Posted on 04/19/2021 9:11:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When it comes to masks, I've reached my limit, not that it matters; I'll just have to set a new one. I realize there's not much I can do about my frustrations, except vent (such an ironic word!), given life in sunny California, but I wish there were.
Over the weekend, I went to the farmers' market, where I had to wear my mask on a sunny morning, fogging my glasses and making breathing as uncomfortable as ever. This, despite my constructing masks that are a thin single layer of light cotton jersey.
Friday, I was at the gym, again yearning to breathe free. Nothing says "loss of individual freedom" like running on the elliptical in a mask. There are signs from one end of the gym to the other, about every six feet on the wall, reminding us we must remain masked. That taking the thing off will result in loss of membership.
Since I just got my membership back, after a year-plus of frustrating and unreasonable closure, I've knuckled under. I know it's not the management's desire to do this to me; they just live in fear of a visit from the Environmental Health inspector. Or being called out by an irate, do-gooder, ignorant, paranoid-of-COVID fellow member. So, even though I'm the only person within 30 feet, given that I exercise mid-afternoon on weekdays, a time when our little gym is always mostly empty, pandemic or not (which IMO there no longer is), I follow the rules (when anyone's looking).
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
DUH!!!
Here’s one study from last year:
https://www.technocracy.news/masks-are-neither-effective-nor-safe-a-summary-of-the-science/
[EXCERPT]
“The foregoing data show that masks serve more as instruments of obstruction of normal breathing, rather than as effective barriers to pathogens. Therefore, masks should not be used by the general public, either by adults or children, and their limitations as prophylaxis against pathogens should also be considered in medical settings.”
Now this from a Stanford Study Last November:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/
ABSTRACT:
Many countries across the globe utilized medical and non-medical facemasks as non-pharmaceutical intervention for reducing the transmission and infectivity of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). Although, scientific evidence supporting facemasks’ efficacy is lacking, adverse physiological, psychological and health effects are established. Is has been hypothesized that facemasks have compromised safety and efficacy profile and should be avoided from use. The current article comprehensively summarizes scientific evidences with respect to wearing facemasks in the COVID-19 era, providing prosper information for public health and decisions making.
CONCLUSION:
The existing scientific evidences challenge the safety and efficacy of wearing facemask as preventive intervention for COVID-19. The data suggest that both medical and non-medical facemasks are ineffective to block human-to-human transmission of viral and infectious disease such SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, supporting against the usage of facemasks. 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. Governments, policy makers and health organizations should utilize prosper and scientific evidence-based approach with respect to wearing facemasks, when the latter is considered as preventive intervention for public health.
Evidence shows that masks are worthless against COVID and harmful to the wearer.
Masks are not a medical measure, they’re an experiment in social control.
As previously noted, a quote from Mark Twain: “No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot(s).” Even showing maskers microscopic pics of the virus compared to the weave of the masks won’t do it.
Facemasks in the COVID-19 era: A health hypothesis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/
Summary; Masks are worse than useless, they’re detrimental to your health.
“The evidence shows that cloth and those blue paper masks don’t work against Covid!”
That does not matter to the rulers of blue states/blue cities.
“No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot, a Karen any Blue Mayor or any blue Governor.”
I have been playing the no-mask game in locked down Oregon. I usually get away with it and the only one w/o a mask.
I cut a bunch of small horizontal slits in my single layer cotton mask.
Makes breathing a lot easier, and they’re not obvious.
No one has ever challenged me.
Slowly starting to see more laying on the ground then on people’s faces.
It has nothing to do with stopping Covid
It is all about control
They are only useful for protection against petty bureaucrats away. Wear loosely so you can breathe.
What about a newly-infected person RE-BREATHING pathogens just expelled into the mask? Wouldn’t that INCREASE the viral load of the person and accelerate their disease, and tend to help overwhelm their system? Antibodies to fight off the disease take take time to develop, and adding to the amount of live virus in the lungs via breathing them back in would seem to be a bad thing.
But we have Doctor Falsie, who doesn’t attempt to answer obvious questions, would rather bask in the warm and loving glow of the media, which itself seems incapable of asking serious and very obvious questions.
They don’t do anything, and the vax doesn’t help either.
In Georgia, I have not worn my mask in any store...... no store employees have asked me to put on a mask.....
I’m done.....
I bought a mesh mask at fakemaskusa.com
My mask protects me. And hopefully scares the crap out of everyone else.
Two of mine.
https://www.amazon.com/3M-Respirator-6100-Respiratory-Protection/dp/B007JZ1NIM
https://www.amazon.com/Dr%C3%A4ger-Respirator-Combination-Respiratory-Protection/dp/B08KWD5JTM/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=dreager&qid=1618851268&s=industrial&sr=1-6-spell
its funny....we're told its to protect other people but why do the nurses have to wear masks but not the sick patients?????
there is no logic.
Except that the author cited evidence against his conclusion.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3951552/posts?page=20#20
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3951552/posts?page=52#52
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