Healthy People Should Not Wear Face Masks
During the COVID-19 pandemic, public health experts began telling us to follow a number of disease mitigation strategies that sounded reasonably scientific, but actually had little or no support in the scientific literature. Community-wearing of masks was one of the more dangerous recommendations from our heinous alleged public health experts.
The Pandemic of Bad Science and Public Health Misinformation on Community-Wearing of Masks
Renowned neurosurgeon, Russell Blaylock, MD had this to say about the science of masks: As for the scientific support for the use of face masks, a recent careful examination of the literature, in which 17 of the best studies were analyzed, concluded that, “None of the studies established a conclusive relationship between mask/respirator use and protection against influenza infection.” Keep in mind, no studies have been done to demonstrate that either a cloth mask or the N95 mask has any effect on transmission of the COVID-19 virus. Any recommendations, therefore, have to be based on studies of influenza virus transmission. The fact is, there is no conclusive evidence of their efficiency in controlling flu virus transmission. – Russell Blaylock, MD
Blaylock: Face Masks Pose Serious Risks to the Healthy
Quarantining Healthy People – A Failed Experiment that should never have been attempted
This is back assward. You quarantine and mask the sick…not the healthy. We were told that everyone, even the healthy, should quarantine at home. All were told to “shelter-in-place,” isolate ourselves, hide alone, indoors, until the danger of the virus passed, despite the large body of scientific evidence that shows our immune systems thrive on diversity of exposures, sunlight, time in nature, and in loving company of others. Humans are social creatures who MUST have social contact with others to survive in any semblance normalcy.
Furthermore, it seemed that the alleged public health experts were ignoring the very real harms that result from shutting down the economy, putting hundreds of millions of workers out of work, and the shadow pandemic of suicides, drug abuse, overdoses, and other harms that follow massive economic downturns while the subject is in solitary confinement.
Historically and by definition, quarantines had always been about sequestering the sick. Never before has anyone beat a virus by quarantining the healthy. We were not told that quarantining healthy people has never been done before. And the experiment failed. Doing the exact opposite of what would be correct is beyond highly suspicious. It should make you wonder what is really going on here because there is zero justification or precedent. The ‘health experts’ seem to be very intent on getting more people sick to increase counts and puff out the statistical data.
Community-Wearing of Masks is a Bad Recommendation
We were frequently confused by the mixed messages coming from public health agencies. Early in the pandemic, Dr. Fauci, the U.S. Surgeon General, and the WHO all told the public, in no uncertain terms, not to wear masks. Then, over the course of the next several weeks and months, the CDC twice changed their recommendations, as did the WHO, and the recommendations always contradicted each other!
The CDC made the mistake of telling us cloth masks worked, and they even provided directions on their website for making homemade cloth masks.
To clear up the confusion, I will show that the scientific evidence not only does not support the community-wearing of face masks, but the evidence shows that healthy people wearing face masks pose serious health risks to wearers.
Hiding our faces behind masks and isolating in our homes is not the solution for people with healthy immune systems. Supporting the health of your immune system, confidently confronting all pathogens, and allowing immunity to develop and protect the vulnerable populations should be the goal. Or, how about teaching the people about ways to improve their own immune system’s constitution.
What’s happening in the world today, including the misinformation surrounding community mask wearing, is about political agendas, symbolism, fear, and dividing and isolating the people. It has nothing to do with science.
Medical Masks are Bad for Health
As a Doctor of Naturopathy and Chiropractic, I’ve carefully studied the scientific literature regarding the use of face masks to mitigate viral transmission. I believe the self-proclaimed public health experts have community-wearing of masks all wrong. What follows are the key issues that should inform the public against wearing medical face masks during the CoVID-19 pandemic, or during any future respiratory maladies.
Face masks decrease oxygen, increase carbon dioxide, and alter breathing in ways that increase susceptibility and severity of all colds and flus
Mask wearers frequently report symptoms of difficulty breathing, shortness of breath, headache, lightheadedness, dizziness, anxiety, brain fog, difficulty concentrating, and other subjective symptoms The longer a surgical mask is worn, the more saturated with moisture it becomes, and the more significantly it inhibits the inflow of oxygen and outflow of carbon dioxide.
