Are facemasks effective against viruses or not?

Written by Andy Rowlands on February 25, 2021. Posted in Current News

This is a two-part article. The first part is copied from a social media post by PSI contributor Tomer Tamarkin, and is reproduced with his permission.

The second is what a social media friend posted, showing how the British government has frequently changed the rules and continually moved the goalposts.

Why facemasks are political statements – not scientific solutions to virus spread By Tomer D. Tamarkin, Sacramento, California, August 1, 2020

Firstly, and this is a big point, no agency has provided technical specification requirements to the public in terms of a mask’s construction, fit, and filtration efficiency, let alone air intake and exhaust restrictions. N95s masks, as an example, have different intake and exhaust flow characteristics.

A recent trip to the local Ace hardware store and grocery store showed a gentleman sporting a mask made from fishing net. It complied with the law as a “mask” and got him in the door. Another great example was the lady wearing a leather embroidered small black fishnet mask with fake stones which obviously came from Victoria’s Secret or some other place that sells things for purposes other than health care.

The average diameter of a single bacterium is 4.25 micrometers. A micrometer is one thousandth of a meter. A meter is 39.37 inches. The average diameter of a coronavirus is 90 nanometers. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter.

There are roughly two orders of magnitude (100 times) difference between a single bacterium and a virus. We can see a single bacterium with a very powerful optical microscope. We cannot see viruses with optical microscopes. We need very powerful electron microscopes to resolve a virus.

No mask can trap viruses without significant restrictions of airflow. Now some will claim the objective is to simply trap droplets of water containing the viruses. As a matter of aerosol physics this simply does not work. It is an emotional feel-good measure. It is not a scientific block to the contraction or spread of a viral disease.

The “like chicken soup it can’t hurt” rationale used by some doctors and the CDC rests on a masks ability to trap water droplets containing a viral load held effectively in a colloidal suspension. However a large percentage of that load becomes detached from the droplet through inelastic collisions inside the mask when agitated (coughs and sneezes) and becomes resident in an aerosol. The aerosol travels freely in the air at the whim of convections and airflows. Thus masks are ineffective for viruses due to the physics involved.

Masks are used in the operating room by doctors and all attendant medical personnel to eliminate the possibility of infecting a patient with a bacterial infection through the blood system during the operating procedure. Viruses are not considered in that instance for several reasons. Masks are necessary and most prudent in the operating room.

Most doctors are very good in medicine but have very little understanding of physics. The same holds true for virologists and other researchers in the field.

Masks for the masses are not about health per se. They are political statements to make the population think the leaders are acting in the best interests of the public. This is an election year.

To be straightforward, the mask “orders” and their compliance by pedestrians, indicates the lack of science understanding and the gullibility of the masses. Gullibility is a strong word but when it comes to science most people are gullible.

All emphasis added.

You can find more information online at: https://tamarkin.us/facemasks.php

This second part is comments made in a social media post.

They said “three weeks to flatten the curve”. It turned into four months to “Protect the NHS”.

They said “Masks are not recommended and do not stop the spread”. Then they made us wear them, saying “It’s for your own protection”.

They said “We need the antibody tests to determine who’s safe to return to normal life”. That was the last we heard about these tests. They didn’t want us to know how many people could now be immune. They needed us to remain terrified.

They said “You CANNOT invite your family into your home”. Then they told us to meet them in the pub for a cheap meal.

They said “Only essential businesses allowed to stay open”. This included off-licences that primarily sell alcohol yet they banned alcohol in thousands of pubs.

Studies revealed that masks offered no protection against catching the virus. They were ignored.

So they said “You ARE NOT wearing your mask to protect yourself. You are wearing it to protect others from YOU”. From that point on you were a walking, talking potential serial killer.

They said “This will all end when we get a vaccine”.

They introduced Track and Trace at a cost of hundreds of millions of £’s. They said “This is the way forward”. It’s almost completely disappeared. Didn’t work. Complete waste of money.

They introduced the tier system as a rebranded lockdown. They said the vaccine was almost here. We just needed the vaccine.

They said 5,000 people would die every day by November. They didn’t.

They said their predictions were based on fact. They were based on lies and inaccuracies.

They cancelled 4.4 million cancer screenings.

They cancelled over two million essential operations on the over 50’s.

And by now the people were beginning to get complacent so they announced a new “variant” covid had appeared. It was much more dangerous. It spread quicker. It affected more children. We were told “We just need to get this vaccine and things will get better”.

And then….

They said “The vaccine is here. Hooray”. They also said “But this changes NOTHING. You will still need to wear the masks and follow the rules. For another year”.

They said the vaccine doesn’t stop you catching the virus. They said the vaccine doesn’t stop you passing it on. They said “Nothing has changed”.

They allowed us one day for Christmas.

They said “Schools are safe. Return to school”. That evening they said “Schools are closed. Keep your children at home”.

They introduced a second lockdown. They said “It will last six weeks”. It didn’t.

The next day a Senior NHS Doctor let slip that not all the thousands of “covid patients” in hospitals were actually being treated for the condition. Many had been admitted for other conditions and had subsequently tested positive despite showing no symptoms. A large percentage had caught it after being admitted.

She said no records are available to determine exactly how many “covid patients” are ACTUALLY being treated for covid.

They have no idea.

So here we are. The start of another year. In lockdown again.

Being denied a simple home blood test that will tell us if we’re immune.

Being told to take a vaccine despite the fact that it does none of the things we were told it would.

Being subjected to a 24-hour bombardment of doom, gloom and falsehoods from the compliant media.

Being forced to accept living like this. In a never ending, man-made, dehumanising nightmare.

Being conditioned to accept that living an utterly sterile, joyless existence somehow benefits us all.

The thing is, the more we comply, the more restrictions, limitations, regulations and new laws they will introduce.

Think it’s bad now?

Just wait.

The BBC virus webpage stated yesterday that More than 100,000 people have now died with coronavirus in the UK since the start of the pandemic within 28 days of a positive test.

Notice is says with coronavirus, not from coronavirus.

This still means that a death from any cause within 28 days of a positive test is being classed as caused by the virus. If you drown, get hit by lightning, get run over, or die from any medical cause or condition after a positive test, your death will be attributed to the virus.

It should also be remembered that the virus was taken off the list of High Consequence Infectious Diseases in March 2020, and has not been put back on it, and that around 90% of cases are from people who have no symptoms and are not ill.

Still think this isn’t a scam?

About the author: Andy Rowlands is a British Principia Scientific International researcher, writer and editor who co-edited the new climate science book, ‘The Sky Dragon Slayers: Victory Lap‘

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