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https://archive.is/XCu1K

The most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies conducted on the efficacy of masks for reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses — including Covid-19 — was published late last month. Its conclusions, said Tom Jefferson, the Oxford epidemiologist who is its lead author, were unambiguous.
“There is just no evidence that they” — masks — “make any difference,” he told the journalist Maryanne Demasi. “Full stop.”
But, wait, hold on. What about N-95 masks, as opposed to lower-quality surgical or cloth masks?
“Makes no difference — none of it,” said Jefferson.
What about the studies that initially persuaded policymakers to impose mask mandates?
“They were convinced by nonrandomized studies, flawed observational studies.”
What about the utility of masks in conjunction with other preventive measures, such as hand hygiene, physical distancing or air filtration?
“There’s no evidence that many of these things make any difference.”
These observations don’t come from just anywhere. Jefferson and 11 colleagues conducted the study for Cochrane, a British nonprofit that is widely considered the gold standard for its reviews of health care data. The conclusions were based on 78 randomized controlled trials, six of them during the Covid pandemic, with a total of 610,872 participants in multiple countries. And they track what has been widely observed in the United States: States with mask mandates fared no better against Covid than those without. ...

The last justification for masks is that, even if they proved to be ineffective, they seemed like a relatively low-cost, intuitively effective way of doing something against the virus in the early days of the pandemic. But “do something” is not science, and it shouldn’t have been public policy. And the people who had the courage to say as much deserved to be listened to, not treated with contempt. They may not ever get the apology they deserve, but vindication ought to be enough.

No, "vindication" is not enough. The criminals who imposed stupid, humiliating, and completely ineffective mask mandates must go to jail.

https://notthebee.com/article/this-guy-asked-people-to-share-their-craziest-photos-from-the-pandemic-and-they-are-just-as-bas-as-i-remember

https://notthebee.com/article/its-been-three-years-and-san-francisco-just-ended-their-mask-mandates-but-landlords-still-cant-collect-rent

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nyc-police-want-shoppers-remove-230315619.html

Face masks, once an essential Covid-19 protective measure, are now being worn by criminals to conceal their identities, according to New York police who are urging businesses to unmask customers before letting them in stores.

The recommendation is a 180-degree turn from mask-wearing norms at the onset of the pandemic. During peak periods of infection, federal agencies mandated mask-wearing in public places, while many businesses required customers to wear them on the premises.

Now, however, some businesses are banning customers from entering the premises with face masks on, saying the policy change is needed to identify thieves. And after numerous incidents, the New York Police Department is urging business owners to make shoppers remove their face masks and flash their features before being let in.

Can't make this stuff up.

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/03/06/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-business-require-customers-unmask-fight-crime/

Democrat mayor now wants businesses to ban masks.

https://stanfordreview.org/forced-masking-shows-stanford-hates-fun-45-of-students-report-still-being-required-to-wear-masks/

Nearly half of Stanford students report being in a class that requires masks. ...

One might ask, masks are just a piece of cloth and they’re not that uncomfortable, so why not just strap one on and go on with life? To put it simply, the mask mandates embraced by a considerable number of faculty and administrators are an embrace of falsehood and pointless fear—precisely what a university ought to stand against.

Forcing students to submit to pointless regulations saps the energy and creativity from the classroom. When kids can’t even see the facial expression of their friend sitting next to them in class, it should be no surprise that a general malaise has descended on Stanford. The mentality that leads to forced masking (extreme risk aversion) is identical to the one administrators embraced to destroy so much of what made Stanford unique and special. ...

Given the professors seemed very concerned about the Science™ (the only settled, unquestionable, or unchangeable discipline), I wanted to be sure to alert them of the recently released study that found “wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza-like illness.” ...

The takeaway from all of this is that in February 2023, at one of the best universities in the world, the people tasked with educating the next generation of leaders would rather double down on their embrace of falsehood than reckon with basic facts. The coronavirus is not deadly and masks don’t do anything.

Video : How we went from being told NOT to wear masks, to being MANDATED to wear them
A timeline of 2020.

https://twitter.com/c_plushie/status/1642093899635363840?ref_src=patrick.net

Coronavirus: Face masks could increase risk of infection, medical chief warns
BBC news item with Jenny Harries, UK deputy chief medical officer.



