Masks are simply comfort blankets

(Excerpts from an interview with Dr Colin Axon, published in The Telegraph on 17th July 2021.)

Dr Colin Axon, who has advised the government on minimising the risk of cross-infection in supermarkets, accused medics of presenting a ‘cartoonish’ view of how tiny particles travel through the air.

"Masks can catch droplets and sputum from a cough but what is important is that SARS CoV-2 is predominantly distributed by tiny aerosols."

Dr Axon said that medics were "unable to comprehend" the miniscule elements at play, adding: "A Covid viral particle is around 100 nanometres, material gaps in blue surgical masks are up to 1,000 times that size, cloth mask gaps can be 5,000 times the size.”

"The small sizes are not easily understood but an imperfect analogy would be to imagine marbles fired at builders' scaffolding, some might hit a pole and rebound, but obviously most will fly through. Not everyone carrying Covid is coughing, but they are still breathing. Those aerosols escape masks and will render the mask ineffective." (Hear what Dr Clare Craig has to say on the subject...)

A Danish study involving 6,000 people concluded that there was no statistical difference in infection spread in non-wearers, while data on US states with non-mandated usage failed to show a correlated uptick in cases.

"The public were demanding something must be done, they got masks, it is just a comfort blanket," Dr Axon noted. "But now it is entrenched, and we are entrenching bad behaviour.”

“All around the world you can look at mask mandates and superimpose on infection rates, you cannot see that mask mandates made any effect whatsoever.”

“The best thing you can say about any mask is that any positive effect they do have is too small to be measured."

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One of America's Frontline Doctors, speaking about masks:

"[Regular masks] don't work against viruses. N95 masks - only around 5% of airborne particles can get through, but ALL viruses can get through. The fear is so massive in this country, I wear a mask so people don't think I don't care about them. But I don't wear a mask because they work."

Dr Clare Craig, talking about the size of virus particles & uselessness of masks, July 2021:

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And here's some of what Sir Graham Brady MP, Chairman of the Tory 1922 Committee, had to say about masks in an article in the Daily Mail on 17th July: