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Masks Control People, Not Viruses


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2021 Apr 20, 8:45am   126,995 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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215   Eric Holder   2021 Sep 9, 10:36am  

Patrick says
https://notthebee.com/article/harrowing-inside-the-emotional-hellscape-where-professors-have-to-teach-rooms-full-of-unmasked-students

Harrowing: Inside the "emotional hellscape" where professors have to teach rooms full of unmasked students


LITERALLY GAS CHAMBERS!!!!
218   Karloff   2021 Sep 17, 10:13am  

Any imbecile who runs a marathon while wearing a mask deserves to be ridiculed when the inevitable video of them collapsing is uploaded to the Internet.
219   mell   2021 Sep 17, 10:18am  

Karloff says
Any imbecile who runs a marathon while wearing a mask deserves to be ridiculed when the inevitable video of them collapsing is uploaded to the Internet.


Even pro youth athletes have passed out / collapsed running track hard while wearing a mask. Nuts
220   Booger   2021 Sep 19, 6:31am  

Was around Harrisburg PA yesterday at the RV show and later at a restaurant. Both places were crowded as fuck. Almost nobody wearing a mask at the RV show. Absolutely nobody at Texas Roadhouse wearing a mask, not even the employees! I don't see that where I live.

And if you were wondering, there was no shortage of RV's at the show. They were also packed in like proverbial sardines. It was really hot outside (as if it were July) and with all the RV awnings out it was easy enough to stay in the shade most of the time.
223   DhammaStep   2021 Oct 1, 7:53am  

Masking is alive and well in NYC, unfortunately. I feel that all the mandatory signage keeps people afraid of the virus even when they shouldn't be. I'm starting to see "How To Wear Two Mask" signs now.

I just realized that I don't even own a mask. Feels like I'm living in a parallel dimension to these maskers.
225   Patrick   2021 Oct 1, 10:43pm  

DhammaStep says
I just realized that I don't even own a mask


@DhammaStep How do you buy food?
226   AmericanKulak   2021 Oct 1, 10:56pm  

I've heard you can't dine in anywhere in NYC without vax proof.
227   DhammaStep   2021 Oct 2, 6:08am  

Patrick says
DhammaStep says
I just realized that I don't even own a mask


@DhammaStep How do you buy food?


I've never been asked to wear a mask in a supermarket. I should have been more clear. I feel that businesses are required to have a sign that says "Please wear a mask" but it's not lawfully required to actually wear one. Citizens in NYC keep confusing these CDC recommendations with laws and it simply isn't the case from my experience. That or no one cares. The businesses I've frequented for decades don't care that I'm not wearing a mask. I don't wear a mask on the NYC subway, and I commute multiple times a day. I've ridden the trains next to MTA employees and the NYPD they simply don't care. There's a small percentage of folks like me that just don't wear masks anywhere, because they figured out that nobody will do anything. I'm always prepared to just turn around and leave if I'm asked to wear one, but it never happens.

The worst that can happen is middle aged to elderly women give me dirty looks. I was pretty adjusted to that before COVID. Any business that would force me to wear a mask just won't get my business.

Restaurants are a different story. We almost never dined out at restaurants before any of this passport stuff unless it was a very special occasion. When I order out for food, it's usually from places that barely had dining in space to begin with. Spending more than ten dollars for a hot meal would give me a damn heart attack anyway, so if I need a fast bite I go to one of our many food carts.
228   DhammaStep   2021 Oct 2, 7:13am  

Just got home from a supermarket excursion so I did an unofficial count:

3 maskless customers (including myself)
2 maskless employees
The checkout girl wasn't wearing her mask over her nose
5 masked customers
3 masked employees
1 double masked irritable upper middle aged woman

And of course I forgot the damn vegetable broth.
229   GNL   2021 Oct 2, 7:21am  

Here in northern Virginia (I live about 1 mile from CIA headquarters...Langley Va.) which is deep blue. I never wore a mask anywhere. Was only asked to leave 2 places. We never did go out to eat much before covid. Mostly takeout so not going to restaurants didn't affect us much. I went in to grocery stores, my local hardware store, convenience stores, drug stores without any problems at all. I would always pick up our to go food without a mask. If they tried to enforce the mask bullshit I simply asked them if they wanted me to pay for my food order or if they wanted to lose even more money than they already have. Worked every time.
231   Patrick   2021 Oct 10, 7:59pm  

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusCirclejerk/comments/pu86g3/dr_kevin_stillwagon_obliterates_the_mask_and/


Dr. Kevin Stillwagon obliterates the mask and vaccine mandates narrative at his local Orange County, Florida Board of Commissioners Meeting held on Tuesday, September 14, 2021
233   HeadSet   2021 Oct 12, 4:22pm  

Patrick says
DhammaStep says
I just realized that I don't even own a mask


@DhammaStep How do you buy food?

