Endlessly Minute Divisions Of Matter

Way back in the Stone Age called "the '70s", one of my engineering professors took some time to cover a topic that would today fall under what we call "nanotech". This was a few years before William Gibson wrote Neuromancer. It was the offshoot of a safety discussion where we were warned of the potential dangers of tiny particles floating about in the local air and getting into lungs and other mucous membranes of the body. As engineers, we would likely have to deal with such matters with ever increasing likelihood as time wore on. The man was something of prophetic.

Interestingly, my professor seemed to have been considerably better educated on the dangers than are most doctors today. Note how the feckless stooges who peddle the mask narrative concern themselves with only pulmonary exposure. Nobody appears to be addressing concerns of contact with skin, eyes, inner ears, open wounds, and so forth. Lungs are not the only path to the soul, as it were.

My professor went to some length to discuss the truer nature of the hazard potential posed by what he referred to as "endlessly minute divisions of matter" floating freely about. This, before "nano-" became a commonly misused word of the unwashed mass of first-world humanity. He emphasized that the trends in manufacturing stood to place ever greater emphasis on smaller and smaller particle technologies. This was not immediately obvious to the common man in 1976. But he went to pains to describe the nature of such particles and how they move and why casual protective measures such as masks (vis-a-vis full-face respirators, the two being VERY different instruments) were insufficient to the task of protecting one from these dangers.

So here I am, nearly fifty years later, witnessing a raft of apparent fools peddling bald-faced lies to the world about the virtues of the N95 mask. 

Whether the lies we are told are intentional, or the product of the feckless bumbling of fools makes no difference; the result is the same.

Those who think that even an N95 mask makes a difference sufficient to protection are fooling themselves.  Even space suits are of no matter if the protocols for effective use are not followed.

Given the long and very clear nature of human beings in the context of their political behaviors, there can be no doubt about what is going on here, which is the latest example of a huge power grab by Themme, the costs of which are paid by the rest of us.  Anyone taking all this handwaving as anything but political theater is thinking and behaving in a dangerously foolish manner.  Do yourselves a huge favor and throw off your misplaced confidence in anything that "government" tells you, for in all likelihood they are lies or, far worse, the admixture of lies with truth such that the discerning what what is to be believed becomes vanishingly close to impossible.

Be well, and until next time please accept my best wishes.