In fact, clinical research shows that medical masks lower blood oxygen levels and raise carbon dioxide blood levels. The deviations in oxygen and carbon dioxide may not reach the clinical criteria for hypoxia (low blood oxygen), hypoxemia (low tissue oxygen), or hypercapnia (elevated blood carbon dioxide), but they can deviate enough to cause even healthy individuals to become symptomatic, as occurred with the surgeons studied and published in this report:
Preliminary Report on Surgical Mask Induced Deoxygenation During Major Surgery
At the same time masks inhibit oxygen intake, they trap the carbon dioxide rich breath in the mouth/mask inter-space. Thus, a fraction of carbon dioxide previously exhaled is inhaled again at each respiratory cycle.
Masks force you to re-breathe a portion of your own breath, including all the toxins the lungs and sinuses were trying to remove from the body (more on this later).
As medical masks lower oxygen and raise carbon dioxide in the blood, the brain senses the changes and the risk they pose to the maintenance of normal physiology. Thus, the brain goes to work to bring things back in order. To obtain more oxygen and remove more carbon dioxide, the brain tells the lungs to increase the rate (frequency) and depth of breaths. Unfortunately, struggle as they may, your brain and lungs can not fully compensate for the negative effects of the mask.
Some may even suffer the symptoms of carbon dioxide toxicity.
For people with diseases of the lungs, especially chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), face masks are intolerable to wear as they worsen breathlessness.
In the case of respiratory pathogens, the negative effects of masks and the respiratory changes they induce could increase susceptibility and transmission of CoVID-19, as well as other respiratory pathogens.
Viral particles move through face masks with relative ease. Studies show that about 44% of viral particles pass through surgical masks, 97% pass through cloth masks, and about 5% through N95 masks. Increasing tidal volume (depth of breaths) results in literally sucking more air, more forcefully through and around the mask. Any contaminates on, in, or around the mask are more forcefully suctioned into the mouth and lungs as a result of the compensatory increases in tidal volume.
The changes in respiratory rate and depth may also increase the severity of colds as the increased tidal volume delivers the viral particles deeper into the lungs.
These changes may worsen the community transmission of CoVID-19 when infected people wearing masks exhale air more heavily contaminated with viral particles from the lungs.
These effects are amplified if face masks are contaminated with viruses, bacteria, molds or fungi that find their way or opportunistically grow in the warm, moist environment that medical masks quickly become.
Despite the scientific evidence to the contrary, so-called public health experts claim that medical masks do not cause clinically significant hypoxia (low oxygen) and hypercapnia (high CO2). I would like to ask those experts to explain the growing number of cases in which medical masks worn during exercise have resulted in lung injuries and heart attacks:
Two Chinese boys drop dead during PE lessons while wearing face masks amid concerns over students’ fitness following three months of school closure .
Jogger’s lung collapses after he ran for 2.5 miles while wearing a face mask .
If medical masks were perfectly safe and effective, then why would healthy boys suffer heart attacks or a 26 year old man collapse his lung while wearing masks and running?! In my opinion, these are tragic examples of the risks of wearing medical masks. And we are only getting started.
SARS CoV-2 becomes more dangerous when blood oxygen levels decline
Low blood levels of oxygen is a critical issue in the pathogenicity of CoVID-19. The virus’ ability to infect cells is markedly enhanced by oxygen desaturation, which we know occurs when wearing a surgical mask.
One of the features that make SARS CoV-2 uniquely infectious is the “furin cleavage” sequence in the virus that activates increased ACE2 receptor attack and cellular invasion. Bio-engineered Furin Cleavage Sites make virus more invasive in a low oxygen environment caused by wearing Face Masks
The furin cleavage site of SARS CoV-2 increases cellular invasion, especially during hypoxia (low blood oxygen levels).
The furin cleavage site found in SARS CoV-2 is the likely result of the bio-engineering “gain of function” (increasing the virulence of a pathogen) research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the University of Maryland, USA. This unethical, dangerous, and illegal-in-most-countries research is alleged to have been funded by Dr. Anthony Fauci (with $7.4 million taxpayer dollars) and cohort, Bill Gates.
