Association Of American Physicians And Surgeons Sounds Off On Face Masks

Posted By: Marilyn M. Singleton, M.D., J.D. via AAPS July 30, 2020

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The AAPS, a national association of doctors founded in 1943, accurately delineates the physics and dynamics of face masks. Any government official that mandates the wearing of masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is acting in complete defiance of proven scientific facts. ⁃ TN Editor

Transmission of SARS-CoV-2

Note: A COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) particle is 0.125 micrometers (μm); influenza virus size is 0.08 – 0.12 μm; a human hair is about 150 μm.
*1 nm = 0.001 micron; 1000 nm = 1 micron; Micrometer (μm) is the preferred name for micron (an older term)
1 meter is = 1,000,000,000 nm or 1,000,000 microns
Droplets

• Virus is transmitted through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs, sneezes or talks. Larger respiratory droplets (>5 μm) remain in the air for only a short time and travel only short distances, generally <1 a="" fall="" ground="" href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30245-9/fulltext" meter.="" nbsp="" quickly.="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" the="" they="" to="">https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30245-9/fulltext

• This idea guides the CDC’s advice to maintain at least a 6-foot distance.

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Air currents

• In air conditioned environment these large droplets may travel farther.
• However, ventilation — even the opening of an entrance door and a small window can dilute the number of small droplets to one half after 30 seconds. (This study looked at droplets from uninfected persons). This is clinically relevant because poorly ventilated and populated spaces, like public transport and nursing homes, have high SARS-CoV-2 disease transmission despite physical distancing. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30245-9/fulltext

Objects and surfaces

• Person to person touching
• The CDC’s most recent statement regarding contracting COVID-19 from touching surfaces: “Based on data from lab studies on Covid-19 and what we know about similar respiratory diseases, it may be possible that a person can get Covid-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose or possibly their eyes,” the agency wrote. “But this isn’t thought to be the main way the virus spreads. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/s0522-cdc-updates-covid-transmission.html.

• Chinese study with data taken from swabs on surfaces around the hospital
  https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0885_article?deliveryName=USCDC_333-DM25707
  • The surfaces where tested with the PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test, which greatly amplifies the viral genetic material if it is present. That material is detectable when a person is actively infected. This is thought to be the most reliable test.
    • Computer mouse (ICU 6/8, 75%; General ward (GW) 1/5, 20%)
    • Trash cans (ICU 3/5, 60%; GW 0/8)
    • Sickbed handrails (ICU 6/14, 42.9%; GW 0/12)
    • Doorknobs (GW 1/12, 8.3%)
    • 81.3% of the miscellaneous personal items were positive:
      • Exercise equipment
      • Medical equipment (spirometer, pulse oximeter, nasal cannula)
      • PC and iPads
      • Reading glasses
      • Cellular phones (83.3% positive for viral RNA)
      • Remote controls for in-room TVs (64.7% percent positive)
      • Toilets (81.0% positive)
      • Room surfaces (80.4% of all sampled)
      • Bedside tables and bed rails (75.0%)
      • Window ledges (81.8%)
      • Plastic: up to 2-3 days
      • Stainless Steel: up to 2-3 days
      • Cardboard: up to 1 day
      • Copper: up to 4 hours
      • Floor – gravity causes droplets to fall to the floor. Half of ICU workers all had virus on the bottoms of their shoes

Filter Efficiency and Fit

*Data from a University of Illinois at Chicago review
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/commentary-masks-all-covid-19-not-based-sound-data

• HEPA (high efficiency particulate air) filters – 99.97 – 100% efficient. HEPA filters are tested with particles that are 0.125 μm.
• Masks and respirators work by collecting particles through several physical mechanisms, including diffusion (small particles) and interception and impaction (large particles)
• N95 filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs) are constructed from electret (a dielectric material that has a quasi-permanent electric charge. An electret generates internal and external electric fields so the filter material has electrostatic attraction for additional collection of all particle sizes. As flow increases, particles will be collected less efficiently.
• N95 – A properly fitted N95 will block 95% of tiny air particles down to 0.3 μm from reaching the wearer’s face. https://www.honeywell.com/en-us/newsroom/news/2020/03/n95-masks-explained.
  • But even these have problems: many have exhalation valve for easier breathing and less moisture inside the mask.
  • Surgical masks are designed to protect patients from a surgeon’s respiratory droplets, aren’t effective at blocking particles smaller than 100 μm. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:VLXWeZBll7YJ:https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/957730O/respirators-and-surgical-masks-contrast-technical-bulletin.pdf+&cd=13&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
  • Filter efficiency was measured across a wide range of small particle sizes (0.02 to 1 µm) at 33 and 99 L/min.
    • N95 respirators had efficiencies greater than 95% (as expected).
    • T-shirts had 10% efficiency,
    • Scarves 10% to 20%,
    • Cloth masks 10% to 30%,
    • Sweatshirts 20% to 40%, and
    • Towels 40%.
    • All of the cloth masks and materials had near zero efficiency at 0.3 µm, a particle size that easily penetrates into the lungs.
    • Another study evaluated 44 masks, respirators, and other materials with similar methods and small aerosols (0.08 and 0.22 µm).
      • N95 FFR filter efficiency was greater than 95%.
      • Medical masks – 55% efficiency
      • General masks – 38% and
      • Handkerchiefs – 2% (one layer) to 13% (four layers) efficiency.
    • Conclusion: Wearing masks will not reduce SARS-CoV-2.
      • N95 masks protect health care workers, but are not recommended for source control transmission.
      • Surgical masks are better than cloth but not very efficient at preventing emissions from infected patients.
      • Cloth masks will be ineffective at preventing SARS-CoV-2 transmission, whether worn as source control or as personal protective equipment (PPE).

