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The mask charade returns in Ukraine, as medical tyrants mandate masks to save a beleaguered nation from “Nimbus and Stratus” COVID strains

We’re living in a world where the same failed policies—once exposed as useless, humiliating, and psychologically damaging—are dusted off and paraded back onto the stage like a washed-up magician repeating his worst trick. That’s exactly what’s happening in Ukraine right now, where health authorities, clutching their pearls over a few hundred COVID cases, have decided to drag the public back into the dark ages of mask mandates, restricted hospital visits, and the suffocating illusion of control.

The threat that Ukrainians now face? Two new Omicron subvariants, dubbed “Nimbus” and “Stratus,” which sound less like scientific designations and more like the names of rejected Transformers villains. But let’s cut through the theatrical fog: This isn’t about health. It’s about conditioning a population to accept that their freedoms are negotiable, that their bodies are not their own, and that the ruling class will never voluntarily surrender the power they seized in the name of a “pandemic.”

Key points:

  • Ukraine has reintroduced mask mandates in hospitals in the Rovno and Odessa regions, citing a rise in COVID-19 cases linked to new Omicron subvariants “Nimbus” and “Stratus,” with nearly 500 cases reported since August and 1,121 in Kiev alone last week.
  • The move mirrors the failed COVID policies of 2020–2021, when mandates and lockdowns were imposed globally despite no evidence they stopped transmission—only that they crushed economies, mental health, and civil liberties.
  • The same institutions pushing masks and vaccines—the CDC, FDA, WHO, and their globalist backers—have a documented history of regulatory capture, fraudulent science, and financial conflicts of interest with Big Pharma.
  • Natural immunity and early treatment options (like ivermectin, vitamin D, and zinc) were suppressed during the pandemic, while experimental mRNA injections were forced on populations with no long-term safety data—and now, vaccinated populations are seeing surges in infections.
  • The real agenda behind renewed mask theater may be distraction, control, or conditioning for future biosecurity measures, including digital health passes, vaccine mandates, or even another lockdown push.
  • Informed consent and bodily autonomy must be non-negotiable—no government or health authority has the right to coerce medical compliance under the guise of “public health.”

Why are “experts” still pretending masks work?

Let’s get one thing straight: Masks were never about science. They were about symbolism—a visible sign of submission to authority, a way to signal virtue while doing nothing to stop a respiratory virus. Study after study, from the Danish mask trial (which found no statistically significant reduction in COVID transmission) to the CDC’s own meta-analysis in 2020 (which admitted cloth masks offer “little to no protection”), confirmed what common sense already told us: A piece of fabric over your face doesn’t stop an aerosolized virus or a bioweapons that is being programmed directly into the cells through vaccination platforms. Yet here we are, three years later, watching Ukraine’s health bureaucrats dust off the same discredited playbook as if we didn’t just live through the largest-scale psychological experiment in modern history.

Andrey Karaush, head of the Rovno regional council, proudly announced the return of mask mandates in a Telegram post, as if he were unveiling a groundbreaking medical breakthrough rather than recycling a failed policy of mental degradation. Nearly 500 cases in a region of over a million people—and suddenly, the entire population must don the muzzle again. But let’s ask the obvious: If masks worked, why are cases rising now? Why did fully vaccinated college campuses—like the University of Oregon, where 960 “breakthrough” infections erupted in January 2022—see massive outbreaks among the jabbed and the masked? Why did Israel, one of the most vaccinated nations on Earth, experience record-case surges in 2021?

What we’re seeing in Ukraine isn’t a public health response—it’s a power grab. The same institutions that suppressed early treatment, censored dissenting doctors, and pushed experimental injections with zero long-term data are now testing the waters to see how much compliance they can still extract. And if history is any guide, they won’t stop until they’re forced to.

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Masking Our Schoolchildren Was Child Abuse – A Rare Chance To Stop It Returning

While more and more people are becoming aware that masking healthy people is both ineffective and harmful – as illustrated by the current rarity of face coverings in community settings – pockets of pro-mask zealotry remain smouldering in certain sections of our society, constituting an ongoing risk of re-ignition in the future.

