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COVID-19: Important Potential Side Effects of Wearing Face Masks That We Should Bear in Mind

https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2003

Covid-19: Important potential side effects of wearing face masks that we should bear in mind

BMJ 2020; 369 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m2003 (Published 21 May 2020)Cite this as: BMJ 2020;369:m2003

  1. Antonio Ivan Lazzarino, director1,
  2. Andrew Steptoe, professor of psychology and epidemiology2,
  3. Mark Hamer, professor of sport and exercise medicine2,
  4. Susan Michie, professor of health psychology2

In their editorial Greenhalgh et al advise that surgical masks should be worn in public to prevent some transmission of covid-19,1 adding that we should sometimes act without definitive evidence, just in case. Two side effects of wearing face masks in public have already been highlighted:

  • Wearing a mask may give a false sense of security and make people adopt a reduction in compliance with other important infection control measures1

  • People must avoid touching their masks and adopt other management measures, otherwise masks are counterproductive23

Other potential side effects that we must consider, however, are:

  • The quality and volume of speech between people wearing masks is considerably compromised and they may unconsciously come closer

  • Wearing a mask makes the exhaled air go into the eyes. This generates an impulse to touch the eyes. If your hands are contaminated, you are infecting yourself

  • Face masks make breathing more difficult.4 Moreover, a fraction of carbon dioxide previously exhaled is inhaled at each respiratory cycle. Those phenomena increase breathing frequency and deepness, and they may worsen the burden of covid-19 if infected people wearing masks spread more contaminated air. This may also worsen the clinical condition of infected people if the enhanced breathing pushes the viral load down into their lungs

  • The innate immunity’s efficacy is highly dependent on the viral load.5 If masks determine a humid habitat where SARS-CoV-2 can remain active because of the water vapour continuously provided by breathing and captured by the mask fabric, they determine an increase in viral load (by re-inhaling exhaled viruses) and therefore they can cause a defeat of the innate immunity and an increase in infections.

The context of the current covid-19 pandemic is very different from that of the “parachutes for jumping out of aeroplanes.”16 It is necessary to quantify the complex interactions that may well be operating between positive and negative effects of wearing surgical masks at population level. It is not time to act without evidence.

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**Comment**

According to this, doctors in Turkey are warning against mask misuse as they can cause infections:  https://www.aa.com.tr/en/health/improper-use-of-medical-masks-can-cause-infections-/1766676

Important excerpt:

“In order to use those special masks the medical staff are trained and educated, so it is important that the masks are worn properly,” Azap said. “I see people wearing the N95 in planes and airports and I have never seen a single person wearing it right!”

Azap said due to the lack of masks, they are often reused for a few days and in some cases washed and worn again, which is the biggest invitation for infections. 

And that is exactly what happened to this 4 year old who nearly died from prolonged mask wearing leading to a bacterial infection:  https://healthimpactnews.com/2020/4-year-old-almost-dies-due-to-lung-infection-caused-by-prolonged-mask-wearing-doctor-rants-how-many-children-must-die/

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Activism, Viruses

With Health Departments Overwhelmed, Tick and Mosquito Surveillance is Scaled Back

https://www.wpr.org/health-departments-overwhelmed-tick-and-mosquito-surveillance-scaled-back

A woman examines a long piece of white canvas with strands at the end

Susan Paskewitz examines a canvas tick drag, a tool that’s used to capture ticks, on Wednesday, July 22, 2020, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. Angela Major/WPR

With Health Departments Overwhelmed, Tick And Mosquito Surveillance Is Scaled Back

Tracking Disease-Carrying Pests Is One Of Many Routine Duties Departments Have Had To Juggle In Midst Of Pandemic
By Shamane Mills
Published: Friday, August 21, 2020, 5:00am
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In 2018, over 3,000 people in the state contracted Lyme disease from blacklegged ticks found on deer. Susan Paskewitz, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of entomology, said that number just represents known and suspected cases, and is only the tip of the iceberg.

But this summer, the attention of health departments across Wisconsin is focused squarely on the coronavirus pandemic — taking scarce public health dollars and time away from other, more routine health threats. That includes tick and mosquito surveillance.

