Time to Unmask America

Townhall.com ^ | May 31, 2020 | Jeff Crouere

[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.

[Big Red Badger]

Here in San Diego every
Opened Business has a sign
on the door;
“Do Not Enter
Without a Mask!”
.
Seen a guy yesterday
Using a Dirty and
Ragged “T” shirt.
.
Boys gotta Eat.

[vigilante2]

Masks are part of the plan

[lightman]

[keats5]

This seems like the year of masks.

Wear and/or don’t wear masks due to COVID.
Flynn unmasked- if he was ever masked.
Masked Antifa rioting in our streets.

I’ve had enough of masks.

[cba123]

EVERYONE here has worn masks here forever.

Everyone.

It is difficult to explain to anyone, from elsewhere, just how profoundly, and how quickly it happened.

It just happened.

[cba123]

I think it is because almost everyone in the entire country (really) has a motorcycle.

Everyone in the nation, just had to reach into their own drawer, their own pocket, or their own motorcycle seat.

It happened that quick.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Masks only halt the spread when the virus is present. The aforementioned factors made masks unnecessary.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Assuming you believe the Vietnamese government figures.

[cba123]

I do.

[yoe]

Regardless of the victim or why he was there, the spark was lit, the gleaming teeth of unknown jackals mobbed the protesters, turning them into a pillaging mass of law breaking, mindless flesh....this rabble of TV raised and bred spoiled, worthless Americans, 95% without a coherent thought in their multicultural heads proceeded with glee to trash their country-men’s homes, places of business, cowardly knocking old men and women down, trampling them like so much garbage, bowing to the whims of this offal like antifa, blm, OFA etc....if any of you reading this feel the slightest bit of shame...you’re part of the problem. 1944 - 2020

[Yosemitest]

"No.
Masks help.
They really do."

WRONG !

Here's some more HOSPITAL DOCTORS and their educated advice:

here's another one.
Dr. Jenny Harries, England's deputy chief medical officer, has warned that it was not a good idea for the public to wear facemasks as the virus can get trapped in the material and causes infection when the wearer breathes in.
Maybe you like elevating the carbon dioxide in your blood stream, and lowering the oxygen levels in your blood stream.
Maybe you want to keep viruses close to your nose and mouth longer than they would normally be around those areas..

Then there's this study, Cloth masks—dangerous to your health?:

... The results of the first randomised clinical trial (RCT) to study the efficacy of cloth masks were published today in the journal BMJ Open.

The trial saw 1607 hospital healthcare workers across 14 hospitals in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, split into three groups: those wearing medical masks, those wearing cloth masks and a control group based on usual practice, which included mask wearing.

Workers used the mask on every shift for four consecutive weeks.

The study found respiratory infection was much higher among healthcare workers wearing cloth masks.

The penetration of cloth masks by particles was almost 97% compared to medical masks with 44%.

Professor Raina MacIntyre, lead study author and head of UNSW's School of Public Health and Community Medicine, said the results of the study caution against the use of cloth masks. ...

"Cloth masks should not be used by workers in any healthcare setting, but particularly high-risk situations such as emergency departments, intensive care, paediatric or respiratory wards."

Cloth masks remain widely used globally because they are a cheaper option especially in areas where there are shortages of protective equipment, including in Asian countries, which have historically been affected by emerging infectious diseases, as well as in West Africa, which was the epicentre of the recent Ebola epidemic.

The authors speculate that the cloth masks' moisture retention, their reuse and poor filtration may explain the increased risk of infection. ...

"Effective controls of outbreaks and pandemics at the origin impacts us directly, so it is important for global disease control that the use of cloth masks be discouraged in high-risk situations," she said. ...

And there's PhD Judy Mikovits and former E.R. Phd Rashid Buttar and their interview with Robyn Openshaw :

Robyn: Even if you don’t have COPD, one of the things my followers wanted me to ask you when the most common questions I got –I said, “I’m interviewing Dr. Mikovits. What do you want to hear from her?” [My audience] wanted you to talk more about the mask issue.

Covid-19 and Useless Masks

Yes, if you have COPD it’ll kill you, but what about everybody else? You talked in another interview I heard about that it’s just exposing you over and over and over again to the virus. People don’t understand that viruses aren’t living organisms. Talk a little bit about that for everyone else and then the whole mask concept.

Judy Mikovits: The whole mask concept for everyone else is essentially the same thing as somebody was COPD. You won’t kill them, but you will make yourself sick. We’re human beings.

Number one, if your mask is just this scarf cover of your face all that does is make you breathe in and out. I see people running and riding bikes with these masks. It doesn’t prevent mold, mildew, all the stuff that’s in the air, the pollens [from] allergy season. Those go right there into your sinus cavity, into your nasopharyngeal cavity.

