Scientific evidence demonstrates that wearing a MAGA hat protects your health and the health of those around you MORE than wearing a mask — both in terms of medical protection, AND as a symbol for raising awareness.
But I was told Mask Mandates led to a related fall in infections?!
“So do we see this in any of the global data?
Let's have a look... Nothing here to show masks have made a difference...
I've desperately tried to find a data point to prove any data movement in the right direction after a mask mandate or an increase in use. I simply find NONE”
“In the 34 states whose hapless citizens still endure stringent mask mandates, the average number of COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 residents is 308. In the 16 states run by “Neanderthals,” the average death rate per 100,000 residents is 156. This is consistent with a new study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that suggests statewide mask mandates have produced no significant decrease in COVID-19 death rates. This reality is buried beneath a specious summary and five paragraphs of bureaucratic argle-bargle. Readers who survive the slog to paragraph six will find that mask mandates are “associated” with minuscule decreases in “death growth rates.””
“Surveys showed mask usage reached about 80% by midsummer last year and has remained consistent since then. During that period, however, the number of daily positive cases rose and fell precipitously.
Many epidemiologists have noted the coronavirus, in a second major wave, is following the bell-shaped pattern of epidemics predicted by Farr's Law in 1840, regardless of mitigation efforts.”
Keep digging through this crap and eventually you always find the poison of their own faulty theoretical model underlying the data, and everything above it being stacked layers of recommendations, “may be”s, “is considered”s, and “associated with”s.
For example, the CDC uses a study to make the claim “Mask mandates are associated with reductions in COVID-19 case and hospitalization growth rates”
“...projected the number of averted COVID-19 cases with the mandates for face mask use in public by comparing actual cumulative daily cases with daily cases predicted by the model if none of the states had enacted the public face cover mandate at the time they did..”
Face masks, lies, damn lies, and public health officials: “A growing body of evidence”
“A vile new mantra is on the lips of every public health official and politician in the global campaign to force universal masking on the general public: “there is a growing body of evidence”.
This propagandistic phrase is a vector designed to achieve five main goals:
Give the false impression that a balance of evidence now proves that masks
reduce the transmission of COVID-19
Falsely assimilate commentary made in scientific venues with “evidence”
Hide the fact that a decade’s worth of policy-grade evidence proves the opposite: that masks are ineffective with viral respiratory diseases
Hide the fact that there is now direct observational proof that cloth masks do not prevent exhalation of clouds of suspended aerosol particles; above, below and through the masks
Deter attention away from the considerable known harms and risks due to face masks, applied to entire populations
The said harms and risks include that a cloth mask becomes a culture medium for a large variety of bacterial pathogens, and a collector of viral pathogens; given the hot and humid environment and the constant source, where home fabrics are hydrophilic whereas medical masks are hydrophobic.
In short, I argue: op-eds are not “evidence”, irrelevance does not help, and more bias does not remove bias. Their mantra of “a growing body of evidence” is a self-serving contrivance that impedes good science and threatens public safety.
I prove that there is no policy-grade evidence to support forced masking on the general population, and that all the latest-decade’s policy-grade evidence points to the opposite: NOT recommending forced masking of the general population. Therefore, the politicians and health authorities are acting without legitimacy and recklessly.”
Twenty Reasons Mandatory Face Masks are Unsafe, Ineffective and Immoral
Cavities: New York dentists are reporting that half their patients are suffering decaying teeth, receding gum lines and seriously sour breath from wearing masks. “We’re seeing inflammation in people’s gums that have been healthy forever, and cavities in people who have never had them before,” Dr. Rob Ramondi told FOX News.
Facial Deformities: Masking children triggers mouth breathing which as been shown to cause “long, narrow faces, narrow mouths, high palatal vaults, dental malocclusion, gummy smiles, and many other unattractive facial features,” according to the Journal of General Dentistry.
Acne Vulgaris: Moisture and germs collecting in the mask cause “facial skin lesions, irritant dermatitis… or worsening acne” (according to Public Health Ontario) which stresses the immune system, can lead to permanent scarring and has been linked to depression and suicidal thoughts (according to the Journal of Dermatologic Clinics). Children also develop impetigo, a bacterial infection that produces red sores and can lead to kidney damage (according to the Mayo Clinic).
