Censorship vs the science regarding masks
Colleen Huber, NMD
October 29, 2020
https://www.primarydoctor.org/censorship-vs-the-scienc-on-masks
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Why do we connect the bacterial pneumonia deaths that wiped out so many people, some estimate 45 million of the 50 million who died in the “Spanish Flu,” to masks? We cite a number of reasons:

- Temporal / historical: That 1918-1919 pandemic was the last time that Americans had experimented with masks. That includes all-day masks, mask shaming, mask mandates and ubiquitous puritanical measures taken to assure that most people were not caught without a mask in public. Then as now, there is a rise in bacterial pneumonia in hospitals. But now, there is vastly deeper pharmaceutical industry involvement in the mass media. So the rise in bacterial pneumonia, as well as other staph and strep infections, is seen and heard anecdotally so far from doctors and nurses seeing this increase ourselves in clinical practice, as the mainstream media ignores that phenomenon to focus on COVID-19.

- Both in the 1918-1919 pandemic and now in 2020, masked individuals are found to suffer more influenza-like illness and more respiratory illnesses than unmasked individuals, as we reference and discuss in our paper, linked below.

- In our paper, we also discuss air flow dynamics in mask use and that upper respiratory microbes are more likely to enter deeply into the lungs of a masked individual. There, microbes are more life-threatening and harder to eliminate by expectoration and normal ciliary escalation. It is expected that mask-wearers have a higher risk of bacterial pneumonia than non-mask wearers.

Here is our paper on the subject:

https://pdmj.org/Mask_Risks_Part2.pdf