“I just don’t get it. Why don’t you want to wear a mask?”
It’s not just that masks likely don’t work to stop the spread of coronavirus. Wearing a mask can harm your health.
In early May of 2020 an Australian news outlet reported that two 14-year-old Chinese boys collapsed and died six days apart while exercising wearing masks.
“It happened within two to three minutes during his physical training class. He was wearing a mask while lapping the running track, then he suddenly fell backwards and hit his head on the ground. I suspect it was because he was wearing a mask,” one grieving father told reporters.
Both handmade cloth masks and N95 masks can severely limit oxygen intake, making breathing more difficult.
9 ways that wearing a mask can harm your health:
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Wearing a mask reduces blood oxygenation, especially in people over 35.
Indeed, a team of researchers from the Department of Neurosurgery at Ufuk University in Ankara, Turkey reported that the longer a mask is worn the more the blood is desaturated. These researchers also assert that: “Surgeons in the operating room frequently experience physical discomfort, fatigue, and possibly even deterioration of surgical judgment and performance. Although considerable information exists about the effects of ambient environment on both mental and physical performance, the final “personal” environment for the surgeon beneath the surgical mask is often very inadequately conditioned…it is known that heat and moisture trapping occur beneath surgical masks…” (source).
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Wearing a mask increases blood carbon dioxide levels.
Citing four different scientific studies, Dr. Department of Neurology, The Third Hospital of Jilin University, “Oxygen concentration inhaled by healthy subjects wearing a surgical mask covering an N95 respirator decreases to about 17%, and the concentration of carbon dioxide increases to about 1.2% – 3% in a short period of light work (2-3). Although participants did not show any obvious changes in physical function and did not have any discomfort ratings, the average carbon dioxide concentration inhaled was far higher than the limit of 0.1% of indoor carbon dioxide concentration in many countries. With prolonged mask wearing, untoward reactions may gradually appear. In another long-term study, after wearing an N95 mask for 12 hours the CO2 concentration of subjects increased to 41.0 mmHg, far higher than the baseline value of 32.4mm Hg at the beginning of the test (4). The subjects mainly reported headache, dizziness, feeling tired and communication obstacles. In real life, the situations and time of wearing masks are much longer than the above experimental research settings” (source).
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Wearing a mask increases risk of headaches (source).
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It also increases risk of brain fog, difficulty concentrating, and exhaustion, most likely due to insufficient oxygen and increased exposure to carbon dioxide.
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Masks made overseas have been found to be faulty and inadequate.
Nearly all of them contain known carcinogens. This is why there is a warning label on the carton. Breathing in carcinogens during the day and having them in contact with your skin may increase your risk of cancer.
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Masks may increase your risk of infection, mostly because they are worn inappropriately, and also because mask-wearers fiddle with them, frequently touching their face.
There is no scientific evidence that shows that cloth masks will help reduce the spread of COVID-19, according to Lisa Brousseau, ScD, and (source).
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Wearing a mask concentrates the exhaled viruses in the nasal passages.
Our bodies have several effective detoxifications pathways. One of the ways we rid ourselves of a viral infection is by exhaling. If you are sick with COVID-19 or any other viral infection, the last thing you want to do is impede your ability to breathe (source).
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Wearing a mask causes problems for people with special needs.
Deaf people who rely on lip reading, people with autism who have trouble understanding verbal cues and need visual cues to help them, and anyone who is hard of hearing suffer the most when people are wearing masks (source). They are also detrimental to babies’ speech and language development, according to research done by this senior scientist at Yale University.
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Wearing a mask can cause severe and painful contact dermatitis, painful rashes, and other skin damage on your face (source).
Increased risk of infections?
Russell Blaylock, M.D., a retired neurosurgeon, does not mince words about how wearing a mask can harm your health. Especially if worn for extended periods, while exercising, or in hot weather, face masks can be deadly.
“In essence, your mask may very well put you at an increased risk of infections, and if so, having a much worse outcome,” Blaylock writes (my emphasis.)
Paul Thomas, M.D. is a Dartmouth-trained pediatrician with over 30 years of medical experience. Like Russell Blaylock, Paul Thomas believes wearing a mask can harm your health. Wearing a mask “promotes fear, which we know is bad for the immune system,” Thomas (who is also my colleague and co-author) says. “It reduces breathing in fresh air, which is also bad for the immune system. And it does little to nothing to prevent spread of a virus.”