Increased Risk of COVID-19: “Mask use by the general public could be associated with a theoretical elevated risk of COVID-19 through… self-contamination,” states Public Health Ontario in Wearing Masks in Public and COVID-19. “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,” theorizes nationally recognized board-certified neurosurgeon, Dr. Russell Blaylock, MD (in an article at The Centre for Research on Globalization).
Bacterial Pneumonia: At an Oklahoma Press Conference, Dr. James Meehan, MD testified: “Reports coming from my colleagues all over the world are suggesting that the bacterial pneumonias are on the rise” as a result of moisture collecting in face masks.
Immune Suppressing: Masks are often worn by criminals trying to hide their identity while perpetuating an offence (theft, violence, rape, murder, etc.). They produce subconscious anxiety and fear. Fear and anxiety activate the fight-or-flight nervous system which down-regulates the immune system, as shown in a study by the American Psychological Association.
Germophobia: Masks create an irrational fear of germs and a false sense of protection from disease, leading to antisocial (or even hostile) behaviour towards those not wearing a mask. (See the paper in the Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders titled “COVID-19, obsessive-compulsive disorder and invisible life forms that threaten the self”).
Toxic: Many (if not most) masks and face coverings (including cloth) are made with toxic and carcinogenic chemicals including fire retardant, fibreglass, lead, NFE, phthalates, polyfluorinated chemicals and formaldehyde that will outgas and be inhaled by the wearer. (See “5 main hazardous chemicals in clothing from China named” by Fashion United).
Psychologically Harmful: “I believe the real threat right now is what we’re doing to sabotage the mental, emotional and physical health of… our children, whose development is dependent on social interactions, physical contact and facial expressions,” writes Dr. Joseph Mercola of Mercola.com. “Between mask wearing and social distancing, I fear the impact on children in particular may be long-term, if not permanent.”
Six Proofs Masks Do Not Reduce Infections
Insubstantial: A CDC-funded review on masking in May 2020 came to the conclusion: “Although mechanistic studies support the potential effect of hand hygiene or face masks, evidence from 14 randomized controlled trials of these measures did not support a substantial effect on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza… None of the household studies reported a significant reduction in secondary laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infections in the face mask group.” If masks can’t stop the regular flu, how can they stop SAR-CoV-2?
Unreasonable: “Evidence that masking as a source [of] control results in any material reduction in transmission was scant, anecdotal, and, in the overall, lacking… [and mandatory masking] is the exact opposite of being reasonable,” ruled a hospital arbitrator in a dispute between The Ontario Nurses’ Association and the Toronto Academic Health Science Network.
Ineffective: “Oral masks in healthy individuals are ineffective against the spread of viral infections,” write Belgian medical doctors in an open letter published in The American Institute of Stress, September 24, 2020.
Unsanitary: “It has never been shown that wearing surgical face masks decreases postoperative wound infections,” writes Göran Tunevall, M.D. in the World Journal of Surgery. “On the contrary, a 50% decrease [in bacterial infection] has been reported after omitting face masks.”
No Protection: “There were 17 eligible studies.… None of the studies established a conclusive relationship between mask ⁄ respirator use and protection against influenza infection,” concludes a research review in the journal Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses.
Unproven: Dutch Minister for Medical Care, Tamara van Ark, asserted that “from a medical perspective there is no proven effectiveness of masks” after a review by the National Institute for Health on July 29, 2020 (according to Reuters). Five Ways Forced Masking is Immoral
Reckless: “By making mask-wearing recommendations and policies for the general public, or by expressly condoning the practice, governments have both ignored the scientific evidence and done the opposite of following the precautionary principle,” writes Denis Rancourt, PhD in his 2020 paper Masks Don’t Work.
Manipulative: Dr. Andreas Voss, member of the World Health Organization expert team and head of microbiology at a Dutch hospital in Nijmegen, on July 24, 2020, told I Am Expat that masks were made mandatory “not because of scientific evidence, but because of political pressure and public opinion.”
Fear-Mongering: “In fact, there is no study to even suggest that it makes any sense for healthy individuals to wear masks in public,” write Drs. Karina Reiss, Phd and Dr. Sucharit Bakdi, MD in Corona, False Alarm? “One might suspect that the only political reason for enforcing the measure is to foster fear in the population.”
Totalitarian: “If you look at the history of totalitarian regimes… they all do the same thing, which is they try to crush culture, and crush any evidence of self-expression…” explains Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in an interview regarding face masks. “And what is the ultimate vector for self-expression? It’s your facial expressions…. [Yet] we’ve all been told to put on the burqa and be obedient.”
