Proof That Face Masks Do More Harm

Than Good

Dr Vernon Coleman MB ChB DSc

Sunday Times Bestselling Author
This short book contains conclusive proof that face masks do more harm than good, and
being forced to wear them is a form of oppression designed to have adverse physical and
psychological effects upon the wearer rather than having any protective value.
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Books by Vernon Coleman include:

Medical
The Medicine Men
Paper Doctors
Everything You Want To Know About Ageing
The Home Pharmacy
Aspirin or Ambulance
Face Values
Stress and Your Stomach
A Guide to Child Health
Guilt
The Good Medicine Guide
An A to Z of Women’s Problems
Bodypower
Bodysense
Taking Care of Your Skin
Life without Tranquillisers
High Blood Pressure
Diabetes
Arthritis
Eczema and Dermatitis
The Story of Medicine
Natural Pain Control
Mindpower
Addicts and Addictions
Dr Vernon Coleman’s Guide to Alternative Medicine
Stress Management Techniques
Overcoming Stress
The Health Scandal
The 20 Minute Health Check
Sex for Everyone
Mind over Body
Eat Green Lose Weight
Why Doctors Do More Harm Than Good
The Drugs Myth
Complete Guide to Sex
How to Conquer Backache
How to Conquer Pain
Betrayal of Trust
Know Your Drugs
Food for Thought
The Traditional Home Doctor
Relief from IBS
The Parent’s Handbook
Men in Bras, Panties and Dresses
Power over Cancer
How to Conquer Arthritis
How to Stop Your Doctor Killing You
Superbody
Stomach Problems – Relief at Last
How to Overcome Guilt
How to Live Longer
Coleman’s Laws
Millions of Alzheimer Patients Have Been Misdiagnosed
Climbing Trees at 112
Is Your Health Written in the Stars?
The Kick-Ass A–Z for over 60s
Briefs Encounter
The Benzos Story
Dementia Myth

Psychology/Sociology
Stress Control
How to Overcome Toxic Stress
Know Yourself (1988)
Stress and Relaxation
People Watching
Spiritpower
Toxic Stress
I Hope Your Penis Shrivels Up
Oral Sex: Bad Taste and Hard To Swallow
Other People’s Problems
The 100 Sexiest, Craziest, Most Outrageous Agony Column Questions (and Answers) Of All
Time
How to Relax and Overcome Stress
Too Sexy To Print
Psychiatry
Are You Living With a Psychopath?

Politics and General

England Our England
Rogue Nation
Confronting the Global Bully
Saving England
Why Everything Is Going To Get Worse Before It Gets Better
The Truth They Won’t Tell You...About The EU
Living In a Fascist Country
How to Protect & Preserve Your Freedom, Identity & Privacy
Oil Apocalypse
Gordon is a Moron
The OFPIS File
What Happens Next?
Bloodless Revolution
2020
Stuffed
The Shocking History of the EU
Coming Apocalypse
Old Man in a Chair
Endgame: The Hidden Agenda 21

Diaries
Diary of a Disgruntled Man
Just another Bloody Year
Bugger off and Leave Me Alone
Return of the Disgruntled Man
Life on the Edge
The Game’s Afoot
Tickety Tonk

Animals
Why Animal Experiments Must Stop
Fighting For Animals
Alice and Other Friends
Animal Rights – Human Wrongs
Animal Experiments – Simple Truths

General Non Fiction

How to Publish Your Own Book
How to Make Money While Watching TV
Strange but True
Daily Inspirations
Why Is Public Hair Curly
People Push Bottles Up Peaceniks
Secrets of Paris
Moneypower
101 Things I Have Learned
100 Greatest Englishmen and Englishwomen
Cheese Rolling, Shin Kicking and Ugly Tattoos
One Thing after Another

Novels (General)
Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War
Mrs Caldicot’s Knickerbocker Glory
Mrs Caldicot’s Oyster Parade
Mrs Caldicot’s Turkish Delight
Deadline
Second Chance
Tunnel
Mr Henry Mulligan
The Truth Kills
Revolt
My Secret Years with Elvis
Balancing the Books
Doctor in Paris
Stories with a Twist in the Tale (short stories)
Dr Bullock’s Annals
The Young Country Doctor Series
Bilbury Chronicles
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Bilbury Pie (short stories)
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Bilbury Tonic
Bilbury Relish
Bilbury Mixture
Bilbury Delights
Bilbury Joys
Bilbury Tales
Bilbury Days
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Novels (Sport)
Thomas Winsden’s Cricketing Almanack
Diary of a Cricket Lover
The Village Cricket Tour
The Man Who Inherited a Golf Course
Around the Wicket
Too Many Clubs and Not Enough Balls

