Smiles are contagious too: An open letter to Public Health Madison & Dane County

It is time to start addressing the social, emotional and developmental impacts on our children.

The damage you have instilled has been done. When will that be enough? The only thing worse than doing the wrong thing (proven many times over in places that did not mandate mask wearing) is doing it one second longer. Stop the madness.

No more mask mandates!!!

We need full human interaction. Stop forcing people to wear masks. They are unhealthy and do not work to prevent against any virus.

We should look at other people as dignified humans and value the expressions on their faces rather than treating them as threats and potential disease-spreaders. The masking measures are dehumanizing.

This statement is consistent with the documentation I have sent to the agency and County Commisioner Jeff W as a citizen of Dane County.

According to Marty McCreary (sp?) at Johns Hopkins, only 10-20 children have died of Covid barring pre-existing disease or complications. Many more have OD'd, or committed suicide.

Forcing children to wear masks at school will have long lasting (negative) affects which won't be revealed for years to come. Quit torturing our children.

Enough compliance! This is no longer about health or safety or the common good. Time to stand up and say NO MORE.

I would like to know exactly what metrics are being targeted to lift these draconian mandates. As concerned parents, citizens and tax payers we absolutely deserve an answer to that question.

"Public health" means ALL health - emotional, physical, mental - the whole being. Dane County's mask mandates have blinders on to all health EXCEPT this one virus. Aren't health workers supposed to "do no harm"? How can you justify harming other forms of health for the sake of putting another area on a pedestal? That's what's being done with these mask mandates. People & more importantly kids are suffering mentally, emotionally, and physically - people are putting off doctors' appointments because of the fear & hoops that have been created. They're avoiding outdoors & fresh air & natural vitamin D. They're socially cloistering themselves. They're doing their body harm by not exposing it to healthy germs & viruses, building immunity. They're lacking physical exercise & outlets. And did you know - all those lovely blue masks are full of microplastics that are causing human harms AND the planet harm? So again I ask - What happened to "do no harm"? Stop the mask mandates; stop harming our health.

Stadiums are packed! Schools should be unmasked!

Let everyone see your smile

In addition to affecting mental health and child development, the masks are physically unhealthy and cause children and adults to experience other respiratory issues. There is no evidence that masks prevent the spread of covid. But there is evidence of masks damaging a person's physical and mental health.

Mask wearing also emits higher levels of CO2. Anything higher than 700 parts per million is considered dangerous. Most people get levels above 10000 within less than 3 minutes of wearing. Anything higher than 5000 and repeated wearing of masks causes drowsiness, headaches, cerebral injury, coma, bacterial pneumonia, or even death. And you expect people to wear masks more than an hour at a time? How can you truly care about people's health if you are not taking these factors of mask wearing in to account as well?

We have two kids who have taken their own lives because of how much suffering and isolation this pandemic, masks, and psychological warfare in schools!!! How much more of this are you going to put us through?! This is insane. What happened to our freedom, our GOD GIVEN rights, this is AMERICA!!

Additionally your own metrics do not show improved Covid numbers when comparing other municipalities where no mask mandates are enacted. Time to end this now.

I greatly miss seeing smiles, especially the ones of my fellow church members. The constant wearing of masks is dehumanizing and mask-wearing has been connected to un-loving rituals. The harm being done to the next generation is far more deadening to the soul, than a virus is. Let’s not continue down this path anymore.

It's time to give the people of this fine City and County a choice. Let the people decide, they will make the right choice!

There are no data demonstrating that anything PHMDC has done to date has had any material positive impact on Covid infections, hospitalizations or deaths to date. If you have those data, please share. In lieu of those compelling data, the community will no longer accept subjugation as a means of control any longer.