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
Not only do face masks not work, but Sars-Cov-2 did not turn into the virus it was promised to be.
Baruch Vainshelboim writes in “Face masks in the Covid-19 era: A health hypothesis:”1
“On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a global public health emergency of severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (Sars-Cov2) causing illness of coronavirus disease-2019 (Covid-19).2 As of October 1, 2020, worldwide 34,166,633 cases were
reported and 1,018,876 have died with virus diagnosis. Interestingly, 99% of the detected cases with Sars-Cov-2 are asymptomatic or have mild condition, which contradicts with the virus name (severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2).”3 (Emphasis added)
Vainshelboim’s point is important.
How “severe” can an illness be, if better than 99% of people recover fully, with most never even realizing they are sick?
Given Vainshelboim’s observations, would not a more truthful name for this be “very mild and relatively harmless respiratory condition?” That would not sell the public on a host of things that a scarier sounding name helps to sell, such as media advertising, pharmaceutical interventions, and big government projects.
So a deceitful name, effective at tricking people and altering behavior to the benefit of special interest groups is preferred over a truthful name? Do I pretend to know the motivation of the people involved? Certainly not. Vainshelboim clearly points out, however, that a deceitful name has been preferred over a truthful name. That alone is a cause for alarm.
Not only is Vainshelboim pointing out the lack of severity of this ill ness for better than 99% of people, if you set aside the narrative and look at published scientific data, the head of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Anthony Fauci is saying the same. Vainshelboim prefaces this and quotes Fauci as he compares Covid-19 to a seasonal flu:
“Although infection fatality rate (number of death cases divided by number of reported cases) initially seems quite high 0.029 (2.9%),3 this overestimation related to limited number of Covid-19 tests performed which biases towards higher rates. Given the fact that asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times higher than the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate is considerably less than 1%.4 This was confirmed by the head of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from US stating, ‘the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 are similar to those of severe seasonal influenza,’ having a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%.”567
The United States recorded cases of people who died with Sars-Cov-2 rather than dying of Sars-Cov-2 in 2020 breaking with past practice. Rather than being a great killer of people, Sars-Cov-2 was predictably present in sick people and not the cause of death for sick people or healthy people. Prior lifestyle decisions and pre-existing conditions were the killers. The fraudulent US death numbers from 2020 and beyond have included reports of death with Sars-Cov-2 not from Sars-Cov-2. This is a crucial distinction that cannot be overstated.
As a result, a total fraud has been perpetrated on trusting people by the public health institutions. Vainshelboim continues:
“In addition, data from hospitalized patients with Covid-19 and general public indicate that the majority of deaths were among older and chronically ill individuals, supporting the possibility that the virus may exacerbate existing conditions but rarely causes death by itself.8,9 Sars-Cov-2 primarily affects respiratory system and can cause complications such as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), respiratory failure and death.”2,8
In the midst of this, Vainshelboim points to the ineffectiveness and harm in using face masks, which is the exact opposite approach one would take if one wanted to keep a population healthy:
“It is not clear however, what the scientific and clinical basis for wearing face masks as protective strategy, given the fact that face masks restrict breathing, causing hypoxemia and hypercapnia and increase the risk for respiratory com plications, self-contamination and exacerbation of existing chronic conditions.”1011121314
Vainshelboim takes a special look at sufficient oxygen supply, needed by all of us, denied to those in masks.
“Of note, hyperoxia or oxygen supplementation (breathing air with high partial O2 pressures that above the sea levels) has been well established as therapeutic and curative practice for variety acute and chronic conditions including respiratory complications.11,15 It fact, the current standard of care practice for treating hospitalized patients with Covid 19 is breathing 100% oxygen.16 17 18 Although several countries mandated wearing face mask in healthcare settings and public areas, scientific evidences are lacking supporting their efficacy for reducing morbidity or mortality associated with infectious or viral diseases.10,14,19 Therefore, it has been hypothesized: 1) the practice of wearing face masks has compromised safety and efficacy profile, 2) Both medical and non-medical face masks are ineffective to reduce human-to-human transmission and infectivity of Sars-Cov 2 and Covid-19, 3) Wearing face masks has adverse physio logical and psychological effects, 4) Long-term consequences of wearing face masks on health are detrimental.”
Instead of acknowledging how minor of an illness Covid-19 has been, the narrative keeps shifting as if the goal is not to recover, but as if the goal of it is something else.
We flattened the curve. We stopped the spread. We reduced cases. We got the test numbers up. We got the case numbers down. We got into the right color zone.
The goal posts are constantly shifting. When the goal posts are constantly shifting, there is no way you ever reach them. The only way to end this, is for each of us, to put an end to it in our own lives: not an end to Covid-19, an end to this foolish pursuit of constantly moving goalposts.
That is how every lockdown has always ended, that is how every bad, oppressive imposition upon a free people has always ended: with individuals determining individually to no longer comply, one person at a time. That is how this will end as well.
The Vainshelboims of the world are playing their part in ending it. But they cannot bring it to an end in your life. That is up to you as an individual.
What are you waiting for?
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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.