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
Does a child need any more reason to have to concern himself with fitting in or not fitting in?
Does anyone in modernity, especially a child, need any further excuse to be less authentic, less himself?
I would say no. I would say modernity saps so much individual power from people that only those who strive for the highest level of authenticity are able to reach such a state.
A face mask on a child is yet another way that modern life “others” children, makes a child into the outsider, tells a child that they do not belong, and that conformity is the only hope of feeling like one belongs. To “other” someone is to make a person into an outsider.
Conformity to what? In traditional cultures, which nearly all humans lived in up until a century or two ago, conformity was the path to wisdom and survival.
Many thousands of cultures and subcultures have existed on this planet. Overwhelmingly, they are gone. They did not survive the process of adapting, whether that be 100 years ago, 1000 years ago, or far longer than that.
The cultures that survived are the cultures that, by definition, where able to pass life wisdom and survival skills to the members of their society.
Until very recently, culture changed very slowly. Conforming to a culture helped one survive, since culture that was passed on was successful. Culture and tradition that was not successful died away.
In contrast, we have a continued encouragement to conform to others in society, but we have constantly shifting social morays. Consequently, so much that people are expected to conform with is new, trendy, and most certainly not tested over time as a means for survival.
There was a time in which conformity helped guarantee survival, but today an empty shell of conformity remains. Since there is no wisdom behind it, it is conformity for the sake of conformity and not conformity for the sake of survival. The habit remains, but the purpose is gone. The façade remains with no structure, no foundation, no purpose beneath — an empty show of virtue with a rotten core.
Notably, throughout all human history, that which is new, almost exclusively, is not helpful to survival. That which is new is quite notably harmful to human survival.
This push for conformity, this comfort with othering children that mandatory masking brings is not encouraging of survival, but discouraging of it.
Masking is exactly the kind of trendy, untested, harmful behavior that has caused thousands of other cultures to disappear and is the opposite of the behavior that has allowed the few hundred present-day cultures to remain.
Nothing about human history suggests masking to be a wise survival strategy.
Nothing about human history suggests trendiness to be a wise survival strategy. Everything about human history indicates wisdom, time tested, of the ages to be the wisest of survival strategies.
Are you following the wisdom of the ages as much as you can during these tenuous times? Or are you following what is trendy, easy to follow, and that which is done in the interest of conformity?
The more you can do the former, the greater the chance of survival you can offer yourself, your family, and those around you.
Some families do not stop there — they are not satisfied with mere survival. They rely on the wisdom of the ages to ensure prosperity — conformity to trends has little to offer on either of these topics — survival and prosperity.
Be wise in your life and courageous in your representation of the righteous, and you will live a good and honorable life, a life that the worldly trends of this era are useless in edifying.
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.