Cat books
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Alice’s Adventures
We Love Cats
Cats Own Annual
The Secret Lives of Cats
Cat Basket
The Cataholics’ Handbook
Cat Fables
Cat Tales
Catoons from Catland

As Edward Vernon
Practice Makes Perfect
Practise What You Preach
Getting Into Practice
Aphrodisiacs – An Owner’s Manual
The Complete Guide to Life

Written with Donna Antoinette Coleman

How to Conquer Health Problems between Ages 50 & 120
Health Secrets Doctors Share With Their Families
Animal Miscellany
England’s Glory
Wisdom of Animals
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ISBN: 978-1-898947-60-8
The Author
Dr Vernon Coleman MB ChB DSc was the first qualified medical practitioner in the UK to
question the significance of the ‘crisis’ now described as covid-19, telling readers of his
website www.vernoncoleman.com at the end of February that he felt that the team advising
the Government had been unduly pessimistic and had exaggerated the danger of the virus. At
the beginning of March, he explained how and why the mortality figures had been distorted.
And on March 14th, he warned that the Government’s policies would result in far more
deaths than the disease itself. In a YouTube video recorded on 18th March, he explained his
fear that the Government would use the ‘crisis’ to oppress the elderly and to introduce
compulsory vaccination. And he revealed on his website and in subsequent videos that the
infection had been downgraded on March 19th 2020 when the public health bodies in the UK
and the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens decided that the ‘crisis’ infection
should no longer be classified as a ‘high consequence infectious disease’. Just days after the
significance of the infection had been officially downgraded, the Government published an
Emergency Bill which gave the police extraordinary new powers and put millions of people
under house arrest. Dr Coleman, a former GP principal, is a Sunday Times bestselling author.
His books have sold over two million copies in the UK, been translated into 25 languages and
sold all around the world. He has given evidence to the House of Commons and the House of
Lords, and his campaigning has changed Government policy. There is a short biography at
the back of this book. Some references have been given in this book in view of the
misleading information widely available online as part of the demonization process now
being used to attack those questioning the ‘official’ line. Vernon Coleman’s first book about
the coronavirus, Coming Apocalypse, was only accepted for publication after all specific
references to coronavirus and covid-19 were removed. (Careful editing worked in alternative
words and phrases.) Vernon Coleman’s second book about the coronavirus hoax (a collection
of the transcripts of the videos broadcast between April and September) was titled, Covid-19:
The Greatest Hoax in History. The book was banned within days of publication. A second
version of the same book titled, Old Man in a Chair was banned within hours of publication.
Vernon Coleman then published an eBook version of Old Man in a Chair on Smashwords,
unfortunately, this too was banned.
 A Thank You Note
My sincere thanks go to all those who have supported and encouraged my
fight to share the truth about the coronavirus hoax. You are too numerous to
mention by name but my thanks to you all.

