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“Masks worn properly are well documented to cause harm to their wearers. Masks worn improperly, re-used, or contaminated are dangerous. Any reasonable risk to benefit analysis of medical masks concludes that the risks overwhelmingly outweigh the benefits. Children are at imminent risk of harm from mask mandates.”
Anyone relying upon the establishment media for their news over the course of the past year would naturally view the above statement as an inherently dangerous false claim aimed at sabotaging the global efforts to curb the deadly coronavirus ‘pandemic’ - probably passing it off as ‘fake news’, naturally assuming it to be a scientifically baseless conspiracy theory peddled by a delusional Trump supporter or your typical extremist ‘anti-mask’/‘anti-vaxx’ coronavirus hoaxer.
In reality, however, this quote is actually from a professionally trained and highly experienced American medical doctor, Jim Meehan - who has over 20 years of experience and advanced training in immunology, inflammation, and infectious disease, and who has performed over 10,000 surgical procedures and peer-reviewed thousands of medical papers - from his article, “An Evidence Based Scientific Analysis of Why Masks are Ineffective, Unnecessary, and Harmful” published November 20, 2020.
Dr. Meehan is far from alone in his assessment concerning harms of long-term mask use, with Dr. Colleen Huber, NMD, in “Masks are neither effective nor safe: A summary of the science” (July 6, 2020), concluding that:
The ... data show[s] that masks serve more as instruments of obstruction of normal breathing, rather than as effective barriers to pathogens. Therefore, masks should not be used by the general public, either by adults or children,...
These claims and evidence-based conclusions from medical professional fly directly in the face of the establishment narrative and are irreconcilable with everything we’ve been told about the ‘science’ by countless ‘experts’ and media personalities for months now. Take for example the words of Dr. William Schaffner quoted by USA Today on October 19, 2020:
"Masks are fundamental," he said. "They are cheap. They work. And they're harmless."
Similarly, a recent Guardian propaganda piece published on February 2 claimed without any documentation that “such claims” put forth by those “rebelling” against masks “are false,” specifically the thinking that “long-term use of masks is bad for your health because you are inhaling bacteria.”
Now obviously masks cannot be both “harmless” and “documented to cause harm” at the same time, both “fundamental” and “not [to] be used by the general public” like health authorities universally agreed upon for the entire first two months of the ‘pandemic’, before changing their official guidelines and public messaging strategy to forcefully advance universal societal masking on the entire global population.
Foundational to the intensifying global propaganda campaign aimed at normalizing permanent societal masking is the mistaken notion that long-term masking is a proven effective and totally harmless tool in combating the spread of disease. The reality could not be further from the truth, but wide scale censorship, suppression and marginalization of all information and any voices challenging the establishment narrative has made it increasingly difficult for the average American to access this information and understand the truth.
The aim of this post is to address the widely circulated establishment claims about mask safety and at the same time firmly establish the well documented harms of long-term mask use, so I invite you to join me on this journey as we dive deep down the rabbit hole of documented mask harms, potential harms, and a convoluted web of connections and suppressed truths that paints an entirely different picture than the one painted by the ‘authorities’.
Is long term mask use unhealthy? What are the most common and likely harms of wearing a mask day in and day out for months and potentially years on end? Do masks create conditions where we are inhaling bacteria? And the question at the center of it all...
Do masks cause bacterial pneumonia?
To better understand our present situation, a little historical context is in order. Until 2020, universal societal masking was an entirely foreign concept to most, and public masking was not deployed as ‘public health and safety measure’ in any of the viral pandemics over the course of the entire past century.
Now we find ourselves amidst an unprecedented coordinated global propaganda effort aimed at implementing widespread long-term societal masking, not just as a drawn out temporary ‘pandemic’ response measure, but as an accepted aspect of the new post-COVID world, a cornerstone of the intended-to-be-permanent ‘new normal’. As extensively documented in my last post on the topic, these propaganda efforts to force society into a mask continue to intensify, with a strange focus on pushing the admittedly least effective cloth masks over the more ‘effective’ medical masks and N95s. This raises many questions that are yet to be answered, but one thing is clear: the current mask mania has little to nothing to do with stopping a ‘pandemic’ and everything to do with establishing a new societal norm.
‘Covid19’ & the 1918 ‘flu’ pandemic - 2 ‘P’s of the same pod...
Although the world has never seen such a coordinated global effort like this until now, masks were similarly pushed on the American public during the 1918 ‘flu’ pandemic as one’s patriotic duty, and it was also the first and only time before now that mask mandates were rolled out in a number of states across the country.
But mask mandates are only one of the many parallels between ‘Covid19’ and the 1918 ‘Spanish flu’ outbreak that may in fact help us unravel the web of deception which the powers that be have collectively weaved for us, with many commentators comparing the two.
