Face Masks and Covid-19
Many people think masks should be mandatory to control the spread of infection.
This handout is intended for governors, mayors, alderman, employers and business-
es considering a mask policy and also for those people who would be affected by
such a policy.
There are several things that need to be taken into consideration regarding requiring
the wearing of masks. Are they necessary, legal, safe, effective and warranted?
| will attempt to answer these questions in this handout.
First, are masks necessary? Fe animes ws COUR IBCne yo st Ot sh 8
For the first four months of Covid-19 we were all walking .
around in big box and grocery stores without masks. It is aeaenttoneotngi
my contention that if the virus were as deadly and conta- ws
gious as it was said to be, we all would have been dropping
like flies during this time. Yes, there were many deaths that
occurred in these first four months but the vast majority te
were among seniors in nursing homes and there is no evi- "
dence the virus was being spread through shoppers. Now, baectoran
four months later, mask mandates are being initiated when
the death rate has dropped off to near zero. Here is a graph showing the rise and fall of Covid-19
deaths in Ontario along with the time table of mask introduction to illustrate this point.
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Why are yall wearing a mask? Mask recommendations are based on three assumptions:
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protect against covid19 or other (1) Covid-19 is spread by asymptomatic carriers, (2) masks
viruses.
will work to stop the virus and (3) the virus is deadly.
Regarding asymptomatic carriers, The WHO said on June 6th that asymptom-
atic carrier spread was rare. The study “A study on ineffectivity of asymptomatic
SARS-CoV-2 carriers” that can be found on PubMed.gov https://www.ncbi.nim.
nih.gov/pmce/articles/PMC7219423/, exposed 455 people, which included hos-
pital staff, family members and patients, to an asymptomatic carrier. None of the
people exposed developed the virus. Regarding the effectiveness of masks, there
is no science that definitively supports the theory that masks will work to stop
a virus. Even the mask boxes clearly state the masks are not effective. And furthermore, the current
recovery rate per CDC statistics is 99.76%. Stockholm University
says the chances of surviving Covid-19 at over 99% for people under
60 and just slightly less if you are over 60. These survival rates show
Covid-19 is causing far less deaths than the flu has most years.
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Is a forced mask policy legal?
While not yet legally challenged (to my knowledge), it can be argued
that a mask policy can be interpreted as practicing medicine without oe
a license. A mask is a medical device. (According to life changing “ded oat ter eden hu omer By
interventions: -A medical device is an instrument, apparatus, implant, re
machine, tool, in vitro reagent, or similar article that is to diagnose,