Health and social care is one such example – a hazard addressed in Smile Free’s recent film, Masking Humanity.

Another is our education system, where, for prolonged periods during the Covid event, headmasters and teachers cruelly muzzled our kids in schools.

Now, as a result of the sterling endeavours of the ‘Declaration of Dumfries’ (DoD) team – a fellowship of people promoting common law principles of truth, rights and sovereignty – a rare opportunity has arisen to land a telling blow against those in authority and thereby deter any future imposition of masks on our schoolchildren.

In brief, what the ‘Declaration of Dumfries’ (DoD) people have accomplished is to force a local council to explicitly admit that they never had the authority to mask children, nor to punish pupils for non-compliance. 

By doing so, there is now an opening for parents of children who were victims of the unlawful mask impositions during the Covid event to sue their local councils and, by doing so, land a blow that will ensure that those in positions of power within our education system think twice before ever pulling such a stunt on our nation’s children again. 

To achieve this victory required 17 months of dogged determination and persistence.

The sequence of events is detailed in a DoD flowchart.

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Canada’s top doctor, who pushed COVID jabs and masks, resigns from her position

Canada’s top medical adviser, known for her promotion of masking and COVID vaccines, is stepping down as chief public health officer.

Dr. Theresa Tam will resign on June 20 from her role as Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer (CPHO), ending her eight-year tenure during which she forced Canadians to follow dangerous COVID regulations, including masking and taking the experimental COVID shots.

“I’ve been in this role for over eight years now, so I think it has been an absolute privilege and honour. I never thought at the start of my career that I would end up here,” Tam told The Globe and Mail.

“Looking back, I put every ounce of my energy into this job. But I think it’s a purposeful job. It’s serving the public,” she continued.

Tam’s replacement has not been named.

In the early months of 2020, Tam became well-known by Canadians for leading the country’s response to the COVID “pandemic” and pushing arbitrary and dangerous regulations.

Initially, Tam assured Canadians that masking was unnecessary, ineffective, and could even pose health threats.

However, shortly after, Tam changed her policy, telling Canadians that they should even wear masks during sex. LifeSiteNews has published overwhelming evidence that masks are not effective in preventing the spread of COVID and can cause myriad health issues.

Additionally, Tam promoted experimental COVID vaccines for Canadians as young as six months old despite having no long-term studies on its effects.

LifeSiteNews has published an extensive amount of research on the dangers of the experimental COVID mRNA jabs that include heart damage and blood clots.

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FBI Arrests Driver Who Went Viral for Delivering “Bionic Shield” Face Masks to LA Rioters in Early Morning Sting

The FBI arrested the man who went viral last week for distributing what appeared to be military-grade “bionic shield” face masks to violent demonstrators in downtown Los Angeles.

“ARRESTED: Alejandro Theodoro Orellana was arrested this morning by FBI Los Angeles on an allegation of Conspiracy to Commit Civil Disorders (18 USC 371) for distributing face shields to suspected rioters on Tuesday. We are moving quickly to identify and arrest those involved in organizing and/or supporting civil disorder in Los Angeles,” U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli said in a statement.

The suspect has been identified as Alejandro Orellana, an alleged member of the Brown Berets, a radical Chicano nationalist paramilitary organization with ties to far-left revolutionary groups.

The group, long known for its anti-police rhetoric and militant activism, has reportedly embedded operatives in several major U.S. cities.

On June 9, local reporter Elex Michaelson of FOX LA captured the moment protesters swarmed the trucks to grab the gear, noting, “It certainly seems like gear you’d wear if you’re preparing for conflict with police. Who is funding this?”

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Five Years On, Let’s Not Forget the Victims of Mask Mania

On June 4th 2020, Grant Shapps (then Transport Secretary) announced that the wearing of face coverings would soon become compulsory when travelling on public transport. The next day, this mandate was extended to healthcare – for staff, patients and visitors – and, the following month, masks became mandatory in all shops, on pain of £100 fines for the non-compliant. At this time, hiding one’s face behind strips of cloth or plastic was portrayed as an act of virtue, and the masked compliers were perceived as occupying the moral high ground. To impose a public health restriction in the absence of robust evidence for its effectiveness was bad enough. But, even more shameful, was the total disregard of the harms of community masking.

