CDC Beginning to Come Clean. Masks an Unsanitary Real Bust!

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Dear Subscriber,

This week there was big news on the world of COVID. For starters, the CDC has backed down and all but agreed that social distancing is a bust, and other draconian steps the agency encouraged were worthless. Some people had taken huge hits on social media and elsewhere, now belatedly, after the damage is done to them, they are proven correct. Heck, just this week one of my favorite organizations, Children’s Health Defense, has been booted, at least temporarily on Facebook, and other key social media. This is not an issue of free speech. Facebook own’s its pages and is a private company. However, we are learning that the social media giants have taken these draconian tasks at the behest of government officials. That would invoke the 1st amendment. All agencies get power from Congress. Congress CANNOT delegate a power to trample speech to an agency, which, in turn, works behind the scenes with social media.

And guess what? Within hours of the deplatforming of CHD, “CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky outlined plans for overhauling how the agency works while admitting the agency’s response to COVID-19 was flawed and the agency committed a number of missteps in its management of the pandemic.” Of course you could be proven right today, but months-years after your following was destroyed by tech giants.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/facebook-instagram-de-platform-chd-childrens-health-defense-accounts/

Additionally, CDC has finally decided that the unvaxxed are not dirty, filthy, people to hate disease spreaders. You cannot imagine the venomous hate I saw coming from people’s mouths about the irresponsible unvaxxed.

Now comes a case where FrontLine Doctors have submitted a lawsuit dealing with the bogus mask story. You know, the coverings for your face. The scummy, germy, moldy plastic cloth that is a culture medium you are forced to breathe through. This case is making its way through the higher courts in the 11th circuit. (https://res.cloudinary.com/aflds/image/upload/v1660068993/aflds/Health_Freedom_Defense_Fund_Inc_et_al_v_Biden_etc_et_al_Americas_Frontline_Doctors_Amicus_Motion_Brief_Stamped_8_8_2022_21_cv_1693_MDFL_22_11287_CA_11_759748977c.pdf)

Yes, the masks that are littered all over our trails, roads, walkways, highways, waterways, etc. I expect soon to see fish wearing them as well as the masks flow into the oceans and fish bump into them like helpless turtles get plastic straws embedded in their nostrils. And yes, you are right now most likely breathing plastic fibers polluting our atmosphere, which fibers were released from worthless masks that research now suggests might be harming the user. While I most often pick up plastic trash on my walks, I am loathe to tough these petri dishes for germs and viruses.

Can’t tell you where this will go. But Frontline’s lawsuit is certainly positive. Facebook and Instagram’s knife into Children’s Health Defense is not. I got off Facebook and came here to Substack merely because of repeated censorship, including censorship on a story FB had previously cleared itself!

Below is the substance from the Frontline Amicus Brief on masks. I copied and pasted from a PDF so the footnotes might not match up. I believe I have covered most of the salient points in my many months of writings here on Substack and previously on Facebook.

To Your Excellent Health,

Robert Jay Rowen, MD

From: https://res.cloudinary.com/aflds/image/upload/v1660068993/aflds/Health_Freedom_Defense_Fund_Inc_et_al_v_Biden_etc_et_al_Americas_Frontline_Doctors_Amicus_Motion_Brief_Stamped_8_8_2022_21_cv_1693_MDFL_22_11287_CA_11_759748977c.pdf

““““A. MASKS DON’T WORK

The claim that masks are safe and effective against viral micro-particulates is inaccurate. Masks are ineffective, unsanitary, and in many ways they harm the wearer physically and psychologically. In fact, coercing or requiring a person to wear a mask without his or her consent sets the stage for contracting a virus more likely, overrides patient consent, and makes the consequences of that infection worse.

