The pro-mask cultists are at it again. In the height of summer, no less, three healthcare providers are trying to re-impose their own mask “requirements” (to the obvious glee of the BBC). The offending sites are Worcestershire Acute Hospitals, University Hospitals of North Midlands and Manx Care (which runs health and social care services in the Isle of Man). Clearly, the robust evidence concluding that face coverings constitute an ineffectual viral barrier and that their use is associated with a raft of harms does not deter these ideologues from salivating over the prospect of seeing, once again, human beings routinely strapping strips of plastic across their airways.
While one might dismiss these recent directives to return to routine mask-wearing as the desperate actions of a few mono-focused fanatics, there is a nightmare scenario that is more than a possibility: that we witness, once again, the contagion of safetyism spreading across our communities. Smile Free – a campaign group opposed to mask mandates – has described this alarming prospect as follows:
Today one hospital masks up. Tomorrow another. Soon we awake to find it’s all hospitals, care homes, GP practices and dentists – because who wants to be the manager “putting lives at risk”? Then there are “calls” to make this the law… talking heads on TV, articles in the press… asking why did we ever let these brilliant lifesaving masks go away, were we mad? This should have been made law permanently the first time; I blame the Tories. Keir Starmer how about you “protect the NHS”, “save lives” and put that right now? And what’s this? Since Covid is obviously a serious issue again, next the transport unions demand everyone wears masks. Airlines, obviously. Don’t forget the shops. Restaurants, of course! In fact, all workplaces – to be “safe”. Which includes schools, when you think about it – or don’t you think our teachers have a right to be safe at work, Keir?
For those of us who have retained our rational faculties and recognise the senselessness of universal face coverings in healthcare settings, how can we effectively halt the creep of this mask lunacy?
In addition to mass non-compliance – “no thank you, I don’t wear one” – another powerful way to oppose the return of mask mania is for thousands of the sane community to bombard the offending NHS Trusts with formal complaints. Hospital managers typically loathe bad publicity. Swathes of ordinary people expressing horror and dismay about the diktats emanating from a few ideologues embedded in the bowels of their infection control departments is enough to keep them awake at nights. Public pushback in volume is probably the only language they are likely to understand. And the good news is that – because these mask requirements potentially impact upon us all – complainants do not have to reside within the catchment areas of the offending hospitals.
To minimise the effort involved in making a complaint, Smile Free has helpfully provided some clear guidance and the relevant email addresses – see here. As individualised wording in a complaint will increase its power, you may wish to consider adding one or more of the following points to your submission:
- There is strong evidence that community masking is both ineffective and harmful, as summarised in this comprehensive review.
- Thousands of healthcare professionals have recognised the damage associated with imposing face coverings on all staff, patients and visitors in our hospitals, as indicated by this open letter to NHS Chief Executives, written in June 2022, urging them to lift the mask requirements.
- While the scientific evidence is important, it is the human costs of routine masking in healthcare settings that forcefully brings home the dire consequences of this irrational practice: the exclusion of the hard-of-hearing; the re-traumatising of the historically abused; the increased risk of falls in the elderly; the exacerbation of confusion in the already confused; the aggravation of the autistic, anxious and panic-prone; the marginalisation of already stigmatised groups; and the impediment to the goal of soothing the frightened child or suicidal teenager. Faceless interactions impede the development of healing relationships. Humane healthcare, delivered with demonstrable warmth and compassion, will always be more effective than the robotic version emitted by a faceless professional hidden behind a veneer of sterility.
- The current guidance from the U.K. Health Security Agency and NHS England, while broadly recommending a return to pre-Covid normality, leaves the option open for outlier hospitals to re-impose mask requirements on the basis of “local risk assessments”. Yet a series of Freedom of Information requests in 2023 have shown that local risk assessments are a very rare occurrence.
- In the unlikely circumstance that a pro-mask NHS Trust claims to have completed a local risk assessment, ask whether it has included the range of physical, social and psychological harms in its evaluation – the answer will, in all likelihood, be a resounding “no”.
Arguably the most insidious of all the Covid-event restrictions, the “requirement” for routine masking must not be allowed to return to healthcare and other community settings. Shamefully, once again it is the NHS – which one might reasonably expect to be a pillar of scientific rationality – that is the main source of this ideological drive to routinely muzzle the British people. It must not be allowed to succeed.
Dr. Gary Sidley is a retired NHS Consultant Clinical Psychologist and co-founder of the Smile Free campaign opposed to mask mandates.
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I have to confess, few things frighten me more than the return of masking. It fills me with actual terror. To me it represents physical enslavement by the state.
There was also the insidious blame culture that went with it: “I reckon I got infected at event X because persons A, B and C weren’t masked”.
SPI-B – taxpayer-funded domestic terrorism.
The question these mask fanatics can never answer is “If you’re wearing your magic mask, why does it matter if I’m not – unless your mask doesn’t work?”
100% concur with your last sentence. I’ve felt like that ever since Wankock announced the mandate
So refuse to wear one. Fucked if I will, same goes for my wife. See my post above and print out the image. Tell them you will sue if treatment refused, and ask for names of who is doing it. We have to stand against all of this, and by God, this sort of shit is going to be endless now that cnut Starmer is boss.
It’s no surprise they introduced it in Summer, that’s what the Scottish government did in 2020. They didn’t have any evidence to support it but that’s fledgling dictatorships for you.
The dust has barely settled after the election win by the purported socialists, and the health fascists are back in action.
A fascist would tell you that we must all work together to the utmost of our abilities for the glory of our great nation. That’s the exact opposite of what these people are doing. There idea is more than we must all be forced into solitary confinment and may only walk the streets in Hazmat suits because of the incredible filthyness of manimals, that’s the only rational choice.
