I always think the same when I see people touching their mask or pulling it up and down. If they serve the purpose you think they serve, they’d be contaminated.
I recently had to visit an urgent care center. Mask signs were everywhere and all inside were masked. I did not have a mask to wear and no one in the registration area or waiting room seemed to notice or care. When the nurse came to call me back, she noticed right away and told me I had to wear a mask in the back/treatment area. So, she walks over to the office staff person who is clearly ill herself (hacking and coughing and telling her co-workers about her illness) and asks her to get me a mask. The office person grabs one with her bare hands right in the center of the mask and hands it to the nurse, who does the same, and then hands it to me. I was thoroughly disgusted. I am so concerned about the future of health care...
Prior to 2020, masks worn inside health facilities were known as "placebo masks." The exact term used by nurses and doctors, medical professionals. They maintain "infection control logs" in most of them, noting circumstances surrounding infections. Often citing failure to follow proper masking protocols, posters on walls in employee breakrooms showing proper donning and doffing mask procedures so as not to contaminate them. They'd even be subjected to observational mask protocol compliance, would be written up by infection control inspectors for safety violations. Trained medical professionals needed this level of mask education and reeducation. But the uneducated general public was told to "just wear the damn mask." Placebo masks. Meaning having no medical efficacy, purely psychological. Safety protocols designed and enforced to protect the wearer from infecting self, not others.
Shibboleths do not respond to logic! Next thing, you're going to wonder how a cloth mask, kept in someone's purse or pocket can POSSIBLY protect them from anything. *grins*
Nah…everyone should feel confident that throwing them on the ground in the parking lot as they leave the store or work is the correct way to dispose of dirty masks. At least, that’s how people handle that. In my neck of the woods.😉
What's the point when everybody can just throw it on the ground with the rest of the garbage?
There is no virus as imagined, masks may filter sand, or diesel particulates, but not Covid 19/the 'flu which as I may have said before is the internal poisoning of the body due to metabolism. This is added to by the very great many external toxins in the environment.
One might pass on bacteria and fungal spores and parasites, but not the 'flu.
International Law (Pre-2020). Broadly known as the "Burqa Ban's. But applied to all facial coverings, including masks. Unobstructed faces deemed especially important in public settings, like public transportation:
2014
"Judges at the European court of human rights (ECHR) have upheld France's burqa ban, accepting Paris's argument that it encouraged citizens to "live together".
The law, introduced in 2010, makes it illegal for anyone to cover their face in a public place...the law was not aimed at the burqa or veil but any covering of the face in a public place...
...The European judges decided...that the preservation of a certain idea of "living together" was the "legitimate aim" of the French authorities.
Isabelle Niedlispacher, representing the Belgian government, which introduced a similar ban in 2011 and which was party to the French defence, declared both the burqa and niqab "incompatible" with the rule of law.
Aside from questions of security and equality, she added: "It's about social communication, the right to interact with someone by looking them in the face and about not disappearing under a piece of clothing."
The French and Belgian laws were aimed at "helping everyone to integrate", Niedlispacher added."
2019 - Ruling just months before masks became mandatory.:
"On August 1, 2019, the “Act Partially Prohibiting Face-Covering Clothing,”also known as the “Burqa Ban,” entered into force in the Netherlands. The Act prohibits the wearing of clothing that completely or partially conceals the face in spaces where people are expected to communicate with each other. Thus, face-covering clothing is banned on public transportation and in educational, governmental, and nursing care institutions, but is still allowed in such public spaces as on train platforms. The ban applies to burqas, niqabs, full-face helmets, balaclavas, and masks, but not to headscarves."
Yep. People have been conditioned to trust authority, not question it. Just as a point of fact about the link, as counter-intuitive as it seems, in studies of masks worn by surgeons during surgery vs. maskless faces during surgery there's no evidence that they prevent infection even in that type of high-risk environment. Only if a surgeon had symptoms of illness, like runny nose and cough has any type of protective effect been demonstrated in gold-standard CRT studies. Even their spittle from speaking and exhaled waste into open body cavities didn't result in more or less infections if the surgeons and nurses were or were not wearing masks. Just as long as the medical team wasn't symptomatic. It's a known fact of science, multiple studies for nearly a century I came across in early 2020 when I was first researching mask efficacy. Masks, even in health care facility or operating room aren't medically efficacious. They are placebo masks. Purely psychological pacifiers for the fearful in those settings.
