Mask Mandates Return in NHS Hospitals. Here’s How to Complain
The pro-mask cultists are at it again, says Dr. Gary Sidley. In the height of summer, no less, some NHS hospitals are re-imposing mask mandates. Here's how to complain.
The pro-mask cultists are at it again, says Dr. Gary Sidley. In the height of summer, no less, some NHS hospitals are re-imposing mask mandates. Here's how to complain.
Like those Japanese soldiers still fighting World War II decades later, some UK hospitals continue to mandate masks for patients and staff. When will they accept the evidence is not on their side, asks Dr Gary Sidley.
Face mask mandates continue in pockets of the NHS, enabled by national guidance that leaves the decision down to local trusts. It's time to end this ridiculous postcode lottery, says Paul Stevens.
Smile Free, which campaigns against mask mandates, predicted that whether you had to wear masks in hospitals and clinics would become a ‘postcode lottery’, unconnected with science or evidence. And so it has come to pass.
NHS England has defended its requirement for masks in healthcare settings by citing a model in a preprint study that simply assumes masks work, contradicting the gold-standard evidence from controlled trials.
At a time of high pressure on the NHS, a hospital is still spending £138,000 employing two people to stand at the door and hand out face masks and hand sanitiser, a Freedom of Information request has revealed.
Dr Gary Sidley has written an excellent piece in the Critic dissecting the faulty reasoning behind the ongoing insistence on masks in healthcare settings.
We're publishing an original piece by Dr. Gary Sidley, a retired clinical psychologist, on the traumatic impact of mask mandates on victims of violence and sexual abuse. Disturbing reading.