I never wore a mask during the Scamdemic and I’m not falling for it this time. I have also made my mind up that if I am in the unfortunate situation where I need to see a medic and they don a face nappy I will ask that they remove it and I will see someone else.
As Dr Sidley rightly states “one might reasonably expect (the NHS) to be a pillar of scientific rationality,” well I intend to make this point forcefully if I encounter any of their medieval practices again. If NHS staff are not aware of the fallacy of mask safety they do not belong in their jobs. There are too many dangerous idiots working in the NHS who manage to mask their downright incompetence and we have to call it out.
At first I wore the silly mask because I thought this would all be temporary and because I didn’t want to be the obnoxious nuisance that made a song and dance. —But “Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me”——No more mask tyranny.
There are indeed. I donated blood a couple of days ago, realising I’d taken my small fortnightly dose of Ivermectin that very morning.
I confessed, but the nurse had never heard of it, had to phone HQ, consult the BNF which listed a series of side-effects as long as your arm.
They asked why I took it, where I got it from, who advised it etc. They accepted my blood (I didn’t care either way) but clearly had never come across the situation.
Back on topic; urged by Smile Free I issued a complaint to Worcester Hospital Trust about the masking requirement, but their bot lobbed it back to me asking whether I wanted my complaint to be forwarded to PALS or for my complaint to be handled via another route (forget what it was). I don’t really know, so it’s gone no further. I suspect PALS is just there to soothe ruffled feathers but I’m not sure I’m ready for the full weight of the State to come down on me.
If anyone does land a blow to these idiots, please say how it went.
I have a mask on the front of which I have written “This mask is useless” which I had planned to use if someone tried to withold medical care. Luckily I have had it in my pocket for two years, unused.
Yeah but a few outlier Trusts tried it last year didn’t they, and it amounted to nothing. Just like it will this year. People just have to learn to stick up for themselves and know their rights, because they’re going to be trying it on every year, I reckon. They worked so well in 2020 with the compliance because most of the population had been hoodwinked by the PsyOp and thought there really was a super deadly virus and that a piece of grubby fabric magic face talisman would protect them from this ‘phantom menace’ lurgy, at least until the magic bullet ‘vaccine’ could be rolled out and save the day. But once the scales fall from your eyes and you become wide awake to the scam you can hardly go back to being some bovine mongtard, can you? I reckon anyone who obliges with wearing a muppet muzzle nowadays, on the pretence that it’s for protection, is doing so only because they’re sheeple that follow any order. They’re not so much believers as conformists.
I sincerely believe that if poison gnome Fauci ( or any talking head on the BBC, even ) had said to drink a litre of toilet water per day a certain percentage of people would have done so. There’s a lot of ‘fun’ social experiments people could have ran, if they were feeling malicious enough, just to see how spellbound people really were, due to the unethical, military grade propaganda campaign. But of course, they did that in the end anyway, didn’t they? Because the end game was always to get as many people identifying as lab rats to be injected ( willingly or through threats and bribes ) with the novel pseudo vax that nobody actually needed. Here’s Bob Moran talking about it ( 2mins );
”There’s a narrative doing the rounds that the first lockdown was understandable, permissible, required. It wasn’t. Lockdowns, masks, perspex screens and media hectoring were all about setting the scene for – and product positioning – the vaccines. To suggest otherwise is patently ridiculous. Any politician who endorsed any of the Covid authoritarianism is our enemy – the enemy of the people, and the enemy of freedom.”
https://x.com/JeffreyPeel/status/1807762749474198014
Cumulative Fear. ————–One person gets scared, the next decides to pay attention to that and get scared “just in case”. So you have this domino effect precautionary principle that only works in one direction. It always talks about the supposed risks of not wearing masks but never about the risks of wearing them. Pretty soon the entire country is all encased in masks whether it serves any purpose or not, because no authority, business or person wants to get the blame for illness or death or imaginary illness or death.
This all reminds me of a book by science fiction writer Robert Sheckley where the people on this planet all wore a hat when they went outside to ward off some monster or other. Someone from a visiting planet asked if anyone ever was caught by the monster when they forgot to wear their hat. —–No one could really say for sure and they all just kept wearing the hat anyway.
Print this out and take it with you.
Tell them you are “following The Science”…
So. covid is still around and dangerous! I think it’s probably true to say that the word ‘Covid’ is now a psychological primer. The psyop continues and with it the fear. They will not give up with this. The fact that it’s irrational doesn’t have a bearing on people’s responses. We know of two people who are testing for goodness sake!
I wrote a comment that we’d be lucky if Starmer doesn’t reintroduced the mask mandate in the near future because there’s doubtlessly already lobbying for that a day or two after the election. Obviously “because COVID is on the rise”, as I also already wrote back then. As Ron Smith posted in a comment on another article, the “We need more aggressive persecution of smokers!” people are also already on the warpath.
We also shouldn’t forget that Starmer’s middle name is “vaccine mandate”. This ball is certainly already rolling, too.
Hospital trusts will, or will have, learned to bat off complaints as broadband suppliers have. The aim of their complaints systems is to cause the complainer to lose the will to live. I guess non-compliance is the way to go.
Worcester HA reply “…please note that we will not respond to any further correspondence on this subject and will only register and investigate formal complaints which relate to direct experiences of the services at our hospital from patients or visitors who have attended, in which case we will make contact to confirm a formal process; any further emails received at this address which do not meet this criteria will be filed without response.”
On masks and Covid, has there ever been a toe-to-toe debate on their effectiveness?