{"id":1505317,"date":"2022-06-06T12:52:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T16:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1505317"},"modified":"2022-06-06T12:52:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T16:52:51","slug":"an-office-manger-from-florida-and-a-gates-funded-professor-are-censoring-studies-linking-mask-usage-to-increased-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/an-office-manger-from-florida-and-a-gates-funded-professor-are-censoring-studies-linking-mask-usage-to-increased-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"An Office Manger from Florida and a Gates-Funded Professor Are Censoring Studies Linking Mask Usage to Increased Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fan-office-manger-from-florida-and-a-gates-funded-professor-are-censoring-studies-linking-mask-usage-to-increased-deaths%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1505317&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"code-block code-block-8\">\n<p><\/div>\n<p>A PolitiFact \u201cfact checker\u201d who has attempting to discredit National Pulse reporting on mask mandates and recent medical journal papers has almost zero experience in real news reporting, medical reporting, COVID-19 reporting, or even national news, The National Pulse can reveal.<\/p>\n<p>The information is the latest in a slew of \u201cfact checker\u201d stories which reveal <a href=\"https:\/\/raheemkassam.substack.com\/p\/a-google-funded-fact-check-team-appears?s=w\">dubiously credentialed individuals<\/a> working to remove anti-Big Pharma content from the internet at the behest of big tech companies and their sponsors in the pharmaceutical industry.<\/p>\n<p>Floridian liberal Gabrielle Settles appears to have begun working for Politifact in March 2021, bylining at least 70 stories for the corporate-backed censor.<\/p>\n<p>Settles, however, has no experience in dealing with any of this kind of information, having performed the majority of her \u201cfact checks\u201d simply by copying and pasting from the Centers for Disease Control website, and even veering off into \u201cfact checking\u201d pictures of Christmas cards and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2021\/sep\/16\/facebook-posts\/photo-rihanna-was-altered-make-her-look-pregnant\/\">photos of singer Rihanna.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prior to Politifact, Settles worked at a small, St. Petersburg outfit called \u201cThe Weekly Challenger\u201d, and prior to that, as an \u201cOffice Administrator\u201d at \u201cMoody Radio\u201d and a \u201ccontributing writer\u201d at a blog called \u201cThe Power Broker Magazine.\u201d\u00a0The sites receive almost zero web traffic.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Settles\u2019s journalistic contributions are extremely limited. But naturally, her contributions to partisan rhetoric are not.<\/p>\n<p>The Politifact \u201creporter\u201d \u2013 a job which includes no actual reporting \u2013 has a history of pro-Democrat and anti-Trump tweets. Naturally, she took umbrage with The National Pulse\u2019s story on masks and deaths, derived from two separate stories of May 16th and May 26th.<\/p>\n<p>In the first, Natalie Winters <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2022\/05\/16\/study-finds-correlation-between-mask-compliance-and-covid-deaths\/\">reveals<\/a> how\u00a0Beny Spira, Associate Professor at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo, published an\u00a0April 19th 2022 study \u201canalyz[ing] the correlation between mask usage against morbidity and mortality rates in the 2020-2021 winter in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2022\/05\/24\/wef-scrubs-event-with-wuhan-mayor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"uc85961e8dc341c4cc0a05d0d49b5ea46\"><\/p>\n<style scoped> .uc85961e8dc341c4cc0a05d0d49b5ea46 { padding:0px; margin: 0; padding-top:1em!important; padding-bottom:1em!important; width:100%; display: block; font-weight:bold; background-color:#eaeaea; border:0!important; border-left:4px solid #34495E!important; box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); -o-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); text-decoration:none; } .uc85961e8dc341c4cc0a05d0d49b5ea46:active, .uc85961e8dc341c4cc0a05d0d49b5ea46:hover { opacity: 1; transition: opacity 250ms; webkit-transition: opacity 250ms; text-decoration:none; } .uc85961e8dc341c4cc0a05d0d49b5ea46 { transition: background-color 250ms; webkit-transition: background-color 250ms; opacity: 0.95; transition: opacity 250ms; webkit-transition: opacity 250ms; } .uc85961e8dc341c4cc0a05d0d49b5ea46 .ctaText { font-weight:bold; color:#C0392B; text-decoration:none; font-size: 16px; } .uc85961e8dc341c4cc0a05d0d49b5ea46 .postTitle { color:#000000; text-decoration: underline!important; font-size: 16px; } .uc85961e8dc341c4cc0a05d0d49b5ea46:hover .postTitle { text-decoration: underline!important; } <\/style>\n<div><span class=\"ctaText\">MUST READ:<\/span>\u00a0 <span class=\"postTitle\">The World Economic Forum Deleted a Document Revealing That Wuhan\u2019s Mayor Attended WEF Events.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The data came from 35 European countries, and concluded:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe findings presented in this short communication suggest that countries with high levels of mask compliance did not perform better than those with low mask usage in the six-month period that encompassed the second European wave of COVID-19\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The study also found:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMoreover, the moderate positive correlation between mask usage and deaths in Western Europe also suggests that the universal use of masks may have had harmful unintended consequences\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But Settles found this particular science to be \u201cFalse\u201d and as a result, the National Pulse story is now being censored on social media. Settles\u2019s source appears to be a singular professor from the corporate-backed Milken Institute for Public Health at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Her name is Emily Smith.