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Clearly, it does not. On Monday I went to see my retinologist, a physician who I have always regarded as my best. But, unlike other offices in the very same building his office still requires masking. Every time I go I try to reason with the staff. This time I was told if I did not wear a mask I would be forced to leave the office and forego my appointment. Unlike the other times, after the doctor had examined me I brought up the subject and he read me the EXACT same fallacious talking points I heard from another physician who was quoted in the Chicago Tribune and to whom I wrote an email:

1. Virus spreads through droplets and masks block droplets (false, they do not as they are small enough to pass through).

2 He asserted that the masks do not need to be sterile but "clean." So, when his secretary clutched mask in her (clean?) fingers and thrust it at me, there could be no virions or bacteria on that mask, right?

3. "Would you want to have surgery with someone who wasn;t wearing a mask?" love that one, since it ducts the entire question of the evidentiary basis for mask use, apart from the fact there are studies that show a greater infection risk for certain surgeries with masks.

They treated me like a child, and I bitterly resent it. Therefore, I doubt I can remain his patient, even though he is well informed when it comes to his specialty.

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he's showing he's a quack, not fit to practice medicine. If he doesn't know the simple truth that masks do not stop viruses, find another doctor who does understand that basic fact.

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He’s not a quack, unfortunately, he is an excellent retina specialist and surgeon, but he is brainwashed, I assume. The fact that his staff in two different instances belittled me is unforgivable

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the fact that they do not respect your bodily autonomy is enough to disqualify them from practicing medicine

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"...brainwashed..." or scared for his livelihood because his state's licensing board has threatened him and other doctors if they stray from the agenda.

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The odd thing is he has otherwise been pretty good even when I discussed pharmaceuticals with him although I never had occasion to use the v word.

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I can’t STOP thinking about this piece any longer...critical thinking patients, common sense and there is the Elephant in the room...Nearly 3 years into this Virus-SARS,CoV2 and the variants. They have travelled around the world I would be surprised to hear Not a Person has had this Virus. My point is Herd Amunity‼️ Now there is actual science that is indeed a thing‼️

Go ahead LIVE YOUR LIFE WITHOUT A MASK and listening to what the CDC along with doctor Ms who are made to comply because of their insurance. JUST STOP‼️ You will be fine‼️

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I found another

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Good … think we all have to start calling our docs and asking if they are still requiring masks and if so tell them you will be looking for another practice.

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Like you,even though I rarely go to doctors if I can help it at all, I am looking for new doctors because I lost my faith in every single one of them the past 3 years. I had to go to my cardiologist two weeks ago. They had a big sign about masking and everyone in the waiting room, about 20 people were all wearing their masks dutifully. This is strange because my region actually has not been very masked the entire time and you rarely see one now in the real world. I simply walked in with no mask and sat down and I got a few stink eyes! But no one ever said a word and when the nurse came to get me and she was fully masked, but she also said nothing about my lack of mask. I'm so sick of playing their game. But I do understand you did not want to lose your appointment because you probably also would have been charged for it. But I am actively looking for new doctors but they are few and far between

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A question for all the KarënMaskkenFührers since masks work hence are populated with WuFlu and all kinds of other yuckies- you do go to the financial and time expense to dispose of them as a Bio-Hazardous Waste...right?!

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Good one! Yeah, I see them discarded everywhere.

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Amen! Yes, COMPLYING, is indeed playing their game‼️

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Hey BikeInTheTrees can you help with this? I'm hard of hearing and this Pilot on Tucker Carlson gave a web address at the end of the segment with Tucker but he said it so fast I could not understand. Here is the link to the segment. Thank you.

https://www.westernjournal.com/pilot-heart-attack-six-minutes-landing-commercial-plane-blames-1-thing

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I feel the same. Neither my primary doc nor my GI doc wear masks. And I took my dad to two major Chicago hospitals last week and they asked, but did not insist I wear one.

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You may consider him your best. But if I were in your shoes, I'd find another retinologist. I am aware it's not always easy. I've actually replaced one of my own physicians for far less justification than you're describing here.

But, everyone has to play it the way he sees it. Do what makes sense for you.

