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Dr. Simone Gold Commentary: We Do Not Consent (op ed accepted than rejected by USA Today)
The Ohio Star ^ | June 29, 2020 | Dr. Simone Gold

Posted on 06/29/2020 6:04:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Author’s note: The below is the Op-Ed that was accepted to USAToday on June 24. They deleted key phrases/paragraphs for their print paper and then they refused to print it at all online.

It is clear to me as a physician-lawyer that the disinformation about both Covid-19 and the Constitution has caused us to turn a medical issue into a legal crisis.

The scientific usefulness of a mask has been so aggressively overstated, and the foundational importance of the Constitution has been so aggressively understated, that we have normalized people screaming obscenities at each other while hiking.

The Covid virus was supposed to be contained in the kind of lab where people wear astronaut suits and go through triple sealed doors. It is a con of massive proportion to assert that now, having escaped those environs, a bandana will magically do the trick.

After all, size matters.

The pore size of cloth face coverings range from ~ 20-100 microns.   The Covid virus is 200-1000x smaller than that, at 0.1 microns. Putting up a chain link fence will not keep out a mosquito. Even the most esteemed medical journals admit their purpose is to calm anxiety. “Expanded masking protocols’ greatest contribution may be to reduce the transmission of anxiety …”

Of course, by knowledge or common sense observation, most Americans already know that masking everyone is superstition. But unlike privately carrying a lucky charm, mandating facial coverings requires the consent of the governed.

Many cultures mandate clothing that appears totally irrational to outsiders. Never have those cultures pretended that there is a scientific basis for their clothing requirement. Their leaders rule, and their citizens accept, that their choice of clothing is due to religious or cultural preference.

Not wearing a mask is not mere “personal choice” like deciding between a head covering or a t-shirt. It is a flashpoint for being a free human being who has consented to be governed but has not consented to be ruled. We do not consent to a masked America, because that is a fundamental change in American society, culture, norms, and rights.

People who are apathetic toward their own liberty cannot eliminate Constitutional rights for those who are not. This is not the first (or last) time that people who believe in superstition are screaming the loudest. The Constitution exists precisely to protect all people during times of mass hysteria.

The mask has become the most visible symbol of #socialconditioning to Americans determined to preserve individual freedom. Thus far most Americans have continued to give their consent to be governed. But you are trying our patience.

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Simone Gold, MD, JD, FABEM, is a board certified emergency physician. She graduated from Chicago Medical School before attending Stanford University Law School to earn her Juris Doctorate degree. She completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at Stony Brook University Hospital in New York. Dr. Gold worked in Washington D.C. for the Surgeon General, as well as for the Chairman of the Labor & Human Resources Committee. She works as an emergency physician on the frontlines whether or not there is a pandemic. Her clinical work serves all Americans: from urban-inner city, to suburban, to the IHS. Her legal work has focused on conflicts between hospitals and insurers. She writes on a number of policy issues relating to law and medicine. She always leads with the facts. Read more at The Gold Opinion.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; covid19; masks; simonegold; taketheredpill
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1 posted on 06/29/2020 6:04:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The mask is a sign of submission and nothing else.


2 posted on 06/29/2020 6:06:11 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Money can't buy happiness, BUT it can buy guns and ammo which is pretty much the same thing.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Bad think, citizen. Report to the re-education camp. Or else.


3 posted on 06/29/2020 6:07:58 PM PDT by dynachrome (The panic will end, the tyranny will not)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And, it is factually known, that mask wearing does reduce peoples’ oxygen intake by up to 20%.

And this is not onyl bad in and of itself, but covid also reduces the body’s o2 saturation, so if you have it, and also wear a mask, you’re killing yourself to reduce other peoples’ anxiety and irrational fears


4 posted on 06/29/2020 6:09:01 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BipolarBob

“sign of submission”

‘I love my burqa’

signed, karen.


5 posted on 06/29/2020 6:09:03 PM PDT by dynachrome (The panic will end, the tyranny will not)
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To: BipolarBob
Roger that!


6 posted on 06/29/2020 6:09:21 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: All

first, wear the mask.

next, bend the knee.

alles klar?


7 posted on 06/29/2020 6:10:01 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: dynachrome

NO MY MASK IS FREEDOM /says orwellian nitwit

WHO DOES NOT WANT TO WEAR THE RIBBON!?


8 posted on 06/29/2020 6:10:14 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And what about the superstition of social distancing, there is also NO Science to support it.


9 posted on 06/29/2020 6:11:11 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Just as the days of Elijah, for every Dr Simone Gold, there are 450 False prophets of Baal like Dr Fauci.


10 posted on 06/29/2020 6:13:17 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The mask is an opportunity to reclaim anonymity against the onset of automated recognition.
Never let a crisis go to waste.


11 posted on 06/29/2020 6:18:28 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Interesting how those so interested in workERS are so disinterested in workING.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The pore size of cloth face coverings range from ~ 20-100 microns. The Covid virus is 200-1000x smaller than that, at 0.1 microns.

A mask keeps out droplets, not viruses. Also keeps them in.

12 posted on 06/29/2020 6:22:15 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: palmer

Exactly. You can also point to the effectiveness of masks in other countries.


13 posted on 06/29/2020 6:24:55 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: Secret Agent Man
And, it is factually known, that mask wearing does reduce peoples’ oxygen intake by up to 20%.

I'm sure it does. I wear one and have to change my breathing to breathe deeper, otherwise I get just the stale exhaled air.

but covid also reduces the body’s o2 saturation, so if you have it, and also wear a mask, you’re killing yourself to reduce other peoples’ anxiety and irrational fears

Anyone with COVID at that level (low oxygen) should not be out in public.

14 posted on 06/29/2020 6:24:56 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: lightman
Dr-Karen
15 posted on 06/29/2020 6:27:07 PM PDT by timestax
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To: palmer

not everyone who has it knows they have it

so it becomes a worse problem for them


16 posted on 06/29/2020 6:27:34 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Bkmk


17 posted on 06/29/2020 6:27:35 PM PDT by sauropod (Quarantine is when you restrict sick people, tyranny is when you restrict healthy people.)
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To: dinodino
I use two examples: church choir practice, no touching, wide spacing, large indoor space, no masks, 80%+ spread. Salon with masks and two positive employees, no spread. So far I have had zero responses to those two examples.
18 posted on 06/29/2020 6:28:09 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: timestax
Theyallow-This
19 posted on 06/29/2020 6:29:22 PM PDT by timestax
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To: Secret Agent Man
not everyone who has it knows they have it

Which is a good reason to wear masks. The people who would be negatively affected by masks should not be out in public. One simple way to tell, if you run our of breath trying to talk then you have low oxygen.

20 posted on 06/29/2020 6:29:43 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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