He shows the 666 tattoo on his forehead.
237   richwicks   2021 Oct 18, 1:28am  

Freedom is an illusion.
239   Patrick   2021 Oct 19, 12:47pm  


Michael Tracey
@mtracey
Oct 17
Every time I walk into a restaurant with my mask affixed for 30 seconds before being seated, then spend 45 minutes unmasked eating and drinking, and then affix my mask again for 30 seconds while leaving, I give thanks for how many thousands of lives this practice has surely saved
6:51 PM · Oct 17, 2021
240   GNL   2021 Oct 19, 3:10pm  

Patrick says

Michael Tracey
@mtracey
Oct 17
Every time I walk into a restaurant with my mask affixed for 30 seconds before being seated, then spend 45 minutes unmasked eating and drinking, and then affix my mask again for 30 seconds while leaving, I give thanks for how many thousands of lives this practice has surely saved
6:51 PM · Oct 17, 2021

NEVER wear it on the way out. What are they going to do, ask you to leave?
241   richwicks   2021 Oct 19, 10:21pm  

mell says
Even pro youth athletes have passed out / collapsed running track hard while wearing a mask. Nuts


Good way to cheat, just have something that makes breathing through the mask easier. That will give you a competitive advantage.

Anyhow, it IS ludicrous to have masks, well, at all.
242   Patrick   2021 Oct 20, 10:24am  

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/why-do-parents-support-mask-regime/

Millions of insane mothers are permanently damaging their children.
243   Patrick   2021 Oct 22, 2:31pm  

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/human-body/its-crap-victorian-study-claiming-mandatory-masks-stopped-second-wave-shredded-by-experts/news-story/aeb937d27ec5a79e6b728ade598f49ab


‘It’s crap’: Victorian study claiming mandatory masks stopped second wave shredded by experts
The authors of a “world-first” Australian face mask study that was ripped apart by experts as “very, very low quality” have issued a response to the criticism.

Frank Chung
October 21, 2021
245   WookieMan   2021 Oct 24, 1:09am  

In St Thomas/John right now. Super strict from last year. Beaches are fine. Restaurants are crazy. I guess local gov has roaming Covid brigades. Talked with the bartender at length and they legit walk down the beach and sneak on the resort to catch them doing something “wrong.”

I love this place, but not digging the mask. I’ll wear the neck gaiter for sun protection, but getting annoyed having to mask up for no reason. Having fun, but not the same as the last two years. Boat day today. Should get my annual Epstein Island photo. Insomnia sucks. Need to get back to sleep.
246   Booger   2021 Oct 24, 5:15am  

You should have gone to Florida instead.
249   WookieMan   2021 Oct 26, 12:48pm  

Booger says
You should have gone to Florida instead.

Was there last month and for Spring Break this year. Love me some Florida, but there’s not a single beach that touches those of St John and a few on St Thomas.

Panhandle FL does have the best sand I’ve personally experienced. But the water, reefs and underwater wildlife can’t be beat in USVI versus mainland US. Between vacation as a child till now, I’ve probably lived close to 2 years in FL. So we switched it up and love it besides this Covid BS
250   Booger   2021 Oct 27, 6:34pm  

WookieMan says
Panhandle FL does have the best sand I’ve personally experienced.


Clearly you have never been on the beach in Atlantic City.
252   DhammaStep   2021 Oct 28, 6:51am  

I'm a little disturbed by the increase of mask wearing I've been seeing during my commutes on the NYC subway. Just two months ago it wouldn't be unusual to have at least two other people unmasked on the train at any given time, but now they've started to disappear.

The mandates likely took away the freebreathers jobs thus negating their need to commute?

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