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
You are constantly inhaling matter into your body. Many features of your respiratory system are protective in keeping that out which does not belong and allowing that in which belongs. These features include: mucus, anti-microbial peptides, nasal turbinates, the glottis, coughs, sneezes, saliva, bacterial competition within the oropharyngeal flora, immunoglobulins, a branching airway, the mucociliary escalatory function, free fatty acids, lysozymes, iron-binding proteins, Immunoglobulin G, surfactants and other components of the alveolar lining, macrophages, polymorphonuclear cells, and lymphocytes.
It is a phenomenal system, but there is a limit to how much the system can be taxed and still continue to work.
A long history of lung diseases occur among those who tax that system and do not recognize early signs of limitation: examples of that include types of pneumoconiosis, such as byssinosis (inhaling unprocessed cotton dust), silicosis (inhaling quartz dust or other silica dust), black lung or coal miners pneumoconiosis (inhaling coal dust), asbestosis (inhaling asbestos dust), farmers lung (inhaling dust or spores from moldy hay), teflon flu or polymer fume fever (inhaling plastic gases), metal fume fever (inhaling metal fumes).
Masks release friable particles. They are able to enter the respiratory system. Wearing a mask appears to overtax the system by introducing friable content into the lungs far beyond the amount that the respiratory system can expel. Additionally, those friable particles are of a character difficult for the body to sufficiently remove.
The consequence of this is lung conditions and lung diseases which are already beginning to appear in the short-term, and which may additionally have unpredictable long-term consequences, perhaps even being irreversible, as many conditions related to foreign matter settling in the lungs tend to be.
In the article “Masks, false safety and real dangers, Part 1: Friable mask particulate and lung vulnerability,” Boris Borovoy et al. write:1
“Inhaled cotton fibers have been shown to cause sub pleural ground glass opacities at the surface of the visceral pleura, as well as centrilobular and peribronchovascular interstitial thickening, as well as fibrous thickening of peribronchiolar interstitium. It was found by spectral analysis by infrared spectrophotometry that the foreign bodies in the lungs had an identical pattern to that of cellulose, which must have come from the inhaled cotton fibers.2 Cotton and even silk may contribute to COPD in textile workers. Byssinosis is a pulmonary syndrome related to textile work. When textile workers were exposed to organic dusts from textiles in the workplace, both reversible and irreversible pulmonary conditions, such as asthma and COPD developed.3 It should be remembered that unmasked textile workers would not have such high inspiratory flow as masked individuals.”
Even in low inspiratory flow environments, inhaled particles can be harmful. How much more that can be presumed to be true for the high inspiratory flow environment of a face mask. Even a natural fiber, such as cotton, can be harmful to the lungs when inhaled. How much more so for synthetic fiber, such as those of which face masks are made?
We have here another reason face masks should not be worn, especially not by children. We also have another example of how face masks are not likely to be safe for anyone.
Boris Borovoy, Colleen Huber, Q Makeeta. Masks, false safety and real dangers, Part 1: Friable mask particulate and lung vulnerability. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/the-science-of-masks/ from https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Masks-false-safety-and-real-dangers-Part-1-Friable-mask-particulate-and-lung-vulnerability.pdf
H Kobayashi, S Kanoh, et al. Diffuse lung disease caused by cotton fibre inhalation but distinct from byssinosis. Thorax. Nov 2004. 59 (12). https://thorax.bmj.com/content/59/12/1095
P Lai, D Christiani. Long-Term respiratory health effects in textile workers. Curr Opin Pulm Med. Mar 2013. 19 (2): 152-157. doi: 0.1097/MCP.0b013e32835cee9a https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3725301/
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.