You’re exercising. You’re breathing hard. You’re sucking that stuff into your lungs and you’re sucking back in CO2. We don’t do photosynthesis. We’re humans. We have to breathe oxygen.

We can’t breathe back in our own toxic air. That’s why you exhale. That’s why you breathe deeply. That’s why you cough to expel a pathogen. You cough in your own mask and you suppress your own immune system. You use your own type one interferons in your throat, in your nose, in your blood. It’s horribly immune suppressive.

Probably most of your audience has never worn a mask before all day. Nurses and doctors who have to, they’re keeping themselves from getting sick from their patients. The patient certainly doesn’t wear a mask. They deliver oxygen through a cannula.

For healthy people, you’re not getting fresh air. You’re suppressing your immune response. You’re activating endogenous viruses. When you activate endogenous viruses, your immune system has to go and knock down those viruses.

Inflammatory mass cells respond to pollen. [For] people with things like mass cell activation disorder, mass mastocytosis, this is just a hair trigger reactivation of that very inflammatory cytokine signature of disease. Resident mass cells get reactivated.

Say you get allergies or whatever. When you wear that mask, you’re concentrating those antigens and you’re making yourself sicker. It’s warm; it’s wet. You touch it; it’s abnormal; it’s uncomfortable. Those are all things that are immune draining, not immune boosting.

You’re making yourself sick with other sources. It makes no sense. You’re not preventing infection. You’re not preventing spread. It’s virus coming from within. It’s an envelope RNA virus. That means it’s packaged in a little lipid protein structure that protects the nucleic acid.

Just like our cells have both a cellular membrane and a nuclear membrane that protects your blueprint, the blueprint of the virus is in RNA. Our blueprint is a DNA. You have to transcribe that blueprint into a protein or a function.

I’ve heard Dr. Rashid Buttar say it really well. It’s like an architect building a house. You have the design strategy right there. Until you go read the blueprint and the builders build the house, you have nothing.

An RNA bed is a piece of nucleic acid, not even the whole virus RNA, just the piece in your nasal pharyngeal that they dig deep and scrape a few epithelial cells — almost like a biopsy where you go and pull out a little tissue.

The virus must live in a cell. Coronaviruses live in epithelial cells up in your nasal passages, your sinuses in the back of your throat, your mouth. EBV lives in your mouth in salivary glands. All of those viruses that are living there activate.

99% of the population has Epstein-Barr. These retroviruses that we know at least 25 million Americans (and that was 2010. Now it’s now it’s probably 100 million Americans) are carriers of these viruses.

Your audience has heard “carriers.” What does that mean? They’re not infectious if they’re not coughing. You don’t cough RNA. You don’t have particles in your nose. They’re looking at RNA in your nose. You have particles in your blood.

You don’t cough that. You certainly don’t cough it six feet. Yes, you can have it on your hands, but that and coughing even is only the very sick. Are the sick people walking on the beach?

When you’re sick, what do you do? You feel horrible. You have a bit of a fever. You don’t even want to get out of bed. You can’t open your eyes. You lay there. That’s sickness behavior. That’s your immune response clearing the pathogen. You don’t leave the house.

If you’re recovered, like my husband from COPD, you must go out there and get fresh air. He’s not infectious to anybody just because he coughs, nor am I just because I cough. Mine is a congenital pleurisy I got because I was born six weeks early as an identical twin. Pleurisy means filled with fluid.

I always have to clear my lungs, and I always cough. I will not wear a mask. I just walk in the store and say, “Hey, I have a congenital lung disease, and I can’t wear a mask. Thank you very much for-” I don’t say for your stupidity, “-protecting me.”

You don’t protect anybody. I worked in a biosafety level three facility with HIV for 30 years. I pulled viruses out of saliva and blood. I never once wore a mask. I reminded Dr. Rossetti of this the other day. He said, “We wore masks.” I was like, ” No, we didn’t. No, we didn’t.” We weren’t at risk until 2011 [when] it was realized that that mouse cancer causing retrovirus is contagious.

Please take off the mask. Go outside if you’re healthy. Protect the immune compromised; protect the very old; Protect the very young. This is what we do in any flu season in my house. Wash your hands with soap and water.

Those bacterial alcohol soaps, those are hand sprays can drive the evolution of more pathogenic and viral infections because they’re antimicrobial. They’re not antiviral. That’s not how it works.

I know it’s difficult to understand this is infectious disease. This is what we’ve learned at the molecular level for more than 40 years. We know even if you’re infected with these viruses, we can keep you safe and we can heal you just like we did with HIV.

We don’t expect laymen to understand virology, and we don’t expect your general audience to understand this. The people that protect us at the [high] level, the Faucis and CDC must be closed, cleaned out, and reorganized. The fraud and the corruption [must be] removed because we rely on [those individuals].

