News Round-Up
5 May 2024
by Will Jones
The message projected by masks is clear: You are a danger to me, and I am a danger to everyone. Learning cannot take place in an atmosphere of fear and anxiety, or where the child is subject to oxygen deprivation.
Levels of titanium dioxide that "systematically exceeded the acceptable exposure level" have been found in common face masks used for COVID-19, a study in leading journal Nature has found.
We are now perhaps emerging blinking into a life without Covid rules and yet the masks and their wearers are still everywhere. The natural world is unchanged, but the human world is still dystopian.
In March 2020, Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said people should not wear face masks because they don't work. Then he said they might work a bit. Then, with no new evidence, he supported making them compulsory. Why?
Putting tights over a mask improves its fit and filtration properties, a study from Cambridge University into 'hacks' for improving the effectiveness of face masks has found. Something to include in the next mandate.
Austria’s powerful Constitutional Court has demanded detailed data from the Government Health Ministry justifying the coronavirus response plus an explanation of the recent wave of non-Covid excess deaths.
An aeroplane travelling from Miami to London turned back because a passenger refused to wear a face mask, the airline has said. What a ridiculous waste of fuel, time and money.
More than a dozen Tory MPs and peers have backed a court challenge against the imposition of face masks in school classrooms, saying there is insufficient evidence to support the policy.
Compulsory masks in schools could be ditched within days. According to one member of the Government, it will definitely happen before June 26th, the day earmarked for the scrapping of most 'Plan B' restrictions.
Forcing pupils to wear facemasks in the classroom is dystopian and critics should not be smeared as Covid-deniers, children’s author Julia Donaldson has said.
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