Source: Date of article is Thursday 12 March 2020. I don't know when broadcast date was.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-news-face-masks-increase-risk-infection-doctor-jenny-harries-a9396811.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8676535/Jenny-Harries-says-face-coverings-evidence-not-strong.html

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1125150/full

Discussion: Masks interfered with O2-uptake and CO2-release and compromised respiratory compensation. Though evaluated wearing durations are shorter than daily/prolonged use, outcomes independently validate mask-induced exhaustion-syndrome (MIES) and down-stream physio-metabolic disfunctions. MIES can have long-term clinical consequences, especially for vulnerable groups. So far, several mask related symptoms may have been misinterpreted as long COVID-19 symptoms. In any case, the possible MIES contrasts with the WHO definition of health.

Conclusion: Face mask side-effects must be assessed (risk-benefit) against the available evidence of their effectiveness against viral transmissions. In the absence of strong empirical evidence of effectiveness, mask wearing should not be mandated let alone enforced by law.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/crazy-eyes-thursday-april-13-2023

https://slaynews.com/news/long-covid-caused-masks-new-study-finds/

‘Long Covid’ Is Caused by Masks, New Study Finds
Frank Bergman
April 15, 2023

A group of renowned researchers is raising the alarm after a new study determined that so-called “long Covid” is actually caused by prolonged mask-wearing.

The new study, conducted by a German research team led by surgeon Kai Kisielinski, found that mask-wearing was associated with a 62 percent increase in various illnesses.

When combined, masking induced what the authors called Mask-Induced Exhaustion Syndrome (MIES).

The German researchers published a meta-analysis of 2,168 studies on adverse medical mask effects, the largest of its kind.

The findings across a diverse array of studies and surveys reveal a statistically significant decline in oxygen intake, an increase in carbon dioxide, an increased heart rate, an increase in shortness in breadth, and an array of discomforting symptoms.

The study set out to determine the “physio-metabolic and clinical consequences of wearing face masks.”

However, the researchers discovered that not only is masking responsible for various symptoms, it is actually the cause of widely reported cases of “long Covid.”

“Lond Covid” is “returning or ongoing symptoms that people experience more than four weeks after getting COVID-19,” according to Mayo Clinic.

“In some people, post-COVID-19 syndrome lasts months or years or causes disability.

According to Kisielinski’s study, nearly 40% of main long-COVID-19 symptoms overlap with mask-related MIES complaints and symptoms such as fatigue, dyspnea, confusion, anxiety, depression, tachycardia, dizziness, and headache.

The study found that several of the symptoms attributed to long-Covid are predominantly mask-related.

Further, the study found that CDC-recommended medical-grade N-95s are even worse.

Previous studies have already shown they do not offer better protection against respiratory viruses than surgical masks.

However, they definitely cause more side effects. ...

FACE MASKS MAY RAISE RISK OF STILLBIRTHS, TESTICULAR DYSFUNCTION AND COGNITIVE DECLINE

https://www.cell.com/heliyon/pdf/S2405-8440(23)01324-5.pdf

Introduction: During the SARS-CoV-2-pandemic, face masks have become one of the most
important ubiquitous factors affecting human breathing. It increases the resistance and dead
space volume leading to a re-breathing of CO2. So far, this phenomenon and possible implications
on early life has not been evaluated in depth.

Method: As part of a scoping review, literature was systematically reviewed regarding CO2
exposure and facemask use.

Results: Fresh air has around 0.04% CO2, while wearing masks more than 5 min bears a possible
chronic exposure to carbon dioxide of 1.41% to 3.2% of the inhaled air. Although the buildup is
usually within the short-term exposure limits, long-term exceedances and consequences must be
considered due to experimental data. US Navy toxicity experts set the exposure limits for submarines carrying a female crew to 0.8% CO2 based on animal studies which indicated an
increased risk for stillbirths. Additionally, mammals who were chronically exposed to 0.3% CO2
the experimental data demonstrate a teratogenicity with irreversible neuron damage in the
offspring, reduced spatial learning caused by brainstem neuron apoptosis and reduced circulating
levels of the insulin-like growth factor-1. With significant impact on three readout parameters
(morphological, functional, marker) this chronic 0.3% CO2 exposure has to be defined as being
toxic. Additional data exists on the exposure of chronic 0.3% CO2 in adolescent mammals causing
neuron destruction, which includes less activity, increased anxiety and impaired learning and
memory. There is also data indicating testicular toxicity in adolescents at CO2 inhalation concentrations above 0.5%.

Discussion: There is a possible negative impact risk by imposing extended mask mandates especially for vulnerable subgroups. Circumstantial evidence exists that extended mask use may be
related to current observations of stillbirths and to reduced verbal motor and overall cognitive
performance in children born during the pandemic. A need exists to reconsider mask mandates.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/revived-monday-april-24-2023-c-and

It seems like the hits just won’t stop for the masks lately. The Daily Mail UK ran an explosive story Saturday headlined, “EXCLUSIVE: Face Masks May Raise Risk of Stillbirths, Testicular Dysfunction and Cognitive Decline Due to Build-Up of Carbon Dioxide, Study Warns.”