Yesterday at the grocery store about a third of the shoppers were wearing masks. One customer abruptly pulled up his mask to sneeze, spreading his aerosolized mucus everywhere. He then put the mask back on. He probably just had seasonal allergies, but perhaps he was sick. In either case, he sneezed violently outside the mask without using a tissue. This certainly looked like an unhygienic and surefire way to spread infection. The man, seeming uncomfortable and embarrassed, then put what one can only imagine was a now mucus-laden mask back on his face.
I’ve seen people wearing masks while running uphill on nature trails with no other human in sight. People in our town wear face masks while driving alone in their cars. This New Jersey driver wearing an N95 mask passed out and crashed his car. I’ve also seen people wearing masks while riding bicycles, close to no one. And wearing them by themselves weeding in the garden.
If it makes you feel better, wear one
If it makes you feel better to wear a mask, wear one. That’s your right. But, as Patricia Neuenschwander, R.N., explores in this article, there is no compelling scientific evidence that shows that healthy people should be wearing masks.
Informed Choice Washington has condensed Neuenschwander’s article into a helpful 1-page handout. You can print it out and share with your mask-loving friends. (If that PDF doesn’t work, access it here.)
Yes to wearing your face mask loudly and proudly if that’s what you prefer.
But stop shaming those of us who are more interested in science than in virtue signaling. You have the right to wear a mask. And we have the right to choose not to jeopardize our health—or yours—by wearing masks.
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An Alternative to Social Distancing
Published: May 26, 2020
Updated: March 8, 2021
Please, find a source to prove the fact that masks help spread the virus to the brain, or evaluate changing the sentence. I hate that fact checkers can label this interesting article as bogus just for 1 sentence.
Thank you for pointing that out Loretta. The post is being blocked from Facebook for that sentence. We have removed it.
It’s still being blocked. I tried to share it today.
It may now have a virus. I could view it on Bing but not on Goofle.
I came across this and find it hard to believe you would tell people masks don’t work in a pandemic when leading epidemiologists -Anthony Fauci INSISTS this is crucial. I trust him wholeheartedly.
It’s been proven to save lives.
I don’t get it.
This is detrimental.
Tina, Dr. Fauci is NOT an epidemiologist. He has an MD and decades of experience as a bureaucrat. That’s it.
Dr. Fauci hasn’t practiced in years. Working for the lobisit not for the safety of the people.
Dr.fauci is a fraud He is getting paid to make the pandemic look worse than it is. He runs with the circle of Elites , and has an agreement with Bill Gates.
wearing mask cosign to stop the oxygen by 2 to 3%. I had test with my miter
3 weeks ago. I had like struck because the mask I did the testing myself. I can prove it.
Tina, they can say “masks work”, but they have no proof. No proof of asymptomatic transmission, nor that a virus is even contagious. Look hard, you won’t find it.
Very interesting research: [Arthur Firstenberg is the author of *The Invisible Rainbow*].
Arthur Firstenberg on facial masks:
“As a person who went to medical school, I was shocked when I read Neil Orr’s study, published in 1981 in the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Dr. Orr was a surgeon in the Severalls Surgical Unit in Colchester. And for six months, from March through August 1980, the surgeons and staff in that unit decided to see what would happen if they did not wear masks during surgeries.
They wore no masks for six months, and compared the rate of surgical wound infections from March through August 1980 with the rate of wound infections from March through August of the previous four years.
And they discovered, to their amazement, that when nobody wore masks during surgeries, the rate of wound infections was less than half what it was when everyone wore masks.
Their conclusion: ‘It would appear that minimum contamination can best be achieved by not wearing a mask at all’ and that wearing a mask during surgery ‘is a standard procedure that could be abandoned.’
I was so amazed that I scoured the medical literature, sure that this was a fluke and that newer studies must show the utility of masks in preventing the spread of disease.
But to my surprise the medical literature for the past forty-five years has been consistent: masks are useless in preventing the spread of disease and, if anything, are unsanitary objects that themselves spread bacteria and viruses.
• Ritter et al., in 1975, found that ‘the wearing of a surgical face mask had no effect upon the overall operating room environmental contamination.’
• Ha’eri and Wiley, in 1980, applied human albumin microspheres to the interior of surgical masks in 20 operations. At the end of each operation, wound washings were examined under the microscope. ‘Particle contamination of the wound was demonstrated in all experiments.’
• Laslett and Sabin, in 1989, found that caps and masks were not necessary during cardiac catheterization. ‘No infections were found in any patient, regardless of whether a cap or mask was used,’ they wrote. Sjøl and Kelbaek came to the same conclusion in 2002.
