TO MASK OR NOT TO MASK, THAT IS THE QUESTION
MASKING IS STUPID
TO MASK OR NOT TO MASK, THAT IS THE QUESTION
I choose not to mask. Masking struck me as inherently stupid right out of the box. Being a pilot, I know how critical oxygen is.
Yes, when we breathe we could be spreading germs. We are also oxygenating our bodies. Oxygen is the key to life. We die faster without air than without water or food. We learned that in basic science class years ago. When I was in the grocery store one day at the beginning of this foolishness, fully masked and talking, I got so dizzy I thought I was going to pass out. That ended my mask-wearing.
As an airline pilot, it was my job to pressurize the plane. When I was pregnant with my daughter, she would “jump” or startle every time I pressurized. I didn’t think a lot of it at the time, except to revel in the joy of her life inside me. It was exciting to think I had a little person along for the ride.
Videos of people wearing masks and then checking their oxygen levels are everywhere on the internet. The warning goes off immediately, as we are rebreathing our own CO2 instead of fresh oxygen. Now combine wearing a mask with flying in an airplane as a passenger or crewmember. Studies show that oxygen saturation is reduced by as much as 4% already, without a mask!
These studies were done on healthy adults. Imagine a compromised or sick individual flying for hours in a pressurized cabin with a mask on. It doesn’t take a genius IQ to make the leap from A to B that it is an unhealthy and unwise practice.
A lady in my bible study group made an observation the other day. “Have you noticed there seem to be more fights on airplanes lately?” I hadn’t thought about it, but you do hear of more and more. Perhaps it is only reported more often, but irritability is one symptom of hypoxia. As pilots, we are trained to recognize hypoxia, yet I had completely forgotten my training.
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/dvt/travel.html
“More than 300 million people travel on long-distance flights (generally more than four hours) each year.1 Blood clots, also called deep vein thrombosis (DVT), can be a serious risk for some long-distance travelers. Most information about blood clots and long-distance travel comes from information that has been gathered about air travel. However, anyone traveling more than four hours, whether by air, car, bus, or train, can be at risk for blood clots.”
We already knew prolonged sitting increases your risk of developing clots on an airplane, but there is also a new link between hypoxia and blood clot risk.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180802115657.htm
Summary:
Researchers have found how hypoxia (a low concentration of oxygen) decreases Protein S, a natural anticoagulant, resulting in an increased risk for the development of potentially life-threatening blood clots (thrombosis). Although hypoxia has been associated with an increased risk for thrombosis, this research showed for the first time a molecular cause.
Airline cabins are pressurized to altitudes varying from 5000 feet to 8000 feet. The higher the airplane climbs as it burns off fuel, the higher we climb inside the cabin – up to 8000 when we are level at 41,000 feet on a long flight. Boeing has done extensive studies on pressurization. The new Dreamliner has a cabin altitude lower than most planes because passenger comfort and decreased jetlag were taken under consideration in its design.
As most airplanes move to composites and away from aluminum, it is a mixed bag. Aluminum can be pressurized to a lower altitude. That’s why the 777 hull is built with aluminum.
https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-787-dreamliner-777x-cabin-pressure-jetlag-2016-9?op=1
"Some passengers on long commercial flights experience discomfort characterized by symptoms similar to those of acute mountain sickness. The symptoms are often attributed to factors such as jet lag, prolonged sitting, dehydration, or contamination of cabin air. However, because barometric pressures in aircraft cabins are similar to those at the terrestrial altitudes at which acute mountain sickness occurs, it is possible that some of the symptoms are related to the decreased partial pressure of oxygen and are manifestations of acute mountain sickness."
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa062770
“Although immobility may contribute to passengers' discomfort,15 exercise may not be beneficial. Exercise reduces arterial oxygenation,16 which can increase the frequency and severity of acute mountain sickness17 and affect sensory perception and psychomotor performance.18
We found that ascent from ground level to 8000 ft by healthy unacclimatized adults lowered oxygen saturation by approximately 4 percentage points. This degree of hypoxemia did not affect the occurrence of acute mountain sickness, other adverse health outcomes, or impairment of sensory or psychomotor performance, but it was associated with an increased prevalence of discomfort after 3 to 9 hours. Exercise reduced muscular discomfort but did not significantly affect other ESQ-IV factors.”
A girlfriend of mine got acute altitude sickness while skiing in Breckinridge, Colorado, elevation 9,600 feet above sea level. Breckenridge’s ski resort summit reaches 12,998 feet! It surprised her because she was in good health, but having just reached the age of 70, it wasn’t unusual. Everyone else I was with noticed they were extremely tired and decided to take an early nap after breakfast. There are even oxygen bars to help reduce your discomfort, like the ones in Las Vegas that help you with your hangover.