Virtue-Signalling: “Masks are utterly useless,” testified Dr. Roger Hodkinson, a pathologist, certified with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, at a city council meeting. “…masks are simply virtue-signalling… It’s utterly ridiculous seeing these unfortunate, uneducated people — I’m not saying that in a pejorative sense — walking around like lemmings, obeying without any knowledge base, to put the mask on their face.”
Start with ‘A year ago if your kid wanted to go sleepover at their sick buddy’s house and they tried to tell you their Spider-Man pajamas mask would keep them safe from getting sick, you’d have laughed in their face...’
(reframing from a common-sense narrative)
Then move on to the Sept 26, 2020 Mask Facts by The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. It’s a good ‘non-biased’ starting point from a long-respected group, that presents the studies used and a couple great graphs
Then show them some ‘maskne’ images and say ‘Obviously SOMETHING’S going on here...’
(attention-getting visual)
Then show them the rest of the studies and tell them the ‘plain-speech’ explanations included...
(logic & reason)
Tell them this is why ‘so many people everywhere are beginning to think this was a bad idea to just blindly believe some government official, whether it’s Trump’s guy or not. Everybody’s looking to find out the truth once and for all.’
(appeal to crowd conformity)
and leave them with:
‘Why can’t anybody convince us with science that shows why all of this preexisting research was wrong? Why do they just keep saying ‘because we say so” like we’re kindergarteners, especially when they keep contradicting themselves?’
(challenging question)
Good luck. Remember to stay cool and ‘open-minded’. YOU won’t convince them, they have to see it for themselves. Your being fair and practical and calm will help give them ‘space’ to think for themselves. If you get angry or partisan, they’ll dig in with oppositional defiance.
That snot-soaked face diaper on your face doesn’t protect you from the CCP virus anymore than wearing a Biden hat can protect you from the deadly effects of communism. In both cases, wearing it INCREASES your chances of death.
Maskers foist their own insistence as “science”, making nebulous claims that ’muh masks somehow prevent asymptomatic people from spreading muh corona via droplets expelled during breathing, talking, and coughing, by ‘trapping’ these droplets in the mask’.
THEY CANNOT SATISFACTORILY ADDRESS THESE MASKING COUNTERARGUMENTS:
Arguments range from common sense/logical to validated evidence/scientific data, from philosophical to practical and demonstrated by historical records. Some involve known measurements, some involve inferences from data, and some involve deductions from the real-world application of observed behavior and phenomena
Cloth masks have never historically been considered an effective option for stopping viruses except by the desperate, ignorant, or scared.
If an extra barrier around our breathing orifices reduced viral infections we would have evolved one either naturally or behaviorally (examples: natural saliva destroys viruses, most human cultures evolved to favor boiled and/or fermented drinks which long before germ theory was discovered)
If virus particles collect in the mask, the last thing you’d want is it to be resting against your lips all day.
Viruses are massively smaller than the filtration provided by any mask, including medical masks. It’s like using a chain-link fence to block mosquitoes, on the theory that some of the mosquitoes might be caught up and carried over in droplets from the lawn sprinkler.
Expelled air doesn’t just disappear when you breathe it into a mask. The only thing you’re going to change is the direction and perhaps the velocity of it’s spread. Rather than directly out and down, it is cast upwards and backwards through the gaps in the mask/face barrier, which extends the amount of time the virus is airborne, likely allows it to disperse over a greater area, creates ‘clouds’ at face level, and prevents a person from being able to choose the safest direction when talking or coughing.
The best disease entry point for airborne viruses is the eyes, which have far less natural antiviral defenses than the mouth and nose. The mask gaps direct a stream of particles up and into the eyes.
Infectious particles collecting in a mask barrier leads to rebreathing contamination that would otherwise be expelled out into an environment where UV rays would destroy the virus, and more likely infection along a nasal brain nerve pathway — increasing a mask-wearer’s risk of infection.
Increased personal risk of infection directly translates into greater community risk, so anything that exposes the individual de facto exposes the community (rather than the idea that one is taking on some personal risk to protect others). The biggest thing any person can do to protect others is to protect themselves.
Governments have a spectacularly poor record of misinterpreting science and mismanaging public health policy, often with disasterous consequences. Every bureaucratic effort surrounding Covid has been marked by incompetence and error. Why should mask mandates be an exception to this trend?
Health care is an individual responsibility and a matter of personal body autonomy and choice. Individuals have a right to make their OWN decisions. The ‘public health’ should not allow government to violate the rights of healthy people.
