Disposable facemasks are the new planet-destroying, ocean wildlife wrecking, human influence peddling, world-ending scourge. OceansAsia estimates that 1.5 billion of the 52 billion made in 2020 to fool people into feeling safe ended up in the ocean.
Related: What if a Medical Mask Was Found Trapped in the Nostril of a Sea Turtle?
This, like the “threat” of the virus, or the effectiveness of masks, is made up. They guessed. They have no idea. But we saw it coming.
The “natural” environmentalists’ response to this “estimated” crisis is not to stop pretending masks work. It is to encourage people to – wait for it – choose reusable masks because,
“Single-use face masks are made from a variety of meltblown plastics and are difficult to recycle due to both composition and risk of contamination and infection,” the report says.
“These masks enter our oceans when they are littered or otherwise improperly discarded, when waste management systems are inadequate or non-existent, or when these systems become overwhelmed due to increased volumes of waste.”
If this sounds familiar, it is because that is their go-to action item for grocery bags. A plan that is actually more carbon-intensive and worse for the environment than using thin-film plastic bags. They were also deemed too dangerous to public health in the early days of the covidism and were banned in most places.
But people like their public theater and virtue signaling, so reusable bags, still dangerous for all the old reasons, made a comeback. We’re fine with that as long as you can choose not to use them. We’ve not been so lucky with masks, which is why they are (presumably) ending up everywhere, including the ocean.
The report cites several examples of marine animals killed by masks, including a “dead bloated pufferfish” found tangled in the loops of a disposable blue mask by volunteers cleaning a Miami beach in August.
In addition, a necropsy on a malnourished penguin found dead on a beach in Brazil in September reportedly found a mask wadded up in its stomach.
Let’s not focus too hard on how to solve this “problem.” No, not cloth masks. No masks. End the virus socialism. But that’s not an option for them.
We’ll get a PR or media narrative campaign to shift from useless medical masks to useless cloth masks. You will continue to trap your gross exhaled nastiness and breathe it back in your lungs. A practice that results in complaints of recurring throat conditions among a handful of people forced to wear them for hours on the job.
Sore throat, cough, headaches. It lasts a day or two and dissipates after a few days without wearing one. But it comes back after a few days of work. These are symptoms of (I believe either) hypoxia or carbon dioxide poisoning, primarily among people who have not been medically cleared for this use for this long under any circumstance.
And some people drive with them on. If they lost consciousness and caused harm or death to others because of their deliberate self-impairment, do we blame them, the media for scaring them falsely, local politicians for their Public Health Kabuki theater, who takes the fall?
Turtles, sea lions, penguins. For them, we should have a concern. And that’s the message we all need to take to heart (and lung).
None of this stops the spread. And they know it. This is not about public health is about public perception politics.
The cure for all that ails us is to stop listening to politicians and officials who aid and abet their public health fascism. Citizens heal thyself.
As for the oceans, it’s more BS. The Search for and capture of ocean plastic islands have yet to produce any proof they exist. Like Big Foot, they point to tracks, but they never lead anywhere.
