In a milliliter drop of surface seawater there are approximately 100M viruses; 3B per ounce of seawater. Viruses make up 70% of the oceanic biomass. We have more viruses in our bodies than cells! Most are about 100 times smaller than bacteria. The average diameter of the COVID-19 virus is 0.125 microns. A cotton mask has space between the fibers of 11 to 22 microns, a wool one is 11.54 microns, a silk one 10 -13 microns. The $12 – $34, one-time-use only industrial HEPA filter face mask is certified to filter out 99.97% of anything larger than 3 microns. Therefore, the covid-19 virus can march through an “average” face mask at 10,000 abreast! Masks are as effective a barrier against viruses and chain linked fences are against mosquitos.
MASKS DON’T OFFER PROTECTION The CDC reported that 70% of those who came down with COVID19 symptoms had been wearing a mask. They don’t make a difference. That’s why Dr. Fauci says that people should not be walking around in masks HERE. In an interview with CBS (60 Minutes on March 8, 20206): “There is no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you are in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better. . . . but it’s not providing the perfect protection people think it is.” U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams told Americans to “STOP BUYING MASKS,” in a tweet released on February 29. “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching coronavirus,” the nation’s top public health official explained. Dr. Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the WHO Health Emergencies Program, said in March, “There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit. In fact, there’s some evidence to suggest the opposite in the misuse of wearing a mask properly or fitting it properly.” Sweden’s top epidemiologist said, “It is very dangerous to believe face masks would change the game when it comes to COVID-19.”
The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) warns that “Cloth face coverings … will not protect the wearer against airborne transmissible infectious agents due to loose fit and lack of seal or inadequate filtration.” World Health Organization announced that masks should only be worn by healthy people if they are taking care of someone infected with COVID-19: “If you do not have any respiratory symptoms such as fever, cough or runny nose, you do not need to wear a mask,” Dr. April Baller, a public health specialist for the WHO, says in a video on the world health body’s website posted in March. “Masks should only be used by health care workers, caretakers or by people who are sick with symptoms of fever and cough.” The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons concluded that “the wide use of masks by healthy people in the community setting is not supported by current evidence and carries uncertainties and critical risks.” – like headaches, respiratory acidosis, dizziness, anxiety, and a decrease in oxygen saturation. Canadian physicist D.G. Rancourt wrote, Masks Don’t Work: A review of science relevant to COVID-19 social policy. “Masks and respirators do not work. There have been extensive randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies, and meta-analysis reviews of RCT studies, which all show that masks and respirators do not work to prevent respiratory influenza-like illnesses, or respiratory illnesses believed to be transmitted by droplets and aerosol particles. Furthermore, the relevant known physics and biology, which I review, are such that masks and respirators should not work. It would be a paradox if masks and respirators worked, given what we know about viral respiratory diseases: The main transmission path is long-residence-time aerosol particles (< 2.5 μm), which are too fine to be blocked, and the minimum-infective-dose is smaller than one aerosol particle.” Put into simple terms: in order for a mask to really be effective that covered both your nose and mouth, you would asphyxiate. The minute the mask allows you to breathe, it can no longer filter the micro-particles that make you sick. BMJ cited: “A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers“, and it bears repeating, since MOST of the masks I see people wearing in the community right now are cloth masks. Not only are these masks 100% ineffective at reducing the spread of COVID-19, but they can actually harm you. As the researchers explain:“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.” In addition, masks dehumanize us, and constantly remind us to be afraid. People can now be spotted wearing masks while camping by themselves in the woods or on a solo sailing trip. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has asked agency employees to wear masks while teleconferencing alone from home! After one press conference ended, Chicago’s mayor and local media were all caught taking off their masks and violating social distancing. (video of a video) PA Gov. Tom Wolf, a strong advocate for mandatory masking, was caught off camera laughing about how wearing masks is an act of “political theater.”
FILTERING ABILITY OF MASKS The fine print on most consumer masks says basically, “not intended for medical purposes and has not been tested to reduce the transmission of disease.” A study of health-care workers in more than 1,600 hospitals showed that cloth masks only filtered out 3 percent of particles. An article in the New England Journal of Medicine stated, “[W]earing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection.” The average diameter of the COVID-19 virus is 0.125 microns. A cotton mask has space between the fibers of 11 to 22 microns, a wool one is 11.54 microns, a silk one 10 -13 microns. The $12 – $34, one-time-use only industrial HEPA filter face mask is certified to filter out 99.97% of anything larger than 3 microns. Therefore, the covid-19 virus can march through an “average” face mask at 10,000 abreast! Masks are as effective a barrier against viruses and chain linked fences are against mosquitos.
MASKS ARE MORE HARMFUL AND DANGEROUS THAN BENEFICIAL
The US Surgeon General Jerome Adams goes on to note that wearing face masks could actually increase a person’s risk of contracting COVID-19, echoing his remarks that called for people to “stop buying masks.” Depleted, “poisoned” air, carrying toxins, and forming bacteria (after only 20 minutes of use) is NOT meant to be trapped, held in, but breathed…. O U T. Little wonder that so many of the reported deaths are related to our respiratory system! A University of New South Wales study dating back to 2015 found, “The widespread use of cloth masks by healthcare workers may actually put them at increased risk of respiratory illness and viral infections and their global use should be discouraged.” While the body is trying to clear the virus, including someone who has received only a small quantity of the virus and is not experiencing symptoms, the mask can hold the virus, recycle it back into the body, suppress the front line immune defenses, sicken the wearer and spread the infection. Re-introducing the virus back into the body while the body is trying to kill it off in as-of-yet small quantities can actually help the virus grow and gain a strong foothold in infecting a human body. World-renowned neurologist Margareta Griesz-Brisson, MD, PhD warns: Masks cause OXYGEN DEPRIVATION and PERMANENT NEUROLOGICAL DAMAGE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DEVELOPING BRAINS OF CHILDRENhttps://www.sott.net/article/442455-German-Neurologist-Warns-Against-Wearing-Facemasks-Oxygen-Deprivation-Causes-Permanent-Neurological-Damage There is no scientific evidence for the efficacy of face masks against airborne virus transmission, but there is scientific evidence for the dangers of wearing face masks. “The re-inhalation of our exhaled air will without a doubt create oxygen deficiency and a flooding of carbon dioxide. We know that the human brain is very sensitive to oxygen deprivation. There are nerve cells for example in the hippocampus that can’t be longer than 3 minutes without oxygen – they cannot survive. The acute warning symptoms are headaches, drowsiness, dizziness, issues in concentration, slowing down of reaction time – reactions of the cognitive system. However, when you have chronic oxygen deprivation, all of those symptoms disappear, because you get used to it. But your efficiency will remain impaired and degeneration due to the under-supply of oxygen in your brain continues to progress, resulting in neurodegenerative diseases which take years to develop. The second problem is that the nerve cells in your brain are unable to divide themselves normally. So, when we can stop wearing masks, the lost nerve cells can no longer be regenerated. What is gone is gone. I do not wear a mask, I need my brain to think. I want to have a clear head when I deal with my patients, and not be in a carbon dioxide-induced anaesthesia. For children and adolescents, masks are an absolute no-no. Children and adolescents have an extremely active and adaptive immune system and they need a constant interaction with the microbiome of the Earth. Their brain is also incredibly active, as it is has so much to learn. The child’s brain, or the youth’s brain, is thirsting for oxygen. The more metabolically active the organ is, the more oxygen it requires. To deprive a child’s or an adolescent’s brain from oxygen, or to restrict it in any way, is not only dangerous to their health, it is absolutely criminal. Oxygen deficiency inhibits the development of the brain, and the damage that has taken place as a result cannot be reversed. When, in ten years, dementia is going to increase exponentially, and the younger generations couldn’t reach their god-given potential, it won’t help to say “we didn’t need the masks”. I know how damaging oxygen deprivation is for the brain, cardiologists know how damaging it is for the heart, pulmonologists know how damaging it is for the lungs. Oxygen deprivation damages every single organ. We are responsible for our health, not the World Health Organisation. Nobody cares more about your health than you should. Several studies found significant problems with wearing a mask: 1) The N95 mask filters out 95% of particles with a median diameter >0.3 µm [Zhu JH et al. Effects of long-duration wearing of N95 respirator and surgical facemask: a pilot study. J Lung Pulm Resp Res 2014:4:97-100]. It therefore impairs respiratory exchange and often causes headaches. In one such study, researchers surveyed 212 healthcare workers (47 males and 165 females). About a third of the workers developed headaches; 60% requiring pain medications. The cause was due to a reduction in blood oxygenation (hypoxia) and/or an elevation in blood C02 (hypercapnia). [Zhu JH et al. Effects of long-duration wearing of N95 respirator and surgical face-mask: a pilot study. J Lung Pulm Resp Res 2014:4:97-100]. Another study involving 159 healthcare workers aged 21 to 35 years of age found that 81% developed headaches which affected their work performance due to wearing a face mask. [Ong JJY et al. Headaches associated with personal protective equipment- A cross-sectional study among frontline healthcare workers during COVID-19. Headache 2020;60(5):864-877]. 2) The N95 mask, if worn for hours, can reduce blood oxygenation as much as 20%, which can lead to a loss of consciousness, as happened to the hapless fellow driving alone in his car wearing an N95 mask which caused him to pass out and to crash. 3) Researchers, using an oximeter, examined the blood oxygen levels in 53 surgeons wearing surgical masks (as opposed to N95 above). They measured blood oxygenation before surgery as well as at the end of surgeries and found that the longer the mask was worn, the lower the blood oxygen levels (pa02). [Bader A et al. Preliminary report on surgical mask induced deoxygenation during major surgery. Neurocirugia 2008;19:12-126]. 4) A drop in oxygen levels increases the level of hypoxia inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) which increases the production of a powerful immune inhibitor cells called Tregs, which inhibit CD4+ T-lymphocytes (the main immune cells used to fight viral infections) making it more likely that the person wearing a mask will get sick. Mask puts us at an increased risk of being infected with COVID with a worse outcome. [Shehade H et al. Cutting edge: Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1 negatively regulates Th1 function. J Immunol 2015;195:1372-1376] & [Westendorf AM et al. Hypoxia enhances immunosuppression by inhibiting CD4+ effector T cell function and promoting Treg activity. Cell Physiol Biochem 2017;41:1271-84] & [Sceneay J et al. Hypoxia-driven immunosuppression contributes to the pre-metastatic niche. Oncoimmunology 2013;2:1 e22355]. 5) People with spreading cancer will be at a further risk from prolonged hypoxia as cancer grows best in low oxygen. Hypoxia also promotes inflammation which causes the growth, invasion and spread of cancers. [Blaylock RL. Immunoexcitatory mechanisms in glioma proliferation, invasion and occasional metastasis. Surg Neurol Inter 2013;4:15] & [Aggarwal BB. Nucler factor-kappaB: The enemy within. Cancer Cell 2004;6:203-208]. 6) The elderly and others with poor lung function or lung diseases like cancer, COPD, emphysema and pulmonary fibrosis are obviously impacted if they can’t get enough air without straining due to emphysema, wheezing, and asthma. 7) Repeated episodes of hypoxia are also a significant factor in atherosclerosis which increases all cardiovascular (heart attacks) and cerebrovascular (strokes) diseases. [Savransky V et al. Chronic intermittent hypoxia induces atherosclerosis. Am J Resp Crit Care Med 2007;175:1290-1297]. 8) Anyone who has worn a mask for any extended period of time knows they quickly become moist and slimy, which is the ideal breeding ground for bacteria and viruses. Pathogens trapped in the mask have ideal conditions to grow exposing the wearer to an increased risk unless the mask is disposed of after every use or chemically disinfected. One study looked at 1607 medical care workers and found that cloth masks lead to higher respiratory infection rates. “The rate of influenza-like illness is statistically significantly higher” with cloth masks they concluded. Disturbingly, COVID-19 is an influenza-like virus which attacks the respiratory system, so it’s possible cloth mask wearers may have a higher rate of contracting COVID-19. They speculate that, “Moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks and poor filtration may result in increased risk of infection.” 