Follow the Science, Stupid!

Remember how virtuous you felt when you were tooling around town in your anti-virus mask? Or else, remember how virtuous you felt when you were sitting at your desk, mask up, doing your job. And besides, didn’t you feel especially virtuous on the bus or the subway, mask up, protecting other people from your germs and protecting yourself from everyone else’s germs?

After all, science told us that masks, along with vaccines, would definitively control the Covid-19 virus. And we all believe in science, don’t we?

Sadly, we have now all learned that the vaccine did not prevent transmission, though it might have attenuated the effects of the illness. And we know that this was mostly limited to the most vulnerable population, the elderly and the compromised.

As for masking up, the latest study, out of Germany, tells us that masks were poisoning us, by causing us to breathe too much carbon dioxide-- the exhalant that we ought to expel, not to breathe back in.

Jeffrey Anderson explains the research in the City Journal:

A new study from Germany … suggests that the excess carbon dioxide breathed in by mask-wearers may have substantial ill-effects on their health—and, in the case of pregnant women, their unborn children’s.

He continues:

Mask-wearers breathe in greater amounts of air that should have been expelled from their bodies and released out into the open. “[A] significant rise in carbon dioxide occurring while wearing a mask is scientifically proven in many studies,” write the German authors. “Fresh air has around 0.04% CO2,” they observe, while chronic exposure at CO2 levels of 0.3 percent is “toxic.” How much CO2 do mask-wearers breathe in? The authors write that “masks bear a possible chronic exposure to low level carbon dioxide of 1.41–3.2% CO2 of the inhaled air in reliable human experiments.”

In other words, while eight times the normal level of carbon dioxide is toxic, research suggests that mask-wearers (specifically those who wear masks for more than 5 minutes at a time) are breathing in 35 to 80 times normal levels.

What happens when you breathe too much carbon dioxide? Nothing good:

What can breathing too much carbon dioxide do to you? The authors write that “at levels between 0.05% and 0.5% CO2,” one might experience an “increased heart rate, increased blood pressure and overall increased circulation with the symptoms of headache, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, dizziness, rhinitis, and dry cough.” Rates above 0.5 percent can lead to “reduced cognitive performance, impaired decision-making and reduced speed of cognitive solutions.” Beyond 1 percent, “the harmful effects include respiratory acidosis, metabolic stress, increased blood flow and decreased exercise tolerance.” Again, mask-wearers are likely breathing in CO2 levels between 1.4 percent and 3.2 percent—well above any of these thresholds. What’s more, “Testes metabolism and cell respiration have been shown to be inhibited increasingly by rising levels of CO2.”

If the masks do not control transmission of the virus, what do they do?

Indeed, according to the authors, there exists “circumstantial evidence that popular mask use may be related to current observations of a significant rise of 28% to 33% in stillbirths worldwide and a reduced verbal, motor, and overall cognitive performance of two full standard deviations in scores in children born during the pandemic.” They cite recent data from Australia, which “shows that lockdown restrictions and other measures (including masks that have been mandatory in Australia), in the absence of high rates of COVID-19 disease, were associated with a significant increase in stillborn births.” Meantime, “no increased risk of stillbirths was observed in Sweden,” which famously defied the public-health cabal and went its own way in setting Covid policies.

In light of all this, it seems indefensible to mandate—or even to advise—the wearing of masks, especially among the young. The authors write, “Keeping in mind the weak antiviral mask efficacy, the general trend of forcing mask mandates even for the vulnerable subgroups is not based on sound scientific evidence and not in line with the obligation in particular to protect born or unborn children from potential harmful influences.”

So, a bunch of fools forced everyone to cover our faces with masks. It did not stop the virus and made many people sick. Time for a reckoning, don’t you think?

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