“Folks are more hesitant potentially to go in and see their providers to get checked out if they have headaches or fever. Things like muscle, joint aches and fatigue. They may be more willing to dismiss those symptoms instead of going and getting checked out and get tested,” said Ryan Wozniak, who supervises vector-borne diseases within Bureau of Communicable Diseases at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.

Wisconsin continues to track how many people get sick from tick and mosquito infections. But if people ignore symptoms, reported cases could be lower than they actually are during a time more people are going outdoors in hopes of bolstering both mental and physical health. 

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**Comment**
This is a real problem.

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Activism, mosquitoes, Ticks, Viruses

The 2009 Swine Flu Scam: Murderous Anthony Fauci Betrays Public Trust Again

https://vaccineimpact.com/2020/the-2009-swine-flu-scam-murderous-anthony-fauci-betrays-public-trust-again/

August 22, 2020

The 2009 Swine Flu Scam: Murderous Anthony Fauci Betrays Public Trust Again

Tony Fauci and the Swine Flu disaster; betrayal of trust

by Jon Rappoport
NoMoreFakeNews.com

I take you back to the summer of 2009, when the CDC and the World Health Organization were hyping the “deadly H1N1 Swine Flu pandemic.”

They were, of course, also urging people to take the new Swine Flu vaccine.

On that subject, here is an excerpt from Robert Kennedy Jr.’s Children’s Health Defense (3/27/20):

For example, [Dr. Anthony] Fauci once shilled for the fast-tracked H1N1 influenza (‘swine flu’) vaccine on YouTube, reassuring viewers in 2009 that serious adverse events were ‘very, very, very rare.’

Shortly thereafter, the vaccine went on to wreak havoc in multiple countries, increasing miscarriage risks in pregnant women in the U.S., provoking a spike in adolescent narcolepsy in Scandinavia and causing febrile convulsions in one in every 110 vaccinated children in Australia—prompting the latter to suspend its influenza vaccination program in under-fives.

Thank you. Dr. Fauci. Explain to us why you haven’t been downgraded to pumping gas in Death Valley or sent to prison?

However, that is only half the Swine Flu story. The other half—which involves an astounding hoax—was surely something Fauci was aware of at the time.

Fauci was, in fact, recommending a highly dangerous vaccine for protection against AN EPIDEMIC THAT DIDN’T EXIST AT ALL.
His friends and professional colleagues at the CDC were creating the hoax.

Let me run it down for you.

In the summer of 2009, the CDC was claiming there were thousands of Swine Flu cases in the US. But behind these statistics lay an unnerving secret. A major crime, considering the CDC’s mandate to report the truth to the American people:

Secretly, the CDC had stopped counting cases of Swine Flu.

What? Why?

CBS investigative reporter, Sharyl Attkisson, discovered the CDC secret; and she found out why.

The routine lab testing of tissue samples from the most likely Swine Flu patients was coming back, in the overwhelming percentage of cases, with: NO SIGN OF SWINE FLU OR ANY OTHER KIND OF FLU.

Attkisson wrote an article about this scandal, and it was published on the CBS News website. However, the next, bigger step—putting out the story on CBS television news—was waylaid. No deal. And CBS shut down any future investigation on the subject. Attkisson’s article died on the vine. No other major news outlet in the world picked up her article and ran with it deeper into the rabbit hole.

Here is what Attkisson told me when I interviewed her:

Rappoport: In 2009, you spearheaded coverage of the so-called Swine Flu pandemic. You discovered that, in the summer of 2009, the Centers for Disease Control, ignoring their federal mandate, [secretly] stopped counting Swine Flu cases in America.

Yet they continued to stir up fear about the “pandemic,” without having any real measure of its impact. Wasn’t that another investigation of yours that was shut down? Wasn’t there more to find out?

Attkisson: The implications of the story were even worse than that. We discovered through our FOI efforts that before the CDC mysteriously stopped counting Swine Flu cases, they had learned that almost none of the cases they had counted as Swine Flu was, in fact, Swine Flu or any sort of flu at all!