Furin cleavage sites are found in some of the most pathogenic forms of influenza. The furin cleavage domain in SARS CoV-2 is cleaved by furin on the target cell.
Furin is a ubiquitous protease in humans. It is found in a wide variety of tissues in the human body: heart, brain, kidney, etc. It is expressed in significant concentrations in human lung cells, the more susceptible target of SARS CoV-2. When the virus encounters a lung cell expressing (both an ACE2 receptor and furin), the furin cleaves the site and SARS CoV-2, activates the virus’ surface S (spike) protein, and enables the virus to more effectively bind the ACE2 receptors and more efficiently invade the cell.
Remember how medical face masks decrease blood oxygen levels? Well, now you need to know that SARS CoV-2’s ability to invade and infect our cells is greatly enhanced under conditions of low oxygen.
Therefore, wearing a medical mask may increase the severity of CoVID-19. If that does not motivate you to ditch your mask, there are more reasons to come.
Some of the most pathogenic forms of influenza and HIV are armed with similar furin cleavage sites. However, furin cleavage sites are not present in other beta coronaviruses. The furin cleavage site is NOT present in SARS CoV-1, MERS, or the other “bat coronaviruses” postulated to be the progenitors of SARS CoV-2.
It is worth repeating: SARS-CoV, which is closely related to the newest SARS-CoV-2 strain, does not bear the furin cleavage site. So how did SARS CoV-2 gain the furin cleavage function?
Dr. Fauci built his career on HIV research, HIV vaccine failures, and unethical “gain of function” research. He undoubtedly knows a lot about furin cleavage sites and the suspicious origins of SARS CoV-2. Perhaps Congress should ask him…under oath…preferably with an indictment.
The question we should all be asking is how did the genetic sequence that codes for this serious gain of function that increases the potential for the virus to successfully infiltrate the host eukaryote, find its way into SARS-CoV-2? That’s the trillion dollar question; it demands a real answer. This is bio-weaponizing a virus that would otherwise never even be noticed.
Medical masks trap exhaled viral particles in the mouth/mask interspace, increase viral load, and increase the severity of disease.
Face masks trap exhaled particles in the mouth/mask inter-space. The trapped particles are prevented from removal from the airways. The mask wearer is thus forced to re-breathe the particles, increasing infectious viral particles in the airways and lungs. In this way, medical masks cause self-inoculation, increase viral load, and increase the severity of disease.
The possibility of cell wall penetration increases when an individual is masked, oxygen lessens, viral load increases, from particle re-breathing, and the disease taxes the weak innate immune system.
- The main purpose of the innate immune response is to immediately prevent the spread and movement of foreign pathogens throughout the body.
- The innate immune system plays a crucial role in destroying the virus, preventing infection, or decreasing the viral load to decrease the severity of infection.
- The innate immunity’s effectiveness is highly dependent on the viral load. If face masks increase viral particle re-breathing at the same time they create a humid habitat where bacteria cultures become actively infectious, the mask increases the viral load and can overwhelm a weak innate immune system.
This trapping, re-breathing, and increasing pathogen load delivered to the lungs becomes dramatically more dangerous when the medical mask becomes contaminated with the opportunistic viruses, bacteria, molds and fungi that can grow in the warm, moist environment of the mask.
“By wearing a mask, the exhaled viruses will not be able to escape and will concentrate in the nasal passages, enter the olfactory nerves and travel into the brain.” – Russell Blaylock, MD
Masks are less than worthless because asymptomatic spreading of SARS CoV-2 is impossible. Everyone already has plenty of this virus.
Much of the recommendation for community-wearing of masks was based on the belief that asymptomatic carriers of SARS CoV-2 were responsible for the transmission and spread of CoVID-19. There was no real scientific evidence for this belief. However, antibody testing began demonstrating larger numbers of people with antibodies to the virus than anyone imagined. Therefore, the belief was that these people must represent asymptomatic carriers that were spreading the disease. This is utter nonsense. The virus is ever-present in all people all the time. This is a simple fact that is well known by anyone with any knowledge of viruses, which probably excludes most of the general public.
