The people who know this stuff the best (the industrial hygienists) weigh in on the flawed CDC mask guidance. There is no hiding from the truth here, so I predic the CDC will simply ignore the letter.
Thanks for sharing this. I’m a Certified Industrial Hygienist and this is the first time I’ve heard of this rebuttal letter because many in my field are unfortunately playing politics and unwilling to speak up on this topic, even though some of the guidance doesn’t follow scientific data or recognized safety and environmental health principles.
I am a Sr. IH that is one of 8 that co authored the letter. Thank you. I am actually currently suing the AIHA and the Daily Beast for attacking me and my professional reputation. My colleagues and I could not believe how many IHs stayed silent!
By now everyone who is not completely asleep knows mask are about control, compliance and behaviour alteration. Nothing else. Steve, I admire your passion and your dedication to the truth.
Don't masks violate OSHA in the first place by making the wearer hypoxic, below the OSHA minimum? I asked my work's Environmental Health & Safety about this at the outset of masks in 2020 and they would not address it.
Your actions showed your daughter how much you really care for your granddaughter, so much it brought forth ire she most likely hadn't seen in a while, maybe ever. I pray all is ok between you and your daughter, but I also pray this has opened up a little area in her heart that sees the danger she is putting her daughter in - more than she knows. Her own mother covering her face, covering her mouth, making her a slave. God bless you.
My Sam's Club was handing out free N95 masks at the exit door 🙇♀️. I didn't take any, but instead found myself wondering why my government would be handing these out 2 years late, and what did they treat them with. I will never fully trust the government and/or medical field again 🤷♀️.
I never took biology, nevermind microbiology lol. I learned, in science or health, in elementary school that we breathe in oxygen and release carbon dioxide, a toxin. This is also how we build our immune system. Common sense says a mask is dangerous to wear all day long. All it does, is cause someone to take in less oxygen, and breathe back in the toxin, as well as moisture and bacteria from said moisture, causing a weaker immune system. This in turn makes it easier to catch something and have its affects, be worse than they normally would, and harder for a body to fight it off.
2016 and 2018 Ontario nurses union won against the gov..... they wanted to make nurses who wouldn't vaccinate for flu wear masks in hsptl. the nurses won IN COURT bc it was proven the masks would NOT stop transmission of a respiratory virus. END OF STORY. that was a year before covid and they all lost their minds and conveniently forgot. cool.
Steve, nurses know the fact that masks do not protect, or prevent viruses from getting to you. We were taught that in microbiology 101!. At least I was. The CDC has lied from the very start of this plandemic, it was not even a PANDEMIC when THEY started calling it one. They have inflated the numbers of cases HUGELY!!! They admitted to inflating them but not 96% inflation. They do not want to tell the truth because we all know that they have been falsifying everything. They are still lying, they have called labs and told them to stop counting the POSITIVE CASES of covid that are VACCINATED. Because it seems when you get these 'NOT SAFE" shots you will get covid, whether it is a mild case or not, you will get it! They do not want use to know this is now Pandemic of the VACCINATED!!!!
Oh masks work. *What* they work for is not what Gray Tony is telling us, though ;) It would seem more of a psyche effect than medical effect. Seeing masks reminds people they should be afraid, some said. I'd say also, this is one of the many things that train people to get used to following nonsensical seeming, contradictory, flipping back and forth in logic, commands. In other words, it trains unquestioning obedience, cause "Experts"(TM), 'cause people at some point give up with the logical attempt at looking at this, as it seems futile.
I wonder now whether the "...seems futile" part is connected to the known effect in psychology of "Learned Helplessness". (although it does not apply this way to the true believers, of course. Only to the more or less secret doubters.)
The mask's we wear are so good you cannot even smell acetone through them.
They are often custom-fitted and leak tested.
They are real.
