In this video Dr. Christina Parks discusses the detriments of masking. 

Face masks in practice

Most of the mask mandates removed and it is now up to you as a clinician and clinic owner, leader and advocate of health to determine your practice policy on masking.

To help you I have compiled a review of the evidence and a risk assessment of mask-wearing.

Background

• In the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak, gauze masks were used and recommended, but not mandatory, and there was great debate about whether they were effective. A study from 1919 by Wilfried Kellogg confirmed potential adverse effects of wearing masks about the efficacy of mask-wearing stating that “many instances were observed among hospital attendants where apparently the mask was no protection to the wearers” (https://bit.ly/3I240ds). It was further considered that the mask may have “an unhygienic influence when extended to the entire working day of the individual”.
• In 2003 you could have been fined $110,000 in Australia for “exaggerating the health benefits of surgical masks” along with a warning from NSW Fair Trading Minister Reba Meagher “that it is un-Australian to profiteer from people’s fears and anxieties,”
• In the spring of 2020, government advisors around the world all agreed that masks weren’t necessary and were, indeed, nothing more than virtue signaling. And then, without good reason, they suddenly changed their minds, and the face mask became a symbol of compliance and a visual sign of the crisis. It was promoted that wearing one would prevent transmission of a deadly virus and help “save granny”. Masks were mandated in public spaces and work spaces and questioning their efficacy of them was frowned upon.

Research summary

There is no robust scientific evidence that masks work.

• One meta-analysis published by the CDC in May 2020 found “no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks”.
• (Lack of) Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers (otherwise known as the DANMASK study) was published in Nov 2020 in the renowned journal Annals of Internal Medicine. It concluded that there was no statistically significant benefit of wearing a mask.
• Dr Denis Rancourt, published a well researched review and summary of the literature stating “There have been extensive randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies, and meta-analysis reviews of RCT studies, which all show that masks and respirators do not work to prevent respiratory influenza-like illnesses, or respiratory illnesses believed to be transmitted by droplets and aerosol particles.”
• SPR, also provide overview of the current evidence regarding the effectiveness of face masks and conclude “So far, most studies found little to no evidence for the effectiveness of face masks in the general population, neither as personal protective equipment nor as a source control.”
• Masks do nothing to halt the spread of disease, North Dakota and South Dakota had near-identical case figures, despite one having a mask-mandate and the other not.
• In Kansas, counties without mask mandates actually had fewer Covid “cases” than counties with mask mandates. And despite masks being very common in Japan, they had their worst flu outbreak in decades in 2019.
• The public health order to wear a mask comes from the concept that the pathogen is transmitted through the air, and efforts to prevent us from sharing the same air could be made to control the contagion. However, even WHO has stated that “there is insufficient evidence“ that the so-called SARS-CoV-2 virus is transmitted through the air.

There is much evidence that masks harm those who wear them

• A review of 48 studies published between 1981 and 2020 by Doctors for Enlightenment concludes “The data situation does not speak in favor of wearing mouth and nose covers… This is particularly true with regard to children!”
• (https://bit.ly/3LczvDx).
• Kisielinski et al. wrote a review paper about the efficacy and potential side effects of wearing masks. The authors concluded that wearing masks poses severe health risks while not reducing transmission significantly
  • “extended mask-wearing by the general population could lead to relevant effects and consequences in many medical fields.”
  • “Theoretically, the mask-induced effects of the drop in blood gas oxygen and increase in carbon dioxide extend to the cellular level with induction of the transcription factor HIF (hypoxia-induced factor) and increased inflammatory and cancer-promoting effects [160] and can, thus, also have a negative influence on pre-existing clinical pictures.”
  • “We not only found evidence in the reviewed mask literature of potential long-term effects, but also evidence of an increase in direct short-term effects with increased mask-wearing time in terms of cumulative effects for: carbon dioxide retention, drowsiness, headache, feeling of exhaustion, skin irritation (redness, itching) and microbiological contamination (germ colonization).
• A long study on the detrimental effects of mask-wearing was published by the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
• Dr. James Meehan reported in August 2020 he was seeing increases in bacterial pneumonia, fungal infections, facial rashes .
• Masks are also known to contain plastic microfibers, which damage the lungs when inhaled and may be potentially carcinogenic.
• Childen wearing masks encourages mouth-breathing, which results in facial deformities.
• People around the world have passed out due to CO2 poisoning while wearing their masks, and some children in China even suffered sudden cardiac arrest.
• Masks serve as incubators for bacteria, fungi and other pathogens
• Wearing masks consequently leads to direct exposure to bacteria and fungi constantly being inhaled. This is particularly alarming since Aspergillus, Cryptococcus, Pneumocystis, and endemic fungi are major pulmonary fungal pathogens that can result in life-threatening invasive diseases. 
• A study published in Nature shows what’s already been known for decades: masks get quickly contaminated with pathogenic bacteria and fungi.
  • “The colony counts of face masks were higher in bacteria than fungi; the bacterial and fungal colony counts were higher on the face-side and outer-side, respectively. The longer duration of mask usage correlated with increases in the fungal colony counts but not the bacterial colony counts.”
• Masks kill
• This meta analysis demonstrates that masks do not prevent transmission. Instead, they pose a major threat to human health. 

Risk assessment for not wearing a mask

Risk assessment for wearing a mask

The detriment of masking – Hypercapnia

In this presentation, Dr. Christina Parkes reminds us of the effects of chronic and acute hypercapnia as a result of mask-wearing, often referring back to the model of COPD to support the logic.