The fact that alleged experts are touting this nonsense is very telling. It translates to this: they are sure you know little to nothing about viruses so they can bamboozle you into obeying them, no matter what the facts. Why do they want to have this power over you? Because the pandemic is not an issue, only a smokescreen. It is making it possible for them to foist a much more serious threat without you even suspecting. The latter threat is deadly, the corona is not. This is mass depopulation on a scale never imagined. This is RESET 2020, aka UN Agenda 2030. Past RESETs have been deadly, but the world population has never been so bloated as now.
Contact tracing has determined that asymptomatic cases are not causing secondary transmission:
Asymptomatic spread of coronavirus is “very rare,” even the WHO says in a moment of uncensored truth by an employee, that is impossible to ‘walk back’.
“We have a number of reports from countries who are doing very detailed contact tracing,” she [Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit], said. “They’re following asymptomatic cases. They’re following contacts. And they’re not finding secondary transmission onward. It’s very rare.”
More from the article:
Coronavirus presence without symptoms aren’t driving the spread of the virus, World Health Organization officials said Monday, crushing concerns by uninformed researchers beliefs that the disease could be difficult to contain due to asymptomatic infections, which are impossible.
Young and otherwise healthy individuals, who are, as is everyone carrying the coronavirus, never develop symptoms or only develop mild common cold symptoms. Since everyone carries the virus, it can develop symptoms at any time a person’s immune system weakens. Then you have a cold. So What!! That why they are called ‘common’.
Preliminary evidence from the earliest outbreaks indicated that the virus could spread from person-to-person contact, even if the carrier didn’t have symptoms. This is coming from talking heads like Fauci, Gates and Birx. But WHO officials now say, after intense study of actual data, that it is not the way it’s being transmitted.
“From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, said at a news briefing from the United Nations agency’s Geneva headquarters. “It’s very rare.”…very rare like never?
The fact that asymptomatic carriers are not a major driver of the disease tells us that masks are unnecessary.
The Evidence for Aerosol Transmission does not exist
This is not a case where one minute you did not have the virus in your body, then you shook hands with someone and now you have it. You have 60 trillion viruses in your body’s virome at all times. You do not need someone to give them to you…you already have them. All of them. How did you get all those viruses? You live in a virtual sea of viruses, bacterium, fungi, molds and archaea. They do not make you ill except for the case where you become susceptible due to your constitutional state of immune function.
Wearing a face mask makes the exhaled air go into the eyes.
This generates an uncomfortable feeling and an impulse to touch your eyes. If your hands are contaminated and you touch or rub your eyes, you are potentially infecting yourself.
Lack of Scientific Evidence for Community Wearing of Face Masks
There is no reasonable scientific evidence to support healthy people wearing masks. Russell Blaylock, MD had this to say about the science of masks:
“As for the scientific support for the use of face mask, a recent careful examination of the literature, in which 17 of the best studies were analyzed, concluded none of the studies established a conclusive relationship between mask/respirator use and protection against influenza infection.”
Keep in mind, no studies have been done to demonstrate that either a cloth mask or the N95 mask has any effect on transmission of the COVID-19 virus. Any recommendations, therefore, have to be based on studies of influenza virus transmission. The fact is, there is no conclusive evidence of their efficacy in controlling flu virus transmission either.
Here’s what a group of physicians wrote regarding Universal Masking in Hospitals in the CoVID-19 Era in the New England Journal of Medicine:
“We know that wearing a mask outside healthcare facilities offers little, if any, protection. The chance of catching CoVID-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore insignificant. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic driven by TV propaganda. Overly eager government health ministers rush to exert their new found powers by mandating this an that with only slight knowledge of what they are doing.
The clinical research on this topic is clear: even when handled and worn properly, which is definitely NOT happening in the public spaces, wearing a mask in public offers little or no protection from infection in either direction. However, when masks are handled and worn improperly, they are a personal and public health menace.