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At my retinaologist's they have a sign that says no mask if you're fully vaxed and boosted. I have oxygen problems so I decided I'm not wearing a mask. I am getting shots in my eye(s) so I suppose one could say I'm at risk, but masks that don't work wont protect my eyes. The Dr wears 2 masks. So far (long time) no issues. (I'm unvaxed but did have Omicron)

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The ones that wear two masks are really gone.

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Please consider printing this query and articles about masks for him: https://brownstone.org/?s=masks

As for the surgery and masks argument, the following video could be helpful: https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/2/videos/mask-myths/

If he remains unconvinced, consider looking for other retinologists in your area who might be able to see the light that this doctor clearly cannot see (eye puns intended). Then tell the old retinologist that you have chosen a new one and explain why.

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Sad too many doctors drank the koolaid and believe what the CDC SPEWED as truth.

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We don't need to be in this abusive relationship anymore with the people corrupting our systems.

Let's demand better, fearlessly, together.

Let's make plans. Let's unite.

https://joshketry.substack.com/p/whats-happening-might-seem-scary

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I have an impulse to write him and his staff, but I think that time could be put to use more productively, for example, by working on my COVID era novel.

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Dr. Malone,

In your opinion, is the Cochran Library still the gold standard and did it make it through the pandemic unscathed? Now that most else of the Medical profession, (CDC, WHO, NIH, FDA, The Lancet, Many/most doctors and health professionals, etc.) has been tarnished to say the least, it would be nice to know that there exists something we can still (at this point) trust.

(if anyone else wants to know this answer please like)

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Also, didn't Cochrane dismiss Ivermectin as useless for treating the WuFlu sometime in the recent past?

🤔

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15% of Americans getting the bivalent when it is "stroke season"? This is a mass mental illness in this day and age. And 8% of children 6 months to <5 years? Child abuse!

BTW, why are we still calling this "vaccination" on this Substack?

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Never has been a Vaccine that is what the gov’t agencies call it. It is a Bio-Weapon Injection. Given without informed choice or consent. NO! I’ve had Delta & Onicron variant. Not a single jab‼️

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I try to call it the "dangerous mRNA injection or gene therapy" if I have to call it anything. You see people's heads begin to swell as soon as I say that! Someone needs to think up a good acronym that we can replace the word vaccine with since this thing is not a vaccine

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Perhaps change 'gene therapy' to gene disrupter given therapy denotes remedy, cure, healing, etc.

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Or gene molester.

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I just call it The Jab.

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Clot shot also works.

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I will have to steal that on for personal use! I hope my memory remembers...

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Thank you for this information. I have worn N-95s for decades in my woodworking shop and found that even with the mask in place, at the end of the day when I blow my nose there is always brown dust in the blow. So I knew from this experience that they were not all that effective for the minute particles. And the virus is even smaller.

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Yes, you know by experience that even the N-95 Masks do not keep the finest dust particles out of your nasal passages! This is Huge‼️ I’m going to very blunt here to explain a Scientific Known Fact with regards to Masks & their effectiveness keeping bacteria, microbes & viruses from entering your body.

Take your N-95 mask or a medical mask and I guarantee you that a body function of say ‘flatulence’ will NOT be held back or stopped. That is a known Fact‼️

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Dr. Malone sir, thank you for the stand you have taken. I am a subscriber. May I ask a question? so... Where can I research for my wife on how to minimize recurring respiratory infections. Our Doc, thinks it is because she had covid and is weakened... we are never Vaxers... I refuse to accept that it is inevitalble, we want to maximize her fight to strengthen, as it hits every two the three months or therabouts....since covid 2 years ago .. Thanks, Larry Alderman, Mt. Juliet, Tn

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Along with FLCCC - check her vitamin D. Of course, lots of other supplements also - FLCCC protocols will outline these.

Obesity negatively impacts immune functioning. That may or may not be something to work on.

She should consider the FLCCC long COVID protocol.

