HeartDoc Andrew wrote:
> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>>
>>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1givfyd/the_curse_of_masks_in_health_and_social_care/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The Curse of Masks in Health and Social Care: Testimony From the
>>>> Scottish Covid Inquiry
>>>> by Dr Gary Sidley 3 November 2024 1:00 PM
>>>>
>>>> The U.K. Covid Inquiry – aka a hugely expensive façade striving to
>>>> justify the dominant ‘pandemic’ narrative – is up and running again, and
>>>> its chairperson, Lady Hallett, is continuing where she left off in her
>>>> refusal to acknowledge any significant harms of mass masking. “Some
>>>> might say getting an ulcer isn’t as bad as getting Covid” she quips
>>>> during an interview with Dr. Susan Hopkins from the U.K. Health Security
>>>> Agency. Thankfully, the Scottish Covid Inquiry has been much more open
>>>> and impartial, as demonstrated by its willingness to address the
>>>> profound negative consequences of wearing face coverings in health and
>>>> social care settings. In particular, personal stories describing the
>>>> dehumanising impacts upon care home residents have been truly harrowing
>>>> – Lady Hallett could usefully incorporate these testimonies into her
>>>> bedtime reading.
>>>>
>>>> One powerful example was the verbal evidence of Alison Walker, a former
>>>> BBC sports presenter, who endured the trauma of both her parents
>>>> residing in a care home in 2020. Alison witnessed the mental and
>>>> physical deterioration of her mum and dad during the Covid event, and
>>>> eloquently described the prominent role that masked caregivers played in
>>>> this decline:
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> (5th video)
>>>>
>>>> Surrounding residents of care homes with people wearing masks for such a
>>>> long period had a huge impact on them, this in conjunction with
>>>> isolating them from their loved ones and everything they know was
>>>> catastrophic.
>>>>
>>>> (8th video)
>>>>
>>>> The devastating consequences of denying confused elderly people human
>>>> connection – a synergy that is largely contingent on seeing the smiles
>>>> and facial expressions of other people – was repeatedly endorsed by
>>>> personnel representing frontline caring organisations. Thus, the closing
>>>> statement to the Inquiry from ‘Care Home Relatives Scotland’ (a
>>>> community group advocating for people who have loved ones in nursing and
>>>> residential settings) included the damning conclusion:
>>>>
>>>> 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. Some witnesses spoke to being made to wear them, even for
>>>> window visits. Lucy Challoner said that her gran felt that people were
>>>> laughing at her behind them.
>>>>
>>>> (There seems to have been some formal recognition of these mask-related
>>>> communication problems in 2021 when NHS Scotland spent over £5 million
>>>> of taxpayers’ money on transparent masks, only for them to be
>>>> subsequently deemed to be defective).
>>>>
>>>> Masks often resulted in visiting times degenerating into an especially
>>>> frustrating experience, as indicated in the closing statement of
>>>> ‘Independent Care Homes Scotland’ (a group comprising 12 independent
>>>> care home operators). Regarding window/garden visits, they recalled:
>>>>
>>>> …residents not being able to hear relatives properly during these types
>>>> of visit due to physical barriers (window/masks) and/or distancing
>>>> regulations… many residents did not understand why masks, for instance,
>>>> were having to be worn or who suffered from poor hearing and/or who
>>>> relied on lip reading to communicate. This often led to distress for
>>>> residents …
>>>>
>>>> Indoor visits at Homes were later permitted but again these were
>>>> burdened with social distance and PPE wearing regulation which greatly
>>>> affected residents, relatives and staff and which gave rise to awkward,
>>>> unnatural and at times distressing encounters for all concerned.
>>>>
>>>> Another service provider, ‘Central Scotland Care Homes’, also
>>>> highlighted the insidious effect of masks on social interactions between
>>>> residents and their loved ones:
>>>>
>>>> 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 meters apart.
>>>>
>>>> It was not only elderly residents with dementia who suffered from the
>>>> mask mania operating within our health and social care sector. Younger
>>>> people struggling with profound/multiple learning difficulties (PMLD)
>>>> were also victims of this ideologically driven obsession:
>>>>
>>>> The use of face masks caused concern because many people with PMLD could
>>>> not tolerate face masks. Facial expression is a key method for
>>>> communication. A mask makes it very difficult for a person with PLMD to
>>>> see a supporter’s or carer’s facial expressions. Furthermore, masks
>>>> could significantly compromise health where the user has respiratory issues.
>>>>
>>>> And the harms of long-term mask wearing were not confined to those
>>>> receiving care: the professional caregivers also experienced negative
>>>> consequences. Suzanne Napier, a social care worker with Turning Point
>>>> and a union representative, told the Inquiry about the physical symptoms
>>>> she and her daughter endured as a direct result of prolonged mask wearing:
>>>>
>>>> I never in my life had sinusitis before and I had it really… really
>>>> badly and still at times suffer for it… I feel that had a real
>>>> detrimental effect to myself and others… Even people within my family
>>>> are suffering from it, regular sinusitis now… My daughter is a nurse…
>>>> her face would be red raw… literally from wearing a mask.
>>>>
>>>> These honest testimonies from people directly involved in looking after
>>>> highly vulnerable service users vividly convey the profound harms of
>>>> mask requirements in health and social care. Similarly damning are the
>>>> experiences of clinical experts – captured in Smile Free’s upcoming
>>>> short film, Masking Humanity – that vividly convey the enormous harms of
>>>> masks in these settings. Those in positions of power and influence –
>>>> such as Lady Hallett – should take heed of these personal accounts from
>>>> those at the sharp end and do their bit to ensure that the blanket
>>>> imposition of de-humanising face coverings never happens again.
>>>
>>> In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
>>> GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
>>> secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
>>> us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
>>> pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
>>> 100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
>>> appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
>>>
>>> Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
>>> COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
>>> rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
>>> moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
>>> contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
>>> "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
>>> self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
>>> Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
>>> scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
>>> Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
>>> combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
>>> that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
>>> longer effective.
>>>
>>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
>>> https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ
>>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>>
>>> So how are you ?
>>
>> I am wonderfully hungry!
>
> While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
> 8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
> 17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
> COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
> Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
> Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
> always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
> including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
> all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
> the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
>
> Laus DEO !
>
Thank you for noting that I have no COVID.

Michael