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Dear Board of County Commissioners,
Thanks for hearing my oral Public Comment about how the first study
on HEPA filtration effectiveness against covid unexpectedly found
double the number of cases in HEPA-equipped kindergartens:
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjopen/13/7/e072284.full.pdf
Key excerpts: "No study to date has assessed the impact of HEPA
filters on the actual COVID-19 incidence. ... Providing such filters
in public facilities prompts a significant financial investment, thus
requiring clear evidence. ... Our study showed no significant
preventive effect on COVID-19 period prevalence in the kindergarten
setting. ... In fact, the mean period prevalence of the control group
was 186 per 1000 children, whereas a mean COVID-19 period prevalence
of 372 per 1000 children was observed in the intervention group. ...
In the control group, the mean prevalence ... was 529 per 1000
childcare workers, while it reached 1193 per 1000 childcare workers
in the intervention group."
This hugely counter-intuitive result is a perfect case study that you
really cannot know how things are going to work until you test
them. Big interventions like lockdowns, mass masking against
viruses, warp-speed mRNA injections, etc. might sound good in theory,
but without taking time for randomized controlled trials or other
appropriate long-term testing, you could be making a tragic mistake
interfering with complex systems you do not understand.
Re masking, there's a big difference between surgeons using surgical
masks to prevent spitting bacteria into wounds, and regular folks
using similar masks to prevent airborne viral transmission. Masks
mostly just redirect exhalations up blowholes in front of the eyes
and backwards through the sides of the mask, pumping the same amount
of viruses into the atmosphere but in unexpected directions.
You can test this yourself by forming your thumbs and index fingers
into a circle, then pressing them into a mask around your mouth,
thereby forcing your breath to pass through the mask instead of
escaping around the sides. Notice how hard it is to breathe now? It
is a much different experience than normal mask use, which just
reroutes exhalations.
My specific concern is the order forcing mask wearing on Jefferson
Healthcare workers to prevent covid outbreaks. Is this requirement
still in effect? It is not grounded in science and has many negative
consequences.
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub5/full
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37426866/
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/do-not-comply
Yours truly,
Stephen