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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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An Evidence-Based Approach to Covid-19 Vaccination??

‘An Evidence-Based Approach to Covid-19 Vaccination’ is the misleading title of an extraordinary publication by Vinay Prasad and Marty Makary in the New England Journal of Medicine, 20th May 2025. It describes the FDA’s new approach, but if you were hoping for ‘Evidence-Based’ you’ll be sorely disappointed. One could argue that this is a start, in that it does involve withdrawing FDA recommendations for regular boosters for ‘healthy 6 months- to 64 year-olds’ but the state of ‘health’ in the US is so poor that apparently two thirds of Americans are still eligible for the shots. (‘Underlying medical conditions’ include pregnancy, obesity, physical inactivity and smoking, current and former),

The article goes on to describe a requirement for gold standard randomised controlled trials for further vaccines for a healthy population of say 50-64 years with a saline placebo and a 6 month follow-up but again using an end-point related to covid alone rather than all-cause mortality or morbidity. For over-65s or those with comorbidities, only evidence of antibody production is required.

Then on 27th May, a week after the NEJM article, Robert Kennedy, flanked by Jay Battacharia and Marty Makary, announced the changes to the CDC schedule, stating that the vaccines would be withdrawn for healthy under 65s and healthy pregnant women. The statement was somewhat underwhelming, especially Jay Battacharya’s rather wooden performance – another example of the 3-word or 3-phrase mantra: “That ends today. It’s common sense and it’s good science”.

Some cynics were quick to point out that the CDC guidance had not changed, but by 29th May the website was updated though not in quite the way I had anticipated from RFK’s words. The covid vaccine for children now states ‘See notes’ and then outlines a system of ‘shared clinical decision-making’ as follows: “Shared clinical decision-making vaccinations are individually based and informed by a decision process between the health care provider and the patient or parent/guardian. Where the parent presents with a desire for their child to be vaccinated, children 6 months and older may receive COVID-19 vaccination, informed by the clinical judgment of a healthcare provider and personal preference and circumstances.” Only for children with moderate or severe immunocompromise does the CDC actively advise a booster. So for children this actually goes further than the Prasad and Makary article, leaving only immunocompromise as a co-morbidity for recommended covid boosters in under 18s, in line with the current UK guidelines. The Children’s Health Defence have tried to explain the very opaque guidelines – one plus would be that paediatricians would no longer be obliged to recommend the vaccines – at present they risk losing their tenure if they speak out against the jabs. But for adults, there appears to be no change with covid vaccines still recommended as routine including during pregnancy.

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Meet the Bureaucrats Who Hid Data About Heart Damage from the mRNA COVID Vaccines

One hundred and eleven people, including 100 U.S. government employees, were involved in the Biden Administration’s myocarditis cover-up that attorney Ed Berkovich uncovered through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) email productions. Those emails and the cover-up were the subject of Senator Ron Johnson’s May 22, 2025, “The Corruption of Science and Federal Health Agencies: How Health Officials Downplayed and Hid Myocarditis and Other Adverse Events Associated with the COVID-19 Vaccines” hearing and the associated “Failure to Warn: How Federal Health Agencies Downplayed the Risk of Myocarditis and Other Adverse Events Following COVID-19 Vaccination” report.

Mr. Berkovich submitted a FOIA request to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stating, “I request emails sent by and received by Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, Sherri A. Berger, and Kevin Griffis (all of whom are CDC personnel) on dates beginning February 1, 2021 through May 31, 2021, containing the word myocarditis.” DailyClout reported on the subsequent FOIA productions, which first revealed the CDC’s delayed action:

This WarRoom/DailyClout reporting revealed publicly for the first time:

  • CDC Internal Awareness of Myocarditis: The FOIA-obtained emails show that CDC officials knew about COVID-19 mRNA vaccine-associated myocarditis as early as February 19, 2021, less than three months after the vaccines became publicly available.
  • Health Alert Not Issued: The CDC had internal deliberations regarding issuing a health advisory alert via its Health Alert Network (HAN) and ultimately did not issue one.
  • Public Communication Delay: Despite months of internal discussions about cases of myocarditis associated with mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, the CDC’s public acknowledgment of myocarditis risk occurred on May 27, 2021, three months after the CDC first became aware of it.

For the first time, the full list of the 111 people, including the 100 government employees, involved in the communications related to the myocarditis cover-up, is publicly available. The job titles and hyperlinks included were all accurate and active as of November 2024.

