” “contactless” and “faceless”.

Will we allow showing our face in public to invite shame?

Will we allow eye to eye (soul to soul) contact to be considered suspicious?

Will we allow condemnation for talking in public (the virus, they say, is transmitted via spit)?

If we allow it, public skin-to-skin contact will be eliminated. Ironically, human touch stimulates the release of neurochemicals which facilitate human relationships. Touch lowers the body’s levels of the stress hormone, cortisol, thus enhancing immune system functioning. Social distancing intended to keep us healthy will only make us sicker in the end. But that is point.

The Beast knows:

No touch. No humanity.

Know touch. Know humanity.

The no touch business stems from the quantum Beast’s desire to transform humanity into a post-human digital being. We are already seeing a major shift away from your “unhealthy,” “dangerous” biological self to your “healthy” virtual online data self. More and more we’ll be putting on VR glasses and polishing their cartoon avatar bodies.

If we allow it, everything will soon have censors, including our bodies. We will wear them on our bodies at first. Stand too close to me and my buzzer will go off. Eventually, they will go in the skin. They are part of what I term the Skingularity or the meshing of our flesh with A.I. and other transhuman technologies. Skin is the target.

If we allow it, Bill Gates’ Satanic tattoo will let everyone know if I am “safe” or not. You will not be able to hide from this technology.

Mark of the Beast Zuckerberg’s Fakebook will make sure you are ignorant about the latest science, ruthlessly censoring any light from entering the Beast’s dark world.

Apple and Google will track your every movement “to keep you safe.” (They pledge to shut down coronavirus tracing when pandemic ends. And we are supposed to trust them?)

These are just a few of the dystopian effects of the coronavirus that we can see. The ones we can’t see are the ones we need to worry about. I will discuss these momentarily.

The choices we make today will change humanity not just in the next five or ten years, but forever. It is up to us to decide if the Beast wins. If it does it will be cataclysmic for humanity.

The choice begins with deciding if we will we choose to go contactless and faceless or if we choose contact and sharing human emotion?

C IS FOR COMPASSION

On the upside, the pandemic (or plannedemic) has shown us that we, truly, are all one. We have been shown how our fates are linked. The good, bad and ugly are all one family now.

We have also been shown that one person can affect every other being. What one does affects all others.

This is the hidden power.

If instead of spreading fear, the media had spent countless media hours in teaching compassion our world would be greatly empowered.

We must do our part to insure the human future. We must exercise compassion over separation in order to ignite our power.

Compassion boosts everything.

Science says compassion is contagious, too.

Compassion can spread like a virus.

It is time for us to rise and move our compassion and human needles.

With hand on heart or offering the Namaste greeting, it is time to activate our connection between one another and the power of human compassion.

THE QUANTUM FACTOR

Something the coronavirus has shown us is that we are all fundamentally linked in an intricate web of relationships and interconnectedness. Our basic oneness has been demonstrated to us. Look after yourself. Look after us all.

This is a quantum concept.

While we have been forced into house arrest / quarantining / coccooning, some stunning announcements were made in Quantum Land that pertain to the dehumanizing “contactless” New World/Final Frontier to which we are awakening.

These announcements involve the plan to merge our bodies with A.I. (The Skingularity) as part of what’s being called the Second Quantum Revolution, the globally accepted term for the economic/technological/religious revolution being unveiled before our eyes in order to make trillions of dollars.

In actuality, the Second Quantum Revolution is the war of the ages led by the Beast, the “invisible enemy” that is attacking and manipulating humanity, especially the human body.

Unless we comprehend this the events in our world will be a blur. Ignorance will not be a defense.

Here is your guide.

Q LAND

Quantum technologies make use of our ability to detect and manipulate single quantum objects, such as atoms, photons or electrons.

Though we only discovered the atom, and learned to unleash its power a little over one hundred years ago, our primitive understanding of quantum physics has brought us to the stark realization that the quantum realm out of which our reality emerges is shockingly bizarre, even alien. I say alien because the true nature of reality is unknown to the human mind.

Two things we know for sure are:

  1. At the quantum level, light can either be observed as a stream of particles OR as an electromagnetic wave. A particle only becomes a particle and a wave only becomes a wave when someone is looking at it. We cannot observe something without changing what we see. Our mind, our intent, alters the outcome.
  2. At the quantum level, reality does not exist if you are not looking at it. Einstein showed that everything consists of partcles of energy (quanta). Quantum mechanics says there are no ‘things’ out there, only happenings, events and interactions. This means we ‘somethings’ are actually nothing. More, nothing can exist on its own. Each depends on the existence of other particles for its existence. This is the metaphysical law of Christ: “Love thy neighbor as your self”.

