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
I taught for several years after college. Sometimes, after long days
of teaching, I would watch the film Dead Poet’s Society and gather
inspiration.
“You must strive to find your own voice because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are going to find it at all.”
— Dead Poet’s Society
I was, by many measures, an unorthodox teacher and I was good at getting the message through.
“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”
– Dead Poet’s Society
I assigned five essays a week many weeks, sometimes six — to fluent 13-year-olds learning their second, third, or even fourth language in
my classroom.
“When you read, do not just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think.”
— Dead Poet’s Society
Parents would tell me things like “You do not just teach our children, you teach our children to think.”
“I brought them up here to illustrate the point of conformity: the difficulty in maintaining your own beliefs in the face of others.”
– Dead Poet’s Society
Students left my tutelage able to think and able to write. Few teachers can say that.
“We do not read and write poetry because it is cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
– Dead Poet’s Society
Let us face it, by and large, teachers are not inspiring.
I know the teachers’ union propagandists would like you to believe otherwise, but ask a high caliber teacher how most teachers stack up. A lot of them are duds, and the teachers I worked with were even of a higher caliber than most, but still many of them ended up being duds. For whatever reason, that is who gets attracted to teaching — lots of duds.
The Episcopal school children near my house eat lunch in the local park. The lunchtime rule is “No talking when your face mask is off.” The teacher is forever scolding the boys on either shutting their mouths or getting their face masks back on. Can you picture that? Some washed up middle aged video gamer spending half an hour of his day feeling big in life by scolding a bunch of ten-year-old boys not to speak as they enjoy a sandwich outside on a park bench next to their best chum.
The French bilingual school in town puts kids in face masks AND face shields. They need to wear both at the same time. Though the children are hardly obedient to their parents (internal/familial authority), they are infinitely obedient to their teachers (external authority). That is exactly the wrong obedience to have. Teenage years are tumultuous without that parental bond. Modernity teaches it is best to put a child in day care and get the parents back to work as soon as possible after a child is born. Put two parents in fifty hour a week jobs for the next twelve years and even if their marriage survives — a source of the child’s sense of security — the children are unlikely to have much of a bond with either parent.
With little or no meaningful bond between parent and child — only authority — the parent’s job in the teenage years is not to walk alongside a child as a trusted advisor. How could it be? There is no bond, so there is no trust. Instead, the parent has to figure out methods of control, methods of exerting authority. A lot of that looks like spirit-crushing torment. If the infant child could predict the future, he would beg his parents to stay home more: which he did, every time they left for work for some period of time and left the kid with strangers, usually itinerant strangers, who moved on so quickly that no bonds could form with any adult in the child’s life.
Kids are happy at 2-years-old, 5-years-old, and 7-years-old. By 18-years-old they are not. Someone — often the parents — messed them up, but the extension of parental authority — the school — is what does it worst of all.
Misbehavior and disobedience in school practically has to be encouraged unless you want your children messed up.
But again, we have the conflict between authority and bondedness. Control and trust. Force and love. Manipulation and conversation. A stranger is almost always going to give a kid the former, a parent can build a relationship in which the latter is the norm, but so many parents are too busy for that to happen. The trendy notion of “quality time” replaces the real variable: quantity time. Kids end up with strangers
at school bossing them around and practical strangers at home doing
the same.
Can it be any surprise that children get run down by modern life?
By 18-years-old, so much of their energy has been sucked from them. And why? Because no one cared enough to stay home instead of playing big shot in the boardroom.
The face mask becomes another lever of compliance, in a world full of people who do not want to build a bond and just want something from that kid. Often they want to exert authority and little else.
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.
I was fortunate enough to be able to be a stay at home Mom. Yes, we did without all the luxuries, but, it’s funny, we really never noticed. You definitely can tell the kids that have dumped and those who were raised by their parents.
The mask, just furthers today’s kids instability with a form of submission and oppression . They lose out on smiles, facial ques and so much more. They lack communication skills and feelings for others, in a sense they are human robots.
I never donned one of those submission tools, common sense tells you they are useless. Yet, there was more. It was that control mechanism that popped up and brought out my rebellious side. If you wanted to talk to me, I politely said once you remove the mask we can talk. Believe it or not, many were glad to do so. This was mostly service people who too were being forced into submission.
Makes me wonder about these people and who raised them, Mom & Dad or the Establishment?
I truly feel for the kids today, they will never have the carefree days many of us grew up in. Instead, they are forced into a vile and disgusting adult world that most normal adults cannot abide.
May God have mercy on the children.
I dunno, our future is looking more grim by the day. And to think these tiny robots are our future leaders , makes me cringe.
When parents hand over their kids to public schools, they are effectively abdicating their responsibility as parents. Public schools are Government Indoctrination Centers. They are involuntary intermittent incarceration for the crime of being young. No wonder our children are a mess!