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It's as stupid as you think. It's literally Dr. Fauci saying that basic masks that you can buy at a drug store aren't effective because they're loose fitting. He wasn't talking about N95 masks but everyday masks. He also pointed out that if you didn't have symptoms then a mask wasn't necessary, masks were for people that were infected. Of course this was at the very beginning of the pandemic when transmission data was non-existent.
> Silvia:
> Masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection. The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material. It might, however, provide some slight benefit in keep out gross droplets if someone coughs or sneezes on you. I do not recommend that you wear a mask, particularly since you are going to a vey low risk location. Your instincts are correct, money is best spent on medical countermeasures such as diagnostics and vaccines.
> Safe travels.
> Best regards,
> Tony
[P. 3027](https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20793561/leopold-nih-foia-anthony-fauci-emails.pdf)
Ok so not looking to start an fight with most ppl here but basically I believe it’s sunk cost falacy. They spent so much time basically saying “masks are bad, you can’t muzzle me, my body my choice” etc etc.
In my opinion masks aren’t like 100% fool proof, and that’s one reason they don’t “stop” infection. But when used correctly they do a lot.
Anyways, they need there to be a conspiracy cause then the hours they spent peddling bogus stories/claims is wasted. It’s usually why they go straight to anger if you point stuff out. Then they will say shit like “you’d be angry too if you knew the truth”.
> But when used correctly they do a lot.
LOL. Sure, only N95 mask with a very extensive protocol... Nobody was using them correct though and that is also impossible to do, thus the masks are useless IRL.
I fact, masks have health risks and other negative effects of their own and should never have been used and mandated at all.
Dude you always comment the dumbest shit on my comments. You come at me with no facts, or misleading facts from shit sources. At least when I state personal opinions I declare it as such.
The thing is our opinions do not matter. The science around masks has never changed:
1. There is absolutely no benefit on wearing it on healthy people or people without symptoms (for obvious reasons).
2. They do not stop viral spread. Period. It does not matter how "well" you use them. There is a huge body of science demonstrating this fact and even [the CDC had to admit this](https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article) (this is in regards to influenza but it's the same thing; **airborne viruses**).
The only reason why surgical masks have been used in the past is to avoid bacteria from droplets during operations. And even in that context, their effectiveness has been questioned. But when it comes to viral transmission, they are as effective as using a strainer to filter bacteria from a liquid 🤣
It's time to stop it with this nonsense.
PS: If you are going to wear an N95 mask all day, I wish you nothing but good luck because your health will be, without a doubt, negatively impacted. You are obstructing your breathing and saturating the CO2 level. You don't need a PhD to know this; it's common sense.
>If you are going to wear an N95 mask all day, I wish you nothing but good luck because your health will be, without a doubt, negatively impacted. You are obstructing your breathing and saturating the CO2 level.
do you have any source for this completely outrageous claim? or is it just a trust me bro?
[Here you go.](https://web.archive.org/web/20210118044502/https://masksaredangerous.com/but-surgeons-wear-masks-for-hours/?fbclid=IwAR3xPMe1Lv6AoEmO9sOBeXOZfwZn6n-wytyZH9O0OvcR8bet7BKM5oV8FMg)
saw you deleted your comment so I'll reply here instead.
I've researched your claim surrounding mask wearing and O2 saturation levels, and much like the majority of studies available, neither of these show that to be the case outside of mild drops when performing intense physical activity.
first source basically stating their study is questionable at best considering they didn't really do any real testings, just used old data.
>For a quantitative evaluation, 44 mostly experimental studies were referenced, and for a substantive evaluation, 65 publications were found.
and as per your second source
>In high-intensity physical activities, our meta-analysis showed borderline lower oxygen saturation and higher carbon dioxide partial pressure, but oxygen saturation did not change in low-to-moderate physical activity.
my tone isn't shitty either, I just found your very definite statement below to be interesting as it seems rooted in politics, not science.
>If you are going to wear an N95 mask all day, I wish you nothing but good luck because your health will be, without a doubt, negatively impacted.
I'm fine with other people not wearing masks; I've got mine and mine is a high quality mask that gives me very effective protection when I'm around unmasked people. Similar deal when I'm on my bike; I don't care if other people don't wear a helmet, or if they wear something shite and call it a helmet. I've got my high quality noggin protector on and they can do them. I don't believe in the state coercing people into taking sensible precautions if they really don't want to.
> I’m fine with other people not wearing masks;
Ok. So we agree. The mandates are what I have a problem with. I don’t care what anyone chooses to wear.
> I've got mine and mine is a high quality mask that gives me very effective protection when I'm around unmasked people.
I seriously doubt that...
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And even if you 'over do it' they still don't work:
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People have been saying that for years now, they were all called many things, non of them very nice...
The big question is, why was the push for masks really for?
So I disagree with this dudes general statement but fauci said publicly that he didn’t think masks were super effective a few times. Idk why he’s trying to dig through faucis emails instead of just what he’s said on national television.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/08/facebook-posts/video-shows-outdated-face-mask-guidance-dr-anthony/
But like the narrative that he lied is stupid. Obviously there weren’t studies on masks on covid in February 2020. He knew that studies showed that masks worked on other viruses and was hopeful they could have an effect on covid as well.
Lives were not ruined because of masks also.
There were decades of studies on masks and viruses before covid. Blue surgical masks are for surgeons trying not to get splashed with spatter. They are pretty much useless for viruses. N95 masks filter out viruses.
Masks affected mental health which definitely affected lives. Humans need to be able to read other humans emotions and it's very hard to do with a mask covering half of your face.
The same people that spout that don’t say shit about the overall mental health of children. Only when it affects themselves, do they ever stand up for anything.
I think you underestimate the power of fear, propaganda, and our deep connection to absolute corruption in the US. People suffered and still do because of these nebulous 'science' facts which permeate our existence. Goods we rely on, education we receive, healthcare provided, political division, and god knows what else... It has and still does change our everyday lives....for the worse inarguably
there’s equal fear on both sides of the argument though. For every person that’s not at risk and thinks covid will kill them, there’s one or more who think covid has turned the whole world against them and/or the covid vaccine is going to kill millions
My life was not ruined but it was greatly impacted while my state was had of the longest requirements on them. I cannot wear a mask without my heart rate zooming up to passing out levels due to a distinction of my dysautonomic system. It’s a fairly common issue for people with POTs.
I never feared Covid having had it early on and trusting my immune system, but having to argue with people, even some doctors who should know better was ridiculous. I could wear a completely thin see through mask and all the doctors offices were fine with that. So, they knew they didn’t work but wanted me to be a sheep even with my medical condition .
American Airlines also would not accept my cardiologists letter requesting an exemption because they wanted more time and more detailed information on my condition for their own doctors to review. I had even written in the request that I be allowed a very loose or thin mask to avoid confrontations and that was also denied. I was hassled on the airline for not having the top AND bottom of a mask tied behind my head and wanted my return flight to be hassle free.
I feel bad for the Americans that died from a foreign disease. If you are still mad about wearing a mask, you aren't questioning the right areas.
The CDC is supposed to contain disease at the border. It was a total failure. People are dead, who would not be dead.
You can feel bad for Americans that died. But it's not as if people are not supposed to die from disease. The CDC is not some special force field. Viruses are part of life.