9) When a person is infected with a respiratory virus, they will expel some of the virus with each breath. If they are wearing a mask, they will be constantly rebreathing the viruses, raising the concentration of the virus in the lungs and the nasal passages until it backs up into the brain [Baig AM et al. Evidence of the COVID-19 virus targeting the CNS: Tissue distribution, host-virus interaction, and proposed neurotropic mechanisms. ACS Chem Neurosci 2020;11:7:995-998] & [Perlman S et al. Spread of a neurotropic murine coronavirus into the CNS via the trigeminal and olfactory nerves. Virology 1989;170:556-560]. You don’t want your brain infected! Dr. Jim Meehan, MD 12 [cloth] “Medical masks are single use devices designed to be worn for a relatively short period of time. Once the mask becomes saturated with moisture from breath, which, if properly fit, takes about an hour, they should be replaced. The more moisture-saturated the mask becomes, the more it blocks oxygen, increases re-breathing of carbon dioxide, re-breathing of viral particles, and becomes a breeding ground for other pathogens.” (12 https://www.meehanmd.com/blog/2020-06-12-healthy-people-should-not-wear-facemasks/). Dr. Meehan further explains, “Mask wearers frequently report symptoms of difficulty breathing, shortness of breath, headache, lightheadedness, dizziness, anxiety, brain fog, difficulty concentrating, and other subjective symptoms while wearing medical masks. As a surgeon, I have worn masks for prolonged periods of time in thousands of surgeries and can assure you these symptoms do occur when surgical masks are worn for extended periods of time. The longer a surgical mask is worn, the more saturated with moisture it becomes, and the more significantly it inhibits the inflow of oxygen and outflow of carbon dioxide. In fact, clinical research shows that medical masks lower blood oxygen levels and raise carbon dioxide blood levels. The deviations in oxygen and carbon dioxide may not reach the clinical criteria for hypoxia (low blood oxygen), hypoxemia (low tissue oxygen), or hypercapnia (elevated blood carbon dioxide), but they can deviate enough to cause even healthy individuals to become symptomatic, as occurred with the surgeons studied and published in this report: See: Preliminary Report on Surgical Mask Induced Deoxygenation During Major Surgery 13 At the same time masks inhibit oxygen intake, they trap the carbon dioxide rich breath in the mouth/mask inter-space. Thus, a fraction of carbon dioxide previously exhaled is inhaled at each respiratory cycle. Masks force you to re-breathe a portion of your own breath, including all the stuff (infectious viral particles) the lungs were trying to remove from the body (more on this later). As medical masks lower oxygen and raise carbon dioxide in the blood, the brain senses the changes and the risk they pose to the maintenance of normal physiology. Thus, the brain goes to work to bring things back in order. To obtain more oxygen and remove more carbon dioxide, the brain tells the lungs to increase the rate (frequency) and depth of breaths. Unfortunately, struggle as they may, your brain and lungs cannot fully compensate for the negative effects of the mask. Some may even suffer the symptoms of carbon dioxide toxicity. “Hypercapnia, also known as hypercarbia and CO2 retention, is a condition of abnormally elevated carbon dioxide levels in the blood. Carbon dioxide is a gaseous product of the body’s metabolism and is normally expelled through the lungs. Hypercapnia has been associated with excessive wearing of face masks. Continuous mask wearing can cause hypercapnia (too much carbon dioxide enters the blood leading fatigue, headaches, seizures and coma).” There are hundreds of thousands of people who are having adverse effects from wearing the masks ranging from psychological issues (anxiety, PTSD, claustrophobia), to physical issues (asthma, hypercapnia, respiratory issues, etc). According to the CDC, wearing masks for long periods of time can cause headaches. In one study, researchers surveyed 212 healthcare workers (47 males and 165 females) asking about headaches with using the N95 mask, duration of the headaches, type of headaches and if the person had preexisting headaches. One third of the workers developed headaches with use of the mask, more had preexisting headaches that worsened by the mask wearing, and 60% required pain medications for relief. While straps and mask pressure could be causative, the bulk of the evidence points toward hypoxia and/or hypercapnia as the cause. A more recent study involving 159 healthcare workers aged 21 to 35 years of age found that 81% developed headaches from wearing a face mask. Some had pre-existing headaches that were precipitated by the masks. All felt like the headaches affected their work performance. Several studies have found significant problems with wearing such a mask. This can vary from headaches, to increased airway resistance, carbon dioxide accumulation, to hypoxia, all the way to serious life-threatening complications. ”While most agree that the N95 mask can cause significant hypoxia and hypercapnia, another study of surgical masks found significant reductions in blood oxygen as well. In this study, researchers examined the blood oxygen levels in 53 surgeons using an oximeter. They measured blood oxygenation before surgery as well as at the end of surgeries. The researchers found that the mask reduced the blood oxygen levels (pa02) significantly. The longer the duration of wearing the mask, the greater the fall in blood oxygen levels.” A 26 year old Chinese jogger running regularly with his mask burst his lung after running 2.5 miles through Wuhan. Tests showed that his left lung had already shrunk by around 90% and his heart also moved to the right section of his body. Medical professionals believe the life-threatening condition may have been caused by his wearing of a mask while jogging. He began running about two weeks ago, gradually increasing the distance covered with each run. Two boys, age 14, with no health issues died after jogging within two weeks of one another while wearing mandatory face masks. Mr. Li, the father of one of the boys, blamed his son’s untimely April 24 death on the mask. “He was wearing a mask while lapping the running track, then he suddenly fell backwards and hit his head on the ground.” A driver in New Jersey was hurt when he blacked out and crashed into a power pole. Police reported, “The crash is believed to have resulted from the driver wearing an N95 mask for several hours and subsequently passing out behind the wheel due to insufficient oxygen intake/excessive carbon dioxide intake.” Elderly individuals and others with poor lung function may pass out, hit their head, and die. Mask-wearing weakens the immune system. “My daughter is 19 yrs old, healthy and a frontline worker at a huge grocery store chain. She started feeling sick about two weeks ago: chest, side and back pain, plus nausea, X-rays “lit up” her right side. An MRI, CAT scan, and ultrasound of back and abdomen areas found nothing. Back at work, she was unable to breathe efficiently. She was rushed to ER and quarantined and tested for COVID. She’s negative; its pleurisy (an inflection of the outside of the lining of the lungs). The doctors told her it’s because she’s been wearing a mask for over 8 hours a day, 5-6 days a week. Breathing in her own bacteria caused an infection. She has to be off work with no pay, taking antibiotics, steroids and breathing treatments.” Dr. Russell Blaylock: Face Masks Pose Serious Risks To The Healthy “By wearing a mask, the exhaled viruses will not be able to escape and will concentrate in the nasal passages, enter the olfactory nerves and travel into the brain. . . . “The importance of these findings is that a drop in oxygen levels (hypoxia) is associated with an impairment in immunity. Studies have shown that hypoxia can inhibit the type of main immune cells used to fight viral infections called the CD4+ T-lymphocyte. This occurs because the hypoxia increases the level of a compound called hypoxia inducible factor-1 (HIF-1), which inhibits T-lymphocytes and stimulates a powerful immune inhibitor cell called the Tregs. . This sets the stage for contracting any infection, including COVID-19 and making the consequences of that infection much graver. In essence, your mask may very well put you at an increased risk of infections and if so, having a much worse outcome.” Scientifically speaking, during hypercapnia or hypoxia, cortisol levels go up, suppressing the immune system. Breathing in and out with more effort than if not wearing a mask sends the viruses on their way with more gusto with every exhale, and then sucks any remaining COVID-19 back into our mouths with every inhale. So, not only do these masks not protect people, they would need to be sterilized on a regular basis as bacteria and virus accumulate. The N95 mask, if worn for hours, can reduce blood oxygenation as much as 20%. Studies have also shown that a drop in oxygen levels impairs one’s immunity (CD4+ T-lymphocyte) because hypoxia increases the level of HIF-1 which stimulates a powerful immune inhibitor cell called the Tregs. . This sets the stage for contracting any infection, including COVID-19 and making the consequences of that infection much graver. In essence, your mask may very well put you at an increased risk of infections with a much worse ‘cytokine storm’ and deadly outcome resulting from constantly rebreathing the viruses and raising the concentration of the virus in the lungs and the nasal passages. Stress sheds viruses from within our own cells making us more susceptible. Cancer grows best in a microenvironment that is low in oxygen which promotes inflammation and the spread of cancers. Hypoxia appears to be a significant factor in atherosclerosis resulting in heart attacks and strokes. More alarming is the evidence that by wearing a mask, the exhaled viruses will not be able to escape as easily. If concentrate in the nasal passages, it can enter the olfactory nerves and travel into the brain! Increases the inhalation of concentrated toxins back into the lungs inducing infections. Masks can hamper our immune system by creating stress and releasing cortisol. They increase the viral risks and infections by triggering dormant retro viruses. Moisture vapor retention in lungs associated with pneumonia, bronchitis, viral and bacterial infections, asthma, etc. If the lungs cannot take in dry air and expel humid air, then serious congestion. Those wearing masks are five times more likely to touch their faces daily resulting in contamination, even if wearing gloves. More effort to breathe means additional respiratory distress especially for the tired, elderly, sick, or immunity compromised.
TRUST THE SCIENCE When a person has TB we have them wear a mask, not the entire community of non-infected. The recommendations by the CDC and the WHO that healthy people wear masks are not based on any studies of this virus and have never been used to contain any other virus pandemic or epidemic in history. A recent, careful examination of 17 of the best research reports concluded that, “None of the studies established a conclusive relationship between mask/respirator use and protection against influenza infection.” [bin-Reza F et al. The use of mask and respirators to prevent transmission of influenza: A systematic review of the scientific evidence. Resp Viruses 2012;6(4):257-67]. The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University summarized six international studies which “showed that masks alone have no significant effect in interrupting the spread of ILI or influenza in the general population, nor in healthcare workers.” Oxford went on to say that “that despite two decades of pandemic preparedness, there is considerable uncertainty as to the value of wearing masks.” A study on the efficacy of masks published by the Annals of Internal Medicine concluded that, “both surgical and cotton masks seem to be ineffective in preventing the dissemination of SARS–CoV-2 from the coughs of patients with COVID-19 to the environment and external mask surface.” An analysis of the 17 best studies concluded that, “ None of the studies established a conclusive relationship between mask/respirator use and protection against influenza infection.” – and this includes the N95 mask. Just before the COVID-19 madness, researchers in Hong Kong published, “Nonpharmaceutical Measures for Pandemic Influenza in Nonhealthcare Settings—Personal Protective and Environmental Measures.” It is on the CDC’s own website, and directly contradicts recent advice from the CDC about wearing a mask. The study states: “In our systematic review, we identified 10 RCTs that reported estimates of the effectiveness of face masks in reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infections in the community from literature published during 1946–July 27, 2018….In pooled analysis, we found no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks…Our systematic review found no significant effect of face masks on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.” This study was a meta-analysis, which covered 72 years! This is as comprehensive as science gets, and their conclusion was that masks for the general population show no evidence of working to either slow the spread of respiratory viruses or protect people. “Why Face Masks Don’t Work: A Revealing Review”, to wake up dentists. “The science regarding the aerosol transmission of infectious diseases has, for years, been based on what is now appreciated to be very outmoded research and an overly simplistic interpretation of the data. Modern studies are employing sensitive instruments and interpretative techniques to better understand the size and distribution of potentially infectious aerosol particles…The primary reason for mandating the wearing of face masks is to protect dental personnel from airborne pathogens. This review has established that face masks are incapable of providing such a level of protection…It should be concluded from these and similar studies that the filter material of face masks does not retain or filter out viruses or other submicron particles.” In a ResearchGate article, Masks Don’t Work: A review of science relevant to COVID-19 social policy, Canadian physicist D.G. Rancourt confirms, “Masks and respirators do not work. There have been extensive randomized controlled trial studies, and meta-analysis reviews of (them) which all show that masks and respirators do not work to prevent respiratory influenza-like illnesses, or respiratory illnesses believed to be transmitted by droplets and aerosol particles… The main transmission path is long-residence-time aerosol particles (< 2.5 μm), which are too fine to be blocked, and the minimum-infective-dose is smaller than one aerosol particle.” BMJ cited: “A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers” pertaining to cloth masks. Not only are these masks 100% ineffective at reducing the spread of COVID-19, but they are actually harmful. “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.” Scientists looked at oxygen levels of surgeons wearing masks while performing surgery: “Our study revealed a decrease in the oxygen saturation of arterial pulsations (SpO2) and a slight increase in pulse rates compared to preoperative values in all surgeon groups.” In this article in the New England Journal of Medicine, written by several doctors and public health officials with the title, “Universal Masking in Hospitals in the Covid-19 Era,” they report, “We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is minimal.”
DON’T TRUST THOSE WHO STAND WHO WILL BENEFIT FINANCIALLY The editors of medical journals described Big Pharma as a “criminal” enterprise that’s pushing junk science while rigging studies with altered data; they know the game is rigged, the data are faked, and the medical journals are nothing more than Big Pharma puppets that parrot junk science to push high-profit prescription drugs and vaccines. Richard Horton, the Editor-In-Chief of The Lancet, says: “Now we are not going to be able to, basically, if this continues, publish any more clinical research data because the pharmaceutical companies are so financially powerful today, and are able to use such methodologies, as to have us accept papers which are apparently methodologically perfect, but which, in reality, manage to conclude what they want them to conclude.” Big Pharma can rig any data necessary to achieve publication of junk science in the journals. Retraction Watch has documented over 1,500 studies for falsification of data. Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, notes: “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.” Before being fired for blowing the whistle, former officials, in what we speak of as the “regulatory” agencies, confirmed Dr. Angell’s conclusion. These officials included Dr. William Thompson, formerly the No. 4 man at the CDC, who noted that the CDC is, in effect, it effects, a subsidiary of “Big Pharma,” which, in its own words, is in the business to “make a killing,” as opposed to “a living.” Finally, Dr. Richard Horton, Editor-in-chief of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, noted (for those who have never considered such facts) that Big Science is controlled by Big Business, the Almighty Buck, and has “taken a turn towards darkness.” The same “Big Pharma” that has paid their lawyers, lobbyists, and legislators billions of dollars to ensure that they are ENTIRELY IMMUNE from the deaths and dire “adverse reactions” of their vaccines. Adding insult to injury, does anyone imagine that the heads of those companies and their families have, or will, take a single one of their vaccines?