Mask mandates do not correlate with reductions in cases, infections, or deaths anywhere in the world, irregardless of compliance. In short, there is no good evidence that they actually work (claims to support that they do can be shown to rest upon presupposition, theoretical modeling, and extremely weak correlation).
There exists decades of valid scientific research about mask efficacy, virtually all of which goes against the ideas undergirding mask mandates. No new studies disproving or overriding this existing science has been done.
Even if masks were shown to give some benefit (and there are a few limited circumstances in which they can), easily observable behaviors surrounding the way they are actually donned, worn, stored, and handled in real-world settings clearly shows that actual practice negates and undermines any potential benefit (and studies show this is true even among highly trained medical professionals.
Asymptomatic people are not contagious* as demonstrated in a study of prevalence of infection following the release of restrictions late half of May in Wuhan. All city residents aged six years or older were eligible and 9,899,828 (92.9%) participated. No new symptomatic cases and 300 asymptomatic cases (detection rate 0.303/10,000, 95% CI 0.270–0.339/10,000) were identified. There were no positive tests amongst 1,174 close contacts of asymptomatic cases.https://www.aier.org/article/asymptomatic-spread-revisited/
MASKERS CANNOT PRODUCE A SINGLE CONCLUSIVE PIECE OF EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THEIR CLAIM — THEY JUST APPEAL TO THEIR AUTHORITY, CITE THEIR OWN MANDATES, AND REFER TO STUDIES THAT USE THEIR OWN ASSUMPTIONS AS FOUNDATIONAL INPUTS.
”It’s true because we think it is, based on a statement we put out that says so!”
Dr. Jim Meehan: An Evidence Based Scientific Analysis of Why Masks are Ineffective, Unnecessary, and Harmful
Key Points
Decades of the highest-level scientific evidence (meta-analyses of multiple randomized controlled trials) overwhelmingly conclude that medical masks are ineffective at preventing the transmission of respiratory viruses, including SAR-CoV-2.
Those arguing for masks are relying on low-level evidence (observational retrospective trials and mechanistic theories), none of which are powered to counter the evidence, arguments, and risks of mask mandates.
The majority of the population is at very low to almost no risk of severe or lethal disease from CoVID-19. Children are at an extraordinarily low risk of dying from CoVID-19. Based on CDC published data, 99.99815% of children that contract CoVID-19 survive.
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 among children in schools and daycares is very rare.
Masks worn properly are well documented to cause harm to their wearers. Masks worn improperly, re-used, or contaminated are dangerous.
Any reasonable risk to benefit analysis of medical masks concludes that the risks overwhelmingly outweigh the benefits.
Children are at imminent risk of harm from mask mandates.
Outline
Evidence Based Medicine: How we (should) make decisions in science and medicine
Masks are Ineffective
a. Mixed Messages from the Experts
b. The Evidence Against Masks
c. The Evidence For Masks
Masks are Unnecessary
a. Fear and Politics are Subverting Science and Reason
b. Masking Children in Schools is Unnecessary - So Says The Science
Masks are Harmful
17 Ways that Masks Can Cause Harm
Masking School Children is Ineffective, Unnecessary, and Harmful
a. Mandatory masks in school are a ‘major threat’ to children's’ health, doctors warn
b. Forcing Children to Wear Masks in Schools is Unnecessary
c. Forcing Children to Wear Masks for Long Periods Risks Causing Them Physical Harm
d. Forcing Children to Wear Masks for Long Periods Risks Causing Them Mental and Psychological Harm
Scientific evidence demonstrates that wearing a MAGA hat protects your health and the health of those around you MORE than wearing a mask — both in terms of medical protection, AND as a symbol for raising awareness.
https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/masks-dont-work-covid-a-review-of-science-relevant-to-covide-19-social-policy
https://www.sott.net/article/434796-The-Science-is-Conclusive-Masks-and-Respirators-do-NOT-Prevent-Transmission-of-Viruses
https://www.technocracy.news/blaylock-face-masks-pose-serious-risks-to-the-healthy/
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/smart-society-stupid-people
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-science-of-mask-wearing-hasnt-changed-so-why-have-our-expectations/
So why aren’t you required to wear one to go buy a bagel?
COMPILATION OF JOURNALS, STUDIES, AGENCIES ON USE OF MASKS FOR VIRUS CONTROL:
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/13Xt6pN_VASGOd3abMafH2Jj3Y2MMnj9NYF512KJLJ2M/mobilebasic
But I was told Mask Mandates led to a related fall in infections?!
