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 deifies 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
Mandatory masking hurts children around the world. You can have a marked impact in changing that in the world around you. Denis Rancourt of the Ontario Civil Liberties Association writes in “Review of scientific reports of harms caused by face masks:”1
“Along with other measures of physical distancing and economic lockdowns, school closures were implemented during March 2020 affecting more than 1.5 billion students (children and adolescents) around the globe.2 These closures of schools lasted for a few weeks only (as in Denmark) up to several months (in Italy and many other countries;3) and led to marked decreases in educational gains,4 hunger (because school meals were no longer served), increases in child abuse (because children were no longer observed by school staff), and, in general, the risk of ‘scarring the life chances of a generation of young people’5 (because of the long-term psychological, physiological, educational and even economic burden,6 that societies put on their most vulnerable members7)
• Wearing masks may have physical side effects.
• Face masks impair face recognition and face identification.
• Face masks impair verbal and non-verbal communication.
• Face masks block emotional signaling between teacher and learner.
“Given these pros and cons, it is not clear whether face masks should play a major role in educational settings in times of the current viral pandemic. … This matter should be discussed urgently, since it globally affects more than 1.5 billion students, teachers, and school staff directly, and, in addition, their families indirectly.”8
Many children are harmed by mandatory masking. It is time to make that number one less. You may not be able to singlehandedly impact 1.5 billion children, but you have the power to impact the children in your
life who are in your care. Those are the children that you are responsible for the wellbeing of, not the other 1.5 billion.
All that is required of you is resolve and bravery. If you are determined to never let yourself or your child be masked again, neither you nor your child will ever be masked again.
Rancourt, D.G. Review of scientific reports of harms caused by face masks, up to February 2021. 2021. Retrieved from https://assets.website-files.com/606d3a50c62e44338008303d/6076def5c5421e642472f1ef_5thsciencereview-mask sharm-1.pdf
UNESCO. Education: From Disruption to Recovery. 2020. Retrieved from https://en.unesco.org/covid19/educationresponse
Couzin-Frankel J, Vogel G, Weiland M. Not open and shut. School openings across the globe suggest ways to keep the coronavirus at bay, despite outbreaks. Science. 2020;369:241–245.
Wößmann L. Folgekosten ausbleibenden Lernens: was wir über die Corona-bedingten Schulschließungen aus der Forschung lernen können. Ifo Schnelld. 2020;73
This quote is taken from Couzin-Frankel et al. Not open and shut. School openings across the globe suggest ways to keep the coronavirus at bay, despite outbreaks. Science. 2020;369:241–245., p. 241], who cite an open letter published in June 2020, signed by more than 1500 members of the United Kingdom's Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH).
Lancet T. Generation coronavirus? The Lancet. 2020;395(10242):1949. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(20)31445-8
Couzin-Frankel J, Vogel G, Weiland M. Not open and shut. School openings across the globe suggest ways to keep the coronavirus at bay, despite outbreaks. Science. 2020;369:241–245.
Spitzer M. Masked education? The benefits and burdens of wearing face masks in schools during the current Corona pandemic. Trends in Neuroscience and Education. 2020;20:100138. doi:10.1016/j.tine.2020.100138
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.