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Masks Control People, Not Viruses


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2021 Apr 20, 8:45am   127,268 views  995 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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285   Patrick   2021 Nov 25, 5:11pm  

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/california-county-imposes-mask-mandate-inside-private-homes-regardless-of-vaccination-status/


Thu Nov 25, 2021 - 10:37 am EST
SANTA CRUZ, California (LifeSiteNews) – A California county has imposed a mask mandate for all indoor gatherings regardless of vaccination status, including those in private homes.

On Monday, Santa Cruz County announced that, effective Sunday, wearing masks will be required in all indoor settings where people from more than one household are present, including gatherings in private homes.

“What it looks like to the public is that we’re going back and forth and can’t make up our minds. What it really is, [is] science evolving as we speak,” said Dr. David Ghilarducci, the county’s Deputy Health Officer, in the announcement.
286   RWSGFY   2021 Nov 25, 7:59pm  

Patrick says
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/california-county-imposes-mask-mandate-inside-private-homes-regardless-of-vaccination-status/


Thu Nov 25, 2021 - 10:37 am EST
SANTA CRUZ, California (LifeSiteNews) – A California county has imposed a mask mandate for all indoor gatherings regardless of vaccination status, including those in private homes.

On Monday, Santa Cruz County announced that, effective Sunday, wearing masks will be required in all indoor settings where people from more than one household are present, including gatherings in private homes.

“What it looks like to the public is that we’re going back and forth and can’t make up our minds. What it really is, [is] science evolving as we speak,” said Dr. David Ghilarducci, the county’s Deputy Health Officer, in the announcement.


Another *ucci prick? How original.
287   Patrick   2021 Nov 28, 10:24am  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10247315/Face-masks-harm-childrens-development-Study-blames-significantly-reduced-development.html


COVID rules are blamed for 23% dive in young children's development: Disturbing study shows scores in three key cognitive tests slumped between 2018 and 2021, with face mask rules among possible culprits
Face masks and other social distancing measures may in fact impede on children's development, a new study executed by Brown University has found
The probe analyzed the cognitive development of the youngsters through infancy, childhood and adolescence
In the study, researchers first analyzed 1,070 assessments administered on 605 kids prior to March 2020, when COVID lockdowns and masking began
A further 154 assessments from 118 kids administered between March 2020 and June 2021, during the height of the pandemic, were then carried out
Thirty-nine children born in 2018 and 2019 were analyzed over the course of the pandemic, into 2021.
The report found that there was a 23 per cent drop in scores measuring kids' intelligence quotients since the start of the pandemic
The study also found similar dips in the same span in regards to developing children's ability to communicate, both verbally and though subtle facial cues




288   zzyzzx   2021 Nov 30, 11:33am  

https://summit.news/2021/11/30/oxford-professor-official-data-shows-face-masks-made-no-meaningful-difference-to-infection-rates/

Oxford Professor: Official Data Shows Face Masks “Made No Meaningful Difference” to Infection Rates
289   Patrick   2021 Dec 3, 12:47pm  

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/study-342000-adults-finds-masks-effective-against-covid-based-20


Researchers shoot holes in study touted for confirming 'masks work' in curbing Wuhan Virus

An acclaimed study on the effectiveness of masks in reducing symptomatic COVID-19 is facing new scrutiny after a researcher highlighted the minuscule infection differences between "treatment" and control groups randomized across 600 Bangladeshi villages.

Accused of design flaws and overstating its findings when it was released in late August, the study's newly released data show only 20 more symptomatic COVID cases in the villages that didn't receive masks and related education, reminders and "role modeling by community leaders."

In a total study population of 342,126 adults, 1,106 people in the control group tested positive, compared to 1,086 in the treatment group. The latter group represented 52% of the study population.

"I have a hard time going from these numbers to the assured conclusions that 'masks work' that was promulgated by the media or the authors after this preprint [not yet peer reviewed] appeared," University of California Berkeley professor Ben Recht, who studies machine learning, wrote in an essay last week.

