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Masks Control People, Not Viruses


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2021 Apr 20, 8:45am   127,589 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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386   GNL   2022 Feb 2, 11:36am  

Patrick says

Don't go back.
388   Patrick   2022 Feb 3, 3:46pm  

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/after-peak-covid-season?source=patrick.net




curve separation is minimal and as can be seen, “no mandate” outperformed slightly.

this pretty much puts paid to the “but it would have been worse!” nope. there’s just no difference to speak of and such difference as exists leans against mask mandate.

and nope, N-95’s would not have helped either. they work just the same as other masks, which is to say, not at all.






390   WookieMan   2022 Feb 4, 6:04am  

I've said it before, masks probably do stop some transfer of the virus. The problem lies in the fact you're touching your face probably 10-20x's as much adjusting a mask. You're then potentially putting viral load on your mask and breathing it in all day.

Besides your ass for AIDS, you should really touch your face as little as possible besides things like shaving, putting contacts in, washing, etc. Your mouth and nose are the most likely points of viral infection and we're asking people to touch their faces to adjust a mask exponentially more than normal.
393   Patrick   2022 Feb 4, 9:31pm  

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/california-high-school-barricades-maskless-children-gym-staffer-turns-thermostat-freeze/?source=patrick.net


California High School Barricades Maskless Children in Gym, Staffer Turns Down Thermostat to “Freeze Them Out”
By Cristina Laila
Published February 4, 2022 at 6:15pm

Photo taken by one of the abused students:




Oakdale, California – High School students at Oakdale Joint Unified School District began protesting the state’s mask mandate after Governor Newsom was spotted at a 49ers-Rams game without a mask on.

“If they don’t follow by their own rules that they’re trying to force upon me, why should I follow them,” an Oakdale High School student told CBS 13.




Brave high schoolers showed up to school without masks this week and the far-left school staffers used lunch tables to barricade the children in the school’s gym.

Getting reports that after hundreds protested against school mask mandates yesterday, today, @OakdaleJUSD barricaded any student not properly wearing a mask in the gym and refused to turn on the heat. Police were called for a wellness check and police turned on the heat.

— Reopen California Schools (@ReopenCASchools) February 4, 2022

The police were called to conduct a welfare check after a school staff member turned down the thermostat to “freeze them out.”

A school officer conducted a welfare check and concluded it was not a police matter so the abuse is not currently under police investigation.

Update: Confirmed staff attempted to barricade the maskless high schoolers in the gym by putting tables in front of the exits. A staff member also was caught turning down the thermostat to “freeze them out.”

— Reopen California Schools (@ReopenCASchools) February 4, 2022

After escaping the freezing gym, the students marched to the district headquarters in protest.

God bless these children.

After later “escaping” the freezing gym, the kids marched to the district headquarters in protest. pic.twitter.com/Mz95ySlOTR

— Reopen California Schools (@ReopenCASchools) February 4, 2022
394   Patrick   2022 Feb 4, 10:27pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/i-am-so-impressed-with-these-kids-who-refused-to-wear-masks-at-a-washington-school?source=patrick.net


I am so dang impressed with these kids who refused to wear masks at a Washington school and the remarkable young man who led them

That young man is a leader. The kind of leader we sorely and desperately need in America right now.

It's so encouraging to see these kids fight back against the cowardly adults who want them to get with the program. If mask mandates have a silver lining, it's all the free-thinking, based kids that are starting to rage against the machine. The ramifications of a generation that doesn't buy into the Narrative™ are huge.

Here were the students brushing past a staff worker who whined impotently that they needed to take a mask to come inside the school ...

Keep it up, kids! ✊
395   GNL   2022 Feb 5, 9:17am  

Kidnapping, forced imprisonment and inhumane conditions? How the fuck are these adults not in jail?

If a private company tried this?
398   Patrick   2022 Feb 7, 11:20am  

https://mynorthwest.com/3336453/owner-of-billys-cafe-burlington-vows-to-fight-state/?source=patrick.net


When Bill DeJong went to pay his employees at Billy’s Café in Burlington last month, he suffered a gut punch after opening his bank account.

Nearly $8,700 needed for payroll was gone, DeJong told The Dori Monson Show. It was seized by the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) over what the agency says are COVID “safety citations.”

Chehalis restaurant that racked up $400,000 in fines over COVID rules to close permanently

Over the past few months, DeJong says, L&I slapped him with more than $367,000 in fines over refusing to adhere to Gov. Inslee’s mask mandates. But the café owner objects to what he calls the state’s “crazy rules,” and says dining at his restaurant is “up to Americans and I am not telling them what to do.”

