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
Pregnant mothers need to take special care of their bodies, partly because of the burden their own activity places on the baby.
Once considered acceptable, we now know alcohol, cigarettes, and a wide array of drugs, medicines, and supplements can be very harmful to a developing fetus, with impact that can last a lifetime, and which can even kill a baby before it reaches full term.
We know very well that what happens to a mother impacts a developing fetus. We also know that the human body can be marvelously robust and can handle many impositions nature throws at a mother.
The face mask is not one of nature’s impositions though. The fabric is not natural, nor is the strange reaction to cover the face for months or years at a time natural.
Furthermore, the wearing of a face mask by a pregnant woman, for any reason is simply foolhardy, for we have such an array of information on how it demonstrably harms the mother that it would be unreasonable to expect that it does not also harm a developing fetus.
Should we really need to wait for experiments on fetuses to be conducted before we acknowledge that this is an experiment a healthy mother in the general public should not be engaged in, especially not under the claim that this is safe and effective.
Unknown risk is not acceptable risk when it comes to pregnant mothers, fetuses, and children.
A two-phase controlled clinical study on healthy pregnant women between 27 to 32 weeks’ gestation in Singapore concluded that:1
“Breathing through N95 mask materials have been shown to impede gaseous exchange and impose an additional workload on the metabolic system of pregnant healthcare workers, and this needs to be taken into consideration in guidelines for respirator use. The benefits of using Nanomaterial to prevent serious emerging infectious diseases should be weighed against potential respiratory consequences associated with extended N95 respirator usage.”
The study authors also point out:
“Little is known about the effects of N95 masks on the respiratory function of pregnant healthcare workers, who can be subjected to prolonged usage of FFR (Filtering Facepiece Respirator) because of their vulnerability to complications from influenza, varicella, and other pathogens transmitted via the respiratory tract.2 It is also known that pregnant women have a significantly greater respiratory burden due to factors such as increased oxygen (O2) demand, increased nasal airway resistance, decreased functional residual capacity due to diaphragmatic splinting; all these contributing to the ‘physiologic’ dyspnea of pregnancy.3 There are also robust data linking respiratory compromise and adverse perinatal outcomes in women who have chronic respiratory conditions, from large scale studies on women with conditions such as asthma and obstructive sleep apnea. These outcomes include preterm labor, impaired fetal growth, and pre-eclampsia.”4,5
Preterm labor “occurs when regular contractions result in the opening of the cervix after week 20 and before week 37 of pregnancy.”6
Intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) “may affect up to 10% of pregnancies and results in substantially increased perinatal morbidity and mortality. Although many infants are small on a constitutional basis and not as a result of disease, many others suffer malnutrition from chronic progressive uteroplacental insufficiency. Genetic disease, embryonic infection, and various drug exposures may also result in IUGR.”7
Preeclampsia is “a pregnancy complication characterized by high blood pressure and signs of damage to another organ system, most often the liver and kidneys. Preeclampsia usually begins after 20 weeks of pregnancy in women whose blood pressure had been normal.”8
Until proven otherwise, preterm labor, impaired fetal growth, and pre-eclampsia should be considered possible risks of a pregnant woman wearing a face mask.
Tong PS, Kale AS, Ng K, Loke AP, Choolani MA, Lim CL, Chan YH, Chong YS, Tambyah PA, Yong EL. Respiratory consequences of N95-type Mask usage in pregnant healthcare workers-a controlled clinical study. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2015 Nov 16;4:48. doi: 10.1186/s13756-015-0086-z. Erratum in: Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2016;5:26. PMID: 26579222; PMCID: PMC4647822.
Jamieson DJ, Honein MA, Rasmussen SA, Williams JL, Swerdlow DL, Biggerstaff MS, et al. H1N1 2009 influenza virus infection during pregnancy in the USA. Lancet. 2009;374:451–8
Bobrowski RA. Pulmonary physiology in pregnancy. Clin Obstet Gynecol. 2010;53:285–300
Murphy VE, Namazy JA, Powell H, Schatz M, Chambers C, Attia J, et al. A meta-analysis of adverse perinatal outcomes in women with asthma. BJOG. 2011;118:1314–23
Fung AM, Wilson DL, Barnes M, Walker SP. Obstructive sleep apnea and pregnancy: the effect on perinatal outcomes. J Perinatol. 2012; 32:399–406.
