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
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?” writes:1
“As early as 2005, an experimental dissertation (randomized crossover study) demonstrated that wearing surgical masks in healthy medical personnel (15 subjects, 18–40 years old) leads to measurable physical effects with elevated transcutaneous carbon dioxide values after 30 minutes.2 The role of dead space volume and CO2 retention as a cause of the significant change (p < 0.05) in blood gases on the way to hypercapnia, which was still within the limits, was discussed in this article. Masks expand the natural dead space (nose, throat, trachea, bronchi) outwards and beyond the mouth and nose.
“An experimental increase in the dead space volume during breathing increases carbon dioxide (CO2) retention at rest and under exertion and correspondingly the carbon dioxide partial pressure pCO2 in the blood (p < 0.05).3
“As well as addressing the increased rebreathing of carbon dioxide (CO2) due to the dead space, scientists also debate the influence of the increased breathing resistance when using masks.”4,5,6
Breathing is such an intricate system that we barely understand. Within this field, the significance of the impact on dead space from surgical masks has only begun to come to light. Wearing a face mask increases the amount of space in and around your body that does not engage in gas exchange and which is not protected by your body’s defenses. The increase of dead space has other effects on the body. This may be causal or correlated. It is unclear. It appears that harm to the body occurs when dead space is increased. This is yet another reason not to wear a face mask nor to put a face mask on your child.
Kisielinski K, Giboni P, Prescher A, et al. Is a Mask That Covers the Mouth and Nose Free from Undesirable Side Effects in Everyday Use and Free of Potential Hazards? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021;18(8):4344. doi:10.3390/ijerph18084344.
Butz, U. Rückatmung von Kohlendioxid bei Verwendung von Operationsmasken als hygienischer Mundschutz an medi-zinischem Fachpersonal. Ph.D. Thesis, Fakultät für Medizin der Technischen Universität München, Munich, Germany, 2005.
Smolka, L.; Borkowski, J.; Zaton, M. The Effect of Additional Dead Space on Respiratory Exchange Ratio and Carbon Dioxide Production Due to Training. J. Sports Sci. Med. 2014, 13, 36–43.
Roberge, R.J.; Kim, J.-H.; Benson, S.M. Absence of Consequential Changes in Physiological, Thermal and Subjective Responses from Wearing a Surgical Mask. Respir. Physiol. Neurobiol. 2012, 181, 29–35
Matuschek, C.; Moll, F.; Fangerau, H.; Fischer, J.C.; Zänker, K.; van Griensven, M.; Schneider, M.; Kindgen-Milles, D.; Knoefel, W.T.; Lichtenberg, A.; et al. Face Masks: Benefits and Risks during the COVID-19 Crisis. Eur. J. Med. Res. 2020, 25, 32.
Roberge, R.J.; Coca, A.; Williams, W.J.; Powell, J.B.; Palmiero, A.J. Physiological Impact of the N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirator on Healthcare Workers. Respir. Care 2010, 55, 569–577.
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.
Here's a fun one:
Uncensored USA
( at ) CarlosSimancas
October 19, 2023
https://twitter.com/CarlosSimancas/status/1714789257011707908
TEXT OF TWEET: Best video today. This is exactly what you need to do in a situation like this. DO NOT COMPLY & STAND YOUR GROUND.
TRANSCRIPT OF ATTACHED VIDEO
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: This was filmed by a customer inside a Wells Fargo Bank branch in Tennessee. The customer is a woman, as is the police officer and, except where noted, all bank employees. The customer's voice is remarkably sweet and calm. According to Newsweek, this video was originally posted to YouTube on March 22, 2021. Source:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/outrage-at-bank-refusing-womans-money-over-masks-has-one-problem/ar-AA1iwM3H
MASKED TELLER: [inaudible]
CUSTOMER: No. Here's the options. You— I'm not putting cash through the drive-through. I'm not doing it. I put checks—
MASKED TELLER: [inaudible] person [inaudible]
CUSTOMER: No.
MASKED TELLER: [inaudible] the drive-through.
CUSTOMER: No. I'm not putting cash through the drive-through. Here's our choices. You let me deposit my money, you guys shield, you can wear your own mask, you can do what you want, it's a non, it's not a mask mandate state. So go get my money. Go get my money. Just start cashing it out, start counting. That's our choices. I'll go to another bank.
MASKED TELLER: [speaking on telephone, inaudible]
MASKED BANK EMPLOYEE (BLACK HAIR, GLASSES): Ma'am we can help you with the drive-through.
CUSTOMER: No, I'm not going through the drive-through. You can take my cash. You're standing right there. Deposit my cash—
MASKED BANK EMPLOYEE (BLACK HAIR, GLASSES): We can help you with the drive-through.
CUSTOMER: — or go get my money out. Right now. Go get my money out of the safe, go look at my accounts.
MASKED BANK EMPLOYEE (BLACK HAIR, GLASSES): We can help you, all you [inaudible]
CUSTOMER: Cash out my money. Right now.
MASKED BANK EMPLOYEE (BLACK HAIR, GLASSES): Go to the drive-through unless you want to wear a mask. [points to sign] We have masks right here.
CUSTOMER: No. Go cash out my money. There's a safe. Go start counting.