To this day, many people are still unaware of the well established truth about the 1918 ‘flu’ pandemic, that it was in fact admittedly nothing more than a mild influenza outbreak with the vast majority of deaths attributed to the ‘flu’ actually being caused by severe cases of bacterial pneumonia.
As explained by one historian, Anthony J. Ciani:
The 1918 pandemic was secondary, hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia spread in quarantine. They made the (healthy) patients wear masks, which probably caused something akin to ventilator-associated pneumonia. If patients recovering from influenza proper were instead sent home to recuperate in fresh air, sans mask, they probably would have lived, and 1918 would have been unremarkable.
With the historical and medical information now available to us, this often ignored synopsis is nonetheless widely accepted as a historical fact, and was in fact outlined by Dr. Fauci himself in research published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
As reported by the NIH in a 2008 news release:
The majority of deaths during the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 were not caused by the influenza virus acting alone, report researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. Instead, most victims succumbed to bacterial pneumonia following influenza virus infection. The pneumonia was caused when bacteria that normally inhabit the nose and throat invaded the lungs along a pathway created when the virus destroyed the cells that line the bronchial tubes and lungs.
The only questionable part of this conclusion is whether or not the onset of bacterial pneumonia was primarily caused by the influenza virus or to some degree by the measures being employed - including prolonged hospitalization, isolation, and masking - and/or something else altogether. One UC Berkeley researcher believes he found the “missing piece of the puzzle,” tuberculosis (TB), which he says created the ideal conditions for the onset of the bacterial pneumonia infection in the lungs responsible for the millions of deaths initially attributed to the ‘flu’.
Apparently, those who died from the flu already had diseased lungs. When they got the flu, it turned into pneumonia, which in those people with TB became especially severe. It was the pneumonia complicated by TB that killed them, said Noymer. Their early demise depressed the death rate from TB in the following years. He added that tuberculosis creates cavities in the lungs that are notorious breeding grounds for staphylococcus A bacteria which causes a pneumonia that was actually the killer in 1918.
That bacterial pneumonia was the real killer in the 1918 pandemic is particularly noteworthy in light of the various similarities between the pandemics of 1918 and 2020, especially considering the official CDC data shows nearly half of the deaths attributed to ‘Covid19’ as occurring alongside pneumonia. At the end of 2020, the CDC listed over 137,000 of the ~300,000 recorded ‘Covid19’ deaths as ‘Covid19/pneumonia’.
Whether or not the medical policies of the day including masks and isolation were a major contributing factor to this upsurge in deadly bacterial pneumonia cases, they were quickly dropped due to their ineffectiveness, and the harms were observed well into the future.
As Ciani goes on to note:
The quarantine, isolation, and mask-wearing failed to diminish the spread of the influenza. Instead, the practices likely increased fatality and had disastrous economic consequences. The medical policy of 1918 was contrary to the medical science of 1918, and the destructive practices of quarantine, isolation, and mask-wearing were largely abandoned.
Additionally, “The harm extended to the next generation. Subsequent health outcomes included increased prevalence of heart disease in infants born in 1919.” (PDMJ)
Much the same thing can be said about the ‘public health and safety’ guidelines of the current ‘pandemic’, which also run contrary to the medical science of 2020 and have been economically destructive to a catastrophic degree; with the bulk of the long-term damage likely yet to be seen. However, the beginning of the chain of harms have already begun to be observed and documented, and no matter what the establishment media and so-called experts tell us, there most certainly are a myriad of documented harms of long-term mask use. I will seek to demonstrate here that chief among the growing list of such harms is bacterial pneumonia.
But let’s start at the very beginning, for there were known harms of long-term mask use even before this age of mask mandates and the relentless establishment push for universal societal masking was ushered in, and the ‘authorities’ lied to us when they told us there were no such known harms.
Hypoxia & hypercapnia, the effects of masks on oxygen flow and healthy breathing
From a logical standpoint, common sense clearly indicates that long-term masking is entirely unnatural, both impeding the natural free flow of oxygen into the body and exhalation of carbon dioxide out of the body. Thus these were the very first health and safety concerns raised about masking among the general public, particularly in response to proposed mask mandates, a concern that long-term masking would impede natural breathing and lead to decreased blood oxygen levels and increased carbon dioxide levels.
The establishment propagandists were quick to ‘debunk’ all such ‘myths’ and ‘fact-check’ all such ‘false’ claims that quickly arose around this issue and rapidly spread across social media. The BBC published an article dedicated solely to ‘debunking’ all of the ‘false and misleading’ ‘deadly mask claims’ surrounding this issue, focusing on three three allegedly “deadly,” according to the article’s headline, “false and misleading claims” - that mask use can lead to hypoxia (oxygen deprivation), hypercapnia (carbon dioxide poisoning), and lowered/suppressed immunity (which would naturally leave the body more open to all kinds of infections).