A new German study published in the Journal Heliyon concluded that, because masks create a pocket of dead space between the mouth and mask, the void traps carbon dioxide at levels that are mildly toxic when worn over long periods. According to the researchers, repeated exposure to those levels of CO₂ increase the risks of a long list of serious problems including stillbirths, low sperm production, cognitive impairment, and permanent mental declines, especially in children.

The study explained that by comparison, fresh air has around 0.04% CO₂, while wearing masks for more than 5 minutes causes chronic exposure to carbon dioxide levels between 1.41% to 3.2% in mask-filtered air.

To put it in terms leftists can understand: masks create little individual, personal climate-change spaces.

Another way to look at these results is, for men, long term masking is equivalent to punching themselves right in the family jewels, over and over and over.

The researchers identified the shocking health risks by rounding up a large number of other studies. For example, one study cited by the German researchers found that just 0.3% of prolonged CO₂ exposure in pregnant rats and young mice caused permanent brain damage, heightened anxiety levels and memory problems. Another study found male mice exposed to 2.5% of CO₂ for four hours — equal to 0.5% in humans — led to destruction of testicle cells and sperm. A third study found that 3% of CO₂ (equal to 0.8% in humans) in pregnant rats led to stillbirth and birth defects.

A fourth study found that pregnant guinea pigs’s exposure to just 0.48% of CO₂ for only 10 minutes a day for 20 consecutive days caused stillbirths and birth defects in 68% of the pups.

The academic evidence linking lower fertility to slightly elevated CO₂ rates was so strong that the German researchers opined: “Circumstantial evidence exists that popular mask use may be related to current observations of a significant rise of 28 percent to 33 percent in stillbirths worldwide.”

Think of it. What if mandatory masking policies literally decimated an entire generation?

The study didn’t mention long covid, but their results are remarkably consistent with the last mask study I reported on April 17th, which concluded that long covid symptoms might actually be “long mask” syndrome, which they dubbed MIES, or “mask-induced exhaustion syndrome.”

More and more, it’s looking like mandatory mask policies were not just harmless nuisances but may actually have been profoundly harmful.

Here’s the link to the new German study.

Here’s the link to the previous study linking masks to long covid.

Feel free to trigger hardcore mask lovers by sending both studies to them. It’s for their own good, after all, and not because you told them so.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/gold-fingers-wednesday-april-26-2023

Hahahaha! Cut-up t-shirts work, but only a little! Ten percent! Does that sound like anything they were saying before ten minutes ago? Do you think mask mandates — especially for kids — would’ve have a snowball’s chance if they’d told us there was a POSSIBLE ten-percent benefit of SLOWED SPREAD? How about when you compare that implausible benefit to the risk of Mask Induced Exhaustion Syndrome and BRAIN DAMAGE? (* See Monday’s studies.)

And does a ten-percent reduction in spread even amount to any significant benefit at all amidst a pandemic? (Assuming, of course, there was ever a pandemic.) In other words, “wear this mask, and you have a ten percent chance of catching covid a little later!”

Keep trying, New York Times. We aren’t buying this story either.

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/05/03/german-government-admits-it-has-no-evidence-face-masks-work/

After years of making kids mask for hours on end in school, and imposing arbitrary but quite obnoxious mandates on aeroplanes and public transit and clinics, they have no idea whether it did anything, and no plans even to find out whether it did anything. Suddenly all that manic masking enthusiasm has just evaporated.

Patrick says

" https://dailysceptic.org/2023/05/03/german-government-admits-it-has-no-evidence-face-masks-work/ After years of making kids mask for hours on end in school, and imposing arbitrary but quite obnoxious mandates on aeroplanes and public transit and clinics, they have no idea whether it did anything, and no plans even to find out whether it did anything. Suddenly all that manic masking enthusiasm has just evaporated."

Face masks was and still is a useless mandate... For the longest time we couldn't go shopping or enter a store without wearing a stupid face mask...

So, what happened?

Answer: The Globalist losers cannot defend this nonsense and are backpedaling.

The_Deplorable says

Patrick says

" https://dailysceptic.org/2023/05/03/german-government-admits-it-has-no-evidence-face-masks-work/ After years of making kids mask for hours on end in school, and imposing arbitrary but quite obnoxious mandates on aeroplanes and public transit and clinics, they have no idea whether it did anything, and no plans even to find out whether it did anything. Suddenly all that manic masking enthusiasm has just evaporated."

