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\u00a0Masks are useless in preventing the spread of disease and, if anything, are unsanitary objects that themselves spread bacteria and viruses.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n As a person who went to medical school, I was shocked when I read\u00a0Neil Orr\u2019s study<\/a>, published in 1981 in the\u00a0Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.<\/i>\u00a0Dr. Orr was a surgeon in the Severalls Surgical Unit in Colchester. And for six months, from March through August 1980, the surgeons and staff in that unit decided to see what would happen if they did not wear masks during surgeries. They wore no masks for six months, and compared the rate of surgical wound infections from March through August 1980 with the rate of wound infections from March through August of the previous four years. And they discovered, to their amazement, that when nobody wore masks during surgeries, the rate of wound infections was less than half what it was when everyone wore masks. Their conclusion: \u201cIt would appear that minimum contamination can best be achieved by not wearing a mask at all<\/i><\/b>\u201d and that wearing a mask during surgery \u201cis a standard procedure that could be abandoned<\/i><\/b>.\u201d<\/p>\n I was so amazed that I scoured the medical literature, sure that this was a fluke and that newer studies must show the utility of masks in preventing the spread of disease. But to my surprise the medical literature for the past forty-five years has been consistent: masks are useless in preventing the spread of disease and, if anything, are unsanitary objects that themselves spread bacteria and viruses.<\/p>\n Schools in China are now\u00a0prohibiting students from wearing masks<\/a>\u00a0while exercising. Why? Because it was killing them. It was depriving them of oxygen and it was killing them. At least three children died during Physical Education classes \u2014 two of them while running on their school\u2019s track while wearing a mask. And a\u00a026-year-old man suffered a collapsed lung<\/a>\u00a0after running two and a half miles while wearing a mask.<\/p>\n Mandating masks has not kept death rates down anywhere. The 20 U.S. states that have never ordered people to wear face masks indoors and out have dramatically lower COVID-19 death rates than the 30 states that have mandated masks. Most of the no-mask states have COVID-19 death rates below 20 per 100,000 population, and none have a death rate higher than 55. All 13 states that have death rates higher 55 are states that have required the wearing of masks in all public places. It has not protected them.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are living in an atmosphere of permanent illness, of meaningless separation,\u201d writes Benjamin Cherry in the Summer 2020 issue of\u00a0New View<\/i>\u00a0magazine. A separation that is destroying lives, souls, and nature.<\/p>\n _____________![\"\"](\"https:\/\/jamesfetzer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Is-a-mask-necessary-in-the-OR-1--225x300.jpg\")
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\n* from Christopher Fry,\u00a0A Sleep of Prisoners<\/i>, 1951.<\/p>\n