Pediatrician: Don’t ‘Facemask’ Your Child

A randomized controlled study of mask protection was performed in Denmark during April-May 2020 and published after critical peer-review in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Researchers concluded that mask wearing “did not reduce the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate.” No similarly rigorous study has been reported showing that masks do protect. Nonetheless, the U.S. government has repeatedly mandated mask wearing, including for children.

Masking children is worse than non-protective: it is harmful, both medically and socially. In a small, uncontrolled study in Gainesville, Florida, of masks worn by children, 11 dangerous (non-COVID) pathogens were found, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis (causes tuberculosis), Neisseria meningitidis (meningitis), Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease), and Escherichia coli (severe diarrhea), amongst others. It is shocking that a study of potential medical danger from face masks was not done by the CDC, NIH, or any government agency.

In addition to the lack of protection and the medical harm of masking children, there are other adverse effects such as impaired learning. Social psychologists tell us that body language, especially the face, is more communicative than verbal.

This masking stuff is insane. A few months ago, I found myself arguing on the phone with a woman (from California, of course) about whether or not exercising with a mask on was a bad idea. Now, I let it go because this was a business client, and I was only willing to push so hard. Her main point was that the idea that restricting your breathing during exercise being a bad thing had been “debunked” and that there was no possible harm from it. That is so obviously insane that it’s difficult to come up with a rational argument against it. How do you argue with someone who is convinced that jumping out of an airplane without a parachute isn’t dangerous? So, when my heartrate approaches or exceeds what is supposed to be possible for a man my age, restricting my oxygen intake is just fine? The Left literally wants to choke you to death.

Children are not at much of a risk from this virus at all. Masking them is pure social control. The Science doesn’t support it at all. Masks don’t provide protection. The number of people under 50 who have died from this thing is really low. It is dangerous for old people, homosexuals, obese people, and those who have respiratory illness already. Double up, and it’s really bad. The worst case I personally know of involving a person under 50 was a mild fever and flu-live symptoms for about 48 hours.

Meanwhile, the average BMI of people hospitalized for COVID-19 ... it’s over 43. That’s the average (study done last year), and it’s circus-freak level. If your BMI is 43, you have made a series of choices that amount to gluttony.InB4 some Freeper regales us with the story of how she knows a perfectly healthy and lean 35 year old triathlete who is currently on a ventilator. Fat Lives Matter!

This disease, to the (limited) extent it’s not a complete hoax, is deadly to old people who are really fat (and probably have some other issue that compromises their immune system), but the CDC and the Dementia Administration and Dr. Fraudci aren’t saying jack about people needing to lose weight. Children do not need to be masked.

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