New Hampshire has announced a digital campaign targeting New Hampshire youth called “Don’t Go Viral.” The emphasis is on social distancing and wearing a mask in the lead up to a return to school. The problem? Social distancing is based on a high school science project, and there’s no reason for healthy people to wear masks. None.
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There is no medical evidence (nor researched or peer-reviewed medical practice) that justifies social distancing. It was embraced for the COVID era as little more than a placebo.
Teaching kids that this is accepted scientific doctrine is not just a lie; it is misleading junk science.
As for masks, we’ve gone on and on. The medical science up until 2020 was accepted and tested. People with symptoms, those ar high risk, and their caregivers need masks. Healthy people with no symptoms have no reason to wear them, certainly not the cloth masks that have become popular, and there are health negatives to suggesting people wear masks for extended periods.
Prolonged mask-wearing exponentially increases the likelihood that someone will touch their face. Hands to face is the easiest way to introduce a virus into your body.
Masks, especially cloth masks, increase the rebreathing of things your lungs deliberately exhaled including particulates, dust, and even virus that is all then rebreathed on the next inhale.
Masks reduce the ability of your otherwise dynamic immune system to process and adapt to any virus or germ you might come into contact with and causes you to rebreathe significant amounts of CO2, which is unhealthy.
To summarize, prolonged mask-wearing increases the risk of illness or disease in healthy asymptomatic people.
And New Hampshire is spending money to make mask-wearing among young, healthy people – those with the lowest risk factors – like wearing socks or a shirt when you leave the house.
I’m embarrassed. I really am.
