Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly 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.

Just please do likewise as our LORD Jesus & I have done for you,
Michael, and http://go.WDJW.net/ConvinceItForward (John 15:12) to be
https://bit.ly/Wonderfully_Hungrier more blessed by GOD right now
(Luke 6:21a).