‘Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve
neither liberty nor safety.’
Benjamin Franklin
Introduction
To my horror and disappointment the shops, and indeed the streets, are full of mask-wearing
muppets. In the shops everything takes an age as shopper and assistant struggle to make
themselves heard through their masks. The muppets have become mumblies.
Many mask wearers keep their masks on even when out of doors, where it is not yet
mandatory to do so. These over-compliant collaborators are making oppression easy for the
totalitarians who will doubtless soon be demanding that we all wear our masks wherever we
are and whatever we are doing – even in our own homes.
Most mask wearers have no idea of the harm they are doing by wearing masks. Indeed,
many seem to understand very little about how to wear a mask. I have, on several occasions,
seen people drop their mask onto the pavement – face side down of course – pick it up and
put it on. Many people wear the same mask for more than two hours (which is dangerous),
wear disposable masks more than once (which is dangerous), fail to wash cloth masks (which
means they accumulate bacteria, fungi and viruses – all of which are breathed in) touch their
mask while it is in position (which makes the mask even worse than useless), put masks into
their pockets or handbags and then put them back on creased and grubby (a very dangerous
thing to do since the wearer will then be breathing in whatever bugs have been transmitted to
the mask. Scarves are often used as face coverings without ever being washed (an effective
way to catch throat and lung infections). Nearly everyone constantly fiddles with their masks
– not realising that touching a mask is something you should not do. The incidence of throat
and chest infections is going to rocket. I wonder how many people will be killed by their
masks. We’ll never know.
What the hell has happened to people? I am appalled at how easily people have become so
compliant and have accepted the Government lies. Many mask wearers now choose their
masks as fashion items and wear masks designed to match their outfits. A few wear dark
glasses and gloves as well as masks. I fear they probably think they look cool and well-
dressed.
As I said earlier, it won’t be long before the Government will order people to wear masks
in the home. And they will. Some will sleep in them – and doubtless die in them.
Most mask wearers are clearly being made ill by their masks. Because their oxygen levels
are low, their eyes are glazed, as though they are drugged.
When the covid-19 hoax began, authorities around the world announced that mask
wearing was pointless, and it was widely agreed by experts that they could probably do more
harm than good. Indeed, mask wearing was dismissed as ‘virtue signalling’ by Dr Fauci, the
American coronavirus expert. The World Health Organisation supported this general view
which was in accordance with the available scientific evidence. Medical advisors around the
world agreed that there was no need to wear masks.
Later during the year, the story changed.
Although there did not seem to be any scientific evidence supporting such a dramatic
change, the World Health Organisation suddenly supported face mask wearing. Almost
instantly, governments around the world, led by medical and scientific advisors, changed
their views overnight and decided that we should all wear masks. The WHO’s main financial
supporter is the American software billionaire Bill Gates who has a number of powerful
alliances with media organisations (such as the BBC), strong financial links with Monsanto
and a number of drug companies, and an enthusiasm for vaccination which, to put it politely,
does not seem justified by the evidence.
Why, in the absence of a change in medical advice did the WHO change its mind?
 Well, it seems that the campaign for masks to be worn worldwide was either founded by
the World Economic Forum, which advocates a global reset and of which that well-known
‘medical expert’ Prince Charles of England appears to be a leading member, or by an
organisation called masks4all. The promotion of masks was supported by Goldman Sachs,
the bank, in my view one of the most evil companies on earth (along with Google and
Monsanto) which was once memorably described by Matt Taibbi as a vampire squid on the
face of humanity. The bank is reported to have claimed that if everyone in America wore a
mask, the American economy would be boosted.
I have no idea how they came to this conclusion or why they think their advice is better
than medical research.
The masks4all website promotes the slogan, ‘Anyone without a mask puts you and your
family at risk’, and masks4all is a fiscally sponsored project of something called Community
Initiatives which seems to have links to a whole range of organisations I’ve never heard of.
As a result of the WHO’s change of advice, media throughout the world also changed their
advice. The well-known video sharing site called YouTube betrayed users by deleting videos
made by doctors (such as myself) which offered scientific evidence proving that masks are of
no value but are dangerous.
I could find no convincing scientific evidence supporting this change of heart but, as a
result of the WHO’s about-turn, populations everywhere were forced to wear masks – or to
risk being fined. Only those prepared to self-certify that they could not wear a mask were
allowed to travel on trains or buses or any other form of public transport without a face
covering. And shortly afterwards, the rule was extended to cover shops and public buildings.
Strangely, people in offices were not always forced to wear masks – as though the
coronavirus were in some way inactive in a working environment but active in a shopping
environment.
I have kept this book short and have resisted the mild temptation to include a history of
mask wearing in all its various forms. The only thing that is important at the moment is
whether mask wearing is useful and necessary or dangerous and being forced upon us as part
of the new totalitarianism.
I repeat, I have yet to find any reliable scientific evidence proving that masks are useful,
safe or worth wearing. Many doctors who are not employed by governments or public
agencies, seem to agree that mask wearing is very likely to do far more harm than good.
The available scientific evidence shows that masks, whatever their form, provide a poor
obstacle to infective organisms but do impede air intake and oxygen exchange.
Those who wear masks are collaborating in a massive conspiracy.