The interest in the story from one [CBS] executive was very enthusiastic. He said it was “the most original story” he’d seen on the whole Swine Flu epidemic.

But others pushed to stop it [after it was published on the CBS News website] and, in the end, no [CBS television news] broadcast wanted to touch it.

We aired numerous stories pumping up the idea of an epidemic, but not the one that would shed original, new light on all the hype.

It was fair, accurate, legally approved and a heck of a story. With the CDC keeping the true Swine Flu stats secret, it meant that many in the public took and gave their children an experimental vaccine that may not have been necessary.

So…fake pandemic, CDC crimes, and a damaging vaccine.

But that wasn’t end of it. The CDC wanted to commit another crime. About three weeks after Attkisson’s findings were published on the CBS News website, the CDC, obviously in a panic, decided to double down. If one lie is exposed, tell an even bigger one. A much bigger one.

Here, from a November 12, 2009, WebMD article is the CDC’s response: “Shockingly, 14 million to 34 million U.S. residents — the CDC’s best guess is 22 million — came down with H1N1 swine flu by Oct. 17 [2009].” (“22 million cases of Swine Flu in US,” by Daniel J. DeNoon).

Are your eyeballs popping? They should be.

Fast forward to 2020.

Who in his right mind, armed with a little history, would believe anything the CDC is saying about COVID-19?
The discovery of a new coronavirus, the case numbers, the accuracy of the diagnostic tests, the need for lockdowns and economic devastation, the safety and importance of a vaccine, the fear porn?

Who would believe any of it?

And who would believe anything coming out of the mouth of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who hyped a highly destructive Swine Flu vaccine for an epidemic that didn’t exist at all?

Only a fool.

SOURCES:

  1. childrenshealthdefense.org/news/dr-fauci-and-covid-19-priorities-therapeutics-now-or-vaccines-later/
  2. cdc.gov/media/transcripts/2009/t091009.htm
  3. cbsnews.com/news/swine-flu-cases-overestimated/
  4. webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20091112/over-22-million-in-us-had-h1n1-swine-flu#1

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**Comment**

There are numerous similarities between the H1N1 hoax and what is occurring right now with COVID and the same exact people are behind it.  

For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/07/24/the-covid-19-panic-shows-us-why-science-needs-skeptics/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/05/12/shedding-light-on-the-dishonorable-record-of-dr-fauci-a-real-mengele/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/08/05/letter-to-dr-fauci-your-official-response-to-sars-cov-2-19-related-questions-best-review-of-events-ive-seen-another-fauci-cover-up/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/02/coronavirus-if-they-lied-then-why-wouldnt-they-lie-now/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/11/02/astroturfing-wikipedia-contradicts-medical-research-90-of-the-time-my-experience-on-linkedin/A fantastic Ted Talk where Attkisson discusses Astroturfing.

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Activism, vaccines, Viruses

Cleared by Doctors, But Not By The Public: After COVID-19, Survivors Face Stigma

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cleared-doctors-not-public-after-covid-19-survivors-face-stigma-

Cleared by doctors, but not by the public: After COVID-19, survivors face stigma

“I feel like I have a scarlet letter on my chest.”
Image: Patti Kirk-Byrne, Dashauna Ballard and Sadie Nagamootoo were all diagnosed with COVID-19.

Patti Kirk-Byrne, left, Dashauna Ballard and Sadie Nagamootoo are among those who have survived the coronavirus, only to be ostracized by friends and colleagues. The hurt they experienced went beyond standard social distancing, they said.Chelsea Stahl / NBC News

By Elizabeth Chuck

In the three months since Dashauna Ballard of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, recovered from the coronavirus, she has learned to not mention that she was ever sick. Some people give her suspicious looks when they find out she had COVID-19; some assume she got it because she did not take proper hygiene measures; and, recently, an acquaintance from church implied that Ballard, 29, caught the virus as punishment for sins she committed.

“People act like you did something to catch it, or you did something wrong, and that’s why you got it,” Ballard, an academic accommodations specialist for university students, said. “I feel like I have a scarlet letter on my chest.”

