By Capt Joseph R. John, April 12, 2021, Op Ed #552
This does not apply to individuals infected with the Wuhan Virus and must wear a mask in order to prevent them from infecting others. 
Wearing a mask represents fear and blind obedience, “not science”.  If you are driving alone in a car with a mask on, you do not need to put a Biden sticker on your car---we already know!
A high-quality, large-scale major Danish study finds no evidence that wearing a face mask significantly minimizes people’s risk of contracting COVID-19.  The randomized control trial found no statistically significant difference in coronavirus infection rates between mask-wearers and non-mask-wearers.  In fact, according to the data, mask usage may increase the likelihood of infection.  
“The recommendation to wear surgical masks to supplement other public health measures did not reduce the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate among wearers by more than 50% in a community with modest infection rates, some degree of social distancing, and uncommon general mask use,” the authors summarized their results.   
While mask-wearing has been advertised by health officials all around the world, including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the Danish researchers found that there was no statistically significant difference between wearing a mask or not in preventing people from contracting COVID-19.   
“In the third post hoc analysis, which investigated constellations of patient characteristics, we did not find a subgroup where face masks were effective at conventional levels of statistical significance,” researchers found.   
The randomized-control trial, which is considered the “gold-standard” design for scientific research, had a large sample size of more than 6,000 people. Most studies conducted on various kinds of face masks against various coronaviruses are neither randomized, controlled trials nor conducted regarding the specific SARS-CoV-2 virus currently affecting the world.  
This clinical trial was conducted from April through June in Denmark, a largely unmasked area with government recommendations only to social distance and wash hands frequently as the country began to reopen in May. Roughly half of the 6,024 participants, 4,862 of whom completed the study, were randomly assigned to wear surgical masks “outside the home among other persons together” while the other half continued to operate in public without a mask.   
After a month, 42 of the mask-wearers in the study (1.8 percent) were infected with the virus while 53 of the non-mask-wearers (2.1 percent) were infected with the virus. Statistically, this is not a significant difference between the two groups, suggesting these infection differences were a product of chance, say the study authors.   
From the very beginning, many of Fauci’s on again, off again Wuhan Virus policies were determined to be fraudulent Public Health policies with no scientific basis for several of them.  Instead, many of Fauci’s policies were guided by politics to create fear for submission, and were designed to promote government control, Progressivism, and currently for a more sinister purpose.      The CDC informed America that there were 67,000 flu fatalities during the annual flu season in 2020; the annual number of deaths each year for the last 50 years, has always been between 30,000 and 80,000 deaths.  Dr. Deborah Brix, the White House Coronavirus Task Force Response Administrator, has accused the CDC of being responsible for inflating the number of deaths from the Wuhan Virus.   
The CDC finally came out and stated on its own website that only 6% of the number listed as COVID-19 deaths were fatalities solely attributed to deaths from the Wuhan Virus alone.  That would be about 33,000 deaths from the Wuhan Virus, far less than from the 67,000 fatalities from the annual flu.  Why wasn’t America locked down annually for the last 50 years during the annual flu virus season? 
The Biden, Harris, Obama Administration has begun to promote the warning that a new lockdown will be required, to prevent a new modified strain of the Wuhan Virus, THAT IS COMING, which will suddenly appear prior to the 2022 mid-term Congressional election—resulting in the Left Main Stream Media creating another panic on cue, demanding another useless economic destructive lockdown to destroy The Free Enterprise System, so a government Socialism system can continue to take hold, and replace free enterprise. 
Lockdowns that began in March 2020 are still being enforced in some states, despite the overwhelming amount of evidence that lockdowns did not reduce the infection rates of the Wuhan Virus.  Sweden, Taiwan, Japan, Iceland, Vietnam, South Korea, Communist China, and just about every country in Africa did not lockdown their countries nor restrict schooling for their children, and they all have robust economies.  Their children did not miss a day of school, and there were very few deaths from the Wuhan Virus---many less deaths than from the annual flu. 
