A ineficácia total das máscaras na propagação da "Gripe Espanhola" (1918) - as tentativas frustradas de infetar prisioneiros saudáveis com pessoas infetadas com o vírus da gripe

Para poder avaliar melhor a enigmática doença em massa, foi realizada uma tentativa de simular a infecção com homens voluntários em Boston em novembro de 1918. Eram 62 marinheiros saudáveis acusados de delinquência e enviados para a prisão. Tinham recebido a promessa de perdão com a condição de participarem numa experiência. Trinta e nove deles não tinham contraído a gripe e, por isso, a teoria dizia que seriam particularmente suscetíveis a infecções e doenças. Mas os resultados não provaram nada disso, como descreve a jornalista científica americana Gina Kolata no seu livro Influenza:

“Médicos da Marinha recolheram o muco de homens que estavam gravemente doentes com a gripe, recolhendo secreções viscosas e espessas dos seus narizes e gargantas. A seguir, borrifaram o muco desses pacientes com gripe no nariz e garganta de alguns voluntários e nos olhos de outros. Numa tentativa, eles recolheram o muco da parte de trás do nariz e do septo nasal de um homem com gripe e introduziram o muco diretamente no septo nasal de um dos voluntários saudáveis.

“Tentando simular o que acontece naturalmente quando as pessoas são expostas a vítimas de gripe, os médicos levaram dez dos voluntários à enfermaria do hospital, onde estavam homens a morrer da doença. Os enfermos jaziam amontoados nas suas camas estreitas, ardendo de febre, entrando e saindo do sono em delírio. Os dez homens saudáveis receberam instruções: cada um deveria caminhar até a cama de um homem doente, aproximar-se dele, encostar-se ao seu rosto, inspirar seu hálito fétido e conversar com ele durante cinco minutos.

Para ter certeza de que o homem saudável tinha uma exposição total à gripe do doente, este deveria exalar profundamente enquanto o homem saudável inspirava a respiração do doente diretamente para os seus próprios pulmões. Finalmente, a vítima da gripe tossiu cinco vezes na cara do voluntário.

“Cada voluntário saudável repetiu essas ações com dez pacientes diferentes com gripe. Cada paciente com gripe ficou gravemente doente por não mais do que três dias - um período em que o vírus ou o que quer que estivesse causando a gripe ainda deveria estar no seu muco, nariz, ou pulmões. "Mas nem um único homem saudável adoeceu".

Uma experiência comparável, realizada em condições muito mais rigorosas, ocorreu em São Francisco, com 50 marinheiros presidiários. Mas, mais uma vez, os resultados não corresponderam ao que os médicos esperavam:

“Os cientistas ficaram atónitos. Se esses voluntários saudáveis não foram infectados com gripe, apesar dos esforços dos médicos para torná-los doentes, então o que estava a causar a doença? Como é que as pessoas apanharam a gripe?”

Kolata, Gina, Influenza. Die Jagd nach dem Virus, Fischer, 2003, pp. 75-77
Kolata, Gina, Gripe. A Caça ao Vírus

Twenty Reasons Mandatory Face Masks Are Unsafe, Ineffective, and Immoral

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Twenty Reasons Mandatory Face Masks Are Unsafe, Ineffective, and Immoral

By John C. A. Manley
Global Research

January 26, 2021

Nine Potential and Proven Dangers to Muzzling Yourself

1. Cavities: New York dentists are reporting that half their patients are suffering decaying teeth, receding gum lines and seriously sour breath from wearing masks. “We’re seeing inflammation in people’s gums that have been healthy forever, and cavities in people who have never had them before,” Dr. Rob Ramondi told FOX News.

2. Facial Deformities: Masking children triggers mouth breathing which as been shown to cause “long, narrow faces, narrow mouths, high palatal vaults, dental malocclusion, gummy smiles, and many other unattractive facial features,” according to the Journal of General Dentistry.

3. Acne Vulgaris: Moisture and germs collecting in the mask cause “facial skin lesions, irritant dermatitis… or worsening acne” (according to Public Health Ontario) which stresses the immune system, can lead to permanent scarring and has been linked to depression and suicidal thoughts (according to the Journal of Dermatologic Clinics). Children also develop impetigo, a bacterial infection that produces red sores and can lead to kidney damage (according to the Mayo Clinic).

4. Increased Risk of COVID-19: “Mask use by the general public could be associated with a theoretical elevated risk of COVID-19 through… self-contamination,” states Public Health Ontario in Wearing Masks in Public and COVID-19. “By wearing a mask, the exhaled viruses will not be able to escape and will concentrate in the nasal passages, enter the olfactory nerves and travel into the brain,” theorizes nationally recognized board-certified neurosurgeon, Dr. Russell Blaylock, MD (in an article at The Centre for Research on Globalization).Buy New $51.00(as of 04:50 EST - Details)

5. Bacterial Pneumonia: At an Oklahoma Press Conference, Dr. James Meehan, MD testified: “Reports coming from my colleagues all over the world are suggesting that the bacterial pneumonias are on the rise” as a result of moisture collecting in face masks.