Taking somebody out of sunshine, out of a job, off the street, arresting somebody on a paddleboard in the ocean — that has nothing to do with public health. That has to do with fear and scare. Nobody should have to get tested.

I’m healthy. I will not be tested. I could care less if I have an antibody and I had been exposed to coronavirus or anything else. I could care less. It doesn’t have any impact on how I treat. I will not be vaccinated ever. I will not be injected, and I will not be forced to do anything with my body.

Americans have the right to say that. You and your listeners have to stand up, trust yourselves, your family, your doctor for your health. If your doctor refuses to listen to you or give you informed consent or treat you as you wish to be treated, fine. Fire them. Go somewhere else.

Forget health insurance. My health insurance is God. That’s the way it’s always been and always will be. I will not pay health insurance. That’s unconstitutional. No bureaucrat can tell people how to practice medicine.

Let the naturopathic doctors, the DOs, MDs all work together. We’ve got, “if you’re not an MD, you’re nothing.” Those are the people that are bought and paid for and used in pharmaceuticals and can’t use the very simple, natural, God-given earthly treatments that we’ve known for centuries. ...

[Second Interview]

... Robyn: Do we actually have any data on the fact that the people who got the flu vaccine are dying of Covid-19? I’m hearing that out there.

Dr. Rashid Buttar: We have no documentation. Nobody’s actually been able to see the Covid-19 virus itself. They have sequenced [the virus], and they’ve found like 30 different variants. Covid-19 in Wuhan compared to the one in Iran compared to the one in Italy compared to the one in New York — they were all different strains.

It is not the Covid-19. This is how sinister this is, Robyn. We know about the toxicity part. We’ve just talked about it. We know about the FIVE J*EE part. We’ve talked about that. We’ve talked about the importance of immune system. We’ve mentioned that.

The information that the public needs to know, staying home, wearing a mask is making everything worse. Wearing a mask– remember we breathe in oxygen. When you wear a mask, you’re reducing the flow of oxygen.

By reducing the flow of oxygen, you’re taxing your system. You’re going to cause a release of steroids, of cortisol, the stress hormone. When the stress hormone goes off, then you have a suppression of the immune system.

That’s the reason that you have to be careful when you give people that are transplant patients immunosuppressives to reduce their immune system so that doesn’t react [badly] to the organs.

What did they die from? They die from infection. They die from opportunistic infection — things that wouldn’t have hurt you or me, but because the immune system has been rendered incapable of mounting a response from the steroids, that’s what they die from.

They’re telling you [to] wear a mask which is now going to reduce your oxygen, which is going to stress your body, which is going to cause more cortisol, which is going to suppress your immune system, and now an opportunistic [infection] could cause a problem.

NOW ... do you get the picture and what those so-called 'experts' are trying to do to us ?

[SoCal Pubbie]

I’m sure you do.

[cba123]

Really.

I’m not some easily-snowed piker.

If I thought they were playing games with the numbers, I would just not say anything. After all, I am living here now and want to be welcome here.

I do not think they are playing games here.

I think they legitimately handled it.

For real.

[SoCal Pubbie]

300 cases out of 75 million people is a little hard to swallow.

[cba123]

Vietnam is right next to China, where most of these things seem to start from.

I think they see something start, and just react, like they did this time.

I came back to Vietnam from America, at the end of January.

EVERY SINGLE person, was wearing a mask.

Taxi drivers, restaurant workers, stewardesses, everyone. Everyone working, and that was even before the government started shutting down almost every store, and all little shops.

Quite extreme.

But then again, it’s now already open again.

Except travellers.

No travellers yet.

[gogeo]

The gloves just proves it was not for your benefit, but theirs.

[Zhang Fei]

[This ranks right up there with the article I read once, where the writer said that “Despite record low rates of crime, prison populations are up.”]

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Otherwise known as the Butterfield Effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Butterfield#Criticism

[exDemMom]

Thank you for that link. I remember reading a Butterfield article years ago and thinking that the guy was utterly clueless. As are, unfortunately, a number of people on this very forum when it comes to understanding the pandemic.

[Zhang Fei]

[Thank you for that link. I remember reading a Butterfield article years ago and thinking that the guy was utterly clueless. As are, unfortunately, a number of people on this very forum when it comes to understanding the pandemic.]

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You’re very welcome. Unfortunately, Butterfield was insightful and a talent compared to the people who have replaced him. They include quotas of random mediocrities selected for race/ethnicity/gender/religion. Idiocracy wasn’t a science fiction movie about the distant future. It was a documentary describing our present day reality, with one key difference - unlike in the film, the president we have is the only competent and sensible major character.