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No Masks in Classrooms From Next Month

by Michael Curzon
21 April 2021 5:27 PM

Secondary school pupils will not have to wear face masks in classrooms from next month, according to Gavin Williamson, but masks will still be required in corridors and on school buses. The Education Secretary has revealed that the rules will be eased slightly on May 17th – no earlier than, anyway! The Mail has the story.

Gavin Williamson said secondary school pupils will not have to wear face masks under rule changes expected on May 17th.

Students in year seven and above have to wear masks in communal areas and classrooms where one-metre social distancing cannot be maintained.

Now, the Education Secretary revealed the face coverings rule will be partially lifted no earlier than May 17th – with pupils still expected to wear masks in corridors and on school buses.

The mask rule – while not a legal requirement – proved controversial among parents.

Children were told if they refuse to wear masks when schools reopened on March 8th, they may be kept apart from their friends – with one parent branding it “mask apartheid”.

Removing rules about mask wearing is set to be confirmed with a week’s notice, the Times reports. 

Measures such as on-site testing in schools, increased ventilation and stringent hygiene rules will all remain in place. 

Earlier this month, a German court ruled that two schools should be prevented – with immediate effect – from forcing their pupils to wear masks, along with imposing social distancing measures and insisting on SARS-CoV-2 rapid tests, saying that “the state legislature regulating this area has gotten far removed from the facts, which has taken on seemingly historic proportions”. We can but dream! – but the (partial) removal of the mask mandate is, at least, a step in the right direction.

The Mail’s report is worth reading in full.

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LMS2
LMS2
4 years ago

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/yes-insist-mask-mandate-especially-democrats/

[Blood] gas concentrations significantly are altered when breathing occurs through facemask. A trapped air remaining between the mouth, nose and the facemask is rebreathed repeatedly in and out of the body, containing low O2 and high CO2 concentrations, causing hypoxemia and hypercapnia [35], [36], [11], [12], [13].[definition–“Hypoxemia” is an abnormally low level of oxygen in the blood. More specifically, it is oxygen deficiency in arterial blood. Hypercapnia, or hypercarbia, is when you have too much carbon dioxide (CO2) in your bloodstream.]

Severe hypoxemia may also provoke cardiopulmonary and neurological complications and is considered an important clinical sign in cardiopulmonary medicine [37], [38], [39], [40], [41], [42]. Low oxygen content in the arterial blood can cause myocardial ischemia, serious arrhythmias, right or left ventricular dysfunction, dizziness, hypotension, syncope and pulmonary hypertension [43]. Chronic low-grade hypoxemia and hypercapnia as result of using facemask can cause exacerbation of existing cardiopulmonary, metabolic, vascular and neurological conditions [37], [38], [39], [40], [41], [42].

. . . breathing through facemask residues bacterial and germs components on the inner and outside layer of the facemask. These toxic components are repeatedly rebreathed back into the body, causing self-contamination.

Breathing through facemasks also increases temperature and humidity in the space between the mouth and the mask, resulting a release of toxic particles from the mask’s materials [1], [2], [19], [26], [35], [36].

To put this simply, Masks do not prevent the spread of Covid and, more importantly, wearing a mask is not good for your health.

Don’t forget to check out Joe Hoft’s piece highlighting a separate scientific study that supports the conclusions in the research reported above. The side effects from wearing a N95 mask are not pretty:

Headache;
Increased pressure inside the skull;
Nervous system changes (e.g., increased pain threshold, reduction in cognition – altered judgement, decreased situational awareness, difficulty coordinating sensory or cognitive, abilities and motor activity, decreased visual acuity, widespread activation of the sympathetic nervous system that can oppose the direct effects of CO2 on the heart and blood vessels);
Increased breathing frequency;
Increased “work of breathing”, which is result of breathing through a filter medium;
Cardiovascular effects (e.g., diminished cardiac contractility, vasodilation of peripheral blood vessels);
Reduced tolerance to lighter workloads.

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I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
4 years ago
Reply to  LMS2

I was aware of this side-effect of mask-wearing since day one which is why I have never worn one – I have exempted myself since the start of this self-harming ritual that people seem to have normalised as part of their daily lives.

I was quite sympathetic towards those who took to wearing masks last year when they were first imposed by the government … endless government propaganda meant that everyone was absolutely petrified of catching covid19 so I could fully understand why they wore them even though I disagreed with the resoning behind it. But now after a year of this nonsense and I can no longer muster any pity whatsoever for mask wearers – nothing at all … in fact I think they’re quite pathetic-looking creatures with that symbol of unquestioning obedience strapped to their face – I especially despise the ones who still wear them even though they are outside in the fresh air when there is absolutely no need to wear them at all – and those mask-wearers in their cars are laughable … even worse are the ones who wear a mask while cycling and even jogging … there is an incredible amount of foolish stupidity out there which I never thought existed until the lockdowns exposed them for all to see – i knew there was a few vacant morons out there but I never thought that they actually outnumbered the sensible ones … thats one good thing about the lockdowns and restrictions – it has exposed the cowering nature of a people once renowned for being indomitable in time of crisis.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

Agreed, the overwhelming overcompliance with mask wearing, even today when the Covid has f*cking GONE, relieves me of any feeling of care or compassion for most of my fellow countrymen.

