Face Masks Cause Unstudied Psychological Harm To Children
Reason #102 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
Based on our knowledge of psychology to date, face masks likely have tremendous psychological impacts upon children and upon the population as a whole.
This topic has been very lightly studied, a shocking detail given the tremendous amount of research in child psychology often touted as being so necessary for the wellbeing of children.
Major researchers in child psychology have been surprisingly quiet and obedient in what has been a travesty visited upon children.
You will forever know who in child psychology is worth reading and who is not worth the time to even consider based on whether or not they were vocal about the need for research on face masks in 2020 and beyond.
As Denis Rancourt points out in “Review of scientific reports of harms caused by face masks:”1
“One research focus area that appears to be entirely lacking, in examining the harms of masks, is the broad psychological (and therefore social) impact of mandatory masking policies applied to the general population.”
Denis Rancourt continues:
“There can be little doubt that forced masking of the general population has a significant potential to deteriorate the three fundamental psychological needs of the individual: autonomy, competence, and relatedness. This harm to individuals and the societal implications have not been studied. The impact may be gargantuan.
“Only infants and school children have so far been considered using the perspective of psychological and developmental impact (as described below).
“The 11 August 2020 Commentary of Scheid et al. is not helpful, because it incorrectly disregards physiological impacts and examines psychology solely from the perspective of mask compliance.2
“When considering whether a world of masked adults and children, at a crucial period in a baby’s or child’s life, can have long-term detrimental psychological and development impact, I propose that the following hierarchical sequence of thought experiments is useful:
• “Would babies and children entirely raised by mechanical robots be adversely affected?
• “Would babies and children entirely raised by masked adults, and themselves forced to be masked beyond two years of age, be adversely affected?
• “What periods, durations and circumstances of masking, distancing and shielding could have long-term psychological or developmental negative consequences?”
Did they use that platform to stand in defense of children? Did they stay silent? In those two simple questions, so much about the character of a person in that position can be answered.
We all can be grateful to the brave researchers cited in this book who stuck their necks out to stand up for children and adults alike in the face of bad science and tyrannical masking orders.
Ultimately, however, it comes down to your ability to say “No!” in your own life and to never wear a face mask again, and to never mask your child again — no matter what the penalty is. Once you know the truth about how harmful masks are, it becomes hard to justify doing otherwise.
Rancourt, D.G. Review of scientific reports of harms caused by face masks, up to February 2021. 2021. Retrieved from https://assets.website-files.com/606d3a50c62e44338008303d/6076def5c5421e642472f1ef_5thsciencereview-mask
sharm-1.pdf
Scheid JL, Lupien SP, Ford GS, West SL. “Commentary: Physiological and Psychological Impact of Face Mask Usage during the COVID-19 Pandemic”. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Sep 12;17(18):6655. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17186655. PMID: 32932652; PMCID: PMC7558090. — https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32932652/
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.
Relatedly:
The Myth of the Asymptomatic Spreader
Pam Popper, posted September 22, 2023
https://rumble.com/v3ja12a-the-myth-of-the-asymptomatic-spreader.html
TRANSCRIPT - EXCERPT
4:49
DR. PAM POPPER: Alright so, let's talk about today's news. The myth of the asymptomatic spreader. Public health officials all over the world have insisted that universal masking is necessary to prevent the spread of Covid-19. They claim that people who have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 but have no symptoms can spread the virus to others. And like almost everything else about covid, this is false, and a new study in the Lancet* proves it.
I'm going to describe that study for you.
So the study was conducted by researchers at the Imperial College London. It included unvaccinated healthy people between the ages of 18 and 30 who were deliberately infected with Covid-19 and then monitored under controlled circumstances. The subjects reported their symptoms 3 times a day. Researchers swabbed their noses and throats every day to check for the presence of the virus. The researchers also tested the inside of masks that the participants wore, they checked their hands, they examined the air and surfaces of rooms that the subjects were kept in for a minimum of 14 days. So this is a very, very well-controlled experiment. Very important.