CUT DOWN ON THE POLLUTION OceanAsia, a Hong Kong-based marine conservation group, declared that “from a global production projection of 52 billion masks for 2020, we estimate that 1.56 billion masks will enter our oceans in 2020, amounting to between 4,680 and 6,240 metric tonnes of plastic pollution. These masks will take as long as 450 years to break down and all the while serve as a source of micro plastic and negatively impact marine wildlife and ecosystems.”
++++++++++The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:Section 2. Neither the Governor, nor any branch of government created by this Constitution, shall have, nor be granted, nor be construed to possess, any authority to “declare an emergency,” nor impose “martial law,” nor otherwise limit the ability of the People to pursue their lives, vocations, happiness, or liberties.
Section 3. No “executive order” or other such decree of the Governor of this State shall extend beyond the scope of those agencies of this State for which the said Governor retains authority over their operations, and never shall any such order have power or force of law over the People at large.++++++++++++State Situation Begin Date New Cases Duration Improvement?CA New cases 6/18/20 4,317 6 mos. Dec. 26: 50,141 Hospitalizations 6/18/20 4,587 6 mos. Dec. 29: 21,433NJ New cases 7/8/20 252 5 mos. Dec. 30: 4,718 Hospitalizations 7/8/20 935 5 mos. Dec. 29: 3,765 OH New cases 7/23/20 1,444 5 mos. Dec. 30: 8,178 Hospitalizations 7/23/20 1,105 5 mos. Dec. 30: 4,409CO New cases 7/17/20 592 5 mos. Dec. 30: 2,568 Hospitalizations7/17/20 5 mos. Dec. 29: 1,188 Conclusion: The mandates to wear masks has increased new cases and hospitalizations, or make no difference at all.
Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers A Randomized Controlled TrialHenning Bundgaard, DMSc, Johan Skov Bundgaard, BSc,Results:A total of 3030 participants were randomly assigned to the recommendation to wear masks, and 2994 were assigned to control; 4862 completed the study. Infection with SARS-CoV-2 occurred in 42 participants recommended masks (1.8%) and 53 control participants (2.1%). The between-group difference was −0.3 percentage point (95% CI, −1.2 to 0.4 percentage point; P = 0.38) (odds ratio, 0.82 [CI, 0.54 to 1.23]; P = 0.33). Multiple imputation accounting for loss to follow-up yielded similar results. Although the difference observed was not statistically significant, the 95% CIs are compatible with a 46% reduction to a 23% increase in infection.Conclusion:The recommendation to wear surgical masks to supplement other public health measures did not reduce the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate among wearers by more than 50% in a community with modest infection rates, some degree of social distancing, and uncommon general mask use. The data were compatible with lesser degrees of self-protection.++++++++++++++These 12 Graphs Show Mask Mandates Do Nothing To Stop COVIDNo matter how strictly mask laws are enforced nor the level of mask compliance the population follows, cases all fall and rise around the same time. By Yinon Weiss OCTOBER 29, 2020 Condensed by Nat
There are many other credible studies showing lack of mask efficacy, such as studies published in the National Center for Biotechnology Information, Cambridge University Press, Oxford Clinical Infectious Diseases, and Influenza Journal, just to name a few.Studies do show masks can help in the case of direct respiratory droplets, which would matter if somebody is coughing, breathing, or sneezing directly on your face. That happens normally in a tight and highly confined space. But the plentiful evidence we have indicates masks would not meaningfully help with aerosol transmission, where two people are just in the same area, or even the same room. This is because the two people end up breathing the same air, with or without a mask, as visually demonstrated in this video. Austria was one of the first governments to require masks, and it did so about 10 days after its cases began to go down. The level of downtrend did not change or improve after masks were required. After the nation’s people wearing masks for an extended period, cases are currently four times where they were when Austria mandated masks, and cases continue to climb.
Germany mandated masks about halfway down its original recovery. Their cases are now similarly climbing quickly.
The French now have around 1,000% more daily cases they had when they mandated masks, despite having one of the highest mask compliance levels in the world.
Spain required masks when cases were near zero and has the highest compliance with mask-wearing in all Europe. Now Spain is at around 1,500% the level of cases compared to when it mandated masks.
After three months of requiring masks, the United Kingdom is at around 1,500% more cases despite having one of the highest mask compliance records in Europe.
Belgium required masks shortly after the British did, and now possibly has the highest rate of cases in the world.
Italy had extremely high levels of mask-wearing despite no national mandate. Recently skyrocketing cases finally compelled them to create one of the strictest mask laws in the world, but the results have predictably failed to slow the rise in coronavirus cases. In fact, cases skyrocketed immediately after the mask mandate went into effect.
Similar results have been found in Ireland, Portugal, Israel, and many other countries. No matter how strictly mask laws are enforced nor the level of mask compliance the population follows, cases all fall and rise around the same time.
How about the United States? Americans have proven to be highly compliant with mask wearing, even higher than the Germans.
It is therefore no surprise that the same trends found in Europe are also found in U.S. states. For example, California required masks in June but cases still went up by more than 300 percent and the state remains heavily locked down four months later with still higher cases.
Hawaii suffered one of the most economically devastating lockdowns of all the U.S. states. It was also an early mover on mandating masks both indoors and outdoors, but cases still went up by almost 1,000 percent.
With and without mask mandates, Texas and Georgia followed nearly identical case development.
For those more interested in comparing deaths than cases, we again don’t see a pattern of masks meaningfully helping.
The fine print on most consumer masks says basically, “not intended for medical purposes and has not been tested to reduce the transmission of disease.” Masks have a better chance of working better when they’re fully sealed, properly fitted, changed often, and have a filter designed for virus-sized particles. If it mattered, the Food and Drug Administration and CDC would be making recommendations on which masks to use and approving masks based on their scientific efficacy rather than promoting the wrapping of any piece of miscellaneous cloth around your face. Our universal use of unscientific face coverings is therefore closer to medieval superstition than it is to science, but many powerful institutions have too much political capital invested in the mask narrative at this point, so the dogma is perpetuated. Sweden and Georgia never required masks in the first place, providing data from the world’s only randomized trial investigating if masks actually protect from COVID-19. ++++++++++CDC report shows 85% of symptomatic people ‘often’ or ‘always’ wore masksA CDC report titled, “Community and Close Contact Exposures Associated with COVID-19 Among Symptomatic Adults ≥18 Years in 11 Outpatient Health Care Facilities,” which was conducted between July 1-29 and based on data from 11 healthcare facilities.108 people said they “always” wore face masks 14 days before the onset of the coronavirus. The same graph revealed that six people who “never” wore masks showed symptoms of the virus, 11 people who “sometimes” wore masks showed symptoms, and 22 who “often” wore masks showed symptoms.
“So the CDC just reported that 70% of those who came down with #COvId19 symptoms had been wearing a mask. We know the masks don’t protect you… but at some point you have to wonder if they are PART of the problem,” Hart tweeted.Biggs has previously been critical of Dr. Anthony Fauci and the White House coronavirus task force, calling for it to be disbanded in July.“As our economy is restored, it is imperative that President Trump is not undermined in his mission to return our economy to greatness. Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx continue to contradict many of President Trump’s stated goals and actions for returning to normalcy as we know more about the COVID-19 outbreak. This is causing panic that compromises our economic recovery. We can protect our most vulnerable from the COVID-19 outbreak while still protecting lives and livelihoods of the rest of the population. It’s time for the COVID-19 task force to be disbanded so that President Trump’s message is not mitigated or distorted,” he wrote. At the end of September, Biggs called on Fauci to “stay in your lane” regarding Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reopening his state.“Fauci, an unelected federal bureaucrat, is opining on the science-based, common sense actions from @GovRonDeSantis, Florida’s duly elected top executive,” he tweeted. “Stay in your lane, Fauci. Governor DeSantis didn’t ask for your opinion, nor is it welcome.” The Arizona Republican also tweeted Sunday of the need to send students back to in-person classes because they are not at high risk of contracting the virus. “The science and data have been clear from the start of the COVID-19 outbreak: young people are much less at risk than older populations to suffer greatly from this virus,” he tweeted, accompanied by a link to an Atlantic piece titled, “Schools Aren’t Super-Spreaders…And yet, government and health officials across the nation, including many in Arizona, have disregarded the science and data in keeping our schools closed to in-person instruction,” he continued. “Why are we still playing politics with our children’s futures?”++++++++++++A study by the CDC examining adults infected with COVID-19 concluded the vast majority wore face masks or coverings frequently in the weeks leading up to becoming ill.“In the 14 days before illness onset, 71% of case-patients and 74% of control participants reported always using cloth face coverings or other mask types when in public,” the report states.
14% of those surveyed said they wore face coverings “often,” which means 85% of case-patients regularly donned masks. On the other side of the mask-wearing spectrum, only 4% said they “rarely” or “never” wore them. The study, published in September, confirms many reports released over the past few months showing wearing a face mask is ineffective at preventing COVID-19 infection and could even increase one’s chances of contracting the illness. U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams told Americans to “STOP BUYING MASKS,” in a tweet released on February 29. “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching coronavirus,” the nation’s top public health official explained.
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Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!
They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk! http://bit.ly/37Ay6Cm6:08 AM · Feb 29, 2020
In March, the CDC said only those who were showing symptoms or who were taking care of someone who was sick should wear face masks.The federal agency reversed this recommendation in April and suggested Americans wear face coverings in public settings.
WHO reversed their anti-mask stance in June, telling people the decision was made “in light of evolving evidence.”
The Surgeon General reversed this stance in July, saying, “Together we can turn this thing around in just two to three weeks if everyone does their part. More studies [are] coming out showing the effectiveness of face coverings.”
In late July, a German research team concluded prolonged mask-wearingleads to “higher levels of discomfort and a decreased capacity to exercise.” “Medical face masks have a marked negative impact on cardiopulmonary capacity that significantly impairs strenuous physical and occupational activities,” the researchers learned. “In addition, medical masks significantly impair the quality of life of their wearer. These effects have to be considered versus the potential protective effects of face masks on viral transmissions.”
Despite all of this, mandatory mask orders remain in effect throughout the world.Combine this information with the fact that 90% of COVID-infected individuals are not contagious enough to transmit the illness and that 94% of those who died from the virus had 2-3 comorbidities and you’ll likely conclude it’s time to return to normal.
+++++++++++++OCTOBER 12, 2020 By Jordan DavidsonA Centers for Disease Control report released in September shows that masks and face coverings are not effective in preventing the spread of COVID-19, even for those people who consistently wear them.A study conducted in the United States in July found that when they compared 154 “case-patients,” who tested positive for COVID-19, to a control group of 160 participants from the same health care facility who were symptomatic but tested negative, over 70 percent of the case-patients were contaminated with the virus and fell ill despite “always” wearing a mask.“In the 14 days before illness onset, 71% of case-patients and 74% of control participants reported always using cloth face coverings or other mask types when in public,” the report stated.<img class=”size-full wp-image-229997″ src=”https://thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-12-at-10.09.31-AM.png” alt=”” width=”850″ height=”407″ data-portal-copyright=”The Federalist” />In addition, over 14 percent of the case-patients said they “often” wore a face covering and were still infected with the virus. The study also demonstrates that under 4 percent of the case-patients became sick with the virus even though they “never” wore a mask or face covering.Despite over 70 percent of the case-patient participants’ efforts to follow CDC recommendations by committing to always wearing face coverings at “gatherings with ≤10 or >10 persons in a home; shopping; dining at a restaurant; going to an office setting, salon, gym, bar/coffee shop, or church/religious gathering; or using public transportation,” they still contracted the virus.While the study notes that some of these people may have contracted the virus from the few moments that they removed their mask to eat or drink at “places that offer on-site eating or drinking,” the CDC concedes that there is no successful way to evaluate if that was the exact moment someone became exposed and contracted the virus.“Characterization of community exposures can be difficult to assess when widespread transmission is occurring, especially from asymptomatic persons within inherently interconnected communities,” the report states.In fact, the report suggests that “direction, ventilation, and intensity of airflow might affect virus transmission, even if social distancing measures and mask use are implemented according to current guidance.”Despite this new scientific information, the CDC, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci, and many political authorities are still encouraging people to wear masks. Many states and cities have even mandated masks, citing them as one of the main tools to “slow the spread” of coronavirus and keep case numbers in their area down.++++++++++
+++++++Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order requiring all nonprofessional sports players to wear masks. Athletes (age 5 or older), except for swimmers, must wear masks while “training for, practicing for, or competing in an organized sport” if they cannot “consistently maintain 6 feet of distance.” Yet experts, say that people exercising should not wear masks because sweat can clog the mask fibers and make breathing difficult as well as “promote the growth of microorganisms.” Her previous order said masks do not have to be worn during exercise “when wearing a face covering would interfere with the activity.”
