Debunking the claim

Recently, Ms. Brewer wrote that Ms. Barbara Ferrer, who is Director, LA County Dept Of Public Health, “…was threatening us with going back to masks if COVID numbers rise over the next 2 weeks.”

Ms. Brewer also wrote that during the Spanish Flu in 2018, people did not “… die from the flu, but from the bacteria from long wearing masks. The bacteria stayed in their mouths and lungs because fresh air wasn’t flowing from their mouths and lungs. Brewer warns: “Masks are a fear mongering tactic that actually kill and make you sick.”

Arguments back then about wearing masks ranged from being “…uncomfortable, ineffective, or bad for business. “When Mask-Wearing Rules In The 1918 Pandemic Faced Resistance,” History.com, May 2020

The 1918 influenza pandemic virus “…infected and killed at least 50 million worldwide… The pandemic lasted for two years. The second wave was caused “… by a mutated virus spread by wartime troop movements.” “Why The Second Wave Of The 1918 Flu Pandemic Was So Deadly,” History.com, Mar 2020

Overall, however, the majority of deaths from the pandemic were caused “… by bacterial pneumonia following influenza 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… “Bacterial Pneumonia Caused Most Deaths…, https://www.nih.gov/, Aug 2008

It caused an uncontrollable hemorrhaging that filled the lungs, leaving victims to drown in their own body fluids.” Influenza Claims Another Victim” https://sos.oregon.gov/

A study by multiple experts debunked the claim that masks cause bacterial pneumonia. Davidson Hamer, a professor of global health and medicine at Boston University stated, “There’s no evidence of masks leading to fungal or bacterial infections of the upper airway or the lower airway as in pneumonia.” healthfeedback.org, Oct 2020

Vincent White Lancaster