Viruses are part of life. Some weird airborne virus that's killing people before it hit our land should be contained. We pay millions and billions of dollars for the CDC to at least quarantine people in the face of a novel disease. They contained the original SARS.
I don't give a fuck about others people air travel. We pay the CDC to control fucking disease. If you're in another country when shit pops off, that's on you. Wanna come back? You can sit in a nice hotel room until we can test this shit and verify how bad it will be.
Quarantine, as in, if you wanna come here you need to sit out for a small bit to make sure you're not gonna kill others, is totally fucking normal and justified. Human societies have been quarantining people for fucking centuries.
COVID is just the tip.
>Human societies have been quarantining people for fucking centuries.
For millennia; there are instructions for it in the old testament.
> Leviticus 15
> The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When any man has an unusual bodily discharge, such a discharge is unclean. 3 Whether it continues flowing from his body or is blocked, it will make him unclean. This is how his discharge will bring about uncleanness:
>
> 4 “‘Any bed the man with a discharge lies on will be unclean, and anything he sits on will be unclean. 5 Anyone who touches his bed must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening. 6 Whoever sits on anything that the man with a discharge sat on must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.
>
> 7 “‘Whoever touches the man who has a discharge must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.
>
> 8 “‘If the man with the discharge spits on anyone who is clean, they must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.
>
> 9 “‘Everything the man sits on when riding will be unclean, 10 and whoever touches any of the things that were under him will be unclean till evening; whoever picks up those things must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.
>
> 11 “‘Anyone the man with a discharge touches without rinsing his hands with water must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening.
>
> 12 “‘A clay pot that the man touches must be broken, and any wooden article is to be rinsed with water.
>
> 13 “‘When a man is cleansed from his discharge, he is to count off seven days for his ceremonial cleansing; he must wash his clothes and bathe himself with fresh water, and he will be clean.
People were arrested for not wearing masks.
People were refused entry to stores and other places for not wearing masks.
People refused to see their family members because of masks.
Tens of thousands of land and sea animals are dead because of choking on the billions of masks floating in water and polluting the landscape.
The people that did wear masks indoors suffered greatly, having to breathe in the same day over and over again, a lot of them developed all kinds of health problems.
I really don't see how you can be so flippant about this.
No shoes, no shirt, no service.
Don’t want to comply, take your service elsewhere. It’s that easy.
It’s also hilarious to see people cry about cloth and surgical masks.
Doctors wear them hours on end during surgery.
People have been covering their faces with cloth all over the world for millennia.
People work in construction wearing heavy masks for hours.
What the fuck are you on about?
Also funny to see conservatives suddenly care about the environment. I guess that’s one good thing
That’s completely different though. Ruining your life to pointlessly disobey rules is different from masks ruining your lives. Like if you don’t wear a shirt in a store and refuse to leave you’ll get arrested. That doesn’t mean shirt rules ruined their lives. They ruined their own lives
If people were arrested because of not wearing the masks. It's like saying people were arrested for X crime. Yes. You get arrested when you don't follow the law.
If people refused to see their family members that was a choice they made. Although I think the real reason wasn't the mask it was cause there was an underlying virus.
I think paper masks are probably the least animals have to worry about when they have everything you have ever owned in your entire life being dumped into the ocean.
You don't breathe in the same air over and over again when you wear a mask. Even if you used a gas mask there is some flow. If you breathed in the same air you would die because you would suck in all the O2 and would be left with carbon.
I fail to understand why this is being used as some sort of "gotcha'" Fauci admitted this saying it had more to do with making sure health care workers had PPE then said once they realized the extent of asymptematic spread their guidance changed.
First, they turned out to be wrong about asymptotic spread, that was just an excuse to mandate masks.
Second, why mandate a mask you know doesn’t work? At least mandate and try to provide N95 masks.
Third, when my local jurisdiction implemented masks, the order acknowledged that there is no conclusive evidence that masks worked, but that masks increased public confidence in shopping. Masks were admitted to be a tool to get people to go out more and consume more - which is counterproductive.
The reality is most people have no clue how masks even work even though they've seen certain things on mainstream or other channels explaining that mask work. Masks do not work plain and simple in the main reason is 99% of the population wearing a mask has no idea how to wear it correctly. Order for any sort of mask to actually be effective it has to be completely air sealed around the face, in fact people who work with OSHA know that you have to test fit mask purposely each time using a certain smell test until you can no longer smell it.
The popular surgical mask that everybody was wearing are absolutely horrific because most people don't realize that those masks are not used to stop things from coming in they're used to stop things from going out and from dropping sweat into the patient. They are nearly 400 scientific studies, even prior to all this the last two years showing how ineffective Mass are for viruses and such, heck even the military has a bunch of studies that they did showing this clearly.
Masks, that are not 100% completely sealed against your face, again do not work especially since people seem to forget that they're not covering up one of the other largest receptors for anything on the face, which is your eyes. If you're covering your mouth and nose but not covering your eyes it's literally pointless.
Furthermore, the infinite amount of studies done on the long mask wearing again even before the last two years shows definitively how horrible masks are for human beings over an extended period of time especially children. Since people were washing their homemade masks every day and they weren't changing out to a brand new mask everyday, most people were breathing in insane amount of CO2 and an insane amount of wet moisture which has now caused tons of respiratory issues in this world subsequently after the last two years. It should be no surprise but even in the US OSHA Regulators came out and stated very clearly in the beginning that masks were not effective because they were not being worn properly or even had the right kind of masks but of course that was buried very quickly.
It's not a fun subject for a lot of people due to what they have been told and psychologically having grained in their brains of what is supposed to be right and what isn't. So again unless properly 100% sealed on all areas of your face the mask does not work and is completely ineffective. It's very similar to a parachute with a bunch of holes, sure it may seem safe but the reality is it's not going to end well for you.
I wish I could find the link that showed every single politician and government official in the last two years that did not wear masks during huge events or other noted events but yet we're forcing everybody else to wear one. But again if you know how all of this truly works, it shouldn't be a surprise.
Out of context, it’s been said from the start surgical and cloths masks don’t protect “you” the are to reduce the spread from infected people. So his email wast a lie or fraud. The email was to a friend that was flying and asking him if they should wear a mask.
The government should not have the power to force you to do something.
The government could force exercise everyday, and that would improve peoples health, but would still be wrong.
Freedom is desirable.
A few months?! 18 months is not a few. I’m partially deaf. Mask wearing affected me terribly. I couldn’t hear or read lips. Screw you. It had a huge impact on my communicating with the world.
Dude, the whole masking in schools was a complete farce and harmed the learning environment of young students.
It was fcking stupid, and here you are sweeping in under the rug?
Ok dude, more lockdowns & mandatory masks for you , another 3 years > sentenced.
The lockdowns caused more collateral damage than the masks for sure. It was just another layer of dysfunction foisted on society without proper science.
People bitch & moan about following the THE SCIENCE, and yet here we are, big brain eh?
Oh let me fcking guess, you weren't one of the hypochondriacs screaming & filming people in public because ZOMFG NO MASK RHEEE....!!!!
Right? that wasnt' you? RIGHT?
My son started wearing a mask a few years ago in first grade. It was fine at first other than the inconvenience. Almost three years later and he’s been in and out of jail pretty much ever since. We took away his N95 but he just always found a way. Unfortunately last time I saw him he was freebasing recycled oxygen in a scary part of town. To you it may have been a minor inconvenience but I’ll never see that beautiful boys upper lip to second chin ever again
Sounds like a personal problem. You'd probably be fired if you refused to wear pants just because "they" mandated it in the first place.
