Professor Jim Naismith, Director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute and Professor of Structural Biology at the University of Oxford, has pointed out that, despite England dropping its mask mandate in July while Scotland kept its one in force, there is no evidence of this policy making any difference in the two countries’ infection rates. He writes:
The ONS survey results on prevalence shows that the Scottish and English approach to masking, although formally different since July, has made no meaningful difference to Delta. In both countries very high levels of prevalence have continued for months. Thus the new changes announced are unlikely to have much of an impact if Omicron does indeed spread rapidly.
You can see the ONS graphs below for yourself, and he’s right. Yet the Government has re-imposed masks in schools, shops and on public transport, despite there being no evidence that they make any significant impact on the spread of disease.
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I’m amazed that anyone believes more science will change anything. It’s obvious that the people calling the shots are making it up as they go along – because they can.
Welcome to the Plantation.
People still seem to be under the misapprehension that wearing a mask will protect them getting infected by others. The government should make it clear that this is not the case. Wearing them also it appears does not protect those around you. So why are they mandatory, it’s a personal choice.
They’re subjecting you to obedience training. Like a dog. If we meekly submit they’ll get worse and worse. Part of the reason is gearing up to bullying you into having Bill Gates’ vaccine which I hear will be pulled out of a hat perhaps later this year . over which I have very grave misapprehensions; partly because of Gates/WHO vaccine track record (mainstream media never report damage done by vaccines in Africa and India.
I recommend youtubes “UK Column or “Amazing Polly”. for more information.
Also UK column website https://www.ukcolumn.org/coronavirus
These are the best places to start for tons of footnotes, studies, etc.
Masks-for-all for COVID-19 not based on sound data
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/commentary-masks-all-covid-19-not-based-sound-data
Literature review from 2016 on why masks don’t protect dentists.
Why Face Masks Don’t Work: A Revealing Review
https://www.oralhealthgroup.com/features/face-masks-dont-work-revealing-review/
A very good overview by Forbes with a thorough examination of studies.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2020/04/01/should-everyone-wear-a-mask-in-public-maybe-but-its-complicated/#4aac2d0ca02f
The definitive study of masks and the 1918 Influenza
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.10.1.34
Masks have not been proved efficient enough to warrant compulsory application for the checking of epidemics, according to Dr. Kellogg, who has conducted a painstaking investigation with gauzes. This investigation is scientific in character, omitting no one of the necessary factors. It ought to settle the much argued question of masks for the public.
The OralHealthGroup link no longer works.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200902123327/https://www.oralhealthgroup.com/features/face-masks-dont-work-revealing-review/
The paper has also been removed from the Internet archive Wayback Machine ‘because the study was done in 2016 and is no longer relevant’. Yeah, sure…
Will look forward to getting on the train in my Lone Ranger mask. Just got to find Tonto first. Sorry, I know this is serious but the way they are treating us is like children and we all know what happens when you start treating people like children…….
I absolutely refuse to wear a mask. for a start, I suffer badly with hay fever which makes the whole exercise bloody pointless anyway, and there is ample evidence that they are a health hazard when worn for longer periods. My own experience of wearing them in car body shops backs this up- plus if you press the re-circulate cabin air button on your car when it’s full of people just watch how quickly the windows mist up and it becomes unpleasant, which is effectively like putting a mask on the car. I will not meekly go along with something which I know is not healthy just for someone’s political ends. When I see a healthy young person in a near- deserted car park wearing a mask I don’t know whether to laugh or cry- we really are living in the time of the ‘sheeple’!
I agree entirely. It says esewhere on this webside “that Simon Dolan’s advice
is , If you don’t feel comfortable wearing a mask on public transport, simply don’t wear it and if challenged say that under Part 1 Section 4 (a) of The Health Protection (CV, Wearing of Face Coverings on Public Transport) you are exempt as they cause you severe anxiety”. I dont know who Simon Dolan is and trying to find out more. I too have hay fever and for some reason have a horror of sleeping with a pillow; anything over my mouth gives me panic attacks.
