You Need To Breathe, Everyone Needs To Breathe, Your Child Even Need To Breathe
Reason #170 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
There was a time in which this chapter would have been considered absolute idiocy, because the ideas contained within are so obvious to anyone operating with a rational mind devoid of any agenda other than discovering the truth.
There will again, one day in the future, be a time in which this chapter will be considered absolute idiocy because the ideas contained within are so obvious to anyone operating with a rational mind devoid of any agenda other than discovering the truth.
This time we are in, this madness, this too shall pass.
Baruch Vainshelboim writes about the need to breathe in “Face masks in the Covid-19 era: A health hypothesis:”
“Breathing is one of the most important physiological functions to sustain life and health. Human body requires a continuous and adequate oxygen (O2) supply to all organs and cells for normal function and survival. Breathing is also an essential process for removing metabolic byproducts [carbon dioxide (CO2)] occurring during cell respiration. It is well established that acute significant deficit in O2 (hypoxemia) and increased levels of CO2 (hypercapnia) even for few minutes can be severely harmful and lethal, while chronic hypoxemia and hypercapnia cause health deterioration, exacerbation of existing conditions, morbidity and ultimately mortality. Emergency medicine demonstrates that 5–6 minutes of severe hypoxemia during cardiac arrest will cause brain death with extremely poor survival rates. On the other hand, chronic mild or moderate hypoxemia and hypercapnia such as from wearing face masks resulting in shifting to higher contribution of anaerobic energy metabolism, decrease in pH levels and increase in cells and blood acidity, toxicity, oxidative stress, chronic inflammation, immunosuppression and health deterioration.”
Quite logically, restricting one’s breathing leads to fundamental unhealthful and harmful changes in the body with far reaching consequences. Vainshelboim continues:
“Wearing face mask mechanically restricts breathing by increasing the resistance of air movement during both inhalation and exhalation process. Although, intermittent (several times a week) and repetitive (10–15 breaths for 2–4 sets) increase in respiration resistance may be adaptive for strengthening respiratory muscles, prolonged and continues effect of wearing face mask is maladaptive and could be detrimental for health. In normal conditions at the sea level, air contains 20.93% O2 and 0.03% CO2, providing partial pressures of 100 mmHg and 40 mmHg for these gases in the arterial blood, respectively. These gas concentrations significantly altered when breathing occurs through face mask. A trapped air remaining between the mouth, nose and the face mask is rebreathed repeatedly in and out of the body, containing low O2 and high CO2 concentrations, causing hypoxemia and hypercapnia. Severe hypoxemia may also provoke cardiopulmonary and neurological complications and is considered an important clinical sign in cardiopulmonary medicine.”
Wearing a face mask may, over time, lead to trouble with the cardio-vascular system. Vainshelboim continues:
“Low oxygen content in the arterial blood can cause myocardial ischemia, serious arrhythmias, right or left ventricular dysfunction, dizziness, hypotension, syncope and pulmonary hypertension.”
Wearing a face mask may exacerbate existing conditions throughout the body, effectively making the sick sicker. Vainshelboim continues:
“Chronic low-grade hypoxemia and hypercapnia as result of using face mask can cause exacerbation of existing cardiopulmonary, metabolic, vascular and neurological conditions. [The table below] summarizes the physiological, psychological effects of wearing face mask and their potential long-term consequences for health.”
Below is a useful table from Vainshelboim that, as can be seen from the rest of this book, just begins to touch the surface on potential physiological and psychological effects of wearing a face mask and their potential health consequences.
Table 1
Physiological and Psychological Effects of Wearing Face mask and Their Potential Health Consequences.
Physiological Effects
Psychological Effects
Health Consequences
· Hypoxemia
· Hypercapnia
· Shortness of breath
· Increase lactate concentration
· Decline in pH levels
· Acidosis
· Toxicity
· Inflammation
· Self-contamination
· Increase in stress hormones level (adrenaline, noradrenaline and cortisol)
· Increased muscle tension
· Immunosuppression
· Activation of “fight or flight” stress response
· Chronic stress condition
· Fear
· Mood disturbances
· Insomnia
· Fatigue
· Compromised cognitive performance
· Increased predisposition for viral and infection illnesses
· Headaches
· Anxiety
· Depression
· Hypertension
· Cardiovascular disease
· Cancer
· Diabetes
· Alzheimer disease
· Exacerbation of existing conditions and diseases
· Accelerated aging process
· Health deterioration
· Premature mortality
Wearing the face mask, as previously discussed, leads to additional pathogenic load on the body, as the face mask collects germs on its surface. In addition to the release of those toxic biological particles, it also leads to the release of toxic chemical particles. Vainshelboim continues:
“In addition to hypoxia and hypercapnia, breathing through face mask residues bacterial and germs components on the inner and outside layer of the face mask. These toxic components are repeatedly rebreathed back into the body, causing self-contamination. Breathing through face masks also increases temperature and humidity in the space between the mouth and the mask, resulting a release of toxic particles from the mask’s materials. A systematic literature review estimated that aerosol contamination levels of face masks including 13 to 202,549 different viruses. Rebreathing contaminated air with high bacterial and toxic particle concentrations along with low O2 and high CO2 levels continuously challenge the body homeostasis, causing self-toxicity and immunosuppression.”
Again, reports among surgeons and healthcare workers further highlight these findings. Vainshelboim continues:
“The adverse physiological effects were confirmed in a study of 53 surgeons where surgical face mask were used during a major operation. After 60 minutes of face mask wearing the oxygen saturation dropped by more than 1% and heart rate increased by approximately five beats/minute. Another study among 158 healthcare workers using protective personal equipment primarily N95 face masks reported that 81% (128 workers) developed new headaches during their work shifts as these become mandatory due to Covid-19 outbreak. For those who used the N95 face mask greater than 4 hours per day, the likelihood for developing a headache during the work shift was approximately four times higher [Odds ratio = 3.91, 95% CI (1.35–11.31) p = 0.012], while 82.2% of the N95 wearers developed the headache already within ≤10 to 50 minutes.”
You need to breathe, everyone needs to breathe, your child even needs to breathe. Such simple truth is being ignored in the face mask policies being issued across society and which many consent to in their own lives. Many claim to want to see those policies brought to an end. Such individual consent makes the end of such policies nearly impossible.
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.