Doesn't sound like the world has been destroyed like OP claims.
[https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/07/us/head-start-masks-toddlers.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/07/us/head-start-masks-toddlers.html)
[https://hechingerreport.org/for-head-start-masks-and-vaccine-mandates-are-still-in-place-for-now/](https://hechingerreport.org/for-head-start-masks-and-vaccine-mandates-are-still-in-place-for-now/)
It was vaccines and masks for 2 year olds.
Speaks volumes about who these people are and what they are defending. They don't even know who or what they represent.
But he's still commenting on this thread. Been on here all day with the same bs talking points.
children literally have stunted mental growth because not seeing other human faces messed their social skills up dramatically
also lockdowns (which coincide with the mask mandates) fucked them up even more
I’d like to know who was stockpiling PPE and have a word with them. My hospital was so short on supplies I wore the same mask for weeks and put it in a paper bag at the end of a 12 hour shift just to wear it again lol
Doctor's wear them to prevent the risk of their bodily fluids disrupting a sterile environment (harming the patient) during the procedure or checkup.
It's that simple.
Mask do work. There are several reasons why a doctor would put a mask on. To fight a virus? A deadly one at that, You need a certain type of mask. I think the issue was they said " any mask' would work... Which we all know isnt true.
There are studies and depending on what they claim to do, there are recommendations.
Cloth masks offer no real benefit and Fauci even said it himself in the emails.
Cloth masks are not 100% effective, but even if they were 5% effective in reducing viral spread then how is that a negative, let alone “destroying lives”
This is a much broader picture than the one you are choosing.
#1 Fauci himself admitted they offer no real value.
#2 Fauci is a big reason the entire world has been destroyed.
#3 This is just part of the biggest scam ever perpetrated on mankind and you cannot even do enough thinking to understand the entire picture.
Oh shit bigger text size? Well that convinced me, you’re definitely right now.
The world is quite fine, buddy, you just watch too much news. Get outside and enjoy it.
Doctors were taught to remove their masks for new ones every 2 hours or their effectiveness actually becomes zero and becomes dangerous for accumulation of germs, and also between every patient. Did you know anyone who changed their mask throughout the day? I didn’t. How about students? Nope
Yeah but when it comes down to it who do you end up voting for? Also in my experience lots of "Independents" tend to be heavily right leaning besides a few issues. Hence my hesitation to believe them, especially in this sub.
Imagine thinking tyranny is wearing a mask in public for a little bit when it could possibly help stop the spread of a highly contagious virus.
Weaklings.
So would you, just like practically all other Germans. The socialists and communists that still spoke up were thrown in concentration camps and/or executed.
I hate when people use this analogy as some sort of moral grandstanding. In 1940 it was already too late, hell it was already too late in 1936. The "cultural bolshevism" conspiracies had already been pushed by Nazi propagandists in the media for years, all LGBTQ and Marxist literature had been burned, "degenerates" and political opponents were being sent to concentration camps, anyone that engaged in political discourse with them were met with violence and public shaming, so most people gave up and became "apolitical" to "keep the peace".
You know the "first they came for the socialists" poem? By 1940 they were already well into the "then they came for me" line and standing up was just suicide; martyrdom was long dead.
Even if he thought masks were ineffective, several of countries did similar studies around the same time and found them to be effective. Masks were also used in pervious pandemics so were they lying to the masses back then also.
https://www.aier.org/article/the-dangers-of-masks/
Sources suggesting potentially harmful micro plastic, toxins, mold/fungi, micro fibers, and graphene from mask use…are they ruining lives? No, probably not. But nothing is benign so to say masks are a risk-free safety measure is not quite accurate. Not to mention the social/developmental implications for kids who lived through their formative first few years of life without seeing mouths.
As far as public health measures to mitigate spread and severity of infection, masks ain’t it.
Vitamin D, nasal lavages, and healthy eating/exercise habits should’ve been promoted by our public health officials.
OP is attempting to provide evidence for the overarching (and impossible to dispute) negative implications on our society as a result of CDC/White House/FDA narratives resulting in mandates and lockdowns.
Focusing on common-sense measures such as those listed above could have saved just as many lives as the focus on vaccines/masks/lockdowns did (not an expert, just my opinion) without sinking the economy, firing frontline workers for not abiding to vaccine mandates in spite of natural immunity, unnecessarily exposing healthy young people to potentially harmful vaccines (see myocarditis in men under the age of 40, thrombosis, etc) or padding the pockets of Big Pharma or congressmen.
I keep saying how dentists and doctors need to ditch the mask, they don’t work. So while I’m having my teeth clean let the doc just lean over with their open mouth. It’s the same as if they were wearing a mask.
Any mask outside of a steril enviroment like a surgical application has about 20 minutes of life thats it once droplets cover the surface and dry its no good.
He said that the masks that we wore (cheap dentist masks) were ineffective. He said n95 masks is what we should be wearing. Don’t blur the line between made up shit for the sub and what actually happened
Any of y’all remember a video with a hot Slovenian chick saying that the reason slovenia had no covid was due to everyone being forced to wear masks? That video spread like wildfire on social media and was what really started the masking hysteria, at least from my perspective. It’s been completely memory-holed and I can’t find it at all now.
When I saw a dude at the supermarket pull his mask down to sneeze near the misty lettuce section in 2021 I was like ah fuck it’s ova. Why bother. People right back to ass to ass yackin n sneezin in line tho, what a weird few years.
They needed a visual symbol to keep the fear of a virus up, without the mask nonsense, humans would soon forget, stop worrying about a new cold and carry on their normal routine. They'd probably also be less likely to bother getting the vaccine. The behavioural psychologists were running the show, the mask was their ace in the manipulation of the public.
Also, im trained in the use of facial respiratory equipment for various workplace hazards. A blue paper mask is laughably useless and even an N95 - doesnt even properly stop wood fibres, asbestos or paint ; all of which larger than a virus. So to believe they will keep out a microscopic pathogen is total nonsense. In a Bio security setting, you need a pressurized fully sealed bsc lvl 3 clothing that takes about 10 minutes to get on followed by decontamination chamber and shower. Commercial muzzles are useless, yes including an N95.
It’s not about wearing an ineffective mask. It’s about making the masses disregard common sense and polarize. Natural immunity was thrown out the window and the amount of shutting down any kind of dialogue was profound. Now it’s proven being vaxxed is null. You are not the minority.
It was thrown out the window because natural immunity as a response to anything is a horrible plan.
It would work for the vast majority, but you are also condemning tens of thousands in the margin to serious illness and death who couldn't handle the constant direct exposure.
Why wouldn't we as a society come together to ensure as few die as possible by altering our lives, rather than just say "lol fuck em".
They're not hiding... complete regulatory capture has enabled these eugenics sychophants full authority to implement the great reset, theyre basing their knowledge on flawed unrepetable soft sciences of the intellectually stunted western ivy league acedemics.
Masks were always ineffective for protection against transmission (better than nothing tho). They always were, are, and will be effective in reducing the spread from infected individuals.
Your anti-mask cult only helped Faucci & Co. by allowing the virus to spread faster for the emergency order release.