PS to Andy Mansell. Of course, I remember now; Simon Dolan is the entrepreneur who challenged the lockdown in a court case.
PS to Andy Mansell. I subsequently discussed this with a lawyer, who said: Simon Dolan lives in Monaco, and that it is all very well for him to suggest that people put themselves up as “sacrificial lambs” ie to be the first person to put their heads over the parapet in a “test case.” Because they WOULD be fined, and taken to court if they did not pay. And they almost certainly wouldn’t win as the legal profession is almost entirely in cahoots on the Govt’s side. Just thought I’d tell you since I do not want to pass on ill advised advice .
Having said that, here is Dr Vernon Colemans view.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6n8IXoDj5g
Also think about the courts at the moment – they have such a backlog on other things, masks may never get a look in. People in a state in Germany won a case against face mask wearing so it is not all useless
Same here – I am severely claustrophobic and find hot, stuffy air very uncomfortable. If the air is very hot, I feel I am suffocating and can’t breathe. Even if this were not the case, and even if masks did not cause hypercapnia and hypoxia, i still would not wear one, on the grounds that I am neither a sheep nor a vicious dog.
The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings on Public Transport) (England) Regulations 2020You are here:
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Reasonable excuse
4. For the purposes of regulation 3(1), the circumstances in which a person (“P”) has a reasonable excuse include those where—
(a)
P cannot put on, wear or remove a face covering—
(i)
because of any physical or mental illness or impairment, or disability (within the meaning of section 6 of the Equality Act 2010(1)), or
(ii)
without severe distress;
(b)
P is travelling with, or providing assistance to, another person (“B”) and B relies on lip reading to communicate with P;
(c)
P removes their face covering to avoid harm or injury, or the risk of harm or injury, to themselves or others;
(d)
P is travelling to avoid injury, or to escape a risk of harm, and does not have a face covering with them;
(e)
if it is reasonably necessary for P to eat or drink, P removes their face covering to eat or drink;
(f)
P has to remove their face covering to take medication;
(g)
a relevant person requests that P remove their face covering.
The acpjournals.org Effectiveness of Surgical and Cotton Masks… mentioned above now comes up with “this article has been retracted when “Article, Author & Disclosure Info” is clicked on. Oh sorry, I just saw you did point this out, but I can’t find a away to delete this.
I didn’t see any note above on efficacy of N95 masks. There are studies on efficacy of N95 masks on viruses. Even though N95s are standardized for larger PM2.5 particles, they have been tested to do quite well on particles much smaller, even smaller than viruses. Please see here:
https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/can-masks-capture-coronavirus/
Nobody is out there wearing N95 respirators (which are different from N95 masks). The website link you provided is a company selling filters. I am suspicious of their reported results. There is no way a cloth mask is going to stop virus-sized particles. All they can do is block the droplets carrying the viruses. But all the fiddling with masks that people do negates any benefit anyway.
We live in tyranny in America. Here, in Massachusetts,we live as slaves. We cannot go to any building without Master Baker’s manumission pass on our faces. The Catholic Church was closed on Easter, and every Sunday since. The Catholic Church, the one founded by the Son of Man.This makes the church, as well as the other churches, wards of the state.Their tax exempt status should be removed. If they want money they can ask the government, as is done (I believe) in Germany. Or they can close. This was a glorious opportunity to learn if there were any saints in the church, if there was a Church Militant.This whole Un-American event was set up 14 years ago, begun by President Bush. I wonder if the Trump Presidency is why we are going through this. I and the wife did not vote for him or ‘that’ woman that year. We go shopping and have to listen to Chinese propaganda over the intercom, telling us how to live and behave. When does this “nonsense” (as one doctor told me over the phone two months ago) re: slavery, end?
I am extremely worried and skeptical about the new proposed laws to make mass compulsory in shops in the UK. although if you voice concerns as to not wearing a mask you are considered a terrible person with no respect for human life, WHY are they only being made mandatory 4 months into ‘lockdown’? the government are restricting liberty
Goverment know this pandemic is as good as over but need be seen to do something so they can claim credit.
