Denis Rancourt
The article is organized into the following sections:
Summary
Introduction: Government’s onus to evaluate safety
Context: Risk-benefit-harm analysis
Healthcare workers (HCWs)
Physiological impacts of face masks in healthy adults
Psychological harm in the general population
Infants and school children
Microbial pathogen infections from masks
Endnotes / References
Summary
It is a testimony to the power of propaganda, institutional capture, and the desire to socially conform that masking of the general population has successfully been imposed during the COVID-19 era. The harms from this imposition are palpable, and potentially long-term and gargantuan, not the least of which is the psychological training of the public to comply with an absurd measure that has direct personal negative impact. I review the mounting evidence of the obvious: Universal masking harms people and society, without any detectable benefit.