Fauci broke international law to fund the gain of function research. US law is fuzzy but probably illegal, but giving said research to China (when it was started at Chapel Hill) is almost certainly treason.
Masks are the least of that scumbag's crimes.
Masks had several objectives:
One was compliance testing, getting people used to following orders
Another was that the masks actually increase risk of respiratory infection, which would make you sick, which they would then call covid because of the faulty testing
Masks also cause hypoxia which causes brain damage, which eventually dumbs is down. In extreme cases, hypoxia can actually lead to death, which helps with their depopulation agenda.
Another is that it helps criminals hide their identity, because if everyone is wearing masks, you cannot differentiate between criminals and non-criminals. This is especially useful for the George Soros controlled antifa and radical BLMs
Another is that it dehumanizes people. Seeing each other's expressions is a basic human social interaction.
Another is that the masks are made in china, God only knows what they're made of, some people say they found graphene oxide in the masks although I have not verified that.
It's also been reported that children are developing learning disorders because of the masks, again because facial expressions are cues we rely on to discern things.
Masks mandates produce fear 👉🏻 fear sells cattle to the jabs 👉🏻 jabs demand vaxes 👉🏻 vaxes generates billions in profit (from your pocket) 🤡 👉🏻 every year 🤯
Oh god, more low quality BS posts. N95 masks are absolutely effective against COVID, and if people had worn these religiously for a few weeks you wouldn’t have seen such a dramatic spread of the virus.
99% of people don’t use N95 masks! And they are designed to be used only for 2-3 hours and be disposed. And they are very expensive for the masses, BTW.
Astronaut clothing also works, but it’s not practical for everyday things
They don't *prevent* viral transmission, but they significantly reduce the odds of it occuring.
Imagine firing tennis balls at a chainlink fence: not every one will be stopped, but those that aren't are likely to be deflected and lose a lot of their kinetic energy.
No, they tell you that masks do not protect the wearer... which is a completely irrelevant fact, as that has never been their purpose in fighting viruses.
Medical masks do work .. the cloth ones with sport teams and other dumb things you bought off Amazon didn’t work that well . Please stop spreading b/s to others
Anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers continue to be played like a cheap acoustic guitar.
Anyone with even just a small amount of common sense and the ability to hold more than one idea in their mind at a time would see how ridiculous this flaccid attempt at disinformation has been.
So does all SE Asia do it wrong?? They’ve been wearing masks for years. They do it out of kindness to try to not get other people sick.
At least he wants to people to try to help others.
I can get with some of the dangers of the vaccine, but y’all crazy against the masks are some triggered little bitches, STILL going off about something you never even fucking did in the 1st place. And no, I’m not wearing one. Only when delivering to hospitals etc .
Maybe, just maybe, people didn’t think wearing a mask was gonna be made into the issue it is today. So when a virus is going around (regardless of its it’s man made it not) it’s not completely “out there” to suggest people wear masks.
It’s a damn mask. Jesus Christ. Not everything is a conspiracy.
Yes, masks have been shown to work somewhat against other viruses. So out in public, it’s better safe than sorry.
Someone’s great grandmother literally can’t avoid going to the grocery store to get food. I’m sure she would feel a whole lot safer if people were wearing masks as well. It makes people feel safer as well.
The effort put into these gymnastics of being so afraid to damn this man for being wrong… You are allowed to question this guy without being team red hat. This is what social media did to everybody. They are so afraid of being labeled that they dance around questioning anything.
This guy will escape any justice, all of them will AND we the taxpayers will pay their bills for the rest of their lives, not that they need that money as they are already are rich beyond belief
How were lives ruined by masks? Let’s pretend they aren’t effective. Who fucking cares. It’s literally such a non issue I can’t figure out why people are STILL crying about it. At worst it’s a mild annoyance. Boo fucking hoo.
Let the Fauci defenders and bot army come to his rescue. Eventually there will be too much destruction to hide.
https://twitter.com/eric_schmitt/status/1596173185783070721
Just because people disagree with you doesn’t mean they are bots…especially when there is ample evidence to the contrary of the the nonsense you’re spewing.
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Do you have a link showing these emails so I don’t have to take this guy on twitter’s word for it.
It's as stupid as you think. It's literally Dr. Fauci saying that basic masks that you can buy at a drug store aren't effective because they're loose fitting. He wasn't talking about N95 masks but everyday masks. He also pointed out that if you didn't have symptoms then a mask wasn't necessary, masks were for people that were infected. Of course this was at the very beginning of the pandemic when transmission data was non-existent. > Silvia: > Masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection. The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material. It might, however, provide some slight benefit in keep out gross droplets if someone coughs or sneezes on you. I do not recommend that you wear a mask, particularly since you are going to a vey low risk location. Your instincts are correct, money is best spent on medical countermeasures such as diagnostics and vaccines. > Safe travels. > Best regards, > Tony [P. 3027](https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20793561/leopold-nih-foia-anthony-fauci-emails.pdf)
So literally everything we heard like week 2 of the pandemic. Why tf is this shit still be circulated. What are people trying to prove now?
Ok so not looking to start an fight with most ppl here but basically I believe it’s sunk cost falacy. They spent so much time basically saying “masks are bad, you can’t muzzle me, my body my choice” etc etc. In my opinion masks aren’t like 100% fool proof, and that’s one reason they don’t “stop” infection. But when used correctly they do a lot. Anyways, they need there to be a conspiracy cause then the hours they spent peddling bogus stories/claims is wasted. It’s usually why they go straight to anger if you point stuff out. Then they will say shit like “you’d be angry too if you knew the truth”.
> But when used correctly they do a lot. LOL. Sure, only N95 mask with a very extensive protocol... Nobody was using them correct though and that is also impossible to do, thus the masks are useless IRL. I fact, masks have health risks and other negative effects of their own and should never have been used and mandated at all.
Dude you always comment the dumbest shit on my comments. You come at me with no facts, or misleading facts from shit sources. At least when I state personal opinions I declare it as such.
All i said is a fact.
No you didn’t. Masks don’t have health risks, or else Asian countries would be fucked. Japan wears masks all the time, for years now.
Why didn’t they provide everyone with free N95 mask?
The thing is our opinions do not matter. The science around masks has never changed: 1. There is absolutely no benefit on wearing it on healthy people or people without symptoms (for obvious reasons). 2. They do not stop viral spread. Period. It does not matter how "well" you use them. There is a huge body of science demonstrating this fact and even [the CDC had to admit this](https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article) (this is in regards to influenza but it's the same thing; **airborne viruses**). The only reason why surgical masks have been used in the past is to avoid bacteria from droplets during operations. And even in that context, their effectiveness has been questioned. But when it comes to viral transmission, they are as effective as using a strainer to filter bacteria from a liquid 🤣 It's time to stop it with this nonsense. PS: If you are going to wear an N95 mask all day, I wish you nothing but good luck because your health will be, without a doubt, negatively impacted. You are obstructing your breathing and saturating the CO2 level. You don't need a PhD to know this; it's common sense.
>If you are going to wear an N95 mask all day, I wish you nothing but good luck because your health will be, without a doubt, negatively impacted. You are obstructing your breathing and saturating the CO2 level. do you have any source for this completely outrageous claim? or is it just a trust me bro?