Some years ago I had Ukrainian neighbours downstairs, they used to leave all their shoes and trainers in the hallway outside their flat.
I understand this to be something of a tradition for rural Ukrainians. On the rare occasions that I was invited inside I would remove my footwear outside likewise. When in Rone and all that.

For the same reason I make an exception and wear a mask when visiting the pharmacy and when on NHS property. If readers think that insufficiently zealous you will just have to shoot me come the revolution.

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Jess
Jess
4 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

The big difference of course is that your pharmacy and the NHS is part of the country you live in!
I can tell you that I’ve had an operation this year, with all the pro and post-op visits – at all times unmuzzled. I asked a consultant on a pre-op visit whether a face mask would be deemed compulsory for my op (ie. would a refusal to wear one prejudice me); he said, quite pointedly, “It’s totally up to you.” Hard to read any nuance unfortunately – he was muzzled.
An exemption badge can speed any possible need for negotiation but in nearly a year I’ve shown it maybe twice, once in Boots the Chemist.

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Hopeless
Hopeless
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

Not directly to do with masks, but the word “morons” strikes a chord, or, indeed, a bell.The Town Crier championships now being held by written essays are plainly organised and controlled by persons of limited intellect. We have a Town Crier here, and his purpose, like that of his many predecessors, is to proclaim news, read edicts, open fetes and so forth in a loud and audible voice.

In a sane country, someone would realise that a good test of a Crier for the championship would be to place him or her in the open air, and at considerable distance from anyone else (thus fulfilling the “fresh air” and “shunning” “rules”). The one who makes the best job of it is then adjudged the winner.

No doubt some “Keep Safe” halfwit would require the Criers to be masked like Dick Turpins, which rather defeats the object.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  Hopeless

See the roundup below.

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TheFascistCoronaFraud
TheFascistCoronaFraud
4 years ago
Reply to  LMS2

Here you go LMS2, this is from the US National Library Of Medicine. Fully referenced, combines many studies of the health effects of masks into one document. Makes you wonder how more parents aren’t going beserk about this.
Ditto with the mobile phones, and all the wireless tech children are exposed to in school. It highlights how unbelievably brainwashed people are, because when you try to tell them, they laugh at you and call you crazy, yet there they are, gleefully masking up their kids, wireless devices all over the shop, believing that these things keep them “safe”. Inversion on steroids.

Little do they know that around the world, many countries like France, Russia, Israel and more have made moves in terms of banning wifi from schools and nurseries. People are sleeping big time on this and it’s getting very late in the day. What they have already installed ie phone and data masts, are already causing harm but they plan to make that exponentially worse with 5G, which means being exposed to a new range of nefarious micorwave and millimeter wave frequencies on top of the ones already in use. The UK government allows and enables the wireless industry to do whatever it likes with no oversight, concern or regard for the effects of this technology on human health, even though the science is clear as clear can be. The regulators are not independent, rather they are controlled by vested interests ie the wireless industry regulates itself aka the foxes are guarding the henhouse.

This all makes the Covid1984 operation even more nauseating to watch, to see these lowlifes from the government standing there claiming they care about the health of the public, when everything they actually do proves otherwise. They are pure slime.

Facemasks in the COVID-19 era: A health hypothesis (U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/

From the conclusion section of the paper:

“Wearing facemasks has been demonstrated to have substantial adverse physiological and psychological effects. These include hypoxia, hypercapnia, shortness of breath, increased acidity and toxicity, activation of fear and stress response, rise in stress hormones, immunosuppression, fatigue, headaches, decline in cognitive performance, predisposition for viral and infectious illnesses, chronic stress, anxiety and depression. Long-term consequences of wearing facemask can cause health deterioration, developing and progression of chronic diseases and premature death.”

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TheTartanEagle
TheTartanEagle
4 years ago
Reply to  TheFascistCoronaFraud

To add to the EM spectrum exposure debate……..

Another hazard in nurseries and schools is blue light – from LED bulbs. The white LEDs are generally short wavelength blue emitters around 470 to 480 nm. Overexposure to short wavelength blue light can lead to metabolic poisoning of photoreceptor cells. Young eyes have higher transmission than older eyes where the lens has yellowed. France and Russia banned their use in kindergartens.