• In Tunevall’s 1991 study, a general surgical team wore no masks in half of their surgeries for two years. After 1,537 operations performed with masks, the wound infection rate was 4.7%, while after 1,551 operations performed without masks, the wound infection rate was only 3.5%.
• A review by Skinner and Sutton in 2001 concluded that ‘The evidence for discontinuing the use of surgical face masks would appear to be stronger than the evidence available to support their continued use.’
• Lahme et al., in 2001, wrote that ‘surgical face masks worn by patients during regional anaesthesia, did not reduce the concentration of airborne bacteria over the operation field in our study. Thus they are dispensable.’
• Figueiredo et al., in 2001, reported that in five years of doing peritoneal dialysis without masks, rates of peritonitis in their unit were no different than rates in hospitals where masks were worn.
• Bahli did a systematic literature review in 2009 and found that ‘no significant difference in the incidence of postoperative wound infection was observed between masks groups and groups operated with no masks.’
• Surgeons at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, recognizing the lack of evidence supporting the use of masks, ceased requiring them in 2010 for anesthesiologists and other non-scrubbed personnel in the operating room. ‘Our decision to no longer require routine surgical masks for personnel not scrubbed for surgery is a departure from common practice. But the evidence to support this practice does not exist,’ wrote Dr. Eva Sellden.
• Webster et al., in 2010, reported on obstetric, gynecological, general, orthopaedic, breast and urological surgeries performed on 827 patients. All non-scrubbed staff wore masks in half the surgeries, and none of the non-scrubbed staff wore masks in half the surgeries. Surgical site infections occurred in 11.5% of the Mask group, and in only 9.0% of the No Mask group.
• Lipp and Edwards reviewed the surgical literature in 2014 and found ‘no statistically significant difference in infection rates between the masked and unmasked group in any of the trials.’ Vincent and Edwards updated this review in 2016 and the conclusion was the same.
• Carøe, in a 2014 review based on four studies and 6,006 patients, wrote that ‘none of the four studies found a difference in the number of post-operative infections whether you used a surgical mask or not.’
• Salassa and Swiontkowski, in 2014, investigated the necessity of scrubs, masks and head coverings in the operating room and concluded that ‘there is no evidence that these measures reduce the prevalence of surgical site infection.’
• Da Zhou et al., reviewing the literature in 2015, concluded that ‘there is a lack of substantial evidence to support claims that face masks protect either patient or surgeon from infectious contamination.’
Schools in China are now prohibiting students from wearing masks while exercising. Why? Because it was killing them. It was depriving them of oxygen and it was killing them. At least three children died during Physical Education classes — two of them while running on their school’s track while wearing a mask. And a 26-year-old man suffered a collapsed lung after running two and a half miles while wearing a mask.
Mandating masks has not kept death rates down anywhere. The 20 U.S. states that have never ordered people to wear face masks indoors and out have dramatically lower COVID-19 death rates than the 30 states that have mandated masks. Most of the no-mask states have COVID-19 death rates below 20 per 100,000 population, and none have a death rate higher than 55.
All 13 states that have death rates higher than 55 are states that have required the wearing of masks in all public places. It has not protected them.
‘We are living in an atmosphere of permanent illness, of meaningless separation,’ writes Benjamin Cherry in the Summer 2020 issue of New View magazine. A separation that is destroying lives, souls, and nature.”
Arthur Firstenberg
August 11, 2020
Thank you, Arthur Firstenberg
Fauchi, the flip flopper? A book was written about him, he i in essence, the “Bernie Madoff ” of science. Ask the AIDS Activists of the 80s. He sent back treatment and research by decades. The dude was trotted out on TV. If he told you to stick peanut butter up your ass you would. The tv is NOT a source for health information or guidance. Name one time the government or media helped the American people with health? I’ll wait. Say it with me propaganda. And you fell for it hook,line and sinker. Jennifer cited sources, you cited your tv. #WakeUp
Tina, you’re repeating what you’ve heard on the news, or perhaps what you’ve read on social media.
We’d all like to believe masks work, but the truth is, the science simply doesn’t support that belief, no matter how likable Anthony Fauci is, no matter how much you believe in him — he can’t change the facts.
You can scroll up to read the science others have posted.
Meanwhile, if you really care about stopping the spread, start looking up things like “toilet plume” and “fecal-oral spread of SARS-CoV-2.”
Apparently, shared-bathroom toilet flushes are much more dangerous than respiratory aerosol in asymptomatic people.
