Posted on 05/31/2020 4:59:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
In the fight against the spread of Covid-19, a big dividing line in our country today is whether to wear a face mask or not. It also seems to have political connotations. For example, for Memorial Day remembrances, former Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill wore masks. In contrast, President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump paid their respects without masks.
In many cities and states across the nation, the number of Covid-19 cases are going down, yet the masking requirements are becoming more stringent. In portions of 39 states, there are mandatory mask regulations. In New Orleans, residents are required to wear a mask, even when outdoors. For businesses, both employees and customers must wear masks. These are the most stringent requirements in Louisiana, for other areas have mask recommendations, not requirements.
The same mask stipulations are in place in San Francisco, San Diego, New York, Los Angeles, and other cities around the country. In many areas, those who violate the orders are subject to arrest and fines. Thankfully, in Houston, a potential fine of $1,000 for violating the mask requirement was overridden by an executive order from Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
Many Americans refuse to wear a mask for they view it as a symbol of oppression and how government can dictate their actions. In contrast, millions of Americans are following these orders because they are worried about their health and believe that mask wearing will protect them from Covid-19.
Ironically, experts are divided on whether masks provide any assistance in preventing the spread of Covid-19. According to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, “Neither surgical nor cotton masks effectively filtered SARS–CoV-2 (the coronavirus that causes Covid-19) during coughs by infected patients.”
The official guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO) is that masks “should only be used by health care workers, caretakers or by people who are sick with symptoms of fever and cough.” According to Dr. April Baller, a WHO public health specialist, “If you do not have any respiratory symptoms such as fever, cough or runny nose, you do not need to wear a mask.”
This WHO recommendation was made in March and has not been altered, even though the Centers for Disease Control does recommend mask wearing. Both the U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Jerome Adams, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy, and Infectious Diseases, originally recommended that average Americans should not wear masks but have changed their stance and now advocate their usage.
Instead of following directives from politicians and health officials who enthusiastically exercise their authority over citizens, Americans should cherish their freedoms and decide what is best for their health and their families. At best, the evidence is mixed that mask wearing is beneficial.
If people are worried about contracting Covid-19 and feel more protected by wearing a mask, they should wear one. However, many others will view these requirements as both oppressive and an infringement on their liberties.
Today, the incessant warnings from the obsessed media and political leaders has ingrained the need to wear a mask into the minds of concerned Americans. It is so troubling that it is easy to spot drivers alone in a vehicle wearing a mask. Even though it is not a requirement, people exercising alone in an outdoor park are often seen wearing masks as well. This is totally ridiculous.
Such constant mask wearing is inadvisable for health reasons as well. People wearing synthetic masks can inhale small portions of aerosolized chemicals, which is not advisable especially for those with respiratory conditions.
Masks prevent individuals from inhaling full oxygen, instead, recycled carbon dioxide is inhaled. According to the holistic health coaches who operate the website, TheHealthCoach1.com, these effects are dangerous for people because “even a slight increase of the carbon dioxide levels in their bloodstream can contribute to anxiety and feelings of nervousness as well as cause headaches, dizziness and fatigue. For these reasons especially, both the healthy and the ill should avoid wearing a mask like the plague.”
Ironically, experts are divided on whether masks provide any assistance in preventing the spread of Covid-19. According to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, “Neither surgical nor cotton masks effectively filtered SARS–CoV-2 (the coronavirus that causes Covid-19) during coughs by infected patients.”
The official guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO) is that masks “should only be used by health care workers, caretakers or by people who are sick with symptoms of fever and cough.” According to Dr. April Baller, a WHO public health specialist, “If you do not have any respiratory symptoms such as fever, cough or runny nose, you do not need to wear a mask.”
This WHO recommendation was made in March and has not been altered, even though the Centers for Disease Control does recommend mask wearing. Both the U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Jerome Adams, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy, and Infectious Diseases, originally recommended that average Americans should not wear masks but have changed their stance and now advocate their usage.
Instead of following directives from politicians and health officials who enthusiastically exercise their authority over citizens, Americans should cherish their freedoms and decide what is best for their health and their families. At best, the evidence is mixed that mask wearing is beneficial.
If people are worried about contracting Covid-19 and feel more protected by wearing a mask, they should wear one. However, many others will view these requirements as both oppressive and an infringement on their liberties.
Today, the incessant warnings from the obsessed media and political leaders has ingrained the need to wear a mask into the minds of concerned Americans. It is so troubling that it is easy to spot drivers alone in a vehicle wearing a mask. Even though it is not a requirement, people exercising alone in an outdoor park are often seen wearing masks as well. This is totally ridiculous.