All studies prior to the outbreak of the alleged severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), or cause of the coronavirus disease,

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colloquially known as COVID-19, did not show a benefit of masks in preventing viral spread.4 In fact, during the pandemic, although 80% of U.S. states mandated masks, research showed that masks did not reduce the spread of the virus.5 No masks have been shown to protect against small particle viruses.6 Coronaviruses are 0.1 to 0.125 microns – 100 times smaller than fine dust particles. CDC July 2020 statistics show that 85% of people who were sick with COVID-19 reported “always” or “usually” wearing a mask. Only 3.9% of COVID-19 victims reported never wearing a mask. These numbers were nearly identical in the control group – i.e., those not getting sick with COVID-19.7

Another study done on active-duty U.S. Marines required that the Marines be pre-screened, quarantined in barracks, wear masks (except when sleeping and eating), practice social distancing, and disinfect their environment. Furthermore, they were supervised to ensure compliance. None of this had any effect on the

4Renyi Zhang, Yixin Li, Annie L. Zhang, Yuan Wang, and Mario J. Molina Identifying airborne transmission as the dominant route for the spread of COVID-19_ PNAS June 30, 2020 117 (26) 14857-14863; first published June 11, 2020 Contributed by Mario J. Molina, May 16, 2020 (sent for review May 14, 2020; reviewed by Manish Shrivaslava and Tong Zhu:. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2018637117

5https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.18.21257385v1.full.pdf

6Masking Lack of Evidence with Politics, The Center for Evidence Based Medicine, July 23, 2020: https://www.cebm.net/COVID-19/masking-lack-of-evidence-with-politics/

7Erratum: Vol. 69, No. 36. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2020;69:1380. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6938a7

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development of disease or transmission. The Center for Evidenced Based Medicine in Oxford England reviewed all the controlled studies on mask wearing and came to the same conclusion that showed there was no statistical benefit to masks.8

Schools in Sweden were kept open for 1.95 million children, ages 15 and younger and masks were not enforced. As reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, Sweden had zero COVID-19 deaths among students, and teachers did not have an excess infection risk.9

In general, the death curve of Sweden, which did none of the mandated actions, had the same appearance as the seasonal death curve of England, which undertook every possible measure. Moreover, Dr. Fauci, the current director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the president’s chief medical adviser, has stated that masks don’t work. In a February 5, 2020 email to former Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell, he stated, “masks are really for infected people to prevent them from spreading infection to people who are not infected rather than protecting uninfected people from acquiring infection. The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really

8Letizia MD, A., Ramos PhD, Irene et al. Sars-CoV-2 Transmission Among Marine Recruits During Quarantine. NEJM, 11 Nov 2020: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33176093/

9 Open Schools, COVID-19, and Child and Teacher Morbidity in Sweden; NEJM Letter to the Ed. 6 Jan 2021: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33176093/

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effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material.”10 One month later in a March 8, 2020 interview on “60 Minutes”, Dr. Fauci again publicly stated, “people should not be walking around with a mask, there’s no reason.”11

Surgical masks are worn by medical health care workers because they are designed to protect the patient from the doctors’ respiratory droplets and to protect the doctor from blood and bodily secretions. The wearer, however, is not protected from other people’s airborne particles. Numerous studies conclude that masks do not prevent virus respiratory illness and only offer a false sense of security as they do not prevent transmission of viral particles. The following demonstrates the ineffectiveness of the majority of masks worn by the general public and condoned by the CDC. The size of a particle in barrier intervention matters. Viruses are smaller than bacteria and are approximately 0.1 micrometers (μm). In comparison, wood smoke particles are 0.4-0.7 micrometers and easily penetrate cloth masks. Even a properly fitted N95 mask will block 95% of air particles only down to 0.3

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Dr. Benjamin Braddock @GraduatedBen

Fauci: “Masks aren’t really effective”

11 March 2020: Dr. Anthony Fauci talks with Dr Jon LaPook about COVID-19,

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μm from reaching the wearer’s face.12
Further, a randomized controlled study of masks done of hospital personnel

(who were supervised and controlled in the mask wearing) showed cloth mask wearers are six (6) times more likely to contract a respiratory illness than those without a mask.13

Additionally, surgical masks are not efficient at preventing emissions from infected patients, as they are designed to protect patients from a surgeon’s respiratory droplets, and are not effective at blocking particles smaller than 100 μm.14 For example, a 2011 randomized Australian clinical trial of standard medical and surgical masks showed that medical masks offered no protection at all from influenza.15

