Face Masks On Pregnant Women During Exertion Should Be Avoided To Protect The Unborn Child
Reason #56 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
Research indicates that the use of a mask for over an hour may be enough to harm a fetus. Also, the use of a mask during exertion for any period of time may be harmful to a fetus.
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:
“In pregnant women, the use of masks during exertion or at rest over long periods of time is to be regarded as critical as little research has been done on this.2 If there is clear scientific evidence of increased dead space ventilation with possible accumulation of CO2 in the mother’s blood, the use of masks by pregnant women for more than 1 hour, as well as under physical stress, should be avoided in order to protect the unborn child.2,3 The hypercapnia-promoting masks could act as a confounder of the fetal/maternal CO2 gradient in this case.”2-4
Face masks are so lacking in usefulness, and so dangerous for the fetus, that no pregnant woman, for any reason, nor for any length of time, should wear one.
To do so is entirely negligent.
If there is a pregnant woman in your life who wears a mask, please help her to recognize the harm she is almost certainly doing to her unborn child — IQ damage,5 physical and mental developmental damage, harm that may last a lifetime. The extent of the harm is unclear and likely far worse than we can imagine.
Life is already complicated enough on a child being brought into the world. Why does a mother need to make it any more difficult?
Her child needs to be fought for. Her child deserves to be fought for. To wear a mask while pregnant is to give up on one’s responsibility to give a child the very best that you can.
Not only are pregnant mothers wearing masks when at rest, while lightly active, and while under physical stress — all of which likely cause harm to mother and baby, but there is another time when many mothers are masked. In stark contrast to the recommendations above and with no known benefit to mother or baby, during the greatest and most risky time of physical stress for the mother-child pair, hospitals across the country have made it a requirement that mothers wear masks in the delivery room.
Not only does such a request bring dehumanization at such a tender moment but it senselessly introduces an additional layer of danger. Pregnant mothers should not be masked, children should not be masked, no one should be masked, least of all people in a delivery room.
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.
Roeckner, J.T.; Krsti´c, N.; Sipe, B.H.; Obiˇcan, S.G. N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirator Use during Pregnancy: A Systematic Review. Am. J. Perinatol. 2020, 37, 995–1001.
Roberge, R.J.; Kim, J.-H.; Powell, J.B. N95 Respirator Use during Advanced Pregnancy. Am. J. Infect. Control 2014, 42, 1097–1100.
Tong, P.S.Y.; Kale, A.S.; Ng, K.; Loke, A.P.; Choolani, M.A.; Lim, C.L.; Chan, Y.H.; Chong, Y.S.; Tambyah, P.A.; Yong, E.-L. Respiratory Consequences of N95-Type Mask Usage in Pregnant Healthcare Workers — A Controlled Clinical Study. Antimicrob. Resist. Infect. Control 2015, 4, 48.
Deoni SC, Beauchemin J, Volpe A, D’Sa V. Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Early Child Cognitive Development: Initial Findings in a Longitudinal Observational Study of Child Health. 2021. doi:10.1101/2021.08.10.21261846
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.