MedicinePlus. Preterm Labor. Retrieved from: https://medlineplus.gov/pretermlabor.html.
Seeds JW. Impaired fetal growth: definition and clinical diagnosis. Obstet Gynecol. 1984 Sep;64(3):303-10. PMID: 6379528.
Mayo Clinic. Preeclampsia. Retrieved from: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/preeclampsia/symptoms-causes/syc-20355745.
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:
Pandemic Harms Listening Session - Wenatchee, WA - 28Jan23
Informed Choice WA, Posted February 12, 2023
https://rumble.com/v297djc-pandemic-harms-listening-session-wenatchee-wa-28jan23.html
TRANSCRIPT
2:10:23
SARAH CHRASTINA: Hello. My name is Sarah Chrastina. I live in the Methow Valley. Twisp, it's kind of an hour an a half a way. We live in a little bit of a liberal bubble in our school district—
[laughter from audience]
Even though we are eastern Washington. And we were pretty tolerant. I was very asleep at the beginning of this plandemic. Very tolerant of the masking at the beginning. I mean, it's the least I could do, people are dying all over the world, I will wear my mask to show compassion and err on the side of grace. Right? I didn't see what I didn't see. I was under a spell, was under a trance, really. I can see that now. I can see that in other people now, too.
When I woke up, it was a Saturday morning. I was looking at some stuff with my husband. The headlines were the FDA is calling out people using Ivermectin, it's a sheep dewormer, it's not for people, it's for animals. And as we've learned already today, and some of us learned from a long time ago, but Ivermectin is not just for animals, it's for people. I was dumbfounded that here is the mainstream media telling us don't go to this medicine that could be a lifesaving, that's all I heard about it, that it was a lifesaving treatment for covid that was early. Well, I didn't realize at the time how warped the media was. I was still, I thought they definitely went into hysteria too much, but I didn't see them as the warped, controlled operation that they are. And so I came out of that realizing how much I had been falling for the lies.
I— not long after that, our school district decided to hold a vaccine event because the FDA was going to say it was OK now for the kids now to receive the vaccine in our community. And we were going to have them as young as 5 years old get vaccinated. And I realized, this is harmful. It's not even, there's not a benefit to it. I talked to the nurses, I talked to people at the school, no avail. No one wanted to hear my concerns.
So I decided to go to the event, because I needed to go see this for myself that they were going to give this injection. And what was the paperwork? I needed to see the informed consent. What were they giving to our community, to my neighbors? I'm not going to go to Olympia* and fight it at the government level. I just, I'm going to go to my school and I went and I stood at the outside the gate and asked again and again for the papers. I had doctors come tell me things and I talked to them. Long story short, never got papers. I was bullied. I was shamed. I was yelled at and told to leave and told I was a disruption. I was called in later that week by my school district telling me that they saw my disruptive behavior, reports of it. They weren't there. I was there. They weren't there. They said there was reports of disruptive behavior from me because I was asking questions.
So it's just the classic pattern that I then saw everywhere. When you stand up, you are shamed and bullied and censored. And you don't have a voice. Same with the vaccine injured, that we've heard today, right? It's a pattern. And I, I was in the middle of it and I was still just flabbergasted that this was actually happening.
Now I can— so I got called into the office. I told them my side. They said, Sarah, today we're going to let you know that if you do this again— because I was an employee of the school district, at that time I was coaching volleyball— you do this again, we're going to give you a no trespassing order on the campus. Because they knew they didn't have a law against somebody coming in asking questions. So what could they do? They pull a no trespassing law against me, which they have done many times, I'm sure you've heard many stories of this.
So I went back home. And I was in tears, I was a mess that whole week. I decided to resign. If I resign, I won't be an employee. They can't touch me, I'm a free citizen of the United States of America!