If I have to shop in England (I live in Wales who will probably follow “the Science”) I will also wear a tin foil to keep me really safe because aliens are a threat too you know!
In the UK we have already reached the Herd Immunity Threshold.
The maths in this post were sourced from:https://off-guardian.org/2020/07/07/second-wave-not-even-close/
IFR = infection fatality rate = the probability of dying for a person who is infected, which is now recognised as being 0.26%
HIT = herd immunity threshold = community immunity gained when a percentage of the population becomes infected with a disease.
Empirical evidence suggests that HIT for COVID-19 is between around 19% and that the other 81% or less of us have cross immunity because of pre-existing T-cell response brought on by exposure to the common cold or any other of the many corona viruses, see:https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-35331/v1
Equations
(1) divide deaths by the IFR and you know how many people have had corona virus;
(2) divide the number of people who have had the virus by the number of people in the community and you find the herd immunity threshold.
Take the UK
Deaths: 44,300
IFR: 0.26%
Population: 67000000
Maths: 44300/0.0026 = 17038461.5385
17038461.5385/67000000 = 0.2543053961
0.2543053961×100 = 25.430
The UK Herd Immunity Threshold is 25.430%
We have already reached it and no longer need a a lockdown or masks or vaccines.
(The UK’s HIT is higher than the usual 17% – 20% because total deaths have been higher than in some other countries, probably because of a much higher rate of care home deaths due to government policy.)
Or because numbers are not accurate and inflated when “with” covid or just dying of something else is counted.
Yes, hopefully we’re close to HIT and we should just get on with getting there BEFORE the winter brings its usual ailments.
It seems obvious to me that within a few months a significant rise in workplace illnesses will be detected in staff made to wear masks all day like in restaurants or public transport.
Then hopefully will we have yet another u-turn. These headless chickens in the govt. seem desperate to appear decisive that they don’t balance out the long term effects of their measures. Very disappointing.
Very interesting research: [Arthur Firstenberg is the author of *The Invisible Rainbow*].
Arthur Firstenberg on facial masks:
“As a person who went to medical school, I was shocked when I read Neil Orr’s study, published in 1981 in the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Dr. Orr was a surgeon in the Severalls Surgical Unit in Colchester. And for six months, from March through August 1980, the surgeons and staff in that unit decided to see what would happen if they did not wear masks during surgeries.
They wore no masks for six months, and compared the rate of surgical wound infections from March through August 1980 with the rate of wound infections from March through August of the previous four years.
And they discovered, to their amazement, that when nobody wore masks during surgeries, the rate of wound infections was less than half what it was when everyone wore masks.
Their conclusion: ‘It would appear that minimum contamination can best be achieved by not wearing a mask at all’ and that wearing a mask during surgery ‘is a standard procedure that could be abandoned.’
I was so amazed that I scoured the medical literature, sure that this was a fluke and that newer studies must show the utility of masks in preventing the spread of disease.
But to my surprise the medical literature for the past forty-five years has been consistent: masks are useless in preventing the spread of disease and, if anything, are unsanitary objects that themselves spread bacteria and viruses.
• Ritter et al., in 1975, found that ‘the wearing of a surgical face mask had no effect upon the overall operating room environmental contamination.’
• Ha’eri and Wiley, in 1980, applied human albumin microspheres to the interior of surgical masks in 20 operations. At the end of each operation, wound washings were examined under the microscope. ‘Particle contamination of the wound was demonstrated in all experiments.’
• Laslett and Sabin, in 1989, found that caps and masks were not necessary during cardiac catheterization. ‘No infections were found in any patient, regardless of whether a cap or mask was used,’ they wrote. Sjøl and Kelbaek came to the same conclusion in 2002.
• In Tunevall’s 1991 study, a general surgical team wore no masks in half of their surgeries for two years. After 1,537 operations performed with masks, the wound infection rate was 4.7%, while after 1,551 operations performed without masks, the wound infection rate was only 3.5%.