“One of the most common themes in misleading posts surrounding the use of masks is that they limit the amount of oxygen getting into the body,” the BBC’s ‘anti-disinformation team’ wrote, adding: “But the breathable materials recommended for face masks worn properly won't inhibit your breathing.”
"Thin paper or cloth masks will not lead to hypoxia. Surgeons operate for hours wearing them. They don't get these problems," says Prof Keith Neal, an infectious disease expert.
The WHO says: "The prolonged use of medical masks when properly worn, does not cause CO2 intoxication nor oxygen deficiency.
The BBC’s claims are simply not true, as can be demonstrated simply by donning a mask for oneself, at which point all honest men and women will be forced to admit they most certainly do “inhibit your breathing” to some extent or another. And as for the Professor’s claim that “surgeons don’t get these problems,” this is simply not true either.
A “Preliminary report on surgical mask induced deoxygenation during major surgery” published in 2008 “revealed a decrease in the oxygen saturation of arterial pulsations (SpO2) and a slight increase in pulse rates compared to preoperative values in all surgeon groups,” in just the first hour of mask use.
“Given that a small decrease in SpO2 reflects a large decrease in partial pressure of oxygen in the arterial blood (PaO2)[R],” Dr. Meehan notes, “the findings of this study suggests that surgical masks worn more than one hour may lower arterial oxygen enough to induce physiologically detrimental effects.
Another pre-Covid era study found that N95s caused scientifically verifiable reductions in blood oxygen levels, which is probably the reason the propagandists have focused their energy instead mostly on disputing the so-called false claims that cloth and surgical masks specifically do the same.
This can be seen in a CTV propaganda piece published in June.
“The suggestion that wearing a face mask will decrease oxygen intake is simply false,” according to the referenced Canadian ‘expert’. “She said the public is being asked to wear face coverings that are breathable and looser fitting than the N95 respirators worn by health-care professionals,” CTV reported.
“These are loose-fitting masks. The air in front of them, and the air within the mask, is no different in terms of oxygen or carbon dioxide levels,” she explained. Gorfinkel said the mask may cause a difference in humidity in the air surrounding the face, but that won’t cause any harmful effects for the wearer.
This laughably nonsensical claim about the air being no different in and outside of a mask is demonstrably false, and can easily and repeatedly be shown to be so in just a few minutes with the right equipment.
Multiple people have put this theory to the test, consistently finding that ambient oxygen levels behind a mask were indeed significantly lower than those in the same location measured without a mask on. Notably, the oxygen levels measured behind a mask are well below OSHA’s pre-2020 minimum “safe” level for working environments (19.5%), and this ‘unsafe’ environment of oxygen deprivation (generally 17-18.5%) is created within a matter of seconds.
Videos shared across social media platforms documenting this reality have since been censored, and the claim that masks create an unsafe oxygen-deprived breathing environment have been dutifully ‘fact-checked’, and yet the truth remains. The ambient level of oxygen behind a mask is significantly lower than that measured in the exact same location without a mask on. To avoid the high levels of exhaled CO2 creating a false alarm and inaccurately skewed results, amateur researchers held the test tube at the side of their mouth, and our first example the alarm signaling low oxygen level sounds within seconds of the mask being put on.
https://youtu.be/QRmVLYrqQG0
In this second example, chosen to eradicate any potential ‘anti-mask’ bias, the experiment was conducted by a ‘pro-mask’ individual, who said he hoped his results would not be used to dissuade against mask use, and yet the results were largely the same, a low, previously admitted ‘unsafe’ oxygen level created behind the mask, reached within just 30 seconds.
https://youtu.be/sb5W-mG3ypc
In this second example, the individual did also test blood oxygen level at the same time, and the blood oxygen level didn’t immediately drop, however that does not negate the documented fact that the “air within the mask” is demonstrably “different in terms of oxygen or carbon dioxide levels,” and not in a healthy way, proving that the ‘experts’ are outright lying to us in their desperate bid to sell universal long-term masking to the public. Neither is this proof that long-term use doesn’t cause lower blood oxygen levels, only that it doesn’t immediately do so in the first 30 seconds of mask use when the ‘unsafe’ oxygen deprived breathing environment in front of your face is first created. It may, as the medical study previously looked at indicated, take at least an hour for such oxygen deprivation in the outer environment to effect the blood oxygen level within the user.
Lastly, you can view below a mirror of the original, now censored viral video posted by a state representative that sparked the wave of ‘fact-checks’ in response (also on BitChute here, in which oxygen levels behind three different types of masks - an ultra-thin cloth mask, a standard medical mask, and an N95 - all registered unsafe levels of oxygen deprivation ranging between 17-18% almost immediately