UK’s First COVID Face Mask Discrimination Claimant Wins £7,000
A disabled woman assisted by Kester Disability Rights has been paid £7,000 in compensation by a service provider who refused her access to a service because she was unable to wear a face mask.
The pay-out was achieved through negotiation as there was no dispute that access had been denied, or that the Claimant had a disability exemption. The only thing to be agreed was the amount of compensation, not whether it was due or not.
Refusing access to people unable to wear face coverings due to disability is direct discrimination – no different to denying access to a black or gay person for example.
Disabled people are now routinely harassed in public for not wearing face coverings – frequently given the impression that confidential medical information must be publicly disclosed to justify exemption. The fact that shops and hospitality businesses routinely display “no mask no entry” signs shows how deeply disablist attitudes are embedded in society. If premises displayed “no blacks” or “no gays” notices there would be outrage.
Fortunately the official Government position does not endorse any of this as nobody exempt from wearing a mask is expected to go around justifying themselves. Saying “I’m exempt” is enough. If the response to that can be proved to be discriminatory then compensation is due.
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Maria Pace
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I myself have trouble wearing a mask, because the elastics around my ear lobs hurt, and scrap my ears. I also have a hard time seeing over my mask, because I wear glasses with large frames, as a result my mask is always up too high or down too low, causing my glasses to fog up and my vision is blocked, besides I have high blood pressure and the irritation on my nerves, always takes it’s toll. I have tried to wear a shield which is much easier on me, however, I always get someone stopping me from entering a place of business, stating that it is not allowed, I don’t have a doctor’s permit or anything to allow me to feel comfortable while wearing a mask. So, now I have designed my own mask, which allows me to cover my face and without elastics around my ears, and allows my glasses to stay put. No wires or elastics or plastic to suffocate you either. Who can breath through those surgical masks anyway. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
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Ash
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The doctors and nurses wearing them for 12+ hours at a time have sore ears, steamed glassses and damage to skin from wearing the masks they need.
Surgeons have been using surgical masks for decades and function just fine with them.
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cathleen anderson
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The question people keep asking me, “If masks don’t work, then why do surgeons wear them?”
I’m a surgeon that has performed over 10,000 surgical procedures wearing a surgical mask. However, that fact alone doesn’t really qualify me as an expert on the matter. More importantly, I am a former editor of a medical journal. I know how to read the medical literature, distinguish good science from bad, and fact from fiction. Believe me, the medical literature is filled with bad fiction masquerading as medical science. It is very easy to be deceived by bad science.
Since the beginning of the pandemic I’ve read hundreds of studies on the science of medical masks. Based on extensive review and analysis, there is no question in my mind that healthy people should not be wearing surgical or cloth masks. Nor should we be recommending universal masking of all members of the population. That recommendation is not supported by the highest level scientific evidence.
First, let’s be clear. The premise that surgeon’s wearing masks serves as evidence that “masks must work to prevent viral transmission” is a logical fallacy that I would classify as an argument of false equivalence, or comparing “apples to oranges.”
Although surgeons do wear masks to prevent their respiratory droplets from contaminating the surgical field and the exposed internal tissues of our surgical patients, that is about as far as the analogy extends. Obviously, surgeons cannot “socially distance” from their surgical patients (unless we use robotic surgical devices, in which case, I would definitely not wear a mask).
The CoVID-29 pandemic is about viral transmission. Surgical and cloth masks do nothing to prevent viral transmission. We should all realize by now that face masks have never been shown to prevent or protect against viral transmission. Which is exactly why they have never been recommended for use during the seasonal flu outbreak, epidemics, or previous pandemics.
The failure of the scientific literature to support medical masks for influenza and all other viruses, is also why Fauci, the US Surgeon General, the CDC, WHO, and pretty much every infectious disease expert on the planet stated that wearing masks won’t prevent transmission of SARS CoV-2. Although the public health “authorities” flipped, flopped, and later changed their recommendations, the science did not change, nor did new science appear that supported the wearing of masks in public. In fact, the most recent systemic analysis once again confirms that masks are ineffective in preventing the transmission of viruses like CoVID-19: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article
If a surgeon were sick, especially with a viral infection, they would not perform surgery as they know the virus would NOT be stopped by their surgical mask.
Another area of “false equivalence” has to do with the environment in which the masks are worn. The environments in which surgeon’s wear masks minimize the adverse effects surgical masks on their wearers.
Unlike the public wearing masks in the community, surgeon’s work in sterile surgical suites equipped with heavy duty air exchange systems that maintain positive pressures, exchange and filter the room air at a very high level, and increase the oxygen content of the room air. These conditions limit the negative effects of masks on the surgeon and operating room staff. And yet despite these extreme climate control conditions, clinically studies demonstrate the negative effects (lowering arterial oxygen and carbon dioxide re-breathing) of surgical masks on surgeon physiology and performance.
Surgeon’s and operating room personnel are well trained, experienced, and meticulous about maintaining sterility. We only wear fresh sterile masks. We don the mask in a sterile fashion. We wear the mask for short periods of time and change it out at the first signs of the excessive moisture build up that we know degrades mask effectiveness and increases their negative effects. Surgeon’s NEVER re-use surgical masks, nor do we ever wear cloth masks.
The public is being told to wear masks for which they have not been trained in the proper techniques. As a result, they are mishandling, frequently touching, and constantly reusing masks in a way that increase contamination and are more likely than not to increase transmission of disease.
Jim Meehan, MD
7/22/2020
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Alder
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Ash says:
“Surgeons have been using surgical masks for decades and function just fine with them.”
Wrong- surgeons wear masks only for the operating theater and only for the duration of the procedure which is seldom longer than four hours.
. .and thanks to Cathleen Anderson for the long but expert post.
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suzannah
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Where do those of us stand who choose not to wear a face covering to practice bodily autonomy and exercise our human rights?
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Ash
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We prefer you stay home
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Sid
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We prefer you to shut yer cakehole.
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cathleen anderson
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there is no hate like that of the hate a mask wearer has for those who refuse to comply.
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Maria
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We prefer YOU stay home, along with all other dimwits, and stop interfering with OUR lives 🖕
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JaKo
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What is troubling me the most is not the denial of exceptions for the disabled (and I correlate very much with this), often by officials afraid of consequences of not “enforcing enough,” but the eagerness of some regular folks to collaborate (covid Kens & Karens?)
I read many and heard more personal accounts of “experiences” during Nazi occupation. Collaboration was not as common for angst or personal gain as it were for ideological reasons — e.g. sympathizing with the National Socialist ideology. Therefore it may be much harder to rely on people taking the “right side” when this covid-1984 is finally exposed publicly as mostly Scamdemic / Plundermic, serving the “elites.” To undo the systematic brainwashing will not be trivial affair and the only “quick and effective solution” is not better than what the Plutocrats were originally trying to accomplish…
Have another day, JaKo
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Ash
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Ok boomer
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Alex
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settle down ash, your mommy is calling you
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kev wainwright
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hi i was kicked out of aldi today for not wearing a face mask i even showed my inhailer , i was also told i should wear a lanyard saying i was exempt and have doctors proof – i left the shop this is my local shop and this is the first time i was pulled regarding masks
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