Masks

Following are links to “mask or not to mask” information! Do they work and are they detrimental to health?

This is an aggregation of some of the scientific evidence, articles and opinion supporting “masks-don’t-work” when it comes to stopping infection or transmission of the aerosolised coronavirus particles and specific studies that track COVID-19 disease incidence and spread. I have added in just a few “masks do work”, you can find more by using google search!

The links also paint a picture to the changing public health narrative.

Question: If masks capture the virus, and the virus is deadly, why are there not biohazard bins everywhere for masks?

• World Health Organisation (WHO): COVID-19 advice for the public: When and how to use masks – HERE, ARCHIVE
• The Unity Project: Anti-Mask Resources – ARCHIVE
• Primary Doctor Medical Journal – mask studies – HERE

Summary of mask flip-flops

• March 8, 2020 – Fauci – “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.” – WATCH, ARCHIVE
• March 2, 2020 – Surgeon General Jerome Adams – wearing face masks could actually increase a person’s risk of contracting the coronavirus – WATCH
• April 3, 2020 – Whitehouse said no, CDC recommends public wear a cloth mask –READ, READ, CDC ARCHIVE
• May 21, 2020 – NEJM – masks offer little protection against infection – READ
• May 27, 2020 – Fauci wears a mask as a symbol! – READ
• January 21, 2021 – France: cotton masks simply aren’t effective enough against new, potentially more contagious virus variants, now recommend single-use surgical masks – READ
• January 25, 2021 – Fauci – Wear two masks – WATCH (@5min), CDC: “two or more layers of washable, breathable fabric.” – ARCHIVE
• January 31, 2021 – Fauci backtracked on wearing 2 masks – READ, WATCH
• July 12, 2022 – PANDA – AIRBORNE – The John Snow Project – virus scare video reveals how wrong they were about masks – WATCH

Links are in reverse chronological order

2024

March 24, 2024 – Paul Thacker Substack: Interview On Mask Science With Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya- Everything you need to know about mask madness (or at least most of it) in one hour – READ

• Illusion of Consusus Episode 35 with Paul Thacker an independent investigative journalist- WATCH
  • “When the pandemic began, I just masked up like everyone else…” and Thacker wrote this in BMJ blaming Trump!
• The great mask flip-flop of 2020…”I missed all this, at the time. But by 2022, I had bumped into too many experts who argued that masks weren’t all that great at stopping viruses, pointing me to research and studies to back up their claims. I’ve now written several pieces going into the research finding that masks don’t stop viruses, as well as the propaganda that continues to promote masks, despite this science.”
• Nothing changed in the science on masks between February and March of 2020, yet journalist Zeynep Tufekci‘s writings did.
  • February 27, 2020 in Scientific America – masks in shrot supply, but don’t work, just useful for healthcare – READ,
  • March 17, 2020 OpEd in New York Times – “masks work” – READ

March 14, 2024 – Forbidden Science Substack by Kevin Bass: The great mask reversal- How masks became a mainstay of public health, overturning decades of scientific consensus – READ, Who is Kevin Bass – WATCH

• Kevin documents accounts of deaths due to “mask police”
• “During the pandemic, countless people’s rights were violated without any benefit. All of these episodes happened because CDC and other public health organizations misled the public about the science of masking. They called it science, but it wasn’t science at all. It was ideology.”

March 10, 2024 – Illusion of Consensus podcast Ep 35 with Dr Bhattacharya: Interview with esteemed journalist Paul Thacker -explores the evidence hierarchy and the conflicting views on the effectiveness of masks – WATCH

• It discusses the Cochrane Collaborative’s reviews on masks, which found insufficient high-quality evidence to support their

2023

December 8, 2023 – Gateway Pundit: CDC Director Mandy Cohen Issues New Covid Alert, Urges Americans to Wear Masks (VIDEO) for COVID “Pirola” variant “as an additional layer of protection” – READ, WATCH

• JN.1, a variant of the virus that causes COVID-19, is a closely related offshoot of the variant BA.2.86 that CDC has been tracking since August [2023]. JN.1 is currently projected to comprise 15-29% of circulating variants – CDC alert – READ, ARCHIVE

September 7, 2023 – Fox | Laura Ingraham: Fauci and Birx Aim to Bring Back Masks | Dr. Scott Atlas “Masks making a comeback ahead of 2024″ – WATCH

August 23, 2023 – Zero Hedge: Secret Letter To CDC: Top Epidemiologist Suggests Agency Misrepresented Scientific Data To Support Mask Narrative – READ, From Epoch Times – READ

August 16, 2023 – Daily Mail: Gloomy scientists call for people to start wearing Covid masks again as they sound alarm over new variant BA.6 that has ‘a lot of new mutations’ – READ, The Highwire – WATCH, TIMELINE

August 8, 2023 – Bannons War Room: WarRoom Battleground EP 360: Masks Come Back Out; Lead Up To Georgia – FULL

August 23, 2023 – USSA News: German Judge Gets Probation Sentence For Allowing Kids to go Maskless – READ

• Dr Simon Goddek in Twitter(X): The German judge who lifted the mask mandate for children was sentenced to two years in prison today. – TWEET

August 21, 2023 – The Epoch Times: Secret Letter to CDC: Top Epidemiologist Suggests Agency Misrepresented Scientific Data to Support Mask Narrative – READ, The Functional Government Initiative (FGI) FOIA letter – PDF

• August 2023 – The Functional Government Initiative (FGI): CDC’s Mask Guidance Was Quietly Called Out by Pro-Mask Academic During Pandemic – Public health agency largely ignored scientific integrity concerns of researcher – READ

• “Documents recently obtained from the National Institutes of Health suggest public health officials used inaccurate information and misrepresented medical research to advance their policy objective that masks prevent severe COVID-19 and virus transmission—despite opposing scientific evidence received from experts.”
• ““We believe the information and recommendations as provided may actually put an individual at increased risk of becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2 and for them to experience a serious or even life-threatening infection,” Mr. Osterhom wrote.”
• “…They offered to help the IDSA update its review of the science. Instead, the IDSA and CDC modified their website to promote masking, stating: “Masking is a critical public health tool for preventing the spread of COVID-19, and it is important to remember that any mask is better than no mask.”
  • “Masks & Face Coverings for the Public” – Aug 2020 – ARCHIVE, Oct 2020 – ARCHIVE, PDF
• The COVID-19 Real-Time Learning Network [ABOUT] was created in [Sept] 2020 to share “accurate, timely information about COVID-19.” –WEB, ARCHIVES,
  • Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): “This resource center was funded in part by a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (grant number 6 NU50CK000477-04-01).”…”The contents of this resource center do not necessarily represent the policy of CDC or HHS, and should not be considered an endorsement by the Federal Government.” – REF

August 20, 2023 – Dr Kevin Bass via Twitter (X) [EXAMPLE]: Mask mandates are returning. – “Morris Brown College has reinstated its COVID-19 mask mandate due to reports of positive cases …” – TWEET, IMAGE

August 18, 2023 – Masking returning in the US – TIMELINE

July 27, 2023 – Off-Guardian: This pro-mask “study” is why you should NEVER “Trust the Science” – READ

• Victoria, Australia, may be considering “permanent” facemask mandates to achieve “zero-Covid”!
• Hint “Masks Don’t Work” to stop the spread of respiratory viruses – READ

May 12, 2023 : America’s Frontline Industrial Hygienists & Multidisciplinary Support Summit | Burlington, Vermon, Mask Survey: 3. Respiratory Hazards of Masks: Keynote by Dr. Christina Parks – A presentation on the harms of mask wearing – WATCH, more presentations – CHANNEL

• Respiratory Hazards of Masks- Breath Break #2: Miracle of Breath with Dr. Rob Williams – WATCH
• 8. Hazards of Masks- CONCLUSION: Kristen Meghan Kelly & Tammy Clark – WATCH

May 9, 2023 – City Journal: The Harm Caused by Masks – A new study [from Germany] suggests that the excess carbon dioxide breathed in by mask-wearers can have major health consequences. – READ, (see March 2, 2023 below or PDF)

