Mask-Wearing: This Is Our Life Now (Or is It?)

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Public Information Act Request: Texas Governor Abbott EO GA-29

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Public Information Act Request:

publicrecords@gov.texas.gov

In regard to "Executive Order No. GA-29 relating to the use of face coverings during the
COVID-19 disaster" Governor Abbott writes:

> "WHEREAS, I have joined the medical experts in consistently encouraging people to use
> face coverings, and health authorities have repeatedly emphasized that wearing face
> coverings is one of the most important and effective tools for reducing the spread of
> COVID-19."

> "WHEREAS, wearing a face covering is important not only to protect oneself, but also to
> avoid unknowingly harming fellow Texans, especially given that many people who go
> into public may have COVID-19 without knowing it because they have no symptoms."

Please provide all documents, written communication, notes, phone transcripts and sound recordings with "medical experts" and "health authorities" including, but not limited to, peer-reviewed scientific papers used to justify the above-referenced statements supporting Executive Order GA-29 dated July 2, 2020.

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Wayne Kirkwood
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Governor Abbott will probably send me a link to Snopes...
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Pleurisy Infection From Long-Term Mask-Wearing

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From Texas Governor Greg Abott's Twitter feed:
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Dr. Russell Blaylock: Face Masks Pose Serious Risks To The Healthy

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Blaylock: Face Masks Pose Serious Risks To The Healthy
While most agree that the N95 mask can cause significant hypoxia and hypercapnia, another study of surgical masks found significant reductions in blood oxygen as well. In this study, researchers examined the blood oxygen levels in 53 surgeons using an oximeter. They measured blood oxygenation before surgery as well as at the end of surgeries.4 The researchers found that the mask reduced the blood oxygen levels (pa02) significantly. The longer the duration of wearing the mask, the greater the fall in blood oxygen levels.

The importance of these findings is that a drop in oxygen levels (hypoxia) is associated with an impairment in immunity. Studies have shown that hypoxia can inhibit the type of main immune cells used to fight viral infections called the CD4+ T-lymphocyte. This occurs because the hypoxia increases the level of a compound called hypoxia inducible factor-1 (HIF-1), which inhibits T-lymphocytes and stimulates a powerful immune inhibitor cell called the Tregs. . This sets the stage for contracting any infection, including COVID-19 and making the consequences of that infection much graver. In essence, your mask may very well put you at an increased risk of infections and if so, having a much worse outcome.5,6,7

People with cancer, especially if the cancer has spread, will be at a further risk from prolonged hypoxia as the cancer grows best in a microenvironment that is low in oxygen. Low oxygen also promotes inflammation which can promote the growth, invasion and spread of cancers.8,9 Repeated episodes of hypoxia has been proposed as a significant factor in atherosclerosis and hence increases all cardiovascular (heart attacks) and cerebrovascular (strokes) diseases.10

There is another danger to wearing these masks on a daily basis, especially if worn for several hours. When a person is infected with a respiratory virus, they will expel some of the virus with each breath. If they are wearing a mask, especially an N95 mask or other tightly fitting mask, they will be constantly rebreathing the viruses, raising the concentration of the virus in the lungs and the nasal passages. We know that people who have the worst reactions to the coronavirus have the highest concentrations of the virus early on. And this leads to the deadly cytokine storm in a selected number.

It gets even more frightening. Newer evidence suggests that in some cases the virus can enter the brain.11,12 In most instances it enters the brain by way of the olfactory nerves (smell nerves), which connect directly with the area of the brain dealing with recent memory and memory consolidation. By wearing a mask, the exhaled viruses will not be able to escape and will concentrate in the nasal passages, enter the olfactory nerves and travel into the brain.13

It is evident from this review that there is insufficient evidence that wearing a mask of any kind can have a significant impact in preventing the spread of this virus. The fact that this virus is a relatively benign infection for the vast majority of the population and that most of the at-risk group also survive, from an infectious disease and epidemiological standpoint, by letting the virus spread through the healthier population we will reach a herd immunity level rather quickly that will end this pandemic quickly and prevent a return next winter. During this time, we need to protect the at-risk population by avoiding close contact, boosting their immunity with compounds that boost cellular immunity and in general, care for them.

https://www.technocracy.news/blaylock-f ... e-healthy/
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Re: Mask-Wearing: This Is Our Life Now (Or is It?)