So, on this five-year anniversary of forced mask wearing, let us pause and spare a thought for the multiple victims of mask mania.

Let’s not forget the swathes of babies and toddlers who failed to bond with their faceless care givers, thereby stunting their longer term cognitive and emotional development.

  • Children had “limited vocabulary” while some babies had “struggled to respond to basic facial expressions”, partly due to interacting with people wearing face masks. (Amanda Spielman, Oftsed Inspector)
  • “We were really really concerned about that [harms from masks] and we fought really hard to have that taken out of the guidance. … We know now how many additional support needs there are for children as a result of mask wearing. Speech and language issues have exponentially increased because the children were not seeing the visual cues from their caregivers.” (Lorna Kettles – policy manager at Early Years Scotland, Scottish Covid Inquiry)

Let’s not forget the many victims of historical physical and sexual abuse who were further traumatised by the mask requirements.

  • “Mandated mask-wearing has caused me numerous problems. I was sexually abused for years as a child where I was smothered and muffled, anything to stop me crying out. … So mask wearing has been a trigger for me both wearing and seeing people in masks – particularly children.” (Anonymous female)
  • “I suffer from PTSD as a result of childhood abuse. I have been working on my mental health for years… but I didn’t even consider that wearing a mask would be a problem. At first I was finding myself very anxious not being able to see people’s faces properly… I would feel dizzy and short of breath when wearing a mask. It gradually got worse until I started having flashbacks, very sudden images of my abuser covering my mouth.” (Charli MacVicar)

Let’s not forget the 18 million UK adults with hearing difficulties who – because masks muffled voices and made it impossible to lipread – were plunged into a communication vacuum.

  • “The evidence demonstrated that the use of masks caused distress, confusion and considerable difficulties with communication. Residents couldn’t see smiles, had difficulty recognising relatives and those with hearing difficulties couldn’t lip-read or read facial expressions or visual clues.” (Care Home Relatives Scotland, closing statement to the Scottish Covid Inquiry)
  • “Garden visits were described as being ‘horrendous’ with no privacy. They were impractical in the Scottish climate and visitors had to shout to be heard while wearing masks and sitting two metres apart.” (Central Scotland Care Homes – evidence to the Scottish Covid Inquiry)

Let’s not forget the patients with existing respiratory problems whose breathing difficulties were exacerbated, those who were put at greater risk of contracting pneumonia and other bacterial infections, and those who were exposed to the inhalation of micro-plastics.

  • “I am a 59 years old male, suffered from severe asthma in my 30s but have not used medication for 20 years thanks to a breathing method. … Wearing a mask causes me severe difficulty because it pushes me below the acceptable level in terms of intake of air. After a few minutes I feel that I am being asphyxiated, which is extremely stressful.” (Anonymous male)
  • “I have chronic bronchitis and use asthma inhaler on a daily basis. … Only time I wore a mask out I collapsed in the supermarket. … I use an oximeter daily on GP advice. If I put a mask on my oxygen levels go down quite rapidly – to around 86% and become very lightheaded. …. I was advised to call an ambulance if it went below 90%. Truly ridiculous.” (Anonymous male)

Let’s not forget the millions of distressed and frightened NHS service users and care home residents who, as a consequence of the often stymied relationships resulting from masked protagonists, experienced sub-optimal care.

  • “She hated masks… she never saw a member of staff without a mask on for two years. … Towards the end of July 2020, I was permitted to have garden visits, but these were difficult for both of us. I had to wear full PPE and sit at least two metres from her. She used to get upset and distressed… that we had to keep a distance from each other. She hated me wearing a mask as she couldn’t even see my face properly.” (Verona Gibson, mother of a 39 year-old daughter with learning difficulties/mental health problems who resides in a care home – evidence to the Scottish Covid Inquiry)
  • “If you are surrounded by a group of people 24-7 wearing masks, and you don’t see people smile for up to two years, what kind of effect is that going to have on your mental health and wellbeing?” (Alison Walker, former BBC sports presenter, whose parents mentally and physically deteriorated in a care home in 2020 – evidence to Scottish Covid Inquiry).

