WHY I WON’T BE WEARING A FACE MASK, AND WHY YOU SHOULD THINK CAREFULLY BEFORE DOING SO.

It is only a matter of time, probably about three weeks, before wearing a face mask will become compulsory in the UK for anyone leaving their home, with journalists, medical practitioners and politicians demanding that everyone do so. This development is also accompanied by a media campaign that attempts to demonise anyone uncomfortable with this, or who chooses not to wear a face mask, as “anti-maskers”, “mask mockers” and inevitably, “mask deniers” with articles suggesting that one’s freedom not to wear a face mask is somehow compromising someone else’s health. Anyone not wearing a face mask is now a selfish idiot who has no regard whatever for his fellow man.  All this has been, until now, advised against, on the grounds that it does not work, see Public Health England’s former statement: “During normal day-to-day activities facemasks do not provide protection from respiratory viruses, such as COVID-19 and do not need to be worn by staff in any of these settings.

Facemasks are only recommended to be worn by infected individuals when advised by a healthcare worker, to reduce the risk of transmitting the infection to other people.”

 

Here are a few things researchers have had to say responding to mandatory face mask wearing on public transport:

 

“Although a medical mask can offer some protection, the use of masks in a community setting is not supported.” Prof Nicola Stonehouse, Professor of Molecular Virology, University of Leeds.

 

“The issue of face coverings in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic is very controversial. While no ad-hoc studies with a correct design have been carried out, it is now commonly accepted that face coverings provide very little protection, if any.” Dr Antonio Lazzarino, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL

 

“Wearing a basic face mask does little or very little to prevent the wearer from getting infected by others, but there is some limited evidence that wearing one can prevent others from being infected by the wearer. I have seen no new evidence to suggest why the government is reversing its previous policy, and ignoring its previous scientific guidance and the guidance of the WHO. I’m left wondering if this is a political decision, rather than one based on science.” Dr Simon Clarke, Associate Professor in Cellular Microbiology, University of Reading.

 

An article on https://www.oralhealthgroup.com/ which is aimed at dental practitioners concludes: “The primary reason for mandating the wearing of face masks is to protect dental personnel from airborne pathogens. This review has established that face masks are incapable of providing such a level of protection.” For the full sources quoted and to see everything in context please see the links at the end of this article. There are also many concerns that face mask wearing can endanger the wearer by breeding bacteria, that people don’t know how to use them, that face-mask culture, once here, will never go away.

 

 

I lived in Asia for three years and was there when COVID-19 first appeared. Face mask culture is endemic in Asian countries especially those with a poor human rights record at least from a Western point of view. When I was there, I was continually stopped and had my temperature taken with a gadget that looks like a gun pointed at my head. I wore a face mask whenever I went out: now was this because I thought it would protect me from being infected?  Of course not. I did it because if I didn’t I risked being detained or not allowed into my apartment. One thing I can tell you is that it is hideously uncomfortable and makes breathing difficult.  I became consumed with worry, paranoid about going out which I  only did to buy food, and I lived in fear. Finally, unable to stand it any longer, I got out and only made it by the skin of my teeth.

And this is the most important point to be made about this entire development. Mask wearing is a symptom of fear. It is the hallmark of repression, of invasion of your most fundamental existential liberties. The best case made for wearing masks seems to be a lack of evidence that they don’t work at all, in other words it’s hard to say one way or another. The best case against has to be the same as for every other government intervention in the name of “stopping the spread of coronavirus”. It may not be worth it. We have reached the point in which anything is now justified in the name of “stopping the spread of coronavirus”. There is already a deep suspicion in the minds of the British and many Western people that lockdown will never, in any meaningful sense, come to an end and that we will spend the rest of our lives in a state of semi-incarceration all over the world. Far from easing the lockdown, introducing Asian face-mask culture to the UK will only deepen it, especially in the minds of the public. There can be little doubt that following this media campaign   (“WEAR A MASK, YOU DUMMY! NOW!” ) face mask wearing will become endemic and our streets will be filled with mask-wearing, glowering, frightened-looking people  standing outside shops because they don’t know whether to go in or not. We will be reduced to living in fear, of regarding each other with suspicion and hate, depending on whether we are or are not wearing a virtue-signalling, mark-of –the-beast face covering. The general consensus that anyone who thinks they may have symptoms should be wearing a mask is self-defeating because in this case why in the world would you be going out anyway?

I’ve seen face-mask culture first-hand and it’s deeply dehumanising effects. I escaped. Now it’s here in my homeland. It is ugly, frightening and has practically zero potential to make any difference. You must make up your own mind but I personally will not be wearing one any time soon. I’ll get my shopping delivered. I’ll get people to do it for me. I’d rather avoid going out. I’ve decided to leave the last comment to someone who is not a doctor, politician or journalist but a great actor, sadly no longer with us. At the end of the film Blade Runner, Rutger Hauer, who plays the android Roy, says to Harrison Ford: “Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave.”

https://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-inevitable-face-mask-u-turn.html

https://www.oralhealthgroup.com/features/face-masks-dont-work-revealing-review/

 

https://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/mask-respirators/cloth-masks-are-useless-against-covid-19

 https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-mandatory-face-masks-on-public-transport/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/21/face-mask-rules-more-political-than-scientific-says-expert#maincontent