UK: The Medical Technocrats Want Covid Restrictions Again! By Richard Miller (London)
The Covid madness is truly unending. Editors of two leading medical journals, British Medical Journal (BMJ) and Health Service Journal (HSJ), want the government to revive Covid pandemic restrictions, including compulsory mask wearing, work from home measures, and various restrictions on social gatherings. We have seen this before and it did not work then, and will not work now. Covid will still be waiting once people emerge from their home prisons from solitary confinement, and new variants, bred by evolutionary pressure, will rip through the population again.
“Editors of the U.K.’s leading health publications British Medical Journal (BMJ) and Health Service Journal (HSJ) have called on the government to revive some of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic restrictions that crippled the country’s economy.
“Now is the time to face the fact that the nation’s attempt to ‘live with COVID’ is the straw that is breaking the NHS’s [National Health Service] back,” said BMJ’s Dr. Kamran Abbasi and HSJ’s Alastair McLellan in a joint statement. “The heart of the problem is the failure to recognize that the pandemic is far from over and that a return to some of the measures taken in the past two years is needed.”
Some of the measures they are referring to are the mask wearing in healthcare settings and on public transport, free testing scheme that is costing the government £2 billion ($2.41 billion) a month, work-from-home guidance and restrictions on social gatherings.
Despite the alarming calls, leading experts believe Downing Street’s decision to remove all of the restrictions back in April was the right one.
Daily COVID-19 hospital admissions have risen to a near 18-month high, with around 2,000 people currently being hospitalized every day. However, only a third of patients needing care are primarily ill with the virus. In other words, most of them are sick with something else.
Professor Paul Hunter, an infectious disease expert from the University of East Anglia, said reinforcing the curbs now “is not going to achieve much” and may cause substantial disruption. “I think the balance of evidence is that the current wave has peaked,” he told MailOnline.
An administration adviser, who requested to be anonymous, said there is “no need for these health measures anymore.”
Draconian restrictions only work when the public is not fully informed. Now, people are very much aware that the disease is essentially a cross between a cold and flu.
Mask mandates are returning despite being proven ineffective
Mask mandates are making a comeback in spite of massive shreds of evidence and studies proving that these are ineffective in curbing COVID-19 transmissions.
Although COVID-19 cases in the country already declined, Germany is planning to reintroduce mask wearing. According to Marco Buschmann, the country’s justice minister, bringing back mandatory face coverings will be decided on soon.
He said both citizens and tourists would have to mask up in the fall and the mandate would be enforced throughout winter. The proposal for the mandate will be submitted to the German Parliament in September and expected to be implemented in October.
Ireland is also looking into reinstating mask mandates in preparation for a “possible emergency in winter.”
Meanwhile, adviser for the British government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies Dr. Colin Axon dismissed masks as mere “comfort blankets entrenching bad behavior.” He pointed out that masks do virtually nothing as the coronavirus particle is up to 5,000 times smaller than the holes in the mask.
Moreover, a Danish study involving 6,000 participants concluded that “there was no statistically significant difference between those who wore masks and those who did not when it came to being infected by COVID-19.”
Face masks are indeed cesspools of disease, according to a Japanese study, and Japan is the land of the mask:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-08-02-face-masks-teeming-disease-causing-bacteria-study.html
“Japanese researchers just published a paper in the journal Scientific Reports that deconstructs the false notion that face masks protect against infection and spread of the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19).
It turns out that face masks are petri dishes for pathogens to fester and multiply, whether they be the Fauci Flu, the common cold, or a fungal infection. If it causes illness, it will find a home in the mesh of a face mask, the study found.
“Since masks can be a direct source of infection to the respiratory tract, digestive tract, and skin, it is crucial to maintain their hygiene to prevent bacterial and fungal infections that can exacerbate COVID-19,” the authors gently wrote.
One of the first studies to address the hygiene issues associated with wearing a mask, the paper looked at 109 participants between the ages of 21 and 22 who wore a mask between September and October of 2020, the height of the plandemic.
Each participant was asked about the type of mask used, as well as how long, on average, it was worn. Researchers then collected bacteria and fungi from the three types of masks identified: gauze, polyurethane (plastic), and non-woven.
What they discovered is that bacteria tended to fester inside the masks where they are closest to the face while the outside of the masks tended to harbor more fungi.
The longer a mask is worn, the researchers further discovered, the more that bacteria and fungi multiply.
“[F]ungi and their spores are resistant to drying,” the paper explains. “[T]hey can survive under the condition where masks dry out.”
No matter what type of mask is used, bacteria and fungi love it
The worst offenders were the plastic and gauze masks, which were found to contain far more fungal colony counts than the non-woven mask type, which have three layers: two layers of fabric sandwiching a non-woven middle layer filter.
Washable and reusable masks were no better, the researchers also discovered, much to their surprise.
“The proper cleaning method for cotton face masks has been recommended to reduce the microbial load on the masks,” they wrote.
“However, in the current experiments, we did not find significant differences in bacterial or fungal colony numbers on the masks based on washing.”
Regardless of which type of mask a person uses, what he or she does every day, the duration and mode of travel to and from work and other places, etc., the risk of being exposed to dangerous pathogens is pretty much the same.
“We found no differences in the bacterial or fungal colony counts on both sides of the masks among the three transportation systems,” the authors explained after looking at masks through the lens of public transportation, personal vehicle use and walking or biking.
Even if a person gargles once and day and takes other attempted protective measures to keep a mask clean, it will still accumulate bacteria and fungi just the same, the paper further reveals.
While some of the bacteria and fungi identified are generally harmless, others are linked to food poisoning symptoms and staph infections. In the case of fungi, those that build up on masks are linked to things like ringworm, athlete’s foot and jock itch.
In their conclusion, the authors wrote that people should “avoid repeated use of masks to prevent microbial infection,” especially if they have a weakened immune system.
“To date, the evidence has been stable and clear that masks do not work to control the virus and they can be harmful and especially to children,” says Dr. Paul Alexander, an epidemiologist and researcher.”
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