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Masks Control People, Not Viruses


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2021 Apr 20, 8:45am   112,063 views  960 comments

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/?source=patrick.net


Published online 2020 Nov 22.

Facemasks in the COVID-19 era: A health hypothesis
Baruch Vainshelboim⁎

Abstract
Many countries across the globe utilized medical and non-medical facemasks as non-pharmaceutical intervention for reducing the transmission and infectivity of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). Although, scientific evidence supporting facemasks’ efficacy is lacking, adverse physiological, psychological and health effects are established. Is has been hypothesized that facemasks have compromised safety and efficacy profile and should be avoided from use. The current article comprehensively summarizes scientific evidences with respect to wearing facemasks in the COVID-19 era, providing prosper information for public health and decisions making. ...

Conclusion
The existing scientific evidences challenge the safety and efficacy of wearing facemask as preventive intervention for COVID-19. The data suggest that both medical and non-medical facemasks are ineffective to block human-to-human transmission of viral and infectious disease such SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, supporting against the usage of facemasks. Wearing facemasks has been demonstrated to have substantial adverse physiological and psychological effects. These include hypoxia, hypercapnia, shortness of breath, increased acidity and toxicity, activation of fear and stress response, rise in stress hormones, immunosuppression, fatigue, headaches, decline in cognitive performance, predisposition for viral and infectious illnesses, chronic stress, anxiety and depression. Long-term consequences of wearing facemask can cause health deterioration, developing and progression of chronic diseases and premature death. Governments, policy makers and health organizations should utilize prosper and scientific evidence-based approach with respect to wearing facemasks, when the latter is considered as preventive intervention for public health.



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171   Patrick   2021 Jun 8, 10:53pm  



My girlfriend got our school district to do away with masks!
posted 10 hours ago by Agallagher410 +2475 / -1
I've never been more proud. Our son got home from field day yesterday and nearly passed out because they made them "cool off" in their hot gym with their masks on. His face was bright red, he was severely dehydrated and basically incoherent. Long story short, my girlfriend contacted the superintendent, the principal, posted on her social media, threatened lawsuits, basically started a "revolution" with other parents to contact the school district and hours later the superintendent sent out a notice to all parents that masks will no longer be required. Let her inspire everyone to be a voice, never give up and fight like hell! Don't let tyranny rule. So proud of my girl!!! Our kids do NOT belong in masks.

Side note...today is the Primary for Governor in NJ and I cannot wait to vote our dictating lying democratic ruler out of office!!! Between getting rid of mask mandates and having a voice, we are feeling HIGH ENERGY in Northern NJ! Just wanted to post how proud I am of my girl and to hopefully inspire others to never stop fighting for our freedoms! Let freedom ring!!!


https://patriots.win/p/12izuRyoQG/my-girlfriend-got-our-school-dis/
172   zzyzzx   2021 Jun 9, 4:53am  

Finally social media doing something good!
174   Onvacation   2021 Jun 14, 10:22am  

Is Joe still going to let us celebrate Independence Day? Or have we been bad?
175   Patrick   2021 Jun 15, 12:57am  

Maher went on to cite a Gallup poll on attitudes regarding the continuance of mask-wearing going forward, which showed that a huge majority of Republicans believe people who are vaccinated, healthy, and not showing symptoms should “lead their normal lives.”

Meanwhile, said the host, “71 percent of Democrats: stay home. Keep cowering,” Maher said.

“I see people on the street walking outside with a mask on, like you f**king moron! I just want to shout at them outside the car, you’re a moron! You never could get it outside, really, and you’re alone walking on the street with a mask?” he said.


https://republicandaily.net/2021/06/bill-maher-unloads-on-panicked-liberals-for-wearing-masks-outdoors/
176   WookieMan   2021 Jun 15, 3:33am  

Maher gets it right occasionally. Though I do believe he plays both sides to try and increase viewership and not seem hardcore left. Not sure if that's the case here as masks are completely disappearing now the people have been "vaccinated." So even some on the left would agree with him.

His views aside I can't stand his face and voice. So he's always been unwatchable to me.
177   Patrick   2021 Aug 20, 1:57pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/after-year-of-keeping-kids-at-home-and-inside-experts-have-discovered-the-health-benefits-of-fresh-air

After year of keeping kids at home and inside, experts have discovered the health benefits of fresh air
178   Patrick   2021 Aug 20, 6:22pm  

https://ianmsc.substack.com/p/the-more-masks-fail-the-more-we-need

Masks Aren't Working Anywhere...So We Must Keep Using Them
181   Onvacation   2021 Aug 23, 5:57pm  

For your safety!

