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Masks are ineffective and in many ways they harm

It’s a myth that masks prevent viruses from spreading.  The overall evidence is clear: Standard cloth and surgical masks offer next to no protection against virus-sized particles or small aerosols.(1)  The size of a virus particle is much too small to be stopped by a surgical mask, cloth, or bandana.  A single virion of SARS-CoV-2 is about 60-140 nanometers or 0.1 microns.(2)  The pore size in a surgical mask is 200-1000 times that size.  Consider that the CDC website states, “surgical masks do not catch all harmful particles in smoke.”  And that the size of smoke particles in a wildfire are 0.5 microns which is 5 times the size of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.  Wearing a mask to prevent catching SARS-CoV-2, or similarly sized influenza, is like throwing sand at a chain-link fence: it doesn’t work.  There has been one large randomized controlled trial that specifically examined whether masks protect their wearers from the coronavirus.  This study found mask wearing “did not reduce, at conventional levels of statistical significance, the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infections.”(3)

Consider also, that the existence of more particles does not mean more virus.  Research shows less virus does not mean less illness.  Dr. Kevin Fennelly, a pulmonologist at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute debunked the view that larger droplets are responsible for viral transmission.  Fennelly wrote: “Current infection control policies are based on the premise that most respiratory infections are transmitted by large respiratory droplets – i.e., larger than 5 microns – produced by coughing and sneezing, ….Unfortunately, the premise is wrong.”(4)

Fennelly referenced a 1953 paper on anthrax that showed a single bacterial sport of about one micron was significantly more lethal than larger clumps of spores.(5)  Exposure to one virus particle is theoretically enough to cause infection and subsequent disease.  This is not an alarming thought – it simply means what it has always meant, that our immune system protects us continually all out life.(6.)

There have been hundreds of mask studies related to influenza transmission done over several decades.  It is a well-established fact that masks do not stop viruses.  “Part of that evidence shows that cloth facemasks actually increase influenza-linked illness.”(7)  Bacteria are 50 times larger than virus particles.(8)  As such, virus particles can enter through the mask pores, yet bacteria remain trapped inside of the mask, resulting in the mask-wearer continually exposed to the bacteria.  Related to the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, there was almost universal agreement among experts, that deaths were virtually never caused by the influenza virus itself but resulted directly from severe secondary pneumonia caused by well-known bacterial “pneumopathogens” that colonized the upper respiratory tract.(9)  Dr. Fauci and his National Institute of Health studied pandemics and epidemics and concluded, “the vast majority of influenza deaths resulted from secondary bacterial pneumonia.”(10)

All parties mandating the use of facemasks are not only willfully ignoring established science but are engaging in what amounts to a whole school clinical experimental trial.  This conclusion is reached by the fact that facemask use, and COVID-19 incidence are being reported in scientific opinion pieces promoted by the CDC and others.(11)  The fact is after reviewing ALL the studies worldwide, the CDC found “no reduction in viral transmission with the use of face masks.” (12)

Additionally, children have been repeatedly shown not to be drivers of this contagion.  It is well accepted that children have a statistically zero chance of dying from COVID.  The CDC shows the K-12 mortality rate from or with COVID is .00003.(13)  Any intervention, especially one that is prophylactic, must cause fewer harms to the recipient than the infection.  Since children have the lowest death rate from COVID infection, the cost-benefit of requiring children to wear an investigational face covering with emerging safety issues is especially difficult to justify.  Anthony Fauci was very clear that asymptomatic transmission was not a threat.  He stated, “in all the history of respiratory-borne viruses of any type, asymptomatic transmission has never been the driver of outbreaks.  The driver of outbreaks is always a symptomatic person.”(14)

Wearing respirators come(s) with a host of physiological and psychological burdens.  These can interfere with task performances and reduce work efficiency.  These burdens can even be severe enough to cause life-threatening conditions if not ameliorated.(15)  Fifteen years ago, National Taiwan University Hospital concluded that the use of N-95 masks in healthcare workers caused them to experience hypoxemia, a low level of oxygen in the blood, and hypercapnia, an elevation in the blood’s carbon dioxide levels.(16)  Studies of simple surgical masks found significant reductions in blood oxygen as well.  In one particular study, researchers measured blood oxygenation before and after surgeries in 53 surgeons.  Researchers found the mask reduced the blood oxygen levels significantly, and the longer duration of wearing the mask, the great the drop in blood oxygen levels.(17)

