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Masks Control People, Not Viruses


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2021 Apr 20, 8:45am   125,962 views  989 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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429   Patrick   2022 Feb 17, 3:29pm  

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/02/16/texas-planes-mask-mandates/?source=patrick.net


Texas sues CDC to stop mask mandates on planes
The lawsuit, filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and U.S. Rep. Beth Van Duyne, is the latest in a string of measures to limit coronavirus safety measures.

BY SNEHA DEY FEB. 16, 2022
430   GNL   2022 Feb 17, 3:37pm  

Patrick says
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/02/16/texas-planes-mask-mandates/?source=patrick.net


Texas sues CDC to stop mask mandates on planes
The lawsuit, filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and U.S. Rep. Beth Van Duyne, is the latest in a string of measures to limit coronavirus safety measures.

BY SNEHA DEY FEB. 16, 2022

If these airlines are a private business, they could still require the mask, correct?
431   Misc   2022 Feb 17, 4:08pm  

WineHorror1 says
Patrick says
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/02/16/texas-planes-mask-mandates/?source=patrick.net


Texas sues CDC to stop mask mandates on planes
The lawsuit, filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and U.S. Rep. Beth Van Duyne, is the latest in a string of measures to limit coronavirus safety measures.

BY SNEHA DEY FEB. 16, 2022

If these airlines are a private business, they could still require the mask, correct?


All the airline CEOs have come out as anti-mask. It is ButtPlug's doing.
432   Eric Holder   2022 Feb 17, 4:41pm  

WineHorror1 says

If these airlines are a private business, they could still require the mask, correct?


Sure. If they want to go bankrupt.
433   GNL   2022 Feb 17, 5:35pm  

Misc says
All the airline CEOs have come out as anti-mask. It is ButtPlug's doing.

So, it is within the power of FJB to require masks on Airplanes? Good God almighty, how the hell would he expect to get re-elected? Or any other Dem? I guess I can't really defend too many Reps either cause I sure as hell don't hear them come out and say FJB. Tyranny, it's what's for breakfast. No question about it, the government is way out of control. They have no constitutional right to be doing half the shit they've been doing for over 100 years now.
434   Patrick   2022 Feb 18, 1:23pm  

https://babylonbee.com/news/democrat-pollsters-announce-they-have-discovered-a-change-in-the-science?source=patrick.net


“We’ve been poring over the data, specifically the opinions of suburban women in swing states, and it’s become clear that masking children has suddenly become completely ineffective for preventing COVID,” said Democratic pollster scientist Bob McNeill. “It’s really a shocking turnaround, as just last week masks were super effective and anyone who disagreed was a murderer. Gosh, science is amazing!” ...

At publishing time, Jen Psaki was decrying Republicans as the party of masking children while her fan club nodded furiously.
436   Patrick   2022 Feb 19, 10:37am  

https://t.me/greatreject/30788?source=patrick.net

Brave little girl who took off her mask.

Masks are child abuse.
437   Patrick   2022 Feb 20, 3:45pm  

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/bangladesh-study-proves-masks-dont?source=patrick.net


The nice thing is the study showed that masks don’t work, but you’d never know it from reading the paper. You’d only know it if you saw the actual data. And they don’t show you the actual data. They only want you to see the data that supports the “masks work” narrative. They do NOT want you to see the data that doesn’t.

We asked the authors for the original data and we plotted the results for purple masks vs. placebo.

Guess what? Yup. NO DIFFERENCE!




They never even mentioned purple cloth masks made no difference whatsoever. It had ZERO effect. ZERO.
Was this graph noted in the paper? Nope. It was NOWHERE TO BE FOUND IN THE PAPER!
439   Patrick   2022 Feb 22, 1:38pm  

I was in Trader Joe's just now and almost everyone else was wearing a mask, even though they don't have to anymore. On the way out an old woman without a mask thanked me for not wearing one either. It was just her and me in the store without a mask.

It's like I'm living in crazy-land.
440   richwicks   2022 Feb 22, 1:48pm  

Patrick says
It's like I'm living in crazy-land.


Why do you mean like? How long have you been in Silly Con Valley?