Important Note: My first video in March 2020 was entitled, Coronavirus Scare – the Hoax
of the Century?. What I meant by this, and have subsequently made clear on many occasions,
is not that the existence of covid-19 itself is a hoax, but that the exaggerated, fraudulent
response was unnecessary, harmful and deliberately designed to over-sell a not unusual
seasonal virus infection. The covid-19 infection is merely a standard flu heavily marketed for
a specific purpose: the lockdowns, the social distancing, the masks, and the vaccines were
never necessary, and it is not difficult to prove that these measures have done infinitely more
harm than good and will, in due course, result in far more deaths than covid-19.
If this really were a pandemic, there would have been no need for governments to fiddle
the covid death figures. For example, if someone dies within 28 or 60 days of having had a
positive PCR test (a test that is known to have a high rate of false positives) then that person
is automatically put down as a covid death. That is fraud. It is not unknown for the ordinary
flu to kill 650,000 people globally in a single, six month flu season but today the flu has
virtually disappeared but the mainstream media appears to have failed to make this pretty
obvious connection.
There would have been no need for governments and the media to lie, lie and lie again.
And, most important of all, there would have been no need to silence, suppress and demonise
all those wishing to question the officially promoted lies. Never, in history, has medical
debate been so effectively oppressed and doctors wishing to share simple truths been so
ruthlessly silenced. It is also worth remembering that many of the so-called fact checkers are
nothing of the sort. There are now hundreds of self-acclaimed fact checkers around the world,
and many of them receive huge donations from individuals, corporations and charities with
views and vested interests to protect. Many of the fact checkers seem to be employed largely
to suppress the truth and to discredit those who are sharing the truth.
The day after my first video appeared on YouTube, my Wikipedia page was changed
dramatically to discredit me. And shortly after that, the video was removed. Subsequently,
hundreds of videos made by myself and other independent doctors have been removed
though the views of pro-establishment celebrities, with no medical knowledge or
understanding, have been promoted vigorously. Similarly, it has become impossible to find
publishers prepared to print material questioning the official line – and that is why Proof that
Masks Do More Harm than Good has been privately published.
Anyone who wants to know why all this has happened will find the answers in my book,
Endgame: The Hidden Agenda 21.
 Masks and Mask Wearing: 111 Facts You Must Know

1.
Surgeons have been using surgical masks since their introduction in 1897. It has for some
years been customary for surgeons and nurses to wear surgical masks in the operating theatre
and to change masks part of the way through any procedure lasting more than a few hours.
The dangers associated with mask wearing were assessed by five doctors and published in
the journal Neurocirugia in 2008.
Although it is customary for operating theatres to be fitted with air conditioning systems,
the writers of the article, entitled, Preliminary Report on Surgical Mask induced
Deoxygenation During Major Surgery, pointed out that it is known that heat and moisture are
trapped beneath surgical masks and concluded that ‘it seems reasonable that some of the
exhaled carbon dioxide may also be trapped beneath them, inducing a decrease in blood
oxygenation’.
A total of 53 surgeons, of both sexes, all employed at university hospitals and aged
between 24 and 54 years of age were tested. All were non-smokers and none had any chronic
lung disease. The test involved pulse oximetry before and after the course of an operation.
The study showed that the longer a mask was worn the greater the fall in blood oxygen levels.
This may lead to the individual passing out and it may also affect natural immunity – thereby
increasing the risk of infection.
The masks used were disposable, sterile, one-way surgical paper masks. To eliminate the
effect of dehydration over a several hour surgical operation, the surgeons were allowed after
every hour to drink water through a straw.
The authors of the paper concluded that, ‘When the values for oxygen saturation of
haemoglobin were compared, there were statistically significant differences only between
preoperational and post operational values. As the duration of the operation increases, oxygen
saturation of haemoglobin decreases significantly.’

2.
This quote is taken from New England Journal of Medicine: ‘We know that wearing a mask
outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health
authorities define a significant exposure to covid-19 as face to face contact within six feet
with a patient with symptomatic covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and
some say more than 10 minutes or even 20 minutes). The chance of catching covid-19 from a
passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases the desire for
widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.’ The reference: M.
Klompas, C. Morris et al ‘Universal Masking in hospitals in the covid-19 era’ – New England
Journal of Medicine 2020

3.
It is possible that wearing a mask for hours at a time could cause pulmonary fibrosis. In
August 1988, the proceedings of the VIIth International Pneumoconioses Conference
included details of three cases of pulmonary fibrosis, thought to be due to exposure to
synthetic textile fibres. The first was a woman of 52 who had a dry cough with increasing
difficulty in breathing. Changes were visible on an X-ray. The woman had been working in a
textile shop for 15 years where her job was measuring and cutting cloth – mainly synthetic
materials. The second patient was a woman of 66 who also had difficulty in breathing. The
lungs of this patient also showed X-ray changes. She was also involved in cutting and
measuring synthetic fabrics. A third woman, aged 47, had bilateral pulmonary fibrosis.
Studies have shown that loose fibres are seen on all types of masks and may be inhaled
causing serious lung damage.