Tina, here is your fauci “insisting” there is no need to wear masks. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p6pEcgDmEUk
I’m sorry if you struggle with the cognitive disonance of living in a corrupt world, it’s not easy for anyone. As tempting as it may be to relinquish responsibility to others with conflicting interests, we cannot afford the luxury of giving away our power and responsibility to use rational critical thought.
What a ludicrous comment. And clearly you know nothing about Mr. Fauci’s extraordinary, documented financial conflicts of interests. Stop the “OMG we’re in the MIDDLE of a PANDEMIC” nonsense. We’re not. PS… HCQ cures and prevents it anyway. Problem solved. PPS Sweden didn’t lock down and they didn’t wear masks and they’re fine. I have Swedish friends living there and they assure me the articles about their public health success are correct!
I wouldn’t put too much faith in anything Dr. Fauci says at all!!!!
Except that we now have even more evidence that they do not work. This is an update from Jane Orient, M.D., on October 14, 2020: When you first put your mask on, does it smell bad? (You get used to it after a while.)
The human body is a chemical factory and must constantly remove toxic products—some from food or the environment, some from your own metabolism. As we learned from the space program, you make a huge number of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), such as formaldehyde and trichloroethylene (TCE). These poisons are eliminated by your liver, kidneys, GI tract, sweat glands—and your lungs.
Your breath contains thousands of chemicals.
We are hyper concerned about outdoor air pollution, such as minuscule concentrations of PM2.5s (tiny particulates) from diesel exhaust or coal-fired generating stations. But what is concentrated inside your mask?
One thing I can measure is carbon dioxide. Outside air contains about 400 ppm (parts per million) CO2. Inside most masks, my CO2 monitor goes off scale at > 10,000 ppm, twice what OSHA considers acceptable for an 8-hour exposure in a workplace. Oxygen inside the mask may also be lower than acceptable in a workplace. If you have a pulse oximeter, you can measure your blood oxygen saturation without and with the mask. Some people (not all) see a decrease.
In addition to CO2 and VOCs, other things that may be concentrated inside the mask include fibers from the mask itself, bacteria, and fungi. Skin infections and increased tooth decay and periodontal disease are reported.
And viruses are also trapped there. Dr. Peter McCullough of Baylor warns against self re-inoculation of the viruses you are trying to flush out of your nose.
German neurologist Margarite Griez-Brisson warns about long-term consequences of oxygen deprivation. Are we starving the developing brains of children and adolescents, who will as a result never reach their full potential? Are we causing irreversible damage that will show up in increased rates of dementia? Among other adverse effects, American neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock warns that chronic hypoxia impairs immunity.
How many cases of respiratory illness are we preventing? A CDC study showed that of patients presenting to a clinic with a respiratory illness, 71 percent of the PCR-positive and 74 percent of the PCR-negative patients said they “always” wore a mask, and only 8 percent of each group said they rarely or never wore a mask.
Mask mandates force the population into a giant non-consented experiment of breathing polluted air in the hope that it might reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19 by an unknowingly infected person. Neither risks nor benefits are being measured.
For further information, see AAPS discussion of mask facts.
Contact jane@aapsonline.org or (520) 323-3110 if you would like to discuss these issues.
If you listen to Fauci at the beginning of the ‘pandemic’ you will see he said masks will not help, weeks later he changed his stance. The science hasn’t changed, just the directives form ‘leadership’ – which is baseless. Informed consent isn’t dangerous. In fact, it will SAVE lives.
Holy cow you believe in Fauci you should do much needed research in that jackleg wanna be dr. I guess you believe men walked on the moon also. Before you follow anyone you should make sure they are not associated with the most evil people that walk this earth THE GATES. You wear your mask and do you, while the rest of us chose to trust our immune system,as long as you are covered then you don’t need to worry about the rest of us.
Some of the above facts are correct, but many of the sources are not. CDC and WHO as well as BMJ all demonstrate cl;early that that wearing facemasks does not prevent the spread of any disease, but promotes CO2 buildup in the blood, and harbors potentially pathogenic microbes in the oral area. They are primarily a religious totem, showing others that you belong to their religious cult.
Who the heck believes Bill gates who? And cdc? It’s a private company? Are you serious?
Thank you! I was about to write the same thing. Tests are NOT accurate. Lots of faulty positives.
Have you seen this? https://revealingfraud.com/2020/03/health/test-kits-do-not-work/
Russell Blaylock is the doctor who talked about the virus entering the brain. You can quote that as the source.
You had the same problem. It’s FB censoring opinion that they do not agree with or want in the public domain.