He said he was frustrated that the "raw number of seropositive cases" was left out of the preprint by researchers led by Yale University economists Jason Abaluck and Ahmed Mobarak, preventing him from "computing standard statistical analyses of their results."
290   Patrick   2021 Dec 3, 5:52pm  

https://needtoknow.news/2021/12/large-uk-supermarket-chains-refuse-to-police-divisive-face-mask-mandates/?source=patrick.net


Face mask policies were dropped in England in July, but were re-introduced this week. Iceland and Co-op, two large supermarket chains in the UK, have publicly said they will tell staff not to enforce the new divisive mask rules. They will allow people who are unmasked to enter their stores and will serve them. The British Retail Consortium said that it was the responsibility of the police to enforce the rules. People can make a difference by refusing to comply with unlawful policies.
292   WookieMan   2021 Dec 4, 4:00am  

FuckCCP89 says

I've been having legit panic attacks on flights with the mask and I love flying. I've had some success keeping it off, but I'm thinking about it the whole damn time. And I know it raises my BP in a pressurized cabin like you're on a small mountain.

And let's say masks are effective, it has to restrict O2 intake and you're sucking in the outtake. In what way is that healthy? I should be allowed to take a risk of getting a mundane virus or I can choose to stay home. Not forced to wear a mask by a business or government. Once past TSA I generally don't wear the mask. People don't realize it, but there's no one there to enforce wearing one until you get to the gate and on the plane. And other Karen's likely now know the arguments and how wrong they are. If your mask works, you're good. Don't worry about me.
293   Patrick   2021 Dec 4, 11:21pm  

WookieMan says
If your mask works, you're good. Don't worry about me.




Lol, good response.
294   WookieMan   2021 Dec 4, 11:43pm  

Patrick says
WookieMan says
If your mask works, you're good. Don't worry about me.



Lol, good response.

Everything is a contradiction with this pandemic. Literally everything. Masks work. They don't. Vaccines work. They don't. Social distancing works. It doesn't. People have done all this and it's still spreading faster than pre-masking and vaccines. Our group/family that has it now has the sniffles. Kids don't even notice it.

We've always needed to protect the vulnerable. I've said that for a while. I'm on the health push now, but even people of average health and age barely notice anything with covid. If you're fat and or old, I'd worry less about the mask and vaccine and get your ass in shape pretty quick. It's not about breakthrough cases, the vaccine simply doesn't work. You can still get sick. Being healthy is key.
295   Patrick   2021 Dec 5, 9:55pm  

WookieMan says
the vaccine simply doesn't work. You can still get sick. Being healthy is key.




Amen.
297   Karloff   2021 Dec 6, 2:36pm  

The Face Mask Folly in Retrospect

https://swprs.org/the-face-mask-folly-in-retrospect/?source=patrick.net

It has been known for decades that face masks don’t work against respiratory virus epidemics. Why has much of the world nonetheless fallen for the face mask folly? Twelve reasons.
300   Patrick   2021 Dec 13, 9:51pm  

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/kitten-corner-movie-sequels/comments?source=patrick.net


from the people who brought you: “masks so efficacious they caused a drop in covid in the unmasked states next door”

it’s covid shenanigans part 2:

“a vaccine so good, it makes omicron mild, even in the unvaccinated!”
302   Patrick   2021 Dec 14, 8:54pm  

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/a-walk-down-memory-lane/comments?source=patrick.net


the year was 2009. a kinder time. a gentler time. a time when “slate magazine” still knew that masks do not stop SARS or swine flu because the virions are too small and too aerosolozied.




there is still not a single, valid, clinical outcomes RCT that supports masking to stop covid.

there are literally dozens that show inefficacy.

the science here could not be more clear.

there is no data that can convince people who do not care about data and choose to clutch talismans instead so they can feel like they are “doing something.”

this is just the low energy path to profess tribal allegiance and signal virtue.




it will only stop when you make it stop.

disobey.
303   Booger   2021 Dec 16, 3:05pm  

https://www.wnd.com/2021/12/4968557/?source=patrick.net

Airline CEOs: Drop the air-travel mask mandate
306   Patrick   2021 Dec 16, 9:03pm  

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/ceos-of-two-major-airlines-question?source=patrick.net