This is OBVIOUSLY crazy-land, and has been for at least the 20 years I've been here.
441   Patrick   2022 Feb 22, 1:54pm  

This is a new variant of the craziness, much more dangerous.
442   mell   2022 Feb 22, 2:13pm  

Patrick says
I was in Trader Joe's just now and almost everyone else was wearing a mask, even though they don't have to anymore. On the way out an old woman without a mask thanked me for not wearing one either. It was just her and me in the store without a mask.

It's like I'm living in crazy-land.


Went to whole foods in wine country and was probably 1 out of 10 not wearing a mask. Crazy indeed but a lot of old and scares people
443   GNL   2022 Feb 22, 2:39pm  

Patrick says
I was in Trader Joe's just now and almost everyone else was wearing a mask, even though they don't have to anymore. On the way out an old woman without a mask thanked me for not wearing one either. It was just her and me in the store without a mask.

It's like I'm living in crazy-land.

You are living in crazy-land. Almost all of us are. I just came back from working out. I used the elevator and as I was getting off, an asian woman with a mask on jumped back from the elevator when she saw me coming out of it. Amazing.

In the early days of Covid, I did not wear a mask (never did actually) at the super market. I remember coming around a corner and a woman with a cart was so scared she ran her cart right into the corner of an isle and the whole rack of potato chips came crashing to the floor.
444   WookieMan   2022 Feb 22, 3:44pm  

Patrick says
It's like I'm living in crazy-land.

You are and it's bad. Hung out with two Chicago cop friends over the weekend. I'm convinced this only gets worse. I think Covid kind of goes away, but the underlying BS might be here to stay if that makes sense. Masks and vaccines will go away, but they've figured out the manipulation. It's not going anywhere. I don't have a guess as to the new form of manipulation coming.
445   mell   2022 Feb 22, 3:53pm  

WookieMan says
Patrick says
It's like I'm living in crazy-land.

You are and it's bad. Hung out with two Chicago cop friends over the weekend. I'm convinced this only gets worse. I think Covid kind of goes away, but the underlying BS might be here to stay if that makes sense. Masks and vaccines will go away, but they've figured out the manipulation. It's not going anywhere. I don't have a guess as to the new form of manipulation coming.


Don't care much though as long as nobody pisses on my leg for not wearing one, and nobody said anything. People can wear full body condoms if they want, don't give a shit as long as they leave me and my family alone with their psychosis
447   AmericanKulak   2022 Feb 25, 10:22am  

Patrick says
I was in Trader Joe's just now and almost everyone else was wearing a mask, even though they don't have to anymore. On the way out an old woman without a mask thanked me for not wearing one either. It was just her and me in the store without a mask.

It's like I'm living in crazy-land.


Really? At THIS point?

If you see a maskhole in Central Florida, you KNOW they are almost certainly a far left whacko or an old TV watcher. I go days without seeing people in masks now. Long gone from Supermarket cashiers or restaurant workers or whatever.
451   Onvacation   2022 Feb 26, 5:28pm  

Went to Safeway last night, happy that the mask mandates were over. To my surprise there was a mask poster at the entrance with the notice, "We suggest that the unvaccinated wear masks". I walked in without one and everyone inside was wearing them. Clown World.
452   GNL   2022 Feb 26, 5:34pm  

Onvacation says
Went to Safeway last night, happy that the mask mandates were over. To my surprise there was a mask poster at the entrance with the notice, "We suggest that the unvaccinated wear masks". I walked in without one and everyone inside was wearing them. Clown World.

Yep, and how much you want to bet that probably 99% of those masked are jabbed?
453   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2022 Feb 26, 5:40pm  

Fucking insane in CA. We still have people here so fucking scared of covid they want everyone to wear masks still. This is one of the reasons we are leaving very soon.
454   Patrick   2022 Feb 26, 10:04pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/cdc-announces-new-guidelines-for-masks-and-eases-restrictions-in-accordance-with-democratic-polling-i-mean-science?source=patrick.net


So strange that the public health experts are choosing to shift how they analyze the Covid numbers as soon as the public opinion on Covid restrictions started to shift.

Just a strange coincidence.

And let's not forget, Biden has a State of the Union address just next week.

And it's not like the CDC chose to announce this new plan on a Friday afternoon, the same day as Biden announced a SCOTUS pick and everyone was paying attention to Ukraine.

Oh, wait. They totally did.