I was delighted yesterday to go in a local ER (I'm a paramedic) and found out they dropped their mask requirement for patients and staff. A crack in the dam! Every other hospital thinks it's still 2020. This is in Houston.
About half the staff was still wearing surgical masks, many in below nose fashion. A security guard was wearing his in full below the mouth chin diaper style. I inquired about this to him, given the new rule. He said "Im just trying to be safe." ?!?!
Already knew this. The real world has shown that masks do not, will never work to reduce the spread of any airborne virus which COVID-19 is and always was. Fauci and the establishment knew this from day 1 and yet lied to us the American people. You have to vote everyone out of power people. Putting them back into office gives the the opportunity to do it again but on a vastly greater scale.
Follow The Science (TM). Specifically, the science of the pandemic has been Behavioral Science/Behavioral Economics/Behaviorism. Not medical science. The science of the effect of language, symbols, other psychological manipulation tools to effect a behavioral change desired by authorities. The Science (TM) is Dr. Sigmund Freud, not Dr. Jonas Salk. The Science (TM), the "best" science we've been told we must follow has been like being told we must allow a psychologist to perform medical surgery on us
The specific tool/weapon of science chosen by authorities of pandemic NPI has been fear. Fear amplification. This study explains why masked faces evoke fear in people (pre-pandemic used by bank robbers and plane hijackers.) Banned for that reason. Pre-pandemic. Here's the scientific background on the importance of faces, visible expressions, for a healthy society and healthy social interactions. A 2009 research study titled, "Of snakes and faces: An evolutionary perspective on the psychology of fear." This study supports the very same rationale the international courts upheld the burqa bans for (see other comment in thread). A healthy society requires faces be seen. Not just eyes. Full facial expressions are an essential form of human communication and stabilizes society. And perhaps most importantly, human aggression is moderated by full faces.
"In 1972, Ekman published cross-cultural data that shifted the at the time accepted view that facial expression, like other social gestures, reflected mere cultural convention, into the Darwinian (Darwin, 1872/1998) tenet that expressions of emotion in the human face represent biologically evolved adaptations. Anger, for example, is a threat signal potentially related to harmful intent, whereas a smile is the opposite, a reassuring signal of friendly affiliation. Against this background, Öhman and Dimberg (1978) invoked the preparedness theory to predict that an angry face should be more easily conditioned to an aversive US than should a happy face."
"The survival premium of astute detection of subtle cues given off by predators shaped a highly sensitive visual system that later proved useful in the social arena with the expanding social life of anthropoid primates. For example, the sensitivity for danger cues promoted vigilance for early detection of stimuli that announced potential aggressive encounters in social conflicts. It is a fascinating fact that the forebrain structures that have expanded most in size during primate evolution not only include – as we all know – the prefrontal cortex, but also the amygdala. Furthermore, it appears that the enlargement of these two structures was linked, both of them driven by group size (Barton & Aggleton, 2000). The prefrontal link is important because it allows inhibitory modulation of the amygdala, thus promoting strategic cognitive control of the expression of fear..."
"The prefrontal influence on facial as well as other channels of emotional expression helps to maintain conflicts at a symbolic level, where the relative strength of the combatants can be evaluated from more or less convincing displays of power and submissiveness, which prevents escalating the conflict into an actual fight that might result in injuries to the participants.
A substantial part of the signaling action in conflicts between individuals centers on the faces of the parties measuring their relative strength. As recognized by Darwin (1872/1998), the design of the face suggests that it has evolved as a means of communication. The facial muscles are unique in their function by primarily moving dermal tissue rather than body limbs, producing coordinated changes in the visual appearance of the face. The basic human facial displays are similar to those of other primates, but the human face has a more complex musculature than that of other primates, with a more versatile neural innervation, suggesting that the human ability to communicate by the face is better developed than that of our primate relatives..."
(Note: In the study they refer to masked faces. Not in terms of an actual facial covering, but in terms of unnatural neutral faces that intentionally don't communicate any emotion in situations when facial expressions are customary and expected. Point is, yes, they've terrorized us no differently than if they've made us look at snakes all around us all day, every day. It takes constant higher reasoning reminders to self to push through the fear and anxiety masked faces creates just as surely as if surrounded by snakes all the time, even at an subconscious level.)
I watched a horror show right before the mask mandates in 2020, a haunted house with ghosts who lost their faces, with those scary moments when a ghost turns their "face" and there is none. Losing your face is undeniably scary! I was thinking of that show when they started masking.
