Wearing facemasks has been demonstrated to have substantial adverse physiological and psychological effects

My god, this is simply incredible. https://t.co/oI0fvFWyIu pic.twitter.com/KU1Ci52Bwv

— Jeffrey A Tucker (@jeffreyatucker) April 10, 2021

 Bob Wenzel highlights the key point from the conclusion:

From the conclusion:

The existing scientific evidences challenge the safety and efficacy of wearing facemask as preventive intervention for COVID-19. The data suggest that both medical and non-medical facemasks are ineffective to block human-to-human transmission of viral and infectious disease such SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, supporting against the usage of facemasks. Wearing facemasks has been demonstrated to have substantial adverse physiological and psychological effects. These include hypoxia, hypercapnia, shortness of breath, increased acidity and toxicity, activation of fear and stress response, rise in stress hormones, immunosuppression, fatigue, headaches, decline in cognitive performance, predisposition for viral and infectious illnesses, chronic stress, anxiety and depression. Long-term consequences of wearing facemask can cause health deterioration, developing and progression of chronic diseases and premature death. Governments, policy makers and health organizations should utilize prosper and scientific evidence-based approach with respect to wearing facemasks, when the latter is considered as preventive intervention for public health.

"You don’t come near my kids with an experimental drug. You don’t come near me with an experimental drug."

You don’t blackmail me and tell me that if I don’t get this experimental drug injected into my children, injected into me, that then I can’t go back and see my family in Ireland.  That’s my baseline, and that’s my motive.

Brave Irish journalist
Aisling O'Loughlin speaks the truth that needs to be told pic.twitter.com/zO6CcBW3uP

— Zol Neveri (@ZNeveri) April 8, 2021

VAX PASSPORTS PROLONG LOCKDOWNS

Martin Kulldorff, a biostatistician, and a professor at Harvard Medical School. and Jay Bhattacharya, a physician, economist, and a professor at Stanford Medical School, write in The Wall Street Journal:

As tens of millions are inoculated against Covid-19, officials in places as diverse as New York state, Israel, and China have introduced “vaccine passports,” and there’s talk of making them universal. The idea is simple: Once you’ve received your shots, you get a document or phone app, which you flash to gain entry to previously locked-down venues—restaurants, theaters, sports arenas, offices, schools.

It sounds like a way of easing coercive lockdown restrictions, but it’s the opposite. To see why, consider dining. Restaurants in most parts of the U.S. have already reopened, at limited capacity in some places. A vaccine passport would prohibit entry by potential customers who haven’t received their shots. It would restrict the freedom even of those who have: If you’re vaccinated but your spouse isn’t, forget about dining out as a couple.

Planes and trains, which have continued to operate throughout the pandemic, would suddenly be off-limits to the unvaccinated. The only places where restrictions would be relatively eased would be those still fully locked down, such as many live-event venues and schools. Yet even there, the passport idea depends on keeping the underlying restrictions in place—giving officials an incentive to do so for much longer as leverage to overcome vaccine resistance.

The vaccine passport should therefore be understood not as an easing of restrictions but as a coercive scheme to encourage vaccination. Such measures can be legitimate: Many schools require immunization against common childhood illnesses, and visitors to some African countries must be vaccinated against yellow fever. But Covid vaccine passports would harm, not benefit, public health.

The idea that everybody needs to be vaccinated is as scientifically baseless as the idea that nobody does. Covid vaccines are essential for older, high-risk people and their caretakers and advisable for many others. But those who’ve been infected are already immune. The young are at low risk, and children—for whom no vaccine has been approved anyway—are at far less risk of death than from the flu.

Read the rest here.

Thanks to Robert Wenzel @ Target Liberty. 

Track Coach Fired Because He Didn't Force Athletes to Wear Masks During Races

Beloved High School track coach fired because he didn’t force athletes to wear masks during outdoor races - https://t.co/yvRR9AWold pic.twitter.com/en3Twa5FlY

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) April 7, 2021

An Update:

A New Hampshire high school track and field coach was fired after refusing to tell his team they had to wear masks when they competed.

Pembroke Academy track and field coach Bradley Keyes, who coached at Pembroke for four years but was not a teacher there, asked the school if the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association’s guidelines requiring masks were guidance or a mandate. Informed that Pembroke and fellow competing schools agreed with the policy, on Saturday Keyes issued a blog post encouraging others to tell the school they opposed the policy, while adding an email he sent to the school’s athletic director that stated:

I’ll come straight to the point. I will not put kids on the track and tell them to run any races while wearing masks. I will not stand up in front of the kids and lie to them and tell them that these masks are doing anything worthwhile out in an open field with wind blowing and the sun shining. These insane policies are robbing kids of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities for no valid reason other than irrational fears and going along with the sheep.  … Fire me if you must

Remember this gem?

Reminder.

A year ago pic.twitter.com/fPA7wm126N

— Zol Neveri (@ZNeveri) April 6, 2021