Johns Hopkins Doctor Easily Shreds the Narratives Behind Forcing Kids to Mask Up for COVID

Townhall.com ^ | 26 August A.D. 2021 | Matt Vespa

[lightman]

Mask up, kids—by order of the COVID Nazis. And by that, I mean Anthony Fauci and the other members of the clown town council that have peddled contradictory and outright lies about the virus for months. It's science fiction at this point, and we're all done. We have three vaccines. If you want to roll the dice and remain unvaccinated, you already know the risks. I had COVID, recovered from it, and got vaccinated. This pandemic is over for me. But now, the lab coats are targeting kids because they're the last refuge.

Kids generally don't get Covid or spread it, despite the panic porn you see on CNN. And even with this Delta wave and the school year upon us, has the media noted why other nations have not mandated kids to wear masks in class? It does more harm than good. What's the science behind masking kids? There's virtually none. Yes, the "I am science" crowd led by Fauci the Clown has next to nothing devoted to this question.

Dr. Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins has been at the forefront of trying to get science-based advice to the public. He's one of the few medical guests that talks about naturally acquired immunity, noting that over 100 million Americans probably already had and recovered from the infection, which bodes well for herd immunity given the vaccination rates. Yet, on this question, he takes the forced mask-wearing for kids narrative to the woodshed by citing…the science (via WSJ):

Do masks reduce Covid transmission in children? Believe it or not, we could find only a single retrospective study on the question, and its results were inconclusive. Yet two weeks ago the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sternly decreed that 56 million U.S. children and adolescents, vaccinated or not, should cover their faces regardless of the prevalence of infection in their community. Authorities in many places took the cue to impose mandates in schools and elsewhere, on the theory that masks can’t do any harm.

That isn’t true. Some children are fine wearing a mask, but others struggle. Those who have myopia can have difficulty seeing because the mask fogs their glasses. (This has long been a problem for medical students in the operating room.) Masks can cause severe acne and other skin problems. The discomfort of a mask distracts some children from learning. By increasing airway resistance during exhalation, masks can lead to increased levels of carbon dioxide in the blood. And masks can be vectors for pathogens if they become moist or are used for too long.

In March, Ireland’s Department of Health announced that it won’t require masks in schools because they “may exacerbate anxiety or breathing difficulties for some students.” Some children compensate for such difficulties by breathing through their mouths. Chronic and prolonged mouth breathing can alter facial development. It is well-documented that children who mouth-breathe because adenoids block their nasal airways can develop a mouth deformity and elongated face.

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What about the risk of Covid, which mask mandates are intended to ameliorate? The CDC reports that for the week of July 31 the rate of hospitalization with Covid for children 5 to 17 was 0.5 per 100,000, which would amount to roughly 250 patients. The CDC acknowledges that not all of these children were in the hospital for Covid: Viral testing at admission is routine, even for patients who have no Covid symptoms. Children who do develop Covid symptoms are at minimal risk of “long Covid,” according to a Lancet study published Aug. 3: “Almost all children had symptom resolution by 8 weeks, providing reassurance about long-term outcomes.”

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We have been encouraging Americans to wear masks since the beginning of the pandemic. But special attention should be paid to the many children who struggle with masks. Public-health officials claim to base their decisions and guidance on science, but there’s no science behind mask mandates for children. A new research study by one of us (Dr. Makary) and his Johns Hopkins colleagues found that of the $42 billion the National Institutes of Health spent on research last year, less than 2% went to Covid clinical research and not a single grant was dedicated to studying masks in children.

In the absence of data, mask mandates have ignited a culture war.

Well, who saw that coming, the cultural war aspects to all of this? Fauci and the CDC peddled nonsense on child masking for months. Then, when the CDC was caught colluding with teachers' unions to keep schools closed, the political element was further intensified. What's more, is that a lot of the doomsday scenarios in the spring never came true. Then, troves of Fauci's emails were revealed, with one noting that store-bought masks are ineffective at curbing the spread of COVID. Fauci also said at the outset that we shouldn't wear masks. Now, it's just cover your face. It doesn't matter what kind of mask; it could be a cloth. Recommended NBC Chief Foreign Correspondent Calls Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal ‘A Moment of American Humiliation’ Madeline Leesman

So, what's the science behind that, chief? There is none. It's all about control. And now these medical fascist pigs are coming after the kids. We talk about endless wars. Fauci and bureaucrats want an endless pandemic.