6. Immune Suppressing: Masks are often worn by criminals trying to hide their identity while perpetuating an offence (theft, violence, rape, murder, etc.). They produce subconscious anxiety and fear. Fear and anxiety activate the fight-or-flight nervous system which down-regulates the immune system, as shown in a study by the American Psychological Association.

7. Germophobia: Masks create an irrational fear of germs and a false sense of protection from disease, leading to antisocial (or even hostile) behaviour towards those not wearing a mask. (See the paper in the Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders titled “COVID-19, obsessive-compulsive disorder and invisible life forms that threaten the self”).

Medical Doctor Warns that “Bacterial Pneumonias Are on the Rise” from Mask Wearing

8. Toxic: Many (if not most) masks and face coverings (including cloth) are made with toxic and carcinogenic chemicals including fire retardant, fibreglass, lead, NFE, phthalates, polyfluorinated chemicals and formaldehyde that will outgas and be inhaled by the wearer. (See “5 main hazardous chemicals in clothing from China named” by Fashion United).

9. Psychologically Harmful: “I believe the real threat right now is what we’re doing to sabotage the mental, emotional and physical health of… our children, whose development is dependent on social interactions, physical contact and facial expressions,” writes Dr. Joseph Mercola of Mercola.com. “Between mask wearing and social distancing, I fear the impact on children in particular may be long-term, if not permanent.”

Six Proofs Masks Do Not Reduce Infections

1. Insubstantial: A CDC-funded review on masking in May 2020 came to the conclusion: “Although mechanistic studies support the potential effect of hand hygiene or face masks, evidence from 14 randomized controlled trials of these measures did not support a substantial effect on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza… None of the household studies reported a significant reduction in secondary laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infections in the face mask group.” If masks can’t stop the regular flu, how can they stop SAR-CoV-2?

2. Unreasonable: “Evidence that masking as a source [of] control results in any material reduction in transmission was scant, anecdotal, and, in the overall, lacking… [and mandatory masking] is the exact opposite of being reasonable,” ruled a hospital arbitrator in a dispute between The Ontario Nurses’ Association and the Toronto Academic Health Science Network.

3. Ineffective: “Oral masks in healthy individuals are ineffective against the spread of viral infections,” write Belgian medical doctors in an open letter published in The American Institute of Stress, September 24, 2020.

4. Unsanitary: “It has never been shown that wearing surgical face masks decreases postoperative wound infections,” writes Göran Tunevall, M.D. in the World Journal of Surgery. “On the contrary, a 50% decrease [in bacterial infection] has been reported after omitting face masks.”

5. No Protection: “There were 17 eligible studies.… None of the studies established a conclusive relationship between mask ⁄ respirator use and protection against influenza infection,” concludes a research review in the journal Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses.

6. Unproven: Dutch Minister for Medical Care, Tamara van Ark, asserted that “from a medical perspective there is no proven effectiveness of masks” after a review by the National Institute for Health on July 29, 2020 (according to Reuters).

Five Ways Forced Masking is Immoral

1. Reckless: “By making mask-wearing recommendations and policies for the general public, or by expressly condoning the practice, governments have both ignored the scientific evidence and done the opposite of following the precautionary principle,” writes Denis Rancourt, PhD in his 2020 paper Masks Don’t Work.Buy New $39.99(as of 04:50 EST - Details)

2. Manipulative: Dr. Andreas Voss, member of the World Health Organization expert team and head of microbiology at a Dutch hospital in Nijmegen, on July 24, 2020, told I Am Expat that masks were made mandatory “not because of scientific evidence, but because of political pressure and public opinion.”

3. Fear-Mongering: “In fact, there is no study to even suggest that it makes any sense for healthy individuals to wear masks in public,” write Drs. Karina Reiss, Phd and Dr. Sucharit Bakdi, MD in Corona, False Alarm? “One might suspect that the only political reason for enforcing the measure is to foster fear in the population.”

4. Totalitarian: “If you look at the history of totalitarian regimes… they all do the same thing, which is they try to crush culture, and crush any evidence of self-expression…” explains Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in an interview regarding face masks. “And what is the ultimate vector for self-expression? It’s your facial expressions…. [Yet] we’ve all been told to put on the burqa and be obedient.”

5. Virtue-Signalling: “Masks are utterly useless,” testified Dr. Roger Hodkinson, a pathologist, certified with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, at a city council meeting. “…masks are simply virtue-signalling… It’s utterly ridiculous seeing these unfortunate, uneducated people — I’m not saying that in a pejorative sense — walking around like lemmings, obeying without any knowledge base, to put the mask on their face.”