Both Face Masks And Face Shields Cause Fear In Children
Both Face Masks And Face Shields Cause Fear In Children
Reason #88 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
What is happening is not normal. Children get that. Doctors’ offices are already uncomfortable enough environments for children. They are also an environment in which problems with face masks can be measured.
In an April 20, 2021 article entitled “Is a Mask That Covers the Mouth and Nose Free from Undesirable Side Effects in Everyday Use and Free of Potential Hazards?” Kai Kisielinski writes:1
“Both masks and face shields caused fear in 46% of children (37 out of 80) in a scientific study. If children are given the choice of whether the doctor examining them should wear a mask they reject this in 49% of the cases. Along with their parents, the children prefer the practitioner to wear a face visor (statistically significant with p < 0.0001).”2
Stand in favor of empathy. Stand in favor of understanding another without them having to say a word. Faces are practically made for that. Stand in favor of that human communication that so enriches us and bonds us.
Refuse the face mask.
Do not allow it on your child, and do not allow it in your child’s presence.
Masks must come to be regarded as a supremely anti-human, sociopathic, divisive, and harmful tool. Anyone who would wear one is sending a signal about their comfort to do harm to another.
Toxic attitudes toward humanity must be done away with as well.
It is worth noting that it is not just the face mask, it is the face visor too. Many children intuitively understand how weird this universal face masking all is. They may not have the words to describe it, but so many children can sense the wrongness of it.
Children prefer a face visor over a face mask and prefer a human face over either.
We can expect similar results in non-clinical settings and can add both face masks and face shields causing fear in children as a reason that no one should be masked or shielded in the presence of children.
Of course, there are some children who feel fear in the absence of a face mask — parents, school, screen time, and society have filled them with the same irrational psychosis that The New England Journal of Medicine has described as “a reflexive reaction to anxiety.”3 Parents can intervene and stem that cycle of fear related to face masks and other one-size-fits-all health mandates.
It is a parent’s duty to protect a child from the psychosis of the world, not to magnify it.
Negligent parenting is no reason to mask children, thereby normalizing the wrongheadedness of the negligence. To the contrary, the root cause: the negligent parenting, should be addressed. Masking children or anyone around children is unsafe, ineffective, experimental, and must be immediately stopped.
Kisielinski K, Giboni P, Prescher A, et al. Is a Mask That Covers the Mouth and Nose Free from Undesirable Side Effects in Everyday Use and Free of Potential Hazards? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021;18(8):4344. doi:10.3390/ijerph18084344.
Forgie, S.E.; Reitsma, J.; Spady, D.; Wright, B.; Stobart, K. The “Fear Factor” for Surgical Masks and Face Shields, as Perceived by Children and Their Parents. Pediatrics 2009, 124, e777–e781.
Klompas M, Morris CA, Sinclair J, Pearson M, Shenoy ES. Universal Masking in Hospitals in the Covid-19 Era. New England Journal of Medicine. 2020;382(21). doi:10.1056/nejmp2006372
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.