The “Hamster Study” is an example of weak science used to support bad recommendations
Here’s an example of one of the experimental studies used by some public health authorities to support wearing masks in the community:
Wearing a mask can significantly reduce coronavirus transmission, study on hamsters claims
Does this study of “masking” hamster cages sound like the kind of solid scientific evidence that supports recommendations or mandates for everyone to wear masks during the CoVID-19 pandemic? No. The hamsters were not forced to wear tiny hamster surgical masks, their cages were covered with a barrier made of mask-like material. The experiment was more about walls or barriers than it was masks.
The experiment did not create the same conditions experienced by masked humans. Placing a cloth barrier on hamster cages is nothing like masking the mouth and nose of humans. The way this experiment was set up, inhalations were unimpeded, therefore, arterial oxygen levels would not be expected to lower. Likewise, exhalations were not trapped in a way that would force the hamsters to suffer re-breathing their own carbon-dioxide or subject them to the dangers of re-inhaling the infectious viral particles released with each exhalation.
This study does not provide support for the recommendation for masking all members of the public to reduce transmission of SARS CoV-2. Those citing this study to support wearing masks in the community are inappropriately extrapolating and conflating the experiment’s findings to contrive a conclusion the experimental methodology does not allow.
Public Health Experts Are Confused and Contradictory on Masks
Since the first days of the pandemic, Fauci, Birx, the CDC, and the WHO have been confusing the public as they flipped, flopped, and contradicted each other on the community wearing of medical masks. We should expect more than confusing, contradictory, unevidenced advice from our public health experts. Their lack of evidence and clarity was subverted to the belief that any level of protection was better than none. However, no one seemed to be fully considering the downsides of masks.
The first advice – “masks are unnecessary”
In the early onset of the pandemic, nearly all organizations and specialists, including Dr. Anthony Fauci (March 8, 2020), advised against wearing a mask. The science simply did not support community wearing of masks:
“There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask,” infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci told 60 Minutes.
Fauci later walked back those comments and tried to explain his comments were taken out of context. Instead of saying he was wrong and pointing to scientific evidence that caused him to change his mind, he obfuscated.
Here’s an infographic made by the World Health Organization (WHO) in late 2019.
“For healthy people, wear a mask only if you are taking care of a person with suspected 2019-nCoV infection”
There is no better example of the lack of scientific clarity on community-mask wearing than the CDC’s flip-flopping on the issue. Initially, the CDC recommended against community mask wear, then reversed that position a few weeks later. Now, they are doubling down on this mask wearing when it has been studied more deeply and found to be useless for protection from virus and highly dangerous to those wearing masks for any extended period of time.
The CDC and WHO appear to be in disagreement on this recommendation. CDC (currently) recommends community-mask wear, whereas the WHO does not…and they confirmed this fact again on March 31, 2020:
Canada Officially Recommends Against Community Wearing of Masks
On the official website of the Canadian government, a page lists many reasons why homemade masks are practically useless while also hindering oxygen intake.
Homemade masks are not medical devices and are not regulated like medical masks and respirators. Their use poses a number of limitations:
- they have not been tested to recognized standards
- the fabrics are not the same as used in surgical masks or respirators
- the edges are not designed to form a seal around the nose and mouth
- they do not provide protection against virus-sized particles
- they can be difficult to breathe through and can prevent you from getting the required amount of oxygen needed by your body
These types of masks are not effective in blocking virus particles that may be transmitted by coughing, sneezing or certain medical procedures. They do not provide protection from virus particles because of a potential loose fit and the materials used allow virus sized particles to easily pass through..
CDC supports homemade cloth masks…but the science does not
Cloth masks have no place in disease mitigation. They have been shown to be ineffective and worse (see below).
The CDC currently recommends (and some states mandate that everyone wear some form of face cover anytime they leave their home and enter the public space.
(None of the studies referenced by the CDC represent clinical research on the public use of face masks.
The CDC even provides detailed instructions for how you can make your own face covers from common household items. The CDC and state public health advisors make up their science as they go along, but it is obviously not from any authentic studies.
Cloth masks: Dangerous to your health?
