Hi Alex: As always, an excellent show — #490 Dr. Dan Wilson, Covid-19 Mask Science. No doubt, with your inviting title “Dr. Dan Wilson has a doctorate in biology, but misfires on the science to public health policy link,” you’ve got your finger applying direct pressure on this Covid-19 mandatory mask pulse BS.
Here’s one for you to think about: Why Science is Wrong … About Almost Everything — Dr. T’s take: Dr. T & Fun With Science.
With Dr. T’s take on your thesis, the question that logically follows is: What else can one expect from a recently minted PhD— Dr. Dan Wilson—who now is in search of his hustle—a hustle to be funded by potential corporate sponsors? —What else can one expect but “scientific proof” of current policies, i.e., mandated masks and PPE, put in place by the money and power of those very same potential corporate sponsors?
The one thing missing from your approach to such outright double-talk nonsense on show #490 (Please don’t make me go back and listen to Dr. Wilson’s feeble attempts to shield himself from any matter of policy, while at the same time curiously skewing “science” toward those same current inane corporate-funded policies!) —The one thing missing from your approach was an alternate source—other than yourself—to call Dr. Wilson to task.
May I present such a source here, Ms. Tammy Clark, an OSHA [Occupational Health and Safety] Credentialed Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Compliance Expert. Ms. Clark recently (3/1/2021) provided testimony to the New Hampshire House of Representatives Legislative Administration Hearing of Monday, March 1st. Her testimony appears from 1:24:18 – 1:32:34. I’ve provided a transcription of that testimony below:
NH Legislative Administration Chair: The Chair recognizes Tammy Clark.
Tammy Clark: Good morning. Can you hear me?
NH Legislative Administration Chair: We can. Thank you, and welcome.
Tammy Clark: OK. Thank you very much.
I was invited to speak today by Rep. Melissa Bliseck. And I just wanted to offer some expert testimony on the whole issue regarding face masks and the mandatory wearing of PPE. I am, by career, an OSHA [Occupational Health and Safety] credentialed environmental and occupational health and safety compliance expert. I am a court approved legal expert—subject matter expert—on all things health, safety compliance, and PPE related.
When these mandates first came out, it was people like me—industrial hygienists, environmental health and safety professionals—that really started speaking up because what we are doing in mandating the forced wearing of face masks really flies in the face of OSHA standards.
For example, in the workplace, in the work environment, when there is a known hazard, when there is a risk of hazard exposure, an Occupational Health and Safety Expert will do a risk analysis to determine what the employee, or what the people, are exposed to. From that point, they follow what is called “The Hierarchy of Safety and Controls.” PPE is always the last line of defense. We never, ever, mandatorily use a blanket “one-size-fits-all” mandate to put people in any type of PPE—especially respiratory protection. This is the reason OSHA created the respiratory protection standard and the PPE standards in 1979.
By covering the mouth and nose, exerting energy, and going about our work tasks, we were giving people heart attacks. It is very taxing on the cardio-pulmonary system to cover the mouth and nose and forcibly require someone to go about their business or work, exert energy, without controlling the environment temperature, humidity, and implementing what’s called “Work/Rest Cycles.” In other words, the covering of the mouth and nose inhibits oxygen intake by up to 20%. This is proven and documented by NIOSH (The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) and OSHA’s own studies going back to 1970.
What OSHA has done and what the government has done [with mask mandates] has bypassed all of the Hierarchy of Safety and Controls and they have completely swept decades-worth of science and data on the wearing of face masks, on the use of PPE, and they have swept it under the rug as if it does not exist.
Those in my career field have been trying to sound the alarm, but we have been silenced. There is not one industrial hygienist, environmental health and safety professional, or occupational health and safety professional, or an occupational doctor, for that matter, on any of these Covid-19 task forces. —Why is that? —Because they don’t want to hear from us.
What we are saying is that we are taking the absolute wrong approach, and we are creating a greater hazard for the population, not only for working individuals, but also for children. The forced wearing of masks is extremely dangerous. We know this. We have the tests. We have the data. We have the science. We have randomized control tests—which is the mother of all scientific tests—with meta-analysis going back to the early 1970s on all of this. And yet, they’re telling us, “Just cover your mouth and nose” —with whatever, cloth, surgical masks, home-made face masks— it doesn’t matter. They’re telling you that will protect you. And it is absolutely false.
We have test after test after test that show not only does a surgical mask or a cloth face mask not protect you from respiratory viral transmission, but it also creates a greater hazard. This is why in a hospital setting doctors, nurses, and healthcare workers, when they wear surgical masks—which, by the way are not designed or rated to protect against a virus—they are only rated to protect against bacterial splashes—this is why there is rampant infection among healthcare workers in hospitals, with respiratory illnesses like influenza, flu, and things like this.
They have studied this. Why is it that healthcare workers are wearing surgical masks yet they pass the flu? —respiratory illnesses pass like crazy. Well that’s because the PPE that they’re wearing is not designed or rated to protect against viral transmission of respiratory infectious diseases.
So we know—we know through testing—we know through studies—which is very well documented and I will submit in my written testimony—that we cannot use anything that is homemade cloth, surgical masks, etc. to protect the wearer or somebody nearby the wearer from the spread of an infectious disease through a viron. The viruses are so tiny they will pass through the membrane of that material. The only PPE that is rated and tested—that will knowingly protect the wearer or those nearby the wearer from the spread of infectious disease through viron is what’s called a CAPR or a PAPR—these are the big spaceship-looking hoods. Anybody working on an infectious disease ward—you will see them working in these big self-contained respirators. They’re not wearing surgical masks on infectious disease wards. There’s a reason for this.
So to take this approach—that we’re just going to mandate that everybody wear a face mask—is so irresponsible. It is so unethical. And it drives me crazy because I look around and I see all these kids that are very, very sensitive to oxygen saturation. And I see all these children wearing face masks. I see everyday people walking around in face masks. And yet their environment is not a micro-controlled environment, such as a surgical center, or a hospital. And this is why doctors and nurses work in a carefully controlled environment—because they are wearing face coverings. So the temperature is lower. The humidity is lower. The oxygen output is higher. There are increased additional air cycle exchanges—for a reason. —Because they’re working with their mouth and nose covered. Even then, they have to stop and take Work/Rest Cycles. They are trained on how to properly don and doff that mask.
Are we all trained in the public? —No. —So people are touching their —
NH Legislative Administration Chair: We have to wrap this up a little bit.
Tammy Clark: OK.
So, overall, I just wanted to offer my expert, professional testimony because what these government officials are doing is putting the population at great risk. There’s no training for the public. We are seeing the infectious diseases like bacterial pneumonia, staph, perioral dermatitis skyrocket. And that is a direct result of inappropriate and irresponsible mandating of PPE wearing without following the OSHA standards.
NH Legislative Administration Chair: Thank you. Will you take questions from the committee?
Tammy Clark: Sure.
NH Legislative Administration Chair: Are there any questions from the committee? … Being none, thank you for your testimony.
Tammy Clark: Thank you.