Forcing people to endure being surrounded by snakes whenever they go out. It's quite terrifying to many, a hard-wired, amygdala reptilian, 'flight, fight or freeze' response-evoking. Terrorizing. The intentional amplification of fear is definitionally a terror campaign. Our government has compelled us to become terrorists of one another. Following The Science (TM), of course. For public health and safety.
Indeed. It, probably, profoundly affected those who didn't have any control, like kids and nursing home patients. But for the majority it works only if they agree to it. I was blessed to make many normal friends and see normal faces on a regular basis. And even in this very masked up area small business employees would strip off masks once on their own. Families and friends didn't have to hide faces in front of each other. There might've been mask mandates in grocery stores, but the rules you make in your private life are your choice. When I received a message from delivery "wear your mask", I wrote something like "this is my residency and I'm the one making rules. If you want me to wear a mask, I'm charging $10,000 for it".
In the studies of mask efficacy going back to Kellogg's of the Spanish Flu masking they observed that those who wear masks voluntarily were more likely to follow mask safety protocols, like frequently changing them out, no face touching or lowering up and down below the nose, proper donning and doffing. And subsequently had fewer cases of self-infection. Those who were forced to wear them had little regard for safety protocols, they didn't buy into the rationale for them, just obeying the bare minimum of the requirement. And then self-infect more frequently.
Basic human psychology. Lost on "experts" in human psychology applying behavioral science. Or indifferent to the self-harming consequences to the obedient who didn't believe in them in the first place. There's a reason court filings and many contracts like home sales have a clause above the signature line stating, "Being of sound mind and not being under coercion or duress" so that signator isn't harming themselves unwillingly in the execution of the filing or contract. True consent must be free of coercion or duress. Mask (and vax) mandates have been coercive and forced. Resulting in self-harm.
And, yes, the increase in RSV we are witnessing is directly related to mask mandates. Subjecting immune systems with constant attack of pathogens inhaled repeatedly from a warm petri dish strapped across the face leads to stresses that they will eventually break down under. Predicable and predicted when masks were required. Which is why hospitals (and OSHA) enforced mask safety protocols before 2020. Medical science. Informed by virology, immunology, microbiology. The danger of having Dr. Sigmund Freud pretending to be Dr. Jonas Salk.
Convid is a scam, there was no any pandemic. You can't compare something so fake and self-inflicted to an epidemic of deadly influenza. Those who were subjected to bs "testing" at work got more cases of "covid", by the nature of this "testing". Those who ruined their immune system by isolating, masking, repeated injections are now getting sick with various bugs. It's not just about masking. It's impossible to tell how many true infections were there in 2020-2021, 1%, 0.1% of the reported? I didn't wear any masks and socialized heavily, but didn't see anything out of ordinary among people who lived their lives normally, regardless of health status and age.
The ‘flu is the internal toxicosis of the body, mainly via urea, partly due to metabolism of food and partly due to the many poisons in our environment which can and do enter our bodies in the air, food and water. The ‘flu cannot be transmitted to someone else as it is individual to each person.
Unless your blood is given to someone in a blood transfusion, for example.
Because most of us are capable of higher reasoning skills and can talk ourselves into understanding the need to endure something that provokes great fear, we're able to normalize it and intellectually put aside the fear as best we can. But it's still an intellectual exercise overcoming an instinctual fearful reaction, subconscious discomfort that is reasoned with by higher brain functions.
But not all are capable of it. Especially not children. We are terrorizing our children, abuse ordered by government. And like children raised in abusive homes they adapt as best they can, but are permanently scarred by the experience in ways that manifest in their social interactions and relationships. Just because the abuse is ordered by government authorities instead of parental authorities doesn't make it any less abusive or any less scarring. And the constant higher reasoning necessary even for adults provokes subconscious anxieties, that result in more conflicts, more stress, that is actually harmful to our immune systems - highly stressed people have weakened immune systems, suffer more illness.
Additionally, many adults lack the higher reasoning skills, or are more emotionally driven than intellectually. Which means that empaths and high social-emotional responding people have felt the fear amplification (terror) campaign most acutely.
Children are easy to terrorize into submission. But there is a presumption of a fearful reaction in adults, like it was completely "normal" for them to get scared sh1tless catching a cold. Meh.
