Lying BBC’s ‘Fact Checker’ Mask Claims Are So Full of Holes
Friday 24th July was England’s official Mask Day as face coverings in public are made compulsory across the nation. But as we saw earlier this year in China, they have more symbolic than medical impact.
But why now? The data shows the death rate plummeting and we have “flattened the curve” (see euromomo.eu graph below) yet politicians belatedly mandate their use. This irrational new measure – after the event – is being exposed as purely political and the BBC are right behind the scam.
Dissenters from this Orwellian nightmare who dare reveal the dangers of mask wearing are ridiculed. Below we dissect the BBC’s ‘Coronavirus: ‘Deadly masks’ claims debunked’ (Jack Goodman and Flora Carmichael) who present a case based on bait and switch, anecdote and bias [1]
As self-styled ‘fact checkers’ the authors, Goodman and Carmichael, cite no peer-reviewed evidence and rely exclusively on the claims of a single medical ‘expert’ in the employ of vaccine promoters.
Moreover, the entire BBC article revolves around not trying to convince you masks are good, but that no harm will befall you when wearing one. NOWHERE is there made a scientific case based on any benefits of mask wearing by healthy citizens.
These ‘journalists’ don’t touch that subject because the World Health Organisation (WHO) – among numerous other authorities – has publicly advised against healthy people masking up. [2]
Goodman and Flora Carmichael start thus:
“The BBC’s anti-disinformation team has been investigating false and misleading claims about the health risks of face masks and coverings being shared on social media.”
In bold type the brainwashing begins:
“Claim: Masks deprive your body of oxygen
Verdict: False claim”
This ‘verdict’ is not only unscientific, it becomes ethically reprehensible when examining their reasoning, which goes as follows:
“Thin paper or cloth masks will not lead to hypoxia. Surgeons operate for hours wearing them. They don’t get these problems,” says Prof Keith Neal, an infectious disease expert.”
“Thin paper?” “Cloth?”
Professor Neal knows full well that UK surgeons operating on patients believed to be infected with a dangerous virus are required to wear SCBA (hazmat) equipment. (see photo)
The thin paper masks Professor Neal refers to are NEVER relied on during surgery for protection from infection by virus.
So, who is Professor Keith Neal, infectious disease expert? He appears to be the same kind of clown as Professor ‘lockdown’ Neil Ferguson, the UK government’s top COVID-19 expert who resigned in disgrace recently admitting:
“They [Swedish scientists] came to a different policy conclusion based really on quite similar science. I don’t agree with it but scientifically they’re not far from scientists in any part of the world.”
Prof Lockdown then acknowledged that the Swedish authorities had “got a long way to the same effect” without a full lockdown or mandating mask wearing.
Like Professor Lockdown Professor Clown is both wrong and right.
Yes, of course, thin paper or cloth as a barrier will do little to nothing to impede airflow, just like it does little to nothing to block a virus. Ask yourself this: if the mask isn’t impeding air flow, then how is it giving you any protection?
For sheeple who meekly surrender to wearing these insane muzzles there is solid scientific evidence that they do impair judgment and cause drowsiness/headaches. Police reported exactly that after one car crash caused by wearing a higher grade N95 mask:
“The driver, who was not severely injured, was the only person in the car and passed out due to ‘insufficient oxygen intake/excessive carbon dioxide intake,’” police said in a Facebook post.
If you like seeing real world evidence before forming an opinion then just watch this very practical demonstration by an Argentinian Firefighter with a can of deodorant spray. His simple experiment proves official claims – like the masks – are full of holes:
Good ol’ Professor Neal omits to mention a crucial fact that in a surgical setting these “Thin paper or cloth masks” are worn ONLY to help reduce bacterial infection that may be transmitted from the saliva of the wearer to the patient. Paper masks do NOTHING to defend against viruses.
How do we know this?
How about the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) CDC: Masks Offer ‘No Significant Reduction’ In Flu Transmission [3]
The CDC study was emphatic declaring:
“We found no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks.”
Surgical masks, say the CDC:
“were designed to be worn by medical personnel to protect accidental contamination of patient wounds, and to protect the wearer against splashes or sprays of bodily fluids.”
Kind of blows a hole in Neal’s claims.
Like Prof Lockdown Prof Clown is very much an Establishment Man. He is a frequent contributor in BBC media and works at the University of Nottingham. He has “30 years’ experience controlling infectious diseases, such as SARS, MERS, swine flu and Ebola in the UK public health system.”