“So do we see this in any of the global data? Let's have a look... Nothing here to show masks have made a difference...
I've desperately tried to find a data point to prove any data movement in the right direction after a mask mandate or an increase in use. I simply find NONE”
https://mobile.twitter.com/CovidSenseBloke/status/1306277076442525697
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1306277076442525697.html
“In the 34 states whose hapless citizens still endure stringent mask mandates, the average number of COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 residents is 308. In the 16 states run by “Neanderthals,” the average death rate per 100,000 residents is 156. This is consistent with a new study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that suggests statewide mask mandates have produced no significant decrease in COVID-19 death rates. This reality is buried beneath a specious summary and five paragraphs of bureaucratic argle-bargle. Readers who survive the slog to paragraph six will find that mask mandates are “associated” with minuscule decreases in “death growth rates.””
https://spectator.org/biden-covid-neanderthal-thinking/
“Surveys showed mask usage reached about 80% by midsummer last year and has remained consistent since then. During that period, however, the number of daily positive cases rose and fell precipitously.
Many epidemiologists have noted the coronavirus, in a second major wave, is following the bell-shaped pattern of epidemics predicted by Farr's Law in 1840, regardless of mitigation efforts.”
https://www.wnd.com/2021/03/government-data-shows-masks-no-impact-covid-spread/
Keep digging through this crap and eventually you always find the poison of their own faulty theoretical model underlying the data, and everything above it being stacked layers of recommendations, “may be”s, “is considered”s, and “associated with”s.
For example, the CDC uses a study to make the claim “Mask mandates are associated with reductions in COVID-19 case and hospitalization growth rates”
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e3.htm
Go to read that study and you find...
“...projected the number of averted COVID-19 cases with the mandates for face mask use in public by comparing actual cumulative daily cases with daily cases predicted by the model if none of the states had enacted the public face cover mandate at the time they did..”
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00818
Sept 26, 2020 Mask Facts by Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
A good ‘non-biased’ starting point that presents the studies used, with a couple great graphs
https://aapsonline.org/mask-facts/
Face masks, lies, damn lies, and public health officials: “A growing body of evidence”
“A vile new mantra is on the lips of every public health official and politician in the global campaign to force universal masking on the general public: “there is a growing body of evidence”.
This propagandistic phrase is a vector designed to achieve five main goals:
The said harms and risks include that a cloth mask becomes a culture medium for a large variety of bacterial pathogens, and a collector of viral pathogens; given the hot and humid environment and the constant source, where home fabrics are hydrophilic whereas medical masks are hydrophobic.
In short, I argue: op-eds are not “evidence”, irrelevance does not help, and more bias does not remove bias. Their mantra of “a growing body of evidence” is a self-serving contrivance that impedes good science and threatens public safety. I prove that there is no policy-grade evidence to support forced masking on the general population, and that all the latest-decade’s policy-grade evidence points to the opposite: NOT recommending forced masking of the general population. Therefore, the politicians and health authorities are acting without legitimacy and recklessly.”
https://www.killingontario.com/mirror/growing-body-of-evidence-mantra-is-a-body-of-lies-eh.pdf
Twenty Reasons Mandatory Face Masks are Unsafe, Ineffective and Immoral
https://patriots.win/p/12hRZemtMW/twenty-reasons-mandatory-face-ma/c/
Twenty Reasons Mandatory Face Masks are Unsafe, Ineffective and Immoral
Cavities: New York dentists are reporting that half their patients are suffering decaying teeth, receding gum lines and seriously sour breath from wearing masks. “We’re seeing inflammation in people’s gums that have been healthy forever, and cavities in people who have never had them before,” Dr. Rob Ramondi told FOX News.
Facial Deformities: Masking children triggers mouth breathing which as been shown to cause “long, narrow faces, narrow mouths, high palatal vaults, dental malocclusion, gummy smiles, and many other unattractive facial features,” according to the Journal of General Dentistry.
Acne Vulgaris: Moisture and germs collecting in the mask cause “facial skin lesions, irritant dermatitis… or worsening acne” (according to Public Health Ontario) which stresses the immune system, can lead to permanent scarring and has been linked to depression and suicidal thoughts (according to the Journal of Dermatologic Clinics). Children also develop impetigo, a bacterial infection that produces red sores and can lead to kidney damage (according to the Mayo Clinic).