April 9, 2023 – Heliyon: Possible toxicity of chronic carbon dioxide exposure associated with face mask use, particularly in pregnant women, children and adolescents – A scoping review – Kisielinski et al – READ

• “share this information with authorities at your school and elsewhere.” Dr Parks – REF

April 7, 2023 – Dr John Campbell: Masks in hospital, don’t work – READ, Unmasking the mask: a time-series analysis of nosocomial COVID-19 rates before and after removal – Patterson et al – PAPER

• “we found no evidence that a mask policy significantly impacts the rate of nosocomial SARS-CoV-2 infection (with the Omicron variant)”

April 5, 2023 – Frontiers | Systematic Reviews: Physio-metabolic and clinical consequences of wearing face masks—Systematic review with meta-analysis and comprehensive evaluation – Kisielinski et al – READ, Chief Nerd – CREDIT

• “Masks interfered with O₂-uptake and CO₂-release and compromised respiratory compensation…outcomes independently validate mask-induced exhaustion-syndrome (MIES) ….So far, several mask related symptoms may have been misinterpreted as long COVID-19 symptoms. …In the absence of strong empirical evidence of effectiveness, mask wearing should not be mandated let alone enforced by law.”
• “All of these mask-related symptoms contradict a state of wellbeing and health as defined by the WHO. According to the WHO; “health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” – WHO Constitution – READ, PDF

March 24, 2023 – Off-guardian: 40 Facts You NEED to Know: The REAL Story of “Covid” – Part VI: Masks – READ

• “There are literally too many to quote them all, but you can read them: [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Or read a summary” at Swiss Policy Research: Are Face Masks Effective? The Evidence. – HERE
• “While some studies have been done claiming to show mask do work for Covid, they are all seriously flawed. One relied on self-reported surveys as data. Another was so badly designed that a panel of experts demanded it be withdrawn. A third was withdrawn after its predictions proved entirely incorrect.
• The WHO commissioned its own meta-analysis in the Lancet, but that study looked only at N95 masks and only in hospitals. [For a full rundown on the bad data in this study click here.]”

March 14, 2023 – American Council on Science and Health (Fact Checker for Educational purposes!!): Do Masks Prevent COVID? (Spoiler Alert: Of Course, They Do) – READ, NY Times: Here’s Why the Science Is Clear That Masks Work – READ

March 2, 2023 – Heliyon: Possible toxicity of chronic carbon dioxide exposure associated with face mask use, particularly in pregnant women, children and adolescents – A scoping review – Kisielinski et al – READ, Summit News – ARTICLE, The Highwire Ep 334 (@47:30) – WATCH

• “Fresh air has around 0.04% CO₂, while wearing masks more than 5 min bears a possible chronic exposure to carbon dioxide of 1.41% to 3.2% of the inhaled air.”
• “With significant impact on three readout parameters (morphological, functional, marker) this chronic 0.3% CO2 exposure has to be defined as being toxic.”

February 27, 2023 – The Free Press: The Real Science on Masks: They Make No Difference – Face coverings do nothing to reduce the spread of Covid, according to a new, gold standard scientific review – READ

February 22, 2023 – Eugyppius: a palgue chronicle Substack: New York Times readers confront the manifest failure of masks to do anything, cope and seethe – What remains of Team Mask is a bunch of deeply irrational people, and there is no reasoning with them – READ A look at how the “Faucian faithful are taking the news” AKA those who still “Believe”!

• “The prior, default position of these men – and, judging from the comments, easily 75% of everyone else who reads the Times – is that masks work, and any uncertainty in the studies is simply a failure to establish what they’re already certain of, namely that masks work. Twisted very far, uncertainty can even become a confirmation that masks are actually working, because at least it’s not evidence that they’re not working!”

February 21, 2023 – NY Times | Opinion: The Mask Mandates Did Nothing. Will Any Lessons Be Learned? – READ, Bannons Warroom comments – WATCH

• “There is just no evidence that they” — masks — “make any difference,” …“Full stop.”
• Re: N-95 masks, as opposed to lower-quality surgical or cloth masks? “Makes no difference — none of it,” said Tom Jefferson who authored the Cochrane systematic review and meta analysis (see below)

February 17, 2023 – City Journal: Approximately Zero – Masks make no difference in reducing the spread of Covid, according to an extensive new review by Cochrane—the gold standard for evaluating health interventions – READ, Daily Sceptic – READ

February 14, 2023 – Gateway Pundit: CDC Director Walensky Says Child Masking Policy “Doesn’t Really Change with Time” – After She Is Confronted with Cochrane systematic review that concludes masking is Worthless in Preventing Spread of COVID-19 – READ, Walensky speaking to congress via Michael Senger – TWEET

• Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, states “infact the CDC is currently the only national or international public health agency that recommends masking 2 year old children” Explain that Dr Walensky – WATCH
• Walensky refuted the international study [AKA true science] responded, “Our guidance for school-based masking is related to our COVID-19 community levels. Unfortunately, we’re in a place now in this country where most of our country is in green or yellow. Has low to moderate transmission communicable levels. And in those communities we don’t recommend masking. We recommend it for high level communities… Our masking guidance doesn’t really change with time. It changes with the disease.”

“Our guidance for school-based masking is related to our COVID-19 community levels. Unfortunately, we’re in a place now in this country where most of our country is in green or yellow. Has low to moderate transmission communicable levels. And in those communities we don’t recommend masking. We recommend it for high level communities… Our masking guidance doesn’t really change with time. It changes with the disease.”

CDC Director Dr Rochelle Walensky, refuted the international Cochrane systematic review on masking [AKA the body of science]

February 9, 2023 – The Highwire Ep 306: NEW STUDY SHOWS MASKS DON’T WORK AGAINST ILLNESS, BUT WHAT DOES? – The Cochrane Collaboration systematic review looked at 78 studies – WATCH

February 6, 2023 – Justin Hart Substack: 78 Studies Show: Very Little Evidence that Masking Works – READ

February 5, 2023 – Maryanne Demasi Substack: EXCLUSIVE: Lead author of new Cochrane review speaks out – Tom Jefferson – READ, CREDIT Study see Jan 30, 2023 below.

• Jefferson “condemned the pandemic’s “overnight experts”, he criticised the multitude of scientifically baseless health policies, and even opened up about his disappointment in Cochrane’s handling of the review.”

“[This systematic review is] an update from our November 2020 review and the evidence really didn’t change from 2020 to 2023. There’s still no evidence that masks are effective during a pandemic.”

“Governments had bad advisors from the very beginning…  They were convinced by non-randomised studies, flawed observational studies…

In early 2020, when the pandemic was ramping up, we had just updated our Cochrane review ready to publish…but Cochrane held it up for 7 months [for some “unkown reason”] before it was finally published in November 2020.

Those 7 months were crucial. During that time, it was when policy about masks was being formed. Our review was important, and it should have been out there.”

