Bacteria On Masks Are Not Benign And Have Been Proven To Be Very Harmful
Reason #69 that Face Masks Hurt Kids
Dear Reader,
The wearing of a face mask to protect against a respiratory virus is an act of grand deceit. It is a behavior that defies research on the topic. Wearing a face mask, as this article (one of many) points to — is unsafe to do and is ineffective.
Until the narrative around mandatory masking has changed, each day by 6am Eastern, I will both post here and send out a science-based reason why no one should wear a face mask.
I ask that you help me circulate these pieces to those around you who you believe could most benefit from them. It is important not to remain silent on this topic. These are important discussions to be having with friends, family members, business owners, healthcare practitioners, public servants, and others in the community.
-Allan
If the bacteria contained on masks were not harmful, the growth of bacteria on face masks might be no big deal. Unfortunately, that is not the case.
The bacteria on face masks are not benign, but quite harmful. Everyone walking around in a face mask is breeding colonies of very harmful bacteria on their face, inhaling them into their bodies in higher than normal quantities, and exhaling them into the air around them in higher than normal quantities.
Some call that harmful behavior normal and healthy and beneficial.
Their normal breath poses virtually no harm to you. Their breath through their mask, however, may be very harmful to you.
Stay away from them.
What they are doing is very strange.
They are turning themselves into a walking biohazard that they otherwise would not have been in the absence of a face mask.
To demonstrate the harmful colonies formed by mask wearing, Boris Borovoy points to a long used form of mask in the general population, a CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure machine) commonly worn to treat sleep apnea:1
“CPAP has been used for decades, but universal masking is very new. We know that wearing the CPAP mask has led to life-threatening Legionella pneumonia as well as Streptococcus infections.2 This disproves the hypothesis that microbial growth on masks is always benign.”
This is a perfect example, that disproves the idea that face mask bacteria is harmless.
The difference between a CPAP and a face mask, however is that a CPAP is worn in a bedroom, in a relatively isolated environment. A face mask is worn in public, and spreads its foul and unnatural collection of pathogens through a population unprepared for such a foul and unnatural collection of pathogens being spread in such quantities. The wearing of a face mask is the artificial creation of a biohazard for others in a way that a CPAP is not.
Yet the official narrative around face masks is very different. Borovoy continues about why pathogenic bacteria collected on a face mask is harmful for the mask wearer, from the mouth down to the lungs:
“Aspiration pneumonia is a consequence of oral bacteria aspirated into the lungs. The teeth and gums are reservoirs for respiratory pathogens.3,4 Oral dysbiosis is a disordered ecosystem of commensal as well as pathogenic bacteria in the mouth. Dental caries and periodontal disease are common results of such dysbiosis. One dental practice estimates that 50% of their patients are suffering from mask-induced dental problems, including decaying teeth, receding gum lines and ‘seriously sour breath.’5 The dentists theorize that these new oral infections are mostly caused by the tendency for people to mouth-breathe while wearing a mask, which is not consistent with the evolution of the form and functionality of the airways of humans or any other species.
“The oral flora is known to comprise over 700 bacterial species, inhabiting the epithelial debris, nutrients and oral secretions in the oral environment. Streptococci, lactobacilli and staphylococci are among the most common of these bacteria. Together, they comprise the biofilm that coats the surfaces of the oral cavity. Clearly, the bacteria benefit from the host, but the host may also benefit from the bacteria and contribute to our immunity by the production of secretory antibodies against new pathogens. The commensal relationship of oral flora with the host is generally benign and stable, unless the same bacteria achieve access to deeper tissues and blood. A number of serious and life-threatening diseases result when this happens.
“Bacteria that live in the mouth and upper respiratory tract may be aspirated and cause infection in the lungs. We know that mask-wearers have greater inspiratory flow than non-mask wearers.6 This is presumably due to the hypoxic condition of mask obstruction to the airways. As a result, microbes may be more likely to be aspirated while wearing a mask than not wearing one.
“Damage to the airways results from bacterial colonization. When bacteria localize to the site(s) of infections in the respiratory tract and induce local airway inflammation, epithelial damage results. Such damage only requires bacterial colonization of the airways to begin this process, and to progress to bacterial-induced chronic airway inflammation.7 This process begins with resident bacteria in oral secretions being aspirated and then adhering to the respiratory epithelium. These stimulate cytokine production and inflammation.”8
Researchers realize that a dirty mouth may lead to disease of the lungs, which is why special care is taken to keep the mouths of at-risk hospital patients clean. Borovoy continues:
“In fact, the very same periodontopathic bacteria are involved in the pathogenesis of respiratory diseases. These may be some of the diseases implicated in Covid-19.9 Conversely, oral hygiene measures have correlated with improved outcomes in pneumonia patients10 and those generally with respiratory tract infections,11 as well as other lung diseases, such as COPD.”12
An additional worry is a pathogenic synergy of microbes that may be more likely to occur in a moist mask, devoid of defenses against such pathogens, defenses which exist in the body. Borovoy continues:
“Infections do not only take hold from one species of pathogenic microbes. A pathogenic synergy can result in the flourishing of a particular pathogen. This was found to be the case with Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans together with Streptococcus gordonii, both of which are commonly found in the mouth and in its abscesses.13 With the concentration and culturing of microbes on the surface of a mask, is this pathogenic synergy made more likely while wearing a mask?”
It does not just stop there with bacterial infection. Additional harm is done that points to pathogenic synergy for mask wearers that makes them more prone to non-bacterial disease as well. Borovoy even goes as far as to conclude:
“Cloth mask wearers had significantly higher influenza-like illness when compared to unmasked.”14
Jingy Xiao’s review of randomized controlled trials in the CDC peer review journal of epidemiology Emerging Infectious Diseases, unequivocally shows masks do not help to prevent the spread of a respiratory virus.15 Here, Borovoy is making an argument for how and why masks, in fact, increase the risk of influenza.
We know that face masks do not work, so there is no downside to not wearing a face mask. However, there is a downside to wearing a mask, since masks are covered in harmful bacteria and wearing a face mask helps that pathogenic bacteria and other pathogenic microorganisms access deeper tissues in the body, thereby putting the wearer at greater risk of harm.
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Scannapieco. Role of oral bacteria in respiratory infection. J Periodontol. Jul 1999. 70 (7): 793-802. doi: 10.1902/jop.1999.70.7.793. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10440642/
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MacIntyre, C. Seale, H. et al. A cluster randomized trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers. BMJ Open. 2015; 5(4) https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577
Xiao, J. Shiu, E. et al. Nonpharmaceutical measures for pandemic influenza in non-healthcare settings — personal protective and environmental measures. Centers for Disease Control. 26(5); 2020 May. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article
The bestselling book "Face Masks In One Lesson" by Allan Stevo describes how to never wear a face mask again. The follow-up to the book, "Face Masks Hurt Kids," describes why to never wear a face mask again. We must defeat the awful, narrative around the mandates.
Examples of how face masks hurt kids will be posted to the Lockdown Land Substack each morning by 6am Eastern until the narrative around this ineffective and harmful medical intervention has shifted. Face masks are, in fact, not just harmful to children. Face masks are harmful to everyone. Thank you so much for helping me circulate this research.