Another hazard is disruption of the diurnal rhythm, with adverse effects on the immune system. From the LEDs used in backlights on screens. We evolved to deal with daylight, night and to an extent firelight.

All these green initiatives are killing us through unintended consequences, which are dismissed by the vested interests.

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Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago
Reply to  LMS2

AIER The Dangers of Masks

https://www.aier.org/article/the-dangers-of-masks/

https://www.aier.org/article/medical-journal-warns-about-maskss-potentially-devastating-consequences/

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LMS2
LMS2
4 years ago

According to the current knowledge, the virus SARS-CoV-2 has a diameter of 60 nm to 140 nm [nanometers (billionth of a meter)] [16], [17], while medical and non-medical facemasks’ thread diameter ranges from 55 µm to 440 µm [micrometers (one millionth of a meter), which is more than 1000 times larger [25]. Due to the difference in sizes between SARS-CoV-2 diameter and facemasks thread diameter (the virus is 1000 times smaller), SARS-CoV-2 can easily pass through any facemask [25].

A meta-analysis among health care workers found that compared to no masks, surgical mask and N95 respirators were not effective against transmission of viral infections or influenza-like illness based on six RCTs [28].

A recent systematic review of 39 studies including 33,867 participants in community settings (self-report illness), found no difference between N95 respirators versus surgical masks and surgical mask versus no masks in the risk for developing influenza or influenza-like illness, suggesting their ineffectiveness of blocking viral transmissions in community settings [29].

Wearing a facemask mechanically restricts breathing by increasing the resistance of air movement during both inhalation and exhalation process [12], [13]. Although, intermittent (several times a week) and repetitive (10–15 breaths for 2–4 sets) increase in respiration resistance may be adaptive for strengthening respiratory muscles [33], [34], prolonged and continues effect of wearing facemask is maladaptive and could be detrimental for health [11], [12], [13].

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/yes-insist-mask-mandate-especially-democrats/

The politicians and anyone who believe masks help to stop CV19 infection can continue to wear them.

THEY ABSOLUTELY SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED FOR CHILDREN UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, AND THEY SHOULD BE ACTIVELY DISCOURAGED FROM WEARING THEM.
Mask-wearing in schools should stop immediately, not wait until next month.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  LMS2

Or compare your first paragraph LMS2 to the commenter in the linked Daily Mail article.
‘I can smell cigarettes, farts and what you had for dinner through a mask, make of that what you want ‘.

Same message really.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago

Let’s not kid ourselves : this is not a concession or ‘opening up’ (which some grovelling suckers may take it as).

It was always counterproductive monstrosity and an abuse.

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Susan
Susan
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

The mandates are issued, adjusted, withdrawn, reimposed with only the thinnest veneer of reason. Arbitrary, capricious, illogical…. on top of useless and harmful! The compliant (many of whom have no choice) are like marionettes, yanked and jerked and rattled around. I think this is the idea.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  Susan

Straight out of the North Korean brainwashing handbook as referenced here on LS several times last year.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Since it’s quiet today (Extract of US analysis of N. Korean brainwashing techniques used on captured service personnel).

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Catee
Catee
4 years ago

Actually they don’t have to wear masks from tomorrow. They’re not a requirement, more ‘guidance’. Those schools who are enforcing this guidance with vigour should be reported to ofsted for child abuse.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Catee

I’m sure that you don’t think Ofsted would provide any protection? It’s been instrumental in screwing decent educational provision for years.

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Catee
Catee
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Perhaps you could come up with something parents can do to start tackling this issue, rather than just give negative thoughts.

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  Catee

Since the fragmentation of education into money-making concerns for the sharp-suited brigade (‘academy chains’), it is difficult, since democratic links with governing bodies have been broken, even if you can get through the wall of general brainwashing.

So I don’t know any simple answer in a climate that elected Johnson to the role of PM, as a prelude to his current absurdities (and Starmer as the alternative)

I’m willing to listen to others who have other suggestions – but I can’t see any future in Ofsted – a political poodle.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  Catee

Parents can send their child to school with a ‘mask exempt’ note.
No reason required.

Last edited 4 years ago by karenovirus
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Susan
Susan
4 years ago
Reply to  Catee

In parts of the US, a doctor’s note will excuse a child from having to wear the mask in school and sports. But of course, children are reluctant to go against the grain, and would rather suffer than attract attention or criticism. This is also part of the psyops, no?

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  Susan

I am certain that me and my mates ( all boys school 1970s) would have fought tooth and nail not to wear face nappies; losing them, destroying or defacing them or, if all else failed, quoting the rule book
‘Terry touch my mask sir an’ that ain’t allowed i got to go home to get another one.’