Increased Risk of COVID-19: “Mask use by the general public could be associated with a theoretical elevated risk of COVID-19 through… self-contamination,” states Public Health Ontario in Wearing Masks in Public and COVID-19. “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,” theorizes nationally recognized board-certified neurosurgeon, Dr. Russell Blaylock, MD (in an article at The Centre for Research on Globalization).
Bacterial Pneumonia: At an Oklahoma Press Conference, Dr. James Meehan, MD testified: “Reports coming from my colleagues all over the world are suggesting that the bacterial pneumonias are on the rise” as a result of moisture collecting in face masks.
Immune Suppressing: Masks are often worn by criminals trying to hide their identity while perpetuating an offence (theft, violence, rape, murder, etc.). They produce subconscious anxiety and fear. Fear and anxiety activate the fight-or-flight nervous system which down-regulates the immune system, as shown in a study by the American Psychological Association.
Germophobia: Masks create an irrational fear of germs and a false sense of protection from disease, leading to antisocial (or even hostile) behaviour towards those not wearing a mask. (See the paper in the Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders titled “COVID-19, obsessive-compulsive disorder and invisible life forms that threaten the self”).
Toxic: Many (if not most) masks and face coverings (including cloth) are made with toxic and carcinogenic chemicals including fire retardant, fibreglass, lead, NFE, phthalates, polyfluorinated chemicals and formaldehyde that will outgas and be inhaled by the wearer. (See “5 main hazardous chemicals in clothing from China named” by Fashion United).
Psychologically Harmful: “I believe the real threat right now is what we’re doing to sabotage the mental, emotional and physical health of… our children, whose development is dependent on social interactions, physical contact and facial expressions,” writes Dr. Joseph Mercola of Mercola.com. “Between mask wearing and social distancing, I fear the impact on children in particular may be long-term, if not permanent.”
Six Proofs Masks Do Not Reduce Infections
Insubstantial: A CDC-funded review on masking in May 2020 came to the conclusion: “Although mechanistic studies support the potential effect of hand hygiene or face masks, evidence from 14 randomized controlled trials of these measures did not support a substantial effect on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza… None of the household studies reported a significant reduction in secondary laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infections in the face mask group.” If masks can’t stop the regular flu, how can they stop SAR-CoV-2?
Unreasonable: “Evidence that masking as a source [of] control results in any material reduction in transmission was scant, anecdotal, and, in the overall, lacking… [and mandatory masking] is the exact opposite of being reasonable,” ruled a hospital arbitrator in a dispute between The Ontario Nurses’ Association and the Toronto Academic Health Science Network.
Ineffective: “Oral masks in healthy individuals are ineffective against the spread of viral infections,” write Belgian medical doctors in an open letter published in The American Institute of Stress, September 24, 2020.
Unsanitary: “It has never been shown that wearing surgical face masks decreases postoperative wound infections,” writes Göran Tunevall, M.D. in the World Journal of Surgery. “On the contrary, a 50% decrease [in bacterial infection] has been reported after omitting face masks.”
No Protection: “There were 17 eligible studies.… None of the studies established a conclusive relationship between mask ⁄ respirator use and protection against influenza infection,” concludes a research review in the journal Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses.
Unproven: Dutch Minister for Medical Care, Tamara van Ark, asserted that “from a medical perspective there is no proven effectiveness of masks” after a review by the National Institute for Health on July 29, 2020 (according to Reuters). Five Ways Forced Masking is Immoral
Reckless: “By making mask-wearing recommendations and policies for the general public, or by expressly condoning the practice, governments have both ignored the scientific evidence and done the opposite of following the precautionary principle,” writes Denis Rancourt, PhD in his 2020 paper Masks Don’t Work.
Manipulative: Dr. Andreas Voss, member of the World Health Organization expert team and head of microbiology at a Dutch hospital in Nijmegen, on July 24, 2020, told I Am Expat that masks were made mandatory “not because of scientific evidence, but because of political pressure and public opinion.”
Fear-Mongering: “In fact, there is no study to even suggest that it makes any sense for healthy individuals to wear masks in public,” write Drs. Karina Reiss, Phd and Dr. Sucharit Bakdi, MD in Corona, False Alarm? “One might suspect that the only political reason for enforcing the measure is to foster fear in the population.”
