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Summary

It is a testimony to the power of propaganda, institutional capture, and the desire to
socially conform that masking of the general population has successfully been imposed
during the COVID-19 era. The harms from this imposition are palpable, and potentially
long-term and gargantuan, not the least of which is the psychological training of the
public to comply with an absurd measure that has direct personal negative impact. I
review the mounting evidence of the obvious: Universal masking harms people and
society, without any detectable benefit.

Introduction: Government’s onus to evaluate safety

Following the precautionary principle, government has the onus to demonstrate
absence of significant anticipated harm, prior to imposing a measure, especially with a
personal medical measure applied to the general healthy population.

The precautionary principle was not followed for masks in the COVID-19 pandemic.
The general masking implementations in Canadian provinces were even more
aggressive than the qualified recommendations of the WHO [1].

This reckless government overreach has not been missed in recent scientific
commentary. A few examples are as follows.

• As early as 20 April 2020, Lazzarino et al. directly opposed a logical perversion
of the precautionary principle which has been applied by some scientists and
many lawmakers (i.e., that governments should act “without definitive evidence,
just in case”):

“[W]hile no single formulation of that principle has been universally
adopted,(ref) the precautionary principle aims at preventing researchers
and policy makers from neglecting potentially-harmful side effects of
interventions. […]

Most scientific articles and guidelines in the context of the covid-19
pandemic highlight two potential side effects of wearing surgical face