Hat tip to https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/... for pointing to 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. [ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
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I have asked the question "Why didn't we wear masks for the last 50 years?" COVID was not that big of a change. We could have been "saving" people for decades. If the life of one person can be used to compel the rest to slavery, freedom is gone. Driving could be abolished tomorrow, and save tens of thousands... if you don't look beyond your nose.

They still require masks in certain places in MA. I have been playing indoor soccer, so comply. I made a mask out of an elastic SUV cargo net, with roughly 3/4 in holes while not expanded. From across the field, one can't tell. It is a mask.
Most of my soccer buddies think it is hilarious, and avoid their own "water boarding" by pulling the masks down while playing. The ones that don't like it either stopped coming (perhaps in general) or keep their mouths shut. My nickname didn't come from fiction.
NH just stopped masks in public. Private places can do as they like. Nashua (overrun by MA) is the only city that has a local mask ordinance.

The Placebo Masks
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Mere 3 feet distancing and frequent handwashing is more effective than a mask. Also, I wonder how many false positives or misdiagnosed cases there are. The epidemy of such cases is the one from Florida in which a young, otherwise healthy man, died after a motorcycle accident trauma, but was counted as a Wuhan virus death because he allegedly tested positive.

WELL, thank you Oregon for convincing me to NEVER visit your worthless state. For years now they said that vaccination is our savior. Now, it means nothing and we still need stupid masks?

I lasted a whole year only with my my own immunity (however much that was), and now I am vaccinated at have supposedly 94% immunity, but I still have to wear a mask that gives nowhere like 94% protection. Stupid. Government has pretty much lost my support. Its even person for himself now.

Let’s just refer to them as leftists and marxists, or is that not politically correct and racist too?

Masks have long since become a political tool. If they ever were effective otherwise.

"When is someone going to start portraying the "progressives" and "liberals" as the regressives and the illiberals that they are? "

When the media finally realizes/determines it is in their best interests, and not one second sooner.

My favorite pub was a jolly place today. No masks outside or inside. 'Course it's been this way since the beginning. But we had real ketchup, mayo, and mustard in their original containers. No little packets! Nice.

I have lots of friends in Oregon. Maybe they will start moving here.

When is someone going to start portraying the "progressives" and "liberals" as the regressives and the illiberals that they are? Oh yeah, Ayn Rand.