Just thought they could slip it past us there.
455   Patrick   2022 Mar 1, 8:11pm  

https://www.ksbw.com/article/santa-cruz-parents-issues-cease-and-desist-letter-to-santa-cruz-office-of-education/39288116?source=patrick.net

Trying to take legal action against masks, but it seems the school mandate is also being lifted now because Biden's poll numbers are truly in the shitter.
456   Patrick   2022 Mar 1, 8:24pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/left-coast-states-cali-oregon-and-washington-are-all-suspending-mask-mandates-in-schools-the-science-has-changed?source=patrick.net

The three left coast states – California, Oregon, and Washington – are all set to finally drop their insane school masking policy, in accordance with the (political) science.

All three states are simultaneously suspending the indoor mask requirements on March 11, because Covid can still spread on the 10th, I guess.
457   zzyzzx   2022 Mar 2, 7:27am  

Mask mandate and testing requirements lifted at work.
458   RWSGFY   2022 Mar 2, 8:41am  

zzyzzx says
Mask mandate and testing requirements lifted at work.


Same.
459   GNL   2022 Mar 2, 9:37am  

Did either of you take the jab?
460   Booger   2022 Mar 3, 2:19pm  

No

464   Patrick   2022 Mar 7, 5:38pm  

https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/michigan-states-policy-masks-in-class?s=r&source=patrick.net


The Facts:

Michigan State University has announced that its indoor basketball stadiums will drop mask and vaccine mandates.

Inside its classrooms, mask mandate will continue.

The president is an infectious disease physician.

I think we have reached a new low.

The university’s policy cannot be explained by caring about COVID19 spread. If you truly cared, you could ban basketball games entirely. Or hold them in dramatically reduced capacity. You could even mandate n95 mask wearing inside the stadium. The players could also wear masks, just like we ask school kids to at recess in several California cities. After all, many believe these do not impair exertion in any way. These actions however would cost MSU massive revenue, so would never be entertained. Moreover, I would never advocate for this.

The policy can’t be about protecting faculty. Because faculty’s greatest risk comes from outside of work: their vacation, dining, cocktail party, travel and conference habits. MSU is not suspending all work related gatherings and advising faculty not to go on vacation/ leave their homes. Most faculty I know are living large.

The policy is not about science, but worse: it flunks the common sense test. It shows only that MSU can enforce mask mandates on a population that has little recourse (students in class), and little ability to push back.

At least one reason Americans are fed up with COVID-19, and unlikely to be favorable towards public health going forward are naked contradictions like this. If people with power to set policy punish only the powerless, and have policy that is clearly self-defeating, why should they even have power? Why should anyone take them seriously?

I feel bad for rational folks left at MSU, and I know there are many. Sadly, the leaders have lost your trust.
466   Patrick   2022 Mar 8, 11:59am  

https://notthebee.com/article/when-do-all-the-victims-of-mask-abuse-get-justice?source=patrick.net


Now that the CDC has acknowledged the reality that cloth masks were ineffective to stop the spread of airborne COVID…
Now that entertainment elites write and perform little skits making light of the very mask-abuse they promoted and amplified against…
Now that the same governmental leaders who authored the unnecessary laws and enforced the harmful guidelines have now themselves demonstrated on national television they no longer see them as useful…
Now that Hollywood stars and music moguls have dropped their own charade and paraded through packed stadiums without the masks they so frequently endorsed on social media…
Now that the president has gone silent after using his bully pulpit to hang guilt and shame around the neck of everyone who dared to point to evidence questioning his administration's mitigation decrees…
Now that the architect of so many of these rigid yet inconsistent, intrusive yet arbitrary policies, who crowned himself the personification of science itself has seemingly been intentionally removed from the public eye entirely…
Isn't it time for some heads to roll? Isn't it time for fair-minded people with any shred of moral conscience to forget criticizing the governor who tells kids to stop wearing pointless and harmful masks and start holding the governors, legislators, mayors, superintendents, and school boards who bullied vulnerable kids into strapping them to their faces?
468   Patrick   2022 Mar 11, 9:41am  

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/get-rid-masks-planes-tsa-cdc/?source=patrick.net


Get rid of masks on planes
There isn’t a single study with a control group that shows they work. Follow the science!

March 10, 2022

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