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Everyone Was Just Doing Their Job: How Specialization Enables Systemic Evil

The world’s a screaming match—doctors, economists, influencers, all clawing for their slice of truth. Nobody’s listening, and nobody’s seeing the whole damn picture. We have more information than ever, but we’re dumber where it counts, stuck in a loop of shouting past each other. This isn’t just politics or algorithm nonsense; it’s the cult of specialization—our worship of experts who know everything about nothing. Doctors pushing Covid shots didn’t see the fraud. Economists missed the heist. Engineers built surveillance without blinking. Each turned their screw, blind to the machine they were feeding—a Moral Assembly Line where systemic evil thrives. The system’s not broken; it’s built to break us, and we’re all complicit until we start connecting the dots. As I explored in The Illusion of Expertise, we’ve confused credentials with wisdom, compliance with intelligence. Now we see the deadly consequences: we’re not failing because of bad experts—we’re failing because specialization itself has become the operating system of institutional evil.

A Society Talking Past Itself

Step into any barroom debate, X thread, or YouTube comments section, and it’s chaos—facts flying, no one landing. We’ve outsourced our brains to specialists who slice reality into bits too small to mean anything. A cardiologist can’t talk vaccines. An economist reduces geopolitics to models, blind to the real forces at play. Everyone’s got their PhD in one inch of the world, and we’re dumber for it. Specialization doesn’t just fracture understanding; it’s the architecture of control, ensuring no one sees the crimes—medical fraud, wealth theft, digital chains—unfolding in plain sight. We’re not arguing because we’re stupid; we’re arguing because the system keeps us siloed, complicit, and clueless.

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Anthony Fauci Gets Demolished by White House in New Covid Update

Anthony Fauci must be furious.

He spent years proudly being the public face of the country’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. He did, however, flip-flop on almost every major issue, seamlessly managing to shift his guidance based on current political whims and an enormous desire to coerce behavior.

Nowhere was this more obvious than his dictates on masks. If you recall, in February 2020, Fauci infamously stated on 60 Minutes that masks didn’t work. That they didn’t provide the protection people thought they did, there were gaps in the fit, and wearing masks could actually make things worse by encouraging wearers to touch their face.

Just a few months later, he did a 180, then backtracked by making up a post-hoc justification for his initial remarks. Laughably, Fauci said that he recommended against masks to protect supply for healthcare workers, as if hospitals would ever buy cloth masks on Amazon like the general public.

Later in interviews, he guaranteed that cities or states that listened to his advice would fare better than those that didn’t. Masks would limit Covid transmission so effectively, he believed, that it would be immediately obvious which states had mandates and which didn’t. It was obvious, but not in the way he expected.

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Vascular and organ damage induced by mRNA vaccines: irrefutable proof of causality

This article summarizes evidence from experimental studies and from autopsies of patients deceased after vaccination. The collective findings demonstrate that

  1. mRNA vaccines don’t stay at the injection site by instead travel throughout the body and accumulate in various organs,
  2. mRNA-based COVID vaccines induce long-lasting expression of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in many organs,
  3. vaccine-induced expression of the spike protein induces autoimmune-like inflammation,
  4. vaccine-induced inflammation can cause grave organ damage, especially in vessels, sometimes with deadly outcome.

We note that the damage mechanism is which emerges from the autopsy studies is not limited to COVID-19 vaccines only but is completely general—it must be expected to occur similarly with mRNA vaccines against any and all infectious pathogens. This technology has failed and must be abandoned.

While clinical case reports (e.g. [1,2]) and statistical analyses of accumulated adverse event reports (e.g. [3,4]) provide valuable evidence of damage induced by mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines, it is important to establish a causal relationship in individual cases. Pathology remains the gold standard for proof of disease causation. This short paper will discuss some key findings on autopsy materials from patients who died within days to several months after vaccination. For context, some experimental studies are briefly discussed as well.

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FBI’s investigation on COVID coverup zeroing in on three separate plots

Asprawling FBI investigation into possible criminal coverups during the COVID-19 pandemic is zeroing in on three separate plots involving the origins of the virus; the hiding and destruction of federal records; and the manipulation of the vaccine approval process and subsequent side effects.