Just like Feguson, Neal is also another government-sanctioned expert on SARS, MERS, swine flu and Ebola! Do you recall how wrong these experts all were about the extreme dangers of that quartet of failed pandemic scares? Already you can sense the nonsense to be spewed forth by this establishment ‘expert.’
But first, ask yourself this: why would an expert in this field fail to cite any evidence from medical journals? Probably because he knows it says the opposite of what he claims.
Professional Conflict of Interest?
I would hazard a guess that the real reason Neal is economical with the truth is because he has a vested interest in the vaccine industry. We know this because he was involved in vaccine trials for HPV and meningitis.
Should we really be looking for impartial advice about virus safety from a man who stands to profit from vaccinations?
If the BBC was populated by honest and professional journalists they would probably want to “follow the money” and look to uncover how much professors Neal and Ferguson stand to make from Big Pharma when their mandatory COVID vaccines roll out. Wouldn’t you?
But don’t hold your breath. We know all too well that our intrepid BBC reporters – Goodman and F Carmichael – won’t want to upset their employer’s handy moneystream from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
These ‘journalists’ would rather you didn’t know billionaire COVID vaccine pusher Bill Gates is a massive donor to the BBC ‘charity’ as revealed April 2020. Secret payments to the broadcaster from the billionaire are believed to have been made at least since 2011. It is claimed the BEEB got “tens of millions in funding” from Uncle Bill’s pocket. [4]
So the UK’s flagship broadcaster is now well primed to go soft on Big Pharma assets like Professor Neal.
Next the BBC anti-disinformation team tells us:
“Claim: Masks can cause carbon dioxide poisoning
Verdict: No evidence to support this claim”
Our ‘fact checkers’ then add:
“We’ve seen lots of posts alerting people to something called hypercapnia – where there’s too much carbon dioxide in the blood.”
Cue the shill professor:
“This simply won’t happen unless there is an air-tight fit and you rebreathe your air,” says Prof Neal.
Oh, silly professor! Take a good look at the real world evidence from the police (read here). Or, maybe bone up on some government literature about safety levels for environmental CO2 such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA.
It has determined the optimal breathing range to be between 19.5 and 23.5 percent oxygen. Serious side effects will occur if the oxygen levels are outside of the safe zone. At levels 17 percent or below, your mental abilities become impaired.
Contradicting the insane assertions that masks don’t cause or exacerbate hypoxia/hypercapnia are no fewer than 17 peer-reviewed studies proving that wearing masks for any length of time will induce headaches (tell-tale symptom of low oxygen/high CO2), according to research by Russell Blaylock MD. [5]
The BBC fact checkers propagandists then tell us:
Claim: Masks harm the immune system
Verdict: No evidence to support this claim
The WHO acknowledge that if a person wears the same mask for a long time, microorganisms may grow on the fabric. A 2017 study involving 16 healthcare professionals showed that self-contamination was common when the volunteers were putting on and removing medical-grade personal protective equipment. Unclean, damp and bacterial-loaded masks certainly can harm the immune system. The WHO admits this:
“All masks should be changed if wet or visibly soiled; a wet mask should not be worn for an extended period of time. […] Either discard the mask or place it in a sealable bag where it is kept until it can be washed and cleaned,” the WHO advise.
Our intrepid BBC ‘fact checkers’ then more or less prove the point at the end of their article. They conclude with a revealing caveat:
“It’s worth pointing out that there are some situations in which face masks might not be advised:
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children under two whose lungs haven’t fully developed
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people with respiratory conditions who may struggle to breathe
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people should not wear masks when exercising”
Doesn’t that admission discredit the entire thesis? We will let you make your mind up on that.
But if that doesn’t convince you the BBC is full of BS then just remember only a month or so ago “experts” were telling us that, on balance, masks are not a good option. Even the most prominent expert in America, Dr Anthony Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases admitted:
“People should not be walking around wearing masks…. they might make you feel a little bit better.. often there are unintended consequences… people fiddle with them touching their face.” — Dr Fauci, NIAID
Those ‘unintended consequences‘ include the bacterial build up in the sodden, unclean cloth held against the mouth. Fauci’s comment were made in a ‘60 Minutes’ interview at the height of the pandemic (March 8, 2020). [6]
Around the same time the US Surgeon General was also decrying the wearing of masks (he too later changes his opinion):
Both the US Surgeon General and the Head of the NIAID know that surgical masks are primarily designed to protect the environment from the wearer, whereas the respirators are supposed to protect the wearer from the environment. (Balazy, et al).