Throwing the paper and cloth mask on and shooting paint would shorten your lifespan in a hurry. They are worse than worthless and those that believe they work as they get a false sense of security.
my 19 yr has a 370Z and a 300z he likes to do aesthetic stuff too. if he does he must wear a respirator. i will walk out and check too. like.... that is the ONLY thing that stops anything.
I used to write safety manuals for contractors for USACE projects. Specifically mask types for various asbestos abatement, hazardous spaces, painting, etc. It amazes me that OSHA actually went into full maskhole mode. This is nuts. You are right on point with the false sense of security. Nothing short of a leak tested full respirator with supplied oxygen is going to stop the virus. Can you imagine abating asbestos with a surgical mask? They'd laugh you off the job.
I have read the comments and I see a trend where people are wondering why we have not spoken out and while we waited until now. We have been speaking out for several years, but many of us have been deplatformed, been under cyber attacks where computers were wiped and the big tech companies have done a really good job of suppressing the information.
Tammy Clark and I have been working together since May of 2020 and we started working with America's Frontline doctors in October of 2020 when we all met at a constitutional rights summit in Texas.
Her and I have traveled around this country on our own dime testifying in court cases, in front of legislative bodies, helped open up states, and win court cases and custody issues related to masking. We most recently help shoot down the illegal OSHA ETS at SCOTUS.
We have definitely been very loud over the past two and a half years, it's actually mind blowing that some of you've never heard of us, but it doesn't surprise me due to all the censorship. Another issue is that a lot of people think that healthcare workers and doctors are the subject matter experts on this issue, but we're actually the ones that train them on how to work safely and reduce their risks to infectious diseases as we are exposure scientists.
I believe Tammy and I were the first two I ages to speak out and then we found Steven Petty and so on and so on and we continue to find more people in our field willing to speak out, while some are afraid of the attacks.
I had a defamatory hit piece written about me from The Daily Beast and I'm actually suing them because of it. It's one of the reasons so many people are afraid to speak out.
I'm just sharing all this as I don't want anyone to think that we waited until the end of this pandemic to speak out we have been speaking from the rooftops since spring of 2020.
Your courage telling the TRUTH to those in trance to the Covid lies is vital to our coming out of this insanity.
Would you please email contact information to me?
I hopefully can develop a presentation or meeting for elected officials and school administrators as we are facing continued forced masking for so many, here in Oregon.
This is the state that watched our youth athletes collapse and even code wearing face masks, due to oxygen deprivation, yet still forces our children into them. Somehow the information still hasn't penetrated here.
Thank you so very much for your work to bring knowledge and compassion to this dark moment in U.S. and world history!
I have seen two of you on Del Bigtree's show many months ago. I know how hard it is to get an airing when so many doors are automatically closed. On local online bulletin boards, I've tried to post very neutral messages pointing to medical journal articles (eg., NEJM) only to have them censored as being "unsafe".
The censorship is very bad. I think I bypassed it to get information because I was already aware of some of these things and researching them, so even at the very beginning of the pandemic, the public policies made zero sense to me and I knew something was "up."
When you first spoke out, I heard you. But I couldn't get anyone else in my circle to pay attention, because as you point out, people have been trained to listen to "healthcare workers and doctors."
The censorship has been like a slowly-tightening noose. As I've been researching for a long time, it was far easier to come across this type of truthful information even five years ago. It's much harder now. You have to almost already know where to go (the back channels) -- but in order to know where to go, you have to know that these back channels exist in the first place.
They shouldn't even BE "back channels" because it's the truth as opposed to the propaganda pushed in the mainstream. This is scientific inquiry and critical thinking.
I have to mention my gratitude for this substack platform, as it enables regular, uncredentialed but interested people to communicate with previously closed groups of scientists talking in their professional circles. What I'm finding is that when we ALL share information, ideas and questions, even if we come from backgrounds never previously in contact with one another (for example, doctors and truckers), we are discovering that it benefits all of us. We can each contribute our part when we connect together, rather than being divided into our little groups. We are all "we, the people."
