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
A surprising realization occurs to any parent who makes a shift and says “I am not going to bend my children to the will of the world. If anyone will bend, it will be the outside world who will bend to the will of my family.”
Suddenly, once that shift is made, a child’s opinion needs to be sincerely sought. You do not need to read piles of medical literature to understand that face masks are awful for children. You can just ask them, and anyone who is willing to listen will quickly realize that children are saying loudly and clearly that they cannot wear a face mask safely. Even children who seem totally fine, may have stories like this, though, as the existence of sub-threshold stimuli demonstrates, feeling fine does not prove the absence of harm. Quite the contrary is, at times, true, in fact.
On Tuesday, August 3, 2021, a few children addressed their school board in Arroyo Grande, California. I will let them speak for themselves. Here is what 10-year-old Riley Stark said that night:
“Hi, my name is Riley Stark. I am 10-years-old. I will be going into 5th grade at Dorthea Lange this year. Last year I lived out of state and I was able to play sports and attend school full time, in person the entire year. Where I lived, kids under 10 did not have to wear a mask, but I was forced to at school because I went to a school that was only grades 3rd through 5th and they did not want it to be confusing when some kids wore them and some kids did not. This was the only place I was forced to wear a mask. My brother, who was in 1st grade, did not have to wear a mask at his school. Pretty much no one did.
“Being forced to wear a mask to be able to go back to school was stressful. Teachers were constantly yelling at us to pull up our masks. They did not want us to touch each other or be within 6 feet of each other at first. We had plastic dividers between us a lunch. I felt like I was in prison. I was always on edge. I was also confused. They would yell at us, but then they would touch us or hug us or have their masks down. I would see them outside of school and they did not wear masks, not even to school sporting events. Once, my principal even gave me a hug and said, ‘Oh just go sanitize your hands.’ I may be a child, but I am not dumb. It was easy to see through the ‘do as I say not as I do’ talk.
“The first month of school, I was so stressed out and had so much anxiety, I had to sleep in my parent’s room. My mom had to give me melatonin and lay with me, because I felt like I was being choked by a mask. I felt like it was still on even when it was not. I had to take constant mask breaks every day, because they made my migraines so much worse.
“Masks were, and are still, a constant stress for me. They are for so many kids, but so many will not speak up. When in class, we were asked to write an essay about what was the one rule we wish we could change. My friend in my class said she wished we did not have to wear masks because people were so sad because of them. There have been so many times I would pull up my mask and cry behind it, and no one would know.
“I feel that masks should be a choice, we should not be forced. We also should not be called names or made to feel bad about it either. Myself, my brother, and my sister all went to school last year full time, played all the sports we normally do and none of us got Covid. No one I know did. There was very few in our entire district that did. My class was never even quarantined, and this was before teachers and adults started getting vaccines. Now teachers and adults have vaccines.
“If there is one thing I have learned this last year, it is that adults and teachers have not done such a great job at leading by example. We have always been taught in school not to give in to peer pressure. We were taught that we are in charge of our own bodies, we need to do what is right for us, and it is ok to think different than others. But now they are being hypocrites. You should not say one thing and do the exact opposite. Thank you.”
This was a heartfelt piece of writing from a little girl that surprised many who listened, because of how adeptly she was able to communicate the harm in her own life being caused by masking.
Here is what her sister, 13-year-old Mahdyson Stark said that same night:
“Hi, my name is Mahdyson Stark. I am 13-years-old and I will be attending Mesa this year as an 8th grader. Last year I lived out of state and I went to school full time. I was also able to attend sports.
“We always had to wear masks and social distance, which made me feel like I was contagious or something, like no one wanted to be around me. But that was not all, after running we would have to put on our masks which was a struggle in itself. Just wearing a mask makes me feel like trapped and even when I am not wearing a mask it still feels like I am wearing one.
“Last year after school, I would come home very sad and angry. Just the little things make me lash out at someone. I should not have to be home in order to learn mask free. I have a 504 plan1 and online learning was very challenging for me the couple months I had to do it. I did not have the help I needed. I was very angry and frustrated most of the time and I fell even further behind. It left me in tears, not to mention you cannot hear what people are saying when they wear a mask you cannot see their face. Some of my teachers did not even recognize me when they saw me with a mask, how are they going to know if I am having a hard time or if I am sad.
“Wearing a mask also got me hurt. I fell down the stairs multiple times at my old school. I could not see when looking down most of the time. I would like you to consider making masks optional. We know when we are sick, we can be responsible. Junior high is stressful enough without masks, you do not need to add to it. Thank you.”
The past month since the Ides of March 2020 have been another exercise in teaching a child to ignore his wants and needs. This is one of many ways modernity encourages a child to grow into an adult willing to ignore his own wants and needs and to live life forever obedient to some illegitimate authority figure.
Ask your kids to sit down and write about their experience with a mask. If you have an open and honest relationship, if the cognitive decline caused by mandatory masking has not already gotten to them, and if the brainwashing of 2020 and 2021 has not already gotten to them, you might be surprised at how similar your own child’s experience is to the experience of these two girls who cared enough about the topic to address their school board on the matter.
504 plan.
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.