Tom Jefferson, lead Cochrane study author

February 3, 2023 – Daily Mail: Does this finally put the mask debate to bed? ‘Gold standard’ analysis of 78 studies and 1million people finds face coverings made ‘little to no difference’ to Covid infection or death rates – re Cochrane systematic review below – READ, Washington Free Beacon – READ

February 2, 2023 – Daily Mail: EXCLUSIVE: Unattractive people are MORE likely to keep wearing face masks in post-Covid era, study suggests – READ, CREDIT

January 30, 2023 – Cochrane Library | Database of Systematic Reviews: Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses by Jefferson et al – STUDY, Dr Byram Bridle Substack: Masks Don’t Work – CREDIT

• “Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza‐like illness (ILI)/COVID‐19 like illness compared to not wearing masks…[or] …the outcome of laboratory‐confirmed influenza/SARS‐CoV‐2 compared to not wearing masks”
• “Few trials measured and reported harms”

January 2, 2023 – Gateway Pundit: Dr. Zeke Emanuel on MSNBC: Covid Vaccines Don’t Work Against New Variants; Only Thing That Reliably Works Are “Really High Quality Masks” (VIDEO) – WATCH & READ

2022

December 28, 2020 – The New Yorker: The Case for Wearing Masks Forever – READ, Post Millennial: New Yorker publishes insane ‘case for wearing masks forever’ – READ, Dr Malone – WATCH

December 2, 2022 – Just the News Now: Rigorous international study of N95 masks upends federal COVID narrative – no statistical difference compared to wearing a cloth mask! – WATCH, READ, The RCT – READ

December 2022 – Annals of Internal Medicine: Medical Masks Versus N95 Respirators for Preventing COVID-19 Among Health Care Workers – A Randomized Trial by Loeb et al – READ, Attempt to discredit this study – HERE

September 29, 2022 – Epoch Times: Experts Say ‘Flawed’ Study Used to Justify Mask Mandate, $3 Million in Fines Levied at Church – READ

September 26, 2022 – The Hill: CDC no longer recommends universal masking in health facilities – “The agency quietly issued the updates as part of an overhaul to its infection control guidance for health workers” on Sept 23rd – READ, CDC – ARCHIVE

• “Updates were made to reflect the high levels of vaccine-and infection-induced immunity and the availability of effective treatments and prevention tools,” [WOW!! so why were the new boosters needed, and there has only been 1.2% uptake of the new bivalent booster shot]

September 6, 2022 – Epoch Times | Truth Over News: New Studies Once More Show Masks Don’t Work; Why Are Masks Making a Comeback in Many Areas? – WATCH

August 30, 2022 – Gateway Pundit: Confirmed: New Study Reveals Disposable Face Masks Contain Four Times the Acceptable Carcinogen Exposure Levels – READ

• “titanium dioxide (TiO2) is a suspected human carcinogen when inhaled, fiber-grade TiO2 (nano)particles were demonstrated in synthetic textile fibers of face masks intended for the general public”. – READ

August 4, 2022 – Natural History Museum: Pandemic face masks could harm wildlife for years to come – POLLUTION – READ

July 26, 2022 – Daily Mail: Communist British scientist dubbed ‘Stalin’s nanny’ who wanted face masks and social distancing FOREVER is given top job at World Health Organization – Professor Susan Michie appointed chair of WHO’s behavioural advisory group – READ

July 31, 2022 – Daily Mail: Britain pays China £23m a year to store PPE used by healthcare workers in units and warehouses – READ

July 12, 2022 – PANDA – AIRBORNE – The John Snow Project – virus scare video reveals how wrong they were about masks – WATCH, John Snow Project – TWITTER, Original “Don’t breath it in” – VIDEO

May 26, 2022 – National Pulse: Mask Mandates Caused MORE COVID Deaths, Study Alleges. – The bombshell claims will open a new avenue of inquiry into the public health response to the COVID pandemic. – READ

Published Feb 18, 2022 in Medicine – The observational study – “The Foegen Effect: A Mechanism by Which Facemasks Contribute to the COVID-19 Case Fatality Rate” –  authored by German doctor Zacharias Fögen.

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May 15, 2022 – Custodean by Dolores Cahill: Face Masks Lead to Breathing Dangerous Levels of Carbon Dioxide Even When Sitting Still, Study Finds – READ

April 19, 2022 – Cureus: Correlation Between Mask Compliance and COVID-19 Outcomes in Europe – READ
“Peer-reviewed study covering 35 European countries indicates that “countries with high levels of mask compliance did not perform better than those with low mask usage.” “Moreover, the moderate positive correlation between mask usage and deaths in Western Europe also suggests that the universal use of masks may have had harmful unintended consequences.”

May 9, 2022 – Steve Kirsh substack – Mask experts and realists – Stephen Petty and Tyson Gabriel – These guys are not only experts on masks (and how they don’t work) but they rolled up their sleeves to file motions and pleading in Federal court to stop the Federal mask mandates. – READ

March 30 2022 – New Hampshire Senate Health and Human Services testimony by Stephen Petty – a certified industrial hygienist, certified safety professional, and professional engineer with 45 years of experience in the field of health and safety – WATCH, EXCERPT, SOURCE
3 ways you can look at why masks can and cannot work – WATCH

March 2022 – Swiss Policy Research – An overview of the current evidence regarding the effectiveness of face masks. (First Published July 2020) – Their conclusion: “Face masks in the general population might be effective, at least in some circumstances, but there is currently little to no evidence supporting this proposition.” – READ, ARCHIVE

• So far, most studies found little to no evidence for the effectiveness of face masks in the general population, neither as personal protective equipment nor as a source control.
• In many states, coronavirus infections strongly increased after mask mandates had been introduced.
• WHO report looked at 10 RCT concerning the effectiveness of face masks against influenza-like illness (ILI) … none of the trials found a statistically significant benefit of face masks.
• N95/FFP2 masks have made no difference vs cloth or medical masks in Germany,
• Austria with national mask mandate reported highest COVID-19 infection rate in the world
• The WHO admitted to the BBC that its June 2020 mask policy update was due not to new evidence but “political lobbying”
• Studies claiming face masks are effective against the new coronavirus … suffer from poor methodology and sometimes show the opposite of what they claim to show.
• Risks associated with wearing masks for a prolonged period, studies show they may NOT be harmless.

February 23, 2022 – Petty Podcasts: Children, Lockdowns and Masks – Stop Harming our Children! – summarizes some recent literature outlining the harms lockdowns, remote learning and masking are doing to the development of our children – WATCH

February 18, 2022 – Medicine: The Foegen effect: A mechanism by which facemasks contribute to the COVID-19 case fatality rate. “These findings suggest that mask use might pose a yet unknown threat to the user instead of protecting them, making mask mandates a debatable epidemiologic intervention.” – PAPER

February 10, 2022 – The Highwire Ep 254: America Rising – THE NEVER-ENDING MASK MANDATE SAGA – WATCH

January 20, 2022 – Custodean by Dolores Cahill: The Great Facemask Debate – 121 Links and References to Scientific Studies – READ

January 19, 2022 – Brownstone Institute: A Partial List of the Myriad Abuses That Facemasks Inflict on Our Children – READ

January 17, 2022 – Petty Podcasts: Masks – The Truth is Leaking Out – Slowly – WATCH

January 15, 2022 – Swiss Policy Research: How the CDC fooled the world – Face masks in school – READ

January 14, 2022 – New York Times: The C.D.C. conceded that cloth masks do not protect against the virus as effectively as other masks. – READ, CDC Masks & Respirators – ARCHIVE

January 6, 2022 – BBC UK: The government admits the evidence for using masks in schools to reduce spread of COVID is “not conclusive” – no statistical difference – READ, STUDY
Despite science not supporting mask wearing the health officials still want them on!

January 4, 2022 – Petty Podcasts: Why masks cannot and do not work – WATCH

January 2, 2022 – Dr. Scott Gottlieb (former FDA chief) Gives Unbelievable Confession: ‘A Cloth Mask is Not Going to Protect You’ from an Airborne Virus and the 6-ft. rule was “arbitrary” it had no basis in science, no body knows where it came from! – WATCH, SOURCE

2021

December 31, 2021: WHO advice on wearing a mask – ARCHIVE

December 26, 2021- Covid Revealed: Episode 8B – Stephen Petty – “If it’s not 90% relative risk reduction, it’s not good enough. Masks are only 5-15%, assuming a perfect fit and perfect seal.” – WATCH

December 20, 2021 – Brownstone Institute: More than 150 Comparative Studies and Articles on Mask Ineffectiveness and Harms – by Paul Elias Alexander – “focus is on COVID face masks and the prevailing science that we have had for nearly 20 months…The body of evidence indicates that face masks are largely ineffective.” – READ

December 14, 2021 – News with Views: Forty-Five Years of Mask Studies Prove They’re Worthless – READ