Even the greatest minds contemplating quantum mechanics had a hard time accepting the radical view that nothing exists. They have no clue how such a reality works or how it could work.

To be frank, we know jack shit about how this works.

Despite this the first quantum revolution (1905-2005) transformed the world into the highly connected, more and more authoritarian technology-driven ‘smart’ Beast challenged society we see today. In other words, no quantum revolution, no screwed up world. Know quantum. Know screwed up world.

The first quantum revolution brought the nightmare reality unfolding around us. (That is, if we choose to see and participate in this reality.)

Whenever you use your debit card, smart phone, GPS you are using first wave quantum technology. Every technology from the laser, transistor, iphone, internet, Facebook, 5G, the smart grid, AI and the entire virtual Internet of Things, aka the Quantum Brain, and everything else the total surveillance society is desperately trying to merge our bodies with is based on the discoveries of the first quantum revolution.

Now, we are on the verge of a second quantum revolution that will introduce even wilder, and more oppressive, never-before-seen (‘alien’) technological capabilities.

The second quantum revolution is the one we want to watch out for.

Super-technologies such as nanotechnology, quantum computers, quantum information processing, and others will soon shape our daily lives…as we merge our bodies with A.I. and string ourselves up as puppets on the Internet of Things, along with billions upon billions of other things (like your toaster, microwave oven, car).

Second wave quantum technologies will enable you to control those devices by thought alone.

All of this will be possible with quantum computers that can do in 200 seconds what would take 10,000 years using a normal supercomputer.

Computers traditionally use bits to process information. But quantum computing depends on bits that have properties of quantum physics – called qubits.

Traditional computing bits are either “0” or “1,” but qubits can be in both states at the same time, a quantum property called superposition.

Another quantum property, called entanglement, allows for qubits to be quantum mechanically connected to other qubits in the system.

As a result, quantum computers leverage entanglement and superposition to solve previously impossible computational problems.

Dwave Systems is one builder of these machines. Its founder, Geordie Rose, likens them to the altar of an alien God and claims they come from the Nephilim. They will enable scientists do things that seem like a fantasy only a few years ago.

With this technology all our memories, our lives themselves, can be transferred to a quantum brain that dreams simulated realities like we imagine eating ice cream.

Proponents say we could live forever in these simulated realities. Quantum dreamers say these never before imagined worlds will be way better than this one. As quantum beings we would be not just closer to the gods in our capability. We would be gods ourselves.

Leading the way in this second wave of the Quantum revolution is China. The U.S. is on its heels. In fact, the two countries are now locked in an undeclared winner take all Quantum War.

The first true use of quantum computing will most likely not be a commercial use like creating some mindblowing virtual reality ascension experience, but rather a cyber-warfare use by nation-states.

This is what everything presently happening in our world is actually about.

UHURA, OPEN A SUB-SPACE CHANNEL

Quantum mechanics and quantum entanglement challenges our most basic, common-sense assumptions about our lives.

As Marina Alamanou succinctly analyzes in her article “The Application of Quantum Entanglement”:

  1. You know that the moon exists even when you’re not looking at it — that’s realism. But, according to the theoretical physicist, John Wheeler reality is made of information which is created by observation, and that means that the moon exists only when it is observed.

2) Regarding causality (cause and effect), we know and take it for granted that “if you flick a light switch on, the bulb will illuminate”. But quantum entanglement is independent of time and space. In fact in Quantum mechaincs, the distinction between cause and effect is not made at the most fundamental level, so time symmetric systems can be viewed as causal or retro-causal. Retrocausality is a concept where the effect precedes its cause in time. And that means that “if I illuminate a bulb, a flick of light will be switched on”.

3) Moreover, thanks to a hard limit on the speed of light, if you flick a switch on now, the related effect could not occur instantly a million light-years away according to the locality. But in Quantum entanglement information transfer “breaks” the speed of light.

In conclusion, these 3 principles of causality, locality, and realism break down in the quantum realm, with Quantum entanglement being the most famous spooky example.

The bottomline is our world is not anything like we think it is.