I've definitely heard of you previously - I remember reading your statement at the beginning of this pandemic lie! I was already certain the masks were useless but not many people were speaking about it then. Thank you for #HoldingTheLine and continuing to speak out however possible. Not easy to get the voices of truth heard these days.
I was actually injured by face mask use. My employer started requiring them in the middle of 2020 and so I dutifully wore mine, 8 hrs. a day, 40 hrs. a week. After 14 months I started getting nausea every morning, frequent vomiting and brain fog. This went on for 3 months before I found out my extended face mask use was raising my blood sugar up to serious levels. I am diabetic and had my blood sugar stable for months so wasn't testing and didn't make the connection. My employer who required face coverings to be on the premises "allowed" me to switch to a face shield, which solved my problem, although it took weeks for my body to normalize and my blood sugar to drop. I knew from the start masks didn't do anything - anyone with any modicum of critical thinking skills can figure that out - but with a mortgage to pay, I had no choice. It was required by all employers state wide so getting a different job wouldn't have mattered. Today I stop and think: We, all of us for two years, in the nation and most of the world put a medical device on our faces to restrict our breathing for a LIE. Because the people in charge are in control of the narrative - they believed it and forced it upon us.
If you had a workplace injury or illness related to masking that required anything above first aid that is an OSHA recordable and you would have been entitled to workers compensation.
I sure wish I had known that at the time. Now our governor is lifting the mask mandate starting March 21st. As if the virus was bam, suddenly going to be gone. Why not now? The whole thing was a sham from the start.
I agree. And many of us have been trying to explain that to our dictatorial, not-so-bright governor, who is following political science rather than actual science. It is Jay Inslee, who conveniently makes himself unavailable for tough questions from the public. We all know the virus suddenly stops "boom!" on a very specific date, don't we? ;)
Sadly, V. Putin will get the Nobel Prize for Medicine (or Physiology) having sent his troops, but notice the "surgical strikes" (another medical priority) in avoiding civilian "Collateral Damage," into the Ukraine.
Like magic, Covid has disappeared! Vlad for Life! (I always thought that bright leaders were more worrisome than stupid ones, but now we have Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau as comparators. Fear Chrystia Freeland.)
Keep looking at the Biden association with the Ukrainian politics, graft, and regime change.
El Gato Malo has already deemed JT the 2022 Hide and Seek Champion, I am afraid JI is only a loser.
From north of the US border, I have always been willing to ascribe incompetence to Donald Trump, but now I am willing to see a frustrated narcissist, with a hint of appreciation of reality.
From your final sentence, I am hoping that you are not a "Seasonality Theorist."
Review Governor Inslee's association with the WEF, our Mr. Horgan has cunningly had his WEF page taken down.
Yep, just like if you're standing or walking in a restaurant the virus is around head level and you must wear a mask. When you sit down at your table you are now below tga virus level and may take your mask off to talk and eat. 🙄😑
I have printed El Gato Malo's cartoon from last month, where the Rona advises the pudgy diner that he is only dangerous if he is standing. "..It's on Like Donkey Kong!"
I leave the odd one on the table when leaving the "Masked but unVaxxed" Coffee Shop. I have saved a lot on restaurant visits over the past two years!
My colleagues and have have been screaming to this info for over 2 yrs. It's so frustrating learning on this thread how many have not heard of us. Censorship is harmful!
Amen. How can anyone come to a proper conclusion without all the information? This tells me that they don't care who they harm in their effort to force an ideology, and make no mistake, that is what this is. All totalitarians have human collateral in their effort to force their will and beliefs (like a religion) on the rest of a population. They simply don't care who they harm - to them it's like 'Oh Well'.
If nothing else, this has taught me even more than ever to think on my two feet and like Solzhenitsyn said in his last letter: "Live not by lies". I refuse to wear a mask at stores and will leave if someone accosts me. I will not endanger my health "to keep someone else safe", even for 15 minutes.
