All posts tagged: facemask controversy

The ‘Bizarro World’ of schools, kids, and facemasks

Published by Dean Smith

For those too young to know, the Bizarro World was the alternate Superman universe where everything was opposite. Good was evil and evil good. All thinking was reversed. The illogical became logical and logical became illogical. And, it seems, some of America’s public schools have now entered this alternate universe. The Daily Mail reports that on April 18, 2022, Milwaukee Public Schools ended their mask mandate. Students and teachers would no longer need to wear them. Mask wearing would be optional. Then, after one day of being free, the school board reversed the decision and required everyone to wear masks. Why, you ask? This is because COVID testing revealed over the course of one day there was a dramatic increase in COVID cases. The Daily Mail explains: There were 479 new cases of COVID-19 in Wisconsin on Tuesday – but the next day, that number shot up to 1,585, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. It’s ‘Bizarro World’ where illogical becomes logical. It typically takes around four days to test positive for COVID …

Another study concludes cloth facemasks are useless

Published by Dean Smith

Another study concludes that cloth facemasks are all but useless when it comes to stopping the spread of COVID. The study, conducted by the University of Bristol in England, discovered that cloth facemasks only stopped 10% of the COVID virus.

UK imposes facemasks on school children based on a study that shows they don’t work

Published by Dean Smith

Despite several studies showing that facemasks, particularly the cloth ones, basically do nothing to stop the spread of COVID, the NY Post is reporting that the UK is requiring students to wear masks during the significantly milder Omicron surge.

A runner required to wear a facemask collapses during a race

Published by Dean Smith

The state of Oregon requires people to wear masks outside even while participating in sports, and the stupidity of that political decision was exposed during a recent high school event when a runner wearing a mask collapsed at the end of the race.

The Virus Wars: Are you ready?

Published by smcintos

Many people are protesting the restrictions we live under, with the COVID 19 pandemic. I work with the public, and recently a woman talked back to me and protested me. I am trained to wear a mask and use disinfectants; we have safety procedures, and I think they are good. I think we are all safer with the procedures and disinfectants, and I can still do my work. One woman protested that face masks cause distress for the client I was talking to. The woman took out her phone and found a government web site with information for people who have problems with masks. If you are wondering, I didn’t look to verify the information. The place was isolated and there were no known cases of COVID 19 for many miles. I carefully disinfected myself and made sure my mask was in position, and I finished my work, and I cleaned myself carefully after. The risk was small, and those people made their own decisions about their safety. I did not want to be a …