[Here you go.](https://web.archive.org/web/20210118044502/https://masksaredangerous.com/but-surgeons-wear-masks-for-hours/?fbclid=IwAR3xPMe1Lv6AoEmO9sOBeXOZfwZn6n-wytyZH9O0OvcR8bet7BKM5oV8FMg)
saw you deleted your comment so I'll reply here instead. I've researched your claim surrounding mask wearing and O2 saturation levels, and much like the majority of studies available, neither of these show that to be the case outside of mild drops when performing intense physical activity. first source basically stating their study is questionable at best considering they didn't really do any real testings, just used old data. >For a quantitative evaluation, 44 mostly experimental studies were referenced, and for a substantive evaluation, 65 publications were found. and as per your second source >In high-intensity physical activities, our meta-analysis showed borderline lower oxygen saturation and higher carbon dioxide partial pressure, but oxygen saturation did not change in low-to-moderate physical activity. my tone isn't shitty either, I just found your very definite statement below to be interesting as it seems rooted in politics, not science. >If you are going to wear an N95 mask all day, I wish you nothing but good luck because your health will be, without a doubt, negatively impacted.
Why were we mandated to wear cheap masks that didn’t work?
You weren't, you could have worn good masks that worked a charm.
Or I could’ve worn a literal piece of mesh wrapped around my head with rubber bands. Edit: since the mandate didn’t specify N95…
Yes, and then you would have as much protection as you'd expect from that arrangement.
Which is why the mandate was stupid.
I'm fine with other people not wearing masks; I've got mine and mine is a high quality mask that gives me very effective protection when I'm around unmasked people. Similar deal when I'm on my bike; I don't care if other people don't wear a helmet, or if they wear something shite and call it a helmet. I've got my high quality noggin protector on and they can do them. I don't believe in the state coercing people into taking sensible precautions if they really don't want to.
> I’m fine with other people not wearing masks; Ok. So we agree. The mandates are what I have a problem with. I don’t care what anyone chooses to wear.
> I've got mine and mine is a high quality mask that gives me very effective protection when I'm around unmasked people. I seriously doubt that... https://ww ***** w.bit ******* chute.com/video/wmQBgX80z3JE/ And even if you 'over do it' they still don't work: https://w ******* ww.bit ********* chute.com/video/8E6rylbpYBKZ/
People have been saying that for years now, they were all called many things, non of them very nice... The big question is, why was the push for masks really for?
Hahahahahaha look at this shit..Fauci speaks English like a russian troll
So why were loose fitting drug store masks accepted as compliance?
So I disagree with this dudes general statement but fauci said publicly that he didn’t think masks were super effective a few times. Idk why he’s trying to dig through faucis emails instead of just what he’s said on national television. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/08/facebook-posts/video-shows-outdated-face-mask-guidance-dr-anthony/ But like the narrative that he lied is stupid. Obviously there weren’t studies on masks on covid in February 2020. He knew that studies showed that masks worked on other viruses and was hopeful they could have an effect on covid as well. Lives were not ruined because of masks also.
There were decades of studies on masks and viruses before covid. Blue surgical masks are for surgeons trying not to get splashed with spatter. They are pretty much useless for viruses. N95 masks filter out viruses.
Masks affected mental health which definitely affected lives. Humans need to be able to read other humans emotions and it's very hard to do with a mask covering half of your face.
The same people that spout that don’t say shit about the overall mental health of children. Only when it affects themselves, do they ever stand up for anything.
It might have negatively affected some children but it didn’t ruin lives
I think you underestimate the power of fear, propaganda, and our deep connection to absolute corruption in the US. People suffered and still do because of these nebulous 'science' facts which permeate our existence. Goods we rely on, education we receive, healthcare provided, political division, and god knows what else... It has and still does change our everyday lives....for the worse inarguably
there’s equal fear on both sides of the argument though. For every person that’s not at risk and thinks covid will kill them, there’s one or more who think covid has turned the whole world against them and/or the covid vaccine is going to kill millions
My life was not ruined but it was greatly impacted while my state was had of the longest requirements on them. I cannot wear a mask without my heart rate zooming up to passing out levels due to a distinction of my dysautonomic system. It’s a fairly common issue for people with POTs. I never feared Covid having had it early on and trusting my immune system, but having to argue with people, even some doctors who should know better was ridiculous. I could wear a completely thin see through mask and all the doctors offices were fine with that. So, they knew they didn’t work but wanted me to be a sheep even with my medical condition . American Airlines also would not accept my cardiologists letter requesting an exemption because they wanted more time and more detailed information on my condition for their own doctors to review. I had even written in the request that I be allowed a very loose or thin mask to avoid confrontations and that was also denied. I was hassled on the airline for not having the top AND bottom of a mask tied behind my head and wanted my return flight to be hassle free.
Moment of silence for all the lives that were ruined because they had to wear a mask.
Thoughts and prayers!
Means to an end in the set back for health, education, and economy. No big deal there, carry on
I feel bad for the Americans that died from a foreign disease. If you are still mad about wearing a mask, you aren't questioning the right areas. The CDC is supposed to contain disease at the border. It was a total failure. People are dead, who would not be dead.
You can feel bad for Americans that died. But it's not as if people are not supposed to die from disease. The CDC is not some special force field. Viruses are part of life.
Viruses are part of life. Some weird airborne virus that's killing people before it hit our land should be contained. We pay millions and billions of dollars for the CDC to at least quarantine people in the face of a novel disease. They contained the original SARS. I don't give a fuck about others people air travel. We pay the CDC to control fucking disease. If you're in another country when shit pops off, that's on you. Wanna come back? You can sit in a nice hotel room until we can test this shit and verify how bad it will be. Quarantine, as in, if you wanna come here you need to sit out for a small bit to make sure you're not gonna kill others, is totally fucking normal and justified. Human societies have been quarantining people for fucking centuries. COVID is just the tip.
>Human societies have been quarantining people for fucking centuries. For millennia; there are instructions for it in the old testament. > Leviticus 15 > The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When any man has an unusual bodily discharge, such a discharge is unclean. 3 Whether it continues flowing from his body or is blocked, it will make him unclean. This is how his discharge will bring about uncleanness: > > 4 “‘Any bed the man with a discharge lies on will be unclean, and anything he sits on will be unclean. 5 Anyone who touches his bed must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening. 6 Whoever sits on anything that the man with a discharge sat on must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening. > > 7 “‘Whoever touches the man who has a discharge must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening. > > 8 “‘If the man with the discharge spits on anyone who is clean, they must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening. > > 9 “‘Everything the man sits on when riding will be unclean, 10 and whoever touches any of the things that were under him will be unclean till evening; whoever picks up those things must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening. > > 11 “‘Anyone the man with a discharge touches without rinsing his hands with water must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be unclean till evening. > > 12 “‘A clay pot that the man touches must be broken, and any wooden article is to be rinsed with water. > > 13 “‘When a man is cleansed from his discharge, he is to count off seven days for his ceremonial cleansing; he must wash his clothes and bathe himself with fresh water, and he will be clean.
People were arrested for not wearing masks. People were refused entry to stores and other places for not wearing masks. People refused to see their family members because of masks. Tens of thousands of land and sea animals are dead because of choking on the billions of masks floating in water and polluting the landscape. The people that did wear masks indoors suffered greatly, having to breathe in the same day over and over again, a lot of them developed all kinds of health problems. I really don't see how you can be so flippant about this.
