The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and The War Against the Human by Naomi Wolf

Author:Naomi Wolf [Wolf, Naomi]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw
Publisher: All Seasons Press
Published: 2022-05-31T03:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

How Masks Suppress the Human Advantage

Knowing what we now know about how Big Tech resents the human advantage, and seeks to kill it off, the fetish that came to surround masks takes on new meaning.

It was increasingly clear masking was a threat in some ways to physical health.225

But, if anything, its effects on emotional health were even more harrowing.

Online I saw a commentator named Megan Mansell enumerating the ways “masking” was counterproductive, even potentially damaging, and reached out to interview her.

For me, that interview was pivotal. It confirmed with telling specificity my sense that the “mask mandates” already in place in state after state were a disaster — not just potentially dangerous, especially to children, but illegally dangerous.

Mrs. Mansell has served as a Florida-based district-education director managing “special-populations integration.” Her program serves students who are profoundly disabled, immunocompromised, or autistic, and includes “other challenging placements.” As she explained, she is experienced in writing and monitoring protocol implementation under full ADA and OSHA compliance. She also has a background in hazardous environments and PPE applications, which includes knowing how and why which masks and respirators work.

By now I was distraught about a nine-year-old child I loved, who was being forced to wear a mask all day at school.

“Mrs. Mansell,” I began, “tell me what you feel about the science behind masks. Are they useful?” I asked.

Mrs. Mansell: What I believe we have more than anything is a large number of people who newly feel they identify as immunocompromised and feel unrepresented by the public sector. And then we’ve had a PPE misapplication.

Here is what I mean: COVID particles are the size of 0.06 to 0.14 microns when there’s a pressurized exhale. Behind that mask, you’re taking any droplet and you can force-filter and aerosolize that droplet; added to that, there are already aerosols being generated within that respiratory outburst — whether it’s a plosive-force-generating event like a cough, a sneeze or a scream, or if it’s just general respiration.

But the droplet can then be forced-filtered through a mask or respirator, depending on the fit and on the amount of pressure being released.

But then you’re taking what would have otherwise fallen in a predictable six foot arc [if you were not wearing a mask], and you’re sending it now, with a mask aerosolizing it, into an eighteen- to twenty-foot trajectory, where it remains aloft within respiratory range for hours.

At the beginning, the CDC and the World Health Organization came out and said, “We believe this is solely a droplet based pathogen.” So all of our mitigation measures were based solely on droplet based pathogens. But when we introduced airborne into the mix, there was never a pivot at any of our nation’s test sites or testing facilities.

In the outside world you don’t have restricted airflow, and so I don’t think outside we need to be taking anywhere near the precautions that we are. And: are you outside huddled under a pergola with sixty people who are transmissively positive? Or are you

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