I learned about hangovers and altitude the hard way. A friend of mine wanted to go up to ten thousand feet at sunrise and take photos. As we climbed, he got sicker, and then told me he was about to throw up. I descended, but not in time. He puked all over the cabin. After we landed he was still sick, so guess who had to clean up the inside of the airplane? Me. He had gotten extremely drunk the night before, and going to a higher altitude with decreased altitude brought his hangover/jet lag back.
http://www.riskingtoofar.com/articles/acute-mountain-sickness
“Altitude illnesses result mostly from swelling from leaky capillaries caused by low oxygen levels. These symptoms develop while sleeping at night. The usual symptoms are a dull headache and mild insomnia. It comes on during the first to third day at altitude and goes away in about three days. Infrequently it can persist and progress to Acute Mountain sickness (AMS). The early symptoms are a feeling of fatigue and irritability then headache, malaise, anorexia and even nausea and vomiting. These symptoms are like flu or a hangover. Exertion will make the symptom worse. If acute AMS does not progress further it is not life threatening and can be treated without descending to a lower altitude.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-787-dreamliner-777x-cabin-pressure-jetlag-2016-9?op=1
“But surgeons wear masks.”
I hear this the most often. It’s a fallacy, and here’s why.
“If a surgeon were sick, especially with a viral infection, they would not perform surgery as they know the virus would NOT be stopped by their surgical mask.
Another area of “false equivalence” has to do with the environment in which the masks are worn. The environments in which surgeons wear masks minimize the adverse effects surgical masks have on their wearers.
Unlike the public wearing masks in the community, surgeons work in sterile surgical suites equipped with heavy duty air exchange systems that maintain positive pressures, exchange and filter the room air at a very high level, and increase the oxygen content of the room air. These conditions limit the negative effects of masks on the surgeon and operating room staff. And yet despite these extreme climate control conditions, clinical studies demonstrate the negative effects (lowering arterial oxygen and carbon dioxide re-breathing) of surgical masks on surgeon physiology and performance.
Surgeons and operating room personnel are well trained, experienced, and meticulous about maintaining sterility. We only wear fresh sterile masks. We don the mask in a sterile fashion. We wear the mask for short periods of time and change it out at the first signs of the excessive moisture build-up that we know degrades mask effectiveness and increases their negative effects. Surgeons NEVER re-use surgical masks, nor do we ever wear cloth masks.”
Masking ourselves and our children is insanity. Not only is it bad for us, but it would also have been considered child abuse just a few short years ago. It is akin to putting your hand over your child’s face or a pillow. It is suffocating us, and it is bad for our health. Stop the insanity and use your brain.
The people in my pickleball class are so excited that N95 masks are free at Rite Aid and Fred Meyers. Whoopee. They can have mine.
https://www.youtube.com/AwakenWithJP/featured
Is having a stroke 20 hours after the second shot a coincidence? How about a brain bleed ten days after?
Doctors I know, good doctors, always consider cause and effect. The rhetoric goes like this: “What has changed in this time period?” Having a reaction within twenty-four hours or three days after the shot (myocarditis in boys) is alarming. And sad. Because the warning is not getting out to others. It is being hidden.
Sometimes events happen right away, within three minutes, and that makes it easy to determine causation. Other times, we have to look at the uptick in certain symptoms. I know twenty-five people who have either died from the shot, had heart issues, blood clots, strokes, thrombosis, headaches (probably mini-clots), lung issues, cataplexy, and/or neurological problems. TWENTY-FIVE! These are either friends or in my church family, not “friends of friends” or “I heard about a guy…”
To me, that’s an alarming number of people that I know. I have another list of people I call “maybes,” but my both lists are consistent with the adverse reactions that the FDA listed in their slide in October 2020.
https://www.fda.gov/media/143557/download (slide 16)
https://kathymccullough.wordpress.com/2021/08/20/
And you wonder why so many of us do not want this shot?
Doctors say we are experiencing an increase in Guillain-Barré syndrome. I didn’t even know what that was until recently. Floppy arms and legs, reminiscent of polio is the short answer, and there is more information below and linked.
We are now being advised of a possible increase in children. Why? Well, it is one of the adverse effects the FDA warned of (above) and the government wants to give these experimental shots to children as young as five! And pregnant mothers! So, does the government have a crystal ball? Or is there something we, the general public, are not considering — perhaps a side effect of the vaccine?
Dr. Peter McCullough says the neurological events we are seeing in the original test group of the vaccines are occurring 9-12 months after the shot.