“Masks may confuse that message and give people a false sense of security. If masks had been the solution in Asia, shouldn’t they have stopped the pandemic before it spread elsewhere?”
*The first randomized controlled trial of cloth masks. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577

• Penetration of cloth masks by particles was 97% and medical masks 44%, 3M Vflex 9105 N95 (0.1%), 3M 9320 N95 (<0 .01="" ul="">
• Moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks and poor filtration may result in increased risk of infection.

• The virus may survive on the surface of the face- masks

• Self-contamination through repeated use and improper doffing is possible. A contaminated cloth mask may transfer pathogen from the mask to the bare hands of the wearer.

• Cloth masks should not be recommended for health care workers, particularly in high-risk situations, and guidelines need to be updated.

*A study of 4 patients in South Korea
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1342
Known patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 wore masks and coughed into a Petrie dish. “Both surgical and cotton masks seem to be ineffective in preventing the dissemination of SARS–CoV-2 from the coughs of patients with COVID-19 to the environment and external mask surface.”
*Singapore Study – Few people used mask correctly
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/publichealth/86601
Overall, data were collected from 714 men and women. About half the sample were women and all adult ages were represented. Only 90 participants (12.6%, 95% CI 10.3%-15.3%) passed the visual mask fit test. About three-quarters performed strap placement incorrectly, 61% left a “visible gap between the mask and skin,” and about 60% didn’t tighten the nose-clip.
*A 2011 randomized Australian clinical trial of standard medical/surgical masks
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1750-2659.2011.00198.x?fbclid=IwAR3kRYVYDKb0aR-su9_me9_vY6a8KVR4HZ17J2A_80f_fXUABRQdhQlc8Wo
Medical masks offered no protection at all from influenza.

Conclusions from Organizations

The World Health Organization (WHO):
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/331693/WHO-2019-nCov-IPC_Masks-2020.3-eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
“Advice to decision makers on the use of masks for healthy people in community settings
As described above, the wide use of masks by healthy people in the community setting is not supported by current evidence and carries uncertainties and critical risks.”
“Medical masks should be reserved for health care workers. The use of medical masks in the community may create a false sense of security, with neglect of other essential measures, such as hand hygiene practices and physical distancing, and may lead to touching the face under the masks and under the eyes, result in unnecessary costs, and take masks away from those in health care who need them most, especially when masks are in short supply.”
“Masks are effective only when used in combination with frequent hand-cleaning with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water.”
WHO acknowledges that most people do not use masks properly.
Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the Center for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases:
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/t0131-2019-novel-coronavirus.html
“We don’t routinely recommend the use of face masks by the public to prevent respiratory illness,” said on January 31. “And we certainly are not recommending that at this time for this new virus.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/infectioncontrol/maskguidance.htm
In March 5, 2019 regarding the flu: “Masks are not usually recommended in non-healthcare settings; however, this guidance provides other strategies for limiting the spread of influenza viruses in the community:

• cover their nose and mouth when coughing or sneezing,
• use tissues to contain respiratory secretions and, after use, to dispose of them in the nearest waste receptacle, and
• perform hand hygiene (e.g., handwashing with non-antimicrobial soap and water, and alcohol-based hand rub if soap and water are not available) after having contact with respiratory secretions and contaminated objects/materials.

From the New England Journal of Medicine
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006372
“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.”