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I can confirm that it is harder to breath wearing a n95 mask. :oops: but I only use mine for about 20 minutes a week.

Covid aerosols range from 60-140nm and particulate masks only filter out 200-300nm particles.

I remain optimistic about commercialization of far UVc (human safe UV light) that kills viruses. Sadly still years away.

JR

PS: Heard a weird report that individuals with type O blood was less susceptible to COVID.
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"Wearing a mask offers little, if any, protection"

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"Universal Masking in Hospitals in the Covid-19 Era," New England Journal of Medicine.
We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes). The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006372
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Managing public anxiety is another concern but not well defined.

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JR. wrote: Tue Jul 14, 2020 4:11 pm Managing public anxiety is another concern but not well defined.

JR
True.
However: Creating anxiety is a well-explored science and its working out brilliantly.

In Dallas the fear porn has almost everyone on edge.
Out in the country not so much.
When I cross the Dallas County line the change is immediate.

People in rural America have animals to feed, farms and gardens to tend, children to raise and don't have time to sit and watch a hate-filled CNN, NetFlix and play mindless video games.

In the last month we've been to Lake Texoma, Salado, Lake Belton and Lake Whitney.
Still looking for a home in rural Texas away from the Covid-19 and BLM bullshit.
People are still normal in the countryside.

FWIW there is a land-rush to rural Texas from Austin, California, Seattle, Nevada, New York and Illinois.
There is a blue shit-hole exodus.
People are putting contracts on houses sight-unseen.
It's crazy and inventories are low.
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Re: "Wearing a mask offers little, if any, protection"

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mediatechnology wrote: Tue Jul 14, 2020 4:01 pm "Universal Masking in Hospitals in the Covid-19 Era," New England Journal of Medicine.
We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes). The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006372
"The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal."
A wrong conclusion in my opinion.
What about 10 minutes in a crowded place ?

However. The mask is mostly to lessen, spreading the virus.
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What about 10 minutes in a crowded place ?
Just avoid crowded places or wear a mask when you're in a confined space with "dirty human lepers" if it makes you feel better.
Don't mandate them simply because it allows public officials to "get off" on seeing people submit like sheep.
Ask yourself how humanity has survived for thousands of years up to this point without wearing masks.
Go ahead, suppress your immunity...

I see idiots driving cars with them on and people walking in 100 degree heart outside by themselves.
They're idiots.

Masks are preconditioning to get you to submit to things far, far worse.
This will NEVER end unless people stand up.
Mark my words...

Don't sleep-walk into a spider's web you will NEVER get out of.
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mediatechnology wrote: Tue Jul 14, 2020 4:58 pm
JR. wrote: Tue Jul 14, 2020 4:11 pm Managing public anxiety is another concern but not well defined.

JR
True.
However: Creating anxiety is a well-explored science and its working out brilliantly.

In Dallas the fear porn has almost everyone on edge.
Out in the country not so much.
When I cross the Dallas County line the change is immediate.

People in rural America have animals to feed, farms and gardens to tend, children to raise and don't have time to sit and watch a hate-filled CNN, NetFlix and play mindless video games.

In the last month we've been to Lake Texoma, Salado, Lake Belton and Lake Whitney.
Still looking for a home in rural Texas away from the Covid-19 and BLM bullshit.
People are still normal in the countryside.

FWIW there is a land-rush to rural Texas from Austin, California, Seattle, Nevada, New York and Illinois.
There is a blue shit-hole exodus.
People are putting contracts on houses sight-unseen.
It's crazy and inventories are low.
Speaking of shit-hole exodus.... CT has been in decline for years due to out of control taxation that chased multiple huge corporate headquarters away. Now De Blasio and Cuomo have made NYC so undesirable that CT has become attractive by comparison... NYC residents are already used to exorbitant taxes.

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