The majority weren't scared but merely felt uncomfortable saying "no" to the nonsense imposed on them. Even in places that didn't enforce the mandates (like, 50-90% of them), it was sufficient to have a mask sign posted. Extreme pussiness and cowardliness, nothing else. Otherwise there would be no difference between states, cities and businesses, no need in mandates and everybody would've worn masks voluntarily. When mask mandates ended, in my 99% masked area now 70% suddenly were maskless in malls. So many weren't scared but just complied. There are no soldiers when everybody likes being a victim.
Authorities knew that masks don't work. This Health Affairs piece from May, 2020 admits as such. They said they were needed anyways. With a set of caveats. That were never adhered to. "Just wear the damn mask." The Science (TM) of fear was necessary NPI. Using linguistics to convince people fear-amplifying masks eased fear. Newspeak. Ignorance is Strength. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery.
What's this Health Affairs publication, and why is it important? It's a behavioral health publication, Behavioral Science, aka The Science (TM). That is used by public policymakers. Executive, legislative and judicial. From their "About" section they note that Justice John Roberts cited Health Affairs in his ACA (Obamacare) ruling. Suffice it to say it's a very influential publication.
This is why all of the evidence against masks that we use that challenges the medical science of masks, that they are medically ineffective, proven as such, has been ignored. Authorities yawn when presented with the evidence because they know they are following a different type of science, social and behavioral science, not natural, medical science. They hide in the ambiguity of the word "science" and dismiss challenges to the wrong science they are basing their public policies on. The *type* of science must be attacked in order for our evidence against masks to land on the target. Behavioral science, the actual basis of masking, must be called out specifically as being flawed, dangerous. Or authorities will continue to yawn at our protests, "dumb, ignorant plebes, don't even know the science that we're following, ha ha ha, next!"
Behavioral science application of fear is the most dangerous science of all to free people. It's truly, "The science of totalitarianism." Acknowledged as such by practitioners of it for pandemic mandates in the UK.
And....Behavioral Science is how our overlords intend to make us happy owning nothing and eating bugs. Psychological "nudges." Choice architecture intentional scarcity. Fear-amplification. The behavioral science on achieving the UN's Agenda 2030 (WEF's Great Reset, Build Back Better) applying the above-described "science of totalitarianism."
Thanks for sharing the accumulated information! I remain shocked, but then again, not so shocked, at the stickiness of masking. Once something becomes an article of faith, disproving it--via evidence--is unlikely to have any positive effect. I say "positive" because contrary evidence can often make people hold to their erroneous beliefs more closely. Anyway, while this piece is probably not as well-written or thorough as the stuff you already cited, I will throw it out there, since it took me a long time--as I described therein--to finally put a bullet in the head of "masking up to save lives" in my own mind. LInk: https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/masks-and-me-how-did-we-get-here/
And here is an Order of Service that came to my attention. Life and limb were risked by our intrepid journalist. He survived the ordeal you will no doubt be relieved to hear.
I figured this out in 2020 when I visited my mom in a nursing home, wearing full PPE, and came out with the rona.
In the same vein, I gave my husband a KF94 mask to spray paint this summer. It was quite tight to his face. When he took the mask off his nostrils were a lovely shade of aqua. So that worked.
If the mask traps the virus particles, shouldn’t there be sterile disposal bins everywhere to keep everyone safe?
I always think the same when I see people touching their mask or pulling it up and down. If they serve the purpose you think they serve, they’d be contaminated.
I recently had to visit an urgent care center. Mask signs were everywhere and all inside were masked. I did not have a mask to wear and no one in the registration area or waiting room seemed to notice or care. When the nurse came to call me back, she noticed right away and told me I had to wear a mask in the back/treatment area. So, she walks over to the office staff person who is clearly ill herself (hacking and coughing and telling her co-workers about her illness) and asks her to get me a mask. The office person grabs one with her bare hands right in the center of the mask and hands it to the nurse, who does the same, and then hands it to me. I was thoroughly disgusted. I am so concerned about the future of health care...
Prior to 2020, masks worn inside health facilities were known as "placebo masks." The exact term used by nurses and doctors, medical professionals. They maintain "infection control logs" in most of them, noting circumstances surrounding infections. Often citing failure to follow proper masking protocols, posters on walls in employee breakrooms showing proper donning and doffing mask procedures so as not to contaminate them. They'd even be subjected to observational mask protocol compliance, would be written up by infection control inspectors for safety violations. Trained medical professionals needed this level of mask education and reeducation. But the uneducated general public was told to "just wear the damn mask." Placebo masks. Meaning having no medical efficacy, purely psychological. Safety protocols designed and enforced to protect the wearer from infecting self, not others.