December 2021 – World Health Organisation: All about masks in the context of COVID-19 – “Masks should be used as part of a comprehensive strategy of measures to suppress transmission and save lives; the use of a mask alone is not sufficient to provide an adequate level of protection against COVID-19.” – (date may change use archive for Dec 21) – READ, ARCHIVE, First post Feb 7, 2020 – HERE

November 27, 2021 – Steve Kirsch Substack: Masks don’t work: So why were “experts” hailing the Bangladesh mask study as proof that masks work? Because they were so desperate to point to something to support their belief system–even a study that was worthless. – READ – Do Masks Work? – READ

October 2021 – Canadian COVID Care Alliance: Do masks actually work? What about two masks? Or three, or five? A Simple Experiment with Dr Byram Bridle. (if glasses fog then the virus can also move through layers of cloth mask!) – WATCH

September 19, 2021 – Forbes: CDC’s Six-Foot Social Distancing Rule Was ‘Arbitrary’, Says Former FDA Commissioner – READ, WATCH

August 26, 2021 – Petty Podcasts: How Dirty Does a Mask Get – Ep. 18 – WATCH

August 18, 2021 – Petty Podcasts: How Small is a Virus Particle (Virion)? Ep. 03 – Stephen explains the range of particle sizes, categories (droplets vs. aerosols), and length of time that each can travel or stay suspended in the air. – WATCH

August 18, 2021 – Petty Podcasts: How Long Can Particles Stay Suspended in the Air? – Ep. 04 – WATCH

August 18, 2021 – Petty Podcasts – Episode 00 – The mission of the podcasts. – Stephen Petty will be applying his knowledge as an engineer and health & safety expert to breakdown recent events (i.e. COVID-19 and masks) to better explain elements of these events and offer science-backed solutions. – CHANNEL, WATCH

August 18, 2021 – The Professors Record | Professor David Clements: Law Professor REFUSES to MASK UP or get the JAB – WATCH

• Why? Becasue he hasn’t lost his mind!

August 17, 2021 – Petty Podcasts: How Much Protection Can a Mask Provide? Mask vs. PPE – Ep. 05 (Removed from YouTube) – WATCH

August 13, 2021 – Washington Examiner: Do masks actually work? The best studies suggest they don’t – READ

August 2021 – Swiss Policy Research: The Face Mask Folly in Retrospect – READ

• The obsolete droplet model – respiratory droplets vs much smaller aerosols
• Fake science – historical science vs COVID-19 science
• Asymptomatic transmission – the healthy are “statistically sick” – justification for mandates
• Political pressure – “follow the science”
• The media and censorship – psychological affect of repeated fraudulent science narratives!

July 2, 2021 – Mask Documentary Series by Tyson Gabriel Respiratory Protection Expert ​(He trains the doctors!) –
The question isn’t “Do masks work?” The question is “Do masks work outside the scope of their design?”
A one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t match up to what the science actually says. There are nuanced maneuvering that is needed situationally, but absent from the messaging and deployment of “Universal Public Masking” – WATCH Parts 1 to 6.

Tyson examined each mask scientific study found on the CDC’s website. This 6 part video series is an overview of the most important aspects of our findings. Parts 1 to 6 – under 10 min each segment

• PART 1 – Early Mask Science + Critical Fundamentals to Know.
• PART 2 – New Science Quickly Ushered In.
• PART 3 – Science Built on Spare Parts, Smoke, and Mirrors.
• PART 4 – The Pinnacle Scientific Question That Was Never Asked.
• PART 5 – The Dirty Details That Always Get You in The End.
• PART 6 – Things You Miss When You Assume “They” Did Their Job

Ivor Cummins: FINALLY a Clinical Trial on Facemasks in Children – Parents Take Note! – WATCH

May 11, 2021 – Fox News: CDC risk of coronavirus transmission outdoors greatly exaggerated, bombshell report finds – Their figure of 10% is based ‘partly on a misclassification’ of some transmission, report claims – READ, WATCH,

New York Times – ARTICLE

• CDC released new guidelines last month for mask wearing, it announced that “less than 10 percent” of Covid-19 transmission was occurring outdoors. Media organizations repeated the statistic, and it quickly became a standard description of the frequency of outdoor transmission. But the number is almost certainly misleading.
• In truth, the share of transmission that has occurred outdoors seems to be below 1 percent and may be below 0.1 percent [0.1% is “less than” 10%!!!] – TWEET

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May 9, 2021 – Masks are a sign of obedience – WATCH

April 26, 2021 – KTVZ News: State revises mask mandate for outdoor athletics after Summit High School runner collapses at finish line – READ, WATCH

April 20, 2021 – Int. J. Environmental Research and Public Health: Is a Mask That Covers the Mouth and Nose Free from Undesirable Side Effects in Everyday Use and Free of Potential Hazards? – Kisielinski et al – READ, CREDIT

April 17, 2021 – Study quietly published at NIH.gov proves face masks are absolutely worthless against Covid (Update: Stanford University has disavowed the study, saying the author was no longer working for them at the time the study was conducted.) – READ

March 28, 2021 – HART Group: Masks – do benefits outweigh the harms? – READ

March 9, 2021 – It’s America’s anniversary! One year ago today, Dr. Fauci told Americans there was no need to wear a mask and coronavirus wasn’t a threat. – WATCH

February 7, 2021 – So if you fly first class or business class with Cathay Pacific you don’t need to wear a mask! – READ

February 10, 2021 – Primary Doctor Medical Journal: Vermont Mask Survey Of Fall 2020 – to begin gathering information about the negative health effects in the general population from wearing masks – READ

February 11, 2021 – Harvard Gazette: Chan School study gives airports high marks in COVID safety …but air travel not without infection risk! – READ, TIMELINE Harvard’s aviation funded Aviation Public Health Initiative release 262-page second report

• APHI Phase 2 Report Curb-to-Curb Travel Through Airports (NPI) (Feb 10, 2021) – PDF, PRESS, PDF, SOURCE
• “Passenger compliance is something of a wild card in the system, the authors said. Mask mandates, which were nearly universal for airport employees, became so for travelers as well after President Biden issued a recent executive order making masks mandatory in airports and on planes, as well as other modes of travel. Noncompliance has been an issue, but airlines have dealt with it by issuing warnings and placing those who remain noncompliant onto no-fly lists. The sanction has been effective at goading some travelers into abiding by guidelines, the authors said.” – REF

“We are not saying that it is safe to fly, but there are risks and actions to reduce those risks.”

Leonard Marcus, director Harvard Chan APHI

January 31, 2021 – Dr Urso explains why cloth masks don’t work – TWEET

“Regular masks don’t work [against viruses]. The reason we wear a mask is because the fear is so massive in this country … but I don’t wear a mask because they work” Dr Urso

January 28, 2021 – The Highwire – Double Masking: Tony Fauci endorsed the wearing of multiple masks to combat the spread of Covid19, citing ‘common sense’ as support for this new public health position! – WATCH

January 21, 2021 – Biden Whitehouse: Executive Order: Promoting COVID-⁠19 Safety in Domestic and International Travel – Mask-wearing on Domestic Transportation – READ, ARCHIVE

• “masks to be worn in compliance with CDC guidelines in or on: airports, commercial aircraft…” –REF
• No Mask, No Fly policy: Leonard Marcus, director of the Aviation Public Health Initiative at the Harvard School of Public Health said masks had “proven” to reduce spread of the virus.- REF– Face Mask Use in Air Travel– ARCHIVE, (APHI announced Sept 2, 2020 TIMELINE)

January 20, 2021 – Biden Whitehouse: Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing – ARCHIVE, Breitbart 69 EOs – CREDIT

• “It is the policy of my Administration to halt the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by relying on the best available data and science-based public health measures.”
• Just one of 10 executive orders signed by the president on his first day in office aimed at addressing the COVID-19 pandemic…Trump administration had refused to enact such a mask mandate – REF

January 14, 2021 – The Highwire – Jefferey Jaxen reports on new mask studies that support the available data on children. In short, children don’t spread COVID-19, and we are putting them at risk by forcing masks on them. – WATCH

January 4, 2021 – Grand Forks herald: North Dakota got a mask mandate, South Dakota didn’t. COVID-19 cases have plummeted in both – READ, CREDIT

2020

December 2020 (uploaded): Harvard Chan School of Public Health | Aviation Public Health Initiative: Facemask Use in Air Travel, Leonard Marcus, director if initiative – (removed) PDF, ARCHIVE, CREDIT

• No Mask, No Fly from Biden’s EO first day in office – NPR – READ
• Leonard Marcus, served as a transition advisor to Biden’s coronavirus team. Press conf in Feb 2021 – TRANSCRIPT, Phase 2 report (Sept 2022) – PDF, ARCHIVE
• October 28, 2020 – Harvard Coronavirus (COVID-19): Press Conference with Leonard Marcus, Jack McCarthy, Edward Nardell, and John Spengler speaking on The Aviation Public Health Initiative – READ

December 31, 2020: WHO advice re wearing a mask – ARCHIVE

• “Masks should be used as part of a comprehensive strategy of measures to suppress transmission and save lives; the use of a mask alone is not sufficient to provide an adequate level of protection against COVID-19.”