MASKED BANK EMPLOYEE (BLACK HAIR, GLASSES): [points again to sign] We're providing you options, ma'am, so you can wear a mask—
CUSTOMER: Your option is to deposit my cash, or go get my money out of the safe, and I'll take it someplace else, cause this is over. And I'm done. And I did everything everybody wanted me to do for a year. We're done. Tennessee is not requiring mandate, a mask— You are practicing business in the state—
MASKED BANK EMPLOYEE (BLACK HAIR, GLASSES): [inaudible]
CUSTOMER: Well, you know what, you're in the state of Tennessee. OK? Respectfully, you're in Tennessee—
MASKED BANK EMPLOYEE: The CDC—
CUSTOMER: —You are working—
MASKED BANK EMPLOYEE (BLACK HAIR, GLASSES): — requires us to wear a mask.
CUSTOMER: CDC does not require it. It does not require it.
MASKED BANK EMPLOYEE (BLACK HAIR, GLASSES): Wells Fargo is requiring it as well.
CUSTOMER: OK. Then go get my money. OK?
MASKED BANK EMPLOYEE (BLACK HAIR, GLASSES): We can't do that ma'am, do the drive-through.
CUSTOMER: You're not going to put 200,000 dollars through the drive-through.
MASKED BANK EMPLOYEE (BLACK HAIR, GLASSES): Just one moment. We are bringing security over here.
CUSTOMER: OK. Sure.
MASKED POLICE OFFICER [entering through front door into lobby]: Good morning, ma'am.
CUSTOMER: Good morning, how are you.
MASKED POLICE OFFICER: I'm doing well. Um. So my understanding is, is that, ah, the bank has a policy for masks. Um, are you, are you just trying to attend to one of your accounts here?
CUSTOMER: Yes.
MASKED POLICE OFFICER: OK. Um, they are willing to help you through the drive-through if you don't want to wear mask in the business.
CUSTOMER: OK. Hold on. Hold on. Why are you here? What's, is there a law that's been broken?
MASKED POLICE OFFICER: Well, it's their policy here is that you have to wear a mask.
CUSTOMER: Is there a law that's being broken?
MASKED POLICE OFFICER: Well, if they're asking you to leave, then, because you're not adhering to their—
CUSTOMER: It's open to the public and I have over 200,000 dollars in the bank here for over 25 years. So I gave them an option. I said, I'll be happy to leave, if they'll walk over there to the safe, pull all my money out, and give it to me. I'll go. There are banks who want my business. So—
MASKED POLICE OFFICER: OK.
CUSTOMER: — if they'll just pull it all out, I'll happily leave. But if I'm not breaking the law, I don't really need you here.
MASKED POLICE OFFICER: Why don't you come step outside with me, we'll, we'll talk about it, but it's not, this is not a public property. This is a business.
CUSTOMER: It's open to the public.
MASKED POLICE OFFICER: If they ask you to wear a mask inside, you have to adhere to those guidelines, and if they ask you to leave because you're not adhering to those guidelines that they've set, um, then, then you have to leave.
CUSTOMER: OK. Tell me what that law is. I'm a lawyer. So tell me what that law is.
MASKED POLICE OFFICER: OK. Would you like me to call a supervisor here?
CUSTOMER: Yeah, sure.
MASKED POLICE OFFICER: OK. Do you want to step outside with me and then I— ?
CUSTOMER: No, go ahead and call them, because I want to know what the law is. Because Tennessee does not have a mask mandate. Listen to me. This is a business—
MASKED POLICE OFFICER: I'm listening, ma'am, and I understand, I understand what you're saying but—
CUSTOMER: Listen. Listen.
MASKED POLICE OFFICER: This business can set their own guidelines as well.
CUSTOMER: But they are operating, they have, are registered with the Secretary of State to operate a business in the state of Tennessee, and they are open to the public of the state of Tennessee, that does not have a mask mandate.
MASKED POLICE OFFICER: OK.
CUSTOMER: So if they don't want, it's fine, if they don't want me as a customer, there's nobody else in here, we can stay 6 feet apart, they can go get my money.
MASKED POLICE OFFICER: Ma'am, I understand what you're saying as well, um, I—
CUSTOMER: Go get my money and I'll leave. Just tell this young man right here, to step out, go, with, take, get my money out.
MASKED POLICE OFFICER: Like I said, I'm not, I'm not going to—
CUSTOMER: Well, they're holding my money.
MASKED POLICE OFFICER: OK.
CUSTOMER: They're holding my money. They're refusing to give me my money, I've asked for it for four different people, I've asked her, I've asked the blonde lady, I'm now asking this gentleman over here. Could you just get my money out of the bank, please? Just cash? Right there, you've got a safe.
MASKED MALE EMPLOYEE: I'll have to talk to the manager on that. [inaudible] Just a moment.
CUSTOMER: OK, well, get your manager. We'll just start counting it.
[sound of footsteps]
CUSTOMER [to manager]: Can you just take my money out? I'll be happy to leave.
MASKED MALE MANAGER: No, ma'am, unfortunately we don't carry that type of cash in the branch. So with that large of an amount we would have to actually order that specifically for you. Now if you want, I'll be more than happy to process your transaction. I was with another customer, I apologize. But we'll take care of you.
CUSTOMER: Thank you, sir.
MASKED MALE MANAGER: I'll be right back.
[cut]
CUSTOMER: Thank you, sir. You have a good day now. Thank you.
MASKED MALE MANAGER: Thank you.
MASKED POLICE OFFICER: So could you just hang tight with me outside? I just want to clarify with them. To make sure.
CUSTOMER: Why? Why am I hanging tight? Huh. Am I under arrest?
MASKED POLICE OFFICER: No, absolutely not.
CUSTOMER: OK I'm leaving. I've got work to do. Thank you.
MASKED POLICE OFFICER: OK.
5:01
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