Love these doctors telling us these crap and this new world order making us believe we all are stupid. I used to work in a bank and having the mask on made me very sick in contrary my wife was at home and never wore a mask after just putting the mask on for a few hours she got very sick. All lung infections. I just lost a lot of people in South africa cos our president sold us out. Everyday we have airplanes flying over us releasing toxins people got smarter treated themselves and we were not dying fast enough. The world health organisation in their press release said “thank to South Africa for growing the Corona virus” To get it better we must grow the virus” I hospitals is equipped to kill our people. The deliberately made all the hospitals have less oxygen tanks. Our people talk to us today and comes out of intensive care just to die. Using Google and Facebook to block out all the concerns. This guy not wanting to wear his mask has a point. I will rather die at home cos my sister had covid and my wife and me had covid. We treated ourselfs and cured our selves but alot of people are dying trusting the government’s that all belongs to one group and a global monopoly where if u speak u are made as a liar or go to jail. I didn’t asked to born in Africa but Iam ashamed that humans are killing humans due to over population and climate and play God. Now they sending us this untested poison vaccines and Google alerting u everyday the vaccine is fine. This not a new variant in South Africa this is our president poisoning whit aluminium and dangerous chemicals everyday with the airplanes having photos of them releasing it. We never had a airplane flying everyday. I really hate the rich philanthropic new world order elite people causing this. I have so much anger!!!
Please send as many sources as you can on why wearing a mask is not wise. I work for the YMCA. We are preparing to reopen. The management is demanding that everyone wear masks. I have horrible thoughts of people passing out on exercise bikes and treadmills from the combined stress of reducing oxygen intake and aerobic exercise. It would not be surprising if many of our members did little to no exercise over the past three months while we were shut down, adding that they are out of good physical shape to the list of stressors.
Thank you for any help you can give.
Please click on the links in this article and read this one as well (and the accompanying links): http://www.jennifermargulis.net/healthy-people-wearing-masks-during-covid19/. While there is no credible scientific evidence that healthy people should ever be wearing masks and while we know that masks reduce blood oxygen and increase blood carbon dioxide, leading to headaches, fainting spells, and dizziness, it sadly seems that no amount of science will convince people to stop being irrational and fearful. Good luck.
Masks don’t reduce your oxygen intake. Proof:
https://twitter.com/rexchapman/status/1276889535331348481?s=21
Moving while wearing mask, oxygen level still unaffected:
https://twitter.com/joejhoyt/status/1276893593588969472?s=21
So a youtube video is your proof. O2 levels take time to change and are dependent on several factors, but what her meter does not measure is carbon dioxide levels in the blood. Certain diseases including asthma a patient can be in the start of distress and have good Osats. We work with one of those diseases and we always have to argue with staff that the Oxygen levels may be good now but they will drop. Also, no medical personnel that I know would wear their same mask all shift long, they are not designed for it, you leave a room you change masks throw out your gloves, wash and sanitize. the general public, wears the same mask and gloves over and over. One interesting note, people are not hand washing and sanitizing because they believe the mask and gloves will protect them. Also read the warning label on a box of masks.
Jennifer cites published scientific studies. You cite twitter. Do have any idea how silly you look right now?
Very interesting research: [Arthur Firstenberg is the author of *The Invisible Rainbow*].
Arthur Firstenberg on facial masks:
“As a person who went to medical school, I was shocked when I read Neil Orr’s study, published in 1981 in the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Dr. Orr was a surgeon in the Severalls Surgical Unit in Colchester. And for six months, from March through August 1980, the surgeons and staff in that unit decided to see what would happen if they did not wear masks during surgeries.
They wore no masks for six months, and compared the rate of surgical wound infections from March through August 1980 with the rate of wound infections from March through August of the previous four years.
And they discovered, to their amazement, that when nobody wore masks during surgeries, the rate of wound infections was less than half what it was when everyone wore masks.
Their conclusion: ‘It would appear that minimum contamination can best be achieved by not wearing a mask at all’ and that wearing a mask during surgery ‘is a standard procedure that could be abandoned.’
I was so amazed that I scoured the medical literature, sure that this was a fluke and that newer studies must show the utility of masks in preventing the spread of disease.
But to my surprise the medical literature for the past forty-five years has been consistent: masks are useless in preventing the spread of disease and, if anything, are unsanitary objects that themselves spread bacteria and viruses.
• Ritter et al., in 1975, found that ‘the wearing of a surgical face mask had no effect upon the overall operating room environmental contamination.’
