For years, I've been appalled to see so many people with their cell phones pressed against their ears, or in their pants pockets, risking several kinds of
cancer, from all that "microwave radiation at point blank range," as Arthur
Firstenberg puts it in The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and
Life. The carcinogenicity of that practice has been proven; but such proof
is hard to find, and overwhelmed by many sloppy studies that purport to
show there's no cause for concern. The awful truth is further clouded by
the fact that all the data on cell phone usage is controlled by the cell phone
giants, who, naturally, will not let any independent scientists study it; and
since "our free press" makes millions off that industry, in advertising revenues,
it's (naturally) not interested in going there, except to highlight those
exculpatory "studies."
As frustrating as it's been to see so many people blithely yakking into cell
phones clamped against their heads, that sense of watching helplessly as
people put themselves at mortal risk is not as troubling as the sight of
healthy people—even little children—wearing masks in public (some of them
with cell phones clamped against their heads). This craze is even worse,
not just because so many wearing masks are kids as young as 2, but, worse
yet, because, unlike cell phone use, masking has been urged upon us as an
urgent measure to protect the public health, to keep us "safe" from the
coronavirus, or whatever, when it really has the very opposite effect.
I'm therefore sending out just this one section of my epic essay, "Masking
Ourselves to Death," which also includes sections summarizing the
scientific evidence that masks are (a) ineffective against flu-like respiratory
viruses, and (b) bad for us. Those of you who've had the time to read that
opus will have read this, and those other sections; but I know that many of
us just don't have the time to read so long a piece, so I am sending this one
section by itself, because this masking has to stop, and this overview of real-
world instances of death and injury by masking is evidence more vivid than
those scientific studies, and therefore make a more convincing case.
I should add that, while I know one person who apparently died of COVID-19,
and have another friend who nearly died of it, I also recently lost yet another
friend who I believe would be alive today if he did not vigorously exert himself,
out in the summer heat, always with a mask on. (I have no evidence to prove
this, but I wonder if some other well-known activists who have now prematurely
died weren't sickened, or weakened, by gratuitous masking.)
It's also worth asking whether the driver who sped the wrong way onto the
Southern State Parkway on Long Island just the other day, and drove at
speed for a full two minutes before colliding with an SUV, killing himself
and three others, was masked, and had either passed out or gone foggy at
the wheel. There was a similar mishap in New Jersey a few months ago,
when a masked driver lost consciousness and crashed into a tree—the
only such story that's made national news (as I note in this section of
my essay). How many other drivers have done likewise? It's not the kind
of data anyone's collecting.
MCM
What's really happening to people wearing masks?
"Several education bureaus in China are rethinking COVID-19
control policies after three students died running in masks at
school, The Beijing News reported Friday." That news, which
broke in early May, appeared in other Chinese outlets, as well
as the Jakarta Post, and all over Japan, while, in the West, that
news was reported only by the British Daily Mail, a TV station
in Sydney, and, in the US, only the New York Post and New York
Daily News (which misreported it by claiming that two students
had dropped dead in their gym classes). Thus very few Americans
could know that those teen-agers, each in a different city, had all
dropped dead in their gym classes, while running in the heat, their
proper breathing blocked by N95 masks. This prompted the
authorities "in the eastern city of Xiamen, the southern province
of Hainan, and the central city of Changsha [to issue] notices that
either discourage schools from requiring students to wear masks
during gym class or prohibit the facial accessories during [any]
exercise."
Several other such fatalities in China have apparently gone
unreported elsewhere. On May 10, in Hubei Province, a man (age
not given) dropped dead while doing morning exercises in a face
mask of some kind. On May 21, a 65-year-old man also died while
exercising in a face mask, after spitting blood, then keeling over.
(This happened in Dalian, Liaoning Province, a city lately stricken
by a second wave, and now under lockdown.) And on June 22,
in a a locale unidentified, a young man jogging in a mask lost
consciousness, and slipped into a coma.
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