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This story is making the rounds today, partly because the finding is counterintuitive and partly because it supports the conservative case against capacity restrictions on businesses. If your risk of infection is the same indoors no matter where you are relative to someone else then what’s the point of trying to keep people physically distanced from each other by limiting capacity?
Imagine a sealed room that’s been filled with gas due to a leak. The leak has now stopped, but those gas particles have been dispersing and circulating around the room for hours such that their concentration in any one part of the room is basically the same as it is anywhere else. If you were to walk into the room, you’d be at equal risk of suffocating no matter where you stood.
But now imagine that you walked in and the gas leak was still happening. Doesn’t common sense tell you that you’d inhale more gas and be at greater risk the closer you got to the source of the leak? The gas would be more concentrated in the space around the point of origin and less concentrated further away.
The point of the MIT study, as I understand it, is that COVID particles operate the same way gas does in the first scenario. If there’s a certain amount of aerosolized virus lingering in the air in an indoor space *and* those particles have had sufficient time to disperse around the room, then the concentration at any single point in the room is apt to be the same as it is anywhere else. Whether you’re standing six feet from another person or 60 feet, you’re breathing in the same amount of SARS-CoV-2.
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Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
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Thank you, and God Bless!
JD Rucker