• Ha’eri and Wiley, in 1980, applied human albumin microspheres to the interior of surgical masks in 20 operations. At the end of each operation, wound washings were examined under the microscope. ‘Particle contamination of the wound was demonstrated in all experiments.’
• Laslett and Sabin, in 1989, found that caps and masks were not necessary during cardiac catheterization. ‘No infections were found in any patient, regardless of whether a cap or mask was used,’ they wrote. Sjøl and Kelbaek came to the same conclusion in 2002.
• In Tunevall’s 1991 study, a general surgical team wore no masks in half of their surgeries for two years. After 1,537 operations performed with masks, the wound infection rate was 4.7%, while after 1,551 operations performed without masks, the wound infection rate was only 3.5%.
• A review by Skinner and Sutton in 2001 concluded that ‘The evidence for discontinuing the use of surgical face masks would appear to be stronger than the evidence available to support their continued use.’
• Lahme et al., in 2001, wrote that ‘surgical face masks worn by patients during regional anaesthesia, did not reduce the concentration of airborne bacteria over the operation field in our study. Thus they are dispensable.’
• Figueiredo et al., in 2001, reported that in five years of doing peritoneal dialysis without masks, rates of peritonitis in their unit were no different than rates in hospitals where masks were worn.
• Bahli did a systematic literature review in 2009 and found that ‘no significant difference in the incidence of postoperative wound infection was observed between masks groups and groups operated with no masks.’
• Surgeons at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, recognizing the lack of evidence supporting the use of masks, ceased requiring them in 2010 for anesthesiologists and other non-scrubbed personnel in the operating room. ‘Our decision to no longer require routine surgical masks for personnel not scrubbed for surgery is a departure from common practice. But the evidence to support this practice does not exist,’ wrote Dr. Eva Sellden.
• Webster et al., in 2010, reported on obstetric, gynecological, general, orthopaedic, breast and urological surgeries performed on 827 patients. All non-scrubbed staff wore masks in half the surgeries, and none of the non-scrubbed staff wore masks in half the surgeries. Surgical site infections occurred in 11.5% of the Mask group, and in only 9.0% of the No Mask group.
• Lipp and Edwards reviewed the surgical literature in 2014 and found ‘no statistically significant difference in infection rates between the masked and unmasked group in any of the trials.’ Vincent and Edwards updated this review in 2016 and the conclusion was the same.
• Carøe, in a 2014 review based on four studies and 6,006 patients, wrote that ‘none of the four studies found a difference in the number of post-operative infections whether you used a surgical mask or not.’
• Salassa and Swiontkowski, in 2014, investigated the necessity of scrubs, masks and head coverings in the operating room and concluded that ‘there is no evidence that these measures reduce the prevalence of surgical site infection.’
• Da Zhou et al., reviewing the literature in 2015, concluded that ‘there is a lack of substantial evidence to support claims that face masks protect either patient or surgeon from infectious contamination.’
Schools in China are now prohibiting students from wearing masks while exercising. Why? Because it was killing them. It was depriving them of oxygen and it was killing them. At least three children died during Physical Education classes — two of them while running on their school’s track while wearing a mask. And a 26-year-old man suffered a collapsed lung after running two and a half miles while wearing a mask.
Mandating masks has not kept death rates down anywhere. The 20 U.S. states that have never ordered people to wear face masks indoors and out have dramatically lower COVID-19 death rates than the 30 states that have mandated masks. Most of the no-mask states have COVID-19 death rates below 20 per 100,000 population, and none have a death rate higher than 55.
All 13 states that have death rates higher than 55 are states that have required the wearing of masks in all public places. It has not protected them.
‘We are living in an atmosphere of permanent illness, of meaningless separation,’ writes Benjamin Cherry in the Summer 2020 issue of New View magazine. A separation that is destroying lives, souls, and nature.”
I want to stop mandatory facemasks in the uk how?
The ICWA pdf 1 page link no longer works and I couldn’t find the page on ICWA’s site.
It’s been updated, Clifton. It should work now.
Yes, all of those points are correct, however, based on personal experience, I feel they do offer some protection for Covid-19. I work in a small, busy restaurant that does not require staff to wear masks. This past weekend, after only having been open for a week and a half, 2 staff members tested positive. Neither wore a mask. Two days later after the remaining staff was tested, another non-masking wearing staff member also was positive. Three people out of 11 total staff. The negative people are all avid mask wearers. Coincidence? Perhaps. Though I believe the rest of us were saved by the mask.
The main problem with your idea is that the usual cloth masks are not even intended or claimed to protect the WEARER, unless you are wearing the N95 mask which might. The idea behind wearing a mask, from weak science, is to protect others in case the wearer has COVID19. Your small anecdotal sample likely is coincidental.