...and the mental health of the nurses too I hope. What a bunch of morons.
Shibboleths do not respond to logic! Next thing, you're going to wonder how a cloth mask, kept in someone's purse or pocket can POSSIBLY protect them from anything. *grins*
Identification of said Mask-ist perhaps? Prevents people from seeing their teeth chattering in fear?
Nah…everyone should feel confident that throwing them on the ground in the parking lot as they leave the store or work is the correct way to dispose of dirty masks. At least, that’s how people handle that. In my neck of the woods.😉
I saw this outside a hospital in Brighton, UK. The NHS is doomed, doomed, I tell 'ee!
What's the point when everybody can just throw it on the ground with the rest of the garbage?
There is no virus as imagined, masks may filter sand, or diesel particulates, but not Covid 19/the 'flu which as I may have said before is the internal poisoning of the body due to metabolism. This is added to by the very great many external toxins in the environment.
One might pass on bacteria and fungal spores and parasites, but not the 'flu.
International Law (Pre-2020). Broadly known as the "Burqa Ban's. But applied to all facial coverings, including masks. Unobstructed faces deemed especially important in public settings, like public transportation:
2014
"Judges at the European court of human rights (ECHR) have upheld France's burqa ban, accepting Paris's argument that it encouraged citizens to "live together".
The law, introduced in 2010, makes it illegal for anyone to cover their face in a public place...the law was not aimed at the burqa or veil but any covering of the face in a public place...
...The European judges decided...that the preservation of a certain idea of "living together" was the "legitimate aim" of the French authorities.
Isabelle Niedlispacher, representing the Belgian government, which introduced a similar ban in 2011 and which was party to the French defence, declared both the burqa and niqab "incompatible" with the rule of law.
Aside from questions of security and equality, she added: "It's about social communication, the right to interact with someone by looking them in the face and about not disappearing under a piece of clothing."
The French and Belgian laws were aimed at "helping everyone to integrate", Niedlispacher added."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/01/france-burqa-ban-upheld-human-rights-court
2019 - Ruling just months before masks became mandatory.:
"On August 1, 2019, the “Act Partially Prohibiting Face-Covering Clothing,”also known as the “Burqa Ban,” entered into force in the Netherlands. The Act prohibits the wearing of clothing that completely or partially conceals the face in spaces where people are expected to communicate with each other. Thus, face-covering clothing is banned on public transportation and in educational, governmental, and nursing care institutions, but is still allowed in such public spaces as on train platforms. The ban applies to burqas, niqabs, full-face helmets, balaclavas, and masks, but not to headscarves."
https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2019-08-27/netherlands-burqa-ban-enters-into-force/
The Courts were right pre-pandemic. The Science (TM) of the pandemic is wrong.
Well said. The thing is one law was contradicting another so people should have said "hang on minute..."
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/m-is-for-masks/
Yep. People have been conditioned to trust authority, not question it. Just as a point of fact about the link, as counter-intuitive as it seems, in studies of masks worn by surgeons during surgery vs. maskless faces during surgery there's no evidence that they prevent infection even in that type of high-risk environment. Only if a surgeon had symptoms of illness, like runny nose and cough has any type of protective effect been demonstrated in gold-standard CRT studies. Even their spittle from speaking and exhaled waste into open body cavities didn't result in more or less infections if the surgeons and nurses were or were not wearing masks. Just as long as the medical team wasn't symptomatic. It's a known fact of science, multiple studies for nearly a century I came across in early 2020 when I was first researching mask efficacy. Masks, even in health care facility or operating room aren't medically efficacious. They are placebo masks. Purely psychological pacifiers for the fearful in those settings.
Thank you very useful info. All makes sense given what else we know.
Fantastic history and slam dunk policy reference, big time kudos & thanks! :~)
I was delighted yesterday to go in a local ER (I'm a paramedic) and found out they dropped their mask requirement for patients and staff. A crack in the dam! Every other hospital thinks it's still 2020. This is in Houston.
About half the staff was still wearing surgical masks, many in below nose fashion. A security guard was wearing his in full below the mouth chin diaper style. I inquired about this to him, given the new rule. He said "Im just trying to be safe." ?!?!