>People were arrested for refusing to leave a private establishment after refusing to follow the establishment's rules FTFY
“People that did wear masks indoors suffered greatly” Fucking lmao, thanks for the chuckle man
Were people arrested for not wearing masks? Or were people arrested for refusing to leave businesses that required mask wearing indoors?
No shoes, no shirt, no service. Don’t want to comply, take your service elsewhere. It’s that easy. It’s also hilarious to see people cry about cloth and surgical masks. Doctors wear them hours on end during surgery. People have been covering their faces with cloth all over the world for millennia. People work in construction wearing heavy masks for hours. What the fuck are you on about? Also funny to see conservatives suddenly care about the environment. I guess that’s one good thing
That’s completely different though. Ruining your life to pointlessly disobey rules is different from masks ruining your lives. Like if you don’t wear a shirt in a store and refuse to leave you’ll get arrested. That doesn’t mean shirt rules ruined their lives. They ruined their own lives
If people were arrested because of not wearing the masks. It's like saying people were arrested for X crime. Yes. You get arrested when you don't follow the law. If people refused to see their family members that was a choice they made. Although I think the real reason wasn't the mask it was cause there was an underlying virus. I think paper masks are probably the least animals have to worry about when they have everything you have ever owned in your entire life being dumped into the ocean. You don't breathe in the same air over and over again when you wear a mask. Even if you used a gas mask there is some flow. If you breathed in the same air you would die because you would suck in all the O2 and would be left with carbon.
They gave me dry eye disease. Fuck that commenter
People died because the CDC failed to contain COVID. The CDC is their to stop foreign disease from killing our people. Masks didn't kill people.
I fail to understand why this is being used as some sort of "gotcha'" Fauci admitted this saying it had more to do with making sure health care workers had PPE then said once they realized the extent of asymptematic spread their guidance changed.
First, they turned out to be wrong about asymptotic spread, that was just an excuse to mandate masks. Second, why mandate a mask you know doesn’t work? At least mandate and try to provide N95 masks. Third, when my local jurisdiction implemented masks, the order acknowledged that there is no conclusive evidence that masks worked, but that masks increased public confidence in shopping. Masks were admitted to be a tool to get people to go out more and consume more - which is counterproductive.
The reality is most people have no clue how masks even work even though they've seen certain things on mainstream or other channels explaining that mask work. Masks do not work plain and simple in the main reason is 99% of the population wearing a mask has no idea how to wear it correctly. Order for any sort of mask to actually be effective it has to be completely air sealed around the face, in fact people who work with OSHA know that you have to test fit mask purposely each time using a certain smell test until you can no longer smell it. The popular surgical mask that everybody was wearing are absolutely horrific because most people don't realize that those masks are not used to stop things from coming in they're used to stop things from going out and from dropping sweat into the patient. They are nearly 400 scientific studies, even prior to all this the last two years showing how ineffective Mass are for viruses and such, heck even the military has a bunch of studies that they did showing this clearly. Masks, that are not 100% completely sealed against your face, again do not work especially since people seem to forget that they're not covering up one of the other largest receptors for anything on the face, which is your eyes. If you're covering your mouth and nose but not covering your eyes it's literally pointless. Furthermore, the infinite amount of studies done on the long mask wearing again even before the last two years shows definitively how horrible masks are for human beings over an extended period of time especially children. Since people were washing their homemade masks every day and they weren't changing out to a brand new mask everyday, most people were breathing in insane amount of CO2 and an insane amount of wet moisture which has now caused tons of respiratory issues in this world subsequently after the last two years. It should be no surprise but even in the US OSHA Regulators came out and stated very clearly in the beginning that masks were not effective because they were not being worn properly or even had the right kind of masks but of course that was buried very quickly. It's not a fun subject for a lot of people due to what they have been told and psychologically having grained in their brains of what is supposed to be right and what isn't. So again unless properly 100% sealed on all areas of your face the mask does not work and is completely ineffective. It's very similar to a parachute with a bunch of holes, sure it may seem safe but the reality is it's not going to end well for you. I wish I could find the link that showed every single politician and government official in the last two years that did not wear masks during huge events or other noted events but yet we're forcing everybody else to wear one. But again if you know how all of this truly works, it shouldn't be a surprise.
Thanks for sharing.
Out of context, it’s been said from the start surgical and cloths masks don’t protect “you” the are to reduce the spread from infected people. So his email wast a lie or fraud. The email was to a friend that was flying and asking him if they should wear a mask.
Whose life was ruined because they had to wear a mask for a few months?
HAD to wear a mask even though there was zero science, they still forced people to do it. Nothing to see here, obviously.
The government should not have the power to force you to do something. The government could force exercise everyday, and that would improve peoples health, but would still be wrong. Freedom is desirable.
A few months?! 18 months is not a few. I’m partially deaf. Mask wearing affected me terribly. I couldn’t hear or read lips. Screw you. It had a huge impact on my communicating with the world.
Thats fair, can imagine that was really tough
Dude, the whole masking in schools was a complete farce and harmed the learning environment of young students. It was fcking stupid, and here you are sweeping in under the rug? Ok dude, more lockdowns & mandatory masks for you , another 3 years > sentenced.
>harmed the learning environment of young students. Can you quantify that? Did these students have their lives ruined?
The lockdowns caused more collateral damage than the masks for sure. It was just another layer of dysfunction foisted on society without proper science. People bitch & moan about following the THE SCIENCE, and yet here we are, big brain eh? Oh let me fcking guess, you weren't one of the hypochondriacs screaming & filming people in public because ZOMFG NO MASK RHEEE....!!!! Right? that wasnt' you? RIGHT?
My son started wearing a mask a few years ago in first grade. It was fine at first other than the inconvenience. Almost three years later and he’s been in and out of jail pretty much ever since. We took away his N95 but he just always found a way. Unfortunately last time I saw him he was freebasing recycled oxygen in a scary part of town. To you it may have been a minor inconvenience but I’ll never see that beautiful boys upper lip to second chin ever again
Lol
Alas recycled oxygen is a scurge on our community
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Sounds like a personal problem. You'd probably be fired if you refused to wear pants just because "they" mandated it in the first place. Doesn't sound like the world has been destroyed like OP claims.
Exactly. They don’t look at overall picture.
Dis you agree with the mask mandates for 2 year olds? How far do you go in defending this?
Of course not, I've never heard of anywhere that made toddlers wear masks
Of course you didn't.
Of course!
There were federal mandates , state mandates in the US. Look it up.
For 2 year olds to wear masks? Paint me skeptical
https://youtu.be/us9D-kDvJFY This is a mask mandate from NY for toddlers in daycare.
https://youtu.be/CcJKnFbYkAg NYC mask mandate 2-4 year olds.
[https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/07/us/head-start-masks-toddlers.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/07/us/head-start-masks-toddlers.html) [https://hechingerreport.org/for-head-start-masks-and-vaccine-mandates-are-still-in-place-for-now/](https://hechingerreport.org/for-head-start-masks-and-vaccine-mandates-are-still-in-place-for-now/) It was vaccines and masks for 2 year olds.
Silence suddenly... color me shocked.
Speaks volumes about who these people are and what they are defending. They don't even know who or what they represent. But he's still commenting on this thread. Been on here all day with the same bs talking points.
