Children Are Far More Vulnerable To Harm From Face Masks Than Adults
Reason #59 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
Coal miners used to bring canaries into mines with them because canaries were sensitive to noxious fumes that could kill a miner. If the canary died, they knew it was time to get out before the miners were overwhelmed also.
Children are a lot like canaries in the mine. They are the more sensitive version of adults. The impacts of face masks and other one-size-fits-all public health approaches can be seen and felt in children long before adults, if we chose to see them. Unfortunately, most people choose not to see that, which is to the detriment of many a child.
It is additionally, to the detriment of others in society to ignore what is so blatantly happening in front of our very eyes.
These one-size-fits-all health approaches are awful for us. To ignore their impact on children is just as foolhardy as ignoring a fainting canary in front of you: something is amiss.
Kai Kisielinski, 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?”1 writes:
“Children are particularly vulnerable and may be more likely to receive inappropriate treatment or additional harm. It can be assumed that the potential adverse mask effects described for adults are all the more valid for children (physiological internal, neurological, psychological, psychiatric, dermatological, ear, nose, and throat (ENT), dental, sociological, occupational and social medical, microbiological and epidemiological impairments).”
All negative impacts of face masks should be assumed to be more impactful on children than on adults. This includes breathing restrictions from masks. Breathing restrictions have an even greater ability to cause problems with children. Kisielinski continues:
“Special attention must be paid to the respiration of children, which represents a critical and vulnerable physiological variable due to higher oxygen demand, increased hypoxia susceptibility of the central nervous system (CNS), lower respiratory reserve, smaller airways with a stronger increase in resistance when the lumen is narrowed. The diving reflex caused by stimulating the nose and upper lip can cause respiratory arrest to bradycardia in the event of oxygen deficiency.”
As Kisielinski points out, rather than being specifically made for the special needs of a child, children are carelessly made to wear adult face masks:
“The masks currently used for children are exclusively adult masks manufactured in smaller geometric dimensions and had neither been specially tested nor approved for this purpose.2
“In an experimental British research study, the masks frequently led to feelings of heat (p < 0.0001) and breathing problems (p < 0.03) in 100 school children between 8 and 11 years of age especially during physical exertion, which is why the protective equipment was taken off by 24% of the children during physical activity. The exclusion criteria for this mask experiment were lung disease, cardiovascular impairment and claustrophobia.
“Scientists from Singapore were able to demonstrate in their level 1b study published in the renowned journal Nature that 106 children aged between 7 and 14 years who wore FFP2 masks for only 5 minutes showed an increase in the inspiratory and expiratory CO2 levels, indicating disturbed respiratory physiology.3
“However, a disturbed respiratory physiology in children can have long-term disease-relevant consequences. Slightly elevated CO2 levels are known to increase heart rate, blood pressure, headache, fatigue and concentration disorders.”4
Since children are so sensitive to mask use, the following is a short list of reasons cited by Kisielinski why children that children should not wear masks:
“Accordingly, the following conditions were listed as exclusion criteria for mask use:3 any cardiopulmonary disease including but not limited to: asthma, bronchitis, cystic fibrosis, congenital heart disease, emphysema; any condition that may be aggravated by physical exertion, including but not limited to: exercise-induced asthma; lower respiratory tract infections (pneumonia, bronchitis within the last 2 weeks), anxiety disorders, diabetes, hypertension or epilepsy/attack disorder; any physical disability due to medical, orthopedic or neuromuscular disease; any acute upper respiratory illness or symptomatic rhinitis (nasal obstruction, runny nose or sneezing); any condition with deformity that affects the fit of the mask (e.g., increased facial hair, craniofacial deformities, etc.). It is also important to emphasize the possible effects of masks in neurological diseases, as described earlier.”
This expansive and incomplete list by Kisielinski is a far cry from the claim that face masks are safe and effective. Millions of children fall into the category above, of those who face masks are not safe for due to pre-existing health conditions. Additional research points to the likelihood that masks are not safe for anyone in the general public, which includes children. Children, especially, cannot wear a face mask safely.
Kisielinski K, Giboni P, Prescher A, et al. Is a Mask That Covers the Mouth and Nose Free from Undesirable Side Effectsin Everyday Use and Free of Potential Hazards? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.2021;18(8):4344. doi:10.3390/ijerph18084344.
Smart, N.R.; Horwell, C.J.; Smart,T.S.; Galea, K.S. Assessment of the Wearability of Facemasks against Air Pollution inPrimary School-Aged Children in London. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 3935.
Goh, D.Y.T.; Mun, M.W.; Lee, W.L.J.; Teoh, O.H.; Rajgor, D.D. A RandomisedClinical Trial to Evaluate the Safety, Fit,Comfort of a Novel N95 Mask in Children. Sci. Rep. 2019, 9, 18952.
Azuma, K.; Kagi, N.; Yanagi, U.; Osawa, H. Effects of Low-Level Inhalation Exposure to Carbon Dioxide in IndoorEnvironments: A Short Review onHuman Health and Psychomotor Performance. Environ. Int. 2018, 121, 51–56.
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.