“I want to make sure we’re clear: When [COVID] first happened, I shut down like everybody else,” DeJong said. “I was worried about the safety of my employees, my customers, my family.”

But after months of following rules that DeJong says were “super confusing – ‘wear your mask when you sit down, but then when you get up, but not when you’re eating’” — he said his crew decided that “Americans will decide what’s best for them and their health,” and they dropped the mask mandate.

“I’m totally fine if people don’t want to come in here,” DeJong said. “You have a choice if you want to come into my café, if you want to get something to go, if you want to get it delivered – or if you want to sit down and have a cup of coffee with us.”

That’s when visits from state L&I officers started at the Skagit County business he’s owned since 2014.

“They wanted to ‘educate me’ – those where their words,” DeJong said.

But the daily fines accumulated from $2,000 to now more than $367,000.

Playing devil’s advocate, Dori asked DeJong if it wouldn’t have just been easier to make dine-in guests wear a mask between the door and the table.

“To the veteran who comes in – who sacrificed a lot more than many of us ever had – to tell him what he can or cannot do, or where he cannot sit, or whether he cannot have a cup of coffee? That is not my café, and that’s not America,” DeJong responded.

“I’m not dumb. I know this is a battle,” he said. “It’s against the state, and it’s not going to be easy, and it’s going to be uphill and it’s going to be tough. … We are willing to fight this battle.”

“We’re getting a ton of support from other people in Skagit County, and even across the nation now,” he added. “My job now is to let people know what’s going on and fight the good fight.”
402   Patrick   2022 Feb 8, 10:12am  

https://unherd.com/2022/02/were-masks-a-waste-of-time/?source=patrick.net

A document published by the World Health Organisation in 2019 framed the results of these studies in no uncertain terms: “there was no evidence that face masks are effective in reducing transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza”. It’s unsurprising, then, that when the CDC briefed reporters on the pandemic in February of 2020, masking was not even mentioned among the NPIs that might be deployed. The UK government, too, stated early in 2020 that there was no evidence to support masking.
406   Patrick   2022 Feb 11, 1:03pm  

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-insanity-of-school-mask-mandates?source=patrick.net








Remember, folks, correlation is not causation. Except when very old and frail (unvaccinated) people die of Covid.

Then it absolutely is.
409   Onvacation   2022 Feb 12, 8:28am  

I suspect wearing a mask helps viruses incubate.
412   Patrick   2022 Feb 12, 11:48am  

https://t.me/greatreject/30362?source=patrick.net


Quebec, Canada: a large group of schoolchildren walk out as they refuse to wear muzzles.
413   Patrick   2022 Feb 13, 12:44pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/heres-video-of-schools-in-illinois-literally-locking-kids-up-in-rooms-for-not-wearing-masks-even-though-the-governor-has-lifted-masking-rules?source=patrick.net


Watch: Illinois Schools Are Reportedly LOCKING KIDS UP In Rooms For Not Wearing Masks, Even Though The Governor Has Lifted Masking Rules
418   WookieMan   2022 Feb 16, 7:10am  

My kids school district pulled the plug on masks last night. They no longer have to wear them at school. My oldest has set our bin of masks for them by the fireplace... lol. I think the teachers might have a rough day today though, we'll see. It's an easy test to see who has been brainwashed the most. Knowing my town I'd think most kids won't be wearing them or some maybe didn't see the email yet.

There's always a parent(s) that is going to have a problem with this. Fortunately I'm in a fuck the government type town so hopefully it's a "peaceful" transition to no mask at the school.
419   AmericanKulak   2022 Feb 16, 10:53am  

Patrick says
Watch: Illinois Schools Are Reportedly LOCKING KIDS UP In Rooms For Not Wearing Masks, Even Though The Governor Has Lifted Masking Rules

People have to freakin' sue on this.
420   Patrick   2022 Feb 16, 1:36pm  

In the peninsula Daily Post today:



I think I'll cross post this to the rollback thread, because it really is a reversal from the insanity around here.
421   Patrick   2022 Feb 16, 2:00pm  

Senator Rand Paul Plans To Force A Vote On Ending Mask Mandates For Airplanes



original link
424   Onvacation   2022 Feb 17, 5:49am  

Went to Costco yesterday. Everyone was wearing masks. I walked in maskless and did my shopping. The whole time I was there I only saw one other guy without a mask. There was one woman that had her mask on her chin but she pulled it up when she saw me coming

What the fuck is the matter with people?

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