Final Thoughts

• Surgical masks – loose fitting. They are designed to protect the patient from the doctors’ respiratory droplets. The wearer is not protected from others airborne particles
• People do not wear masks properly. Most people have the mask under the nose. The wearer does not have glasses on and the eyes are a portal of entry.
• The designer masks and scarves offer minimal protection – they give a false sense of security to both the wearer and those around the wearer.
  **Not to mention they add a perverse lightheartedness to the situation.
• If you are walking alone, no mask – avoid folks – that is common sense.
• Remember – children under 2 should not wear masks – accidental suffocation and difficulty breathing in some
• If wearing a mask makes people go out and get Vitamin D – go for it. In the 1918 flu pandemic people who went outside did better. Early reports are showing people with COVID-19 with low Vitamin D do worse than those with normal levels. Perhaps that is why shut-ins do so poorly. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.20058578v4

If you are sick, stay home!
Additional Resource: Healthy People Wearing Masks, Should They or Shouldn’t They? This ER nurse with over two decades of experience took a deep dive into the science to find out: https://jennifermargulis.net/healthy-people-wearing-masks-during-covid19/
Read full story here…

Source:  technocracy.news

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Organ donor? Organs are cut out of patients’ bodies even while they are conscious and aware, horrifying new science study reveals

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 by: Mike Adams 

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(Natural News) If you’re an organ donor, you might have chosen that status out of a sense of goodwill, thinking that medical personnel don’t harvest your organs until after you’re dead and unconscious. But a new scientific study reveals that organ harvesting is very likely taking place even while patients are still conscious, even though their hearts have stopped beating.
This means that patients are fully aware — and experience all the pain — of doctors rapidly cutting into their bodies and slicing away their organs in order to generate “transplant profits” for the corrupt medical system.

Even when your heart stops beating, you’re still alive and conscious for several minutes

You’re not really dead when your heart merely stops beating, even though that’s what doctors use to pronounce you dead. “[P]eople who have survived cardiac arrest later accurately described what was happening around them after their hearts stopped beating,” said Dr. Sam Parnia, a researcher who studies consciousness after death. His comments were reported by Fox News:
He said: “They’ll describe watching doctors and nurses working, they’ll describe having awareness of full conversations, of visual things that were going on, that would otherwise not be known to them.”
In other words, you’re still alive, conscious and aware for several minutes after your heart stops beating. Just because the heart stops doesn’t instantly disconnect the activity of the brain. (This should be obvious, but the corrupt, evil medical system has whitewashed this issue for years, pretending that death is instantaneous, taking place the moment the heart stops beating.)

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“This means you are essentially ‘trapped’ inside your dead body with your brain still working,” reports Fox News. If you’re an organ donor, that’s the moment in which doctors slice into your body without using anesthesia (since they assume you’re dead) and start rapidly harvesting your organs. You feel every bit of it, but you’re trapped inside your body and can’t move or even scream.

If you’re an organ donor, greedy hospitals and unethical doctors may start harvesting your organs BEFORE you’re dead

Doctors are pushed by the medical industry to harvest as many organs as possible, since organs are free to the hospital, yet that same hospital can generate millions of dollars in revenue from an organ transplant. The organ trade is steeped in unethical medical crimes and horrifying realities that almost no one dares acknowledge. Over the years, there have been many reports that claim some doctors dishonestly declare patients to be deceased even when they aren’t, in order to start harvesting their organs before their heart stops beating.
A shocking investigative book called The Red Market (by Scott Carney) documents the unethical practices of the organ trade industry. The book’s subtitle is, “On the trail of the world’s organ brokers, bone thieves, blood farmers and child traffickers,” and it lays out the horrifying truth about the organ harvesting industry that the medical establishment has successfully covered up for decades.

The corrupt medical system pushes you to donate your organs for THEIR benefit, not yours

In summary, the entire push for you to become an organ donor is based on medical system profits. They need your organs in order to charge patients for organ transplant procedures, drugs and a lifetime of repeat doctor visits. In seeking to capture these profits, they falsely imply that somehow organ transplants are free to everyone, as if hospitals and doctors are volunteering their time and resources to save lives.
That’s a big lie.
In truth, organ transplants are a huge profit center for many hospitals, and while hospitals and doctors reap enormous profits on these procedures, they pay no money whatsoever to the family of the deceased person whose organs made the entire thing possible in the first place.
Why should organ donors give up their organs for free while doctors, hospitals and drug companies reap huge profits from those organs? If “saving lives” is the real goal, then why don’t hospitals the doctors offer all organ transplants for free?
The answer is obvious: It’s big business. It’s a profit center for the corrupt, evil medical industry.
And if you are an organ donor, you are perpetuating this great evil and possibly subjecting yourself to horrifying torture as surgeons rip your organs from your body while you’re still alive and conscious.
If you really want to help others, teach people how to protect their own organs through healthy living, nutrition and avoidance of toxins. By teaching people how to keeps their own organs healthy, you reduce the need for fresh organ transplants, thereby making more of those organs available to those who are waiting for them.
You can start by teaching people to avoid toxic vaccines, since vaccines damage the kidneys. Chemotherapy damages the heart, liver and brain. Exposure to glyphosate herbicide and other agricultural chemicals damages all your organs. If you really want to save lives and help others, encourage them to read Natural News where they can learn how to avoid disease and protect the organs God gave them.
Also read MedicalViolence.com for more stories about the extreme violence carried out against human beings by the medical system.

Source:  https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-04-17-human-organs-are-cut-out-of-patients-bodies-even-while-they-are-conscious-and-aware.html

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