It should be well known that cloth masks, bandannas, or handkerchiefs will do nothing. The penetration of cloth masks by particles was almost 97% compared to medical masks with 44%. In fact, they may actually increase your risk of becoming ill from CoVID-19 and other influenza-like illnesses.
Medical masks must be properly fitted and sealed around the mouth and nose. Masks must not be touched. Medical masks are single use devices designed to be worn for a relatively short period of time, then discarded. Once the mask becomes saturated with moisture from breath, which, if properly fit, takes about an hour, they should be replaced. The more moisture-saturated the mask becomes, the more it blocks oxygen, increases re-breathing of carbon dioxide, re-breathing of viral particles, and becomes a breeding ground for other pathogens.
The longer masks are worn, the more they are touched, and the more contaminated they become.
In addition to capturing pathogens on their outer surface, masks also quickly become moist, warm breeding grounds for bacteria and fungi. Thus, these opportunistic pathogens increase the risk of disease as they are inhaled into the airways, transferred to the hands, and end up on anything touched.
Unless medical masks are worn and handled properly, with strict adherence to sterility practices, medical masks worn by the community are prescriptions for disease and disaster.
What the CDC and WHO should have said about when and how to wear medical masks
- First, get healthy. You could wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with an influenza, but, if you are healthy, you really have no need.
- Wear a mask if you are coughing or sneezing. Better yet, STAY HOME.
- If you wear a mask, then you must know how to use it and dispose of it properly.
- Mask type matters. Virus are more than 1,000 times smaller than bacteria.
- Medical grade surgical masks should be handled properly, never touched, and never reused
- Medical grade N95 masks/respirators have some merit.
- Cloth masks, bandannas, scarves, and homemade masks are useless.
Rigorous sterility maintenance techniques required
- Masks are effective only when used in combination with frequent washing with soap and water and strictly only for bacterium, not viruses. Virus are dead unless they are inside of a eukaryote cell. Masks, soap and water, antibacterial cleansers are only for bacterium, fungi and molds, not for viruses.
- Before putting on a mask, clean hands with soap and water. Only use alcohol-based hand cleaners when soap and water are not available. Again, this is not going to work for viruses.
- Cover your mouth and nose with the mask and make sure there are no gaps between your face and the mask. Proper wear, fit, handling, and disposal are critical to efficacy.
- Avoid touching the mask while using it; if you do, clean your hands with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water.
- Replace the mask with a new one as soon as it is damp and do not reuse single-use masks.
- To remove the mask: remove it from behind (do not touch the front of the mask); discard immediately in a closed bin; clean hands with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water. Again, this is for bacterium.
- No mask should be worn and reused (unless it is properly sterilized, which is highly unlikely to occur in the general public)
Experts Speak Out
If you don’t believe me, listen to what these experts have to say:
Dr. Brosseau, a national expert on respiratory protection and infectious diseases
In April, 2020, Dr. Brosseau, a national expert on respiratory protection and infectious diseases at the University of Illinois at Chicago published an article titled “Masks-for-all for COVID-19 not based on sound data”. She wrote: “Sweeping mask recommendations—as many have proposed—will not reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission, as evidenced by the widespread practice of wearing such masks in Huwei province, China, before and during its mass COVID-19 transmission experience earlier this year. Our review of relevant studies indicates that masks will be ineffective at preventing SARS-CoV-2 transmission, whether worn as source control or as PPE.
If masks had been the solution in Asia, shouldn’t they have stopped the pandemic before it spread elsewhere?”
Ben Garrison: Ditch the Masks, Morons!
Beware the cult of the Mask zombies
Everything about COVID-19 stinks of lies:
Bill Gates, Dr. Fauci, and the Deep State have warned about such an event and indeed they have rehearsed such a scenario as recently as last year.
Dr. Fauci made sure the lab in Wuhan received millions of dollars in taxpayer money to expedite their plan.
It has occurred during an election year–and that’s always suspicious.
The virus serves as a distraction from the Deep State’s RESET 2020, UN Agenda 2030.