2. A WestJet flight was canceled because a 19-month-old would not keep her mask on, despite the fact that infants and toddlers simply aren’t spreading the virus. The father, Safwan Choudhry, called it “horrific and dehumanizing treatment.” Transport Canada’s official guidance for travelers says explicitly, “The following people should not wear a mask … children under 2 years old.” 3. Natural Resources Secretary Preston Cole said in a July 31 email that in order to set a “safety example” showing that employees “care about the safety and health of others,” they should wear a mask while participating in virtual meetings “that involve being seen.” The medical director of infection control at UW Health, Nasia Safdar countered that beyond protecting oneself from somebody else in the house with COVID-19, “there’s no reason to routinely wear a mask in your home if the risk isn’t there.” Pseudo-scientific fanaticism results in an obsession to force compliance, not save lives. Last April, a father was arrested for playing softball with his family in an open field in compliance with state orders. In July, a woman was berated by a fanatical old lady at the superstore for not masking her children, who are a risk approaching zero for spreading the virus.++++++++++++ In Colorado, state House Rep. Pat Neville has challenged Polis’ 166 COVID-19 executive orders, as well as multiple public health orders issued by state and county health departments. Polis unilaterally extended the mask mandate by another 30 days. It was filed in the Denver District Court. No more kings!Attorney Randy Corporon laid down the law: “The Colorado Constitution expressly prohibits the delegation by the legislature of lawmaking authority to the governor. While courts have made limited exceptions for emergency situations, we are now six months into this ’emergency’ with a governor who, on his own, extends his superpowers every 30 days. Enough is enough.” Parents in Tennessee are suing to free their children from unlawful and unhealthy mask mandates unsupported by science. Minnesotans have filed multiple lawsuits against Gov. Tim Walz. “It’s not the place of government to impose those requirements on us when there is no lawful authority to do so,” Doug Seaton, Upper Midwest Law Center President and attorney, argues. “That’s something that is against our self-governing principles that we’ve had in the state of Minnesota since we were a part of the northwest territory. We can’t have our governor override the separation of powers and the limited government we have and trample on rights, whatever good the intentions might be.” In Boise, Idaho, this weekend, citizens held an anti-mask rally at the local Veterans Memorial park. Organizer Jeff Buck spoke for all of us: “We feel like we are being held hostage and we need to stand up for our rights or the government will take them away.”Masks off. Fight on. This is the American way.++++++++++Just today, the Researchers in Hong Kong submitted a study for publication with the mouthful of a title, “Nonpharmaceutical Measures for Pandemic Influenza in Nonhealthcare Settings—Personal Protective and Environmental Measures” found on the CDC’s own website, and directly contradicts recent advice from the CDC about wearing a mask. Namely, the study states:“In our systematic review, we identified 10 RCTs that reported estimates of the effectiveness of face masks in reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infections in the community from literature published during 1946–July 27, 2018….In pooled analysis, we found no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks…Our systematic review found no significant effect of face masks on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza….Proper use of face masks is essential because improper use might increase the risk for transmission.” There is no evidence that wearing masks reduces the transmission of respiratory illnesses and, if masks are worn improperly (like when people re-use cloth masks), transmission could actually INCREASE. Moreover, this study was a meta-analysis, which means it dug deep into the archive of science (all the way back to 1946!) to reach its conclusions. Said differently, this is as comprehensive as science gets, and their conclusions were crystal clear: masks for the general population show no evidence of working to either slow the spread of respiratory viruses or protect people. “Why Face Masks Don’t Work: A Revealing Review”, was written to challenge the need for dentists to wear face masks, but all the science quoted and conclusions drawn apply to airborne pathogens in any setting. “The science regarding the aerosol transmission of infectious diseases has, for years, been based on what is now appreciated to be ‘very outmoded research and an overly simplistic interpretation of the data.’ Modern studies are employing sensitive instruments and interpretative techniques to better understand the size and distribution of potentially infectious aerosol particles…The primary reason for mandating the wearing of face masks is to protect dental personnel from airborne pathogens. This review has established that face masks are incapable of providing such a level of protection…It should be concluded from these and similar studies that the filter material of face masks does not retain or filter out viruses or other submicron particles. When this understanding is combined with the poor fit of masks, it is readily appreciated that neither the filter performance nor the facial fit characteristics of face masks qualify them as being devices which protect against respiratory infections. ” Scientists looked at oxygen levels of surgeons wearing masks while performing surgery and found: “Our study revealed a decrease in the oxygen saturation of arterial pulsations (SpO2) and a slight increase in pulse rates compared to preoperative values in all surgeon groups.”
Just this past week, this article came out in the New England Journal of Medicine, written my several doctors and public health officials with the title, “Universal Masking in Hospitals in the Covid-19 Era”: “We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes). The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.”+++++++++++++
WHOs Advice on the use of masks in the context of Covid19 pdf (Pgs. 6-8)https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/advice-on-the-use-of-masks-in-the-community-during-home-care-and-in-healthcare-settings-in-the-context-of-the-novel-coronavirus-(2019-ncov)-outbreakSHOULD WE WEAR FACE MASKS? Round Table of over 150 Doctor’s Opinion | London Real | Dr. Buttarhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=emb_title&v=RaE6NeHyDtUMinistry of Health and Family Welfare:https://www.mohfw.gov.in/pdf/Useofmaskbypublic.pdf pt. 4Should I wear a mask to protect myself pg. 7https://www.mohfw.gov.in/pdf/FAQ.pdfConclusion Regarding Masks They Do Not Work By Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, DO, AOBNMM, ABIHM(Resources in pdf for every topic wrt to masks)https://vaxxter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Masks-Final.pdfhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/epidemiology-and-infection/article/face-masks-to-prevent-transmission-of-influenza-virus-a-systematic-review/64D368496EBDE0AFCC6639CCC9D8BC05Masks for Prevention of Respiratory Virus Infections, Including SARS-CoV-2, in Health Care and Community Settings https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7322812/A study on infectivity of asymptomatic SARS COV2 Carriershttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7219423/ICMR pdf for “Guidance for appropriate recording of COVID-19 related deaths in India.”https://www.icmr.gov.in/pdf/covid/techdoc/Guidance_appropriate_recording_of_related_deaths_India.pdfBOMBSHELL: WHO Coronavirus PCR Test Primer Sequence is Found in All Human DNAhttps://m.economictimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/healthcare/controversial-vaccine-studies-why-is-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-under-fire-from-critics-in-india/articleshow/41280050.cms
++++++++++Widespread Use of Face Masks is Ineffective and Actually HarmfulExcerpts from a 31-page Affidavit of Dr. Judy A. Mikovits Regarding Sars-Cov-2 By Dr. Judy A. Mikovits – August 3, 2020 (1545 words)https://www.freedomwatchusa.org/pdf/200811-Signed%20Dec.pdf127. Similarly, I have warned in detail that wearing masks under these conditions may make people sicker rather than protecting them.128. Dr. Fauci and other inner circle public health officials love to toss about false allegations of actual experimental evidence being only anecdotal…to advance their agenda…the masks suppress the immune system and render the most vulnerable to infection resulting in the amplification of more virus in the compromised who not only become victims but further spread the disease among family and close contacts.130. “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask,” infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci told 60 Minutes on March 8, 20206 “While masks may block some droplets,” Fauci said, “they do not provide the level of protection people think they do. Wearing a mask may also have unintended consequences: People who wear masks tend to touch their face more often to adjust them, which can spread germs from their hands.”131. In hospitals, patients do not wear masks. Doctors and nurses sometimes do around certain patients, but the patients do not. Thus, the idea that an entire society wearing masks would control disease has no precedent or proof.132. Glasses can fog up while wearing commonly-available masks… tangible evidence that their breath is not passing through the filters of the mask but escaping around the edges.133. The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) warns that “Cloth face coverings … will not protect the wearer against airborne transmissible infectious agents due to loose fit and lack of seal or inadequate filtration.”7(6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRa6t_e7dgI) 134. On February 27, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advised against the widespread wearing of face masks by the general public. 8135. On May 29, ABC News reported “CDC and WHO offer conflicting advice on masks. “If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with COVID-19,”the WHO guidelines read.” 136. The CDC’s information page promises “Your cloth face covering may protect them. Their cloth face covering may protect you.”10 Notice the “may.”137.June 5, 2020, in CNBC ‘s story “Dr. Anthony Fauci says Americans who don’t wear masks may ‘propagate the further spread of infection” 11 Dr. Fauci explained on national television: “White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said he has ‘no doubt’ that Americans who aren’t wearing face masks, especially in large crowds, are increasing the risk of spreading the coronavirus. ‘When you have crowds of people together and you have the lack of wearing a mask that increases the risk of there being transmissibility. I have no doubt about that,’ he said during an interview Friday on CNBC’s ‘Halftime Report’” ‘When we see that not happening, there is a concern that that may actually propagate the further spread of infection.’” (7 https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/covid-19/covid-19-faq.html 8. https://twitter.com/CDCgov/status/1233134710638825473 9 https://abcnews.go.com/Health/cdc-offer-conflicting-advice-masks-expert-tellsus/story?id=70958380 10 https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/diy-cloth-facecoverings.html 11 https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/05/dr-anthony-fauci-says-americans-who-dont-wearmasks-may-propagate-the-spread-of-infection.html)141. The masks weaken the body making the virus’ job easier.142. Proper masks reduce the intake of oxygen and trap the exhaling of carbon dioxide at the mouth and nose so that the body’s ability to fight off infection can be diminished. 145. The error here and throughout is viewing COVID-19 as a single cause of a single disease, and not understanding the many factors strengthening or weakening the body’s functioning and immune-response leading to an overall state of health. 146. Thus, while the body is fighting off a virus like COVID-19, diminishing oxygen intake breathing through a mask while concentrating and recycling a variety of germs, viruses, allergy triggers, etc., leaves the body weaker while actions that strengthen the body and immune system are more important and should not be neglected. (13 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18500410/)147. Thus we are making ourselves sicker wearing masks, and when someone encounters SARS-CoV-2 the body is weaker when fighting off the COVID-19 disease that the virus can cause.+++++++++++Michael Robertson, May 5, 2020 6:23 AM Condensed by Nat The flu (COVID-19) is spread through continuous, extended, close contact, and not casual connections. The CDC examined 10 RCTs studies and unambiguously “found no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks” whether in University dorms households, etc. This applied to masks “worn by the infected person for source control or when worn by uninfected persons!” The National Center for Immunization Research and Surveillance in Australia proved that transmission in COVID-19 infected people, even in close contact with others in a high intensity school environment, is tiny. The movements of 18 COVID-19 infected individuals (9 infected students and 9 infected staff) between 15 schools was tracked from March to Mid-April 2020. Collectively they made 862 close contacts. A “close contact” is a face to face contact for 15 minutes or being in the same room for a minimum of two hours with an infected person. Those in close contact were tested via swabs or blood tests. Of the 735 students and 128 staff members who came in close contact with these 18 cases only 2 infections were identified. With a transmission rate of only 0.2% in an active social arena such as a school without masks, it’s easy to see how wearing masks in a casual environment would not reduce flu infection rates. Specifically since the likelihood of infection from a brief interaction such as a store is so small masks are irrelevant. +++++++++++++POSTED BY: RUSSELL BLAYLOCK, MD MAY 11, 2020 Condensed by Nat This is somewhat of an unusual virus in that for the vast majority of people infected by the virus, one experiences either no illness (asymptomatic) or very little sickness. Primarily, a very small number of the frail elderly in nursing homes dying of other medical conditions die of COVID. Intubation and use of a ventilator (respirator), contributed significantly to the high death rate as well. ++++++++++Here is what the world renowned surgeon dr. Steven Gundry who conducted cardiac surgery research in the 1990s and was a pioneer in infant heart transplant surgery says about face masks: “the surgical mask that I wear in the operating room DOES NOT PROTECT AGAINST VIRAL TRANSMISSION, IT’S TOTALLY PERMEABLE TO VIRUSES. It was designed to actually prevent bacteria from contaminating wounds, and quite frankly it doesn’t do a very good job of that either. A study in England with surgeons with and without masks found that there was actually less infections in the group without the mask than with
+++++++++Epoch 8/5-11/20: In MN, Democrat Gov.Tim Walz’s Executive Order 20-81 (7/22/20) makes it illegal to not wear masks in a public place. MN Statute 609.735 makes it illegal to wear masks in a public place. Penalty is 90 days in jail and/or $1,000 fine. Walz’s insistence upon total control resulted in hasty despotic action bypassing the legislature which keeps track of its laws. This dictatorial monarch is trying to condition people for more control.