4.
People who cough and sneeze into their mask increase the risk of a build-up of fungi and
bacteria – which can lead to dangerous chest infections.

5.
In 2015, the British Medical Journal published a paper entitled, A Cluster Randomised Trial
of Cloth Masks Compared with Medical Masks in Healthcare Workers. The paper was
written by nine authors from the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney,
the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Vietnam and the Beijing Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention in China. The aim of the study was to compare the efficacy
of cloth masks to medical masks in hospital health care workers. The study, which was
extensive, concluded that the results caution against the use of cloth masks.
‘This is an important finding to inform occupational health and safety,’ concluded the
authors. ‘Moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks and poor filtration may result in increased
risk of infection.’
And the authors added: ‘…as a precautionary measure, cloth masks should not be
recommended for health care workers, particularly in high risk situations, and guidelines need
to be updated’.

6.
Many individuals have turned their masks into fashion items. I wonder how many wear the
same mask day after day without washing them. If masks are unwashed then they become
breeding grounds for bacteria, fungi and viruses. If they are washed then they become even
more useless (if that is possible) than they were when new. The enthusiasm for ‘fashion’
masks, which match other items of clothing, is rising. But wearing a fashionable mask is akin
to a slave painting their chains to look pretty.

7.
The word ‘covering’ is now often used in official propaganda material, having replaced the
word ‘mask’. It has clearly been decreed more acceptable than the more usual word ‘mask’
which carries worrying overtones.

8.
It is often difficult to hear what people say when they are wearing masks – particularly if the
masks are close-fitting. Conversations are kept to a minimum and social interactions in shops
and other establishments are functional at best. (It is worth noting that hairdressers and others
in service industries have been instructed to talk as little as possible – ostensibly to prevent
the spread of the virus. Also, singing, a joyful activity for singers and listeners, has been
banned.)

9.
Mask wearers have been encouraged by the psy-op specialists employed by governments to
show their hatred for non-mask wearers. This loathsome ploy was first promoted by Ms Dick
of the Metropolitan police in London, and seems designed to make those who cannot or do
not wear masks feel guilty and ashamed. The mentally and physically disabled will, therefore,
be harassed and abused if they dare to go out of their homes.

10.
In October 2020, it was noticeable that when street photographs were published in the press
or online, they invariably showed members of the public wearing masks – even though mask
wearing out of doors was not compulsory. Were the public being conditioned for the time that
wearing masks outdoors becomes mandatory?

11.
Symptoms caused by mask wearing are now being wrongly blamed on covid-19. It seems
likely that when mask wearing starts to result in deaths (as it will do), those deaths will be
blamed on covid-19 and used as a reason for politicians and advisors to demand that people
wear masks for even longer hours. The vicious circle will be complete.

12.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the US has decreed that any room
where the carbon dioxide is present at a level or more than 5,000 parts per million is unsafe
and has an environment which is toxic and dangerous. Carbon dioxide levels normally exist
at between 350 and 450 parts per million. Acceptable indoor quality level is 600 to 800 ppm.
Any employer who attempts to force employees to work in an environment where the carbon
dioxide level is too high can be held to account. Similarly, any teacher who attempts to force
children to study in such an environment would be legally responsible. If a nuclear submarine
has a level of over 5,000 parts per million then it must surface because it is considered to
have a threatening and dangerous environment. There is much dispute about the levels of
carbon dioxide which may develop if a mask is worn. Generally, the tighter a mask fits the
greater the risk that the level of carbon dioxide will rise to dangerous levels but it must be
remembered that most members of the public have no training on how to wear a mask and
there are few if any restrictions on mask manufacture. Indeed, members of the public are
making their own masks and using bits of left over material to do so. A wide variety of masks
are being designed and worn. Those dismissing the danger as non-existent might like to read
HSE Contract Research Report no 27/1991, produced by the British Health and Safety
Executive and entitled, Dead space and inhaled carbon dioxide levels in respiratory
protective equipment. Those dismissing the risks associated with carbon dioxide levels should
know that the amount of carbon dioxide in a small room can easily rise to levels which are
dangerous enough to have a dramatic effect on decision making. At least eight studies in the
last decade have studied carbon dioxide levels indoors and have found worrying levels above
1,200 parts per million.
13.
Women giving birth in France have to wear face masks. In my opinion, this is dangerous and
will put extra strain on the heart. Pregnant women should not wear a mask, not only because
of the risk to themselves but because of the risk to their unborn child. There is a real risk that
the baby will be stillborn or in some way damaged or poorly developed at birth.