December 3, 2020 – NBC News: Biden asks Fauci to stay on, will call on Americans to wear masks for 100 days – READ, Today: Could 100 days of mask-wearing change the course of the pandemic in the US? – READ

November 30, 2020 – Amazing Polly: This is Too Important – Tak off the masks (citations under video) – WATCH, BACKUP, more videos – HERE

• Polly shows “group think”, social confirmity experiments that will make you stop and think…hopefully

November 27, 2020 – CDC: Guidence on how to make homemade masks – ARCHIVE, WATCH, ARCHIVE

November 23, 2020 – Dave Martin breaks down the Danish mask study – @3:50 WATCH, YT, PRESENTATION

November 22, 2020 – Study: “data suggest that both medical and non-medical facemasks are ineffective to block human-to-human transmission of viral and infectious disease such SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, supporting against the usage of facemasks.” RETRACTED – ARTICLE

November 20, 2020 – Dr Kaufmann overview of the Danish mask study – WATCH

November 20, 2020 – CDC: Scientific Brief: Community Use of Cloth Masks to Control the Spread of SARS-CoV-2 – ARCHIVE

November 20, 2020 – Cochrane Database Systematic Review Meta-Analysis: Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses – READ

• “There are no real randomized clinical trials or data to support the use of surgical or cloth masks. None of this mask wearing was science based. What our public health service has done to us, our children is obscene. There needs to be accountability.” – Malone

November 18, 2020 – DANISH MASK STUDY: Annals fo Internal Medicine: Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers: A Randomized Controlled Trial, – Bundgaard et al. “setting Denmark, April and May 2020” – ARCHIVE, Now paper is dated March 2021? – READ, TWEET

November 17, 2020 – Privately Recorded: Dr. Roger Hodkinson speaking to Edmonton City Council via Telephone – Topic: Mask Mandate Bylaw – “Masks are utterly useless…There is no evidence base for their effectiveness whatsoever” – YouTube, ARCHIVE, BITCHUTE, BACKUP, ARTICLE

November 5, 2020 – The Highwire Ep 188: LIGHTING THE WAY – FULL, COVID TESTING FRAUD UNCOVERED- WATCH

• “As cases of coronavirus rise across America, shouldn’t death rates be going up too? Del breaks down how #COVID tests may be seriously flawed by providing less than accurate results and why the majority of positive cases could be false.”
• Deborah Birx coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force said on Nov 2, 2020 – “We are entering the most concerning and most deadly phase of this pandemic … leading to increasing mortality,” – yet mortality is NOT going up as cases escalate! – Dr Scott Atlas – TWEET

October 29, 2020 – The Federalist: These 12 Graphs Show Mask Mandates Do Nothing To Stop COVID – READ, CREDIT

• Faking ‘Science’ to Achieve Political Goals – So what is the actual science behind masks? A review of the leading scientific studies.
• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University – Summarised 6 international studies which “showed that masks alone have no significant effect in interrupting the spread of ILI or influenza in the general population, nor in healthcare workers.” Oxford went on to say that “that despite two decades of pandemic preparedness, there is considerable uncertainty as to the value of wearing masks.” They prophetically warned that this has “left the field wide open for the play of opinions, radical views and political influence.”
• “Studies do show masks can help in the case of direct respiratory droplets, which would matter if somebody is coughing, breathing, or sneezing directly on your face.
• But the plentiful evidence we have indicates masks would not meaningfully help with aerosol transmission, where two people are just in the same area, or even the same room. This is because the two people end up breathing the same air” – VIDEO

Dr Ted Noel demonstrates how aerosols go through and around a surgical mask – masks don’t prevent aerosol transmission – WATCH

October 27, 2020 – Harvard Press Release | National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI): Researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Release Phase One “Gate-to-Gate” Report of SARS CoV-2 Transmission and Risk Mitigation While Flying prepared by Faculty and Scientists at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health – PDF, ARCHIVE, Interview with Leonard Marcus (Scripted Q&A??) – WATCH, TIMELINE

• Press Conference with Leonard Marcus, Jack McCarthy, Edward Nardell, and John Spengler speaking on The Aviation Public Health Initiative – LISTEN & READ

• “Our project wanted to understand how it would be possible to get a middle ground there of being able to continue to engage in somewhat normal activity,…” an aircraft is a “technologically very sophisticated environment” and its a “behaviorally controlled” environment “people follow orders”, looked at how to “reduce the risks of transmission of disease in that unique environment”. [slap on a mask so everyone feels safe from an aerosolised virus that can bypass a cloth barrier! – ‘cos Science^TM says so!]
• Leonard Marcus co-directed the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard – WEB ARCHIVE, WATCH
• Research sponsored by the Aviation industry – EXCERPT

October 16, 2020 – Dr Lee Merritt – America’s Frontline Doctors Summit- Masks: The Science & Myths – WATCH, BACKUP, PDF

October 15, 2020 – The Highwire: CDC MASK-ARADE – WATCH

October 13, 2020 PLOS One: Facemask against viral respiratory infections among Hajj pilgrims: A challenging cluster-randomized trial – Alfelali et al (and Edward “Eddy” Holmes) – over 8000 subjects – READ, CREDIT

• “limited evidence that the use of masks might reduce the risk of viral respiratory infections”

October 12, 2020 – The Federalist: CDC Study Finds Overwhelming Majority Of People Getting Coronavirus Wore Masks – READ

• “Over 70 percent of the case-patients who were contaminated with the virus fell ill despite “always” wearing a mask”

October 8, 2020 – MASK WHISTLEBLOWERS TELL ALL – Government trained OSHA mask experts Tammy Clark & Kristen Meghan join Del in-studio to break down vital info on masks, PPE, and their role in #Covid19 prevention. Every adult on this planet wearing a mask needs to hear this riveting discussion. – WATCH

October 5, 2020 – CDC: Scientific Brief: SARS-CoV-2 and Potential Airborne Transmission – ARCHIVE

October 1, 2020 – Scientific American: Protecting against COVID’s Aerosol Threat – READ

October 2020 – Dr Lee Merritt speaks on masks, detrimental outcomes of lockdowns, and the psychological impact on children from COVID – WATCH

October 2020 – CDC: Effectiveness of Cloth Masks for Protection Against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 – READ

September 25, 2020 – Blunt Force Truth : CDC Admits There is No Proof COVID-19 is Airborne Virus and They Have Been Misleading the Public All Along – READ, “CDC is currently updating its recommendations regarding airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2,”…The agency’s website now emphasizes the risk of close person-to-person contact…is “the main mode” of transmission – POLITICO

September 23, 2020 – Off Guardian: Is evidence masks don’t work being purged from the internet? At least two studies have been removed from websites, with very little explanation given – READ

• Oct 18, 2016 : Oral Health: Update: Why Face Masks Don’t Work: A Revealing Review “The content was published in 2016 and is no longer relevant in our current climate”! – READ, Original – ARCHIVE
  • …”readers are reminded that; coughing, sneezing, nasal hairs, respiratory tract cilia, mucous producing lining cells and the phagocytic activity of alveolar macrophages provide protection against inhaled foreign bodies including fungi, bacteria and viruses. 13 Indeed, the pathogen laden aerosols produced by everyday talking and eating would have the potential to cause significant disease if it were not for these effective respiratory tract defences.” – I the natural defenses leading to natural immunity

September 18, 2020 – Swiss Policy Research – WHO Mask Study Seriously Flawed – READ
“The WHO-commissioned meta-study on the effectiveness of facemasks, published in the medical journal The Lancet in June 2020, has been instrumental in shifting global facemask policies during the covid pandemic. However, the meta-study, which claimed a risk reduction of 80% with facemasks, is seriously flawed on several levels and should be retracted.”

