It’s time to reinstitue anti-mask laws
Miguel beat me to the punch with his post documenting child abuse, forcing a toddler to wear a mask.
My son has gotten in trouble at school for letting his mask slip below his nose. He’s seven.
I’ve read all the studies and here is what the latest data says.
When testing with dummies, i.e., they put a mask on a dummy and aerosolize virus sized particles around the dummy’s face and measure how many particles the masked dummy inhales vs an unmasked control dummy, what they have found is that a cloth mask reduced the particle count by 1%. Disposable fabric masks, e.g., the dental hygenist mask or nail salon worker mask that you buy in a 10 pack for a few bucks, reduce the particle count by 10%. The best of the best KN-95 masks reduce the particle count by a whopping 65%.
So when some fuck-ass bureaucrat says “a cloth mask is better than no mask and therefore you should wear one,’ what he is actually saying is “on a dummy, under perfect mask fitting conditions, the dummy will only inhale 99% of the number of virus sized particles that it would have if it were unmasked.”
When studying mask mandates, what is crystal clear is that in every city, state, and country where mask mandates have had zero effect in reducing COVID transmission because take the 1% particle reduction of cloth masks, and then add to it all the error that comes from human beings moving and talking and not fitting masks correctly, etc.
I said all the way at the beginning of this shit over a year ago that mask mandates were going to prove worthless. I have spent too much time in respirator training for working in industrial environments where we have substances in the air like hydrogen sulfide, lead, or carcinogenic dust, and have been through all the testing and fitting, and warnings you can get sent home without pay if you don’t have a clean shave every day to know that just telling people with no training to just put something over their face will have any chance in reducing airborne transmission.
The point being, mask mandates, like the masks themselves – except very specific masks, under very specific circumstances, worn by very specific people – are absolutely worthless.
That said, it is time that governors start inforcing anti-mask laws again.
Every COVID mask should be treated like a Klan hood.
Honestly, they are tantamount. It’s just a symbol that the wearer is a Democrat who wants you to be stripped of your civil liberties, segregated far away from them, and quite possibly killed.
The onus should be on people who want to wear useless masks to get a doctor’s note for permission to wear one in public.
Without a doctor’s note, mask wearers are arrested on sight.