Fauci initially said there was no need to wear masks because they do not work for viruses; thousands of doctors and scientists from the very beginning agreed with Fauci’s accurate pronouncement.
A panel of experts at a forum in March organized by Florida Governor Ron DeSanctis consisted of former White House corona virus adviser Dr. Scott Atlas of Stanford University, Oxford epidemiologist Dr. Sunetra Gupta, Harvard professor and epidemiologist Dr. Martin Kulldorff, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford, who are medical experts on the transmission of viruses, firmly believe that children didn't need to wear masks---someone tell the airlines who evict families from flights because their 2 year old children refused to wear a mask, and just keep pulling them off while crying. 
Dr. Kulldorff stated that schools could reopen without enforcing mask-wearing, pointing out that in Sweden they remained open during the entire pandemic without masks.  Dr. Kulldorff, stated that "children should not wear face masks.”  The Harvard epidemiologist said, "They don’t need masks for their own protection, and they don’t need masks for protecting other people, either." 
Stanford's Dr. Bhattacharya said it is "developmentally inappropriate" for children to wear masks and "it just doesn’t help on the disease spread" and "It’s absolutely not the right thing to do."  Dr. Bhattacharya further said that "if we went back a year, a lot of experts would say that wearing masks for the general public is not evidence-based."  
Later, Dr. Atlas also said, "there’s no scientific rationale or logic to have children wear masks in schools." Dr. Joseph Mercola, a New York Times bestselling author, wrote in the column published by the News Opinions and Quote (NOQ) Report that masks are a "ticking time bomb," because of the multiple threats they pose.  Among the problems are the fact that they can accelerate the process of microbes from the mouth entering the lungs, which has been linked to lung cancer.  The plastics contain chemicals such as polycyclic hydrocarbons, which can cause DNA damage.  Dyes and other additives, some of which have reproductive toxicity, can cause cancer and mutations.   "When you wear a mask, tiny microfibers are released which can cause health problems when inhaled.  The risk is increased when masks are reused.  This hazard was highlighted in a performance study to be published in the June 2021 issue of Journal of Hazardous Materials," Dr. Mercola wrote. 
Dr. Mercola’s concerns about the health impact of masks were echoed by Dr. Jane Orient of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.  "Some worry that mask components may be the new asbestos, inhaled all day long from a source right in front of your nose.  Health Canada has issued a warning about blue and gray disposable face masks, which contain an asbestos-like substance associated with 'early pulmonary toxicity,'" she wrote this week.   She said the masks, made in China, were part of Canada’s public school reopening plan. "The masks contain microscopic graphene particles.  Graphene is a strong, very thin material.  Some daycare educators had expressed concerns when children complained that they felt they were swallowing cat hair,’ " she said. 
The “new normal” of widespread masking is affecting not only the environment but also the mental and physical health of humans.  Dr. Mercola noted that in Germany, a study using data on nearly 26,000 children identified 24 issues with wearing masks.  The researchers recorded symptoms that "included irritability (60%), headache (53%), difficulty concentrating (50%), less happiness (49%), reluctance to go to school/kindergarten (44%), malaise (42%), impaired learning (38%) and drowsiness or fatigue (37%)."  "They also found 29.7% reported feeling short of breath, 26.4% being dizzy and 17.9% were unwilling to move or play," Mercola said. "Hundreds more experienced 'accelerated respiration, tightness in chest, weakness, and short-term impairment of consciousness.’” 
The images of plastic trash bobbing in ocean water around the world already are well known. The masks could aggravate that, the report said, because their plastics resist breaking down in the environment, they have "micro-sized plastic fibers" and are released into the environment faster than other plastics.  Dr. Mercola said "a report by OceansAsia further estimated that 1.56 billion face masks may have entered the world’s oceans in 2020, based on a global production estimate of 52 billion masks manufactured that year, and a loss rate of 3%, which is conservative." 
When Biden is sitting in the thoroughly sanitized Oval Office with everyone present, having been checked multiple times to ensure they do not have the Wuhan Virus, Biden does not need to wear a mask.  One of the reasons for Biden never taking off his mask is to cover up the fact that, from time to time, his lips quiver, that is brought on by his dementia.  The Biden, Harris, and Obama administration is trying to bully Americans into wearing masks. 
Please read the below listed article written in World News Daily (WND) on the dangers of masking.    