People cannot spread something they do not have, so there is no point to wearing a face mask.
Besides, when did a pair of pants ever stop a fart? :D
Good letter but no secrets here, at least to many of us. This letter should have been written in Sept 2020, right after the world's leading aerosol scientists (237 of them) led by Lidia Morawska sent that letter to the WHO in August telling them they were ignoring science by ignoring aerosol spread. The WHO backed down. The timing would have been much better then, and they could have referenced the WHO's changed position. Well, better late than never, I guess; it seems to be taking so long for people with the truth to band together.
I'm one of the IHs who wrote this letter. We definitely have been exposing this since May of 2020! Tammy Clark and I have also helped shut down the OSHA ETS, spoken around the country, and helped with court cases and have testimony in multiple states.
Have any of your efforts been actively suppressed? I know many folks in engineering have been exposed to the safety hierarchy of controls, for instance (wrote many laser safety analyses due to my particular engineering discipline). I would have expected literally tens of thousands of engineers to be aware of the idiocy in the CDC mask guidance, not simply specialized aerosol scientists. Did you ever get much support early on, and are you getting support for your efforts now from the broader engineering and scientific community? I'm trying to get an idea if the physical science community is also intimidated or simply sticking their heads in the sand.
Thanks for sharing this. I’m a Certified Industrial Hygienist and this is the first time I’ve heard of this rebuttal letter because many in my field are unfortunately playing politics and unwilling to speak up on this topic, even though some of the guidance doesn’t follow scientific data or recognized safety and environmental health principles.
I am a Sr. IH that is one of 8 that co authored the letter. Thank you. I am actually currently suing the AIHA and the Daily Beast for attacking me and my professional reputation. My colleagues and I could not believe how many IHs stayed silent!
The CDC in its current instantiation cannot be recovered. It's time for Drain The Swamp 2.0.
By now everyone who is not completely asleep knows mask are about control, compliance and behaviour alteration. Nothing else. Steve, I admire your passion and your dedication to the truth.
Thanks for that. Love from the Netherlands.
Don't masks violate OSHA in the first place by making the wearer hypoxic, below the OSHA minimum? I asked my work's Environmental Health & Safety about this at the outset of masks in 2020 and they would not address it.
Yes, it is an OSHA violation! Several different violations.
Your actions showed your daughter how much you really care for your granddaughter, so much it brought forth ire she most likely hadn't seen in a while, maybe ever. I pray all is ok between you and your daughter, but I also pray this has opened up a little area in her heart that sees the danger she is putting her daughter in - more than she knows. Her own mother covering her face, covering her mouth, making her a slave. God bless you.
My Sam's Club was handing out free N95 masks at the exit door 🙇♀️. I didn't take any, but instead found myself wondering why my government would be handing these out 2 years late, and what did they treat them with. I will never fully trust the government and/or medical field again 🤷♀️.
Same thing at my local supermarket. The checkout person said take as many as you want. No thank you, goodness knows what's in these "free" masks.
Hah! It's like the pedophile's sketchy white van with "free candy" scrawled on the outside...
I never took biology, nevermind microbiology lol. I learned, in science or health, in elementary school that we breathe in oxygen and release carbon dioxide, a toxin. This is also how we build our immune system. Common sense says a mask is dangerous to wear all day long. All it does, is cause someone to take in less oxygen, and breathe back in the toxin, as well as moisture and bacteria from said moisture, causing a weaker immune system. This in turn makes it easier to catch something and have its affects, be worse than they normally would, and harder for a body to fight it off.
2016 and 2018 Ontario nurses union won against the gov..... they wanted to make nurses who wouldn't vaccinate for flu wear masks in hsptl. the nurses won IN COURT bc it was proven the masks would NOT stop transmission of a respiratory virus. END OF STORY. that was a year before covid and they all lost their minds and conveniently forgot. cool.
