Now What Do I Do?

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 

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I do not care much for mass movements. I do not care much for giant protests. I prefer the power of individual acts of courage.

Big protests tend to be bolstered by strength in numbers. Such masses can easily be manipulated, distracted, and sidetracked, especially when they are cheaply won to a cause — easy come, easy go.

Any day, I will take 10 lions who have stared down a face mask order and never worn a mask, navigating life with calm conversation, over a 10,000-person strong mob that will do anything I ask.

The one will march toward freedom no matter what the person next to him is doing. The latter is fickle, distractable, troublesome, unserious, and of specious ends.

I do not want anyone like that around me, nor should you.

Those tested in battle, resolute about not wearing a mask, grow with every instance of effort invested into them. Water seeds like that, and they will sprout and flourish.

The same may happen with an untested member of the masses, but it is unlikely. It is very likely with the battle-tested individual who has stood against masks.

Just as all that glitters is not gold, the strength of numbers is illusory.

Quality is more important than quantity at moments like these.

That being said, I have nothing against masses of quality people. I will happily attend a protest of 10,000 lions. I will happily encourage 100 million mask-refusing Americans onto the street.

All this is to say: it is all up to you.

Everything comes down to how you live your life.

Do not think too much about a far flung city where you do not spend time. Do not concern yourself with a national retailer you do not visit. Do not even think too much about Washington, D.C., unless you are concretely affected by an individual action taking place there.

Do not do any of that, unless you first have your own life in order and are bored by how easy this process of never wearing a face mask is.

You see, even with health mandates from Washington, D.C., their mask policies require someone else, someone local, to enforce them. That is the person you have to be more concerned about. So much of the huffing and puffing since the Ides of March 2020 is unenforceable nonsense from a bunch of blowhards.

Do not believe the hype, because if you do, it is that much easier to grow demoralized by the hype.

1.          Find the primary sources.

Find the policies that affect you, not the articles, or press releases, or emails, or websites about the policy. Find the actual policy. “Could you tell me where I could find the PDF of that policy complete with exemptions?” is a useful phrase to get to the five or ten page, sober legal document written by an attorney.

I am not saying I like these policies, or that they should be honored, only that it is good to read these policies so you know exactly what you are dealing with.

Reading this policy is “signal,” the important stuff. All other talk about policies should be considered “noise.”

2.          After you have read the policy, put your hacker hat on.

Look for the loopholes; look for exemptions; look for clever approaches that show this policy to be not applicable to you.

3.          If they claim to be based on local orders, look at the local orders they claim to be based on.

All government orders on this topic have exemptions. Such exemptions are required by longstanding federal law.

4.          It really comes down to human-to-human conversation

This involves two things. First, figure out who to ask for something. Ask only those who can give it to you. Second, ask that person in a way that allows that person to say “Yes!” to you. This usually requires thinking of that person first, and considering what he needs from you to be able to say “Yes!”

“I am unable to wear a face mask safely” usually accomplishes that.

Many other methods work. Having a human to human conversation is at the heart of all methods that I find valuable enough to recommend to people. That is what it all comes down to.

How do we, as individuals, return the world around us to a place in which civil conversation is again the preferred method of human interaction?

The simple answer, the tested answer, the effective answer is this: model that behavior in the world around you, and the world around you will tend to return you that favor of interacting with you in a civil, human to human conversation.

5.          Never ever wear a face mask for any reason.

If you are going to be successful in this endeavor, you need to resolve to never wear a face mask again — not for any reason. If you can resolve to do that, you will be one of the millions of Americans successfully doing exactly that.

6.          Find others who do not wear a face mask.

Get their phone numbers. Call them together in the same physical location, even if just socially. Do this at least once a week.

Before you know it, it will be much more than social — people like us just start to do cool things when we are put in a room with each other together.

Start this routine, even if it is only you and another person initially.

7.          Help teach people who want to stop wearing a face mask.

Once you have gone a few days without a face mask, you quickly begin to see how well it all works. Surgeons say “see one, do one, teach one.” When they are learning, they often watch a person perform a technique, then they perform the technique successfully, then they teach another that technique. The same works with the face mask technique described here. The more quickly you replicate yourself by teaching this skill, the better it is for you, for others, and for society.

8.          Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

Keep doing this, and your one person group of passionate people will be 30, 300, even 3,000, before you know it.

I mean that.

And just like fissile material, you can have one pile on one side of a table doing nothing, another pile on another side of a table doing nothing, but push the two piles together and there will be enough to achieve critical mass and start a chain reaction.

Amazing things can happen when a few special people are brought together. All you need to do is to bring them together.

It is all up to you.

As for this book, I welcome you to use this book as a tool. It is not intended to have all the answers. It is intended to ask a lot of questions, and to bolster your position with a lot of evidence.

My publishing team and I have designed this book to be of a size and weight that allows you to take it with you and wave it around as you speak about the topic of face masks. It has the right amount of heft to thump on a podium or desk as you speak, as a way to emphasize your key points.

While thumping the book on a desk you can ask: “Have you read Face Masks Hurt Kids yet?” You can ask that matter-of-factly, as if he would have naturally read it.

Wait for an answer. Wait for an answer.

“Do you have any idea what kind of harm these face masks do to kids?”

Wait for an answer. Wait for an answer.

“I cannot see how any responsible professional can be mandating them.”

Stare at the allegedly responsible professional. Pause for an uncomfortably long period of time as you stare at him. Break the silence dramatically by thumping the book down again.

“Covid is a bad enough illness, and you want to harm them more by putting these face masks on them? It is criminal.”

The book is designed as your tool for a moment like that.

It is meant to be easy to access and to have easy to spot main points. It is meant to be a good resource.

I am not a doctor. I write about science. Maybe one day a doctor will be brave enough to write this book. Until then, you have got me. Do not let anyone say to you “Well, it is not written by an MD, is it?”

That does not matter. That is an ad hominem fallacy — an attack on the person asking the question rather than an addressing of the question itself. Do not be distracted by such silly and manipulative attempts to distract your well-intentioned interest. If someone wants to criticize this book, make that person interact with the questions raised here and prove to you how wrong these concerns are. That is the proper way to criticize this book or any body of thought. If you insist that person interact with these thoughts in that legitimate way, both you and he will end up closer to the truth, simply because you insisted that legitimate debate take place.

This book exists to make it easy to ask the questions and to not be bullied by anyone in the process.

Is it going to be foolproof?

No.

It all comes down to you. Unless you are superhuman, like each of us, when we try something new, there is a learning curve and a growth process involved.

Be honest. Be sincere. Be strategic.

Do your best. Keep doing your best. Stay encouraged. Fill your reading with the stories of the successful, rather than the stories of anything disheartening. Grow your numbers. Keep doing that over and again and as the saying goes, “The truth always prevails.”

Stay focused on that outcome and you will win.

Also, go to www.RealStevo.com right now and sign up. I will happily be part of your emotional life support. I will send you videos on how to do this better. I believe in this stuff and I stand by it. More books are coming and you can always expect encouraging emails from me. I do not send discouraging messages to people. I realize this is psychological warfare and anything that discourages is a bullet fired for the enemy, no matter who it comes from.

Until these health mandates are gone, until we have rolled back tyranny many years into the past, and until we have built a more free world, I am in it to win it.

The ashes of the American empire are all around us.

People like you, me, and our children are needed to build the new America that will prosper long into the future.

Thank you for joining me in that effort.

Allan Stevo

November 17, 2021

Rock Snake Lake

Near Swallow Cliff, California

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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.