The results? Only 7% of the viral emissions from infected subjects took place before they
developed symptoms, only 2% before the first positive lateral flow antigen test.
The study, a controlled challenge, is much more accurate than the hypothetical modeling studies
that were used to justify masking everybody back in 2020 and 2021.
This is particularly important right now because hospitals and some schools are starting to require masks again based on the false idea that people who aren't sick can spread Covid-19. I'm going to give you some examples that will take your breath away.
A couple of weeks ago, Rosemary Hills School in Maryland announced that masks be required for at least 10 days after 3 students in one class tested positive for covid.** Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the testing is still going on. The school distributed N95 masks to students and teachers and provided at-home tests to families. You have to keep this thing going with the testing, right?
Principal Rebecca Irwin Kennedy stated in a letter to parents that all of this was necessary, quote, to keep our school environment as safe as possible for in-person teaching and learning and to prevent further transmission of Covid-19 in this group.
These are kids, for crying out loud!
School officials at Kinterbush Junior High School in Alabama*** imposed a mask mandate for students, employees, and visitors due to the, quote, slow rise in covid cases in the area.
Officials with Philadelphia city schools announced that masks would be optional this year, unless the student was returning from isolation due to a positive Covid-19 test, or if the district decides to make them mandatory. So mandatory masks could be coming any time. The district right now requires that students who test positive isolate for 5 days, and they can only return to school after that if they are asymptomatic.
The Runge Independent School District in Karnes County, Texas shut down for a whole week due to covid.***
Schools in Kentucky and Texas canceled classes in late August due to an increase in respiratory illnesses, including Covid-19, which appears to be opening the door to hysteria and masking and testing and perhaps mandated vaccines for viruses other than SARS-CoV-2. So they're expanding the marketplace.
There's no sign that this is going to stop anytime soon, in spite of the fact that we now know covid is not the threat to most people that we thought it was at one point in time. I mean, you know, the average age in the UK and in the United States of people who died of covid is two years beyond their expected life span. So this is just ridiculous.
I think it's really important to remember that health threats have been used as a tool for controlling populations for all of history. Hitler was the master. What happened in Germany wasn't all that long ago.
The covidians are powerful people who have no regard or no respect for human rights or choices, and they're not going to give up their power willingly. It's really up to us to take it back. And if you want to help us do that, please do consider going to Make Americans Free dot com and donating. Watch some of the videos on the Meet the Plaintiffs section, I think you'll find their stories really compelling, and you're going to want to hear what they say.
And consider starting a group in your own area. With what's coming next, we're going to need some really good friends who are close to us. And you might want to think about gathering them now instead of after the crisis begins.
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
Dr. Pam Popper is President of Wellness Forum Health, Co-author of the new book "COVID Operation: What Happened, Why it Happened and What’s Next", and part of the Make Americans Free Again Movement (www.makeamericansfreeagain.com).
Her webpage is http://drpampopper.com
Her rumble page is https://rumble.com/c/c-641957
Her introduction to MAFA: https://rumble.com/v33kzpv-introduction-to-mafa.ht
* "Viral emissions into the air and environment after SARS-CoV-2 human challenge: a phase 1, open label, first-in-human study"
Jie Zhou, et al. The Lancet, June 9, 2023
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00101-5/fulltext
** See: "Students to wear masks again at Rosemary Hills Elementary School after positive COVID cases"
by Alanea Cremen, September 5, 2023
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/maryland/montgomery-county-elementary-school-mask-up-multiple-students-test-positive-covid-19/65-e219307b-ca3a-490f-b1ee-b8d7d4b752b9
*** See: "Mask Mandate Update"
by Matthew Impelli, September 7, 2023
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mask-mandate-update-full-list-of-schools-with-restrictions-in-place/ar-AA1gnWC6
**** See: "School district in South Texas temporarily closes due to uptick in COVID-19 cases"
by Cody King, August 23, 2023
https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2023/08/23/school-district-in-south-texas-temporarily-closes-due-to-uptick-in-covid-19-cases/