++++++++“Universal Masking In Hospitals in the COVID-19 Era” in New England Journal of Medicine: wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection.“The change of catching COVID-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal.” Epoch 8/5-11/20.7/16/20 Journal of Pediatrics and Child Health found that masks may cause more problems than protection: “no good evidence that face masks protect the public against infection with respiratory viruses.” “Many mask wearers may simply be spreading disease because of how they use them. “Surgical facemarks are designed to be discarded after single use. As they become moist, they become porous and no longer protect.” Without changing a used mask or washing hands every time the mask is touched, the risk of infecting others increases. In June’20, over 1,200 health professionals submitted an open letter in support of the gathering protesting the killing of George Floyd believing masks wouldn’t make a difference. The CDC states that ‘face coverings should NOT be worn by anyone who has trouble breathing. – The Epoch Times, 8/5-11/20, p.C5.+++++++++++++++
Greetings Lee,Thank you for sharing your perspective. I’ve been trying to accurately evaluate all sides of the arguments about masks, etc. Let’s look at those ‘myths’ which you alerted me to:
Myth 1: There’s no science to support wearing masksTimothy Brewer, MD, professor of medicine and epidemiology at UCLA, concluded from a meta-analysis published in the June Lancetconcluded that mask-wearing resulted in an 80-85 percent reduction in transmission. This is not a myth. The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) were forced to retract a study that used laughably faked data to try to destroy the credibility of hydroxychloroquine (and get clinical trials cancelled around the world). During a phone call between the editors of the journals, Big Pharma is described as a “criminal” enterprise that’s pushing junk science while rigging studies with altered data; they know the game is rigged, the data are faked, and the medical journals are nothing more than Big Pharma puppets that parrot junk science to push high-profit prescription drugs and vaccines. Richard Horton, the Editor-In-Chief of The Lancet, says: “Now we are not going to be able to, basically, if this continues, publish any more clinical research data because the pharmaceutical companies are so financially powerful today, and are able to use such methodologies, as to have us accept papers which are apparently methodologically perfect, but which, in reality, manage to conclude what they want them to conclude.” Big Pharma can rig any data necessary to achieve publication of junk science in the journals. Retraction Watch has documented over 1,500 studies for falsification of data. Remember, the WHO had previously declared that, “the wide use of masks by healthy people in the community setting is not supported by current evidence and carries uncertainties and critical risks” (“breathing difficulties,” “self-contamination,” a “false sense of security” and a “diversion of resources from effective public health measures”). Then, on May 29, 2020, the WHO announced that masks should only be worn by healthy people if they are taking care of someone infected with COVID-19: “If you do not have any respiratory symptoms such as fever, cough or runny nose, you do not need to wear a mask,” Dr. April Baller, a public health specialist for the WHO, says in a video on the world health body’s website posted in March. “Masks should only be used by health care workers, caretakers or by people who are sick with symptoms of fever and cough.” A study on the efficacy of masks published by the Annals of Internal Medicine concluded that, “both surgical and cotton masks seem to be ineffective in preventing the dissemination of SARS–CoV-2 from the coughs of patients with COVID-19 to the environment and external mask surface.” An analysis of the 17 best studies concluded that, “ None of the studies established a conclusive relationship between mask/respirator use and protection against influenza infection.” – and this includes the N95 mask. Just before the COVID-19 madness, researchers in Hong Kong published, “Nonpharmaceutical Measures for Pandemic Influenza in Nonhealthcare Settings—Personal Protective and Environmental Measures.” It is on the CDC’s own website, and directly contradicts recent advice from the CDC about wearing a mask. The study states: “In our systematic review, we identified 10 RCTs that reported estimates of the effectiveness of face masks in reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infections in the community from literature published during 1946–July 27, 2018….In pooled analysis, we found no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks…Our systematic review found no significant effect of face masks on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.” This study was a meta-analysis, which covered 72 years! This is as comprehensive as science gets, and their conclusion was that masks for the general population show no evidence of working to either slow the spread of respiratory viruses or protect people. “Why Face Masks Don’t Work: A Revealing Review”, to wake up dentists. “The science regarding the aerosol transmission of infectious diseases has, for years, been based on what is now appreciated to be very outmoded research and an overly simplistic interpretation of the data. Modern studies are employing sensitive instruments and interpretative techniques to better understand the size and distribution of potentially infectious aerosol particles…The primary reason for mandating the wearing of face masks is to protect dental personnel from airborne pathogens. This review has established that face masks are incapable of providing such a level of protection…It should be concluded from these and similar studies that the filter material of face masks does not retain or filter out viruses or other submicron particles.” In a ResearchGate article, Masks Don’t Work: A review of science relevant to COVID-19 social policy, Canadian physicist D.G. Rancourt confirms, “Masks and respirators do not work. There have been extensive randomized controlled trial studies, and meta-analysis reviews of (them) which all show that masks and respirators do not work to prevent respiratory influenza-like illnesses, or respiratory illnesses believed to be transmitted by droplets and aerosol particles… The main transmission path is long-residence-time aerosol particles (< 2.5 μm), which are too fine to be blocked, and the minimum-infective-dose is smaller than one aerosol particle.” BMJ cited: “A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers” pertaining to cloth masks. Not only are these masks 100% ineffective at reducing the spread of COVID-19, but they are actually harmful. “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.” Scientists looked at oxygen levels of surgeons wearing masks while performing surgery: “Our study revealed a decrease in the oxygen saturation of arterial pulsations (SpO2) and a slight increase in pulse rates compared to preoperative values in all surgeon groups.” In this article in the New England Journal of Medicine, written by several doctors and public health officials with the title, “Universal Masking in Hospitals in the Covid-19 Era,” they report, “We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is minimal.”
Myth 2: You don’t need to wear a mask if you don’t have symptomsYou do need to wear a mask even if you don’t have symptoms, because you might still be infected and you can still infect others. says Dr. Brewer. This is not a myth, either. Lee, I’ve found efforts to sway the public with credentials when the science is lacking. I suspect this may be an example when Dr. Brewer claims that someone who is positive but asymptomatic “can still infect others.” The science I’ve found says that this is not true, not happening: On 1/13/20, a female, age 22, with a history of congenital heart disease went to the emergency room of Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital complaining of pulmonary hypertension and shortness of breath due to an atrial septal defect. Three days later, as her condition improved, routine tests showed she had COVID-19 although doctors reported that, “the patient never had a fever, sore throat, myalgia or other symptoms associated with virus infection.” She was completely asymptomatic. Consequently, she instantly became the subject of an extensive contact study published on May 13 in Respiratory Medicine, titled, “A study on infectivity of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 carriers.” Had she, with no symptoms, infected anyone else? They identified and screened all 35 patients, 196 family members and 224 hospital staffs with whom she’d been in contact, indoors, over the previous five days. Alarmingly, the average age of the patients was 62 (higher risk) and many were immunocompromised due to chemotherapy, cardiovascular disease, etc. “In summary, all the 455 contacts were excluded from SARS-CoV-2 infection…” She had infected none of them! On 6/8/20, Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead for Coronavirus response (privy to emerging data from all over the world) reported, “From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual. We have a number of reports from countries who are doing very detailed contact tracing. They’re following asymptomatic cases, they’re following contacts and they’re not finding secondary transmission onward. It is very rare (unknown), and much of that is not published in the literature.” So, why for the next five months were we all on lockdown if asymptomatic people with COVID-19 can’t spread the infection?Asymptomatic people make 99% of COVID-19 rules completely useless and also makes public health guidance extremely simple: if you’re sick, stay home. Everyone else? Carry on!
Myth 3: You don’t have to wear a mask if you’ve already had COVID-19A study conducted at King’s College London showed that antibody levels dropped precipitously after three months. Sixty percent had developed a strong antibody response immediately while infected, but only 17 percent retained it at the end of the testing period. This suggests that a significant percentage of individuals who recover from COVID-19 are vulnerable to contracting it again. For this reason, survivors need to mask up in order to protect others. This is not a big deal except for the elderly who are sick. Whether we catch it for the first time or the 6th generally is not significant for 95% of Americans.
Myth 4: Cloth masks aren’t effective In a milliliter drop of surface seawater there are approximately 100M viruses; 3B per ounce of seawater. Viruses make up 70% of the oceanic biomass. We have more viruses in our bodies than cells! Most are about 100 times smaller than bacteria. The claim here is that masks} are between 94 and 96 percent effective, according to laboratory studies which looked at the masks’ abilities to catch droplets dispersed through simulated coughing or talking – good at catching droplets. {But they are useless at stopping the COVID-19 viruses. The average diameter of the COVID-19 virus is 0.125 microns. A cotton mask has space between the fibers of 11 to 22 microns, a wool one is 11.54 microns, a silk one 10 -13 microns. The $12 – $34, one-time-use only industrial HEPA filter face mask is certified to filter out 99.97% of anything larger than 3 microns. Therefore, the covid-19 virus can march through an “average” face mask at 10,000 abreast! Masks are as effective a barrier against viruses and chain linked fences are against mosquitos.
Myth 5: If masks worked, we wouldn’t need to socially distance This is not a myth. According to Dr. Brewer, we gain some containment from each measure taken (hand washing, etc.). A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science in June showed that the combination of physical distancing and mandated mask-wearing was more effective than doing either one alone. “The benefits are additive,” says Dr. Brewer. He then goes on to say, COVID-19 is a public health crisis, the likes of which pretty much no one alive right now has ever seen in their lifetimes. We’re scared, we don’t know what to do. What supports the claim that this is a crisis the likes of which nobody has seen? What justifies being so scared? The Infection Fatality Rate for COVID-19 is between 0.07-0.20%, which is in line with seasonal flu. April 17th, the first study was published from Stanford researchers determined the IFR was 0.12-0.2%. The seasonal flu has an IFR of 0.1%. Oxford University reported: “Taking account of historical experience, trends in the data, increased number of infections in the population at large, and potential impact of misclassification of deaths gives a presumed estimate for the COVID-19 IFR somewhere between 0.1% and 0.41%.” Stanford’s Dr. Ioannidis published a meta-analysis of 12 IFR studies worldwide by early May, “Interestingly, despite their differences in design, execution, and analysis, most studies provide IFR point estimates that are within a relatively narrow range. Seven of the 12 inferred IFRs are in the range 0.07 to 0.20 similar to IFR values of seasonal influenza. Three values are modestly higher (corrected IFR of 0.25-0.40 in Gangelt, Geneva, and Wuhan) and two are modestly lower than this range (corrected IFR of 0.02-0.03 in Kobe and Oise).” He added, “There’s some sort of mob mentality…that the sky is falling. It’s using data based on speculation and science fiction to attack scientific studies. Dismissing real data in favor of mathematical speculation is mind-boggling!” Stanford’s Dr. Scott Atlas published, “The data is in — stop the panic and end the total isolation.” He said, “The recent StanfordUniversity antibody study now estimates that the fatality rate if infected is likely 0.1 to 0.2 percent, a risk far lower than previous World Health Organization estimates that were 20 to 30 times higher and that motivated isolation policies…Let’s stop underemphasizing empirical evidence while instead doubling down on hypothetical models. Facts matter.” As of 7/19/20, the ‘CDC’ of Europe listed the USA as having the lowest death rate of 20 top nations. The CDC’s new ‘best estimate’ also indicates a IFR below 0.3%. Dr. Brewer claims, We’re scared, we don’t know what to do. This is ridiculous. Farr’s Law is very clear about what to do. ALL viruses follow a natural bell curve, with slopes roughly equal on the way up and down. This fact was discovered by Dr. William Farr more than 100 years ago. Recently, Chinese and American scientists published a study to see if COVID-19 would behave according to Farr’s law, and here’s the chart from their recent paper: The predicted path of the virus in China (orange dotted line) and the actual path of the virus (blue dotted line) are a match! This paper was created back on February 8th. Every flu season runs about 3 months during the winter; whether people wear masks or not, generally the same number of old, sick people die if they aren’t careful. “Getting the Flu vaccine increase the odds by 36% of getting COVID-19” – Greg G. Wolff (Influenza Vaccination and Respiratory Virus Interference Among Department of Defense Personnel During the 2017-2018 Influenza. 6/20/19). The flu shot is the most dangerous vaccine in the U.S. even without the added mercury. The U.S. government pays out millions of dollars in injuries and deaths due to the flu shot every year. There is also very little evidence that the flu shot is beneficial in preventing the flu, and plenty of evidence that it can make it worse. The Flu vaccine works 30% of the time. The CDC reports “little to no effect” from vaccinations during some flu seasons. Everybody who died of the Flu this past season was, along with homicides, motorcycle deaths, etc., listed as COVID-19 deaths to keep the numbers and the level of fear high. As for the six-foot space between healthy people, even outdoors, this requirement is untested pseudoscience. It is just an arbitrary suggestion which we’ve been conditioned to accept without evidence. It won’t effect the transmission of COVID-19. Declaring that America must lock down until a vaccine is created is social experimentation, not science. The proximity of one human being to another has proven to be a very small factor in determining the impact of Covid-19 infections. What’s far more important is which human beings happen to be in close proximity of one another and for how long.