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Jess
Jess
4 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Time was . . . A school friend got out of wearing a tie for seven years with an invented story about being born with his umbilical cord around his neck.
Whether schoolkids have any imagination these days I don’t know. I’m shocked see so many of them walking home every afternoon in their muzzles.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  Jess

Brilliant, love that story.

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
4 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

I too was born with the cord around my neck but was told that it was a sign that you would end up being hung.

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Jess
Jess
4 years ago
Reply to  Fingerache Philip

Tread carefully – you can’t argue with science.

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Susan
Susan
4 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

We’re about the same age. Now the free love generation is in charge; there is no freedom and no love.

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago

No teacher with an atom of decency would ever have agreed to teach a roomful of maskeloids. Disgusting.

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iane
iane
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

‘teacher with an atom of decency’ : hmm, not many of those around nowadays. It really is time to bring back Grammar schools to show state schools how to do it!

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  iane

Nonsense.

Grammar schools were state schools. Nothing to do with the issue. I went to two, and they varied tremendously in quality – they represented no golden age.

But, beyond that, they have nothing relevant to offer on the issue.

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Susan
Susan
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

You would think! But many teachers have acquiesced in order to keep the education enterprise alive. Remember, last year every school went“virtual.” Zoom classes were a disaster. Teachers see the return to the classroom as a huge relief and also assume everything will return to normal at some point. Meanwhile, half the parents are crazed fools who believe masking is science!

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I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
4 years ago

‘Secondary school pupils will not have to wear face masks in classrooms from next month, according to Gavin Williamson, but masks will still be required in corridors and on school buses.’

How can anyone take these absurd rules seriously anymore?

I mean what is it going to take before people finally wake up to this nonsensical rubbish?

Are people really going to take this cooked-up lunacy seriously?

This stuff from the governmen would be bloody hilarious if it wasn’t so serious.

If schools really begin to implement this madness then as a nation we are in big trouble.

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ian j
ian j
4 years ago
Reply to  I am Spartacas

When did a classroom cease to be a ‘communal area’?

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Rich
Rich
4 years ago

My anti-lockdown song:
https://youtu.be/5jcewTk0pFs

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  Rich

Nice but wrong hour of the day to be promoting it, few will check back once Thursday’s pages are up.

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court
court
4 years ago

It’s heartbreaking to see the odd teenager walking to school muzzled up while in the fresh air on their own.

Luckily mine aren’t at secondary school yet. I’d have made myself a right nuisance of myself with the school – much like I’ve been doing at their primary school but I would really have got my teeth into muzzles and testing.

Of course, peer pressure counts for a lot at school, but I would have hoped a year of my facts and resistance to the act of submission of wearing a muzzle would mean my kids wouldn’t want to wear them either.

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Bella Donna
Bella Donna
4 years ago

Not good enough. Get rid of masks altogether. The government is still refusing to give up its attack on our freedoms.

Hopefully this will focus their minds

https://mailchi.mp/thebernician.net/newsletter-12958618?e=d145647ba6

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WasSteph
WasSteph
4 years ago
Reply to  Bella Donna

Yes. We have to be really careful. I know nobody here is going to be “grateful” for any freedom returned but we need to counter that impulse wherever we see / hear it. We are just beginning to get back what is ours by right and we must keep on pushing and being belligerent. Nobody should ever have been required to wear a mask in daily life. Keep on saying it.

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sprinter
sprinter
4 years ago

There is a new petition to “End all requirements to wear face coverings immediately”
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/581316

It will be interesting to see the response from gov.uk explaining how they are still following the “science” by keeping mask regulations in place.

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Ozzie
Ozzie
4 years ago
Reply to  sprinter

This petition had just over 2,000 signatures yesterday – now stands at more than 18,000 and rising rapidly. Lots of people have had enough of this nonsense now.

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Tillysmum
Tillysmum
4 years ago
Reply to  sprinter

There is something wrong with these petitions. I have filled in two different ones and an email is supposed to be authenticated before your name is added to the petition. Even after 24 hours no email is received. Is this another government intende malfuction?

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Dorian_Hawkmoon
Dorian_Hawkmoon
4 years ago

I’m afraid ‘bollox’ is the only response to this glorious gift from the Pig Dictator and the Priests of Sage.

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George Carmody
George Carmody
4 years ago

In my 14-year-old’s school (state comp), no one wears masks in classrooms (except a few bed-wetting teachers). When schools returned, staff tried to ‘encourage’ pupils to put them on, but the info that it was non-compulsory had spread quickly and the teachers’ requests were met with moody teenage indifference. The teachers gave up. Result!

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court
court
4 years ago

Its obviously the unions who were behind this awful mandate in the first place.

Have a look at the replies in this twitter thread https://twitter.com/paysupplystaff/status/1384766358035091456

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