Regarding the letter from the Central Coast Medical Association which supports the “science” behind decisions made by Public Health Director Dr. Penny Borenstein (“Central Coast physicians stand with public health,” May 14), I have to say, “Really?” Although I applaud her efforts to open up businesses, her lack of support for madating mask wearing in businesses because “the evidence is not conclusive” belies the overwheming evidence to the contrary. Experts from around the world strongly support mask wearing as a strong deterent to the spread of COVID-19.
Read the science for yourself.
Jill A. Stegman
Grover Beach
This article appears in May 21-31, 2020.
With all due respect, Jill, face mask wearing is not a deterrent to the spread of viruses, but it does make the wearer more susceptible to illness for multiple medical reasons. Instead of repeating what many experts have said, I will point to an article that outlines the salient points:
https://thefreedomarticles.com/unmasking-t…
Western medicine is good for trauma care, but not for overall health and nutrition. The allopathic approach is pushed by corporations that lobby to demonize and criminalize both plant-based/natural medicine and any studies that prove their “science” to be utter lies-for-profit. The medical industry is not health-based; if it were, it would entirely scrap the USDA “food” guidelines and recommend a whole-food, plant-based diet as the basis for optimal human nutrition, health, and well-being.
Health is a personal responsibility and the government has no right to force mask-wearing because there is no “state of emergency”. According to California law, an epidemic must exceed the normal parameters of a typical illness in order to qualify for the governor to declare a state of emergency. Since COVID-19 is a flu-like illness, we compare the number of typical seasonal flu deaths (6,000) to CV-19 deaths (under 3,000) and can easily see that this is not an epidemic. Therefore, orders to shelter at home, wear face masks, and all the other forced behavior modifications are null and void by law.
The mask-wearing edict is designed to dehumanize wearers (effectively “muzzling” them) and to vilify non-wearers (“you want to kill my grandparents”), keeping the powers-that-be in their cushy jobs and in control of a fearful, divided, finger-pointing populace. That end is the same for mandated and forced vaccinations (violation of bodily sovereignty) and contact tracing/microchip tracking (big brother surveillance). The sooner we all realize that this PLANdemic is a grand move in the game of tyranny, the sooner we can create true freedom and the harmonious world we all say we want.
I am a little confused by your statement of “overwhelming evidence” supporting the use of cloth face masks to prevent the spread of Covid-19. I have not been able to find any studies which fit this description, but rather the opposite. Take for example this April 2020 report in the British Medical Journal, which reviewed all existing studies on the efficacy of cloth masks to prevent the spread of disease. One quote from this article says “There is only very limited evidence of the benefits of wearing face masks by the general public, no evidence that wearing them in crowded places helps at all, and no evidence at all yet related to covid-19”. Please read the research for yourself here https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1422
Seems the science isn’t as settled as you imply.
Testing the Efficacy of Homemade Masks: WouldThey Protect in an Influenza Pandemic?
“Improvised homemade face masks may be used to help protect those who could potentially, for example, be at occupational risk from close or frequent contact with symptomatic patients. However, these masks would provide the wearers little protection from microorganisms from others persons who are infected with respiratory diseases. As a result, we would not recommend the use of homemade face masks as a method of reducing transmission of infection from aerosols.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/…