Wearing Cloth Face Masks Leads To More Flu-Like Illness Than Wearing No Face Mask, Causing Exactly The Opposite Outcome That Mandatory Masking Is Supposed To Prevent
Reason #131 that Face Masks Hurt Kids
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
Face masks are bad for you in so many ways, and they do not work to prevent the spread of a respiratory virus. Cloth masks are so much worse for you. According to one study, in a cloth mask you have a 13 times higher rate of contracting an influenza-like illness by wearing a cloth face mask. Baruch Vainshelboim writes in “Face masks in the Covid-19 era: A health hypothesis:”1
“With respect to cloth face mask, a Randomized Control Trial (RCT) using four weeks follow up compared the effect of cloth face mask to medical masks and to no masks on the incidence of clinical respiratory illness, influenza-like illness and laboratory-confirmed respiratory virus infections among 1607 participants from 14 hospitals.2 The results showed that there were no difference between wearing cloth masks, medical masks and no masks for incidence of clinical respiratory illness and laboratory-confirmed respiratory virus infections. However, a large harmful effect with more than 13 times higher risk [Relative Risk = 13.25 95% CI (1.74 to 100.97) was observed for influenza-like illness among those who were wearing cloth masks.2 The study concluded that cloth masks have significant health and safety issues including moisture retention, reuse, poor filtration and increased risk for infection, providing recommendation against the use of cloth masks.”2
The same study showed ineffective medical masks were penetrated by 44% of particles, whereas really ineffective cloth masks were permeated by 97% of particles.
Regardless of this difference, we know when we turn to randomized control trials, that face masks simply do not work to prevent the spread of a respiratory virus.
Do not wear face masks and definitely do not wear cloth masks.
Vainshelboim B. Retracted: Facemasks in the COVID-19 era: A health hypothesis [retracted in: Med Hypotheses. 2021 May 12;:110601]. Med Hypotheses. 2021;146:110411. doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2020.110411
MacIntyre C.R., Seale H., Dung T.C., Hien N.T., Nga P.T., Chughtai A.A. A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers. BMJ open. 2015;5
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.