But were the people who tested positive actually sick? The test is a joke and yields about 85% false positives.
Well, my brother wore an N95 mask all day every day, at work and of course he was forced to wear it everywhere because he lives in NYC. He got Covid ANYWAY. No. The mask didn’t “save him” He’s 44 years old, healthy and fit. He was sick for 2 weeks. His wife cared for him at home, and only got a sore throat. If anything, he got sicker because the damn mask than did his wife, who, (being home most of the day), did not have to wear one all day. So, yeah, he wore a hospital grade mask, and he wore it all day and he got (confirmed via testing at Mt Sinai Hospital) covid.
I would like to know after a bit of time has gone by if the other workers in the restaurant ended up testing positive, or did testing stop. Did those that tested positive get sick, or were they false positives? Did anyone else test negative, and then get sick? What you say is anecdotal and incomplete.
25 % of the population has been shown in many different studies to have covid . Some studies suggest as high as 33% have covid . Not to mention even CDC admits covid test is 50 % accurate at best . Testing positive for covid means nothing !!!!!
At best stay away from the elderly if you tested positive ? The data is in Covid-19 mortality rate is much lower than the flu for general healthy population under 60 years old !!!
Hi! Great article! Just wanted to let you know that the link you provide for the 1 Page Handout from Informed Choice Washington, does not work.
Terri
Thanks Terri. We’ve updated the links now. It should work.
Check the source link on point #2.
If you want collaborative evidence on this information, look up dr. buttar.com or watch great tv episode dr.buttar.com/daystar.
Hello, I went to share this article on Facebook and they said it was false information and gave me an option to still share or not…..I still shared it, as for the most part I don’t trust FB. Just thought you should know.
Jennifer,
Thank You for being Brave.
Being educated doesn’t count anymore, as I’m sure you well know by now.
This is not about a Virus or Justice.
It is about Freedom.
Thank you for this well worded common sense article.
I know some of my facebook friends think Anthony “Fraudchi” should run for President. For those of you who have that mindset, I dare you to read this article through and do some research of your own. CDC is corrupt and has been for a very long time. WHO has been corrupted in top management. They don’t care about your healthcare. They just want your mind and your money.
Mainstream News has been bought out by Big Pharma. The 4 major companies, Merck, Gilead, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson are running the show here folks. What commercials do you watch? How many times over do they say this medicine could kill you, give you suicidal thoughts, but you can sit on this swing at a park with the sun shining and everything is a bed of roses. Are you not paying attention to the thorns??
Research how many lawsuits have been issued through the years due to recklessness in the marketing and selling of dangerous drugs, such as with the Opiod Crisis, the Baby Powder/Ovarian Cancer Lawsuit, Gardasil (fast tracked drug sent to Market before proper research) Lawsuit, and of course all the vaccine injured children, or children who died from a toxic ingredient injected into their bloodstream. 4.7 billion dollars paid out in vaccine injury court… yet these companies have complete immunity. 1986 Act. Hence the jump from 5 childhood vaccines to 36 (72 injections) in this time frame of 1986-present. There is a rainy day fund Big Pharma uses to settle legal battles. They can write their own narrative, from CDC reports to WHO reports. They tell the News what to say and when to say it.
Drug company money is tainting medical education. Big pharma writes medical school textbooks and uses their own money to finance drug studies. Dr. Marcia Angell, former Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, stated how corporate dollars corrupt research and education at academic medical centers — including Harvard Medical School. Pharmaceutical companies spend millions of dollars to implement carefully designed plans. According to R. Webster Kehr of the Independent Cancer Research Foundation, “The CDC, HHC, AAP, FDA, NIH, NCI, ACS, media and medical schools are their puppets.”
The only way you can comprehend is to stop watching the news for a couple of weeks, step outside the fear bubble and do some deep thinking. Take a look at these so called Conspiracy Theorists and see what it is they are trying to tell you. It will start to make sense when you follow the money. Go back in time to reveal truth.
https://heavy.com/news/2020/05/judy-mikovits/
I publish a quarterly journal on infection control and can tell you that we have known since the 1980s the inherent problems with face masking. This is why face masking has never been advised during flu season. By the way, this was not a political issue when this information first came out in the 80s, so no one on the left ever challenged it. Furthermore, the greatest problem with masking, that no one can argue against, is the element of hand-to-mask (face) cross contamination, which increases profoundly for nearly everyone who wears a mask. This is a fact that cannot be disputed in any way, shape or form! For those of you who have adopted a political connection with the wearing of face masks, you have lost your mind.