September 18, 2020 – CDC quietly updated How COVID-19 is spread by adding in aerosol droplets, then changes a few days later, claiming it was a “draft version” – BEFORE, TODAY, AFTER on SEPT 25, ARCHIVE, CDC LINK

September 11, 2020 – Dr John Campbell – Aerosol emission and super-emission during human speech increase with voice loudness (Nature Scientific Reports) i.e. don’t talk load in public places to reduce disease spread – WATCH, PAPER

September 2, 2020 – PRESS RELEASE: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Researchers Studying SARS CoV-2 Transmission and Risk Mitigation While Flying – The Aviation Public Health Initiative (APHI) begins – ARCHIVE, WEBSITE, TIMELINE (see Oct 27, 2020 above)

• APHI (part of NPLI) is directed by Leonard Marcus a “leading authority on leadership in times of crisis”, research sponsored by the Aviation industry – EXCERPT, Leonard Marcus WATCH

• Aviation Public Health Initiative (APHI) REPORTS:
  • Phase 1 Report Gate-to-Gate Travel Onboard Aircraft (Oct 27, 2020) – PDF, HIGHLIGHTS, PRESS, WEB
  • Air Cabin Cleaning and Disinfection Bulletin (Oct 2020) – PDF
  • Face Mask Use in Air Travel Bulletin – (Dec 2020) – PDF
  • Phase 2 Report Curb-to-Curb Travel Through Airports (Feb 11, 2021) -– PDF ,READ, INTERVIEW, WEB

August 26, 2020 – WSJ: Kansas Democrats’ Covid Chart Masks the Truth – The state’s health secretary fudged the data to make the governor’s mask mandate look successful – READ, CREDIT

August 20, 2020 – Dr Jim Meehan demonstrates an oxygen meter under a mask – WATCH, YT

August 16, 2020 – Dr Lee Merrit – @3:30 Part 2 – DDP 38th Annual Meeting part 2 – WATCH

August 15, 2020 – Vision Launch Media by Authur Fistenberg: More Than a Dozen Credible Medical Studies Prove Face Masks Do Not Work Even In Hospitals! – READ (reference links within article)

• “…to my surprise the medical literature for the past forty-five years has been consistent: masks are useless in preventing the spread of disease and, if anything, are unsanitary objects that themselves spread bacteria and viruses.” in the operating room!
• Neil Orr’s study (ref above), published in 1981 in the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. “…they discovered, to their amazement, that when nobody wore masks during surgeries, the rate of wound infections was less than half what it was when everyone wore masks.” – LINK

August 13, 2020 – The Sentinel: More deception: KDHE hid data to justify mask mandate – READ, CREDIT

August 9, 2020 – The Highwire: Dr Fauci is now recommending eye protection – proving masks don’t work – WATCH

August 8, 2020 – Zero Hedge: World’s Top Epidemiologists – Masks Don’t Work! – Danes aren’t wearing face masks, and local authorities for the most part aren’t even recommending them. – READ

August 2020 – A rapid systematic review of the efficacy of face masks and respirators against coronaviruses and other respiratory transmissible viruses for the community, healthcare workers and sick patients – READ

July 23, 2020 – The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine – Masking lack of evidence with politics – READ, CREDIT

• “The increasing polarised and politicised views on whether to wear masks in public during the current COVID-19 crisis hides a bitter truth on the state of contemporary research and the value we pose on clinical evidence to guide our decisions”
• “Despite the clear requirement to carry out further large, pragmatic trials a decade later, only six had been published: five in healthcare workers and one in pilgrims.”

July 16, 2020 – Laura Ingraham: What they’re not telling you – WATCH

July 14, 2020 – Dr James Lyons-Weiler: COVID19: Three Bits of Science That CDC, Fauci and FDA Forgot, and One They Would Like to Forget – Masks Don’t Really Work Outside of Healthcare Systems. – READ

July 10, 2020 – The Highwire – Del Bigtree and son, Ever, conducted a test, using an OSHA-approved Carbon-Dioxide meter, which revealed something about masks which YouTube, Facebook, and other video platforms are trying very hard to censor. What do you think? – WATCH, BACKUP

July 6, 2020 – Primary Doctor Medical Journal: Masks are neither effective nor safe: A summary of the science by Colleen Huber – READ, 1918 Spanish flu – pneumonia and masks – TWEET

July 6, 2020 – Primary Doctor Medical Journal – A peer-reviewed journal by physicians and scientists without commercial influence: Masks, false safety and real dangers:

• July 6, 2020 – Part 1: Friable mask particulate and lung vulnerability – READ
• October 9, 2020 – Part 2: Microbial challenges from masks (1918 history included) – READ, PDF
  • Dr. Fauci neglected to let the public know that he was co-author on a paper that found the 1918-1919 pandemic deaths were mostly from bacterial pneumonia – TWEET, ARCHIVE
• November 2, 2020 – Part 3: Hypoxia, hypercapnia and physiological effects – READ
• December 7, 2020 – Part 4: Proposed mechanisms by which masks increase risk of COVID-19 – READ

July 2020 – Resarchgate: A Complete Debunking of Denis Rancourt’s Mask Don’t Work. (A philosopher, David Kyle Johnson, debunking a Physicist, Denis Rancourt!) – READ

July 2020 – Canadian Family Physician (CFP): Masks for prevention of viral respiratory infections among health care workers and the public -systematic review – READ, CREDIT

• There is “limited evidence that the use of masks might reduce the risk of viral respiratory infections”

June 26, 2020 – American Thinker: What good do the masks do, really? By Ted Noel, MD – READ, WATCH, VIDEO, YouTube, followup ARTICLE

June 22, 2020 – i News – Face masks advice: A timeline of what the UK Government said about coronavirus face coverings – and when it changed – Ministers and senior scientists have been adamant that there is not enough evidence to support the use of face masks – but that seems to be changing – READ, WATCH

• UK “Government ministers have gone back on their word over whether face masks should be used universally. Originally, the government said there was no evidence to prove face masks were useful in stopping the spread of the virus. Now ministers are saying they are “clearly” a central part of easing lockdown further.”

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June 9, 2020 – Time Magazine: Unpacking the New WHO Controversy Over Asymptomatic COVID-19 Transmission – ARCHIVE, TIMELINE, Super spreaders, asymptomatic transmission appears to be “very rare.”

June 6, 2020 – WHO guidance on the use of masks for control of COVID-19 – WATCH, ADVICE , ARCHIVE

June 2020 – The Highwire Episode 169: Dr. Denis Rancourt, PhD , Fmr Prof. of Physics at Univ. of Ottawa, is interviewed by Del Bigtree, he discusses the numerous research papers that establish the uselessness of wearing a mask. – WATCH, The Highwire – WATCH

• “By making mask-wearing recommendations and policies for the general public, or by expressly condoning the practice, governments have both ignored the scientific evidence and done the opposite of following the precautionary principle.”

