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Cloth masks are akin to wearing a Petri dish on one's face, especially for children who are more likely to touch their faces, less likely to wash their hands and more likely to contend with overly loose masks (since they tend to be designed for adults and run large on children's faces). If anything, non-medical mask use poses more of a challenge to children's immature immune systems more so than lockdowns may have impaired them. Consequently, I would be curious to know whether the children who contracted hepatitis were engaged in particularly unsanitary masking practices (parents not washing/changing the masks daily) and/or disproportionately impacted by child masking mandates in schools, daycare and the like.

Another possible culprit is that there is overlap between the spike proteins induced by vaccination and that which are created by COVID-19 infection where liver inflammation/injury risk exists. To answer that question, it would be helpful to know how many of the impacted children have had prior COVID-19 infection vs. vaccination. Does this "outbreak" exist in children who are neither innoculated nor known to have suffered a prior infection?

A final possibility — although this is admittedly straying from the "keep it simple" principle — is that there is shedding involved from vaccinated adults that very young children, by virtue of their smaller body mass and immature immune systems, are disproportionately vulnerable to. About a year ago there were documents associated with the 2020 clinical trials circulating in which it was suggested that the adult participants limit exposure to non-vaccinated partners and/or to report if close contact occurred following vaccination. Although dismissed as conspiracy, it does raise the question why this data was necessary if no chance of shedding exists.

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Of the original 74 UK cases referenced in the initial WHO DON, some 20 cases tested positive for SARS-COV-2. None of the 74, nor the 9 Alabama cases, were children who had received a COVID inoculation, according to reports. In the expanded case roster from this week, there are roughly 18-20 inoculated patients.

Spike protein shedding is an intriguing hypothesis, but one without evidentiary support at this time.

Similarly, as the Janssen and AstraZeneca inoculations use an adenovirus vector modality, one has to wonder if viral shedding from inoculated individuals is the origin of the adenovirus detected among some of the patients, although again there is at the moment no evidentiary support.

Mask contamination is an intriguing possiblity. Certainly prior research suggests the masks can harbor a number of pathogens, one of which presumably could be the causative pathogen. Again, evidence so far is wanting.

All good hypotheses. What evidence emerges next to confirm or disqualify any of them will be interesting to see.

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May 2, 2022Liked by Peter Nayland Kust

I also wondered about the masking element. I would wonder about the control of the families and their outlooks on masks. The act of breathing eliminates toxins from the body. To keep rebreathing those toxins and/or breathing in microplastics seems a reasonable investigative question. There would be a few outliers in any case who get lumped in with the whole if it in fact this is an excess number of cases.

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As of the last time I looked at this particular topic (it's been a few days), what seemed to me to be the most compelling hypotheses revolved around retarded immune system development which resulted from the lunatic lockdowns, thus amplifying response to an otherwise mundane adenovirus (or perhaps another pathogen).

Mask contaminants would be a likely added risk factor in such a scenario. It's already a given at this point the masks serve no good medical purpose.

The fundamental takeaway from the hepatitis cases is that the global Faucist foolishness that has stood in for public health policy has had the direct consequence of making people decidedly more sickly and less healthy.

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