HomeMy WebLinkAbout02132021_Schumacher_double maskingFrom:Stephen Schumacher
Cc:Board of Health; Tom Locke; Allison Berry, Clallam County Health Officer; news@ptleader.com;news@peninsuladailynews.com; PT Free Press
Subject:Calls for double masks are tacit admissions of mask ineffectiveness
Date:Saturday, February 13, 2021 1:42:39 PM
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Dear Jefferson County Commissioners,
At last Monday's County Commissioner meeting, Dr. Locke called face
shields "virtually worthless". Yet his recent calls for double
masking imply that face masks are similarly ineffective, per new
media messaging that "a single-layer mask isn't really effective in
blocking aerosols". So he advocates wearing an outer cloth mask to
reduce leakage around an inner surgical mask, which OSHA says is "not
designed to seal tightly against the user's face".
But this hardly helps because the 600-times-larger pore areas in
cloth masks are an open door for viruses, as proven by vape cloud
experiments showing 10-times-larger vape particles passing freely
through and around all kinds of masks. It's absurd to mandate face
masks while discouraging face shields, since both are good for
blocking viruses in spit but not much else.
WHO's new Dec. 1 guidance concluded there is no solid "scientific
evidence to support the effectiveness of masking of healthy people in
the community to prevent infection with respiratory viruses". And
New England Journal of Medicine's Dec. 17 study found marine
"recruits consistently wore double layered masks yet there was still
spread in the most heavily monitored-for-compliance ... military
environments".
The new calls for double masks are tacit admissions that single masks
don't protect from viruses and should never have been
mandated. Multiple masks don't work either, and the more masks, the
more oxygen restriction, the more chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease and other dangers. See my PortTownendFreePress.com mask
article for further discussion and references.
Last week I heard a Commissioner say health issues are "out of our
wheelhouse", but as Board of Health members your job is to
independently judge health information with an open mind and not
blindly follow pied pipers. Thanks for your hardworking efforts on
our county's behalf.
Yours truly,
Stephen Schumacher
2023 E. Sims Way #200
Port Townsend, WA 98368
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