The virus helps advance the UN’s Agenda 21 (a part of Agenda 2030), Bill Gates’ ID 2020 and traceable ‘mark of the beast’ tattoos via vaccination, as well as a cashless society with a Chinese-style social credit system for the survivors.
Free speech continues to get trounced by social media. Only the ‘official medical authorities’ are allowed a say. Those authorities are corrupt and untrustworthy. They include the CDC, the NIA, AMA, WHO and everything the Gates Foundation pollutes with its dirty money. Only ‘official’ opinions about the virus are allowed to be expressed.’ We have been allowed to play the freedom and democracy game for a little while, but the real Masters of the Planet are going for their RESET, which takes the US and its empire out of contention and replaces it by China.
To keep the masses subdued during the RESET, they are playing both the corona and the BLM riot game. No one seems to be looking for ‘what is the real agenda’.
“We can resist by refusing to wear masks, which are far more harmful to our health than the negligible chance of dying from the virus. If we do not practice civil disobedience somewhere along the way, they will only keep tightening the screws, more and more”…Ben Garr
Blaylock: Face Masks Pose Serious Risks To The Health of the Wearer
- Dr. Russell Blaylock warns that not only do face masks fail to protect the healthy from getting sick, but they also create serious health risks to the wearer. The bottom line is that if you are not sick, you should not wear a face mask.
- As businesses reopen, many are requiring shoppers and employees to wear a face mask. Costco, for instance, will not allow shoppers into the store without wearing a face mask. Many employers are requiring all employees to wear a face mask while at work. In some jurisdictions, all citizens must wear a face mask if they are outside of their own home. ⁃ TN Editor
With the advent of the so-called COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen a number of medical practices that have little or no scientific support being promoted to reduce the spread of infection. One of these measures is the wearing of facial masks, either a surgical-type mask, bandanna or N95 respirator mask. When this pandemic began and we knew little about the virus itself or its epidemiologic behavior, it was assumed that it would behave, in terms of spread among communities, like other respiratory viruses. Little has presented itself after intense study of this virus and its behavior to change this perception.
This is somewhat of an unusual virus in that for the vast majority of people infected by the virus, one experiences either no illness (asymptomatic) or very little sickness. Only a very small number of people are at risk of a potentially serious outcome from the infection—mainly those with underlying serious medical conditions in conjunction with advanced age and frailty, those with immune compromising conditions and nursing home patients near the end of their lives. There is growing evidence that the treatment protocol issued to treating doctors by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), mainly intubation and use of a ventilator (respirator), may have contributed significantly to the high death rate in these select individuals. Ventilators have racked up a 97% mortality rate.
It is also instructive to know that until recently, the CDC did not recommend wearing a face mask or covering of any kind, unless a person was known to be infected, that is, until recently. Non-infected people need not wear a mask. When a person has TB we have them wear a mask, not the entire community of non-infected. The recommendations by the CDC and the WHO are not based on any studies of this virus and have never been used to contain any other virus pandemic or epidemic in history.
Now that we have established that there is no scientific evidence necessitating the wearing of a face mask for prevention, are there dangers to wearing a face mask, especially for long periods? Several studies have indeed found significant problems with wearing such a mask. This can vary from headaches, to increased airway resistance, carbon dioxide accumulation, to hypoxia, all the way to serious life-threatening complications.
There is a difference between the N95 respirator mask and the surgical mask (cloth or paper mask) in terms of side effects. The N95 mask, which filters out 95% of particles with a median diameter >0.3 µm2, because it impairs respiratory exchange (breathing) to a greater degree than a soft mask, and is more often associated with headaches. In one such study, researchers surveyed 212 healthcare workers (47 males and 165 females) asking about presence of headaches with N95 mask use, duration of the headaches, type of headaches and if the person had preexisting headaches.2
They found that about a third of the workers developed headaches with use of the mask, most had preexisting headaches that were worsened by the mask wearing, and 60% required pain medications for relief. As to the cause of the headaches, while straps and pressure from the mask could be causative, the bulk of the evidence points toward hypoxia and/or hypercapnia as the cause. That is, a reduction in blood oxygenation (hypoxia) or an elevation in blood C02 (hypercapnia). It is known that the N95 mask, if worn for hours, can reduce blood oxygenation as much as 20%, which can lead to a loss of consciousness, as happened to the hapless fellow driving around alone in his car wearing an N95 mask, causing him to pass out, and to crash his car and sustain injuries. I am sure that we have several cases of elderly individuals or any person with poor lung function passing out, hitting their head. This, of course, can lead to death.
