Plastic pollution was already ubiquitous before the CCP virus pandemic arrived, but the past two years have seen a steep rise in the mountain of plastic waste, as the use of disposable masks, gloves, and food packaging soars. New research estimates that in every minute, three million face masks are put into the environment, or…

Commentary Among the many unbridgeable divides between Americans is a completely antithetical view of mask wearing. On one side are those who wear masks almost everywhere outside their homes and who demand that others do so, including young children in class and on outdoor playgrounds, and 2-year-olds on airplanes. On the other side are those…

Scotland’s work from home guidance will be ditched next week in favour of hybrid working as COVID-19 cases continue to fall, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced. The current guidance on working from home was strengthened after the emergence of the Omicron variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. In England, the Conservative government…

Los Angeles school students must now wear non-fabric masks at all times on campus, both indoors and outdoors, as part of measures to curb the spread of COVID-19. Effective Monday, students in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) must wear “well-fitting, non-cloth masks with a nose wire” only, including during sports. The district announced…

Commentary It is not unreasonable to conclude that surgical and cloth masks, used as they currently are being used (without other forms of PPE protection), have no impact on controlling the transmission of Covid-19 virus. Current evidence implies that face masks can be actually harmful. The body of evidence indicates that face masks are largely…

A photo showing a Pennsylvania middle school teacher taping a cloth face mask to a young student seated at his desk has sparked condemnation from parents and a public apology from the head of the district’s board of school directors. Reading a statement at a Jan. 20, 2022, meeting of the North Penn Board of…

After a year of questionable advice on masking, ranging from head-scratching and mildly amusing to outright laughable — such as Spain mandating use of face masks while swimming in the ocean — health experts who counter the prevailing narrative on universal masking are finally getting some airtime in the mainstream media. In an April 22, 2021, article…

“Huge numbers” of British schoolchildren are refusing to wear masks in classrooms in line with government guidance, a union official has said. In its latest guidance issued on Jan. 2, the UK Department for Education (DfE) recommended that secondary school pupils in England should wear face coverings inside classrooms to slow the spread of the…

The UK government has admitted that scientific evidence on the impact of using masks in schools is “not conclusive,” just three days after it recommended that secondary school students should wear masks inside classrooms to slow the spread of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. Face coverings are already recommended in outdoor communal areas and…

A Facebook fact-checking group on Tuesday admitted that it had incorrectly flagged an article by Reason magazine that questioned whether or not wearing face masks in schools can limit outbreaks of COVID-19. Science Feedback, a fact-checking organization partnered with Facebook, flagged a Reason article on Facebook written by Robby Soave and titled “The Study That Convinced the CDC…