• A review by Skinner and Sutton in 2001 concluded that ‘The evidence for discontinuing the use of surgical face masks would appear to be stronger than the evidence available to support their continued use.’
• Lahme et al., in 2001, wrote that ‘surgical face masks worn by patients during regional anaesthesia, did not reduce the concentration of airborne bacteria over the operation field in our study. Thus they are dispensable.’
• Figueiredo et al., in 2001, reported that in five years of doing peritoneal dialysis without masks, rates of peritonitis in their unit were no different than rates in hospitals where masks were worn.
• Bahli did a systematic literature review in 2009 and found that ‘no significant difference in the incidence of postoperative wound infection was observed between masks groups and groups operated with no masks.’
• Surgeons at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, recognizing the lack of evidence supporting the use of masks, ceased requiring them in 2010 for anesthesiologists and other non-scrubbed personnel in the operating room. ‘Our decision to no longer require routine surgical masks for personnel not scrubbed for surgery is a departure from common practice. But the evidence to support this practice does not exist,’ wrote Dr. Eva Sellden.
• Webster et al., in 2010, reported on obstetric, gynecological, general, orthopaedic, breast and urological surgeries performed on 827 patients. All non-scrubbed staff wore masks in half the surgeries, and none of the non-scrubbed staff wore masks in half the surgeries. Surgical site infections occurred in 11.5% of the Mask group, and in only 9.0% of the No Mask group.
• Lipp and Edwards reviewed the surgical literature in 2014 and found ‘no statistically significant difference in infection rates between the masked and unmasked group in any of the trials.’ Vincent and Edwards updated this review in 2016 and the conclusion was the same.
• Carøe, in a 2014 review based on four studies and 6,006 patients, wrote that ‘none of the four studies found a difference in the number of post-operative infections whether you used a surgical mask or not.’
• Salassa and Swiontkowski, in 2014, investigated the necessity of scrubs, masks and head coverings in the operating room and concluded that ‘there is no evidence that these measures reduce the prevalence of surgical site infection.’
• Da Zhou et al., reviewing the literature in 2015, concluded that ‘there is a lack of substantial evidence to support claims that face masks protect either patient or surgeon from infectious contamination.’
Schools in China are now prohibiting students from wearing masks while exercising. Why? Because it was killing them. It was depriving them of oxygen and it was killing them. At least three children died during Physical Education classes — two of them while running on their school’s track while wearing a mask. And a 26-year-old man suffered a collapsed lung after running two and a half miles while wearing a mask.
Mandating masks has not kept death rates down anywhere. The 20 U.S. states that have never ordered people to wear face masks indoors and out have dramatically lower COVID-19 death rates than the 30 states that have mandated masks. Most of the no-mask states have COVID-19 death rates below 20 per 100,000 population, and none have a death rate higher than 55.
All 13 states that have death rates higher than 55 are states that have required the wearing of masks in all public places. It has not protected them.
‘We are living in an atmosphere of permanent illness, of meaningless separation,’ writes Benjamin Cherry in the Summer 2020 issue of New View magazine. A separation that is destroying lives, souls, and nature.”
Arthur Firstenberg
August 11, 2020
Thank you Kalyani Ma Mukti for the original post
#wearethebreathofgod #masks #masksarebs
masks do not prevent viral transmissoon because: viruses are not contagious.
viruses are not what you have been told they are.
you have been lied to.
what they call infectious viruses are exosomes, part of the body’s natural process of expelling toxins. cells expel toxins to heal the body; exosomes are labelled dangerous viruses.
the body heals itself. the fake covid tests tell us we are infected and must be isolated.
the contagion myth has been weaponised against all humanity. we are the virus they are at war with. when they wish to eradicate covid, they wish to eradicate humanity.
check out Dr Stefan Lanka. Dr Tom Cowan.
the truth will prevail. may God open the eyes of all who read this.
