We have credited the relevant journalists and their organisations, whose published investigations and concise reporting has been used in this article, which contains Red Bricks own opinions, embedded in our form of satire, none of which compromises our effort to write truthfully.
It appears the Experts who have been advising us mere mortals about the system of ‘Dick Turpin’ style head wear and standing ‘a Salmons Leap’ apart from each other, have equally ‘expert colleagues’ who take a different view.
Senior Health Reporter, Mary Kekatos for the Daily Mail in a report published 22nd December 2020 wrote about the cloth masks. Wearing a cloth mask may not shield the user from the corona virus, because too many infected droplets can slip through, a study has claimed.
Scientists at the New Mexico State University, in the US, studied five types of face coverings including cloth masks and surgical grade masks. They found that while all masks blocked at least 95 per cent of the droplets from coughs and sneezes at six feet, there was still a risk of the disease being passed on, because enough virus particles could still escape through the cloth masks and trigger an infection.
The science behind mask-wearing was hazy at the start of the pandemic, and authorities in the UK and other countries hesitated to recommend wearing them, although the World Health Organisation, did recommend masks until June 8, 2020, and then only for people over 60 and those with underlying health conditions.
In Britain, face coverings were first brought in for public transport in June 2020, and later for shops and other indoor spaces in July of that year. The consensus now is that masks may offer only limited protection to the people wearing them, but they are quite good at stopping people spreading the disease if they have it without knowing. Scientists have also suggested that masks could reduce the severity of the disease by exposing people to the virus in small doses, but this is yet to be proven.
Another excellent article from the Daily Mail and Senior Health Reporter, Mary Kekatos, to whom we credit the above information, and the inspiration for this article. You can follow Mary Kekatos on Twitter by clicking this link.
Us at Red Brick find it overly concerning that the regular cloth mask was least effective in the study performed, although they are being commonly used as ‘safety barriers, or safety masks,’ because that is what the public should be thinking when wearing or purchasing masks to wear, assuming they are wearing them for protective purposes and not just as a fashion accessory?
So, if this is the case, then why are retail outlets allowed to sell assorted styles of cloth ‘Gimp Masks’ with their comical, horror and action hero facial designs on them, which make people look a right ‘tit!’
Let me clarify that ‘tit-bit’ I just mentioned. They are not ‘tits’ because they look like tits, although some might think so, but because these type of face coverings do not provide enough protection from ‘snotty droplets’ that make up these airborne photon torpedoes,’ that can land on these types of masks, then with commando style efficiency overcome the defensive line of cloth fibres, before marching on into the host via a warm inviting orifice on a ‘home run!’
This is the best bit, and it is a ‘gem.’ Assuming people choose to buy this type of mask for protection, which at the same time helps make some ‘entrepreneur’ richer, the mask might not be protecting the user in a way that they think it is.
The manufacturers of these types of masks, have embossed their products with a ‘legal caveat,’ because on the back of the packing it reads and in plain speak: ‘NOT FOR MEDICAL USE’ (NFMU), or at least on the ‘comedy’ masks we saw in the many shops we visited during our research.
And the ridiculousness does not stop there, oh no does it not. People are wearing these types of ‘facial ponchos’ at work, in shops, socially and alongside family members, to give a few examples, despite the manufacturers of these ‘fun masks’ not being for medical use.
You see, when you, the wearer, are breathing in and out all your everyday natural nasal emissions, toxins, ask yourself this: Where does it mostly go? Well, we do not have the benefit of asking our Science or Medical experts, because they are all at one of our health spas, beefing up their immune systems with hydroxychloroquine, immune system boosting vitamins, and of course, Newcastle Brown Ale.
However, we did ask, Kristie Betts, from our Liverpool office, who completed her first aid badge whilst in the Girl Guides, for her thoughts, and she reckons all the goo from your finely tuned orifices, that you expunge into your mask when you breathe out, all gets vacuumed back up into your body when you breathe in?
And our government is still having a la’arf at us plebs, and playing with our freedoms, and why, because just in case the Indian, Vietnamese, Nepalese, Knobbly Knees, Mushy Peas and Lurgy variants, arrive in the UK, big style, along with its brothers, sisters, cousins, and so on.
⦁ (1) Indian Variant (2) Vietnamese Variant ( 3) Nepalese Variant
The Lurgy does not seem to be too discerning, about how and where it and / or its extended family arrive in the UK from, so long as the Lurgy can spread its tentacles from shore to shore throughout Blighty. However, do not be surprised if it arrives from any of these places: Ancient Greece, The Holy Roman Empire, El Dorado, The Lost World and Chy-na, oh, hold on, and scrub that last one, let us leave China out if it.
So, yes, the masks do stop an amount of your ‘goo’ getting through the fibres, which does afford some protection to those around you, but like we have said, the wearer having to constantly breathe in and recycle their snotty emissions, this helps prevent some of the lurgy from spreading through the mask, but not all of it; so, you can take a bow for self-sacrifice and selflessness, after-all, it is you who puts the Great into Britain.
And where is the government with all its advice and rhetoric re these comical cloth ‘facial nappies?’ We at Red Brick do not know the answer to that one, but their advice is conspicuous by its absence, and whatever the reason for this, we at Red Brick do not think it is unreasonable for us to expect our government to have a recognised ‘National Standard’ medically approved mask for all to wear.
The masks, which should at least be free and available for everyone to have use of, especially that millions and billions and trillions of people of are falling over at 90 degrees flat on their faces and dying instantly of the lurgy, just like in the original video of the man believed to be from China, Mr T. Opple-Over, well, that is the video that was played to the British public loop-like fashion by the Mainstream Media, was it not?
These types of facial coverings that are not intended for medical use, are being used by millions of people in what they believe will protect them and others; we know the purchaser should have read the instructions, but who among you always reads the accompanying ‘idiots guide,’ for the product you have just bought?
If this was war, which it is, but not in the conventional sense, then why is the British government allowing such profiteering to be going on by allowing ‘entrepreneurs’ to manufacture masks, which people are using in the belief that it is fully protecting them, when the product clearly states they are ‘not for medical use.
Is it any wonder, why some people believe that the Hollywood film, ‘Trading Places,’ in which two rich elites place a mocking $1 bet, to see if it is possible to manipulate two people from differing levels of society, so that the rich person is made destitute and the other person, a down and out, becomes rich and successful?
Are we the subject of an Elitist joke and is this why people are purchasing masks to wear, when the manufacturers information clearly shows, the mask is not for medical use, and if that is the case, then the joke is well and truly on us, isn’t it?! So, remember, always check the labelling, and read the idiot’s, we mean, users guide, it might save your life, one day?
In summary, given all the inconsistencies of the medical advice showered down upon us, as well as the ‘consistencies’ of how the UK government has awarded contracts to those businesses asked to produce the masks, consistent being that they do not pass the ‘smell test,’ is it any wonder that it feels like we are being played on a Global level and all for the sake of a $1 bet. We at Red Brick would not be surprised if this were the case, but what do you think?
So, getting back to all those useless masks the government bought from Ayanda, is it any surprise that other types of masks being sold appear to be unsuitable for the task, and if the level of ‘savvy’ shown by our government prior to the purchase of the masks from Ayanda is anything to go by, then it should be of no surprise that there is so little trust in politicians. However, this article is about the ‘Sham Show’ that has surrounded mask wearing, and not any dodginess’ surrounding the awarding of contracts, so you can all stand easy, for now.
Red Brick.