Steve, nurses know the fact that masks do not protect, or prevent viruses from getting to you. We were taught that in microbiology 101!. At least I was. The CDC has lied from the very start of this plandemic, it was not even a PANDEMIC when THEY started calling it one. They have inflated the numbers of cases HUGELY!!! They admitted to inflating them but not 96% inflation. They do not want to tell the truth because we all know that they have been falsifying everything. They are still lying, they have called labs and told them to stop counting the POSITIVE CASES of covid that are VACCINATED. Because it seems when you get these 'NOT SAFE" shots you will get covid, whether it is a mild case or not, you will get it! They do not want use to know this is now Pandemic of the VACCINATED!!!!
Oh masks work. *What* they work for is not what Gray Tony is telling us, though ;) It would seem more of a psyche effect than medical effect. Seeing masks reminds people they should be afraid, some said. I'd say also, this is one of the many things that train people to get used to following nonsensical seeming, contradictory, flipping back and forth in logic, commands. In other words, it trains unquestioning obedience, cause "Experts"(TM), 'cause people at some point give up with the logical attempt at looking at this, as it seems futile.
I wonder now whether the "...seems futile" part is connected to the known effect in psychology of "Learned Helplessness". (although it does not apply this way to the true believers, of course. Only to the more or less secret doubters.)
I used to shoot paint quite a bit.
I am trained.
The mask's we wear are so good you cannot even smell acetone through them.
They are often custom-fitted and leak tested.
They are real.
Throwing the paper and cloth mask on and shooting paint would shorten your lifespan in a hurry. They are worse than worthless and those that believe they work as they get a false sense of security.
my 19 yr has a 370Z and a 300z he likes to do aesthetic stuff too. if he does he must wear a respirator. i will walk out and check too. like.... that is the ONLY thing that stops anything.
I used to write safety manuals for contractors for USACE projects. Specifically mask types for various asbestos abatement, hazardous spaces, painting, etc. It amazes me that OSHA actually went into full maskhole mode. This is nuts. You are right on point with the false sense of security. Nothing short of a leak tested full respirator with supplied oxygen is going to stop the virus. Can you imagine abating asbestos with a surgical mask? They'd laugh you off the job.
One of the Authors here!
I have read the comments and I see a trend where people are wondering why we have not spoken out and while we waited until now. We have been speaking out for several years, but many of us have been deplatformed, been under cyber attacks where computers were wiped and the big tech companies have done a really good job of suppressing the information.
Tammy Clark and I have been working together since May of 2020 and we started working with America's Frontline doctors in October of 2020 when we all met at a constitutional rights summit in Texas.
Her and I have traveled around this country on our own dime testifying in court cases, in front of legislative bodies, helped open up states, and win court cases and custody issues related to masking. We most recently help shoot down the illegal OSHA ETS at SCOTUS.
We have definitely been very loud over the past two and a half years, it's actually mind blowing that some of you've never heard of us, but it doesn't surprise me due to all the censorship. Another issue is that a lot of people think that healthcare workers and doctors are the subject matter experts on this issue, but we're actually the ones that train them on how to work safely and reduce their risks to infectious diseases as we are exposure scientists.
I believe Tammy and I were the first two I ages to speak out and then we found Steven Petty and so on and so on and we continue to find more people in our field willing to speak out, while some are afraid of the attacks.
I had a defamatory hit piece written about me from The Daily Beast and I'm actually suing them because of it. It's one of the reasons so many people are afraid to speak out.
I'm just sharing all this as I don't want anyone to think that we waited until the end of this pandemic to speak out we have been speaking from the rooftops since spring of 2020.
Your courage telling the TRUTH to those in trance to the Covid lies is vital to our coming out of this insanity.
Would you please email contact information to me?
I hopefully can develop a presentation or meeting for elected officials and school administrators as we are facing continued forced masking for so many, here in Oregon.
