Reuters Article, Breathtakingly, Asks You To Pity Mask Sellers, Facing Hard Times After Mask Mandate Struck Down On Flights

Reuters, Like virtually all "legacy" media, is funded in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Don’t believe me? Read it here.

Yesterday I attended a Zoom conference, and one of the many things discussed happened to be a Canadian mask company that has put graphene oxide in the mask.

Masks are, among other things, an environmental plague.

Here’s a NY Post article: “More Than 1.5 Billion Masks Will Pollute Oceans This Year.”

“Single-use face masks are made from a variety of meltblown plastics and are difficult to recycle due to both composition and risk of contamination and infection,” the report says.

“These masks enter our oceans when they are littered or otherwise improperly discarded, when waste management systems are inadequate or non-existent, or when these systems become overwhelmed due to increased volumes of waste.”

The article goes on to reveal that it could take as ling as 450 years for all this plastic pollution to break down, and in the mean time, animals are suffering terribly:

”With each mask weighing three to four grams, the situation could lead to 6,800-plus tons of plastic pollution that “will take as long as 450 years to break down,” according to the report.

In addition to the harmful effects of micro-plastic and nano-plastic particles, elastic ear loops pose a “possible entanglement risk for wildlife,” the report says.

The report cites several examples of marine animals killed by masks, including a “dead bloated pufferfish” found tangled in the loops of a disposable blue mask by volunteers cleaning a Miami beach in August.

In addition, a necropsy on a malnourished penguin found dead on a beach in Brazil in September reportedly found a mask wadded up in its stomach.”

And it’s also afflicting animals on land.

”Other animals that have gotten tangled up with face masks included a fox in the UK, a pufferfish in Florida, and two crabs in France. Animals have been observed eating PPE as well.”

Article, “Covid Litter Is Polluting The Environment And Killing Wildlife,” here.

In 2014, I wrote my first article for The Epoch Times. It was a cover story, about an extraordinary group of women in New York City, who stopped at nothing to save wildlife afflicted by clashes with civilization. I called it “Strictly For The Birds.” You can read it here.

(Consider subscribing to The Epoch Times, if you don’t. It’s a very brave and important newspaper.)

On a mournful note, my wonderful editor, Stephen Gregory, passed away recently. I am very saddened by his departure, and will be writing a piece devoted to him, called “What Is An Editor?”