I see they scrap the barrel with security guards then :)
I have not met anyone in the UK that dim yet. These may amuse.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/11/30/b-is-for-more-blood/
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/m-is-for-masks/
Already knew this. The real world has shown that masks do not, will never work to reduce the spread of any airborne virus which COVID-19 is and always was. Fauci and the establishment knew this from day 1 and yet lied to us the American people. You have to vote everyone out of power people. Putting them back into office gives the the opportunity to do it again but on a vastly greater scale.
Follow The Science (TM). Specifically, the science of the pandemic has been Behavioral Science/Behavioral Economics/Behaviorism. Not medical science. The science of the effect of language, symbols, other psychological manipulation tools to effect a behavioral change desired by authorities. The Science (TM) is Dr. Sigmund Freud, not Dr. Jonas Salk. The Science (TM), the "best" science we've been told we must follow has been like being told we must allow a psychologist to perform medical surgery on us
The specific tool/weapon of science chosen by authorities of pandemic NPI has been fear. Fear amplification. This study explains why masked faces evoke fear in people (pre-pandemic used by bank robbers and plane hijackers.) Banned for that reason. Pre-pandemic. Here's the scientific background on the importance of faces, visible expressions, for a healthy society and healthy social interactions. A 2009 research study titled, "Of snakes and faces: An evolutionary perspective on the psychology of fear." This study supports the very same rationale the international courts upheld the burqa bans for (see other comment in thread). A healthy society requires faces be seen. Not just eyes. Full facial expressions are an essential form of human communication and stabilizes society. And perhaps most importantly, human aggression is moderated by full faces.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-9450.2009.00784.x
"In 1972, Ekman published cross-cultural data that shifted the at the time accepted view that facial expression, like other social gestures, reflected mere cultural convention, into the Darwinian (Darwin, 1872/1998) tenet that expressions of emotion in the human face represent biologically evolved adaptations. Anger, for example, is a threat signal potentially related to harmful intent, whereas a smile is the opposite, a reassuring signal of friendly affiliation. Against this background, Öhman and Dimberg (1978) invoked the preparedness theory to predict that an angry face should be more easily conditioned to an aversive US than should a happy face."
"The survival premium of astute detection of subtle cues given off by predators shaped a highly sensitive visual system that later proved useful in the social arena with the expanding social life of anthropoid primates. For example, the sensitivity for danger cues promoted vigilance for early detection of stimuli that announced potential aggressive encounters in social conflicts. It is a fascinating fact that the forebrain structures that have expanded most in size during primate evolution not only include – as we all know – the prefrontal cortex, but also the amygdala. Furthermore, it appears that the enlargement of these two structures was linked, both of them driven by group size (Barton & Aggleton, 2000). The prefrontal link is important because it allows inhibitory modulation of the amygdala, thus promoting strategic cognitive control of the expression of fear..."
"The prefrontal influence on facial as well as other channels of emotional expression helps to maintain conflicts at a symbolic level, where the relative strength of the combatants can be evaluated from more or less convincing displays of power and submissiveness, which prevents escalating the conflict into an actual fight that might result in injuries to the participants.
A substantial part of the signaling action in conflicts between individuals centers on the faces of the parties measuring their relative strength. As recognized by Darwin (1872/1998), the design of the face suggests that it has evolved as a means of communication. The facial muscles are unique in their function by primarily moving dermal tissue rather than body limbs, producing coordinated changes in the visual appearance of the face. The basic human facial displays are similar to those of other primates, but the human face has a more complex musculature than that of other primates, with a more versatile neural innervation, suggesting that the human ability to communicate by the face is better developed than that of our primate relatives..."
(Note: In the study they refer to masked faces. Not in terms of an actual facial covering, but in terms of unnatural neutral faces that intentionally don't communicate any emotion in situations when facial expressions are customary and expected. Point is, yes, they've terrorized us no differently than if they've made us look at snakes all around us all day, every day. It takes constant higher reasoning reminders to self to push through the fear and anxiety masked faces creates just as surely as if surrounded by snakes all the time, even at an subconscious level.)
I watched a horror show right before the mask mandates in 2020, a haunted house with ghosts who lost their faces, with those scary moments when a ghost turns their "face" and there is none. Losing your face is undeniably scary! I was thinking of that show when they started masking.
Forcing people to endure being surrounded by snakes whenever they go out. It's quite terrifying to many, a hard-wired, amygdala reptilian, 'flight, fight or freeze' response-evoking. Terrorizing. The intentional amplification of fear is definitionally a terror campaign. Our government has compelled us to become terrorists of one another. Following The Science (TM), of course. For public health and safety.
