I am a teacher in NC. All the districts are rapidly voting to make masks optional for students and staff. I never wore one much but only for the dog and pony show when I had to. But today Fuad gov Cooper announced that all state employees must show proof of vax. If not, the non vax must wear masks and take a weekly chyna virus test (same test that cdc says can’t differentiate from influenza).
I will not do either. So I’m curious to see how this will play out. I am compiling info from GAW and will provide actual science and evidence for why not to mask/test/vax. Feel free to share links to sites/studies/data with real scientific proof. Thank you all.
You want to look here: https://pastebin.com/5xEMa5P7
And here: https://pdmj.org/
And here's a little something I took from elsewhere:
PBS Documentary on 1918 Flu Pandemic (Spanish Flu) "All of America, it seemed, put on masks. At last, many thought, they were safe. But masks didn't help. They were thin and porous -- no serious restraint to tiny microbes. It was like trying to keep out dust with chicken wire." "A resolution shot through Congress, giving the Public Health Service a million dollars to fight the flu. Biochemists around the country worked feverishly to develop a vaccine. [...] But even vaccines didn't help." https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/influenza/#transcript http://archive.today/IYjlo
Here is where the CDC states "DO NOT use facemasks."
http://archive.today/RKdWc https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/84900
And here is CDC Research.
"Disposable medical masks (also known as surgical masks) are loose-fitting devices that were designed to be worn by medical personnel to protect accidental contamination of patient wounds, and to protect the wearer against splashes or sprays of bodily fluids. There is limited evidence for their effectiveness in preventing influenza virus transmission either when worn by the infected person for source control or when worn by uninfected persons to reduce exposure. Our systematic review found no significant effect of face masks on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza." https://archive.is/y22jF
"More research on cloth masks is needed to inform their use as an alternative to surgical masks/respirators in the event of shortage or high-demand situations. To our knowledge, only 1 randomized controlled trial has been conducted to examine the efficacy of cloth masks in healthcare settings, and the results do not favor use of cloth masks." http://archive.today/rIZN6
"The general public should be educated about mask use because cloth masks may give users a false sense of protection because of their limited protection against acquiring infection. Correctly putting on and taking off cloth masks improves protection. Taking a mask off is a high-risk process because pathogens may be present on the outer surface of the mask and may result in self-contamination during removal." http://archive.today/lbCgF
CDC Study Finds Overwhelming Majority Of People Getting Coronavirus Wore Masks "In the 14 days before illness onset, 71% of case-patients and 74% of control-participants reported always using cloth face coverings or other mask types when in public." http://archive.today/RDVnV
Danish RCT with over 6,000 participants found no statistical significance in infection rates between mask-wearing and non-mask-wearing participants. https://archive.is/JslHV
20x more likely to catch virus while using a mask http://archive.today/vRqZl
Analysis https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/12/cdc-study-finds-overwhelming-majority-of-people-getting-coronavirus-wore-masks/
W.H. Kellogg studying mask efficacy after 1918 flu pandemic https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.10.1.34
Not even N95 masks are effective protection against SARS-CoV. Published August 7, 2017. http://archive.today/NghAW
CDC survivability rates https://archive.is/xiVJ2
WHO does not recommend masks "There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit. In fact, there's some evidence to suggest the opposite in the misuse of wearing a mask properly or fitting it properly," Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO health emergencies program, said at a media briefing in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday. http://archive.today/xIvBI
Mask and infection trends across Europe, etc. http://archive.today/4SGYt
New England Journal of Medicine, 2nd paragraph "We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes). The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic."