12 Carr-Locke DL, Soetikno R, Shah S, Kaltenbach T, Shergill A. I Smell Smoke-The Must Know Details About the N95. Am J Gastroenterol. 2020 Oct;115(10):1562-1565. doi: 10.14309/ajg.0000000000000785. PMID: 32796175; PMCID: PMC7447000: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7447000/

13 C Raina MacIntyre, Holly Seale, Tham Chi Dung, et al. A cluster randomized trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers. Infectious Diseases Research BMJ Open, 2015: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577

14Disposable N95 Respirators and Surgical Masks: A Comparison: https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/1841759O/respirators-and-surgical-masks-contrast-techn ical-bulletin-anz.pdf

15A cluster randomized clinical trial comparing fit-tested and non-fit-tested N95 respirators to medical masks to prevent respiratory virus infection in health care workers: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1750-2659.2011.00198.x

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A virus is transmitted through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or talks. Larger respiratory droplets (5 μm) remain in the air for only a short time and travel only short distances, generally one meter. They fall to the ground quickly.16

Wearing a mask outside of a surgical or health care facility offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to COVID-19 as one that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes). It is scientific nonsense that wearing a mask when entering a medical office or restaurant is necessary, but considered safe to remove it while being examined or seated at a table.

As pointed out by Physics PhD Professor Dennis Rancourt, “Such small particles (2.5 μm) are part of air fluidity, are not subject to gravitational sedimentation, and would not be stopped by long-range inertial impact. This means that the slightest (even momentary) facial misfit of a mask or respirator renders the design filtration norm of the mask or respirator entirely irrelevant.”17

16 Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1: https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMc2004973?articleTools=true

17 Rancourt PhD, Denis. “Masks Don’t Work: A Review of Science Relevant to COVID- 19 Social Policy”:

https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/masks-dont-work-covid-a-review-of-science-relevant-to- covide-19-social-policy

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The World Health Organization stated: “At the present time, the widespread use of masks by healthy people in the community setting is not yet supported by high quality or direct scientific evidence and there are potential benefits and harms to consider.”18 The Center for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases states: “We don’t routinely recommend the use of face masks by the public to prevent respiratory illness. And we certainly are not recommending them at this time for this new virus.”19

Masks cannot 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.20

B. MASKS ARE UNSANITARY AND CAUSE HARMS

Little attention seems to be paid to the plethora of unsanitary aspects of

18 World Health Organization. ( 2020) . Advice on the use of masks in the context of COVID-19: interim guidance, 5 June 2020. World Health Organization. https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/332293. License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
IGO: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/332293

19 Transcript for CDC Media Telebriefing: Update on 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV): https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/t0131-2019-novel-coronavirus.html

20Clapp PW, Sickbert-Bennett EE, Samet JM, et al. Evaluation of Cloth Masks and Modified Procedure Masks as Personal Protective Equipment for the Public During the COVID- 19 Pandemic. JAMA Intern Med. 2021;181(4):463–469. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.8168: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33300948/

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mask wearing, including harmful repercussions to a person’s physical health. There are many adverse psychological effects of mask wearing as well, and disruptions to normal socialization and interactions among individuals and society as a whole.

A recent study published in July 2022 concluded that both sides of a mask get quickly contaminated with pathogenic bacteria, growing fungi colonies that can be a direct source of infection to the respiratory and digestive tracts and skin.21 Additionally, toxic mold, fungi, and bacteria can pose a significant threat to the immune system by potentially weakening it. And alarming reports reveal that extremely dangerous graphene, fiberglass, and plastic fibers from
masks are being absorbed into the lungs.22 In essence, masks are potentially dangerous medical devices that can put an individual at risk for viral infection, and, if so, they will have a far worse outcome.23

21Park, AM., Khadka, S., Sato, F. et al. Bacterial and fungal isolation from face masks under the COVID-19 pandemic. Sci Rep 12, 11361 (2022): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15409-x

22 Paul E. Alexander. “,” American Institute for Economic Research, April 9, 2021, https://www.aier.org/article/the-dangers-of-masks/

23Russell Blaylock, Id. (quoting Sheharde H et al. Cutting edge: Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1 negatively regulates Th 1 functionJ Immunol 2015;195:1372-1376). See also: Westendorg AM et al. Hypoxia enhances immunosuppression by inhibiting CD4+ effector T cell function and promoting Treg activity. Cell Physiol Biochem 2017;41:1271-84.
See further: Sceneay J et al. Hypoxia-driven immunosuppression contributes to the pre-metastic niche. Oncoimmunology 2013;2:1 e22355.

