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
In 2017, for the first time since 1963, the life expectancy of Americans declined two years in a row. The British Medical Journal looked into a broader cause behind the decline: despair.1
Grace Donnelly in the article, “Here’s why life expectancy in the US dropped again this year,” published in Fortune on February 9, 2018, writes:2
“Life expectancy in the US dropped for the second year in a row, according to the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.
“The new average life expectancy for Americans is 78.7 years, which puts the US behind other developed nations and 1.5 years lower than the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) average life expectancy3 of 80.3. The OECD is a group of developed countries4 that includes Canada, Germany, Mexico, France, Japan, and the U.K.
“A new study published in the BMJ journal5 looked into a broader cause behind the decline: despair.
“‘We are seeing an alarming increase in deaths from substance abuse and despair,’ said Steven Woolf, an associate professor of emergency medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University and co-author of the report.6
“He added that the amount of the decrease in life expectancy is actually less alarming than the fact that addiction and a decline in the emotional wellbeing of Americans have been significant enough to drag down the country’s average length of life.
“The research points to the opioid epidemic, backing up a CDC report from last year7 that linked the drop directly to a 21% increase in overdose deaths from the year before and cited a 137% increase in opioid-related deaths between 2000 and 2014.
“The increase in deaths caused by drugs and alcohol, particularly among white Americans, is ‘unclear, complex, and not explained by opioids alone,’ according to Woolf.8
“On average, 115 people in the US die each day9 from an opioid overdose, and six Americans per day are dying from alcohol abuse – the highest rate in 35 years,10 according to federal data.
“The report also highlights a rise in the suicide rate, which increased 24% between 1999 and 2014,11 as well as health conditions from diabetes to HIV/AIDS that are negatively impacting the lives of Americans.
“The authors of the study point out that the solutions to problems politicians recognize as detrimental to the quality of life in the US are often rejected12 when it comes down to policy making, and it is American citizens who feel the impact of inaction.
“‘The consequences are dire: not only more deaths and illness but also escalating healthcare costs, a sicker workforce, and a less competitive economy,’ the authors wrote.13 ‘Future generations may pay the greatest price.’”
The impact of despair on those who wear a face mask must not be overlooked. By 2018, despair was seen as a leading factor in earlier death. Combined with the vast system of house arrest known as “lockdowns,” school closures, event closures, venue closures, business closures, and general destabilization of daily life, face masks have been another painful, alienating factor in a society that was already having a hard time managing the significant despair felt by so many.
If these methods worked to protect people, perhaps we would have a reason to debate this topic, but we have been fooled. These methods do not work and were known not to work. The unsafe and ineffective face mask is just another intervention on a long list of interventions that have brought harm to people. Despair was already at a crisis state in America, the West, and the developed world. The days since the Ides of March 2020 have added to that.
While this trend precedes Covid-19, the powerful trend should not be ignored in understanding Covid-19. The general public, societal, and governmental leadership who are already caught in a great decline.
A healthy and free society would never have accepted the strange and senseless public health precautions of 2020 and beyond. No one who perceives their daily activity as vitally valuable to others would have accepted the declaration that they were now “non-essential.”
Woolf, S.H. Failing health of the United States. The British Medical Journal. 2018. Retrieved fromhttps://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k496
Donnelly, G. Here’s Why Life Expectancy in the US Dropped Again This Year. Fortune. 2018. Retrieved fromhttps://fortune.com/2018/02/09/us-life-expectancy-dropped-again/
Woolf, S.H. Fig 1 Life expectancy at birth in the US and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development,1995-2015.thebmj. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k496
OECD. Where: Global reach. Retrieve from: https://www.oecd.org/about/members-and-partners/
Woolf S H, Aron L. Failing health of the United States BMJ 2018; 360 :k496 doi:10.1136/bmj.k496. Retrieved from https://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k496
Haglage, A.US life expectancy has fallen again. Here are three reasons why. Yahoo! News. 2018. Retrieved from https://sg.news.yahoo.com/u-s-life-expectancy-keeps-dropping-alcohol-blame-185004863.html?guccounter=1
Steenhuysen, J. Opioid crisis trims US life expectancy, boosts hepatitis C: CDC. Reuters. 2017. Retrieved from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare-cdc/opioid-crisis-trims-u-s-life-expectancy-boosts-hepatitis-c-cdc-idUSKBN1EF1TF
Haglage, Abby. US life expectancy has fallen again. Here are three reasons why. Yahoo! News. 2018. Retrieved from https://sg.news.yahoo.com/u-s-life-expectancy-keeps-dropping-alcohol-blame-185004863.html?guccounter=1
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Understanding the Epidemic. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/opioids/basics/epidemic.html
Ingraham, C. Americans are drinking themselves to death at record rates. Washington Post. 2015. Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/22/americans-are-drinking-themselves-to-death-at-record-rates/
Haglage, Abby. US life expectancy has fallen again. Here are three reasons why. Yahoo! News. 2018. Retrieved fromhttps://sg.news.yahoo.com/u-s-life-expectancy-keeps-dropping-alcohol-blame-185004863.html?guccounter=1
Haglage, Abby. US life expectancy has fallen again. Here are three reasons why. Yahoo! News. 2018. Retrieved fromhttps://sg.news.yahoo.com/u-s-life-expectancy-keeps-dropping-alcohol-blame-185004863.html?guccounter=1
Woolf S H, Aron L. Failing health of the United States BMJ 2018; 360 :k496 doi:10.1136/bmj.k496. Retrieved from https://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k496
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.