"Any child who wants to wear a mask should be free to do so. But forcing them to make personal, health and developmental sacrifices for the sake of adults who refuse to get immunized is abusive," wrote Makary. "Before we order the masking of 56 million Americans who are too young to vote and don't have a lobby, let's see data showing the benefits and weigh them against the long-term harm."

That's pretty reasonable.

[lightman]

wars. Fauci and bureaucrats want an endless pandemic.

"Any child who wants to wear a mask should be free to do so. But forcing them to make personal, health and developmental sacrifices for the sake of adults who refuse to get immunized is abusive"

[lightman]

It’s all about teaching COMPLIANCE….
...not “following the science”:

Masks are:

1) a sign of submission, subversion and subjugation
2) mandated in order to dehumanize
3) virtue signaling devices
4) meant to provide constant reinforcement of fear
5) used to destroy community, friends and family normal communication
6) implemented to create isolation, confusion, anxiety, destroy human connectivity, trust and interactions
7) mandated to exacerbate illness
8) intended to aid in the abandonment of the belief and reliance on our immune systems
9) intended to refute integrous science
10) signal to positions of power that you are willing to give up all of your rights and freedoms based on anything they say, even if it is a BIG FAT LIE!

[rktman]

Doc mengelefauci.

[lightman]

The nation is in the grip of

Paedorouthoúniphobia

Irrational fear of children's nostrils.

[mewzilla]

Related...

Surgeon Shows CDC Top Evidence On Why Wearing Masks Work

Watch the videos. Unbefreakinglievable.

Meanwhile, NYS is muzzling school kids again. And there's a bill in the state legislature to make a CoupFlu vaxx mandatory for school kids.

[mewzilla]

I like MiniMengele. :-)

[alternatives?]

How long before the doctor loses privileges’?

[BenLurkin]

[rktman]

3,....2,.....

[toddausauras]

What about the humiliation of wearing a face diaper for no good reason and the depression that causes? That is also a problem.

[Thank You Rush]

This is the doctor I saw on FOX this week who said he will NOT be getting the booster....

[Thank You Rush]

Dr. Fraudski....

[mewzilla]

Masks are fomites. And CoupFlu isn't the only bug out there...

Fomite-mediated transmission as a sufficient pathway: a comparative analysis across three viral pathogens

[Sicon]

noting that over 100 million Americans probably already had and recovered from the infection, which bodes well for herd immunity given the vaccination rates.

I continue to see this absurdity: the "vaccination" rate has NOTHING to do with herd immunity, because the "vaccines" do NOTHING to prevent you from catching or spreading COVID.

[CatOwner]

noting that over 100 million Americans probably already had and recovered from the infection, which bodes well for herd immunity given the vaccination rates.

Sure, if those people don't take the vaccine. There are now enough reports from medical sources indicating the COVID vaccines could potential weaken an individual's immune system.

[Sicon]

"Any child who wants to wear a mask should be free to do so. But forcing them to make personal, health and developmental sacrifices for the sake of adults who refuse to get immunized is abusive,"

im·mu·nize /ˈimyəˌnīz/

verb, past tense: immunized; past participle: immunized

make (a person or animal) immune to infection, typically by inoculation. "the vaccine is used to immunize children against measles"

I'm glad this guy isn't my doctor, given that he doesn't even know what the "COVID" "vaccines" do (or don't do)

[hsmomx3]

He’s such a con artist.

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile, from Nevada...

They call you insurrectionists if you go to school boards to voice your concern. Remove them!

Paging Inigo Montoya for the skrewl board prez.

Parents there, you know what to do.