182   Patrick   2021 Aug 24, 10:28am  

https://twitter.com/VPrasadMDMPH/status/1429544938451046401#m

Vinay Prasad, MD MPH 🎙️📷
@VPrasadMDMPH
Aug 22
Right now America is intoxicated on masking 2 year olds outside and inside ('cept when they nap - virus naps too)

Soon we will be sober and look at what have we done.

It won't age well, I promise.
8:44 PM · Aug 22, 2021
185   mell   2021 Aug 25, 7:51am  

Patrick says
https://sorendreier.com/list-of-30-studies-showing-face-masks-are-useless-against-covid-19/


These are all good news, step by step the vaxxholes and maskholes narratives are crumbling.
186   GNL   2021 Aug 25, 8:09am  

mell says
Patrick says
https://sorendreier.com/list-of-30-studies-showing-face-masks-are-useless-against-covid-19/


These are all good news, step by step the vaxxholes and maskholes narratives are crumbling.

I sure wish it would make a difference.
187   Patrick   2021 Aug 25, 9:48am  

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/the-science-of-masking-kids-at-school-remains-uncertain.html


In the realm of science and public-health policy outside the U.S., the implications of these particular findings are not exactly controversial. Many of America’s peer nations around the world — including the U.K., Ireland, all of Scandinavia, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Italy — have exempted kids, with varying age cutoffs, from wearing masks in classrooms. Conspicuously, there’s no evidence of more outbreaks in schools in those countries relative to schools in the U.S., where the solid majority of kids wore masks for an entire academic year and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
188   Patrick   2021 Aug 25, 9:50am  


@lorsi101
Aug 20
Replying to @davidzweig @NYMag
To ensure mail-in-voting for 2022 & 2024 elections.

Everyone Has Gone Mad
@triathlete06
Aug 20
Replying to @davidzweig @NYMag
As a religious symbol that you blindly will follow the government. Need to teach them young!


https://twitter.com/davidzweig/status/1428777191047942150#m
190   Onvacation   2021 Aug 27, 8:32pm  

Fucking child abuse. That's the worst part. I could die tomorrow and I have had a full life of service and adventure. These kids can't even tell that people are smiling at them.
Latest from the CDC:


191   Onvacation   2021 Aug 27, 8:33pm  

KRISTEN MEGAN KELLY (SENIOR INDUSTRIAL HYGIENIST) BLOWS UP THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING WITH MASK TRUTHS
192   PeopleUnited   2021 Aug 27, 8:46pm  

Masks are for costumes not our classrooms!
Masks are for costumes not our classrooms!
Masks are for costumes not our classrooms!
Masks are for costumes not our classrooms!
Masks are for costumes not our classrooms!

Just let them breathe!
193   Karloff   2021 Aug 27, 9:50pm  

That's a good video from Mrs. Kelly. I looked up the recommendation she gave to Stephen Petty and found a good video he posted on Covid-19 viron size vs masks. CDC, MSM, et all go on and on about "droplets", but aerosols contain >99.9% of the viral load, which the masks cannot stop. Indoors, they linger in the air for hours to days depending on ventilation, making the 6ft rule pointless.


original link


You can find his other videos at:

https://rumble.com/c/PettyPodcasts

He's got another where he says he got covid (despite taking vit D, C, zinc, plus he's vaccinated) and figured he got it from a plane trip where they made him replace his respirator mask with a lousier one. He describes how the health care system effectively abandons Covid patients until they are nearly beyond help.
194   mell   2021 Aug 27, 10:07pm  

Karloff says
Indoors, they linger in the air for hours to days depending on ventilation, making the 6ft rule pointless.


I don't think the virus survives that long though. You don't get infected from somebody who was indoors hours ago unless there is something you touch that encapsulated it long enough. Surviving just in the aerosols alone for hours and staying infectious rarely happens.
195   Karloff   2021 Aug 27, 10:26pm  

In sunlight, the virus is killed quickly by UV. Around 20 seconds, if I recall. Without that, I do not know how long it can last. I've heard days, but there are so many lies, it is hard to know for sure.
196   Patrick   2021 Aug 27, 10:44pm  

Karloff says
the health care system effectively abandons Covid patients until they are nearly beyond help.



