Reasons why compulsory mask wearing should be stopped immediately

1. Optimal oxygen intake in humans should, according to the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration, be between 19.5 and 23.5% and that any human-occupied airspace where oxygen measures less than 19.5% should be labelled as not safe for workers. However, the percentage of oxygen inside a masked airspace generally measures 17.4% within seconds of putting on the mask.

2. Dr Russell Blaylock, a retired neurosurgeon, has reported that wearing a face mask can produce a number of problems varying from headaches to hypercapnia (a condition in which excess carbon dioxide accumulates in the body) and that the problems can include life threatening complications. Symptoms of hypercapnia include drowsiness, dizziness and fatigue. Some of the carbon dioxide exhaled with each breath is retained behind the mask and then breathed in again.

3. One study of 212 healthcare workers wearing masks showed that a third of them developed headaches with 60% needing painkillers to relieve the headache. Some of the headaches were thought to be caused by an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the blood or a reduction in the amount of oxygen in the blood. Another study, this time of 159 young health workers, showed that 81% developed headaches after wearing face masks – so much so that their work was affected.

4. An N95 mask can reduce blood oxygenation by as much as 20% and this can lead to a loss of consciousness. Naturally, this can be dangerous for vehicle drivers; masked bus drivers, for example, could be putting their passengers’ lives at risk.

5. In the 2015 Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine paper, Unmasking the surgeons: the evidence base behind the use of facemasks in surgery, Da Zhaou et al review the literature on the usefulness of operating room staff wearing surgical masks and conclude that: “there is a lack of substantial evidence to support claims that face masks protect either patient or surgeon from infectious contamination.” Numerous studies come to similar conclusions: Ritter et al. 1975, Ha’eri and Wiley 1980, Laslett and Sabin 1989, Sjøl and Kelbaek 2002, Skinner and Sutton 2001, Lahme et al. 2001, Figueiredo et al. 2001, etc. Some studies actually indicate a lower rate of wound infection when surgical teams do not wear masks, e.g.Tunevall 1991, Webster et al. 2010,

6. The Preliminary Report on Surgical Mask induced Deoxygenation During Major Surgery, Neurocirugia, 2008, which monitored 53 surgeons, of both sexes, all employed at university hospitals and aged between 24 and 54 years of age, showed that the longer a mask was worn the greater the fall in blood oxygen levels....'As the duration of the operation increases, oxygen saturation of haemoglobin decreases significantly.’

7. In Belgium, in September 2020, a group of 70 doctors sent an open letter to Ben Weyts, the Flemish Education Minister in which they claimed that children are badly affected by having to wear face masks. ‘Mandatory face masks in schools are a major threat to their development,’ they wrote. ‘It ignores the essential need of the growing child. The well-being of children and young people is highly dependent on emotional attachment to others.’ (Observing facial expressions help a child’s social development and so seeing those around them wearing masks must therefore delay a child’s development.)

8. A Cluster Randomised Trial of Cloth Masks Compared with Medical Masks in Healthcare Workers, British Medical Journal 2015, concluded that ‘Moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks and poor filtration may result in increased risk of infection.....as a precautionary measure, cloth masks should not be recommended for health care workers, particularly in high risk situations, and guidelines need to be updated’.

9. Experimentation on the effect of a surgical mask on six minute walking distance, carried out by Person, Lemercier et al (Results published March 2018 in Rev Mal Respir) applied the six minutes walking test (6MWT), regularly used in pulmonology. To minimize the risk of cross-infection, some patients must wear surgical mask at rest and sometimes during exercise. After a first 6MWT for training, 44 healthy subjects, they performed randomly two 6MWT: with or without a surgical mask. Distance and dyspnea, heart rate and saturation variations were recorded. Results: Distance was not modified by the mask (P=0.99). Dyspnea (heaviness of breathing, shortness of breath) variation was significantly higher with surgical mask (+5.6 vs. +4.6; P<0.001) and the difference was clinically relevant. No difference was found for the variation of other parameters.nConclusion: Wearing a surgical mask modifies significantly and clinically dyspnea without influencing walked distance.

10. Two dentists in New York have reported seeing a number of patients with inflamed gums and other problems. The news story was reported in the New York Post. ‘We’re seeing inflammation in people’s gums that have been healthy forever, and cavities in people who have never had them before,’ said dentist Rob Ramondi. ‘About 50% of our patients are being impacted by this, (so) we decided to name it ‘mask mouth’. Another dentist, Marc Sclafani, told the New York Post that ‘gum disease, or periodontal disease, will eventually lead to strokes and an increased risk of heart attacks.’The dentists said that the problem is caused by the fact that face coverings increase mouth dryness and contribute to a build-up of bad bacteria.

11. Masks diminish the quality of our relationships with other people. We trust people less if they are wearing masks. We cannot see smiles and so we fear people more.

12. When the truth finally comes out about the dangers of masks, teachers making children wear masks in schools will be sued. Bosses making their employees wear masks will also be sued. Ignorance is no defence. And as the Nuremburg defendants discovered the reply, ‘I was obeying orders’ is no defence.

13. A 26-year-old man suffered a collapsed lung after running 2.5 miles while wearing a face mask. Doctors say his condition was caused by the high pressure on the man’s lung, due to his intense breathing while wearing the face mask.

14. There is no doubt that face masks can be dangerous. In China, two school boys who were wearing face masks while running on a track both collapsed and died – possibly, I would surmise, because the strain on their hearts by the shortage of oxygen proved fatal. At least two other deaths due to mask wearing have been reported in Germany