Reader questions mask science, mandates
Is wearing a mask all the time causing health issues? In the U.S., the public has not been mandated to wear face masks since the Spanish flu; however, the COVID19 death totals are nowhere near the Spanish flu death totals. No evidence exists that masks work to protect against viruses or should be worn by healthy people for long periods of time. I remember watching a COVID-19 press briefing and no one was wearing masks. The very next day, the entire press corps, Dr. Fauci, and Dr. Birx were wearing masks. What changed in one day? Fear is control.
Masks are not designed to be worn all day long, and according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), working conditions require an oxygen consumption range of 19.5% to 21%. When using an OSHA
approved oxygen meter, one's oxygen consumption drops to a dangerous level of 17.5%. If a mask user remains within the 17.5% range, the user can enter hypercapnia (high carbon dioxide levels) which can cause dangerous physiological impairments.
In addition the user can fall into a state of hypoxia (low oxygen). For example, headaches have become more common amongst mask wearers. Using a mask for long periods becomes a breeding ground for bacteria resulting in possible respiratory infection.
The N95 mask is touted as the best mask out there when professionally fitted; however, it won’t protect against a virus that is smaller than 0.3 micrometers. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) has studied masks.
The coronavirus (SARS Cov-2) is 0.125 micrometers and the Influenza virus ranges from 0.8 0.12 micrometers. Currently no evidence disproves what the AAPS has concluded on mask facts. The discredited CDC promotes mask wearing which counters facts that are not their own. It’s funny that viruses seem to pop up during election years. Was this ever about a virus?
ALEX ALIFERIS Lodi
Time to reopen
Editor: Every nation in the Western world has reopened their schools (22 countries) with no problems. The party that pummels us with we must follow the “science” ignores any science that doesn’t fit its ideology and political goals.
“The current much less lethal…COVID-19 epidemic (compared to 1918 flu epidemic) is clearly waning. The CDC is poised to declare its epidemic over after 10 consecutive weeks of declining COVID-19 mortality” Dr. Andrew Bostom wrote in the Conservative Reveiw on July 11 (“Maskerade: COVID-1984 and evidence-free compulsory masking”).
California’s stats (California Department of Public Health) on the virus showed out of 8.9 million students no deaths were recorded from COVID-19, but 166 died of the flu.
Do teacher unions tell members to refuse working through the flu season? There’s been no evidence of kids infecting adults with COVID. It’s not fear of COVID-19, it’s the union’s fear of the re-election of Trump.
How many parents have complained they’ve lost all input into their kids’ schooling? When teacher unions demand defunding the police, a wealth tax, etc., its clear child education is not one of their priorities.
Dr. Bostom quotes Dr. Donald A. Henderson: “There are no historical observations or scientific studies that support the confinement by quarantine of groups of possibly infected people for extended periods in order to slow the spread of influenza…this mitigation measure should be eliminated from serious consideration.”
And yet we have a media and a political party doing everything possible to do just that. The shutdowns accomplished only one thing and that’s the destruction of the best economy in world history with Rep. Cortez (Democrat, New York) encouraging her party to keep the shutdowns going until November; saying the loss of a few businesses is worth getting rid of Trump. Such is the arrogance of ignorance.
REOPEN!! RON PORTAL Lodi