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The FLCCC has a protocol that is supposed to help prevent respiratory infections. I'm not sure if that is what you need, but you can check it out here. https://covid19criticalcare.com/treatment-protocols/i-prevent-protect/

In addition, if you watch their live webinar on Wednesday nights at 7:00 ET, there is a way to ask questions which are answered by several nurses who are on hand. They get a lot of questions and usually can't get to all, however. The nurses are working while the webinar is going on. This is the link to register for the webinars. https://covid19criticalcare.com/category/weekly-webinars/

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The entire flccc site is an incredible resource. It was one way I kept my sanity during this entire charade. They are providing information and questions and answers like our Public Health government should have been doing all along but never did. Their protocols have certainly kept my husband and I ( and 137 friends that we helped ) healthy the entire 3 years. I am much more focused on my vitamin D levels now but I also take their recommended vitamins and supplements. Something must work cuz I simply don't get sick anymore. My covid was 36 hours long because I started early treatment within 3 hours using the flccc protocol. You need to have all that stuff ready for the instant you get sick. Once you're sick you don't feel good enough to assemble any of it . Covid was a complete non-event and I was back up to 100% activity on day 5. We are 68 and 79 with several conditions and it was absolutely as non-eventful as could be using early treatment. Who on Earth would return to a doctor who made the comment to go home and wait for your condition to get a lot worse before you sought help? For instance if you had an early skin cancer, what if your doctor said "go home until it is a gaping hole in your face and then we'll figure out what to do with it". That's exactly what doctors have been telling us for 3 years. It is astonishing and nauseating and I still can't believe they are all so blind and stupid and incurious.

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I am 70, my husband is 71 and we are unvaxxed. We've kept ivermectin and other supplements on hand and taken them prophylactically when we were in crowds and at the first sign of possible sickness. I had covid in February of last year and it was very mild; I felt bad for one day. My husband just had covid a couple of weeks ago; very mild for him also. We had the extreme honor of meeting four of the FLCCC doctors last year; Drs. Kory, Marik, Syed (better known as Dr. Been) and Berkowitz. I was afraid I would cry when I met them, but I managed to hold it together. As you said, they have been a lifeline.

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I am just wondering, when someone says they had covid were they tested? Were you tested for covid last Feb? Was you husband test for it when he felt ill? Are you told which variant? Wondering if each time I feel ill I should go somewhere to get a test to see that's all.

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We happened to have home tests. We don't really have a lot of faith in them being accurate, but tested both times out of concern for others. I was supposed to get a haircut the day I tested. I felt like going, but didn't want to take a chance on perhaps spreading covid. My husband was supposed to leave for Guatemala on a mission trip, so the issue was the same; others who are more afraid of covid would not want to be around him. We don't know which variant and don't really care. We knew the so-called variants had gotten milder, at least for the unvaxxed. I'm not playing the covid game again. I will be considerate of others, but I will not wear a mask other than in a medical setting, and I will speak out at every opportunity about the harms that have been done through denial of early treatment, through deadly hospital protocols and through the toxic vaccines. We aren't going to test every time we feel ill, we'll just stay away from others as is prudent whenever we are sick with something that may be contagious. We also don't report our results to any health authority, it's none of their business and I have no trust in any of them anymore.

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Thank you. I did not know about home tests. Home tests would make it harder to track covid case numbers for sure. I heard when the PCR tests came out, the guy who invented them said they would not work for covid. They were for the flu. Go figure.

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You're right on. You go gal!

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I watched this yesterday - https://youtu.be/4N7wQrcxO7k - I have a neighbour who has long covid - before the vaccines were ever out - and symptoms similar to your wife. I would use the same protocols that Dr Cohen is suggesting in this video - the cannot hurt, and my help. I also started taking black Elderberry syrup after a bad cold in Nov. - many take it as upper respiratory aid and others take it as a preventative - I took it for big phlegm and it helped and now I take it as a preventative.

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Thank you for this information.

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We either live in truth or we risk dying psychologically as cowards. If I had school-aged children and resided in one of these states, I think the only answer would be to move. The 'powers that be' obviously couldn't give a rat's @$$ about the people, other than as taxable units.

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This is just another way for this wanna be totalitarian government to infringe on families and their kids. Like all governments that want to destroy constitutional freedoms, it starts with a crisis, (don’t let a good crisis go to waste), then executive orders, divide the public, and corrupt kids to go against their parents. Sound familiar? It’s exactly what Hitler did. They used the Reichstag fire to start the executive orders to protect the people. The democrats tried January 6th and then Covid to destroy the constitution. This has nothing to do with keeping people healthy, masks don’t work. It’s all about power and control. I think they will drag this out as long as they can... J.Goodrich

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Amen, that is ALL of what this is about...the globalist, Soros, Bill Gates, WHO, WEF deep state, Big Tech, Big Pharma & Hollywood. It is all tearing down America, Our Judao Christian values that we revere from our founding Fathers. Our Liberties & God given Freedoms. We are Patriots & Constitutionalist.