Soon after the débacle came about, I reviewed a British Standards Institution standard on PPE (https://www.bsigroup.com/globalassets/localfiles/en-gb/product-certification/personal-safety/bsi-guide-for-personal-safety-equipment-0520.pdf ), and came to the view that for the general public, such things are crap, not to put too fine a point on it. I’ve never used one, but have made use of the official guidelines for being exempt (not well advertised, but they exist).
Stop wearing masks, they are both innefective against disease and cause lack of oxygen to the wearer and an intake of their own CO2. We were not designd with a mouth and nose for them to be covered. Stop following laws made by idiots.
Masks are a satanic ritual- stop doing it!!! It is child abuse!!!! Are you too dumb to recognize that? Wow!!!!!
Would like to see an update on these masks, if something has changed.
Pardon necessary gross language here. We excrete body liquid through peeing, solid through ‘pooping, food gas through ‘farming, and all OTHER waste through skin and BREATHING. We breathe out waste. We’d never recycle any other waste. The mask, a face DIAPER catches our waste which through nasal spray cling and clogs pores in cloth. A mask is also shown to prevent nothing.
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Twenty Fun Facts About Masks
1) In 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that there was no evidence that face masks are effective in reducing transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/329438/9789241516839-eng.pdf
2) The evidence for the efficacy of cloth face masks in the community is weak.
https://www.cato.org/working-paper/evidence-community-cloth-face-masking-limit-spread-sars-cov-2-critical-review
3) Masks apparently fail to protect those aged under 50 (i.e. they don’t work).
https://www.poverty-action.org/publication/impact-community-masking-covid-19-cluster-randomized-trial-bangladesh
4) In the US neither making masks mandatory nor mask use was associated with lower SARS-CoV-2 spread.
https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.18.21257385
5) Wearing masks compromises communication: speech becomes mumbled, smiles become hidden.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-020-03535-1
6) Lip-reading becomes impossible.
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m2683
7) Masks generally make us more docile and compliant.
https://thecritic.co.uk/face-masks-make-you-stupid/
8) The inside and outside of masks can become contaminated with bacteria and fungi.
https://doi.org/10.5001/omj.2014.92
9) Masks cause hypoxia (a condition in which not enough oxygen makes it to the tissues of the body) and fatigue.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18084344
10) Masks are only effective so long as they are dry, which could be for as little as 15 or 20 minutes.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/farce-mask-its-safe-for-only-20-minutes-20030427-gdgnyo.html
11) Wearing certain types of face masks for long periods of time could result in potentially hazardous chemicals and harmful microplastics being inhaled deep into human lungs.
https://www.ecotextile.com/2021040127603/dyes-chemicals-news/exclusive-chemical-cocktail-found-in-face-masks.html
12) Wearing a used mask could be more dangerous than not wearing one at all.
https://nypost.com/2020/12/16/wearing-a-used-mask-could-worse-than-no-mask-amid-covid-19-study/
13) Many masks become litter, so are bad for the environment.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/08/more-masks-than-jellyfish-coronavirus-waste-ends-up-in-ocean
14) When disposable face masks are exposed to water, they leach microparticles, nanoparticles and heavy metals.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2021.117033
15) Masks have been put to good effect by criminals.
https://xtown.la/2020/11/23/criminals-wear-masks-covid/
16) Masks make identifying criminals more difficult.
https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/news/local/mandatory-masks-make-identifying-criminals-more-difficult-but-police-say-there-are-other-techniques-499102/
17) Masks make people, at least children, less honest.
https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1979.44.2.422
18) Masks appear to cause numerous real or perceived issues for children in particular (e.g. irritability, headache, difficulty concentrating, less happiness).
https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-124394/v3
19) Masks worn by children have been found to have been contaminated with pneumonia-causing bacteria and meningitis-causing bacteria, among other pathogens.
https://rationalground.com/dangerous-pathogens-found-on-childrens-face-masks/
20) Masking children is tragic, unscientific and damaging.
https://www.aier.org/article/masking-children-tragic-unscientific-and-damaging/