Myth 6: Masks can cause carbon dioxide poisoningJennifer Horney, PhD, professor and founding director of the University of Delaware’s epidemiology department, finds this an argument for masks being effective barriers. There is no data he’s aware of that shows such poisoning. N95 respirator masks are fitted to make sure there’s no leakage. “Certainly a surgical mask or cloth facial covering is no concern at all,” he says. There are exceptions and he can’t offer a blanket guideline. On the other hand, Dr. Mike Ryan, WHO health emergencies program director, said, “There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit. In fact, there’s some evidence to suggest the opposite in the misuse of wearing a mask properly or fitting it properly.” “Hypercapnia, also known as hypercarbia and CO2 retention, is a condition of abnormally elevated carbon dioxide levels in the blood. Carbon dioxide is a gaseous product of the body’s metabolism and is normally expelled through the lungs. Hypercapnia has been associated with excessive wearing of face masks. Continuous mask wearing can cause hypercapnia (too much carbon dioxide enters the blood leading fatigue, headaches, seizures and coma).” There are hundreds of thousands of people who are having adverse effects from wearing the masks ranging from psychological issues (anxiety, PTSD, claustrophobia), to physical issues (asthma, hypercapnia, respiratory issues, etc). According to the CDC, wearing masks for long periods of time can cause headaches. In one study, researchers surveyed 212 healthcare workers (47 males and 165 females) asking about headaches with using the N95 mask, duration of the headaches, type of headaches and if the person had preexisting headaches. One third of the workers developed headaches with use of the mask, more had preexisting headaches that worsened by the mask wearing, and 60% required pain medications for relief. While straps and mask pressure could be causative, the bulk of the evidence points toward hypoxia and/or hypercapnia as the cause. A more recent study involving 159 healthcare workers aged 21 to 35 years of age found that 81% developed headaches from wearing a face mask. Some had pre-existing headaches that were precipitated by the masks. All felt like the headaches affected their work performance.
Myth 7: Oxygen levels drop dramatically when maskedYou aren’t going to be gasping for oxygen. A South Carolina doctor demonstrated her oxygen saturation rate hovered at 98-99 percent with three types of masks. Wearing a mask did not affect her ability to intake oxygen at all. OSHA uses a tube, connected to a tester, to measure oxygen levels in mines in order to establish a safe environment for miners. I watched a video of a member of OSHA who stuck the tube under his mask and the alarm went off when the reading indicated the oxygen level had dropped several points. I can’t find it now because YouTube and Google are censoring everything which isn’t politically correct. As you’d agree, censorship has nothing to do with real science. But try wearing a mask all day without taking it off and you’ll find that it does reduced blood-oxygen levels causing hypoxia (mental confusion, lethargy, and reduced immunities resulting in more infections). It is a lot harder for juries to fully focus on and comprehend evidence and arguments in a case. Several studies have found significant problems with wearing such a mask. This can vary from headaches, to increased airway resistance, carbon dioxide accumulation, to hypoxia, all the way to serious life-threatening complications. ”While most agree that the N95 mask can cause significant hypoxia and hypercapnia, another study of surgical masks found significant reductions in blood oxygen as well. In this study, researchers examined the blood oxygen levels in 53 surgeons using an oximeter. They measured blood oxygenation before surgery as well as at the end of surgeries. The researchers found that the mask reduced the blood oxygen levels (pa02) significantly. The longer the duration of wearing the mask, the greater the fall in blood oxygen levels.” A 26 year old Chinese jogger running regularly with his mask burst his lung after running 2.5 miles through Wuhan. Tests showed that his left lung had already shrunk by around 90% and his heart also moved to the right section of his body. Medical professionals believe the life-threatening condition may have been caused by his wearing of a mask while jogging. He began running about two weeks ago, gradually increasing the distance covered with each run. Two boys, age 14, with no health issues died after jogging within two weeks of one another while wearing mandatory face masks. Mr. Li, the father of one of the boys, blamed his son’s untimely April 24 death on the mask. “He was wearing a mask while lapping the running track, then he suddenly fell backwards and hit his head on the ground.” A driver in New Jersey was hurt when he blacked out and crashed into a power pole. Police reported, “The crash is believed to have resulted from the driver wearing an N95 mask for several hours and subsequently passing out behind the wheel due to insufficient oxygen intake/excessive carbon dioxide intake.” Elderly individuals and others with poor lung function may pass out, hit their head, and die.Myth 8: Mask-wearing weakens the immune systemThere is no evidence that healthy adult-age individuals with no underlying immunodeficiencies need to have constant exposures to maintain their immune systems. “We have billions of bacteria that live in and on our body, in our intestine, and on our skin,” he says. “And those bacteria are in a symbiotic relationship with our immune systems, so our immune systems are getting stimulated constantly.” “My daughter is 19 yrs old, healthy and a frontline worker at a huge grocery store chain. She started feeling sick about two weeks ago: chest, side and back pain, plus nausea, X-rays “lit up” her right side. An MRI, CAT scan, and ultrasound of back and abdomen areas found nothing. Back at work, she was unable to breathe efficiently. She was rushed to ER and quarantined and tested for COVID. She’s negative; its pleurisy (an inflection of the outside of the lining of the lungs). The doctors told her it’s because she’s been wearing a mask for over 8 hours a day, 5-6 days a week. Breathing in her own bacteria caused an infection. She has to be off work with no pay, taking antibiotics, steroids and breathing treatments.” Dr. Russell Blaylock: Face Masks Pose Serious Risks To The Healthy “By wearing a mask, the exhaled viruses will not be able to escape and will concentrate in the nasal passages, enter the olfactory nerves and travel into the brain. . . . “The importance of these findings is that a drop in oxygen levels (hypoxia) is associated with an impairment in immunity. Studies have shown that hypoxia can inhibit the type of main immune cells used to fight viral infections called the CD4+ T-lymphocyte. This occurs because the hypoxia increases the level of a compound called hypoxia inducible factor-1 (HIF-1), which inhibits T-lymphocytes and stimulates a powerful immune inhibitor cell called the Tregs. . This sets the stage for contracting any infection, including COVID-19 and making the consequences of that infection much graver. In essence, your mask may very well put you at an increased risk of infections and if so, having a much worse outcome.” Scientifically speaking, during hypercapnia or hypoxia, cortisol levels go up, suppressing the immune system. Breathing in and out with more effort than if not wearing a mask sends the viruses on their way with more gusto with every exhale, and then sucks any remaining COVID-19 back into our mouths with every inhale. So, not only do these masks not protect people, they would need to be sterilized on a regular basis as bacteria and virus accumulate. The N95 mask, if worn for hours, can reduce blood oxygenation as much as 20%. Studies have also shown that a drop in oxygen levels impairs one’s immunity (CD4+ T-lymphocyte) because hypoxia increases the level of HIF-1 which stimulates a powerful immune inhibitor cell called the Tregs. . This sets the stage for contracting any infection, including COVID-19 and making the consequences of that infection much graver. In essence, your mask may very well put you at an increased risk of infections with a much worse ‘cytokine storm’ and deadly outcome resulting from constantly rebreathing the viruses and raising the concentration of the virus in the lungs and the nasal passages. Stress sheds viruses from within our own cells making us more susceptible. Cancer grows best in a microenvironment that is low in oxygen which promotes inflammation and the spread of cancers. Hypoxia appears to be a significant factor in atherosclerosis resulting in heart attacks and strokes. More alarming is the evidence that by wearing a mask, the exhaled viruses will not be able to escape as easily. If concentrate in the nasal passages, it can enter the olfactory nerves and travel into the brain! Increases the inhalation of concentrated toxins back into the lungs inducing infections. Masks can hamper our immune system by creating stress and releasing cortisol. They increase the viral risks and infections by triggering dormant retro viruses. Moisture vapor retention in lungs associated with pneumonia, bronchitis, viral and bacterial infections, asthma, etc. If the lungs cannot take in dry air and expel humid air, then serious congestion. Those wearing masks are five times more likely to touch their faces daily resulting in contamination, even if wearing gloves. More effort to breathe means additional respiratory distress especially for the tired, elderly, sick, or immunity compromised.
Myth 9: Masks only protect others, so they don’t protect you if others don’t wear themWearing a mask mediates the amount of virus you take in if you’re exposed to an infected individual, and what we know about the coronavirus is that the more exposed you are to it, the sicker you’re likely to get. If true, then why weren’t masks required with Anthrax in 2001, West Nile in ’02, SARS ’03, Bird Flu’05, E Coli’06, AVIAN’08, MERS’12, Ebola’14, Disney Measles’15, Zika’16, Ebola’18, and Measles’19? Recommendations to wear masks are based on studies of influenza virus transmission. That’s a much larger virus! The Surgeon General of the United States, Jerome Adams, said that wearing face masks could increase a person’s risk of contracting the coronavirus. “You can increase your risk of getting it by wearing a mask if you are not a health care provider.” He tweeted, “Seriously people – STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus.” The CDC and Dr. Fauci flat out said that masks “won’t protect you.” In an interview with CBS, NIAID Director Dr. Fauci, who is a part of the COVID-19 Task Force claimed, “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.” Porter Stansberry claims: Our current response to the COVID-19 pandemic was a vast mass delusion – the largest in history. It very rarely kills anyone who wasn’t already on the way out anyway. Healthy people have nothing to worry about. It’s impossible to watch the video of a surfer being chased down by patrol boats in the name of public health and not think something has gone terribly wrong in America. Should we all wear masks because pneumonia is killing a lot of old people? Should we all go bankrupt? Should we print hundreds of billions of dollars and borrow trillions more and destroy our currency and our way of life? This is total madness. Does it make sense to close schools because of a virus that doesn’t kill kids?
Lee, wear a mask if you want, and every time some germs show up… for the rest of your life. However, I’ve flown on four planes this spring without a mask, and we’ll be flying from Denver to Boston without one this week. We had breakfast with friends this morning, dinner and lunch yesterday with others, and spent the weekend in Colorado Springs with still more. Just got back from pickle-ball with a group, none of whom wore masks. The most important variable seems to be the state of one’s health. If not healthy, wear a mask and stay home. Blessings, Nat+++++++++ There is no catastrophic public health emergency justifying Polis’ sweeping government orders and ordinances that would force healthy citizens to wear masks in an increasingly oppressive climate of manufactured fear completely untethered from pragmatic realities and risk assessments. According to the federal government’s own COVID-19 data, 120,675 deaths in America have been tied to the virus. Fatalities peaked on April 18, 2020, with 16,897 succumbing to the disease. These numbers have been grossly inflated to the point where anybody who died of anything was listed as a COVID death. Just try to find out how many died of the regular flu this past season. Since April 18, as states have reopened and protests/riots brought tens of thousands of people in close contact, deaths have fallen precipitously. During the week of July 11, 2020, only 181 died. The total number of ‘suspected’ COVID deaths for school-age children between February-July 2020 are 9 (under 1 year of age); 7 (ages 1-4); 14 (age 5-14); and 149 (ages 15-24) – nation- wide! Yet, cars, bikes, swimming pools, aspirin, plastic bags and matches haven’t been banned to save thousands of young lives from unintentional accidents. Why aren’t life vests mandated to save100 children who drown in a tub every year. In a CNN interview recently Fauci asserted, “I think you can trust me.” Well, just four months ago, he told CBS News, “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.” He dismissed surgical masks as inadequate protection from viruses with a circumference of 0.125 microns when the pores of the best masks are 3 microns. Our surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, in February, chided, “Seriously people – STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus…” Dr. William Schaffner, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University (quoted in Time magazine in March) acknowledged: “There’s not much we can do, so we’re all walking around feeling rather victimized by this virus. By using a mask, even if it doesn’t do a lot, it moves the locus of control to you, away from the virus.” Lynn Bufka, psychologist and senior director for practice, research and policy at the American Psychological Association promotes superstitious behavior to comforted us: “Even if experts are saying it’s really not going to make a difference, a little (part of) people’s brains is thinking, well, it’s not going to hurt. Maybe it’ll cut my risk just a little bit, so it’s worth it to wear a mask.” Maybe its worth carrying a rabbit’s foot. Reviewing the scientific literature in her upcoming book, The Case Against Masks former federal research scientist Dr. Judy Mikovits summarizes: “The more effective a mask is at blocking normal air flow, the greater the problem with decreased oxygen and increased carbon dioxide a person is likely to have. The less effective a mask is at blocking normal airflow, the less of a case can be made for using it.” In what sane world is breathing through moist bacteria traps and cutting yourself off from vitally needed oxygen a public health virtue? Young, healthy people are jogging or hiking on isolated trails in mid-July in the Rockies wearing masks because they’ve been lied to by panic-mongers. They’re not protecting anyone else and are likely making themselves sick. The New England Journal of Medicine acknowledges: “The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is… minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.” The evidence does not support broad mask mandates. Yet, now we free-thinkers and free-breathers face jail time and witch hunts for dissenting. It’s all about politics, power, and control. “Selfish bastards” who promote superstitious costumery as science threaten us all. The real concern is that COVID will die off before a vaccination can be mandated which would result in a huge transfer of wealth to Big Pharma, while decreasing world population. +++++++++http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/287169-2020-07-23-mask-test-proves-toxic-for-children-levels-of-carbon-dioxide.htm?From=News#.XxrQdGGCEMM.emailOxygen level measured by a calibrated OSHA approved monitor: Normal is 20.6 w/o mask. Below 19.5, the alarm goes off indicating a hazardous atmosphere. With a mask on, oxygen levels dropped to 17.4. Headaches result due to not enough oxygen. Carbon Dioxide level Standard white cup-mask tested on Ever Bigtree, an 11 yrs old student: 848 ppm of CO2 at start. OSHA guidelines:Outdoor: 250-350 ppmIndoor: 350-1,000 ppm with good air exchange.1,000-2,000 poor air: drowsiness“Indoor CO2 levels should be no more than 1,100 ppm.” 2,000-5,000 ppm headaches, poor concentration, sleepiness.>5000 ppm toxicity, oxygen too low!848 ppm at start, 8486 ppm within two minutes. Screen goes blank – off the scale. 1,511 ppm with plastic face shield9,129 ppm with red bandana (one overlap)22 countries have reopened their schools w no discernible increases in cases; no surge when schools open. Contact tracing in 4 countries failed to find a child infecting others.