Thank you.
Would you happen to have the research source archived or documented from item #2? I checked the link and it was changed to promote mask wearing and how to do it properly. :/ Thanks 🙂
Incredible – how so many people do not think before they speak.
Sure there is an concern about CV19.
But … many people do feel physically different whilst wearing an mask. I’m one of them. It IS harder to breath. I must say though – all that advice about good personal hygiene, many are learning as if it is an new idea – was taught to us when we were children. Why did you ignore it? I did not care when people thought it weird we cleaned our restrooms with an alcohol wipe down. And I stopped shaking hands 50 years ago.
Hey – guess what ???? People still are not washing their hands when they finish doing their business, but, at least they are wearing an mask!
Some attempt to suggest WE should wear masks as an permanent way of life because ‘ it will assure we can continue to live’. I wonder how the population of this Earth grew to such levels IF our breathing is detrimental to health?
Surgeons are [just] standing – they are not going through physical exertion therefore using surgeons as an example is really scratching and clawing to prove an point.
And comparing not wearing an mask using the fear of contracting the virus is not only inappropriate, irresponsible – it is ignorant.
Sadly – we will always be subject to exaggerated situations; many refusing to admit when they are wrong; be exposed to Internet influenced medical advice, instill fear, etc.
Ever wonder how intelligent people advised people to sneeze into their arm pits? What an ridiculous piece of advice. The right thing to do is know if you are an ‘sneezer’, have allergies, or are experiencing the signs of contracting the common cold [feel that tickle] and “CARRY AN TISSUE”. Tissues are everywhere – readily available.
Realize I am concerned about what is happening. But I also know … the baby boomers, an high percentage of the population, are dying – of old age.
you were wrong about everything. 215,000 dead.
Okay I have to fly for Christmas. Last time I flew, I felt sick from wearing the mask. Anyone know of a bare minimum mask (since they don’t work) I can wear that will allow me to breath! I don’t want to get sick again. Something that looks adequate but in reality allows free flow of air.
Hey Dawn–You can buy a mask from Sunday Afternoons and cut off the front colorful fabric and leave the gray inner liner. The result is a breathable dark mesh mask that passes inspection, so to speak, but doesn’t dangerously restrict the flow of oxygen to your brain. We have one friend and one family member who used this kind of semi-homemade mask to fly over 3,000 miles and both reported back that the “masks” worked well.
I have to fly. Last time I got very sick wearing a mask. Know of anyone who has a mask that looks up to standards but doesn’t restrict? It has to pass the airline but not actually work!
If you wear your mask in your car and you are alone; you just might be a Biden voter.
If masks prevented viral diseases then why are they not required during flu season?
Being a Registered Nurse, I am required to wear my mask during my entire shift, which due to various issues can be 12-15 hours. We are very busy and have little time to take a break, if you want to provide good care. We can’t have any fluids at our stations, and have little time to go to the break room. During the last few weeks I have experienced on several occasions, the feeling of SOB, buzzing in my ears, and by the time I get home I am vomiting violently. Last night was the worst because I truly felt like I couldn’t breathe, my O2 says were 82-85%, a co-worker took my BP and it was 59/38. I went to the break room to wait for a ride and was working on charting because I knew I had to have it done. I was alone in the room and the nightshift manager came in and saw that I had taken my mask off and told me that I needed to put it back on even though I felt like I couldn’t breathe. Within ten minutes I started vomiting violently and was literally shaking. I have never experienced anything like this before we had to constantly wear masks and believe that we are putting our health at risk. I was so happy to come across your article because no one seems to be taking this risk to our healthcare community seriously and after reading this article I know that I am not alone. Thank You!
Let me explain one thing to you; COVID 19 is good for you. It is not a pathogen like many people say, cuz they have an agenda that goes against common sense. COVID 19 IS A CODE INSERTED IN OUR WHITE BLOOD CELLS AT TIME OF BIRTH. God the father gave us this code. Why don’t you do the sensible thing? Research until you find the answer. And inquire of God. Only then will you ever know if it is true or not.
Thanks for this informative article. Indeed, masks cause health problems. It’s so obvious. Common sense. But I am shocked at people who even overdo the government guidelines and wear them permanently, even in their cars alone or watching TV at home! What happened to people’s brains that they allow themselves to be so massively abused? Probably, it’s a vicious circle: lack of oxygen causes brain damage and this in turn creates stupidity of doing something damaging to your health!