Let’s not forget the rational minority who, because they opted not to wear a mask, were harassed and abused by others. On one occasion such an assault led to the death of a young woman.

  • “I got a lanyard, but it was still a nightmare. I was followed round shops, had nasty comments, challenged regularly – and these things also led to massive anxiety. We live in a rural area where compliance is high and also I look pretty meek and anxious when I’m out so people aren’t scared to have a go, and they do. … There was a period where I felt so much hate towards me… that I just couldn’t even face going to shops for food. (Anonymous autistic female)
  • “For her [12 year-old daughter] the mask mandate has been catastrophic and has curtailed her life and caused deep trauma. When she puts a mask on she hyperventilates – it immediately makes her panic and feel anxious. … When the mask mandate started in schools we did manage to get her an exemption. … But with the exemption comes discrimination – from the children who call her ‘selfish’ and a ‘granny killer’ or ‘antivax’ – to some of the teachers who have described her as ‘one of those’.” (Anonymous mother)

Blanket masking requirements achieved little if any benefits yet caused multiple – often profound – harms. Five years on from the imposition of the first UK mask mandates, have our public health decisionmakers learnt the errors of their ways, and is there now general recognition that state-sanctioned cover-your-face orders must never happen within our communities?

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AOC, Sanders tell supporters to mask up for West Coast town halls

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., are taking the “Fighting Oligarchy” rallies out West next week – and advising supporters to mask up to participate. 

Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic, Fox News Digital can confirm that the RSVP for the events in Denver and Las Vegas includes guidance that “masks are advised for all attendees of this event.”

A post shared by conservative podcaster Stephen L. Miller on Friday about the Denver event had many wondering why masks would be advised for an outdoor event in 2025. 

Sanders did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s inquiry about the mask guidance. 

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Five Years Later, We Remember How Politicians Unleashed COVID Tyranny

Five years ago, politicians and bureaucrats went berserk and pointlessly ravaged Americans’ freedom. The Covid-19 pandemic provided the pretext to destroy hundreds of thousands of businesses, padlock churches, close down schools, and effectively place hundreds of millions of Americans under house arrest. Despite all the forced sacrifices, most Americans contracted covid and more than a million were listed as dying from the virus.

“Pandemic Security Theater Is Self-Destructive, And Won’t Make Us Safer” was the headline of my first salvo against the pandemic hysteria, published on March 24, 2020 in the Daily Caller. I scoffed at President Trump’s proclamations about being a “wartime president at war with an invisible enemy.” Wartime presidents too easily pretend they’re on a mission from God to scourge all resistance. I warned: “The pandemic threatens to open authoritarian Pandora’s Boxes. Permitting governments to seize almost unlimited power based on shaky extrapolations of infection rates will doom our republic.”

From the start of the pandemic, the Mises Institute was in the forefront of condemning policies that eradicated prosperity in the name of public health. In a May 19, 2020 Mises piece headlined, “Hacksawing the Economy,” I noted, “The political response to COVID-19 is eerily similar to Civil War surgeons’ rationales for hacking off arms and legs…. As long as politicians claim that things would be worse if they had not amputated much of the economy, they can pirouette as saviors.”

Living in the Washington area, I had a front row seat for many of Covid-19’s biggest absurdities. After federal officials whipped up panic, “I Believe in Science” lawn signs popped up like mushrooms, soon accompanied by “Thank You, Dr. Fauci” placards. Those signs looked to me like frightful decorations of a Halloween that never ended.

Thoreau provided my lodestar for the pandemic: “A man sits as many risks as he runs.” I knew that isolation would make me too ornery for my own good. I had survived the flu plenty of times in prior decades and I didn’t reckon covid would deliver my coffin nails. I was a co-leader of a Meetup hiking group which continued hiking almost every weekend throughout the pandemic.

But politicians made such jaunts more difficult. In February 2021, President Biden decreed that face masks must be worn in national parks. Probably 95 percent of the National Park Service’s 800+ million acres is uncrowded 95 percent of the time. The only “evidence” to justify the mandate was that many Biden supporters were frightened or enraged whenever they saw anyone not wearing a mask. The new mandate quickly became an entitlement program for junior Stasi members.