<\/p>\n<p>But Smith didn\u2019t even tell Settles that Spira\u2019s study was incorrect. She is quoted as saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think we can just use common sense to say that when cases are rising, people are more likely to do protective things\u2026 You\u2019re more likely to wear a mask when you\u00a0 go out and your city or your country might also have made recommendations or requirements to do those things.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, Smith is claiming that the mask usage and deaths is an inverse correlation, though she offers no evidence, nor science, nor refutation of the science offered. Instead, Smith suggests using \u201ccommon sense\u201d \u2013 a phrase oft-derided when used by anti-authoritarian activists at the beginning of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, for what it is worth, is\u00a0funded by the Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation, as <a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.gwu.edu\/departments\/global-health-exercise-and-nutrition-sciences\/emily-smith\">revealed<\/a> on her university biography.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2022\/05\/26\/counties-with-mask-mandates-had-higher-covid-19-death-rates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"u3324c14ed07ad2b6298820419c1731fa\"><\/p>\n<style scoped> .u3324c14ed07ad2b6298820419c1731fa { padding:0px; margin: 0; padding-top:1em!important; padding-bottom:1em!important; width:100%; display: block; font-weight:bold; background-color:#eaeaea; border:0!important; border-left:4px solid #34495E!important; box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); -o-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); text-decoration:none; } .u3324c14ed07ad2b6298820419c1731fa:active, .u3324c14ed07ad2b6298820419c1731fa:hover { opacity: 1; transition: opacity 250ms; webkit-transition: opacity 250ms; text-decoration:none; } .u3324c14ed07ad2b6298820419c1731fa { transition: background-color 250ms; webkit-transition: background-color 250ms; opacity: 0.95; transition: opacity 250ms; webkit-transition: opacity 250ms; } .u3324c14ed07ad2b6298820419c1731fa .ctaText { font-weight:bold; color:#C0392B; text-decoration:none; font-size: 16px; } .u3324c14ed07ad2b6298820419c1731fa .postTitle { color:#000000; text-decoration: underline!important; font-size: 16px; } .u3324c14ed07ad2b6298820419c1731fa:hover .postTitle { text-decoration: underline!important; } <\/style>\n<div><span class=\"ctaText\">MUST READ:<\/span>\u00a0 <span class=\"postTitle\">Mask Mandates Caused MORE COVID Deaths, Study Alleges.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A second study <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2022\/05\/26\/counties-with-mask-mandates-had-higher-covid-19-death-rates\/\">reviewed<\/a> by The National Pulse, though thus far unmolested by Politifact, asserts:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe most important finding from this study is that contrary to the accepted thought that fewer people are dying because infection rates are reduced by masks, this was not the case\u2026Results from this study strongly suggest that mask mandates actually caused about 1.5 times the number of deaths or \u223c50% more deaths compared to no mask mandates.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The study also posited a potential reason for the disparity in risk ratio (RR) for dying from COVID-19:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cA rationale for the increased RR by mandating masks is probably that virions that enter or those coughed out in droplets are retained in the facemask tissue, and after quick evaporation of the droplets, hypercondensed droplets or pure virions (virions not inside a droplet) are re-inhaled from a very short distance during inspiration.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dubbed the \u201cFoegen effect,\u201d the theory suggests that COVID-19 \u201cvirions spread (because of their smaller size) deeper into the respiratory tract.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Settles has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2021\/aug\/12\/facebook-posts\/no-evidence-airline-crews-walking-flights-protest-\/\">claimed<\/a> that airlines are not short staffed due to vaccine mandates (false) and that Virginia schools under Governor McAuliffe were not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2021\/nov\/16\/rick-scott\/critical-race-theory-isnt-virginias-curriculum\/\">promoting critical race theory<\/a> (also false).<\/p>\n<p>The National Pulse reached out to Politifact at their <a href=\"mailto:truthometer@politifact.com\"> truthometer@politifact.com<\/a>\u00a0address\u00a0for a correction on June 2nd 2022. As yet, no one has responded, and Settles\u2019s factually inaccurate \u201cfact check\u201d remains both online, and continues to censor The National Pulse stories on Facebook.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<p><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-5\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/app.memberful.com\/join\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">  <\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A PolitiFact \u201cfact checker\u201d who has attempting to discredit National Pulse reporting on mask mandates and recent medical journal papers has almost zero experience in real news reporting,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":1898146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2022\/06\/06\/politifcked-an-office-manger-from-florida-and-a-gates-funded-professor-are-censoring-studies-linking-mask-usage-to-increased-deaths\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}