This is the state that watched our youth athletes collapse and even code wearing face masks, due to oxygen deprivation, yet still forces our children into them. Somehow the information still hasn't penetrated here.
Thank you so very much for your work to bring knowledge and compassion to this dark moment in U.S. and world history!
Or.katherine.green@childrenshealthdefense.org
I have seen two of you on Del Bigtree's show many months ago. I know how hard it is to get an airing when so many doors are automatically closed. On local online bulletin boards, I've tried to post very neutral messages pointing to medical journal articles (eg., NEJM) only to have them censored as being "unsafe".
Glad to hear you have been speaking out. Sadly, the censorship and de-platforming has worked too well. Thank you Steve for publishing this letter.
The censorship is very bad. I think I bypassed it to get information because I was already aware of some of these things and researching them, so even at the very beginning of the pandemic, the public policies made zero sense to me and I knew something was "up."
When you first spoke out, I heard you. But I couldn't get anyone else in my circle to pay attention, because as you point out, people have been trained to listen to "healthcare workers and doctors."
The censorship has been like a slowly-tightening noose. As I've been researching for a long time, it was far easier to come across this type of truthful information even five years ago. It's much harder now. You have to almost already know where to go (the back channels) -- but in order to know where to go, you have to know that these back channels exist in the first place.
They shouldn't even BE "back channels" because it's the truth as opposed to the propaganda pushed in the mainstream. This is scientific inquiry and critical thinking.
I have to mention my gratitude for this substack platform, as it enables regular, uncredentialed but interested people to communicate with previously closed groups of scientists talking in their professional circles. What I'm finding is that when we ALL share information, ideas and questions, even if we come from backgrounds never previously in contact with one another (for example, doctors and truckers), we are discovering that it benefits all of us. We can each contribute our part when we connect together, rather than being divided into our little groups. We are all "we, the people."
I've definitely heard of you previously - I remember reading your statement at the beginning of this pandemic lie! I was already certain the masks were useless but not many people were speaking about it then. Thank you for #HoldingTheLine and continuing to speak out however possible. Not easy to get the voices of truth heard these days.
Please come to Oregon and speak. The politicians here are mask crazy!!
Yes! Let's make this happen!! Oregon is darkness complete, in too many places.
I was actually injured by face mask use. My employer started requiring them in the middle of 2020 and so I dutifully wore mine, 8 hrs. a day, 40 hrs. a week. After 14 months I started getting nausea every morning, frequent vomiting and brain fog. This went on for 3 months before I found out my extended face mask use was raising my blood sugar up to serious levels. I am diabetic and had my blood sugar stable for months so wasn't testing and didn't make the connection. My employer who required face coverings to be on the premises "allowed" me to switch to a face shield, which solved my problem, although it took weeks for my body to normalize and my blood sugar to drop. I knew from the start masks didn't do anything - anyone with any modicum of critical thinking skills can figure that out - but with a mortgage to pay, I had no choice. It was required by all employers state wide so getting a different job wouldn't have mattered. Today I stop and think: We, all of us for two years, in the nation and most of the world put a medical device on our faces to restrict our breathing for a LIE. Because the people in charge are in control of the narrative - they believed it and forced it upon us.
If you had a workplace injury or illness related to masking that required anything above first aid that is an OSHA recordable and you would have been entitled to workers compensation.
I'm a Senior Industrial Hygienist.
I sure wish I had known that at the time. Now our governor is lifting the mask mandate starting March 21st. As if the virus was bam, suddenly going to be gone. Why not now? The whole thing was a sham from the start.
Lifting the "Mandate" in a month? It doesn't work now , has not worked anywhere, it will not work for 4 more weeks.
It is unnecessary at G7 meetings and the Super Bowl (unless of course you belong to the peon class.)
Do you have anyone who can assess the governor for dementia or competence?
