Category: Masking

Mask Wearing Has Left a Generation of Toddlers Struggling With Speech and Social Skills

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Mask Wearing Has Left a Generation of Toddlers Struggling With Speech and Social Skills
Infants have “been unable to see lip movements or mouth shapes as regularly.”  4 April, 2022 Paul Joseph Watson Lockdown restrictions, including adults wearing face masks, has left a generation of babies and toddlers struggling with speech and social skills, according to an official report. Inspectors working for Ofsted found that infants being surrounded by adults wearing face masks for significant periods of time over the last two years has damaged their learning and communication abilities.… Read the rest

Moral Blinding: How the COVID-Prevention Fetish Killed Critical Thinking

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Moral Blinding: How the COVID-Prevention Fetish Killed Critical Thinking
Susan Dunham Apr 2, 2021 Feeling the fuzzies Our first lockdown was like a great war effort. It was the closest we’ve come to the home-front experience of the World Wars, when people set aside every selfish thought in favor of the collective wellbeing. We ground our lives to a halt in a powerful rebuke against an emerging threat. Heroes emerged, along with new rituals to honor them as we banged pots for frontline workers and decorated our neighborhoods with messages of thanks.… Read the rest

Education Chair Says Mask-Wearing in Schools Could Damage Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing

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Education Chair Says Mask-Wearing in Schools Could Damage Children’s Mental Health and Wellbeing
The chair of the UK education select committee has spoken out against mask-wearing in schools, saying he believes masks could damage children’s mental health. Robert Halfon, chair of the Commons education select committee, said the risks posed by Covid must be balanced against the risk to children’s wellbeing and mental health. It comes as the UK Government insisted the extra precaution was necessary to help keep schools open.… Read the rest

NYC’s new health czar says young kids should continue wearing masks

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NYC’s new health czar says young kids should continue wearing masks
By Griffin Kelly, Steven Vago and Rich Calder March 19, 2022 8:52am The city’s new health commissioner believes mask mandates for young children should be indefinitely maintained – a position in direct conflict withMayor Eric Adams, who recently claimed kids wouldn’t have to wear them much longer. During his first press conference as commissioner, Dr. Ashwin Vasan cautioned on Friday that children under 5 years old should continue wearing masks because they’re not old enough to get vaccinated. … Read the rest

Mask Mandates Not Linked to Lower COVID-19 Case Rate or Transmission: Study

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Mask Mandates Not Linked to Lower COVID-19 Case Rate or Transmission: Study
By Zachary Stieber March 10, 2022 Mask mandates for children in Spain weren’t linked to a lower rate of COVID-19 cases or transmission, researchers found. Children 6 and older in Catalonia, a region in Spain, were required to wear masks once school reopened during the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers compared the incidence of COVID-19 in older children to younger children to try to determine whether the mandates had been effective in the aim of reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in schools.… Read the rest

N.Y. Times writer: Vaccines, masks, distancing didn’t affect COVID rate

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N.Y. Times writer: Vaccines, masks, distancing didn’t affect COVID rate
‘There is a strong argument for … returning to normal life’ By Art Moore Published March 9, 2022 at 5:26pm Joe Biden greets Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Build Back Better World initiative, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021, during the COP26 U.N. Climate Change Conference at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow, Scotland. (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz) A New York Times senior writer who has observed a difference in adherence to COVID-19 mitigation measures between Republican and Democratic-majority areas of the country concludes vaccination, masking and social distancing haven’t made an impact on the number of cases during the omicron wave.… Read the rest

Covid tyranny linked to 23% decline in children’s cognitive abilities: STUDY

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Covid tyranny linked to 23% decline in children’s cognitive abilities: STUDY
byPlanet Today–Monday, December 13, 2021 (Planet Today) New research out of Brown University has found that keeping children masked and locked up at home away from their friends has resulted in a 23 percent decline in their cognitive abilities.These and other Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) restrictions have been so destructive to children’s health that many of them are no longer able to communicate, either verbally or non-verbally.… Read the rest

CDC eases mask guidance for 70 percent of US, including schools

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CDC eases mask guidance for 70 percent of US, including schools
BY PETER SULLIVAN – 02/25/22 03:45 PM The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday significantly eased its mask recommendations, including for schools, as part of long-awaited updated guidance for dealing with COVID-19. Under the new guidelines, more than 70 percent of the U.S. population is in an area with “low” or “medium” COVID-19 community level, meaning masks are not recommended for the general public.… Read the rest

‘If you don’t wear the f***ing mask, you get the f*** out of here!’ School board member repeatedly curses at maskless man during public comment

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‘If you don’t wear the f***ing mask, you get the f*** out of here!’ School board member repeatedly curses at maskless man during public comment
DAVE URBANSKI February 16, 2022 A member of a suburban Chicago school board repeatedly cursed at a maskless man who tried to speak during the public comment portion of a meeting Monday night. What are the details? The man told the Glenbrook High School District 225 Board of Education that he didn’t want to wear a mask to speak because he couldn’t “articulate” well enough while doing so due to a medical reason.… Read the rest