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To mask or not? Physician calls them 'a ticking time bomb'

Dangers to health, life and environment adding up

By Bob Unruh
Published April 9, 2021 at 5:13pm

 

The ubiquitous COVID-19 face masks are online, in stores and in pockets. Their use has been required by many government agencies and executive orders, private corporations and even, in confrontations that sometimes have turned violent, passersby on the street.

The "experts" have, at times, said they must be used, or shouldn't be used. Or maybe three or four should be used.

Now a prominent physician is warning of the harm they can cause to individuals and the global community.

Dr. Joseph Mercola, a New York Times bestselling author, wrote in a column published by NOQ Report that they are a "ticking time bomb," because of the multiple threats they pose. 

Among the problems are the fact they can accelerated the process of microbes from the mouth entering the lungs, which has been linked to lung cancer.

Then there's the fact they are made from micro sized plastic fibers and can release particles into the environment.

And there's their potential impact on "the mental and physical health of humans."

And by and large they are not being recycled, and they're being used at the rate of billions per month, or about 3 million masks per minute.

And plastics "make them likely to persist and accumulate in the environment."

The environment

"The planet may be facing a new plastic crisis, similar to the one brought on by bottled water, but this time involving discarded face masks," Mercola wrote. "'Mass masking' continues to be recommended by most public health groups during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite research showing masks do not significantly reduce the incidence of infection."

The microfibers in the masks, discarded into the environment, "are being ingested by fish, plankton and other marine life, as well as the creatures on land that consume them (including humans)," he explained.

He said researchers from the University of Southern Denmark and Princeton University already have warned that masks could quickly become "the next plastic problem."

The images of plastic trash bobbing in ocean water around the world already are well known. The masks could aggravate that, the report said, because their plastics resist breaking down in the environment, they have "microsized plastic fibers" and are released into the environment faster than other plastics. Mercola said "a report by OceansAsia further estimated that 1.56 billion face masks may have entered the world’s oceans in 2020, based on a global production estimate of 52 billion masks manufactured that year, and a loss rate of 3%, which is conservative."

Masks, therefore, could add up to 6,240 metric tons of plastic pollution to the marine environment and take "as long as" 450 years to break down."

 

Your health

The plastics contain chemicals such as polycyclic hydrocarbons, which can cause DNA damage. Dyes and other additives, some of which have reproductive toxicity, can cause cancer and mutations.

"When you wear a mask, tiny microfibers are released, which can cause health problems when inhaled. The risk is increased when masks are reused. This hazard was highlighted in a performance study to be published in the June 2021 issue of Journal of Hazardous Materials," Mercola wrote.

It's now known that microbes from the mouth, oral commensals, frequently enter the lungs.

"In a study of 83 adults with lung cancer, those with advanced-stage cancer had more oral commensals in their lungs than those with early-stage cancer. Those with an enrichment of oral commensals in their lungs also had decreased survival and worsened tumor progression," he explained.

"While the study didn’t look into how mask usage could affect oral commensals in your lungs, they did note, 'The lower airway microbiota, whether in health or disease state, are mostly affected by aspiration of oral secretions, and the lower airway microbial products are in constant interaction with the host immune system.'

"The National Institutes of Health even conducted a study that confirmed when you wear a mask most of the water vapor you would normally exhale remains in the mask, becomes condensed and is re-inhaled," the report said. "They went so far as to suggest that wearing a moist mask and inhaling the humid air of your own breath was a good thing, because it would hydrate your respiratory tract. But given the finding that inhaling the microbes from your mouth may increase advanced cancer risk, this hardly sounds like a benefit."

His concerns about the health impact of masks where echoed by Dr. Jane Orient of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.

"Some worry that mask components may be the new asbestos, inhaled all day long from a source right in front of your nose. Health Canada has issued a warning about blue and gray disposable face masks, which contain an asbestos-like substance associated with 'early pulmonary toxicity,'" she wrote this week.

She said the masks, made in China, were part of Canada’s public school reopening plan.

"The masks contain microscopic graphene particles. Graphene is a strong, very thin material. Some daycare educators had expressed concerns when children complained that they felt they were swallowing cat hair," she said.

"A similar disposable mask, known as MC9501, was likewise recalled throughout Canada after 31.1 million had been distributed by government.

"Nearly all face masks increase the daily intake of microplastic fibers. Scientists first discovered microplastics in the lung tissue of some patients who died of lung cancer in the 1990s. Plastic degrades slowly, so once in the lungs it tends to stay there and build up. Some studies have found that the immune system can attack these foreign objects, causing prolonged inflammation that can lead to diseases such as cancer. Reused masks produced more loosened fibers."

Mental health

Mercola noted that in Germany, a study using data on nearly 26,000 children identified 24 issues with wearing masks.

The researchers recorded symptoms that "included irritability (60%), headache (53%), difficulty concentrating (50%), less happiness (49%), reluctance to go to school/kindergarten (44%), malaise (42%), impaired learning (38%) and drowsiness or fatigue (37%)."

"They also found 29.7% reported feeling short of breath, 26.4% being dizzy and 17.9% were unwilling to move or play," Mercola said. "Hundreds more experienced 'accelerated respiration, tightness in chest, weakness and short-term impairment of consciousness.'"

Dr. Jim Meehan, an ophthalmologist and preventive medicine specialist, identified 17 "ways that masks can cause harm."

They include adversely affecting respiratory physiology and function, raising carbon dioxide levels in the blood, trapping exhaled virus, lower oxygen levels, providing a false sense of security, compromising communications, making exhaled air go into the eyes, and collecting and colonize viruses, bacteria and mold.

"Adding insult to injury, the first randomized controlled trial of more than 6,000 individuals to assess the effectiveness of surgical face masks against SARS-CoV-2 infection found masks did not statistically significantly reduce the incidence of infection," Mercola said.