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According to some researchers, masks actually increase COVID-19 deaths. A study by Dr. Zacharias Fögen conducted in Kansas revealed that counties with a mask mandate had significantly higher case fatality rates than counties without a mask mandate. Dr. Fögen coined this phenomenon the “Foegen effect.” He explained that deep re-inhalation of droplets and virions caught in masks may make COVID-19 infection more likely or severe.24

Breathing is adversely affected by masks, as shown by researchers in Germany who showed that cardiopulmonary performance is impaired by masks.25 Even simple cloth masks can cause shortness of breath especially during activity. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) assesses safe CO 2 limits to be 2000 ppm. However, recent measurements of CO 2 inside cloth masks revealed levels of 10,000 ppm in some cases.26 This is especially important for anyone with underlying cardiopulmonary insufficiency. Increased CO 2
levels have also been shown to alter expression of genes in bronchial cells

24 Fögen, Zacharias MD . The Foegen effect: A mechanism by which facemasks contribute to the COVID-19 case fatality rate. Medicine: February 18, 2022 - Volume 101 - Issue

25 Fikenzer S, Uhe T, Lavall D, Rudolph U, Falz R, Busse M, Hepp P, Laufs U. Effects of surgical and FFP2/N95 face masks on cardiopulmonary exercise capacity. Clin Res Cardiol. 2020 Dec;109(12):1522-1530. doi: 10.1007/s00392-020-01704-y. Epub 2020 Jul 6. PMID: 32632523; PMCID: PMC7338098: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7338098/

26 Jane Orient MD, Personal Communication also: https://aapsonline.org/COVID- 19-and-air-pollution/

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adversely affecting “innate immune response, host defense, lung edema clearance”, and is an independent risk factor for death for pneumonia.27 This propensity of masks to quickly become infectious bacteria traps illustrates that masks are unsanitary.

Sanitary mask disposal is also a major problem. It is estimated by some researchers that millions of surgical masks can be consumed worldwide in one (1) day.28 Thus, discarding a single-use mask could, under ambient conditions, slowly degrade into smaller particles (5 mm) and form a new source of microplastics causing environment pollution and threatening living organisms.29 This huge consumption of surgical masks contributes to microplastic pollution in the land environment and possibly universally permeates the aquatic ecosystem as

27Casalino-Matsuda SM, Wang N, Ruhoff PT, Matsuda H, Nlend MC, Nair A, Szleifer I, Beitel GJ, Sznajder JI, Sporn PHS. Hypercapnia Alters Expression of Immune Response, Nucleosome Assembly and Lipid Metabolism Genes in Differentiated Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells. Sci Rep. 2018 Sep 10;8(1):13508. doi: 10.1038/s41598-
018-32008-x. PMID: 30202079; PMCID: PMC6131151: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30202079/ , Goh DYT et al, A randomised clinical trial to evaluate the safety, fit, comfort of a novel N95 mask in children. SCI REP. 2019 Dec 12;9(1):18952. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-55451-w. PMID: 31831801; PMCID: PMC6908682. ttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6908682/.

28 Li T, Liu Y, Li M, Qian X, Dai SY. Mask or no mask for COVID-19: A public health and market study. PloS One. 2020 Aug 14;15(8):e0237691. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0237691. PMID: 32797067; PMCID: PMC7428176.

29 O.O. Fadare, E.D. Okoffo, COVID-19 face masks: a potential source of microplastic fibers in the environment Sci. Total Environ., 737 (2020), p. 140279: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7297173/

well.
Thus, it is ironic that the CDC seized on the word “sanitation”, found in the

Public Health Service Act of 1944 (PHSA) § 361(a) as codified at 42 U.S.C. § 264(a), as the CDC’s justification for assuming sweeping powers to compel travelers to wear masks. Masks are inherently unsanitary. Masks are a sanitation problem, not a sanitation solution. ““““