Indeed. It, probably, profoundly affected those who didn't have any control, like kids and nursing home patients. But for the majority it works only if they agree to it. I was blessed to make many normal friends and see normal faces on a regular basis. And even in this very masked up area small business employees would strip off masks once on their own. Families and friends didn't have to hide faces in front of each other. There might've been mask mandates in grocery stores, but the rules you make in your private life are your choice. When I received a message from delivery "wear your mask", I wrote something like "this is my residency and I'm the one making rules. If you want me to wear a mask, I'm charging $10,000 for it".
Good for you.
In the studies of mask efficacy going back to Kellogg's of the Spanish Flu masking they observed that those who wear masks voluntarily were more likely to follow mask safety protocols, like frequently changing them out, no face touching or lowering up and down below the nose, proper donning and doffing. And subsequently had fewer cases of self-infection. Those who were forced to wear them had little regard for safety protocols, they didn't buy into the rationale for them, just obeying the bare minimum of the requirement. And then self-infect more frequently.
Basic human psychology. Lost on "experts" in human psychology applying behavioral science. Or indifferent to the self-harming consequences to the obedient who didn't believe in them in the first place. There's a reason court filings and many contracts like home sales have a clause above the signature line stating, "Being of sound mind and not being under coercion or duress" so that signator isn't harming themselves unwillingly in the execution of the filing or contract. True consent must be free of coercion or duress. Mask (and vax) mandates have been coercive and forced. Resulting in self-harm.
And, yes, the increase in RSV we are witnessing is directly related to mask mandates. Subjecting immune systems with constant attack of pathogens inhaled repeatedly from a warm petri dish strapped across the face leads to stresses that they will eventually break down under. Predicable and predicted when masks were required. Which is why hospitals (and OSHA) enforced mask safety protocols before 2020. Medical science. Informed by virology, immunology, microbiology. The danger of having Dr. Sigmund Freud pretending to be Dr. Jonas Salk.
Convid is a scam, there was no any pandemic. You can't compare something so fake and self-inflicted to an epidemic of deadly influenza. Those who were subjected to bs "testing" at work got more cases of "covid", by the nature of this "testing". Those who ruined their immune system by isolating, masking, repeated injections are now getting sick with various bugs. It's not just about masking. It's impossible to tell how many true infections were there in 2020-2021, 1%, 0.1% of the reported? I didn't wear any masks and socialized heavily, but didn't see anything out of ordinary among people who lived their lives normally, regardless of health status and age.
Covid 19 and the 'flu are one and the same.
The ‘flu is the internal toxicosis of the body, mainly via urea, partly due to metabolism of food and partly due to the many poisons in our environment which can and do enter our bodies in the air, food and water. The ‘flu cannot be transmitted to someone else as it is individual to each person.
Unless your blood is given to someone in a blood transfusion, for example.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/08/17/what-is-the-flu-a-k-a-covid-19-and-why-vaccines-are-pointless-at-best/
Testing causes additional toxins to body.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/05/03/pcr-and-rapid-lateral-flow-tests/
Because most of us are capable of higher reasoning skills and can talk ourselves into understanding the need to endure something that provokes great fear, we're able to normalize it and intellectually put aside the fear as best we can. But it's still an intellectual exercise overcoming an instinctual fearful reaction, subconscious discomfort that is reasoned with by higher brain functions.
But not all are capable of it. Especially not children. We are terrorizing our children, abuse ordered by government. And like children raised in abusive homes they adapt as best they can, but are permanently scarred by the experience in ways that manifest in their social interactions and relationships. Just because the abuse is ordered by government authorities instead of parental authorities doesn't make it any less abusive or any less scarring. And the constant higher reasoning necessary even for adults provokes subconscious anxieties, that result in more conflicts, more stress, that is actually harmful to our immune systems - highly stressed people have weakened immune systems, suffer more illness.
Additionally, many adults lack the higher reasoning skills, or are more emotionally driven than intellectually. Which means that empaths and high social-emotional responding people have felt the fear amplification (terror) campaign most acutely.
Children are easy to terrorize into submission. But there is a presumption of a fearful reaction in adults, like it was completely "normal" for them to get scared sh1tless catching a cold. Meh.