Moreover, people with cancer, will be at a further risk from hypoxia, as cancer cells grow best in a bodily environment that is low in oxygen.  Low oxygen also promotes systemic inflammation which, in turn, promotes “the growth, invasion, and spread of cancers.”(18)  Repeated episodes of low oxygen, known as intermittent hypoxia, also “causes atherosclerosis” and hence increases “all cardiovascular events” such as heart attacks, as well as adverse cerebral events like stroke.(19)

Furthermore, the mandatory mouth mask in schools is a major threat to a child’s development.  It ignores the essential needs of a growing child.  The well-being of children and young people is highly dependent on the emotional connection with others.  Masks create a threatening and unsafe environment, where emotional connection becomes difficult.(20)

Informed consent is required for investigational medical therapies.

Regardless of the lack of safety and efficacy behind the decision to require a child to wear a mask, it is illegal to mandate EUA approved investigational medical therapies without informed consent.  Mask use for viral transmission prevention is authorized for Emergency Use only.(21)  Emergency Use Authorization by the FDA, means “the products are investigational and experimental” only.(22)  The statute granting the FDA the power to authorize a medical product of emergency use requires that the person being administered the unapproved product be advised of his or her right to refuse administration of the product.(23)  This statute further recognizes the well-settled doctrine that medical experiments, or “clinical research,” may not be performed on human subjects without the express, informed consent of the individual receiving treatment.(24)

The right to avoid the imposition of human experimentation is fundamental, rooted in the Nuremberg Code of 1947, has been ratified by the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki, and further codified in the United States Code of Federal Regulations.  In addition to the United States regarding itself as bound by these provisions, these principles were adopted by the FDA in its regulations requiring the informed consent of human subjects for medical research.(25)  The law is very clear; It is unlawful to conduct medical research (even in the case of emergency), unless steps taken to…..secure informed consent of all participants.(26)

Furthermore, by requiring children to wear a mask, you are promoting the idea that the mask can prevent or treat a disease, which is an illegal deceptive practice.  It is unlawful to advertise that a product or service can prevent…disease unless you possess competent and reliable scientific evidence…substantiating that the claims are true.(27)

The FDA EUA for surgical and/or cloth masks explicitly states, “the labeling must not state or imply… that the [mask] is intended for antimicrobial or antiviral protection or related, or for use such as infection prevention or reduction.”(28)  As you can see from the image attached, masks do not claim to keep out viruses. 

Illegally mandating an investigational medical therapy generated liability

There are no efficacy standards on child-sized masks and respirators under OSHA, but there are proven microbial challenges as well as breathing difficulties that are created an exacerbated by masking children.

Requiring children to wear a mask sets the stage for contracting any infection, including COVID-19, and making the consequences of that infection much graver.  In essence, a mask may very well put children at an increased risk of infection, and if so, having a far worse outcome.(29)

The fact that mask wearing presents a severe risk of harm to the wearer should – standing alone – not be required for children, particularly given that these children are not ill and have done nothing wrong that would warrant an infringement of their constitutional rights and bodily autonomy.  Promoting use of a non-FDA approved, Emergency Use Authorized mask, is unwarranted and illegal.  This mandate is in direct conflict with Section 360bbb-3€(1)(A)(ii)(I-III), which requires the wearer to be informed of the option to refuse the wearing of such “device.”  Misrepresenting the use of a mask as being intended for antimicrobial or antiviral protection, and/or misrepresenting masks for use as infection prevention or reduction is a deceptive practice under the FTC.  It is clear, there is no waiver of liability under deceptive practices, even under a state of emergency.  As such, forcing children to wear masks, or similarly forcing use any other non-FDA approved medical product without the child’s (or the child’s parental) consent, is illegal and immoral.

This letter serves as official notice that the children in your district have not consented to being forced to wear a mask.  Accordingly, I urge you to comply with Federal and State law and advise children they have a right to refuse or wear a mask as a measure to prevent or reduce infection from COVID-19.  Any other course of action is contrary to the law.  Please confirm no further pressure will be exerted upon any child that chooses to follow this illegal mask mandate, and that they will not face any retaliatory disciplinary action.  Please feel free to review the references listed below and do your own research on the topic.  They are also using a faulty PCR test to identify this virus that has since been recalled for over 90% false positive results, for a virus that has never been shown to be identified or isolated in a lab so no virus can be tested for or any variants for something that has never been isolated.  This is typical science and virology class where a virus will mutate in order to survive and there will never be a way to make it “go away.”

Sincerely,

Dr. Vicky Lease, DC 

The link below will take you to the article and show the list of references used within the article:

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