Stephen Petty testified before the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services in defense of NH HB1131, which would “prohibit school boards and accredited nonpublic schools from adopting, enforcing, or implementing a policy that requires students or members of the public to wear a facial covering.”
Mr. Petty is a Certified Industrial Hygienist, certified safety professional, and certified engineer, and it’s a great testimony and not just because he talks about a lot of things we’ve covered over the past years about masks and masking. He actually states for the record that his presentation would refute everything some doctor testifying before him had said.
I didn’t see that, but that had to leave a mark.
And he was clear about why. Medical doctors are what they are, but they are not certified industrial hygienists. They are not experts in the field of workplace or public safety when it comes to real threats and solutions. They are not even experts in these fields regarding a hospital or clinical settings.
And we’ve seen that play out in real-time. Public health officials have repeatedly given or mandated lousy advice on nearly every aspect of COVID policy to ignore actual accumulating evidence in favor of the approved CDC or state public health narratives.
In all instances, public health was not served by any of this, and in the case of masks, which is the focus of the hearing. The only thing that has any hope of reducing exposure to a virus is an actual respirator, and even that is the last thing you should try if the goal is mitigation to exposure if that is even necessary.
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I screengrabbed it and converted it to audio because there was nothing in this testimony that you need to see to understand it. There is a handout for reference (pdf copy here).
If you’d like to watch and listen, you can jump to that part of the NH State Senate hearing, here.
HT | RiseUp NH