I strongly suspect that this is a deliberate policy to increase deaths so as to keep the fear going, sell more jabs, and increase Pfizer profits.
197   Patrick   2021 Aug 27, 10:57pm  

https://nitter.1d4.us/KDRV/status/1431328353479499776#m


“We had hoped to see the new statewide masking mandate make a difference in flattening the rate of infection, but we’re not seeing that yet,” said Peter Graven, Ph.D., lead data scientist in OHSU’s Business Intelligence unit.
198   HeadSet   2021 Aug 28, 9:21am  

Patrick says
“We had hoped to see the new statewide masking mandate make a difference in flattening the rate of infection,

Horse shit. What he really meant was "We had hoped to see the new statewide masking mandate get ahead of the upcoming natural flattening of the rate of infection, and thus take credit for what would happen anyway. But the curve did not flatten and it embarrassed us by confirming the ineffectiveness of masks."
199   PeopleUnited   2021 Aug 28, 11:27am  

Patrick says
Karloff says
the health care system effectively abandons Covid patients until they are nearly beyond help.



I strongly suspect that this is a deliberate policy to increase deaths so as to keep the fear going, sell more jabs, and increase Pfizer profits.


In other words, the genocide has begun. Wait till they really unleash the beast system of tyranny and oppression. Only those who submit will be considered worthy, but even then not even the sheep will be safe from the slaughter. We are not even as valuable as cattle in the eyes of Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab and their globalist cabal members.
200   mell   2021 Aug 28, 11:37am  

Karloff says
In sunlight, the virus is killed quickly by UV. Around 20 seconds, if I recall. Without that, I do not know how long it can last. I've heard days, but there are so many lies, it is hard to know for sure.


Yeah the days is a maximum and it assumes it has a surface to latch onto, plastic, cardboard etc. It's unlikely that sars cov2 has much staying power in aerosols from all the studies done, and even if so the half life under optimal conditions is around one hour. It's possible in a place with zero ventilation but most stores and venues have some form of ventilation. But the safest way is to do everything outdoors. Keep in mind that the majority of transmissions are within family, restaurants made up less than 2%, so I assume stores even far less.
201   Onvacation   2021 Aug 28, 6:20pm  

mell says
the days is a maximum and it assumes it has a surface to latch onto, plastic, cardboard etc

Not Amazon packages. That cardboard is antiviral.
202   Patrick   2021 Aug 31, 1:00pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/the-philly-naked-bike-ride-required-masks-this-year-

The Philly naked bike ride required masks this year

The whole point of a naked bike ride is to throw off the shackles of authority and celebrate the freedom of the human body and spirit.

Unless, of course, your free-spirited nudity goes against the moral edicts of our new woke religion and the patron saint of masks, St. Anthony Fauci.

In THAT case, you have to celebrate throwing off your shackles by literally muzzling your face.

You may be wondering how a thin cloth mask could possibly play any difference in viral spread when you're riding outdoors at 30mph with your bits and kibble flapping freely in the wind.

Your problem is that you have a functioning brain.
To save the public conscience from the horrors of woke bodies bouncing on bicycles, I will spare you of the video of the actual event.

Sufficed to say, however, the majority of participants strapped a face diaper on as they let the rest of their bodies hang out for the world to see.
203   HeadSet   2021 Aug 31, 3:37pm  

Patrick says
when you're riding outdoors at 30mph

Hol' up.. 30mph pedaling a bike? Down a steep hill maybe with the wind behind you. No way on normal terrain.
204   Eric Holder   2021 Aug 31, 4:27pm  

HeadSet says
Patrick says
when you're riding outdoors at 30mph

Hol' up.. 30mph pedaling a bike? Down a steep hill maybe with the wind behind you. No way on normal terrain.


E-bikes are all the rage now.
206   Patrick   2021 Sep 2, 10:48am  

https://notthebee.com/article/forbes-just-memory-holed-an-article-it-published-by-a-child-trauma-expert-warning-of-the-alleged-risks-of-school-mask-mandates


Sep 1st, 2021 12:13 pm
A few weeks ago Forbes published an article by teacher and Columbia University Ph.D student Zack Ringelstein, warning about the harms of mask mandates for kids:

"Masks and social distancing induce trauma and trauma at a young age is developmentally dangerous, especially for children who are experiencing trauma in other parts of their lives."

In the essay, Ringelstein also argued that "children in masks who are socially distanced are more likely to lead a sedentary lifestyle at school and home, and therefore are also more likely to become both obese and depressed" and that "children in masks are also likely to miss out on critical language development, another fundamental area of growth in early years."

It was a bracing article, notable for its unvarnished assertions about school mask mandates at a time when questioning those mandates is professionally and personally risky.

It would appear that Forbes belatedly decided the same thing, because as of Wednesday, the article is... gone.
208   GNL   2021 Sep 3, 4:19am  

Booger says

The world is under satanic rule.
210   Karloff   2021 Sep 3, 7:28pm  

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