14.
Research conducted by four French doctors in 2018 and reported in Rev Mal Respir, was
designed to evaluate the effect of wearing a surgical mask during a six minute walking test.
The authors of the study were E. Person, C. Lemercier, A. Royer and G. Reychler. (The six
minute walking test is regularly used in pulmonology.)
For this research, 44 health subjects were used. Each individual performed two six minute
walking tests – one with a mask and one without a mask.
The researchers found that dyspnoea variation was significantly higher with a surgical
mask, and concluded that the difference was clinically relevant.
The conclusion was that ‘wearing a surgical mask modifies significantly and clinically
dyspnoea.’

15.
Mask wearers, of a sanctimonious nature, will sometimes claim that they wear masks not to
protect themselves but to protect other people. This is simple-minded nonsense since, as has
been well demonstrated in this book, face masks are of no value to anyone and, indeed, can
be a menace both to those wearing them and to those maskless people they meet.

16.
Vital evidence outlining the dangers and ineffectiveness of mask wearing has been banned,
blocked or deleted from the internet. Videos assessing the value of wearing face masks on the
basis of the scientific evidence have been removed. Discussion and debate about the value of
face masks are suppressed by politicians and the media. Research material outlining the
dangers of mask wearing has been removed from the internet on the basis that ‘it is no longer
relevant in our current climate’. So-called ‘fact-checkers’ invariably dismiss medical reports
published by doctors and scientists – however eminent those experts might be. The so-called
‘fact-checkers’ are often linked to commercial organisations or groups with commercial links.
No one seems to check the ‘fact-checkers’ – though they should.

17.
Between 2004 and 2016, at least twelve articles appeared in medical and scientific journals
showing that face masks do not prevent the transmission of infection.

18.
There are no strict rules about what constitutes a face mask, and the rules about when and
where masks should be worn are constantly changing. This proves that there is no science
supporting the wearing of masks. So, for example, it is clearly absurd that the coronavirus
should be thought to spread from person to person in a shop but not in an office.
19.
The tighter a mask fits the more likely it is to reduce blood oxygen levels and to increase the
amount of carbon dioxide being inhaled. It should be noted that optimal oxygen intake in
humans should, according to the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration, be
between 19.5 and 23.5% and that any human-occupied airspace where oxygen measures less
than 19.5% should be labelled as not safe for workers. However, the percentage of oxygen
inside a masked airspace generally measures 17.4% within seconds of putting on the mask. A
tighter fitting mask will result in lower oxygen levels and higher carbon dioxide levels.
Lower oxygen levels and increased levels of carbon dioxide stimulate greater inspiratory flow
– leading to a greater risk that loose fibres from the face mask will be inhaled.

20.
In Belgium, in September 2020, a group of 70 doctors sent an open letter to Ben Weyts, the
Flemish Education Minister in which they claimed that children are badly affected by having
to wear face masks. ‘Mandatory face masks in schools are a major threat to their
development,’ they wrote. ‘It ignores the essential need of the growing child. The well-being
of children and young people is highly dependent on emotional attachment to others.’
(Observing facial expressions help a child’s social development and so seeing those
around them wearing masks must therefore delay a child’s development.)
According to The Brussels Times, the doctors continued that ‘there is no large-scale
evidence that wearing face masks in a non-professional environment has any positive effect
on the spread of viruses, let alone on general health. Nor is there any legal basis for
implementing this requirement.’
‘Meanwhile, it is clear that healthy children living through covid-19 heal without
complications as standard and that they subsequently contribute to the protection of their
fellow human beings by increasing group immunity.’
‘The only sensible measure to prevent serious illness and mortality caused by covid-19 is
to isolate individual teachers and individual children at increased risk,’ they added. ‘This risk
assessment is not the task of the Ministry of Education but the task of the treating physicians
in consultation with their patients.’

21.
Leading German virologist Professor Streeck has criticised the use of masks, which he has
said are a wonderful breeding ground for bacteria and fungi. He has also criticised
lockdowns.