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2) Moisture vapor retention in lungs associated with pneumonia, bronchitis, viral and bacterial infections, asthma, etc. If the lungs cannot take in dry air and expel humid air, then serious congestion.3) Those wearing masks are five times more likely to touch their faces daily resulting in contamination, even if wearing gloves. 4) More effort to breathe means additional respiratory distress especially for the tired, elderly, sick, or immunity compromised. The Surgeon General of the United States, Jerome Adams, said that wearing face masks could increase a person’s risk of contracting the coronavirus. “You can increase your risk of getting it by wearing a mask if you are not a health care provider.” He tweeted, “Seriously people – STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus.”5) Reduced blood-oxygen levels causing hypoxia (mental confusion, lethargy, and reduced immunities resulting in more infections). Juries can’t fully focus on and comprehend evidence and arguments in a case. The chances are greatly increased that you’ll become a Democrat.
Hypercapnia, hypoxia, cortisol goes up, suppressing immune system
DEATHS & INJURIES: A 26 year old Chinese jogger running regularly with his mask burst his lung after running 2.5 miles through Wuhan. Tests showed that his left lung had already shrunk by around 90% and his heart also moved to the right section of his body. Medical professionals believe the life-threatening condition may have been caused by his wearing of a mask while jogging. He began running about two weeks ago, gradually increasing the distance covered with each run.
Two boys, age 14, with no health issues died after jogging within two weeks of one another while wearing mandatory face masks. Mr. Li, the father of one of the boys, blamed his son’s untimely April 24 death on the mask. “He was wearing a mask while lapping the running track, then he suddenly fell backwards and hit his head on the ground.” A driver in New Jersey was hurt when he blacked out and crashed into a power pole. Police reported, “The crash is believed to have resulted from the driver wearing an N95 mask for several hours and subsequently passing out behind the wheel due to insufficient oxygen intake/excessive carbon dioxide intake.” Elderly individuals and others with poor lung function may pass out, hit their head, and die.}
Flip flopThe WHO had previously declared that “the wide use of masks by healthy people in the community setting is not supported by current evidence and carries uncertainties and critical risks” (“breathing difficulties,” “self-contamination,” a “false sense of security” and a “diversion of resources from effective public health measures.”) In June, the WHO reversed itself and stated, “governments should encourage the general public to wear masks in specific situations and settings as part of a comprehensive approach to suppress SARS-CoV-2 transmission.”
Asymptomatic? WHO epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove said on June 9 that, based on her organization’s observations, asymptomatic spread of the disease appears to be highly unlikely. “We have a number of reports from countries who are doing very detailed contact tracing,” she said at a press conference. “They are following asymptomatic cases, they are following contacts and they are not finding secondary transmission onward, it’s very rare.” After being furiously rebuked she said it is, “a big open question and that remains an open question.” However she didn’t retract her earlier statements about asymptomatic spread being “very rare.”
Pores The average diameter of the COVID-19 virus is 0.125 microns. A cotton mask has space between the fibers of 11 to 22 microns, a wool one is 11.54 microns, a silk one 10 -13 microns. The $12 – $34, one time use only industrial HEPA filter face mask is certified to filter out 99.97% of anything larger than 3 microns. Therefore, the covid-19 virus can march through an “average” face mask at 10,000 abreast!!
More gusto Breathing in and out (with more effort than if not wearing a mask) sends the viruses on their way with more gusto with every exhale, and then sucks any remaining COVID-19 back into our mouths with every inhale. So, not only do these masks not protect people, they would need to be sterilized on a regular basis as bacteria and virus accumulate.
Personal protection The CDC and Dr. Fauci flat out said that masks “won’t protect you.” In an interview with CBS, NIAID Director Dr. Fauci, who is a part of the COVID-19 Task Force claimed, “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.”
Masks are ineffectiveA study on the efficacy of masks published by the Annals of Internal Medicine concluded that “both surgical and cotton masks seem to be ineffective in preventing the dissemination of SARS–CoV-2 from the coughs of patients with COVID-19 to the environment and external mask surface.” An analysis of the 17 best studies concluded that, “ None of the studies established a conclusive relationship between mask/respirator use and protection against influenza infection.” – and this includes the N95 mask.
Comparing oranges to applesRecommendations to wear masks are based studies of influenza virus transmission. That’s a much larger virus!
Harmful results: hypercapnia causes headaches On the other hand, Dr. Mike Ryan, WHO health emergencies program director, said, “There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit. In fact, there’s some evidence to suggest the opposite in the misuse of wearing a mask properly or fitting it properly.” Continuous mask wearing can cause hypercapnia (too much carbon dioxide enters the blood leading fatigue, headaches, seizures and coma).” There are hundreds of thousands of people who are having adverse effects from wearing the masks ranging from psychological issues (anxiety, PTSD, claustrophobia), to physical issues (asthma, hypercapnia, respiratory issues, etc). According to the CDC, wearing masks for long periods of time can cause headaches. In one study, researchers surveyed 212 healthcare workers (47 males and 165 females) asking about headaches with using the N95 mask, duration of the headaches, type of headaches and if the person had preexisting headaches. One third of the workers developed headaches with use of the mask, more had preexisting headaches that worsened by the mask wearing, and 60% required pain medications for relief. While straps and mask pressure could be causative, the bulk of the evidence points toward hypoxia and/or hypercapnia as the cause. A more recent study involving 159 healthcare workers aged 21 to 35 years of age found that 81% developed headaches from wearing a face mask. Some had pre-existing headaches that were precipitated by the masks. All felt like the headaches affected their work performance.
Harmful results: hypoxia weakens immunity The N95 mask, if worn for hours, can reduce blood oxygenation as much as 20%. Studies have also shown that a drop in oxygen levels impairs one’s immunity (CD4+ T-lymphocyte) because hypoxia increases the level of HIF-1 which stimulates a powerful immune inhibitor cell called the Tregs. . This sets the stage for contracting any infection, including COVID-19 and making the consequences of that infection much graver. In essence, your mask may very well put you at an increased risk of infections with a much worse ‘cytokine storm’ and deadly outcome resulting from constantly rebreathing the viruses and raising the concentration of the virus in the lungs and the nasal passages. Stress sheds viruses from within our own cells making us more susceptible. Cancer grows best in a microenvironment that is low in oxygen which promotes inflammation and the spread of cancers. Hypoxia appears to be a significant factor in atherosclerosis resulting in heart attacks and strokes. More alarming is the evidence that by wearing a mask, the exhaled viruses will not be able to escape as easily. If concentrate in the nasal passages, it can enter the olfactory nerves and travel into the brain!Harmful results – death Two boys, age 14, with no health issues died after jogging within two weeks of one another while wearing mandatory face masks. Mr. Li, the father of one of the boys, blamed his son’s untimely April 24 death on the mask. “He was wearing a mask while lapping the running track, then he suddenly fell backwards and hit his head on the ground.” A driver in New Jersey was hurt when he blacked out and crashed into a power pole. Police reported, “The crash is believed to have resulted from the driver wearing an N95 mask for several hours and subsequently passing out behind the wheel due to insufficient oxygen intake/excessive carbon dioxide intake.” Elderly individuals and others with poor lung function may pass out, hit their head, and die. So, it looks like our leaders are instructing us to do the exact opposite of what we should be doing. Fortunately, I seem to be doing fine with my swim mask, although the snorkel gets in the way. :0)
Sheltering at home ineffective Gov. Andrew Cuomo (NY) found it “shocking” to discover that 66 percent of new hospitalizations appear to have been among people “largely sheltering at home.” “We thought maybe they were taking public transportation,” he said, “but actually no, because these people were literally at home.” “Everything closed down, government has done everything it could, society has done everything it could.” The government directive to close everything down and mandate “social distancing” actually made the problem worse? Dr. David Katz predicted precisely this outcome on March 20: “[I]n more and more places we are limiting gatherings uniformly, a tactic I call “horizontal interdiction” — when containment policies are applied to the entire population without consideration of their risk for severe infection. When young people of indeterminate infectious status are laid off and stay home huddling with their families they may transmit the virus to their 50-something parents, and 70- or 80-something grandparents.”
Sheltering at home is harmful The truth of the matter is that citizens should demand that schools and parks and restaurants and malls be opened. As Dr. Steven Shapiro concludes: What we cannot do, is extended social isolation. Humans are social beings, and we are already seeing the adverse mental health consequences of loneliness, and that is before the much greater effects of economic devastation take hold on the human condition.
Six-foot spacing useless The six-foot space between healthy people, even outdoors, is untested pseudoscience, just an arbitrary suggestion we’ve been conditioned to accept without evidence. It won’t effect the transmission of COVID-19. Declaring that America must lock down until a vaccine is created is social experimentation, not science. The proximity of one human being to another has proven to be a very small factor in determining the impact of Covid-19 infections. What’s far more important is which human beings happen to be in close proximity of one another.
Sheltering caused crowdingAccording to Dr. Steven Shapiro and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, old and sick people crowded in a nursing home can be devastating. Young and healthy people crowed on the USS Theodore Roosevelt will also get infected (1,102 sailors) but few will be hospitalized (7) and fewer will die (1). There is no sense in closing schools and quarantining the young and healthy.
Those dying In PA, the median age of death from COVID-19 is 84 years old. The few younger patients who died all had significant preexisting conditions. Very few children were infected and none died. This is a disease of the elderly, sick, and poor.
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We retrieved mortality and testing data for 169 countries from a publicly available source on April 22, 2020. On average, the time from infection to symptoms is 5.1 days, and that from infection to death is 23 days. Therefore, the date of each country’s initial infection was estimated as the earlier of: 5 days before the first reported infection, or 23 days before the first death. As deaths by April 22, 2020 would typically reflect infections beginning 23 days previously (by March 30), both the time from the first infection, and from the time the public began wearing masks, until March 30 were determined. Countries in which mask usage has been widespread include Hong Kong, South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan, and Mongolia. Mandates for wearing of masks in public had been issued by March 30 in Thailand (March 12), Vietnam (March 16), Czechia (March 19), and Slovakia (March 25).2 The exponential growth associated with the spread of an epidemic appears linear on a logarithmic scale. By multivariable linear regression, significant predictors of the logarithm of each country’s per-capita coronavirus mortality included: duration of infection in the country, duration of wearing masks, population size, and per-capita testing. In a population not wearing masks, the per-capita mortality tended to increase each week by a factor of 10^0.156 = 1.43, or 43%. On the other hand, in a population wearing masks, the per-capita mortality tended to increase by a factor of 10^(0.156-0.144) = 1.028, or just 2.8%. These results support the universal wearing of masks by the public to suppress the spread of the coronavirus.