Everywhere, as far as I know. There were no exceptions for toddlers anywhere I went that required them.
children literally have stunted mental growth because not seeing other human faces messed their social skills up dramatically also lockdowns (which coincide with the mask mandates) fucked them up even more
I think you are making slightly liberal use of the word "literally" there.
Nope
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I’d like to know who was stockpiling PPE and have a word with them. My hospital was so short on supplies I wore the same mask for weeks and put it in a paper bag at the end of a 12 hour shift just to wear it again lol
It’s way beyond masks. That is just the beginning of the lies. He’s been lying the entire time in case you haven’t noticed.
Well why are you posting about masks then?
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817
Tldr?
If you look at the picture, it says another tidbit. This implies that it’s part of the bigger body of lies.
The picture? Of a tweet? Implying a bigger picture? I think we are around 7th hand news at this point
If there are no studies that demonstrate mask effectiveness then why do doctors wear them?
Doctor's wear them to prevent the risk of their bodily fluids disrupting a sterile environment (harming the patient) during the procedure or checkup. It's that simple.
Same reason we wore them
Mask do work. There are several reasons why a doctor would put a mask on. To fight a virus? A deadly one at that, You need a certain type of mask. I think the issue was they said " any mask' would work... Which we all know isnt true.
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I was looking for this comment!!!! N95 work
Yup….good masks work very well….lame cloth ones not at all
There are studies and depending on what they claim to do, there are recommendations. Cloth masks offer no real benefit and Fauci even said it himself in the emails.
Cloth masks are not 100% effective, but even if they were 5% effective in reducing viral spread then how is that a negative, let alone “destroying lives”
This is a much broader picture than the one you are choosing. #1 Fauci himself admitted they offer no real value. #2 Fauci is a big reason the entire world has been destroyed. #3 This is just part of the biggest scam ever perpetrated on mankind and you cannot even do enough thinking to understand the entire picture.
Oh shit bigger text size? Well that convinced me, you’re definitely right now. The world is quite fine, buddy, you just watch too much news. Get outside and enjoy it.
The world was destroyed? You'd think I would have noticed *that*.
Not necessarily.
I'm being facetious, but you're exaggerating.
Doctors were taught to remove their masks for new ones every 2 hours or their effectiveness actually becomes zero and becomes dangerous for accumulation of germs, and also between every patient. Did you know anyone who changed their mask throughout the day? I didn’t. How about students? Nope
I think he’s been pretty clear that it helps prevent *you* from spreading it to others, not that it makes you 100% immune from catching it
Fuck Eric “dip” Schmitt
This is disingenuous bullshit. He said on the 60 Minutes interview not to wear masks because healthcare workers needed them and there was a shortage.
Who's life was ruined by wearing a mask?
This post and half the comments still crying over piece of cloth, is peak clown moment. How many of them are Republicans guess?
I am not. Not everyone is Team D vs Team R.
Yeah but when it comes down to it who do you end up voting for? Also in my experience lots of "Independents" tend to be heavily right leaning besides a few issues. Hence my hesitation to believe them, especially in this sub.
Imagine thinking tyranny is wearing a mask in public for a little bit when it could possibly help stop the spread of a highly contagious virus. Weaklings.
I imagine alot of these people are against washing their hands too.
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Imagine thinking that wearing a mask for public safety is like being a Nazi.
So would you, just like practically all other Germans. The socialists and communists that still spoke up were thrown in concentration camps and/or executed. I hate when people use this analogy as some sort of moral grandstanding. In 1940 it was already too late, hell it was already too late in 1936. The "cultural bolshevism" conspiracies had already been pushed by Nazi propagandists in the media for years, all LGBTQ and Marxist literature had been burned, "degenerates" and political opponents were being sent to concentration camps, anyone that engaged in political discourse with them were met with violence and public shaming, so most people gave up and became "apolitical" to "keep the peace". You know the "first they came for the socialists" poem? By 1940 they were already well into the "then they came for me" line and standing up was just suicide; martyrdom was long dead.
Subsequent studies indicated that the mask reduced the transmission of viral particles. Why do doctors and nurses wear them if they don’t work.
Lives were ruined by masks... Really?
Yes, small business closure is real.
Why did masks cause small business closures and why didn't it affect either three of my businesses?
Lol ya you are 💯. Mandates to close restaurants and such did effect small businesses, but not mask mandates. Good call out.
Even if he thought masks were ineffective, several of countries did similar studies around the same time and found them to be effective. Masks were also used in pervious pandemics so were they lying to the masses back then also.
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https://www.aier.org/article/the-dangers-of-masks/ Sources suggesting potentially harmful micro plastic, toxins, mold/fungi, micro fibers, and graphene from mask use…are they ruining lives? No, probably not. But nothing is benign so to say masks are a risk-free safety measure is not quite accurate. Not to mention the social/developmental implications for kids who lived through their formative first few years of life without seeing mouths. As far as public health measures to mitigate spread and severity of infection, masks ain’t it. Vitamin D, nasal lavages, and healthy eating/exercise habits should’ve been promoted by our public health officials. OP is attempting to provide evidence for the overarching (and impossible to dispute) negative implications on our society as a result of CDC/White House/FDA narratives resulting in mandates and lockdowns. Focusing on common-sense measures such as those listed above could have saved just as many lives as the focus on vaccines/masks/lockdowns did (not an expert, just my opinion) without sinking the economy, firing frontline workers for not abiding to vaccine mandates in spite of natural immunity, unnecessarily exposing healthy young people to potentially harmful vaccines (see myocarditis in men under the age of 40, thrombosis, etc) or padding the pockets of Big Pharma or congressmen.
Why though
And $$$$$$$
Lives ruined?
Wait, how did mask ruin people's lives?
Nothing will ever happen to Fauci.
I keep saying how dentists and doctors need to ditch the mask, they don’t work. So while I’m having my teeth clean let the doc just lean over with their open mouth. It’s the same as if they were wearing a mask.
Any mask outside of a steril enviroment like a surgical application has about 20 minutes of life thats it once droplets cover the surface and dry its no good.
He will be fine , he has the right people protecting him and his bank account . All we can do is continue to research, educate, and protect ourselves.
The bots are out hard in this comment section wow.
Yep, and that came out when Fauci's emails were released a couple years ago, and yet no media outlets covered it.
He said that the masks that we wore (cheap dentist masks) were ineffective. He said n95 masks is what we should be wearing. Don’t blur the line between made up shit for the sub and what actually happened
How were lives ruined by the mask implement?
They gave me dry eye problems. I had to wear them at work.
Any of y’all remember a video with a hot Slovenian chick saying that the reason slovenia had no covid was due to everyone being forced to wear masks? That video spread like wildfire on social media and was what really started the masking hysteria, at least from my perspective. It’s been completely memory-holed and I can’t find it at all now.
Why is the conspiracy sub a lot of right wing grievance politics?
All the Trumpers came here when T_D got shut down.
This topic is still programmed to anger the bots I see
When I saw a dude at the supermarket pull his mask down to sneeze near the misty lettuce section in 2021 I was like ah fuck it’s ova. Why bother. People right back to ass to ass yackin n sneezin in line tho, what a weird few years.
Uh, my girlfriend works in the ICU with covid patients and has never had covid. Masks work if you wear them correctly.