They want to tear down burn if you will to build their world designed to control Us. All of your personal needs do not matter. Tyranny, Socialism & Marxist is their play book. It is The Great Reset.

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Could also point out how Wilson entered us into a purely European war he promised to stay out of in order to utilize war time hysteria to inflict on our Republic 2 constitutional amendments that have been so damaging to the protections left us by the Founders to prevent the malignancy of a central government we now have.

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Very insightfully stated!

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Thanks Tony I wanted to edit a bit.

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And it is also true that the Hitler machine got children to rat out their parents.

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I think the gender reassignment BS is part of dividing the family. I know 3 families including a cousin that is going through this with their children. I never heard of this when I was a kid. This government is a sick Marxist knock off.

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It is part planned depopulation. All endeavors that result in fewer births or fewer people (wars being the big one) have been active for decades. Read Jaffe's 1969 memo to Planned Parenthood to see the ideas that were in play even then. https://jaffememo.com/

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So did the soviets

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And the start of communist China.

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Read the book "Science in the Private Interest". Krimsky

When scientific research is manipulated to create a preplanned conclusion for profit we are being had.

It's fraud and those perpetuating these frauds need to be jailed. Medical research has been manipulated in this way for the last 50 years. The drum beat goes on. mRNA injections is just the latest. The research is corrupt and liability has been suspended.

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My friend had a positive result from Cologuard and needed an immediate colonoscopy. I took her. They made us wear masks. They would not let me sit with her before they called her in. They made me leave the building. They made her wear a mask all the way in to the procedure room. They would not let me go into the recovery room to be with her to hear the results. I had to wear a mask to meet her at the door to get her in to the car (but I did not). Repulsive. This woman was going there to find out if she indeed had cancer and they made her go it alone with a mask on like so much unfeeling meat. Thankfully she was clear. But what if not? We don’t even have high case counts here. What the hell are they doing? I am spreading the news that no one should ever go to that place again. The medical profession is dead and I don’t think I will ever set foot in a doctors office again.

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I had a friend at work who was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer during the pandemic. They put her in the hospital, hooked up to all kinds of tubes and machines. Her family that she was very devoted to couldn’t visit. They finally relented a bit as she started to go downhill, letting her daughters visit a few days to help her with things (like preparing a will, taking care of finances, etc). It wasn’t until her last week of life that they let the grandkids come in and see her to say good bye. She loved her grandkids, spoke with them everyday at 3 pm when they got out of school. They let her daughters stay with her for the last 24 hrs until she passed. Such cruelty. Her family meant everything to her and she hardly got to see them.

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I’m so sorry for you and her family. My brother also died that way. So cruel and inhuman.

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It's Year Four and for particular reasons certain hospitals, doctors. dentists, schools, et al still act like the CCP virus demands PPE. What might those reasons be? We know why the schools do. The unions are following the steps for dumbing down the children, and this is just one aspect to do so. But why the others? One would probably need to dissect the chain of command for each. This January my dentist finally dropped the mask mandate, I could freely walk the halls of the doctor's building without a mask, however I had to wear one while inside my pulmonary doctor's office. Did I complain, yes. They certainly know their patience can’t breathe well. I dropped it down below my nose and no one made a peep. I ask the nurse and the doc to take off their masks so I could understand them by reading their lips. They compiled. Conclusion – masks are meant to invoke fear and to alienate one another. I still have a vivid recall of the first time in 2021 I walked into a very busy convenience store/ gas station on a major highway MASK Free! Everyone in there was smiling!

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I went mask free in stores in my very left-leaning town very early in the Covid madness. Rarely did I get confronted. I smiled at people and acted like a normal human being used to. A time or two if there was a store clerk monitoring shoppers as they entered for masks,I’d either put one on to get in and then take it off past the door, or if they asked if I “needed” a mask, I’d politely say, “No thank you!” and keep going on in. Only once or twice did I get told I had to wear a mask, so I’d about face and walk out.

Do not comply with idiotic rules.