May 25, 2020 – WHO: STAG-IH views on mask use by the general public. “Masks are introduced as part of a transitional package from a ‘confinement’ or ‘stay-at-home’ order to demonstrate solidarity, community empowerment, understanding of the seriousness of the situation, symbolism of the whole personal hygiene package, mitigation of stigmatization, and other positive psychosocial benefits.” – PDF

May 22, 2020 – American College of Physicians: Cloth Masks May Prevent Transmission of COVID-19: An Evidence-Based, Risk-Based Approach – Clase et al – READ, CREDIT

• “Although no direct evidence indicates that cloth masks are effective in reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the evidence that they reduce contamination of air and surfaces is convincing” -[but follow The Science!]

May 22, 2020 – Anesthesiologist Dr Paul Lynch – speaks to how masks are for Source Control (as you might be contagious for 5-7 days with no COVID-19 symptoms) and are not intended for Personal Protection and that Dr Russell Blaylock is wrong – WATCH
I wonder if Dr Lynch is aware of all the scientific studies looking at face mask use during surgery for “source control”? – HERE

May 21, 2020 – New England Journal of Medicine Perspective: Universal Masking in Hospitals in the Covid-19 Era by Klompas et al – READ

• “[W]earing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection” and that “[T]he desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.” – REF

May 14, 2020 – The Highwire Ep 163: CORONAVIRUS UNMASKED – Real Science on Masks, with Immunologist Dolores Cahill, PhD. – WATCH

May 11, 2020 – Dr. Blaylock: Face Masks Pose Serious Risks to the Healthy – Hypoxia and Hypercapnia – “By wearing a mask, the exhaled viruses will not be able to escape and will concentrate in the nasal passages, enter the olfactory nerves and travel into the brain.” Dr. Russell Blaylock warns that not only do face masks fail to protect the healthy from getting sick, but they also create serious health risks to the wearer. The bottom line is that if you are not sick, you should not wear a face mask – READ

May 5, 2020 – CDC: Nonpharmaceutical Measures for Pandemic Influenza in Nonhealthcare Settings—Personal Protective and Environmental Measures – Xiao et al – READ, Denis Rancourt comments – WATCH, READ

• “Although mechanistic studies support the potential effect of hand hygiene or face masks, evidence from 14 randomized controlled trials of these measures did not support a substantial effect on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.” – [i.e. masks don’t work!]
• “no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks

April 7, 2020 – MedRxiv preprint v2: Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses. Part 1 – Face masks, eye protection and person distancing: systematic review and meta-analysis – by Jefferson et al – READ, SOURCE

April 3, 2020 – Nature: Respiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks – Leung et al – READ, CREDIT

• “masks can help in the case of direct respiratory droplets, which would matter if somebody is coughing, breathing, or sneezing directly on your face.” – REF

April 2020 – Research Gate | D G Rancourt: Masks Don’t Work: A review of science relevant to COVID-19 social policy – ARCHIVE

April 4, 2020: CDC FLIP FLOP: How to Protect Yourself & Others (they update their web page about masking from protecting yourself to protecting others) – https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/prevention-treatment.html – ARCHIVES, following CDC March 30, 2020 memo to White House/HHS – READ and MMWR PCR study of 23 people (March 27, 2020)- PDF, they updated their website with “& Others”

• April 2, 2020 – CDC: How to Protect Yourself – ARCHIVE (same as image below)
• April 3, 2020 – CDC: How to Protect Yourself & Others – ARCHIVE
• April 4, 2020 – CDC: How to Protect Yourself & Others, and change to masks – ARCHIVE

April 3, 2020 – CDC: US Surgeon general Jerome Adams demonstrates how to make a cloth face covering in a few easy steps – ORIGINAL, WATCH, WATCH, WATCH

March-April, 2020 – Compilation of UK health officials – there is no evidence masks work – WATCH

March 31, 2020 – Washington Post: Memos from CDC to White House lay out rationale for possible widespread use of face coverings – ARCHIVE – The push for asymptomatic super spreaders begins, with the visible symbol of fear and compliace becoming policy

• CDC sent internal memos to the Department of Health and Human Services and the White House coronavirus task force to revise policy, advising that people wear cloth masks, specifically not surgical or N95, to help mitigated and slow the “spread of the pandemic” – REF, CREDIT
• “Federal officials debating whether to recommend that face coverings be routinely worn in public are responding to increasing evidence that infected people without symptoms can spread the coronavirus…Simple cloth masks that cover the mouth and nose can prevent virus transmission from such individuals when they are out buying groceries or seeking medical care” the CDC informed officials
• This represents “a major change in official CDC guidance that healthy people don’t need masks or face coverings” …”Wearing cloth masks in public places would be an additional community mitigation tool…Social distancing of at least six feet is still recommended even when wearing a mask.” according to the CDC memos
• “The memos emphasize that a cloth facial mask is intended not so much to protect the wearer but to help prevent the spread of the virus to others” …people “generate respiratory aerosols when speaking, coughing and sneezing” that can be inhaled by nearby individuals.”
• “An ideal face cover can be cleaned in a washing machine and machine dried without damage or distorting its shape the memo said”
• CDC’s (markting arm!) while trying to figure out what to call the face covering suggested framing it as “Courtesy Mask or Universal Source Control” and presenting tag lines like “My mask protects you and your mask protects me” and “I wear my mask to protect my community.”
• [No science had changed justifiying masks work for viruses, there never was any medical science justifying “social distancing”]
• “Infectious-disease experts say asymptomatic transmission may be playing a larger role in the outbreak than previously thought, but just how big remains unknown.”
• Deborah Birx resisted as she believed “face coverings might undermine messages that people should stay at home as much as possible”

March 29, 2020 – WHO (Update from March 27): Modes of transmission of virus causing COVID-19: implications for IPC precaution recommendations – ARCHIVE,

• “Respiratory infections can be transmitted through droplets of different sizes: when the droplet particles are >5-10 μm in diameter they are referred to as respiratory droplets, and when then are <5μm in diameter, they are referred to as droplet nuclei. According to current evidence, COVID-19 virus is primarily transmitted between people through respiratory droplets and contact routes. In an analysis of 75,465 COVID-19 cases in China, airborne transmission was not reported.

• Droplet transmission occurs when a person is in in close contact (within 1 m) with someone who has respiratory symptoms (e.g., coughing or sneezing) and is therefore at risk of having his/her mucosae (mouth and nose) or conjunctiva (eyes) exposed to potentially infective respiratory droplets.

March 27, 2020 – WHO: If you do not have any respiratory symptoms, such as fever, cough, or runny nose, you do not need to wear a medical mask. When used alone, masks can give you a false feeling of protection and can even be a source of infection when not used correctly. TWEET, READ, WATCH

March 27, 2020 – MMWR: Symptomatic and Presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Residents of a Long-Term Care Skilled Nursing Facility — King County, Washington, March 2020 – by Public Health and CDC team – posted as an early release March 27, 2020 – READ, Vol. 69 No.13 published April 3, 2020 – PDF, the same day CDC updated their website to reflect the “asymptomatic spread” – ARCHIVE

• Based 76 PCR tests (3 residents refused to be tested) conducted on nursing home residents, Among the 76 tested residents, 23 (30.3%) had PCR positive test results. On that day 3 were asymptomatic, 10 were pre-symptomatic, 8 had typical symptoms, and 2 had atypical symptoms.
• “Seven days after testing, 10 of these 13 previously asymptomatic residents had developed symptoms and were recategorized as presymptomatic at the time of testing.”
• “What are the implications for public health practice? Symptom-based screening of [skilled nursing facility] SNF residents might fail to identify all SARS-CoV-2 infections. Asymptomatic and presymptomatic SNF residents might contribute to SARS-CoV-2 transmission.”
• The Ct values data is not provided for other 53 residents, and this paper is not peer reviewed, yet it changed US masking policy!
• “The reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing cycle threshold (Ct) values indicated large quantities of viral RNA in asymptomatic, presymptomatic, and symptomatic residents, suggesting the potential for transmission regardless of symptoms.” …”The Ct, the cycle number during RT-PCR testing when detection of viral amplicons occurs, is inversely correlated with the amount of RNA present; a Ct value <40 cycles denotes a positive result for SARS-CoV-2, with a lower value indicating a larger amount of viral RNA.”
  • CDC refuse samples >28 cycles for genome sequencing, so making these sweeping statements about “large quantity” of viral load is marketing not scientific

March 20, 2020 – NY Post: Minnesota-based company 3M says it has doubled its production of coronavirus-protecting N95 respirators over the last two months – READ

March 20, 2020 – Washington Post: Hospital workers battling coronavirus turn to bandannas, sports goggles and homemade face shields amid shortages – ARCHIVE

March 20, 2020 – The Lancet: Rational use of face masks in the COVID-19 pandemic – Feng et al – READ, SOURCE

• “…[T]here is an essential distinction between absence of evidence and evidence of absence. Evidence that face masks can provide effective protection against respiratory infections in the community is scarce, as acknowledged in recommendations from the UK and Germany.
• However, face masks are widely used by medical workers as part of droplet precautions when caring for patients with respiratory infections.”…”As evidence suggests COVID-19 could be transmitted before symptom onset, community transmission might be reduced if everyone, including people who have been infected but are asymptomatic and contagious, wear face masks.”