The majority weren't scared but merely felt uncomfortable saying "no" to the nonsense imposed on them. Even in places that didn't enforce the mandates (like, 50-90% of them), it was sufficient to have a mask sign posted. Extreme pussiness and cowardliness, nothing else. Otherwise there would be no difference between states, cities and businesses, no need in mandates and everybody would've worn masks voluntarily. When mask mandates ended, in my 99% masked area now 70% suddenly were maskless in malls. So many weren't scared but just complied. There are no soldiers when everybody likes being a victim.
Well put.
Not only do they not work, but they are the perfect propaganda tool:
https://newzealanddoc.substack.com/p/the-most-perfect-piece-of-propaganda
And even if they did work the emotional and psychological toll and the incursions on our liberties should make them anathema.
Authorities knew that masks don't work. This Health Affairs piece from May, 2020 admits as such. They said they were needed anyways. With a set of caveats. That were never adhered to. "Just wear the damn mask." The Science (TM) of fear was necessary NPI. Using linguistics to convince people fear-amplifying masks eased fear. Newspeak. Ignorance is Strength. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery.
https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/forefront.20200508.769108/full/
What's this Health Affairs publication, and why is it important? It's a behavioral health publication, Behavioral Science, aka The Science (TM). That is used by public policymakers. Executive, legislative and judicial. From their "About" section they note that Justice John Roberts cited Health Affairs in his ACA (Obamacare) ruling. Suffice it to say it's a very influential publication.
https://www.healthaffairs.org/about
This is why all of the evidence against masks that we use that challenges the medical science of masks, that they are medically ineffective, proven as such, has been ignored. Authorities yawn when presented with the evidence because they know they are following a different type of science, social and behavioral science, not natural, medical science. They hide in the ambiguity of the word "science" and dismiss challenges to the wrong science they are basing their public policies on. The *type* of science must be attacked in order for our evidence against masks to land on the target. Behavioral science, the actual basis of masking, must be called out specifically as being flawed, dangerous. Or authorities will continue to yawn at our protests, "dumb, ignorant plebes, don't even know the science that we're following, ha ha ha, next!"
Behavioral science application of fear is the most dangerous science of all to free people. It's truly, "The science of totalitarianism." Acknowledged as such by practitioners of it for pandemic mandates in the UK.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210519003131/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/14/scientists-admit-totalitarian-use-fear-control-behaviour-covid/
And....Behavioral Science is how our overlords intend to make us happy owning nothing and eating bugs. Psychological "nudges." Choice architecture intentional scarcity. Fear-amplification. The behavioral science on achieving the UN's Agenda 2030 (WEF's Great Reset, Build Back Better) applying the above-described "science of totalitarianism."
https://www.undp.org/publications/behavioural-insights-united-nations-%E2%80%93-achieving-agenda-2030
Thanks for sharing the accumulated information! I remain shocked, but then again, not so shocked, at the stickiness of masking. Once something becomes an article of faith, disproving it--via evidence--is unlikely to have any positive effect. I say "positive" because contrary evidence can often make people hold to their erroneous beliefs more closely. Anyway, while this piece is probably not as well-written or thorough as the stuff you already cited, I will throw it out there, since it took me a long time--as I described therein--to finally put a bullet in the head of "masking up to save lives" in my own mind. LInk: https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/masks-and-me-how-did-we-get-here/
Like Marxists, Mask-ists hold on to their faith long after it has been comprehensively shown that It Does Not Work..
Superstitions Last.
Excellent! Thanks for sharing.
When you worship your god, Covid, you don’t care about facts or logic.
And here is an Order of Service that came to my attention. Life and limb were risked by our intrepid journalist. He survived the ordeal you will no doubt be relieved to hear.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/04/24/a-typical-church-service-according-to-the-covid-cult/
I figured this out in 2020 when I visited my mom in a nursing home, wearing full PPE, and came out with the rona.
In the same vein, I gave my husband a KF94 mask to spray paint this summer. It was quite tight to his face. When he took the mask off his nostrils were a lovely shade of aqua. So that worked.
Here's a real laundry list of "masks don't work" plus "masks can be harmful" studies
https://brownstone.org/articles/more-than-150-comparative-studies-and-articles-on-mask-ineffectiveness-and-harms/
I do despair sometimes of the human races capacity for gross stupidity.
N95 masks perform better at making money for who ever is benefiting from the scam.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/m-is-for-masks/
where was this mask study done
Thank you for this recap. No more mask mandates.
Thanks for providing us the evidence we need to counteract the mask zealots.