Totalitarian: “If you look at the history of totalitarian regimes… they all do the same thing, which is they try to crush culture, and crush any evidence of self-expression…” explains Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in an interview regarding face masks. “And what is the ultimate vector for self-expression? It’s your facial expressions…. [Yet] we’ve all been told to put on the burqa and be obedient.”
Virtue-Signalling: “Masks are utterly useless,” testified Dr. Roger Hodkinson, a pathologist, certified with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, at a city council meeting. “…masks are simply virtue-signalling… It’s utterly ridiculous seeing these unfortunate, uneducated people — I’m not saying that in a pejorative sense — walking around like lemmings, obeying without any knowledge base, to put the mask on their face.”
Source: https://www.globalresearch.ca/twenty-reasons-mandatory-face-masks-are-unsafe-ineffective-and-
BLUEPRINT FOR A MASK CONVERSATION
Start with ‘A year ago if your kid wanted to go sleepover at their sick buddy’s house and they tried to tell you their Spider-Man pajamas mask would keep them safe from getting sick, you’d have laughed in their face...’
(reframing from a common-sense narrative)
Then move on to the Sept 26, 2020 Mask Facts by The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. It’s a good ‘non-biased’ starting point from a long-respected group, that presents the studies used and a couple great graphs
https://aapsonline.org/mask-facts/
(appeal to authority)
Then show them some ‘maskne’ images and say ‘Obviously SOMETHING’S going on here...’
(attention-getting visual)
Then show them the rest of the studies and tell them the ‘plain-speech’ explanations included...
(logic & reason)
Tell them this is why ‘so many people everywhere are beginning to think this was a bad idea to just blindly believe some government official, whether it’s Trump’s guy or not. Everybody’s looking to find out the truth once and for all.’
(appeal to crowd conformity)
and leave them with:
‘Why can’t anybody convince us with science that shows why all of this preexisting research was wrong? Why do they just keep saying ‘because we say so” like we’re kindergarteners, especially when they keep contradicting themselves?’
(challenging question)
Good luck. Remember to stay cool and ‘open-minded’. YOU won’t convince them, they have to see it for themselves. Your being fair and practical and calm will help give them ‘space’ to think for themselves. If you get angry or partisan, they’ll dig in with oppositional defiance.
Relevant:
TAKE OFF THAT FACE DIAPER!
That snot-soaked face diaper on your face doesn’t protect you from the CCP virus anymore than wearing a Biden hat can protect you from the deadly effects of communism. In both cases, wearing it INCREASES your chances of death.
Maskers foist their own insistence as “science”, making nebulous claims that ’muh masks somehow prevent asymptomatic people from spreading muh corona via droplets expelled during breathing, talking, and coughing, by ‘trapping’ these droplets in the mask’.
THEY CANNOT SATISFACTORILY ADDRESS THESE MASKING COUNTERARGUMENTS:
Arguments range from common sense/logical to validated evidence/scientific data, from philosophical to practical and demonstrated by historical records. Some involve known measurements, some involve inferences from data, and some involve deductions from the real-world application of observed behavior and phenomena
Cloth masks have never historically been considered an effective option for stopping viruses except by the desperate, ignorant, or scared.
If an extra barrier around our breathing orifices reduced viral infections we would have evolved one either naturally or behaviorally (examples: natural saliva destroys viruses, most human cultures evolved to favor boiled and/or fermented drinks which long before germ theory was discovered)
If virus particles collect in the mask, the last thing you’d want is it to be resting against your lips all day.
Viruses are massively smaller than the filtration provided by any mask, including medical masks. It’s like using a chain-link fence to block mosquitoes, on the theory that some of the mosquitoes might be caught up and carried over in droplets from the lawn sprinkler.
Expelled air doesn’t just disappear when you breathe it into a mask. The only thing you’re going to change is the direction and perhaps the velocity of it’s spread. Rather than directly out and down, it is cast upwards and backwards through the gaps in the mask/face barrier, which extends the amount of time the virus is airborne, likely allows it to disperse over a greater area, creates ‘clouds’ at face level, and prevents a person from being able to choose the safest direction when talking or coughing.
The best disease entry point for airborne viruses is the eyes, which have far less natural antiviral defenses than the mouth and nose. The mask gaps direct a stream of particles up and into the eyes.
Infectious particles collecting in a mask barrier leads to rebreathing contamination that would otherwise be expelled out into an environment where UV rays would destroy the virus, and more likely infection along a nasal brain nerve pathway — increasing a mask-wearer’s risk of infection.