[clapping]
You would think that would be enough.
[clapping]
I said, I resign because I can't do this anymore and be— and I can't wear a mask when it's, to me was a symbol then that I supported the agenda, I supported children's vaccination, I supported all of the things that I saw now were so flawed and harmful. So I went on from there to-- I need to go to my notes, I'm sorry, I'm not supposed to take this long.
My husband meanwhile is the head varsity boy's coach. Dream job. He's amazing at it. We talked about heart injuries with this vaccine. The heart injury I saw in my husband, you can't see it. I can because I know him. It's an emotional devastation. What happened to him in January, 14th, we got an email. It said, you are suspended. We have received an email which will remain anonymous that your mask wearing was abysmal in the weight room today with your team. And he is suspended. And that was the moment his heart was ripped out. And he couldn't be with his team. He was told he couldn't see them, talk to them or be with them. He was a threat to their public, the public safety in our school.
So this, you know, fast forward, we go, we find help in a common law group. I find out there is a case, County of Butler v. Governor Wolf ,** however, this is the judge's remarks at the end of the case:
[reading document] "However, good intentions towards a laudable end are not alone enough to uphold governmental action against a constitutional challenge. Indeed the greatest threats to our system of constitutional liberties may arise when the ends are laudable and the intent is good, especially in time of emergency. In an emergency even a vigilant public may let down its guard over its constitutional liberties"—
which is what I did, I had let down my guard—
[reading document] "once relinquished they are hard to recoup. And that restrictions, while expedient in the face of an emergency may persist long after immediate danger has passed. Thus, in reviewing emergency measures, the job of the court is made more difficult by the delicate balancing it must take. The court is guided in this balancing by principles of established constitutional jurisprudence. This action seeks declaration of the defendant's right."
They ended up upholding the people that were getting the constitution rights taken away. He said something very important here. He says,
[reading document] "But in an emergency, the authority of government is not unfettered. The liberties protected by the Constitution are not fair weather freedoms, in place when times are good but able to be cast aside in times of trouble. The Constitution cannot accept the concept of a new normal where the basic liberties of the people can be subordinated to open-ended emergency mitigation measures. Rather, the Constitution sets certain lines that may not be crossed, even in an emergency."
And this is the —
[clapping, cheering]
— the paperwork that we ended up filing with the school district. We said,
[reading document] "in regard to any and all covid policy order mandates, such as guidelines for physical distancing, masking, tracking status, or vaccination, there's no actual law that has been passed by the state or federal legislature that requires me to comply or compels me to consent to the violation of my natural, unalienable constitutionally protected rights. The orders or mandates of a governor, mayor, or agent or officer for a city, county, state health department are not law. And public policy cannot violate the rights of liberty of the people." And this —
[clapping]
It was very inspiring me to read these words, and realize, this was all set up before I was ever born. This country was founded on these principles. And they were founded on these principles because our forefathers had a moral compass. Like our doctor friend videoed in earlier. An ethical standard they lived by. That is what it is built on. And so I started to zoom out, and the big picture was, not my ability to go to a game with or without a mask, or my husband's ability to coach, it is a war on humanity and our freedom to live right now. And we, as we understand the values of the Constitution that uphold those rights, they're not giving us rights, they're upholding the rights for us as we have been given them by God as we were born on this earth.
So I just want to encourage all of you as I have been teaching my own children, we have five children at home, and I have been on fire to teach them about the Constitution and the rights that we have been given.
I also had to go head-to-toe with a sheriff's sergeant at my gym because I did not go with a mask. They ended up giving me a criminal trespass with no crime committed. So all of these things are in place. There are loopholes that the law enforcement is trying to use against us and we have to know where we stand and ultimately pray for Divine Providence to guide us.
Thank you.
[2:20:20]
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
*Olympia is the capital of the U.S. state of Washington.
** County of Butler v. Governor of Pennsylvania, No. 20-2926 (3rd Cir. 2021)
See https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca3/20-2936/20-2936-2021-08-10.html