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I had one store clerk chase me down to tell me the town had a strict indoor mask policy and I needed to wear one. I just thanked him for letting me know and kept going. At the same town, I was in another store where they handed out masks as you entered. I took it and put it in my pocket. The store manager came over and confronted me on it. I said my piece that they don’t work and if he thinks they do, then he’s protected while he’s wearing his. In the end, I offered to leave since I didn’t want them to get fined. He told me he wanted me to put on the mask. I said okay I’ll leave.

Not all of them want to do this stuff. They are getting mandates from idiots in government. In Massachusetts, you must wear a mask at a healthcare facility, by government decree. No one voted on it, they just decided it would be that way. So I don’t go unless I really have to. And the mask comes off as soon as I’m in the exam room.

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Same rule as to medical offices here in California. It’s absurd. It’s because the CDC, which has no law making powers, recommends it. It’s not a law. So I do the same thing you do, wear my phony mask (looks real but is actually sheer so as to fool the mask police), below my nose, and I rip it off as I exit. There is someone there to hand you a mask as you enter if you don’t have one on, but you could wear it under your nose or chin, or hanging from an ear, and no one says a thing. Again. You just have to have the costume piece hanging from you somehow to pass muster.

I only wear the costume for my disabled friend who needs me to pick up her prescriptions at the clinic pharmacy. I, myself, just don’t go to the doctor anymore if I can possibly avoid it.

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It is beginning to look like some degree of schizophrenia has has invaded the medical profession. It has been known ever since the Spanish flu those damned masks are useless in preventing the spread of respiratory viruses. Yet every time you go to one today every one of them wears a mask. And all these new studies on mask efficiency are simply gliding the grant grubbing lily.

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I take my off and I let them know I’m fine with them taking theirs off, in fact I recommend it for their health. Not good to be breathing your own CO2 all day long.

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It's not schizophrenia. It is a fear of losing funding.

When government funded healthcare says "JUMP", the highly consolidated medical/industrial complex asks not only how high but in which direction.

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When the masks mandates came out in 2020 we had the masks at home. My husband decided to make an experiment.We have this bathroom cleaner that when you spray it in the shower to clean the shower it makes you cough. Well my husband decided that if the masks are suppose to keep out the Covid virus it should work on the bathroom cleaner. So he sprayed it and he started to cough. Well right then we got our answer. If it can’t keep the big droplets of cleaner out how can it keep out the virus. Also it can get in your eyes and infect you. So we never bought into the mask mandates.

Thank you for continuing to get the information out to us.

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Yeah, it never made any sense to me; the surgical masks are designed for bacteria retention, not viruses. Bacteria are approximately 10x the size of a virus. Additionally, when you sneeze or cough into a surgical mask, the outward pressure blasts every virus particle within the mask, out into the enviroment. The 3M company, N-95 mask, properly sized, performs much better. Unfortunately these days the N-95 is made in China. Imagine that! ;)

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Read somewhere tobacco smoke about the same size as corona virus. I bet if you wear one near a smoker you will smell the smoke.

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Steven Petty who is in charge of hospital PPE demonstrated how cigarette smoke went right through the masks & out the N95, which is meant for protecting the wearer & not others as the air is filtered coming in, but not when you breathe out.

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You lost me at “COVID pandemic”. It never was a pandemic. The global psychopaths changed the definition of “pandemic and vaccine” to fit their narrative. If you could please fix that, then I can read your article.

LIVE NOT BY LIES.

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I tell Covidiots the obedience rag is equivalent to a chain link fence used to block mosquitos. Neither stops the air flow with the pests or pestilence, or otherwise protects. Neither "works."

I add it would be even worse if it the rag DID work because it would prevent us from sharing pathogens. I ask, how do you build muscle? Resistance. How do we build immunity? A different form of resistance, but resistance nonetheless: we share pathogens. You WANT to share pathogens. That is essential to build immunity.

As a kid I ate dirt and drank from (eeee!) the same water hose. As a result, I have a decent immune system. I tell those who would be willingly enslaved, they'd better hope the mask does not work.

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I agree. I grew up the same way. Except for the "eating dirt" part… I think.

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What? Get rid of masking and mask mandates?

But how will the faithful be able to show their fealty to the collective and their towering virtue over us troglodyte commoners?

And what about depriving the rest of us of our greatest daily comedic moment - the solitary driver, masked and alone, weaving in and out of lanes, torpid from oxygen deprivation, eyes darting fervidly, on the run from.......?????? The proto-typical proggie. Delivered for our mirthful entertainment.

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