Well, if masks don’t work, then why do surgeons wear them?

This is well answered in an article by Dr. Jim Meehan “Based on extensive review and analysis, there is no question in my mind that healthy people should not be wearing surgical or cloth masks. Nor should we be recommending universal masking of all members of the population.

Although surgeons do wear masks to prevent their respiratory droplets from contaminating the surgical field and the exposed internal tissues of our surgical patients, that is about as far as the analogy extends.

Unlike the public wearing masks in the community, surgeons work in sterile surgical suites equipped with heavy-duty air exchange systems that maintain positive pressures, exchange and filter the room air at a very high level, and increase the oxygen content of the room air. These conditions limit the negative effects of masks on the surgeon and operating room staff. And yet despite these extreme climate control conditions, clinical studies demonstrate the negative effects (lowering arterial oxygen and carbon dioxide re-breathing) of surgical masks on surgeon physiology and performance.

We wear the mask for short periods of time and change it out at the first signs of the excessive moisture build-up that we know degrades mask effectiveness and increases their negative effects.“

When are we going to stand up

Considering all of the above does it make any rational sense to continue mask-wearing? Either in public or in your clinic? There’s no proof that masks prevent transmission. Instead, they most likely harm those wearing them.

You may feel mask-wearing reassures clients who are scared. But what we know now is you could be putting yourself and them at harm by promoting the wearing of them. Follow the actual science and just say no more

• Masks kill: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/8/4344
• A study published in Nature shows what’s already been known for decades: masks get quickly contaminated with pathogenic bacteria and fungi.

In Conclusion

“You should stop wearing the mask, but you shouldn’t stop remembering. It would help if you threw this rag in the rubbish. Still, you shouldn’t forget the imprisoned children, the divided families, the destroyed friendships and relationships, the bankrupt shops, the closed schools, the lost jobs, the decreed bankruptcies, the burst bills, the denied treatments, the stolen freedom, the persecuted doctors, and the censored scientists. On all the masks you have worn during these two years, the whole list of crimes committed by politicians, bureaucrats, journalists, celebrities, corrupt pseudoscientists, and other torturers of other people’s lives is written in invisible letters. May the last mask be the first page of condemnation of these misanthopes.” Dr Simon Goddeck

Additional Resources

Anna de Buisseret U.K. Lawyer 30/7/22

U.K.: Exemptions for injections, masks, tests – or for ANY medical intervention and/or procedure:

Exemptions are NOT required!!! To every living man, woman or child in the U.K.:

YOU have the INALIENABLE, FUNDAMENTAL, RIGHT to REFUSE any medical intervention and or treatment even if the refusal leads to your death. 

You do NOT have to: 

• Explain yourself 
• Justify yourself 
• Prove a religious or any other objection

You have Sovereignty over your own body and mind:

“Voluntas aegroti suprema lex” – Over his or her own mind and body, the Individual is Sovereign”  (John Stuart Mill, “On Liberty”). ie “Bodily Integrity”. And that includes Sovereignty to refuse or accept medical treatment/intervention/procedures. 

How do you assert this Right? 

You simply say “NO – I do NOT want this medical treatment/intervention/procedure.” That’s it!

NO-ONE has the right to derogate from your inalienable, fundamental Right to Bodily Integrity – including your MPs in government, your employer, your doctor/medical team, your council, your school or college or your University or any corporation or other entity. 

HM the Queen – as Head of State- does not have the right to derogate from your inalienable, fundamental Right to Bodily Integrity. 

This Right to Bodily Integrity cannot be derogated from – even in times of War or Public Health Emergency. 

See: 

• the Magna Carta 1297 , chapter 29: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw1cc1929/25/9/section/XXIX
• and the general saving clause: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw1cc1929/25/9/section/wrapper1
• the Bill of Rights 1688, the “Subjects Rights”:https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMarSess2/1/2/introduction
• the Offences Against the Person Act 1861;https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/24-25/100/contents
• the Geneva Conventions Acts:https://www.legislation.gov.uk/primary+secondary?title=Geneva%20Convention%20
• including the Geneva Convention Act 1957:https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/5-6/52/contents
• Human Rights Act 1998:https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/42/contents
• the International Criminal Court Act 2001:https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/17/contents
• the Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1031/contents
• enshrining the Declaration of Helsinki:https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1031/schedule/1
• the World Medical Association’s Declaration of Helsinki:https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects/
• Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health 2015, Supreme Court Judgment of Lady Hale:https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2013-0136-judgment.pdf
• Ie the Rule of Law in the U.K. 
• The International Humanitarian Law framework confirms this in the following Human Rights and Medical ethics instruments: 
• the Hippocratic Oath:https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/greek/greek_oath.html
• the Nuremberg Code:https://media.tghn.org/medialibrary/2011/04/BMJ_No_7070_Volume_313_The_Nuremberg_Code.pdf
• USA v Karl Brandt et al “the Medical cases”, Nuremberg Trials: https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/nmt_1_intro
• the WMA’s Declaration of Geneva
• the Geneva Conventions 
• the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 
• the European Convention on Human Rights
• the Helsinki Declaration 
• the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 
• the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 
• the International Covenant on Human Rights and Bioethics- the “Oviedo Convention”
• Ie the International Rule of Law. 

The International Rule of Law binds the U.K. State and all of us within the U.K. 

Everyone is Equal under the Law and NO ONE  is above the Law. 

The Rule of Law binds EACH and EVERY one of us – regardless of title, position, money, power, status, ideology etc. 

So: JUST SAY NO!!!!!!!