In a time when they need it the most, many survivors of the coronavirus are finding that their support system wants nothing to do with them. Having recovered from the illness, they now face a new challenge: stigma from family, friends and co-workers.

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

Unbelievable.  

Treating people like lepers happens all the with Lyme/MSIDS.  Many friends and even family just fall away.  They don’t like hanging out with a person who continues to be ill and even blame you for it or state you are imagining it.  I’ve experienced this.  Not fun.

A few things stick out:

  1. Our ‘authorities’ and mainstream media are directly to blame for the prevailing fear and heartless response due to their daily fear-pandering and ‘ongoing edict to practice social distancing’.  We are adults and should be able to look out for ourselves. We don’t need the government telling us how to live and act. Again, the death rate for COVID is nearly the same as the seasonal flu.  People die every single day. Although unfortunate, this is nothing new.  What is new is the media’s hyper focus on it.  Isn’t it interesting that with Lyme/MSIDS they continually underplay it by reassuring us that only a low percentage of ticks are infected and you only need to worry if you live in a certain geographical area, despite the mounting evidence that ticks are spreading everywhere and taking their diseases with them? Every day articles cross my desk telling me that a certain tick-borne illness or manifestation is ‘rare.’  Again, ‘authorities’ have tipped their hand by showing the polar opposite way they are handling the two diseases for their own selfish purposes: https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/26/cdc-playbook-learning-from-lyme/  and https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/07/30/how-the-cdc-uses-their-own-guidelines-to-rig-the-system/
  2. Our ‘authorities’ and MSM are doing nothing to counter common COVID mythology like, “You never know, you may still have it in you.” This is craziness.  Do you say the same thing to people who just got over the flu, because coronaviruses make up 10-15% of the seasonal flu each and every year. You can not “magically” transmit things to people after you have recovered.
  3. Along those same lines, ‘authorities’ have not countered the mythology that asymptomatic people are spreading COVID like wildfire – making each and every person a guilty suspect – forever.  This is wrecking untold havoc on relationships.  According to Beda M Stadler, former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern, a biologist and professor emeritus, it was wrong to claim that this virus was novel, even more wrong to claim that the population would not already have some immunity against it, and was the crowning of stupidity to claim that someone could have Covid-19 without any symptoms at all or even to pass the disease along without showing any symptoms whatsoever.  But do our ‘authorities’ state anything about these facts?  Nope.  It gets in the way of their purpose: sell expensive drugs and vaccines they own the patents on.  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/07/10/coronavirus-why-everyone-was-wrong/
  4. Lastly, the following quote rings all too familiar for Lyme/MSIDS patients:

“What baffles me is the hypocrisy of the behavior of people when it actually hits your circle,” she said, adding that the other family did not check in on her and her daughter when they were sick. “There was no compassion or empathy, not even a phone call to see how we were doing.”

We have a saying in the Lyme community and goes like this:

You don’t ‘get’ Lyme until you get Lyme.

Listen to this brief 7 Min. clip with Del Bigtree:  https://thehighwire.com/videos/america-finally-goes-herd/

America Finally Goes Herd

President Trump made a major move this week naming Stanford doctor, Scott Atlas, MD, a special advisor to the President, signaling a new change in COVID policy as America tries to emerge from the pandemic. Did The HighWire have something to do with it?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Activism, Psychological Aspects, Viruses

Politicians Could Have Known COVID Facts Since April – But They Don’t Care About Facts

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Knut Wittowski, PhD, epidemiology and biostatistician

For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/09/epidemiologist-coronavirus-could-be-exterminated-if-lockdowns-lifted/

Excerpt:

“Well, I’m not paid by the government, so I’m entitled to actually do science,” he replied….One factor, he said, is the growth of the internet, which spreads news quickly, whether true or false, fueling panic.  Kurt Wittkowski Ph.D.

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/07/31/top-expert-most-of-u-s-already-has-herd-immunity/  Wittkowski confirms the inevitable: The U.S. is already reaching herd immunity even with lockdown.

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/05/16/we-could-open-up-again-and-forget-the-whole-thing/

 

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Activism, Viruses