Before the first Quantum Revolution we were God’s favored creature. Now, we’re merely data. We are just information, bits and bytes, that can, and should be, cut, copied, pasted, augmented at the whim of scientists.

In other words, the Q revolution brought with it that our biological bodies are just a collection of atoms, molecules and energy in motion. We are just matter. And, nothing personal, we don’t really matter.

This dehumanizing mindset opened the door to our merger wtih A.I., big data, and the Beast.

If you are just information then there is no reason why you can’t be copied and pasted into another matrix or reality. There is also no reason why you wouldn’t take the Mark of the Beast.

In the quantum world matter and energy are interconvertible. Matter exists in various energy states. These energy states are temperature-dependent. The higher the temperature, the greater the energy. For example, water boils when it is heated to higher temperatures. This increases the disorder in the molecules as they are energized.

Think of us entering the higher frequency world. As the frequency rises our bodies will change and reorganize.

In this case, we will be changing from bilogical beings to bio dots or biology blurred with technology to ‘higher frequency’ quantum beings living in a simulated reality.

Our sudden shift to the virtual world, accelerated by the response to the coronavirus, is a first giant leap away from our idenitying with the organic physical world and to identifying with the unseen world of virtual reality.

The next step is for us to drop our physical bodies and live permanently in the simulations dreamed up by the quantum computers.

As I wrote in Echoes in the Garden : A.I., Aliens, Simulation Theory and the Last Footprints of Woke Humanity, we are beginning to realize that the belief that we live in a simulation is also the motivating philosophy of the techno masters running our world…or rather whose out of control A.I. and computers are doing so. This philosophy is the source of the dehumanizing movement sweeping the planet. As Big Tech / A.I. and Global Government merge we will drop our race, gender, nationality and religious identifications and become “earthlings.” Soon, we won’t even be human at all. We will merge with A.I. and become Transhuman, or drop our physical bodies entirely and become post human cartoons living in a simulated reality (seriously!).

One scientist, Nick Bostrom, maintains that we are about to ’stack’ a new simulation on top of the existing one in which we live. Some of us will migrate to this new world.

According to Bostrom’s theory this is the end game of human evolution and the end of the game. That is the Simgularity.

Singularity theorists maintain this will occur sometime between now and 2030.

Audiences used to think I was exaggerting when I said big gov and big data thinks of us not as mushy, spiritual humans, each of whose life has purpose and significant meaning, but as just data or matter to be manipulated for cash.

Enter robotic human clones into which you can copy the contents of your brain.

Enter holographic avatars existing in the new simulated realities created by quantum supercomputers.

Exit real world.

Enter ‘ascended’ digital world.

For a preview of this dark ascension watch this trailer for the sci/fi comedy series Upload.

Also Downsizing.

DO NOT TOUCH ME

As I said, we are being brainwashed into thinking that our bodies are now dangerous to ourselves and to each other. Ewww. Don’t touch me. In fact, don’t come near me.

Coronavirus is synonymous with a “no contact” society. If we allow it, words like “touchless,” “contactless” will be hallmarks of our interactions.  These are quantum words. This shift is a quantum one.

How long this will last? Will our children and grandchildren now be raised to fear human contact and live disconnected from the rest of the world?

From now on or at least until the Beast puts its mark on everyone and we are free to enter normal socieity.

Our shift to contactless communication is a hallmark of the Second Quantum revolution.

Just as the first quantum revolution drove the movement to wash God out of our brains and to think of ourselves as just information the second will drive us apart and will be characterized by interaction without interaction, or contactless contact.

In the old ‘dumb and dirty’ world we used to think that for communication to occur there must be some form of interaction. This would be through direct touch or through some form of carrier, like the telephone or the internet.

Now, with our increased understanding of the quantum realm and of quantum entanglement it seems that particles can be entangled without any contact at all…ever.

Welcome to the clean new “no touch” world.

Which brings us to the aforementioned announcements.

ANNOUNCEMENT ONE

The first announcement involves quantum entanglement. This mysterious phenomenon occurs when two particles become eternally linked, and whatever happens to one simultaneously affects the other, regardless if they are next door, across the galaxy or even in another galaxy billions of light years away.

Here is an example of this.

Clare and I have documented the ancient belief that icons of Christ or the Tibetan guru, Padmasambhava, can transmit their presence to us through a painting. In these traditions images of both avatars transfiguring into light are viewed as sacred mirrors or gateways to the unseen realm.

