Masks Don’t Work – Experts Under Oath Say

Since last September, experts have testified at a tribunal hearing for an Alberta chiropractor on how well masks do, or don’t, slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes […]
Published on April 7, 2022

Since last September, experts have testified at a tribunal hearing for an Alberta chiropractor on how well masks do, or don’t, slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Unfortunately, the chiropractor’s college, YouTube, and LinkedIn did not want you to know what was said because most of it contradicts what people have been told the past two years.

First, a little background. Since mid-2020, the College of Chiropractors of Alberta required its 1,100 chiropractors and their patients to wear masks. However, Calgary chiropractor Dr. Curtis Wall did not, as he had a medical exemption to refuse the mask because it caused him anxiety and a sense of claustrophobia.

Wall was accused of “unprofessional conduct” by his college, so he hired lawyer James Kitchen to represent him, first with his own funds, then through Liberty Coalition Canada. Kitchen called four witnesses to the stand, so the College called one as well. The College was unsuccessful in its request for a media ban on the testimony, though some names remain redacted.

The college’s sole witness was a physician who had substantial influence on the pandemic response in Calgary and Alberta. His report to the tribunal claimed, “there is an overwhelming body of evidence supporting the use of masking in health care settings to reduce COVID transmission,” with “no known harms associated with masking.”

In cross-examination, the doctor confirmed he was not a virologist, immunologist, respirologist, or microbiologist. He also admitted that for “people with extreme anxiety [masks] can make you anxious.”

Enter Medicine Hat respirologist Bao Dang. He said SARS-CoV-1 had “a lot of similar properties” to the original SARS of 2004, and the only people masked then were sick patients. He believed the public was masked due to “a social and political aspect…causing mass paranoia and fear and panic” because “firm evidence” was lacking. He cited two academic reviews that showed there was no proof surgical masks stopped infection in operating rooms either, just blood and saliva.

Dang said N95 masks were designed to catch 95 percent of materials that were 0.3 microns or bigger, but SARS-CoV-1 was 0.1 microns. He also cited the DANMASK-19 study, a randomized control trial of people in Denmark who wore masks to prevent COVID-19 and others who did not. “Despite desperately wanting to find objective evidence that masks [work], they could not,” Dang concluded.

“Having the public wear masks, most of which are often wet, dirty, reused, and incorrectly worn, can lead to health problems and inhaling pollutions and secretions over and over,” Dang said.

In the opinion of occupational health and safety (OH&S) consultant Chris Schaeffer, masking the public was “beyond strange” and “alarming.” He called public mask mandates “Russian roulette,” and risky for those with COPD, heart conditions, lung conditions, or high blood pressure. He said N95s were “breathing barriers,” unlike typical masks, and “were never designed for hour upon hour use.”

Schaeffer teaches courses on fitting and testing respirators to the military, health care, schools, and private industry. He told the tribunal that workers are supposed to get individually fitted for a mask before wearing one, and if an individual had added risk factors, physicians had to assess the worker was okay to wear a respirator. But under COVID, he said, “there’s no screening anymore; it’s just wear one or else, and that’s never happened before.”

Occupational Health &Safety standards limited carbon particles to 1,000 parts per million and required oxygen levels to be 19.5 percent or higher, Schaeffer said. Yet, everyone he had tested wearing an N95 mask for two minutes had too much carbon and too little oxygen. If the natural air was that bad, OH&S regulations said a workplace had to be evacuated.

Dr. Byram Bridle, professor of viral immunology at the University of Guelph, told the tribunal that the survival rate for COVID at the end of 2020 was 99.85 percent. He likened that to a “bad flu season,” and said percentages under the Omicron later were even less deadly. Bridle said masking was only appropriate for the sick, and not for the asymptomatic. Unless someone was coughing and sneezing, they were unlikely to spread enough virus to infect anyone.

Wall’s fourth witness, a medical microbiologist and infection disease specialist whose name was not released to the public, said “the difference between symptomatic transmission and asymptomatic transmission was about 25 times.”

He also pointed to a “cluster-randomized trial” of over 300,000 people in Bangladesh. Here, villages were everyone wore a surgical mask had an infection rate of 0.67 and villages were everyone was unmasked had an infection rate of 0.76 percent. At those rates, eight weeks of mask wearing by all of Alberta’s 1,100 chiropractors would only prevent one infection. as was a post on LinkedIn with this testimony

I tried to narrate these facts on a YouTube video, but it was yanked for misinformation. And, after I posted an article to LinkedIn with this testimony, it promptly disappeared. It’s time for the truth to be unmasked—and for people’s faces to follow.

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