1/ FL parents send 6 masks to a lab...
- 100% of masks contaminated.
- 50% w/pathogens, including multiple strains of pneumonia- and meningitis-causing bacteria.
- 1/3 with antibiotic-resistant pathogens.
- 2 masks w/more than 70 strains of bacteria.
2/ "Masks work" has become such a powerful mantra for public health, it has stifled not only research showing it doesn't, but also the ability to even question if it might cause harm.
3/ This is a testament to the power of children's immune systems. Every one of these pathogens is SIGNIFICANTLY more dangerous to children than SARS-CoV2. Yet they have been exposed over, and over, and over again.
(note, no SARS-CoV2 was found on the mask, because... )
4/ Some will say "but the masks are protecting them from those!" No. The parents submitted clothing worn as well, which was not contaminated w/pathogens.
These pathogens are GROWING on the moist environment provided by the masks.
Go smell your kids' masks.
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While children have immune super-powers, what about those who do not? Immuno-suppressed, the elderly, who have wrapped themselves in multiple masks in response to public health-induced fear?
We don't know, because no one will even ask.
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The "even if it's just a little" fallacy has been advanced for months in face of the total lack of evidence in favor. If they increase risk of other things by just a little, does this change the calculus?
7/ Despite the scientific communities moratorium on questioning the efficacy or harms of masks, evidence for the lack of efficacy, and presence of harms continues to mount. thesmileproject.global/post/masks-wha…
8/ It's time that we start asking these questions. This is one of the most obvious studies you could have done.
What about the social-emotional impacts? When will we know those? We won't if the public health community has anything to say about it. @EWoodhouse7
1/ More than a year into the pandemic, we can start to evaluate the overall efficacy of our COVID responses. The U.S. provides a unique opportunity to evaluate different policy responses.
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The graphic below ranks states by their overall COVID policy score: This score takes into account COVID deaths/million, access to education, and increased unemployment ABOVE Feb 2020. All numbers are over the course of the entire year.
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In order not to overly penalize or reward “outliers,” the score is based on rank relative to other states. Raw data is linked below, to create your own scorecard.
No matter how you slice it, doesn't look good for heavy-handed approaches
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Comparing the jets of cigarette smoke, in truth, the exhalation would be rocketing past the apparatus. This is reflected in the incredibly low particle numbers—10/sec @ max. The actual # is 1000 - 10K particles/sec--which excludes <0.5 micron. pnas.org/content/117/22…
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The study notes that it does not include particles under 0.5 microns—the vast majority of aerosols, as seen below. Though it is clear from the measured particles/second, that the apparatus is missing 99.9% to 99.99% of the particles emitted.
1/ OSHA is working at both federal & state levels to CONTINUE mask reqs. Over the last 2 days, I have been on 2 OSHA calls.
@ Federal level they give NO information, you CAN'T ASK QUESTIONS--just talk at them and hope to "influence". reginfo.gov/public/do/eo/n… RIN is 1218-AD36
2/ The Cal OSHA one is going on now--link to join below.
CA is proposing (even after 7/31) that employers offer ALL un-vaxed fitted N-95s. If they choose not to wear the N-95, ALL other employees have to wear masks.
Woo hoo! Citizen science! Concerned citizen succeeds in swaying decades of aerosol science and the great Fauci! #FauciEmails
Reminder of what the science actually said back then, though even Dr. Fauci appears not to have taken the time to read up on the growing understanding that respiratory aerosols (0.1-1.0 micron, med 0.28) were the driver of flu & other respiratory viruses
If this email doesn't show how badly Dr. Fauci misunderstands the behavior and volume of aerosols, and research on flu for the prior 12 years, don't know what does. No wonder he recommended cloth masks.
1/ It's now acknowledged that COVID-19 is primarily transmitted by tiny aerosols generated through NORMAL breathing—not coughing, or flying spit globules.
Based on what we already KNEW about these respiratory aerosols, this should have meant MASKS OUT.
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This is because we know that these aerosols are nearly identical in size to cigarette smoke (see last tweet). Cigarette smoke, and by extension, the respiratory aerosols carrying COVID are NOT STOPPED by masks, or caught. They are redirected—see video.
3/ And yet, we have this kind of dishonesty from people like Bill Nye. He talks about “stopping the flow of air.” Yet he, just as everyone else who has worn a mask, must have felt the air escaping out the top of the mask--fluttering his eye lashes--during this demonstration.
1/ Mass. is terrorizing its children. In TWO COVID seasons, there were 293 TOTAL pediatric HOSPITALIZATIONS—
<1/3 the usual number for ONE flu season.
In 2 seasons, 13 TOTAL deaths ~= to 1 flu season. The pediatric CASE fatality rate, in MA is 0.006% = to the ped IFR for flu.
2/ The CDC recently released an updated disease burden for COVID-19. While they did not include deaths, those are easy to append. There, too, we see the infection fatality rate for children for COVID is MUCH lower than flu.
3/ This is certainly an overestimate due to attribution of deaths as COVID deaths, simply based on a prior positive test for COVID, regardless of whether it was a contributing factor—the Director of the Illinois DPH explains below