This is a quantum principle.

When we look at a painting it is brought to life in our imagination. We are entangled with it. The image is now inside us, in our mind.

Simultaneously, say the icon makers, when we engage an icon of the transfiguration we are in Christ at that moment. We and Christ are identical, but not.

Something of the presence of Christ has been transferred to us. As our photons are knotted with Christ’s he can transmit this presence to us through the image and we can enter his space through the image.

Now, imagine Christ transmitting his presence to you without the painting inbetween and you and Christ becoming identical. That is quantum entanglement.

How is this possible? Well, let’s just say the universe is far kookier than we realize.

With our understanding of the quantum realm we big brains have just graduated from knowing jack shit to the basic level of understanding of the universe possessed by the avatars and angels of the world’s sacred traditions. Cosmic kindergarten is over. We are now in first grade.

Instead of Avatars beaming light and love or transferring Christ Consciousness to us, just imagine something like this being possible in terms of mundane data transfer.

What if instead of sending something through the internet, and risking it being hijacked by some government or corporation, you could just drag/drop and it gets there without dragging and dropping. If the sender and receiver are entangled the transfer is instant.

This is what is coming sometime between now and 2030.

It will lead to the creation of new types of computers with god-like processing power and a new version of the internet that will make our lives seem primitive. Our children and grandchildren will look back at us fifty years from now and wonder how it was possible for us to live this backward way.

It’s insane.

Back in December 2019 physicists at the University of Bristol were able to demonstrate quantum teleportation between two computer chips for the first time. Information was transferred between the chips without any contact via quantum entanglement.

I February 2020, Bao, Jian-Wei Pan, and colleagues at the University of Science and Technology of China, Beijing, announced they have demonstrated entanglement over fiber optic links of up to 50 kilometers, as they report this week in Nature.

Also in February scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago revealed that they had achieved a quantum entanglement over a 52-mile (83.7 kilometer) quantum-loop network in the Chicago suburbs.()

Besides taking us into a Star Trek reality — scientists believe that quantum entanglement could have applications in quantum computing, data transmission, and even teleportation or beaming — this feat is an important milestone in the creation of the quantum internet, a global mind infinitely more powerful than the one that is presently controlling us.

July 2019 In an incredible first, scientists have captured the world’s first actual photo of quantum entanglement. The image was captured by physicists at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. This particular photo shows entanglement between two photons – two light particles. They’re interacting and – for a brief moment – sharing physical states. 

Quantum internet developers envision satellites continually broadcasting entangled photons down to earth surface. Two people who want to communicate will share a pair of quantum particles that are entangled. Then, through quantum operations, the sender can send any quantum information to the receiver. This collection of shared entanglement between pairs of people all over the world will constitute the quantum internet.

Woh. Seriously?

They are going to rain entangled particles on us and turn everyone on the planet into one giant brain?

So what they are saying is this is a further evolution of our bodies as repeaters, relays in a network or continuum of an alien consciousness.

ANNOUNCEMENT TWO

On March 26, 2020 Microsoft published a patent for “Cryptocurrency System Using Body Activity Data”, a system designed to harness human energy, including brain waves, for cryptocurrency mining.

That’s right. Microsoft wants to read your mind and reward you when you look at an advertisement or use a certain internet service, the patent explains.  Will it punish you if you don’t?

Instead of massive computation work required by some conventional cryptocurrency systems, data generated based on the body activity of the user can be a proof-of-work, and therefore a user can solve the computationally difficult problem unconsciously,” the patent states.

The mining system would involve hooking up a device, like a smart watch, to various sensors on the body that detect the activity required of the user to generate the cryptocurrency. As we know, the “wearable” plan is short term. The plan is to go inside the body.

Possible sensors used to track the activity include MRI scanners, heat cameras, and heart rate and infrared sensors.

The patent lists 28 different concepts for the way the system could be used to mine cryptocurrency, including tasks like browsing social media, engaging with an artificial intelligence chat bot or visiting a website.

Monitoring “body fluid flow” and “organ activity and movement” are also on the table. Obviously, Microsoft sees huge opportunities is harvesting energy from porn site visitor.

Microsoft Technology Licensing applied for this patent in June 2019 and it was published under the number “WO2020060606A1.”

