You will assume the mastermind behind masks mandate to be a research scientist, professor, health expert or at least a doctor but he is none other than Petr Ludwig a data scientist, keynote speaker, author of the bestselling book The End of Procrastination, and a founder and CEO of a company Procrastination.com.
Petr has more than 8 years of practice as a speaker, and he did more than 500 keynotes around the globe and his clients include the likes of Microsoft.
The Czech data scientist Petr Ludwig was among those pushing for the mask mandate back in mid-March, months before western health authorities or even the World Health Organization was recommending them.
Ludwig had just flown from New York to Prague, and says he was the only person on his flight with a face covering. He detected there was no feeling of a pandemic. You could not visualize or see we are in a Pandemic. It was just like another normal flight.
When he arrived home, he googled some scientific evidence supporting face coverings and made a YouTube video explaining why he was convinced masks were the answer. The Czech-language video attracted more than 600,000 views, in a country of only 10 million. An English version of the video has been viewed more than 5.7 million times.
Days after the release of the video, Czech Prime Minister Babis announced the mask mandate.
“We didn’t convince the government, we convinced public by [social media] influencers and then government followed because our government is slightly populist. So they followed the opinion of the public. Some people from the WHO, for example, told us that this is nonsense”. Ludwig told CNN.
Babis was dubbed as the ‘Czech Trump’, the second richest man in Czech Republic. He has been accused of fraud related to EU subsidies received by his former agricultural business empire. An investigation ended in police charging him for criminal activities. However, Prosecutor withheld the charges until his term in office.
When Czech Republic first mandated masks the criticism was answered with the notion that it was to reduce the spread of covid19 through contaminated particles on surfaces, which could reduce spread through touch but was not for protection of oneself. They assumed that this reduced 80% spray on surroundings. Even, at first WHO advised the public to disinfect all the food items brought home until the ridiculous measures were abandoned due to the almost nonexistence science they were based on.
Czech Health Minister Adam Vojtech was in the forefront of all these mandates plus the drive for vaccines. In his tenure, it was decided Czech Republic will not take part in the World Health Organization-led COVAX plan to develop and distribute a vaccine against COVID-19.
“We will not join the WHO initiative for various reasons, the rules are less favourable for us than being part of the European initiative,” he told reporters. “We are going with the initiative by the European Commission, which is negotiating with producers, and the negotiations are very advanced, we will very soon take part in (an agreement) with AstraZeneca.”
Adam Vojtech resigned suddenly and now is working in the vaccine business.
Dr. Roman Prymula became the newly appointed Health Minister of Czech Republic but had to resign shortly as he was busted for breaking the mask mandate. It seems he received the same fate as Imperial College epidemiologist Neil Ferguson for causing the U.K. to lock down and contributing to the domino effect of global lockdowns. He resigned in disgrace after he broke his own quarantine rules to meet clandestinely with a married woman.
On the opposite end at that time was Dr. Mike Ryan, who has been at the forefront of WHO, managing acute risks to global health for nearly 25 years. He served as Assistant Director-General for Emergency Preparedness and Response in WHO’s Health Emergencies Program from 2017 to 2019. According to him “There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any particular benefit”
Even Dr. Anthony Stephen Fauci, who has been an advisor to every U.S. president since Ronald Reagan laughed at the idea of masks posing any benefit against a respiratory virus.
The sudden shift in WHO policy and backtracking on masks was unexpectedly sudden. Well established science of 40 plus years on the uselessness and harms of a mask mandate was dumped almost overnight.
With a new mantra “My mask protects you, your mask protects me” well designed to make sure people inevitably comply, WHO changed course with almost non-existence science.
In USA the top politician President Trump was shown as going against the mainstream health expert’s advice on Covid19. The predominant view was these things should be left for health experts. Sweden’s State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell championed a no lockdown and no mask policy. Schools were kept open and most measures were very lenient. However, in Sweden the health experts were being dragged to commissions, silenced and sidelined by the political elite.
The amount of funding to promote masks in the mainstream media including social media propagandas is unmatched in recent history. Even the fact that President Trump is against masks was shown as sufficient scientific evidence for the argument that masks works. Politics woven and veiled over scientific studies.
While scientific research continues to show masks of no use or changing the course of the pandemic in any way, masks has literary become the “face” of the pandemic.
Without it your day will be just like any other normal day, the fear factor will be gone and the pandemic might just look like an illusion. Or is it the other way around masks gives us the illusion of a pandemic.
Hopefully this time, like the Spanish Flu – the unmasked will not bury the masked again.
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