GP Dan Stock advises a school board, seen in a viral video (at the bottom of this post, worth watching). His first claim is about face masks and that they do not make the virus disappear. The video is causing a lot of controversy, up to the highest echelons. And there are the inevitable debunks. The most famous debunk, by ZDoggMD, begint met "Je kunt beter niet beginnen met een overduidelijke onwaarheid". Nu is de debunker het op grote lijnen eigenlijk best eens met Dan Stock, behalve over de mondkapjes (en over vaccinatie-ADE als reden voor recente uitbraken). De debunker beweert dat mondkapjes wel degelijk zinvol zijn en geen "high-risk intervention". Dus A. het baat, en B. baat het niet dan schaadt het niet.
Now it is at least debatable that face masks have an influence on driving this epidemic. Face masks that barely allow you to breathe do indeed filter aerosols. So that is of no practical use, only under specific, short-term circumstances. Our own Jaap van Dissel has also always maintained that face masks do not or hardly work. I mention it to indicate the controversy, not that it inspires so much confidence in me. So saying that face masks are effective is certainly not an obvious truth. That's A.
Dan B: According to ZDoggMD, making face masks mandatory makes sense because it is not a high-risk intervention. That is incorrect, which is confirmed in This meta-study of 109 studies and publications. Hij onderstreept zijn uitspraak "Je kunt beter niet beginnen met een schaamteloze onwaarheid" eigenlijk alleen door te beginnen met twee onwaarheden.
Below are some paragraphs that struck me in the study about the annoying to sickening effects of long-term use of face masks.
"Effectiviteit van mondmaskers vooral op aannames gebaseerd"
From: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Vertaalde fragmenten uit de paragraaf "Conclusies":
Wearing a mask for long periods of time can cause a chronic sympathetic stress response caused by blood gas modifications and controlled by brain centers. This, in turn, induces and triggers immune suppression [worsens your immunity] and metabolic problems with cardiovascular and neurological diseases.
We found evidence not only of possible long-term effects, but also of immediate short-term effects with longer mask wear: carbon dioxide retention, drowsiness, headache, feeling of exhaustion, skin irritation (redness, itching), and microbiological contamination (germ colonization) [19,22,37,66,68,69,89,91,92].
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In any case, this is in contrast to the WHO definition of health: 'health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.' [178].
In addition to protecting the health of their patients, doctors should also base their actions on the guiding principle of the 1948 Geneva Declaration, as revised in 2017. According to the Minister, every doctor swears to put the health and dignity of his patient first and, even under threat, not to use his medical knowledge to violate human rights and civil liberties.9].
In the context of these findings, we therefore propagate an explicitly medically judicial, legally compliant action taking into account the scientific factual reality [2,4,5,16,130,132,143,175,176,177] against a predominantly assumption-based claim to an overall effectiveness of masks, always taking into account possible undesirable individual effects for the patient and mask wearer concerned, in full compliance with the principles of evidence-based medicine and the ethical guidelines of a doctor.
And to think that face masks are being reintroduced here and there, even outside and among children...
The original video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwlWwy-PrGo has been removed from YouTube.
De video maakt heel wat los, ook reacties uit officiële hoek, die voornamelijk neerkomen op "We weten heus wel wat we doen." Vandaag ziet de eerste pagina van zoekresultaten op youtube er uit als in het screenshot. Bij verder doorscrollen volgen er nog vele tientallen re-uploads. Ik heb het vermoeden dat dat in de toekomst minder gaat worden. This is the search link used.