I agree. And many of us have been trying to explain that to our dictatorial, not-so-bright governor, who is following political science rather than actual science. It is Jay Inslee, who conveniently makes himself unavailable for tough questions from the public. We all know the virus suddenly stops "boom!" on a very specific date, don't we? ;)
Sadly, V. Putin will get the Nobel Prize for Medicine (or Physiology) having sent his troops, but notice the "surgical strikes" (another medical priority) in avoiding civilian "Collateral Damage," into the Ukraine.
Like magic, Covid has disappeared! Vlad for Life! (I always thought that bright leaders were more worrisome than stupid ones, but now we have Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau as comparators. Fear Chrystia Freeland.)
Keep looking at the Biden association with the Ukrainian politics, graft, and regime change.
El Gato Malo has already deemed JT the 2022 Hide and Seek Champion, I am afraid JI is only a loser.
From north of the US border, I have always been willing to ascribe incompetence to Donald Trump, but now I am willing to see a frustrated narcissist, with a hint of appreciation of reality.
From your final sentence, I am hoping that you are not a "Seasonality Theorist."
Review Governor Inslee's association with the WEF, our Mr. Horgan has cunningly had his WEF page taken down.
Yep, just like if you're standing or walking in a restaurant the virus is around head level and you must wear a mask. When you sit down at your table you are now below tga virus level and may take your mask off to talk and eat. 🙄😑
I have printed El Gato Malo's cartoon from last month, where the Rona advises the pudgy diner that he is only dangerous if he is standing. "..It's on Like Donkey Kong!"
I leave the odd one on the table when leaving the "Masked but unVaxxed" Coffee Shop. I have saved a lot on restaurant visits over the past two years!
Yes, as "Seasonality Theorists" we can be quite certain. If we were "Natural Immunity Theorists" we might have to count infections honestly.
My colleagues and have have been screaming to this info for over 2 yrs. It's so frustrating learning on this thread how many have not heard of us. Censorship is harmful!
Amen. How can anyone come to a proper conclusion without all the information? This tells me that they don't care who they harm in their effort to force an ideology, and make no mistake, that is what this is. All totalitarians have human collateral in their effort to force their will and beliefs (like a religion) on the rest of a population. They simply don't care who they harm - to them it's like 'Oh Well'.
If nothing else, this has taught me even more than ever to think on my two feet and like Solzhenitsyn said in his last letter: "Live not by lies". I refuse to wear a mask at stores and will leave if someone accosts me. I will not endanger my health "to keep someone else safe", even for 15 minutes.
People cannot spread something they do not have, so there is no point to wearing a face mask.
Besides, when did a pair of pants ever stop a fart? :D
Yes so true, ... and why would they listen to leading scientists!! Its disgusting how flawed the CDC is.
wow, just wow!
Good letter but no secrets here, at least to many of us. This letter should have been written in Sept 2020, right after the world's leading aerosol scientists (237 of them) led by Lidia Morawska sent that letter to the WHO in August telling them they were ignoring science by ignoring aerosol spread. The WHO backed down. The timing would have been much better then, and they could have referenced the WHO's changed position. Well, better late than never, I guess; it seems to be taking so long for people with the truth to band together.
I'm one of the IHs who wrote this letter. We definitely have been exposing this since May of 2020! Tammy Clark and I have also helped shut down the OSHA ETS, spoken around the country, and helped with court cases and have testimony in multiple states.
Have any of your efforts been actively suppressed? I know many folks in engineering have been exposed to the safety hierarchy of controls, for instance (wrote many laser safety analyses due to my particular engineering discipline). I would have expected literally tens of thousands of engineers to be aware of the idiocy in the CDC mask guidance, not simply specialized aerosol scientists. Did you ever get much support early on, and are you getting support for your efforts now from the broader engineering and scientific community? I'm trying to get an idea if the physical science community is also intimidated or simply sticking their heads in the sand.