Agents in at least three cities — Cleveland, New York, and Baltimore — are working quickly in the investigation. The investigation was given a legal springboard in a major court ruling holding that China concealed the origins of the COVID-19 virus as well as recent information uncovered by Congress.

The existence of the sprawling investigation was made public last week by FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, who described the probe generally in a social media post.

“As we read and process reports of a new COVID strain emerging, I want you to know that we are actively investigating, in multiple field offices, the cover-up of the origin of the COVID virus, along with associated matters requiring our attention,” Bongino wrote in his X account. “You deserve answers.”

Some of the evidence driving the most active parts of the investigation includes emails in which federal scientists admit they were trying to hide discussions about COVID and the vaccine from the public by using private emails.

The possibility of illegal conduct in that matter is being led by agents in Baltimore, officials told Just the News. 

Concerns and related evidence that federal scientists may have tried to hide elements of COVID’s emergence in Wuhan, China because of its own research there are being led by agents in Cleveland, officials added.

There is now open-source intelligence suggesting the earliest recorded case of COVID in China’s databases may have been in September 2019 and that several scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were sickened by the virus in October 2019, well before China admitted that there was human transmission of the virus in January 2020.

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FDA approves Moderna’s new lower-dose COVID-19 vaccine

The U.S. approved a new COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna late Friday but with limits on who can use it — not a replacement for the company’s existing shot, but a second option.

The new vaccine, mNexspike, is a step toward next-generation coronavirus vaccines. It’s made in a way that allows for a lower dose — a fifth of the dose of its current COVID-19 vaccine, Spikevax — by refining its immune target.

The approval “adds an important new tool to help protect people at high risk of severe disease from COVID-19,” Stephane Bancel, Moderna’s CEO, said in a statement Saturday.

The Food and Drug Administration approved the new vaccine for use in all adults 65 and older, and for people age 12 to 64 who have a least one health condition that puts them at increased risk from the coronavirus.

That’s the same limit that the FDA set in licensing another COVID-19 vaccine option from competitor Novavax.

Those restrictions are a departure from how the U.S. has handled COVID-19 vaccines until now, reflecting skepticism about vaccines from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other Trump officials.

Moderna’s existing vaccine doesn’t face those limits and has long been used for anyone ages 6 months and older. The company said it expected to offer both options this fall.

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Feds bust fraud ring accused of stealing $47M in COVID, small business loans

For the second week in a row, the Department of Homeland Security carried out a dramatic, early-morning raid in Los Angeles targeting transnational organized crime rings. This week’s bust netted fourteen arrests from an Armenian fraud ring that investigators say stole $30 million in COVID relief and Small Business loans meant to help taxpaying Americans.

“If you are taking money from the government that doesn’t belong to you, your door could be the next one that we’re hitting,” said U.S. Attorney for California’s Central District, Bill Essayli.

Fox News was exclusively embedded with DHS in the multi-agency sting that included the IRS and the Small Business Administration.

Thirteen of the suspects are Armenian-born but have become naturalized. At least one of the suspects faces deportation.

“This is the police. We have a warrant. Come out with your hands up!” one officer’s voice echoed on a loudspeaker attached to an armored vehicle with agents inside. The special unit inside the armored vehicle first cut the chain on a gated driveway and then demanded one of the targeted suspects come out of his L.A.-area home in a sunrise bust.

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Trump pardons Mark Bashaw, former Army officer who defied covid protocols

President Donald Trump on Wednesday pardoned a former Army officer who was found guilty in 2022 by a military judge of violating coronavirus prevention protocols, a White House official who was not authorized to speak publicly confirmed to The Washington Post.

Former 1st Lt. Mark Bashaw was convicted and sentenced to no punishment for his refusal to obey orders meant to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. According to the military news publication Stars and Stripes, Bashaw did not comply with orders to telework, submit a negative coronavirus test before reporting to work or wear a mask indoors.

Bashaw, who was an entomologist at the Army Public Health Center in Maryland, said he was facing discrimination because of his religious beliefs. He said he was discharged in 2023.

After receiving the pardon on Wednesday, Bashaw said on social media that he was “humbled, grateful, and ready to continue fighting for truth and justice.” The post also included an image that referenced the “plandemic,” a debunked conspiracy theory about COVID-19.

Within weeks of being sworn in for his second presidential term, Trump issued an executive action directing the defense secretary and the secretary of homeland security to reinstate members of the military who were discharged for their refusal to receive the coronavirus vaccine.

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