22.
Two dentists in New York have reported seeing a number of patients with inflamed gums and
other problems. The news story was reported in the New York Post.
‘We’re seeing inflammation in people’s gums that have been healthy forever, and cavities
in people who have never had them before,’ said dentist Rob Ramondi. ‘About 50% of our
patients are being impacted by this, (so) we decided to name it ‘mask mouth’.’
Another dentist, Marc Sclafani, told the New York Post that ‘gum disease, or periodontal
disease, will eventually lead to strokes and an increased risk of heart attacks.’
 The dentists said that the problem is caused by the fact that face coverings increase mouth
dryness and contribute to a build-up of bad bacteria.
‘People tend to breathe through their mouth instead of through their nose while wearing a
mask,’ said Sclafani. ‘The mouth breathing is causing the dry mouth, which leads to a
decrease in saliva – and saliva is what fights the bacteria and cleanses your teeth.’

23.
Masks diminish the quality of our relationships with other people. We trust people less if they
are wearing masks. We cannot see smiles and so we fear people more.

24.
When the truth finally comes out about the dangers of masks, teachers making children wear
masks in schools will be sued. Bosses making their employees wear masks will also be sued.
Ignorance is no defence. And as the Nuremburg defendants discovered, the reply ‘I was
obeying orders’ is no defence.

25.
A 26-year-old man suffered a collapsed lung after running 2.5 miles while wearing a face
mask. Doctors say his condition was caused by the high pressure on the man’s lung due to his
intense breathing while wearing the face mask. When masks are made mandatory outdoors in
the UK, joggers and cyclists will have no choice but to wear masks. Many will die.

26.
Never in history have so many people worn masks obstructing their intake of air. A
considerable amount of research has been done into mask wearing. The research shows
clearly that masks are ineffective in preventing the movement of infective organisms but that
they reduce oxygen levels and increase levels of carbon dioxide. Most of those advocating
mask wearing are either ignorant or are deliberately exposing mask wearers to danger. The
side effects of excess carbon dioxide (hypercapnia) are headaches, dizziness, drowsiness,
nausea, vomiting and a tight feeling in the chest. The risks are usually dismissed as irrelevant
or non-existent by government spokesmen and fact checkers (many of whom are sponsored
by industry) but I found it impossible to find reliable scientific evidence supporting this
reassurance. It should be noted that the BBC, which claims to produce fact checking material,
has financial links to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (which itself has strong financial
links to the vaccine industry among others) and is in my view entirely untrustworthy. The
question, as always, is a simple one: who will check the ‘fact checkers’?
Government defenders regard the removal of a video from YouTube as a sign that the
advice in the video must have been ‘wrong’. The reality, of course, is the exact opposite since
YouTube takes down material which disagrees with advice from the World Health
Organisation which is now heavily sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

27.
Streets are littered with discarded face masks which ought to have been incinerated as
medical waste, if this really were a highly dangerous virus. It is important to note that, on
March 19th 2020, the public health bodies and the Advisory Committee on Dangerous
Pathogens decided that covid-19 should no longer be classified as a ‘high consequence
infectious disease’ – the link for the proof of this is on my website www.vernoncoleman.com.
A couple of days after this decision, the UK Government introduced lockdowns and
introduced the most oppressive Bill in British Parliamentary history.

28.
It was reported in The Sydney Morning Herald in 2003, that retailers who cash in on
community fears about SARS by exaggerating the health benefits of surgical masks could
face fines of up to $110,000. NSW Fair Trading Minister Reba Meagher warned that
distributors and traders could be prosecuted if it was suggested the masks offered unrealistic
levels of protection from the disease. ‘There appears to be some debate about whether
surgical masks are able to minimise the effects of SARS.’ Ms Meagher said her department
would investigate any complaints about false mask claims which concerned the public.
Health authorities have warned that surgical masks may not be an effective protection
against the virus. ‘Those masks are only effective so long as they are dry,’ said Professor
Yvonne Cossart of the Department of Infectious Disease at the University of Sydney. ‘As
soon as they become saturated with moisture in your breath they stop doing their job and pass
on the droplets.’ Professor Cossart said that could take as little as 15 or 20 minutes, after
which the mask would need to be changed.’

29.
Does wearing a face mask reduce your immunity levels? No one seems to know the answer
for sure but it seems possible that if people wear face masks for long periods (months or
years) then the absence of contact with the real world might well have a harmful effect on
immunity – if the face mask works. Do face masks prevent us developing immunity to
particular diseases? This depends on many factors – mainly the effectiveness of the face
mask. But if the mask isn’t preventing the development of immunity then it probably isn’t
worth wearing anyway.

