A Group Of Parents Sent Their Kids' Face Masks to A Lab for Analysis. Here's What They Found

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  1. Robert

    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Remember people, this is due to the recommendation by our own health professionals.

    Read the report.
    Part of it is here.

    Gainesville, FL (June 16, 2021) – A group of parents in Gainesville, FL, concerned about potential harms from masks, submitted six face masks to a lab for analysis. The resulting report found that five masks were contaminated with bacteria, parasites, and fungi, including three with dangerous pathogenic and pneumonia-causing bacteria. No viruses were detected on the masks, although the test is capable of detecting viruses.

    The analysis detected the following 11 alarmingly dangerous pathogens on the masks:

    • Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumonia)

    • Mycobacterium tuberculosis (tuberculosis)

    • Neisseria meningitidis (meningitis, sepsis)

    • Acanthamoeba polyphaga (keratitis and granulomatous amebic encephalitis)

    • Acinetobacter baumanni (pneumonia, blood stream infections, meningitis, UTIs— resistant to antibiotics)

    • Escherichia coli (food poisoning)

    • Borrelia burgdorferi (causes Lyme disease)

    • Corynebacterium diphtheriae (diphtheria)

    • Legionella pneumophila (Legionnaires' disease)

    • Staphylococcus pyogenes serotype M3 (severe infections—high morbidity rates)

    • Staphylococcus aureus (meningitis, sepsis)

    Half of the masks were contaminated with one or more strains of pneumonia-causing bacteria. One-third were contaminated with one or more strains of meningitis-causing bacteria. One-third were contaminated with dangerous, antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens. In addition, less dangerous pathogens were identified, including pathogens that can cause fever, ulcers, acne, yeast infections, strep throat, periodontal disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, and more.

    The face masks studied were new or freshly-laundered before wearing and had been worn for 5 to 8 hours, most during in-person schooling by children aged 6 through 11.

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott...ebf8031cef6d4d2983b40f098ffa5af&recip=6763200
     
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    lol, science... how does it work??
     
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    What records of who touched the masks have been presented?
    How were they handled when collected?
    How much of each of the pathogens was detected?
    Are any of those common to human saliva, contact with soil?
    Where do they originate and how did they get on the masks?
    Why is the "Press Release" just a simple copy of lab results with no public warnings of danger?
     
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    Been wearing a mask since they were recommended and, golly gee, I never got sick once the whole time.

    And now I'm happily and proudly vaccinated. It's free even for uninsured plebs like me thanks to the CARES Act.
     
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    All that would prove would be that the children were being exposed to all those pathogens in their environment - not that
    masks don't work. Were the pathogens on the interior or exterior of the mask?
     
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    A pity you don't ask questions of authority figures who demand you bow and pray to their pronouncements.

    If you had bothered to read the article, you would have discovered answers to your questions.

    The parents actions here served a very good purpose to those with curious minds. As there are few people wearing masks anymore, it's a bit late, but still a good exercise. It turns out Alachua county, upstate from me, has been a mask-wearing haven.

    Though many will reject it for political reasons, the results of the tests confirm the suspicions of many of us. The masks are filthy sources of disease and do not stop the airborne transmission of virus.
     
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    I did read the article and followed the links. There were no answers. Just a some of the lab results. That's why I ask the questions.

    The purpose of masks is to keep us from spreading the virus to others, right?
    Given that the masks collected those things, doesn't that suggest that the masks actually do catch things that could be spread?
    Given that the pathogens and other things found on the mask did not make anyone sick, we have to ask what level of danger is this article claiming?
    The University did not find anything worth publishing or raising awareness to the public. If they did, shouldn't they have sounded the alarm?
     
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    I suspected you had read the article.

    Considering all the lab tests that have been done in this country beginning in 1946 regarding the efficacy of masks in preventing the airborne transmission of virus, the purpose of the masks in 2020 were several. They offered a chance to prove one was "on the team" to "reduce the spread" and "flatten the curve". They gave misinformed people the chance to show they were trying.

    From the psychological perspective, they offered something similar to what the muslims accomplish by demanding women mask their faces, enforcing a bizarre sort of submission to authority.

    There is no question the masks capture something in the air, and these tests proved that. They proved what was already known. The Devil is in the Details, and the fact remains that whatever the mesh value of most masks, virus will pass through them. Certain bacteria and fungi will be captured.

    Your third question is good regarding the children presumably not being infected by the pathogens found in the mask, but that angle was not mentioned in the article, so we don't know. IMO, why walk around with those pathogens so close to your airway?