CEOs of two major airlines question the need for mask mandates
They are absolutely right. Is anyone listening?
307   Patrick   2021 Dec 16, 9:10pm  




https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/making-more-swiss-cheese-of-the-mask?source=patrick.net


and they are STILL selling this bill of shoddy goods for one more turn in the limelight. this is the final, grasping desperation of the narrative slipping away. they lost the center because the data become too obvious and the lies too many and too outlandish to support.

masks = fear.

masks = alienation.

masks = signs of submission and that everything is NOT normal.

wearing masks promotes a crisis mentality.

it’s why the panic pushers love them.

sure, the 20% that genuinely adore this and uncritically consume all input from their team will stay onside, but that’s not where the fight is.

the fight is in the center.

that’s what tips. that’s where norms come from. and they are waking up wholesale to the hallucinatory health policy they’ve been tripping on.
309   Maga_Chaos_Monkey   2021 Dec 18, 11:52am  

New statewide mask mandate AGAIN?! And this: https://www.kcra.com/article/california-exempts-san-francisco-covid-indoor-mask-rule/38529627?source=patrick.net

WTF?

I was grocery shopping last night in SD and plenty of people ignoring this or just don't know lol.
311   WookieMan   2021 Dec 22, 11:17am  

just_passing_through says
I was grocery shopping last night in SD and plenty of people ignoring this or just don't know lol.

Ignoring. CA peeps are catching up with the rest of the country. No one wears masks at much more than 10% if that. Unless you're in a liberal city.
312   HeadSet   2021 Dec 22, 5:31pm  

zzyzzx says

That looks badly photoshopped. There are plenty of examples of real mask hypocrisy by Biden and others that a fake one is not needed. This type of manipulated photo just gives ammo for the lefties to call all examples of maskless Dems as fake.
315   Patrick   2021 Dec 27, 12:05pm  

https://www.dailywire.com/news/internet-erupts-over-video-of-woman-going-off-on-man-for-not-wearing-mask-on-plane-sit-down-karen?utm_campaign=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_source=patrick.net&utm_content=non_member


A video went viral over Christmas weekend that showed a woman berating an older man on a flight for not wearing a mask while she also had her mask pulled down.

In the video, which has been viewed millions of times, the man, who was seated, tells the woman, who was standing over him, that the reason that his mask was down was because he was eating.

“Stand your a*s up!” the woman yelled. “Stand your a*s up!”

“Sit down, Karen!” the man fired back. “You’re a g*****n, Karen. Sit down!”

After several more moments of an intense back-and-forth between the man and the woman, the flight crew got involved and tried to break up the situation before she struck the man in the face with her hand.

“No you’re going to jail,” the man yelled. “That’s assault. You’re going to jail. As soon as we get to Atlanta, you’re going to jail.”

“Karen!” the man yelled.

The woman then appeared to spit in the man’s face.

“Now you spit on me, now you’re double going to jail,” the man fired back.

“You f***ing piece of s**t,” the woman yelled.

“Put your f***ing mask on!” the woman yelled as she was not wearing a mask. “Put your f***ing mask on!”
316   WookieMan   2021 Dec 27, 1:00pm  

Booger says
https://www.wnd.com/2021/12/4968557/?source=patrick.net

Airline CEOs: Drop the air-travel mask mandate

Amen. Have a 4 hour flight to Jamaica in a couple weeks. Big (tall) guy in a little seat and masking is miserable. No beer either. Absolutely love travel, but this Covid shit has been awful. What about drinking a beer on a plane spreads covid?
318   Patrick   2021 Dec 30, 11:39am  

https://reason.com/2021/12/17/study-masks-in-schools-junk-science-cdc-walensky/?source=patrick.net

The Study That Convinced the CDC To Support Mask Mandates in Schools Is Junk Science
319   Patrick   2021 Dec 30, 11:40am  

https://reclaimthenet.org/twitter-bans-mrna-vaccine-critic-dr-robert-malone/?source=patrick.net


December 30, 2021
Twitter bans mRNA Covid vaccine critic Dr. Robert Malone
Dr. Malone's ban came just before his scheduled Joe Rogan podcast recording.
320   Misc   2021 Dec 31, 12:14am  

Just any day now, they will put up biohazard containers where people will be able to properly dispose of their masks.
322   Onvacation   2022 Jan 1, 5:47pm  

Dehumanization.

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