Such constant mask wearing is inadvisable for health reasons as well. People wearing synthetic masks can inhale small portions of aerosolized chemicals, which is not advisable especially for those with respiratory conditions.
Masks prevent individuals from inhaling full oxygen, instead, recycled carbon dioxide is inhaled. According to the holistic health coaches who operate the website, TheHealthCoach1.com, these effects are dangerous for people because “even a slight increase of the carbon dioxide levels in their bloodstream can contribute to anxiety and feelings of nervousness as well as cause headaches, dizziness and fatigue. For these reasons especially, both the healthy and the ill should avoid wearing a mask like the plague.”
None of these words of wisdom have prevented many political and health leaders from advocating mask wearing. However, if these orders are so important, politicians need to abide by them. For example, Biden advised that “You need to wear your mask outside. I don’t care if you’re just walking your dog.” Instead of following this advice, Biden did not wear a mask when interviewed outdoors on March 26th by CNN.
Biden claimed that the president is a “fool” for not wearing a mask. Now, it is obvious the real “fool” is Biden, and, for good measure, he is also a disgraceful hypocrite.
Clearly, those chimping out around the country Aren’t wearing masks. Why bother?
No.
Masks help. They really do.
it’s all in the game...
Polly connects some more dots:
Youtube: 27 May: Amazing Polly: BOOM! Guess Who is Calling the Shots on Human Experimentation?
In this video I uncover a MASSIVE conflict of interest in the US. Who is Christine Grady?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkYen0g4TRU&feature=emb_logo
NIH Clinical Center: Christine Grady, MSN, PhD
Chief, Bioethics, Head, Section on Human Subjects Research
BS, Georgetown University
MSN, Boston College
PhD, Georgetown University...
She served from 2010-2017 as a Commissioner on the President’s Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues...
https://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/meet-our-doctors/cgrady.html
Christine Grady is married to Anthony Fauci...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Grady
Grady has been authoring papers with Joe Biden’s chief health-care adviser, Ezekiel Emanuel, for years:
29 Jul 2015: Science Mag: Clinical research: Should patients pay to play?
by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Steven Joffe, Christine Grady, David Wendler and Govind Persad
The idea of charging research subjects for their participation has been resurrected primarily by clinical researchers who are understandably frustrated with the shrinking budgets (in real dollars) of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other research sponsors. They propose to charge research participants as a way of funding studies that otherwise would not be conducted because of limited resources...
https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/298/298ps16.full
2011: Macquarie University Sydney Australia: The Oxford textbook of clinical research ethics Ezekiel Emanuel, Christine Grady, Robert Crouch, Reidar Lie, Franklin Miller, David Wendler, Oxford University Press, 2008. No. of pages 848. Price: $150.00
https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/publications/the-oxford-textbook-of-clinical-research-ethics-ezekiel-emanuel-c
May 2000: Special Communication: What makes clinical research ethical?
Ezekiel Emanuel, Christine Grady, David Wendler
Christine’s sister is Joanne Grady Huskey, whose politics are clear on Twitter:
Twitter: Joanne Huskey, International educator and cultural trainer. Author of The Unofficial Diplomat and Make It In India. VP of iLIVE2LEAD, Young Women’s Leadership Program
TOP TWEET: 23 May:
In these very difficult times, we need to elect leaders!
SECOND TWEET: PIC OF WOMAN WITH MASK, INSCRIBED WITH “VOTE BY MAIL”
https://twitter.com/unofficialdiplo?lang=en
Magzter: The Indomitable Dr. Fauci
Global Adjustments Co-Founder Joanne Grady Huskey recounts some of the personal insights into the personality (of) her brother-in-law, Dr. Anthony Fauce, who is currently a key member of US President Donald Trump’s White House Coronavirus Task Force.
In 1985, my sister Christine met and married Dr. Fauci...
https://www.magzter.com/article/Culture/CULTURAMA/THE-INDOMITABLE-DR-FAUCI
Joanne is married to James Huskey, who is now a contractor to the State Dept, reviewing diplomatic correspondence and documents for release via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA):
LinkedIn: James L. Huskey, International Affairs, Washington D.C. Metro Area
Consultant
International Affairs
2012 – Present·8 years
Bethesda, MD
— Speaking/Teaching. At universities and colleges in the mid-Atlantic and south-Atlantic regions on globalization, contemporary issues in international relations, and U.S. diplomatic history.
***— U.S. Department of State. Reviewing diplomatic correspondence and documents for release via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Director, Crisis Management
2010 – 2012·2 years
Washington, D.C.