A more recent study involving 159 healthcare workers aged 21 to 35 years of age found that 81% developed headaches from wearing a face mask.3 Some had pre-existing headaches that were precipitated by the masks. All participants felt like the headaches affected their work performance.
Unfortunately, no one is telling the frail elderly and those with lung diseases, such as COPD, emphysema or pulmonary fibrosis, of these dangers when wearing a facial mask of any kind—which can cause a severe worsening of lung function. This also includes lung cancer patients and people having had lung surgery, especially with partial resection or even the removal of a whole lung.
While most agree that the N95 mask can cause significant hypoxia and hypercapnia, another study of surgical masks found significant reductions in blood oxygen as well. In this study, researchers examined the blood oxygen levels in 53 surgeons using an oximeter. They measured blood oxygenation before surgery as well as at the end of surgeries.4 The researchers found that the mask reduced the blood oxygen levels (pa02) significantly. The longer the duration of wearing the mask, the greater the fall in blood oxygen levels.
The importance of these findings is that a drop in oxygen levels (hypoxia) is associated with an impairment in immunity. Studies have shown that hypoxia can inhibit the type of main immune cells used to fight viral infections called the CD4+ T-lymphocyte. This occurs because the hypoxia increases the level of a compound called hypoxia inducible factor-1 (HIF-1), which inhibits T-lymphocytes and stimulates a powerful immune inhibitor cell called the Tregs. This sets the stage for contracting any infection, including COVID-19 and making the consequences of that infection much graver. In essence, your mask may very well put you at an increased risk of infections and if so, having a much worse outcome.5,6,7
People with cancer, especially if the cancer has spread, will be at a further risk from prolonged hypoxia as the cancer grows best in a microenvironment that is low in oxygen. Low oxygen also promotes inflammation which can promote the growth, invasion and spread of cancers.8,9 Repeated episodes of hypoxia have been proposed as a significant factor in atherosclerosis and hence increases all cardiovascular (heart attacks) and cerebrovascular (strokes) diseases.10
There is another danger to wearing these masks on a daily basis, especially if worn for several hours. When a person is infected with a respiratory virus, they will expel some of the virus with each breath. If they are wearing a mask, especially an N95 mask or other tightly fitting mask, they will be constantly rebreathing the viruses, raising the concentration of the virus in the lungs and the nasal passages. We know that people who have the worst reactions to the coronavirus have the highest concentrations of the virus early on. And this leads to the deadly cytokine storm in a selected number.
It gets even more frightening. Newer evidence suggests that in some cases the virus can enter the brain.11,12 In most instances it enters the brain by way of the olfactory nerves (smell nerves), which connect directly with the area of the brain dealing with recent memory and memory consolidation. By wearing a mask, the exhaled viruses will not be able to escape and will concentrate in the nasal passages, enter the olfactory nerves and travel into the brain.13
It is evident from this review that there is insufficient evidence that wearing a mask of any kind can have a significant impact in preventing the spread of this virus. The fact that this virus is a relatively benign infection for the vast majority of the population and that most of the at-risk group also survive, from an infectious disease and epidemiological standpoint, by letting the virus spread through the healthier population we will reach a herd immunity level rather quickly that will end this pandemic quickly and prevent a return next winter. During this time, we need to protect the at-risk population by avoiding close contact, boosting their immunity with compounds that boost cellular immunity and in general, care for them.
One should not attack and insult those who have chosen not to wear a mask, as these studies suggest that is the wise choice to make.
Dr. Pamela Popper
Here’s what Dr. Pamela Popper said on her YouTube discussion of “What the Research Shows About Masks”
Masking the public was never about science…
Community wearing of face masks was never about science, health, or disease mitigation; it was always about symbolism, fear, and psychological operations to control the population.
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