Paris has been known as the “City of Lights” (La Ville–Lumière), referring to its historic reputation as a prime location for innovative thought during the Age of Enlightenment. The city is known worldwide for its great restaurants; its majestic boulevard, Champs-Élysées; the largest and most famous art museum in the world, The Louvre; and the architectural gem, the Eiffel Tower.
Now, Paris is known as the city where you face a €135 fine ($159) for not wearing a mask in public (including motorcyclists and people on scooters) and where a city official clarified, “If someone stops on a bench to eat, drink a coffee or have a cigarette they won’t be fined as long as they put a mask on as soon as they have finished.”
In the famous “City of Lights,” police are increasing surveillance in cafés, restaurants, and bars to enforce the one-meter distance between all tables and mask-wearing for all staff and customers going to and from the bathrooms. Since the new rules went into effect in late August, ten restaurants have been closed down for violations.
TRENDPOST: We note these new French COVID rules to point out how arbitrary and unscientific they are, and how politicians in each country, state, city, and village across the globe make them up and force and fine people to obey them.
The “It’s safe to sit down and eat at a restaurant, inside or out, without a mask on, but when you stand up, you have to put the mask on” rules are blatantly moronic.
The morons that invented the long list of COVID Regulations to abide by are of the same imbecilic bureaucratic class that forced us to hide under our school desks in air-raid drills during the Cold War.
The vast majority obeyed, never questioning the stupidity that if an atom bomb were dropped, how would being under a desk save lives? And, now, the vast majority is not questioning the stupidity that COVID-contaminated air stops blowing at table height when eating but whips up again when standing up.
Or, when sitting inside or outside, tables must be six feet away, since the wind carrying COVID-19 stops at precisely six feet… that is, if you live in America.
In Italy, there is a one meter social distancing rule (3.28 ft), but for Germans (possibly because the people are bigger than Italians?), they have to stand 1.5 meters apart.
Social Distance Nonsense
A report from the British Medical Journal, “Two Meters or One: What is the Evidence for Physical Distancing in COVID-19?” exemplifies how guess work replaces hard science.
Commenting on the study, science journalist Brianna Sleezer writes, “Six feet seems to be the new standard of measurement in our world,” and notes that “scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Oxford argue that the six-foot rule is part of oversimplified, overly rigid, and outdated science.”
The researchers note the current social distancing restrictions imposed by political leaders, which are backed by their health experts and amped up by mainstream media, are based on 100-year-old data.
The medical study concludes, “Given that small droplets can carry pathogens, it is important to consider their movement dynamics when developing social distance guidelines. This is particularly true for SARS-CoV-2 (the virus responsible for COVID-19), which can attach to air particles and remain in the air for up to 16 hours.”
Ms. Sleezer also notes, “Despite the general and persisting belief that six feet is a safe distance in most circumstances, scientific studies continue to prove this belief wrong. In a recent review of 10 studies on droplet emissions, eight of the 10 studies find that respiratory droplets can travel farther than six feet.”
TRENDPOST: These facts are rarely discussed in the mainstream media, and politicians who enforce these unscientific rules are not held accountable for their actions, which have instantly altered life on much of Earth: Fear and Hysteria have replaced Freedom and Joy.
Once again, and we will continue to note, Sweden did not lock down, and their COVID death rate is on average with those which did. Moreover, Nordic countries are not mandating mask wearing, and virus deaths have not increased. Yet, the scaremongering media, politicians, and “public officials” ignore these hard facts.