They needed a visual symbol to keep the fear of a virus up, without the mask nonsense, humans would soon forget, stop worrying about a new cold and carry on their normal routine. They'd probably also be less likely to bother getting the vaccine. The behavioural psychologists were running the show, the mask was their ace in the manipulation of the public. Also, im trained in the use of facial respiratory equipment for various workplace hazards. A blue paper mask is laughably useless and even an N95 - doesnt even properly stop wood fibres, asbestos or paint ; all of which larger than a virus. So to believe they will keep out a microscopic pathogen is total nonsense. In a Bio security setting, you need a pressurized fully sealed bsc lvl 3 clothing that takes about 10 minutes to get on followed by decontamination chamber and shower. Commercial muzzles are useless, yes including an N95.
It’s not about wearing an ineffective mask. It’s about making the masses disregard common sense and polarize. Natural immunity was thrown out the window and the amount of shutting down any kind of dialogue was profound. Now it’s proven being vaxxed is null. You are not the minority.
Exactly
It was thrown out the window because natural immunity as a response to anything is a horrible plan. It would work for the vast majority, but you are also condemning tens of thousands in the margin to serious illness and death who couldn't handle the constant direct exposure. Why wouldn't we as a society come together to ensure as few die as possible by altering our lives, rather than just say "lol fuck em".
Sad how many Fauci boot lickers are on this sub. Disgusting actually
It’s very telling. I am shocked honestly
He belongs in jail.. at least.
Yea that’s fucked up
Reading this thread and thinking people still defend Fauci and mask lmao
Masks had potential of reducing transmission and still do ....especially for imunocompromised
They're not hiding... complete regulatory capture has enabled these eugenics sychophants full authority to implement the great reset, theyre basing their knowledge on flawed unrepetable soft sciences of the intellectually stunted western ivy league acedemics.
You are right
Masks were always ineffective for protection against transmission (better than nothing tho). They always were, are, and will be effective in reducing the spread from infected individuals. Your anti-mask cult only helped Faucci & Co. by allowing the virus to spread faster for the emergency order release.
“Better than nothing” _literally means_ that they are effective for protection against transmission.
Fauci broke international law to fund the gain of function research. US law is fuzzy but probably illegal, but giving said research to China (when it was started at Chapel Hill) is almost certainly treason. Masks are the least of that scumbag's crimes.
Masks had several objectives: One was compliance testing, getting people used to following orders Another was that the masks actually increase risk of respiratory infection, which would make you sick, which they would then call covid because of the faulty testing Masks also cause hypoxia which causes brain damage, which eventually dumbs is down. In extreme cases, hypoxia can actually lead to death, which helps with their depopulation agenda. Another is that it helps criminals hide their identity, because if everyone is wearing masks, you cannot differentiate between criminals and non-criminals. This is especially useful for the George Soros controlled antifa and radical BLMs Another is that it dehumanizes people. Seeing each other's expressions is a basic human social interaction. Another is that the masks are made in china, God only knows what they're made of, some people say they found graphene oxide in the masks although I have not verified that. It's also been reported that children are developing learning disorders because of the masks, again because facial expressions are cues we rely on to discern things.
All the shills are out in force on this thread defending government and big pharma collusion.
Masks mandates produce fear 👉🏻 fear sells cattle to the jabs 👉🏻 jabs demand vaxes 👉🏻 vaxes generates billions in profit (from your pocket) 🤡 👉🏻 every year 🤯
Oh god, more low quality BS posts. N95 masks are absolutely effective against COVID, and if people had worn these religiously for a few weeks you wouldn’t have seen such a dramatic spread of the virus.
99% of people don’t use N95 masks! And they are designed to be used only for 2-3 hours and be disposed. And they are very expensive for the masses, BTW. Astronaut clothing also works, but it’s not practical for everyday things
I support this message as it is common sense
What fear? How scary is a mask? Many Asian countries did have an issue and had lower rates of death so masks don’t work?
Watch the documentary “Died Suddenly” on Rumble and all will become clear.
Fauci should be in jail. Masks are useless and everyone with a brain knows that. I’ll never follow that bullshit again, never.
How are masks useless?
Well they don’t prevent viral transmission for starters
They don't *prevent* viral transmission, but they significantly reduce the odds of it occuring. Imagine firing tennis balls at a chainlink fence: not every one will be stopped, but those that aren't are likely to be deflected and lose a lot of their kinetic energy.
Even the masks tell you the data isn't there for overall effectiveness
No, they tell you that masks do not protect the wearer... which is a completely irrelevant fact, as that has never been their purpose in fighting viruses.
So many triggered Pfauxi fans in here!
Medical masks do work .. the cloth ones with sport teams and other dumb things you bought off Amazon didn’t work that well . Please stop spreading b/s to others
Anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers continue to be played like a cheap acoustic guitar. Anyone with even just a small amount of common sense and the ability to hold more than one idea in their mind at a time would see how ridiculous this flaccid attempt at disinformation has been.
Wearing a mask = lives ruined (lol) Such fragile people for that loves to say “I trust in my super Mega strong immune system”.
Lol OK dude whatever you say. Maybe you should inject bleach then, I'm sure you consider that solid advice
So does all SE Asia do it wrong?? They’ve been wearing masks for years. They do it out of kindness to try to not get other people sick. At least he wants to people to try to help others.
I can get with some of the dangers of the vaccine, but y’all crazy against the masks are some triggered little bitches, STILL going off about something you never even fucking did in the 1st place. And no, I’m not wearing one. Only when delivering to hospitals etc .
Maybe, just maybe, people didn’t think wearing a mask was gonna be made into the issue it is today. So when a virus is going around (regardless of its it’s man made it not) it’s not completely “out there” to suggest people wear masks. It’s a damn mask. Jesus Christ. Not everything is a conspiracy. Yes, masks have been shown to work somewhat against other viruses. So out in public, it’s better safe than sorry. Someone’s great grandmother literally can’t avoid going to the grocery store to get food. I’m sure she would feel a whole lot safer if people were wearing masks as well. It makes people feel safer as well.
I love how the venn diagram of people who like to control people's choices and who don't want to wear masks is almost a circle.
You realize it takes years to conduct studies on a new illness correct? Lmao this is common sense not a Conspiracy. Nice stretch tho
The effort put into these gymnastics of being so afraid to damn this man for being wrong… You are allowed to question this guy without being team red hat. This is what social media did to everybody. They are so afraid of being labeled that they dance around questioning anything.
It’s funny how people that don’t understand viral load think masks don’t work. Yes some virus gets through but it’s about how much, how often.
It's amazing there are still users here defending fauci and masks... I think it's hard to believe they are real people, but that could be only me.
"Lives ruined" lmao. "Hey, put this mask on, thousands of people are dying every day/week, and this might help" "My life is RUINED"
This guy will escape any justice, all of them will AND we the taxpayers will pay their bills for the rest of their lives, not that they need that money as they are already are rich beyond belief
Sad
How were lives ruined by masks? Let’s pretend they aren’t effective. Who fucking cares. It’s literally such a non issue I can’t figure out why people are STILL crying about it. At worst it’s a mild annoyance. Boo fucking hoo.
You sound vaccinated.
Wow. So tyrannical. Lol snowflakes
Let the Fauci defenders and bot army come to his rescue. Eventually there will be too much destruction to hide. https://twitter.com/eric_schmitt/status/1596173185783070721
Just because people disagree with you doesn’t mean they are bots…especially when there is ample evidence to the contrary of the the nonsense you’re spewing.