    There have been reports from conscientious dentists, never covered by MSM which suggests something on its own, that candida has shown in the mouths of frequent mask wearers. A close friend of mind was told by his conscientious physician that his URI was directly related to his wearing a mask for 8 hour shifts last year.

    UF might have suppressed this test findings, but it did not. In this time of universal deception, UF did its job right by allowing the results to be public. So did the parents.
     
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    The arguments for and against masks have been made in other threads, and it's really a waste of time to try and change anyone's mind at this point. Plain and simple, they do reduce the spread of disease. The lab results suggest that by listing what was found on the masks, which included Covid-19 on one of them.

    The lab results don't say if all that was found was on the inside or outside of the masks. Much of what is listed is quite common on people and the environment around. Of course, a reasonable argument could be made by using the lab results to suggest changing masks more often.

    But there are too many questions that the article and the provided "evidence" do not address. That allows for writers to arrange dots to lure readers into false assumptions and strong doubts. It relies on our biases to selectively choose what we want to believe. The psychology here also relates to our tendency to "fast think" about things, and how we consider our assumptions to be unquestionable. It is good to challenge conventional thinking. Questioning is a good thing.
     
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    Adfundum

    Plain and simple, repetition of false statements do not make them magically become true, whether the false statement is the once widely held theory of a geocentric universe, or the widely held theory regarding the efficacy of masks, or the veracity of statements from known liars like Anthony Fauci.

    You're going to have to direct me to that point which included the coronavirus please, I did not see that in my reading.

    As to your second paragraph, yes such pathogens might easily be found circulating around. Wearing a mask, those pathogens become concentrated in one location, at the entrance to one's airways. Those with healthy immune systems can defeat those pathogens. Leaving them concentrated at the entrance to your airway might be something that appeals to you, but it does not appeal to me.

    Otherwise, your post is essentially a combination of mild sophistry and some degree of denial. More a recitation of dogma from some church like belief system developed after a year of incessant propaganda.
     
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    Nice to know Trump is appreciated.
    The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act, is a $2.2 trillion economic stimulus bill passed by the 116th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump on March 27, 2020, in response to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Wikipedia
     
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    I have said often that wearing masks is a good way to collect deadly virus.
    Fauci first did not approve we wear masks.
    What directions come on masks?
     
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    So those organisms were detected on the masks HENCE the mask worked as required. Is that the point of your post?
     
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    Why won't Democrats listen to the Doctors that wear masks?

    Health Care workers died in the thousands and they wore masks.

    https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/947304

    Healthcare workers have been on the front lines of the global effort to care for patients with COVID-19 for 1 long year, while putting themselves at risk for infection. Since April 2020, when Medscape began commemorating healthcare workers from around the world who have died of COVID-19, we have added more than 3000 names to our page dedicated to their memory
     
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    Healthcare workers have been on the front lines of the global effort to care for patients with COVID-19 for 1 long year, while putting themselves at risk for infection. Since April 2020, when Medscape began commemorating healthcare workers from around the world who have died of COVID-19, we have added more than 3000 names to our page dedicated to their memory
     
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    Figures you would try to troll even on that basis. You're kind of desperate, aren't you?
     
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    I'm not promoting or dismissing the use of masks. Rather than take that route, we should go back and look at the questions asked regarding the lab report. Too many unanswered questions about how the report was done and how much of a threat the masks were/are. This was a lab report and not a study. Any assumptions or conclusions drawn from the report amount to opinions only.

    And you're correct. False statements are false statements, no matter how many times they are stated. We should not take a journalist's word as truth. We follow the links and find that this lab report is being held up to support the narrative that masks can be dangerous. But we really can't consider that a rational conclusion because we have no idea who spit in the masks, who rubbed them in the dirt, and who dug one out of the garbage. Of course, I'm being sarcastic here, but it should be clear that the lab report only tells what was on the masks, not how it got there, how long it had been there, or how much of a danger the masks were.

    As for the mask with the coronavirus, I'll have to go back an find that. It was from a separate search, not from the links.
     
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    What has that got to do with the link in your post showing that masks work?
     
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    wow, they would of breathed that all in, good thing they wore a mask
     
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    more than 3,000 doctors and nurses died globally and they wore the masks.
     
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    3000 doctors died wearing those masks that work.
     
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    How much money was spent researching the fact that kids are walking Petri Dishes? I mean, any K-1 teacher could have told you that for free!
     
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    All this means is that if you are recycling you should WASH THE FLIPPING MASk! I am betting if you took a sampling of what is on your underpants before you washed them it would conatain concerning bacteria too
     
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    Thanks Trump for mishandling the pandemic!

    Robert do you understand what the term “viral load” means?
     
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    You are a very mean person.
     

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