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
The mother of a child who reads lips, wrote me elaborating on how we all read lips:
Dear Mr. Stevo
As a mother of vaccine injured deaf and autistic adult son, I am intimately familiar with the subject.
But I can also assure you — most people hear with their eyes!
Especially children — they cannot learn language properly if they do not watch articulation and facial expression.
Do you remember The West Wing? I understood pretty much everything, but I know many Americans, native English speakers, who have a hard time understanding the dialogues because Aaron Sorkin loves "walking while talking."
Face diapers are monuments of insanity, and those who do not understand the maskholes are not always kidding. That is the reason you should always face the hard of hearing person when speaking to him/her. This is also the reason for mistakes and misunderstandings in the operating room, and no amount of acoustical treatment could remedy this problem.
In some states, there are exemptions from mask wearing requirements for people who communicate with the deaf and hard of hearing.
But it is a real tragedy that so many people comply, and I commend you for your continuous attention to the matter.
Best regards
Irena Stepanova
While this may not need stating to many observant parents, this mother states the case so well of how we all use lip reading to communicate.
When a room grows loud, it is normal for people to stare at lips. When a person speaks a different native language than you, it is normal for you to look at that person’s lips to understand better. The normal communication of life, once taken for granted, has become so difficult, as everything from food orders to car orders are now flubbed purely because of a face mask being involved in the exchange.
This is another reason masks should be worn by no one.
How arrogant of public health officials to suggest a 10-cent polypropylene mask from Wuhan could improve upon millennia of strategies for continued human existence and that only through a mandate would anyone want to wear this allegedly helpful device.
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.