Christopher T. Leffler, MD, MPH.1 Edsel Ing MD, MPH, CPH, MIAD.2 Joseph D. Lykins V, MD.1 Craig A. McKeown, MD3. Andrzej Grzybowski, MD.41. Virginia Commonwealth University 2. University of Toronto 3. University of Miami 4. University of Warmia and Mazury30 April 2020
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Since the computer models were wildly wrong and even the recognized lethality rate of about 0.2% is overblown due to the deliberate forging of death certificates, why are we now seeing the push for face masks? Simple: it keeps the fear alive and reminds Americans that that their ‘medical’ overlords can do anything they want to them in the name of safety as long as we acquiesce. I say no. I will not throw away every freedom that brave soldiers died for (remember Memorial Day?) because some sociopaths (Gates, Fauci, et al) want to depopulate the earth. Watch the excellent four-part docu-series by James Corbett, Who Is Bill Gates?, for an expose of Bill Gates, the eugenicist. There is also a transcript.Excellent coverage of masks by Robert Barnes, Constitutional attorneyFirst 25 minutes present an excellent overview of medical studies showing complete ineffectiveness of masks and how judicial opinions will need to consider this.Don’t succumb to F.E.A.R.F – FalseE – InformationA – AppearingR – RealThis following personal account is from somebody’s Facebook and was reposted on a few blogs with confirming comments. The fear-based reaction to what is 90% hoax and 10% virus will injure and drastically alter the course of a young healthy life for many. The CDC, which is pushing the masks, is the same agency that outright lies when it says “vaccines are safe and effective.”“Be careful HEALTHY people, shared from a friend. . . “My daughter is 19 yrs old, healthy and a frontline worker at a huge grocery store chain. She started feeling sick about two weeks ago: chest, side and back pain, plus nausea, X-rays “lit up” her right side. An MRI, CAT scan, and ultrasound of back and abdomen areas found nothing. Back at work, she was unable to breathe efficiently. She was rushed to ER and quarantined and tested for COVID. She’s negative; its pleurisy (an inflection of the outside of the lining of the lungs). The doctors told her it’s because she’s been wearing a mask for over 8 hours a day, 5-6 days a week. Breathing in her own bacteria caused an infection. She has to be off work with no pay, taking antibiotics, steroids and breathing treatments.” Dr. Russell Blaylock: Face Masks Pose Serious Risks To The Healthy“By wearing a mask, the exhaled viruses will not be able to escape and will concentrate in the nasal passages, enter the olfactory nerves and travel into the brain. . . . “It is also instructive to know that until recently, the CDC did not recommend wearing a face mask or covering of any kind, unless a person was known to be infected, that is, until recently. Non-infected people need not wear a mask. When a person has TB we have them wear a mask, not the entire community of non-infected. The recommendations by the CDC and the WHO are not based on any studies of this virus and have never been used to contain any other virus pandemic or epidemic in history. “Now that we have established that there is no scientific evidence necessitating the wearing of a face mask for prevention, are there dangers to wearing a face mask, especially for long periods? Several studies have indeed found significant problems with wearing such a mask. This can vary from headaches, to increased airway resistance, carbon dioxide accumulation, to hypoxia, all the way to serious life-threatening complications “While most agree that the N95 mask can cause significant hypoxia and hypercapnia, another study of surgical masks found significant reductions in blood oxygen as well. In this study, researchers examined the blood oxygen levels in 53 surgeons using an oximeter. They measured blood oxygenation before surgery as well as at the end of surgeries.4 The researchers found that the mask reduced the blood oxygen levels (pa02) significantly. The longer the duration of wearing the mask, the greater the fall in blood oxygen levels.”The importance of these findings is that a drop in oxygen levels (hypoxia) is associated with an impairment in immunity. Studies have shown that hypoxia can inhibit the type of main immune cells used to fight viral infections called the CD4+ T-lymphocyte. This occurs because the hypoxia increases the level of a compound called hypoxia inducible factor-1 (HIF-1), which inhibits T-lymphocytes and stimulates a powerful immune inhibitor cell called the Tregs. . This sets the stage for contracting any infection, including COVID-19 and making the consequences of that infection much graver. In essence, your mask may very well put you at an increased risk of infections and if so, having a much worse outcome. “Hypercapnia, also known as hypercarbia and CO2 retention, is a condition of abnormally elevated carbon dioxide levels in the blood. Carbon dioxide is a gaseous product of the body’s metabolism and is normally expelled through the lungs. Hypercapnia has been associated with excessive wearing of face masks.
Healthy People Wearing Masks, Should They or Shouldn’t They? – good article by a RN”Fear is driving this recommendation for healthy people to wear masks, not science.” – RN
In addition to extending the fiction that we are in an emergency sufficient to trigger the extra-constitutional authority of local and state executives, mandatory masking acts as a peer pressure-fueled signal that encourages conformity to our coming “new normal.”It’s not a pandemic, it’s a dem-panic.
- Decreases oxygen intake, increases blood acidity and makes breathing more stressful.
- Increases the inhalation of concentrated toxins back into the lungs inducing infections.
- Hampers our immune system by creating stress and releasing cortisol.
- Increases viral risks and infections by triggering dormant retro viruses.
- Scientifically inaccurate. Masks are as effective a barrier against viruses and chain linked fences are against mosquitos.
- No scientific studies suggest that masks hinder viruses.
++++++++++++In a milliliter drop of surface seawater there are approximately 100M viruses; 3B per ounce of seawater. Viruses make up 70% of the oceanic biomass. We have more viruses in our bodies than cells!+++++++++++There is a video with Dr. Chris Mortenson explaining the need to wear masks. I admire him for welcoming a rational conversation based on facts. So, I’ll point a couple things out which others might not have noticed. In the video Dr. Mortenson contradicts himself twice:1) Wearing a mask won’t prevent you from getting sick (6:16) v Wearing a mask protects you from getting the virus in you (10:23). 2) Wearing a mask will to prevent you from getting other people sick (6:19) v Wearing a mask is too late for this particular virus (6:51). He is right that a big load (inocculum) of viruses is more likely to be problematic than a small load. But that doesn’t apply to COVID-19 infecting those under age 40. Very few of them have gotten sick and scarcely any have died – anywhere. I suspect that the real reason he wears a mask when he goes out is because he is in the high risk age group. And certainly, you don’t want to infect aged relatives at home (if you have any at home), especially if they have morbidities (cancers, obesity, hypertension, and diabetes are not good). Mortenson concludes that the only way you can be certain is if everybody wears a mask (6:42). If true, then why weren’t masks required with Anthrax in 2001, West Nile in ’02, SARS ’03, Bird Flu’05, E Coli’06, AVIAN’08, MERS’12, Ebola’14, Disney Measles’15, Zika’16, Ebola’18, and Measles’19?++++++++++++++++ On May 29, 2020, the WHO announced that masks should only be worn by healthy people if they are taking care of someone infected with COVID-19: “If you do not have any respiratory symptoms such as fever, cough or runny nose, you do not need to wear a mask,” Dr. April Baller, a public health specialist for the WHO, says in a video on the world health body’s website posted in March. “Masks should only be used by health care workers, caretakers or by people who are sick with symptoms of fever and cough.” Just before the COVID-19 madness, researchers in Hong Kong published, “Nonpharmaceutical Measures for Pandemic Influenza in Nonhealthcare Settings—Personal Protective and Environmental Measures.” It is on the CDC’s own website, and directly contradicts recent advice from the CDC about wearing a mask. The study states: “In our systematic review, we identified 10 RCTs that reported estimates of the effectiveness of face masks in reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infections in the community from literature published during 1946–July 27, 2018….In pooled analysis, we found no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks…Our systematic review found no significant effect of face masks on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.” This study was a meta-analysis, which covered 72 years! This is as comprehensive as science gets, and their conclusion was that masks for the general population show no evidence of working to either slow the spread of respiratory viruses or protect people. “Why Face Masks Don’t Work: A Revealing Review”, to wake up dentists. “The science regarding the aerosol transmission of infectious diseases has, for years, been based on what is now appreciated to be very outmoded research and an overly simplistic interpretation of the data. Modern studies are employing sensitive instruments and interpretative techniques to better understand the size and distribution of potentially infectious aerosol particles…The primary reason for mandating the wearing of face masks is to protect dental personnel from airborne pathogens. This review has established that face masks are incapable of providing such a level of protection…It should be concluded from these and similar studies that the filter material of face masks does not retain or filter out viruses or other submicron particles.” In a ResearchGate article, Masks Don’t Work: A review of science relevant to COVID-19 social policy, Canadian physicist D.G. Rancourt confirms, “Masks and respirators do not work. There have been extensive randomized controlled trial studies, and meta-analysis reviews of (them) which all show that masks and respirators do not work to prevent respiratory influenza-like illnesses, or respiratory illnesses believed to be transmitted by droplets and aerosol particles… The main transmission path is long-residence-time aerosol particles (< 2.5 μm), which are too fine to be blocked, and the minimum-infective-dose is smaller than one aerosol particle.” BMJ cited: “A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers” pertaining to cloth masks. Not only are these masks 100% ineffective at reducing the spread of COVID-19, but they are actually harmful. “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.” Scientists looked at oxygen levels of surgeons wearing masks while performing surgery: “Our study revealed a decrease in the oxygen saturation of arterial pulsations (SpO2) and a slight increase in pulse rates compared to preoperative values in all surgeon groups.” In this article in the New England Journal of Medicine, written my several doctors and public health officials with the title, “Universal Masking in Hospitals in the Covid-19 Era,” they report, “We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (10 – 30 minutes). The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is minimal.”++++++++++++Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Robert R. Redfield, MD, explained:++++++++++++++++++++++++JULY 14, 20205 AM UPDATED2 PMBreathing in a small amount of virus may lead to no disease or a mild infection. Inhaling a huge volume of virus particles can result in serious disease or death. Dr. Monica Gandhi, UC San Francisco professor of medicine and medical director of the HIV Clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and director for the Center for AIDS Research at UC San Francisco – “There is this theory that facial masking reduces the [amount of virus you get exposed to] and disease severity.”“This anti-mask rhetoric is mind-blowing, dangerous, deadly and polarizing,” said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, professor of medicine and an infectious diseases specialist at UC San Francisco. “There is no evidence that it is dangerous.” Wearing masks can help prevent children from being infected and suffering serious consequences of infection, such as multisystem inflammatory syndrome, a rare condition that has been seen in children who have been infected with the coronavirus. “Kids not only transmit, but they can get sick as well,” Chin-Hong said. While children are less likely to develop severe illness from the coronavirus than adults, they can still be infected, be contagious and transmit the virus to other people, Gandhi said. The coronavirus can be widely spread by people who are not visibly sick.
- On the Diamond Princess cruise ship, 44% of transmissions are believed to occur when the infected person has no symptoms, according to a study published in Nature Medicine.
Masks don’t filter out all viral particles, Gandhi said. But even cloth face masks filter out a majority of viral particles. And even if a person wearing a mask gets infected, the mask — by filtering out most of the viral particles exhaled by the infected person — probably leads to less severe disease, Gandhi said. The idea that a lower dose of virus when being infected brings less illness is a well-worn idea in medicine.A study published in 2015 gave healthy volunteers varying doses of a flu virus; those who got higher doses got sicker, with more coughing and shortness of breath, Gandhi said.And another study suggested that the reason the second wave of the 1918-19 flu pandemic was the deadliest in the U.S. was because of the overcrowded conditions faced in Army camps as World War I wound down. “In 1918, the Army camps [were] characterized by a high number of contacts between people and by a high case-fatality rate, sometimes 5 to 8 times higher than the case-fatality rate among civilian communities,” the study said. Finally, a study published in May found that surgical mask partitions significantly reduced the transmission of the coronavirus among hamsters. And even if the hamsters protected by the mask partitions acquired the coronavirus, “they were more likely to get very mild disease,” Gandhi said. The masks may limit the dose of virus people are getting and result in less severe symptoms of illness. That’s what Gandhi said she suspects is happening in San Francisco, where mask wearing is relatively robust. Further observations are needed, Gandhi said. During an outbreak at a seafood plant in Oregon , employees were given masks. 95% of those infected were asymptomatic. A cruise ship traveling from Argentina to Antartica in March had coronavirus infected people on board, as documented in a recent study. Passengers got surgical masks; the crew got N95 masks. Instead of the expected 40% of those infected being asymptomatic, 81% of those testing positive were asymptomatic, and the masking may have helped reduce the severity of disease in people on board, Gandhi said. The protective effects are also seen in countries where masks are universally accepted for years, such as Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea and Singapore. “They have all seen cases as they opened … but not deaths,” Gandhi said. The Czech Republic moved early to require masks, issuing an order in mid-March, Gandhi said; that’s about three months before Gov. Gavin Newsom did so statewide in California. But in the Czech Republic, “every time their cases would go up …their death rate was totally flat. So they didn’t get the severe illness with these cases going on.” By May, the Czech Republic lifted its face mask rule. “And they’re doing great,” Gandhi said. [continue to scroll down]
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