We were told about this back in June 2020, but since then, these injuries continue to be ignored. https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2021/6/sen-johnson-these-families-have-a-very-simple-request-they-want-to-be-seen-their-stories-heard-they-would-like-to-be-believed
Ken Ruettgers:
“They reached out to their local politicians. They tried contacting the drug companies. And without response. They often used the term ‘I feel ghosted.’ So, without a voice, and with the daily growing population that were experiencing these reactions, and their frustration without being heard, or seen, or recognized or believed. I mean, they didn’t even have a chance to be believed because nobody responded.”
“They are pro-vaccine, as Senator Johnson said. We’re pro-vaccine. And they think we can be pro-vaccine, attack this pandemic, get through this pandemic, and get taken care of and be heard. They think we can do both. That sounds reasonable to me. Many in the group, especially in the first few weeks, are doctors, nurses, mental health professionals, because they were taking, they were in the first rollout, and they’re pro-science, right? We have an electrical engineer, a dental hygienist, my wife’s working on her master’s in counseling. Bri and her husband who’s a PhD in chemistry. Candice, who’s a PhD.”
Sheryl Ruettgers:
“My neurological symptoms have left me barely able to function some days, and the internal tremors create a type of fatigue that I have never experienced before. I am unable to fully participate in the activities I enjoyed before being vaccinated. My life has been negatively altered as a result of my vaccine. Will I get better? Will I develop Parkinson’s or MS or ALS or another neuro-degenerative disease? I don't know, and my doctors can’t tell me if they know. So what do I want? I want our neurological injuries to be recognized and acknowledged by the CDC and the FDA.”
“I’m pro-vaccine, I’m definitely pro-science, but I’m also pro informed consent, and these vaccine injuries are real, but people don’t know. People need to understand that these reactions exist, and they need to be researched.”
Ken Ruettgers, a former Green Bay Packers offensive lineman, and his wife, Sheryl, who received the Moderna vaccine in January 2021. Four days after receiving the first dose, Sheryl experienced severe neurological reactions that still inhibit her ability to live a normal life, including muscle pain, numbness, weakness and paresthesia.
Stephanie de Garay is a mother from Cincinnati, Ohio, whose 13-year-old daughter, Maddie, participated in the Pfizer Covid vaccine trial in December 2020 and January 2021. After Maddie received her second dose of the vaccine, she experienced severe side effects that resulted in multiple hospitalizations.
Kristi Dobbs is a dental hygienist from Webb City, Missouri, who received the Pfizer Covid vaccine in January 2021. Since her vaccination, she has experienced multiple severe side effects, including pain, paresthesia and heart palpitations.
Brianne Dressen is a preschool teacher from Saratoga Springs, Utah, who received the Astra Zeneca Covid vaccine during a clinical trial in November 2020. She has since experienced extensive adverse effects from the vaccine that has resulted in a medical bill of over $250,000.
Candace Hayden is from Detroit, Michigan, and received both doses of the Moderna vaccine in March 2021. In April, she suffered from paresthesia and partial paralysis from the chest down, which lead to a month-long hospital stay and weeks of physical therapy.
https://www.c19vaxreactions.com/
Exerted from a fact sheet:
“What are the symptoms of GBS?
Unexplained sensations often occur first, such as tingling in the feet or hands, or even pain (especially in children), often starting in the legs or back. Children will also show symptoms with difficulty walking and may refuse to walk. These sensations tend to disappear before the major, longer-term symptoms appear. Weakness on both sides of the body is the major symptom that prompts most people to seek medical attention. The weakness may first appear as difficulty climbing stairs or with walking. Symptoms often affect the arms, breathing muscles, and even the face, reflecting more widespread nerve damage. Occasionally symptoms start in the upper body and move down to the legs and feet.
Most people reach the greatest stage of weakness within the first two weeks after symptoms appear; by the third week 90 percent of affected individuals are at their weakest.
In addition to muscle weakness, symptoms may include:
Difficulty with eye muscles and vision
Difficulty swallowing, speaking, or chewing
Pricking or pins and needles sensations in the hands and feet
Pain that can be severe, particularly at night
Coordination problems and unsteadiness
Abnormal heart beat/rate or blood pressure
Problems with digestion and/or bladder control.
These symptoms can increase in intensity over a period of hours, days, or weeks until certain muscles cannot be used at all and, when severe, the person is almost totally paralyzed. In these cases, the disorder is life-threatening—potentially interfering with breathing and, at times, with blood pressure or heart rate.”
Very good and inciteful, thank you. A new perspective on flight and air sickness. I have also wondered about all the plastics used. They give off toxic fumes to varying degree.
As regards masks these may amuse.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/b-is-for-more-blood/
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/m-is-for-masks/
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2021/08/12/faith-masks/