Managed this 14-person division that conducts crisis preparedness at the over 280 U.S. missions around the world. My experiences in Tiananmen during the June 1989 massacre; in Embassy Nairobi when it was bombed by Al Qaeda in August 1998; in the cross-fire between Luo and Massai tribes in the run up to Kenya’s presidential election; and in numerous other crisis situations, enhanced the urgency of crisis preparedness for our embassies and consulates abroad.
Deputy Director, Office of Global Systems
2008 – 2010·2 years
Washington, D.C.
Managed the day-to-day operations of this 12-person office that oversees U.S. relations with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Environmental Program (UNEP), and 31 other international organizations. This work was on the cutting edge of U.S. multilateral diplomacy in the areas of arms control, non-proliferation, counter-narcotics, AIDS and other infectious diseases, international aviation security, etc. We succeeded, for example, in persuading China and Russia for the first time to support sanctions against Iran’s nuclear program...
Diplomat in Residence, Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.
2003 – 2004
Taught courses in U.S. Diplomatic History; International Terrorism. Mentored Georgetown students interested in joining the U.S. Foreign Service...
https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-l-huskey-b9802331
how deep is the swamp?
The wait staff were not changing their gloves after picking up and delivering folks food/spent plates so forth.
So ded-gum dumb. They'd be better off bare handed so they could at least warsh their hands or use sanitizer...but no, lets use the same gloves as we go about our work. lol
To be clear...I want them all to lay down the fear and resist being brainwarshed by all this. IT'S OVER FOLKS!
Now it's riots...get with the program. Riots, burn, loot, social unrest...no more social distancing..unrest!
Don’t waste your breath. The “flu bros” are convinced masks are just another conspiracy. Cases are slowly increasing again because by and large a large chunk of the population is essentially bored with Covid and will now pretend its not happening.
Both sides Left and Right will have blood on their hands for politicizing a Pandemic. The Chinese have to be laughing their asses off at us.
‘Masks help. They really do.’
so I take it you support forcing them upon the populace at large for every venture outdoors...?
‘Cases are slowly increasing again because by and large a large chunk of the population is essentially bored with Covid and will now pretend its not happening.’
couldn’t possibly be because of increased and more accurate testing, could it...? ok, then, glad you cleared that up...
You mean follow the rules?
No one else is now. Why bother?
You cannot be selective about this stuff. You will need a mask in a week or so to keep the soot out of your nose.
Don’t waste your breath. The “flu bros” are convinced masks are just another conspiracy. Cases are slowly increasing again because by and large a large chunk of the population is essentially bored with Covid and will now pretend its not happening.
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Nonsense:
1. This article presented good reasons why masks are not a good idea, yet you swish them away merely by calling the author a conspiracy theorist.
2. This disease has turned out to be much less serious than the fearful thought it would be. Plenty about this on FR. No need to panic just because people are testing positive. The vulnerable can be protected without masking and locking-in the whole population
Flu season is over. My mask is put away like it is the end of every flu season. My Pulmonary Specialist told me 10 years ago to wear one during flu season. It’s over.
I just finished a big order for a medical facility in Chattanooga and hopefully that’s the end of it. Not enough COVID here to matter. Still, I got something out of it. One of the patients brought me a 3X5 Trump flag that he got at a rally to thank me for making them and donating them. The facility was giving my masks to patients that didn’t have one of their own.
I will not enter any business requiring a mask. Period.
The CDC and The New England Journal of Medicine have gone on record as saying masks are not effective for non-medical personnel to stop the spread of the virus in the community.
Stop the mask insanity !
Masks help. They really do.
If you are serious, yes they do. I never know in here. They aren't 100% but they are better than nothing if you tolerate them. I wore the N95 at work off and on for almost 40 years and the fabric are much better tolerated for most people for shopping trips, trips to the doctor, etc. There is NO reason to wear any of them outside for exercise or when you aren't in close contact with other people. Most of the COVID warnings are over done IMO.
Masks seem to be the in-fashion for any occasion. Flu season, riot season.
Time to unmask Antifa and it supporters (Soros, Clinton and Obama).
The one I like the best is driving around in your car with one on. LOL.
The mask is not about safety or health.
the mask is about control.
Go ahead and assume, whatever you want.
To tell the truth I am American, but I am currently married and living in Vietnam.
Vietnam mandated everyone wear a mask in public, for about two months. We have one international border, separating us from China. So their response was pretty serious.
The thing is, it seems to have worked. There has been apparently, no new transmissions within the country for a month. Schools have re-opened now, though all the international teachers were tested, for the re-opening.
The requirements for masks have been removed now here, though I am still wearing one, it has now been five months.
Similarly, there have also been no new infections in Taiwan in over a month, and apparently now also Thailand.
Several other countries, are (much) better than they had been.
So I am even now, being careful. I think prudent.
However, you do what you think works best for you.
:)
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