March 17, 2020 – New York Times | Op Ed by Zeynep Tufekci a professor of information science: Why Telling People They Don’t Need Masks Backfired -To help manage the shortage, authorities sent a message that made them untrustworthy – READ, Paul Thacker – CREDIT

• Example of “The Great Mask Flip Flop” – when the science didn’t change, just (political) opinions
  • March 17, 2020 – “Third, of course masks work”!
  • February 27, 2020 – we know masks don’t work for a virus – READ

March 16, 2020 – NPR: White House Announces New Social Distancing Guidelines Around Coronavirus – READ

March 9, 2020: 60 Minutes: Dr. Anthony Fauci talks with Dr Jon LaPook about COVID-19 and wearing masks – WATCH, BACKUP

March 3, 2020 – WHO: Shortage of personal protective equipment endangering health workers worldwide – READ

• “…shortages are leaving doctors, nurses and other frontline workers dangerously ill-equipped to care for COVID-19 patients, due to limited access to supplies such as gloves, medical masks, respirators, goggles, face shields, gowns, and aprons.”

February 29, 2020 – US Surgeon General announced that masks “are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus” –TWEET, CREDIT the tweet references CDC: Prevention & Treatment – ARCHIVE

• “There is currently no vaccine to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The best way to prevent illness is to avoid being exposed to this virus….
• CDC does not recommend that people who are well wear a facemask to protect themselves from respiratory diseases, including COVID-19. Facemasks should be used by people who show symptoms of COVID-19 to help prevent the spread of the disease to others.” – REF, ARCHIVES

February 28, 2020 – CDC does not currently recommend the use of face masks to help prevent novel #coronavirus – TWEET, WHO

February 14, 2020 – NY Times: China’s Doctors, Fighting the Coronavirus, Beg for Masks – READ

2019

October 2019 – Event 201 was held to simulate a coronavirus pandemic – if supplies were low in a country, would they not have started to stock up on non-perishables like masks shortly after this event? Four months later there were allegedly not enough masks for healthcare workers.

September 19, 2019 – WHO report: Non-pharmaceutical public health measures for mitigating the risk and impact of epidemic and pandemic influenza – the systematic literature review determined that unless the severity is high, face masks are for only symptomatic individuals because face masks have a “lack of effectiveness in reducing influenza transmission”, a respiratory disease. – MORE, REPORT, MORE

September 3, 2019 – JAMA: N95 Respirators vs Medical Masks for preventing influenza among health care personnel – A Randomized Clinical Trial – READ, CREDIT

February 1, 2019 – UPI: Millions in Japan affected as flu outbreak grips country – despite masks commonly being worn! – READ, CREDIT

• “Japan’s health ministry has urged members of the public to frequently wash their hands or wear a mask when outdoors.”

2018

July 2018 – Journal of Orthopaedic Translation: Surgical masks as source of bacterial contamination during operative procedures – Zhiqing et al – READ, CREDIT

2016

• Oct 18, 2016 : Oral Health: Update: Why Face Masks Don’t Work: A Revealing Review “The content was published in 2016 and is no longer relevant in our current climate”! – READ, CREDIT, Original – ARCHIVE
  • …”readers are reminded that; coughing, sneezing, nasal hairs, respiratory tract cilia, mucous producing lining cells and the phagocytic activity of alveolar macrophages provide protection against inhaled foreign bodies including fungi, bacteria and viruses. Indeed, the pathogen laden aerosols produced by everyday talking and eating would have the potential to cause significant disease if it were not for these effective respiratory tract defences.” – Natural defences are the guardians of attack and leading to natural immunity – REF

2015

April 22, 2015 – A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers – “This study is the first RCT of cloth masks, and the results caution against the use of cloth masks”. – READ, ARTICLE, ARTICLE 2

April 22, 2015 – Randomized Controlled Trial | BMJ: A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers – C Raina MacIntyre (Australia) – READ

March 26, 2015 – BMJ | Infectious Diseases: A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers by C Raina MacIntyre (Australia) et al – READ, PDF, Clinical Trial – READ, CREDIT, READ, JikkyLeaks 2023 – THREAD

• “This study is the first RCT of cloth masks, and the results caution against the use of cloth masks. This is an important finding to inform occupational health and safety. Moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks and poor filtration may result in increased risk of infection.”
  • This “study of health-care workers in more than 1,600 hospitals showed that cloth masks only filtered out 3 percent of particles” – REF
• Prof Chandini Raina MacIntyre in 2020 started supporting masks! She got a nice grant handshake in 2023- PDF
  • BMJ 2020 update “the physical barrier provided by a cloth mask may afford some protection, but likely much less than a surgical mask or a respirator.”…”The cloth masks may have been worse in our study because they were not washed well enough – they may become damp and contaminated. The cloth masks used in our study were products manufactured locally, and fabrics can vary in quality.” – REF

2008

2008 Archived web page CDC: Regarding the wearing of masks during the 1918 pandemic – READ

• “Across the United States, cities and counties also began to require or recommend that citizens wear gauze masks. Unfortunately, while masks are highly effective at preventing diseases which are caused by bacteria , they are less effective in providing protection against viral diseases. As a result, even in communities where the wearing of masks was made mandatory, influenza could not be contained.”
• “Public officials also sought to limit influenza by banning spitting in public places and demanding that those who sneezed covered their mouths.” – The Public Health Service is a military organisation – TIMELINE
• Although people dutifully wore masks, these provided only a very limited protection against the influenza virus.”- REF

2005

September 23, 2005 – Canadian Operating Room Nursing Journal: Disposable surgical face masks: a systematic review – READ

• ‘Surgical face masks were originally developed to contain and filter droplets of microorganisms expelled from the mouth and nasopharynx of healthcare workers during surgery, thereby providing protection for the patient. However, there are several ways in which surgical face masks could potentially contribute to contamination of the surgical wound.”

2003

April 27, 2003 – Sydney Morining Herald – Farce mask” it’s safe for only 20 minutes – “Retailers who cash in on community fears about SARS by exaggerating the health benefits of surgical masks could face fines of up to $110,000.”…”Health authorities have warned that surgical masks may not be an effective protection against the virus.” – READ, WATCH

1991

May 1991 – World Journal of Surgery: Postoperative wound infections and surgical face masks: A controlled study – PAPER

• Swiss Policy Research – “Contrary to common belief, studies in hospitals found that the wearing of a medical mask by surgeons during operations didn’t reduce post-operative bacterial wound infections in patients. – SOURCE

1918

October 8, 1918 – Am. J. Public Health: THE EPIDEMIOLOGY AND BACTERIOLOGY OF INFLUENZA – Darling – READ, SOURCE

• MASKS: “The best evidence indicates that infection occurs through respiration, the causative organism being carried on dust particles and presumably lodging on the mucosa of the respiratory passages.”…”The chief means of infection is believed by many to be the fine droplets expelled by a patient or a carrier from the respiratory passages in the act of sneezing,coughing, or talking.” – This helps make sense their belief in wearing masks