Nowhere in the BBC propaganda piece is any medical literature cited. This is because the science doesn’t support their case because coronavirus are <0.125 microns in size. Masks and respirators filter particles 0.30 to 0.80 microns in size. Masks cannot possibly work. Even the manufacturers are telling us that:
“This product is an ear loop mask. This product is not a respirator and will not provide any protection against COVID-19 (coronavirus) or any other viruses or contaminants,” [7]
No bias-free study has ever found a benefit from wearing a mask or respirator in this application. Denis G Rancourt PhD gives facts in detail. [8]
While Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, DO, AOBNMM, ABIHM writes:
“There are NO randomized, controlled trials (RCT) with verified outcomes that show a benefit to healthcare workers or community members for wearing a mask or a respirator. There is no such definitive study. Likewise, no study exists that shows a benefit from a broad policy to wear masks in public.” [9]
Dr Tenpenny and her independent (non-biased) medical colleagues are gaining traction in exposing the mask nonsense:
“Apart from everything else, the only coverings the Government is insisting on are cloth ones, which every man and his dog knows are COMPLETELY USELESS,” writes Toby Young.
Allison Pearson in comment piece in the Telegraph adds:
“Anything other than tight-fitting, surgical-grade masks are utterly pointless – like trying to stop a bullet with a chain-link fence”. I mean, the evidence that the gold-standard N95 masks are effective in non-healthcare settings is threadbare at best – and they have to be disposed of after a single use.”
But the BBC (and our political leaders) care not a jot for proof masks don’t work or that they are proven to give you headaches, spread infection, etc. They care even less that you may be in the vast majority who are under 60 years of age with virtually no chance of catching and dying from COVID-19.
Our glorious leaders and media puppets truly believe you have all forgotten by now precisely what the ‘lockdown’ measures were intended to do – “flatten the curve.” But we are long past that now. ICU admissions in the UK peaked on 1st April, just 8 days after all the interventions were imposed.
“It is clear that the pandemic is over in Britain by looking at case rates, numbers and ICU admissions, supported by information regarding lower adaptive herd immunity thresholds, resulting in mortality akin to the “do nothing” scenario.” (Joel Smalley MBA) [11]
This is no longer about the virus. If you still doubt that, then here’s the unspoken elephant in the room – eye protection. Virologist Joseph Fair, PhD, an NBC News contributor reports:
“All of this evidence together seems to suggest that there’s a good likelihood that the ocular surface cells [eyes] are susceptible to infection by coronavirus.” according to Professor Lia Duh MD from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore.
Is the maintaining of a high state of fear based on junk science – harming commerce and social interaction – now serving the people or an ulterior, perhaps nefarious purpose?
Instead of giving you the full facts the BBC is preoccupied trying to fool you into mindless mask compliance because ‘experts’ (paid shills) say masks don’t do [much] harm.
Absent good reason, this is more a test of the depths of our submission to authority. It will be our mass surrender to a nonsensical diktat; a precipitous societal acceptance of institutionalized fear. In fact, it may yet be revealed this is a planned de-humanization of all citizens.
[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/53108405
[3] https://principia-scientific.com/cdc-masks-offer-no-significant-reduction-in-flu-transmission/
[5] Zhu JH et al. Effects of long-duration wearing of N95 respirator and surgical facemask: a pilot study. J Lung Pulm Resp Res 2014:4:97-100.
[7] https://principia-scientific.com/manufacturer-our-face-masks-mandated-by-uk-govt-useless-for-cv19/
[8] https://principia-scientific.com/masks-a-review-of-science-relevant-to-covid-19-social-policy/
[9] https://principia-scientific.com/manufacturer-our-face-masks-mandated-by-uk-govt-useless-for-cv19/
[10] https://vaxxter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Masks-Final.pdf
[1] https://principia-scientific.com/the-false-premise-of-covid-19/
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E. Nichols
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Great article John, fake news has it that the masks are working to prevent the spread of the virus. However it seems it would be the around since most everything but the virus will be trapped in the mask. Of course in the push the possibility of hypoxia, hypocapnia, etc. which as you know occurs from prolonged wearing of masks. Moreover medical masks are not even designed with the intent of preventing viruses, which is completely ignored by the ‘scientists’.