Face masks was and still is a useless mandate... For the longest time we couldn't go shopping or enter a store without wearing a stupid face mask...

So, what happened?

Answer: The Globalist losers cannot defend this nonsense and are backpedaling.

Where are you located? I went maskless in EVERY grocery store, convienence store, gas station etc. I'm in norhtern va.

GNL says

Where are you located? I went maskless in EVERY grocery store, convienence store, gas station etc. I'm in norhtern va.

Patrick and I are in Commiefornia. You COULD try to go into a store without a mask, but it was more irritation than it was worth. We're both men, I know what I want, and where it is. I'm in and out in 5 minutes, maybe longer if I have to go through a line.

I got in yelling matches. Called a few people faggots even. It wasn't a law. You could stay as long as they didn't tell you to leave.

GNL says

I got in yelling matches. Called a few people faggots even. It wasn't a law. You could stay as long as they didn't tell you to leave.

Different areas dropped the mask mandates at different times. As soon as an adjacent area dropped it, I would pretend I didn't realize I was in Sunnyvale, Campbell, Santa Clara, etc. Usually it would be tolerated, could not do it if I was a regular at a store, and if they asked me to leave I did, making it clear they lost a sale.

I was in Oakland and the place I was GOING to go into demanded my vaccine card, I began to laugh, and said there's plenty of places that don't make me show my papers, and for him to have a good night. A few businesses just ignored it, or looked the other way.

I was angrier than anyone I know about the whole mask bullshit. Still angry actually. I called one store manager a Nazi. The look on his face was priceless. You could tell he would never have believed anyone would ever call him that. He was an Indian (dot).

GNL says

I was angrier than anyone I know about the whole mask bullshit. Still angry actually. I called one store manager a Nazi. The look on his face was priceless. You could tell he would never have believed anyone would ever call him that. He was an Indian (dot).

I am not surprised as I am almost tired of convincing out of irrational fearful crazy people around except few to whom I was able to create self doubts successfully.
Lol! on a different thread, there was a CA 1978 Prop 13 leach, trying to remind me of not using any race/nationality/ethnicity as if it was wrong!

I thought all lipstick was "smudge free" for decades. Back in the day of classical lipstick, if you smooch a girl you end up looking like you were hit in the face with a tomato.

Let me introduce you to Rachel Schraer, the BBC's senior reporter on disinformation and health, who says that "conspiracies feed people's fears."

zzyzzx says

Let me introduce you to Rachel Schraer, the BBC's senior reporter on disinformation and health, who says that "conspiracies feed people's fears."

Looks like a fake photo.

GNL says

Looks like a fake photo.

Some pictures of here here, you decide:
https://muckrack.com/rachel-schraer
https://www.rsm.ac.uk/media-releases/2022/bbc-journalists-win-award-for-exposing-false-science-behind-covid-miracle-drug/

https://transcriberb.dreamwidth.org/26311.html

MICHELLE BUCKLEY: Hello, and thank you for allowing me to speak today. My name is Michelle Buckley. I'm the mother to a bright three and a half year-old boy named Franky. I'm a medical speech pathologist and my husband is an internal medicine physician. We live in South Tampa.

I am here today to advocate not only for my child but for all of our children. Requiring our children to wear a cloth face covering in order to participate in their publicly-funded education is not only morally and ethically wrong but it is unconstitutional.

A cloth face covering when used for source control is considered by definition to be a medical device according to the FDA.

I stand here as a medical speech pathologist, a mother, and the wife of a physician to use my voice to say that Superintendent Davis is not a medical doctor and if he was he would need to provide true informed consent before recommending the use of a medical device.

Doctors do not mandate the use of medical devices. They recommend them. And the consumer decides whether or not the recommendation is for them.

I stand here today not to try and convince the School Board that masks are neither safe nor effective in this setting with this population, but rather to stand here and speak to all of you, as citizens of the great United States, to remind you that the US and Florida Constitutions are the great law of the land.

Superintendent Davis* does not a seat a publically elected position He does not have the authority to make laws. There is no law requiring that requires a child to cover his or her face to enter the grounds of their publicly-funded school.

I am here to be a role model for the parents who know in their hearts that masking their child in order to keep them in public school is not right. I am here for you. I am here to show you that you are not alone. Peaceful noncompliance is simply the refusal to participate in that which is morally and ethically wrong and unconstitutional. Peaceful noncompliance is the personal choice to stop participating in a system that is unjust. And I'll leave it at that.