That’s WO-2020-060606 A1

In a Q world where #WWG1WGA (“where we go one, we go all”), is readily decoded, “WO” (shorthand for World Intellectual Property Organization), 060606 was easily read as patent 666.

666 is, of course, the number of the Beast.

Our bodies will be used to mine bitcoin for the Devil?

No, say Beast supporters. The fact that this patent is numbered 666, the number of the Devil, is just a coincidence.

Everything on earth will be working as one entity. Where goes one, we go all because we are entangled via quantum technology.

Is this what we want?

People say the ancient gods created us as slaves to mine gold. Do we want our descendants to have a mythology that says the Q gods created our bodies to mine cryptocurrency?

The bottom line is the Quantum merger is coming. The non-quantum speaking public is blissfully unaware of the Beast’s potential.

We are being dragged into its world by scientists whose chief aim is to serve the Beast.

Quantum physics says we have a choice in how we view things out here.

It is clearly time for each of us to choose our path.

Check Q for Quantum.

Check C for Compassion.

from:    https://www.williamhenry.net/2020/04/check-q-for-quantum-c-for-compassion-our-choice-for-the-postcoronavirus-world/

The Anti-Social Side of Social DIstancing

What’s lost when we’re too afraid to touch the world around us?

This hasn’t been easy. He loves to squeeze bike racks and graze tree trunks, jostle bushes and knock on picnic tables. He likes to run his fingers against bars around a swimming pool and pet the chickens at the neighborhood coop.

Whenever I bat his hand away or try to distract him from potentially absorbing these dreaded, invisible germs, I wonder: What’s being lost? How can he possibly indulge his curiosity and learn about the world without his sense of touch?

I find myself thinking about Johann Gottfried Herder, an 18th-century German philosopher who published a treatise on the sense of touch in 1778.

“Go into a nursery and see how the young child who is constantly gathering experience reaches out, grasping, lifting, weighing, touching and measuring things,” he wrote. In doing so, the child acquires “the most primary and necessary concepts, such as body, shape, size, space and distance.”

During the European Enlightenment, sight was considered by many to be the most important sense because it could perceive light, and light also symbolized scientific fact and philosophical truth. However, some thinkers, such as Herder and Denis Diderot, questioned sight’s predominance. Herder writes that “sight reveals merely shapes, but touch alone reveals bodies: that everything that has form is known only through the sense of touch and that sight reveals only … surfaces exposed to light.”

To Herder, our knowledge of the world – our relentless curiosity – is fundamentally transmitted and satiated through our skin. Herder argues that blind people are, in fact, privileged; they’re able to explore via touch without distraction and are “able to develop concepts of the properties of bodies that are far more complete than those acquired by the sighted.”

For Herder, touch was the only way to understand the form of things and grasp the shape of bodies. Herder changes René Descartes’ statement “I think, therefore I am” and claims: We touch, therefore we know. We touch, therefore we are.

Herder was onto something. Centuries later, neuroscientists like David Linden have been able to map out the power of touch – the first sense, he notes in his book “Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind,” to develop in utero.

Linden writes that our skin is a social organ that cultivates cooperation, improves health and enhances development. He points to research showing that celebratory hugging among professional basketball players improves team performance, that premature babies are more likely to survive if they’re regularly held by their parents instead of being kept solely in incubators and that children severely deprived of touch end up with more developmental problems.

During this period of social distancing, what sort of void has been created? In our social lives, touches are often subtle and brief – a quick handshake or hug. Yet it seems as though these brief encounters contribute mightily to our emotional well-being.

As a professor, I know it’s been a huge advantage to have digital technology that enables remote learning. But my students are missing out on the little touches, intentional or accidental, from their friends and classmates, whether it’s in the classroom, in dining halls or in their dorms.

Perhaps not surprisingly, touch plays a bigger role in some cultures than in others. Psychologist Sidney Jourard observed the behavior of Puerto Ricans in a San Juan coffee shop and found that they touched one another an average of 180 times per hour. I wonder how they’re handling social distancing. Residents of Gainesville, Florida, are probably having an easier time; Jourard found they only touched twice per hour in a coffee shop.

Social distancing is crucial. But I’m already pining for the day when we can all engage with the world unimpeded, touching without anxiety or hesitation.

We’re more impoverished without it.

from:    https://theconversation.com/whats-lost-when-were-too-afraid-to-touch-the-world-around-us-135910