http://archive.is/CfQBO
BMJ The rates of all infection outcomes were highest in the cloth mask arm, with the rate of ILI statistically significantly higher in the cloth mask arm (relative risk (RR)=13.00, 95% CI 1.69 to 100.07) compared with the medical mask arm. Penetration of cloth masks by particles was almost 97% and medical masks 44%. This study is the first RCT of cloth masks, and the results caution against the use of cloth masks. https://archive.is/yzz4B
England Health Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jenny Harries evidence on face coverings "not strong in either direction" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8676535/Jenny-Harries-says-face-coverings-evidence-not-strong.html http://archive.today/rib2o
University of Minnesota CIDRAP "We do not recommend requiring the general public who do not have symptoms of COVID-19-like illness to routinely wear cloth or surgical masks because: There is no scientific evidence they are effective in reducing the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission Their use may result in those wearing the masks to relax other distancing efforts because they have a sense of protection We need to preserve the supply of surgical masks for at-risk healthcare workers. Sweeping mask recommendations—as many have proposed—will not reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission, as evidenced by the widespread practice of wearing such masks in Hubei province, China, before and during its mass COVID-19 transmission experience earlier this year. Our review of relevant studies indicates that cloth masks will be ineffective at preventing SARS-CoV-2 transmission, whether worn as source control or as PPE." http://archive.is/s92ER
MIT research withdrawn due to an increase in infections "The authors have withdrawn this manuscript because there are increased rates of SARS-CoV-2 cases in the areas that we originally analyzed in this study." https://archive.is/tet7M https://archive.is/iIwdD
Canada "The coronavirus is spread through tiny microdroplets emitted through coughs and sneezes that float through the air, or rest on surfaces and can remain infectious for several days. Standard flat surgical masks don’t give full coverage, so very small droplets suspended in the air can still get through" "Masks get saturated with moisture from the mouth and nose after about 20 minutes. Once they’re wet, they no longer form a barrier against viruses trying to come through or exit." https://web.archive.org/web/20200526130951/https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/coronavirus-why-masks-dont-work/ar-BB11nxm9
Holland https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8583925/The-land-no-face-masks-Hollands-scientists-say-theres-no-solid-evidence-coverings-work.html
Sweden http://archive.today/6I98n
http://archive.today/QnaL2
Anthony Fauci "When you're in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it's not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is." https://streamable.com/oml2rf
US Surgeon General "Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!
They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching Coronavirus..." http://archive.today/5ScZF
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta https://archive.vn/Mvuhv https://archive.is/wLxSh
Dr. Rand Paul - "Without fail, every time we've instituted a [mask] mandate the actual instances of the disease has risen." https://youtu.be/vpxmUrYe0rs
Denmark schools no distancing no barriers http://archive.today/9ys5d
WHO WP Tweet "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." http://archive.today/uWPej http://archive.today/1XoGb http://archive.today/EtQBA
Asymptomatic spread is rare http://archive.is/HEJrn https://youtu.be/NQTBlbx1Xjs
‘No evidence’ that asymptomatic Covid-19 cases were infectious, analysis of post-lockdown Wuhan concludes https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w https://www.rt.com/news/507402-wuhan-asymptomatic-cases-coronavirus-study/
"Even if there is some asymptomatic transmission, in all the history of respiratory-borne viruses of any type, asymptomatic transmission has never been the driver of outbreaks," Fauci said. "The driver of outbreaks has always been a symptomatic person." https://archive.is/xa4aB
Dr. Birx "99% of us are going to be fine" (Local Arkansas news) https://archive.is/wip/fAQfM
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf and Rep. Wendy Ullman masks for political theater https://youtu.be/OcchjFQRrK8
Utah Governor Gary Herbert - no distancing, no mask https://www.instagram.com/tv/CF0FHrqptsc/?igshid=3hx3qolowwu9
Virus disappears too fast for vaccine https://archive.is/cvMN5
Reddit agreeing that masks are ineffective and spread fear http://archive.today/Cy7E0
"My mask protects you, yours protects me." That's not what the CDC says! https://archive.is/9oto
WHO faked a pandemic? https://archive.is/https://www.forbes.com/2010/02/05/world-health-organization-swine-flu-pandemic-opinions-contributors-michael-fumento.html
PCR test and the pandemic that wasn't:
“Because we had cases we thought were pertussis and because we had vulnerable patients at the hospital, we lowered our threshold,” she said. Anyone who had a cough got a P.C.R. test, and so did anyone with a runny nose who worked with high-risk patients like infants.
“That’s how we ended up with 134 suspect cases,” Dr. Kirkland said. And that, she added, was why 1,445 health care workers ended up taking antibiotics and 4,524 health care workers at the hospital, or 72 percent of all the health care workers there, were immunized against whooping cough in a matter of days."
https://archive.is/H1mYS
Where has the flu gone? Cases are down 98%? http://archive.today/9NaFk And the CDC can't chart flu hospitalizations because they're too low? http://archive.today/DZerE
According to WHO data, the flu is gone. https://apps.who.int/flumart/Default?ReportNo=1
Average fatality age is 82 https://archive.is/ThrPB
Johns Hopkins article analyzing death data “All of this points to no evidence that COVID-19 created any excess deaths. Total death numbers are not above normal death numbers. We found no evidence to the contrary,” Briand concluded. https://archive.vn/ruV3q
Tweet confirming that they removed a factual article. http://archive.today/vkmJd
Even Mexico is ditching masks http://archive.today/ZIf9o