Thanks, keep up the great work!
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John O'Sullivan
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Thanks for the feedback. We will keep on plugging away at this issue because it is so evidently a monumental and devastating scam built upon junk science.
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Tom O
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And keep reminding everyone that the “gold standard N95 mask” is only warranted to stop at least 95% of the the particles it is designed to filter, not 100%. That means it will allow up to 5% of particles far larger than a virus to pass, so just how effective will it be against particles that are actually as small as a virus? You may improve your possibility of not breathing in a virus if you are in a contaminated area, but you are still not any safer, really, than if you didn’t wear it at all since 5% of the virus in the air you are breathing is more than enough to infect you.
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Finn McCool
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The BBC gives a 50% discount off the television licence fee to blind people.
I’ve never really got my head round that munificence.
Don’t pay the licence fee!!
It just encourages them.
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Andy Rowlands
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Nice article John. The BBC’s mask claims are as full of holes as….well, as full of holes as the masks are 🙂
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John O'Sullivan
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Cheers, Andy. Seems like there is more scientific literature coming to light to support this analysis.
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Chris
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China is now sending packages to people in the US. These packages could contain the next wave of the covid plandemic. Spores can be sent through the mail. This was done in the past. People who are hospitalized by covid19 are given antibiotics because doctors know that they are actually dealing with pneumonia. Fungus will not respond to antibiotics, but the symptoms will be the same. This will cause greater confusion concerning the covid19.
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[email protected] Hayes
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please humour me by explaining why the government want us all to wear masks?That is if as you are claiming there is no good reason to do so in terms of protection from any infection. I’m sure this is in the article but I was going cross eyed.
Thank you for your time
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John O'Sullivan
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Tamsin, to maintain a heightened level of fear to cover for their gross incompetence and the hidden agenda of mass vaccination, population control and unfettered profiteering by a corrupt elite. All for a virus that affects 99.5 percent of the population less than a common cold.
Recall that the first step in the lockdown was in claiming we needed to shut down for a few weeks to ‘flatten the curve.’ Thereupon, we saw imposition of orwellian measures to hold us under perpetual house arrest while the government pandered to the vaccine lobby and corporations to ensure the richest one percent then profited by hundreds of BILLIONS from the lockdown as small businesses closed, citizens made unemployed. The media refuses to report the vast and undocumented hidden death rate among those who died anyway because they were denied routine surgery, avoidable deaths because medical assistance and interventions were curtailed to ‘protect the NHS’. Mostly the elderly suffered. The direct benefit of a mass cull of the elderly is the vast saving on NHS costs, pensions, housing, etc. Not to mention the thousands of hospital beds freed up. We know that the ‘curve’ of mortality was flattened before April because since then ICU bed occupancy has fallen markedly and many hospitals are well below capacity. This was never about a virus. The masses (sheeple) need to wake up.
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Herb Rose
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Hi Tamsin,
When ever something happens governments want to give the impression they are doing something even if they have no clue what to do and only waste money. This “crisis” serves as a prime example and, like hurricane Katrina, shows their complete incompetence. A year before Katrina hit New Orleans the various government agency conduct an exercise on what to do if a category five hurricane made landfall. Before the hurricane hit they all left town and their response was a total screw up epitomized by them driving trucks of ice around for months after the hurricane until they finally let the ice melt at an approved location.
The COVID-19 was a new disease but not a new occurrence. When the last flu epidemic struck they spent al their time saying it wasn’t that bad and giving excuses for their inaction even as evidence mounted that it was.
This time they started out calling it a calamity (with no evidence) and proceded to do everything to make it worse. They closed all businesses they considered non-essential force everyone to go to the remaining stores. This increased congestion and along with the store policies of restricted hours, single entrances and exits, one line for checkout, inadequate stock increasing trips resulted in an increase in time spent in crowds promoting the spread of the disease as well as the many social and economic problems.
By mandating nursing home patients with the disease be send back to the nursing homes (to save room in the hospitals for people with COVID-19) they killed thousands. By buying un-needed ventilators (that did more harm) and paying hospitals a bonus to use them inpatients they killed thousands more.
Politicians cannot admit to making mistakes and so they have faked the data on how contagious and how deadly the disease is in order to avoid recrimination for the catastrophe caused by them, not the disease.
