MASKS: Mandates weaken people

To those who treat mask wearing like a simple issue, it’s not. Masks do deprive your body of oxygen. That’s why people are complaining of headaches, dizziness and shortness of breath. This can cause real damage. Specifically, inhibiting the immune system.

Doctors and nurses have PPE experts and oxygen pumped into rooms where masks are being used. A lay person wearing a cloth mask is going to do nothing except create a false sense of security. I would ask anyone in favor of mask mandates when do they think it will end? Dr. Fauci says two years, Bill Gates has come out and said 10 (though I’m not sure what his qualifications are to speak on this issue). Are you really comfortable with the idea of wearing masks for two or 10 years?

Immune systems grow from being challenged. These mitigation plans may very well be limiting our body’s natural ability to adapt and fight viruses which in the long term results in more deaths not less. The coronavirus family are like the flu — they adapt when a population becomes more immune to be successful. Point being, this isn’t going away anytime soon.

Are we losing our right to leave our homes without masks on? Are we losing the right to human contact? Is that really a world you want to raise your kids in?

JORDAN PECK

Coeur d’Alene