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Great take from “Doorway to Freedom” – the ongoing whitewashing of C19 by ALL Senators at Bobby Kennedy’s Senate confirmation hearings and the plight of small farmers – amongst many other topics

From here:

Goal for the 1st quater of 2025 – improve conditions for small farmers and ranchers | DOOR TO FREEDOM

This caught my eye:

“What was truly remarkable was that no one talked about COVID or COVID vaccines, masks or lockdowns. No member of either party. It was as if all had tacitly agreed to memory-hole this very significant part of our recent history.”

Never a truer word(s).

Politicians globally are content to see out their terms of office ad be replaced, rather than investigate the butchery and maiming resulting from the roll-out of EXPERIMENTAL gene-altering injections that FAILED abysmally.

The crimes against humanity committed by health regulators, enforced by politicians and their cheer leaders in the MSM news cartels are being swept under the carpet – as the C19 psy-op winds down – and the next psy-op is lined up.

Also surprising was the absence of questions about “Disease X” and plans for pandemic preparedness that Biden and his cronies were desperate to sign via the WHO treaties and international health regulations.

The headline of the Door to Freedom article referred to the plight of US farmers,

Compare and contrast that to the attitude of EU and UK “anti-human” politicians that want to decimate farmland in the name of “net zero”,

The UK government plans to replace 10 per cent of prime UK farmland with solar panels and wind turbines in a move to reduce food security and increase energy prices that are already the most expensive in Europe. Other EU countries are on the same path to ruin,

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Please Do Not Comply With the New Face Mask Orders in These Six States (Both Red and Blue)

My first media appearance of the year was yesterday.

In it, I pointed out that both California and Wisconsin continue to have policies in place allowing local officials to force mandatory face masks on the most vulnerable.

Yes, five years into this stupidity, I am still talking about how not to wear a face mask. I was sure that when I started writing about the health mandates in February 2020 that they would never come — they were just too ludicrous to fathom. After all, how could anyone be so demented as to shut down a relatively free and functioning society, one of the crown jewels of human achievement? When the lockdowns came in March 2020, I was sure they would last days, certainly not two weeks and certainly not nationally. I was wrong, perhaps even naive. When they kept continuing, I was sure they would be done in months, not years.

I have stopped making predictions on the topic, or any topic really. I have recognized that there is much farther we can fall. That it is up to lions like you and me to stop the fall around us.

As the lockdowns and other mandates stretched on, I wrote Face Masks in One Lesson, the guide on how to live life unmasked and still be treated like a VIP.

More was needed, and the pages of LewRockwell.com became a place where I was able to publish on the topic at length and several times a week. But more was needed.

Therefore, I got a team together and made videos of those LewRockwell.com posts, in an effort to reach those who like to watch, rather than read. That was successful, but more was needed.

I went out into the mainstream and alternative media with hundreds of radio, television, print, and podcast interviews year after year.

When people refused to believe my claims that face masks are neither safe nor effective, I wrote Face Masks Hurt Kids, to say more about that point. In the book, I give nearly one thousand examples of how unsafe a face mask is to wear.

Yes, a face mask is UNSAFE for you to wear.

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America Won’t Fall For Multi-State ‘Quad-demic’ Mask-Mandates

Some states reinstated mask mandates as so-called health “experts” claim holiday social gatherings have caused an increase in four different types of viral infections, the Daily Mail reported on Thursday.

The “quad-demic” consists of a surge in infections caused by the flu, COVID-19, the respiratory illness RSV and norovirus, commonly called the stomach flu, according to the outlet.

Headlines about the quadruple threat emerged just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, fresh after talk about the risk of bird flu fell flat.

Aurora Health Care, a hospital in Wisconsin, announced that starting on Jan. 6, visitors will be required to mask up “when in contact with patients or in congregate areas, including patient rooms and others areas designated by signage,” WLUK reported.

Several counties in California, including Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, along with the City of Berkeley, enacted mask mandates first effective in November until March 31, 2025.

In some counties, the order only applies to medical workers—but stricter counties extent their mandate to visitors or residents, CBS News reported.

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