Masks (but no goggles) are being mandated, not to prevent the disease but to promote it. They need to justify their actions if it means making people sick, or giving extremely ill patients lethal doses of a drug that helps cure the disease in order to discredit it, they do it to protect their own asses.
The goal of government is not the welfare of the people but the perpetuation of the system, no matter how grossly incompetent and wasteful it is.
Herb
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anarchyst
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From a USA perspective…
It’s obvious that the “coronavirus” epidemic is a sham of the highest proportion. It is totally political in nature, with “blue state” governors perpetuating business-damaging “lockdowns” in their respective states.
Both professional and political arrogance is responsible for the present state of the world economy and world population as well.
A common annual “flu virus” was promoted as a “pandemic” by the “smartest” and “best and brightest” people in positions of power, both in the USA and in the rest of the world. It’s actually a “plandemic” foisted on the American public to bring down the Trump administration. It will fail…
These “best and brightest” convinced political “leaders” to impose mandatory business closures, “lockdowns” and “quarantines” on healthy populations, which is contrary to every common sense and scientific principle.
These “business closures” were not imposed “across the board”, but were picked by political hacks as “winners and losers”. Liquor stores, marijuana dispensaries, lottery retailers, and certain “big box” home improvement and sporting goods stores were permitted to remain in operation, while churches and just about all small businesses were forced to close.
In some states, the political arrogance was so great, plant nurseries, seed distributors, and other businesses were deemed “non-essential” and forced to close. Even “big box” stores were prohibited from selling lawn and garden supplies. Many restaurants were also put out of business by these clearly unconstitutional edicts.
Imposing “quarantines” and “lockdowns” on healthy people does nothing to insure public health, and in fact delays necessary herd immunity.
Public health is further damaged by business closures, especially small businesses whose owners rely on continuing business as a means of making a living, both for themselves and their employees.
A major problem is that these “best and brightest” and political “leaders” are so arrogant that they refuse to admit that “they screwed up, big time”. Instead, they “double down” and inflict further pain on the public by refusing to insist that “they were wrong”. None of them will pay personally for their arrogance, stupidity, and just outright dishonesty and criminality.
All one has to do is look at the “coronavirus hospitals” that were created to handle the “overflow” of coronavirus patients which never materialized. These “hospitals” were a waste of taxpayer dollars and did absolutely nothing to promote public health.
At the same time, local hospitals were required to cease admissions, even for those of an emergency nature. Although not specifically stated, people with real health problems were covertly “encouraged” to avoid hospitals at all costs because of the phony “coronavirus” claims.
Health professionals are also responsible for the current state of affairs, also refusing to admit that “they screwed up, big time” as well, and continue to insist that this annual flue is a “pandemic”.
Then we have the “heavy hitters” with money, such as Bill Gates and Stephen Fauci who claim that they have “solutions” to our (artificially contrived) health problems. Gates is so arrogant the he feels that he can get away with genocide by using mandatory vaccinations to “cull” the world population.
Gates “vaccination” programs in third-world countries failed to adhere to good medical practices, and the Nuremberg principle that “informed consent” must reign supreme in the administration of all medical procedures.
Gates’ “vaccination” programs introduced polio into children in India for which he and his program were banned from the country. Gates’ African “vaccination” programs surreptitiously introduced sterilization and birth-control compounds as part of their vaccination program without gaining “informed consent” from the recipients.
According to these moneyed types and even “health care” officials, we are to be branded, tagged, and treated like cattle with no means to make informed choices about our health or health care decisions.
Wearing masks and “social distancing” are no different than the “security theater” that we experience at airports with the TSA.
It’s “medical tyranny” at its best and scientific dishonesty at its worst.
There are no valid reasons for “mask-wearing” or “social distancing” for healthy people. In fact, in the coming months, look for an increase in respiratory illnesses affecting mask-wearers, especially those who are forced to wear masks for extended periods of time. In hospital settings, masks are supposed to be worn for only 10 minutes at a time before they are replaced.
“Lockdowns”, “business closures”, and “quarantining” of healthy people is being used for “control” and nothing more. The “powers that be” are desirous to see “how far they can go” to get the world population to accede to their demands.
Fortunately, there are a lot more of us than there are of them. We (still) have the power of the internet to bypass the “filters” that they put in place to keep us from seeing their “real” motives.
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