Increased personal risk of infection directly translates into greater community risk, so anything that exposes the individual de facto exposes the community (rather than the idea that one is taking on some personal risk to protect others). The biggest thing any person can do to protect others is to protect themselves.
Governments have a spectacularly poor record of misinterpreting science and mismanaging public health policy, often with disasterous consequences. Every bureaucratic effort surrounding Covid has been marked by incompetence and error. Why should mask mandates be an exception to this trend?
Health care is an individual responsibility and a matter of personal body autonomy and choice. Individuals have a right to make their OWN decisions. The ‘public health’ should not allow government to violate the rights of healthy people.
Mask mandates do not correlate with reductions in cases, infections, or deaths anywhere in the world, irregardless of compliance. In short, there is no good evidence that they actually work (claims to support that they do can be shown to rest upon presupposition, theoretical modeling, and extremely weak correlation).
There exists decades of valid scientific research about mask efficacy, virtually all of which goes against the ideas undergirding mask mandates. No new studies disproving or overriding this existing science has been done.
Even if masks were shown to give some benefit (and there are a few limited circumstances in which they can), easily observable behaviors surrounding the way they are actually donned, worn, stored, and handled in real-world settings clearly shows that actual practice negates and undermines any potential benefit (and studies show this is true even among highly trained medical professionals.
Asymptomatic people are not contagious* as demonstrated in a study of prevalence of infection following the release of restrictions late half of May in Wuhan. All city residents aged six years or older were eligible and 9,899,828 (92.9%) participated. No new symptomatic cases and 300 asymptomatic cases (detection rate 0.303/10,000, 95% CI 0.270–0.339/10,000) were identified. There were no positive tests amongst 1,174 close contacts of asymptomatic cases. https://www.aier.org/article/asymptomatic-spread-revisited/
MASKERS CANNOT PRODUCE A SINGLE CONCLUSIVE PIECE OF EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THEIR CLAIM — THEY JUST APPEAL TO THEIR AUTHORITY, CITE THEIR OWN MANDATES, AND REFER TO STUDIES THAT USE THEIR OWN ASSUMPTIONS AS FOUNDATIONAL INPUTS.
”It’s true because we think it is, based on a statement we put out that says so!”
Materials to educate you and and others about your rights, the laws that protect them, and how you can defend for them and fight for your freedom!
https://www.thehealthyamerican.org/documents
Dr. Jim Meehan: An Evidence Based Scientific Analysis of Why Masks are Ineffective, Unnecessary, and Harmful
Key Points
Decades of the highest-level scientific evidence (meta-analyses of multiple randomized controlled trials) overwhelmingly conclude that medical masks are ineffective at preventing the transmission of respiratory viruses, including SAR-CoV-2.
Those arguing for masks are relying on low-level evidence (observational retrospective trials and mechanistic theories), none of which are powered to counter the evidence, arguments, and risks of mask mandates.
The majority of the population is at very low to almost no risk of severe or lethal disease from CoVID-19. Children are at an extraordinarily low risk of dying from CoVID-19. Based on CDC published data, 99.99815% of children that contract CoVID-19 survive.
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 among children in schools and daycares is very rare.
Masks worn properly are well documented to cause harm to their wearers. Masks worn improperly, re-used, or contaminated are dangerous.
Any reasonable risk to benefit analysis of medical masks concludes that the risks overwhelmingly outweigh the benefits.
Children are at imminent risk of harm from mask mandates.
Outline
Evidence Based Medicine: How we (should) make decisions in science and medicine
Masks are Ineffective
a. Mixed Messages from the Experts
b. The Evidence Against Masks
c. The Evidence For Masks
Masks are Unnecessary
a. Fear and Politics are Subverting Science and Reason
b. Masking Children in Schools is Unnecessary - So Says The Science
Masks are Harmful
17 Ways that Masks Can Cause Harm
Masking School Children is Ineffective, Unnecessary, and Harmful
a. Mandatory masks in school are a ‘major threat’ to children's’ health, doctors warn
b. Forcing Children to Wear Masks in Schools is Unnecessary
c. Forcing Children to Wear Masks for Long Periods Risks Causing Them Physical Harm
d. Forcing Children to Wear Masks for Long Periods Risks Causing Them Mental and Psychological Harm
https://www.meehanmd.com/blog/2020-10-10-an-evidence-based-scientific-analysis-of-why-masks-are-ineffective-unnecessary-and-harmful/
https://archive.is/wip/FO1oe
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