30.
It is widely acknowledged that wearing a face mask may give a false sense of security and
may stop the wearer taking other precautions – such as washing their hands. Also, it has been
established that if masks aren’t worn properly, and changed regularly, they can do much more
harm than good.

31.
There is no doubt that face masks can be dangerous. In China, two school boys who were
wearing face masks while running on a track both collapsed and died – possibly, I would
surmise, because the strain on their hearts by the shortage of oxygen proved fatal. According
to the German doctor, Dr Bodo Schiffmann, at least three other children may have died in
Germany due to mask wearing.

32.
A report published in the British Medical Journal summarised some other risks. First, when
you wear a face mask some of the air you breathe out goes into your eyes. This can be
annoying and uncomfortable and if, as a result, you touch your eyes you may infect yourself.
Second, face masks make breathing more difficult and, as I have already pointed out, anyone
who has a breathing problem will find that a mask makes it worse. Also, some of the carbon
dioxide which is breathed out with each exhalation is then breathed in because it is trapped.
Together these factors may mean that the mask wearer may breathe more frequently or more
deeply, and if that happens then someone who has the coronavirus may end up breathing
more of the virus into their lungs. If a mask is contaminated because it has been worn for too
long then the risks are even greater. How long is too long? No one knows but two hours
seems an accepted limit. No research has been done as far as I know. Third, there is a risk
that the accumulation of the virus in the fabric of the mask may increase the amount of the
virus being breathed in. This might then defeat the body’s immune response and cause an
increase in infections – other infections, not just the coronavirus.

33.
Dr Russell Blaylock, a retired neurosurgeon, has reported that wearing a face mask can
produce a number of problems varying from headaches to hypercapnia (a condition in which
excess carbon dioxide accumulates in the body) and that the problems can include life-
threatening complications. Symptoms of hypercapnia include drowsiness, dizziness and
fatigue. Some of the carbon dioxide exhaled with each breath is retained behind the mask and
then breathed in again.
Dr Blaylock has also warned of neurological problems. ‘By wearing a mask, the exhaled
viruses will not be able to escape and will concentrate in the nasal passages, enter the
olfactory nerves and travel into the brain,’ he wrote.
And Dr Blaylock has warned of the danger to patients with cancer. ‘People with cancer,
especially if the cancer has spread, will be at a further risk from prolonged hypoxia as the
cancer grows best in a microenvironment that is low in oxygen. Low oxygen also promotes
inflammation which can promote the growth, invasion and spread of cancers. Repeated
episodes of hypoxia have been proposed as a significant factor in atherosclerosis and hence
increases (the risk of) all cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.’

34.
The risk of side effects developing when wearing a mask depend to some extent on whether
the mask is made of cloth or paper or is an N95 mask filtering out at least 95% of airborne
particles. One study of 212 healthcare workers showed that a third of them developed
headaches with 60% needing painkillers to relieve the headache. Some of the headaches were
thought to be caused by an increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the blood or a
reduction in the amount of oxygen in the blood. Another study, this time of 159 young health
workers, showed that 81% developed headaches after wearing face masks – so much so that
their work was affected.

35.
An N95 mask can reduce blood oxygenation by as much as 20% and this can lead to a loss of
consciousness. Naturally, this can be dangerous for vehicle drivers; masked bus drivers, for
example, could be putting their passengers’ lives at risk.

36.
Dr Blaylock has pointed to a study entitled, The use of masks and respirators to prevent
transmission of influenza: a systematic review of the scientific evidence. This study looked at
17 separate studies and concluded that none of the studies established a conclusive
relationship between the use of masks and protection against influenza infection. ‘When a
person has TB we have them wear a mask,’ concluded Dr Blaylock, ‘not the entire
community of the non- infected.’
Dr Blaylock has also described how mask wearing can affect immunity. ‘…a drop in
oxygen levels (hypoxia) is associated with an impairment in immunity,’ he has written.
‘Studies have shown that hypoxia can inhibit the type of main immune cells used to fight
viral infections called the CD4+T- lymphocyte. This occurs because the hypoxia increases
the level of a compound called hypoxia inducible factor-11 (HIF-11) which inhibits T-
lymphocytes and stimulates a powerful immune inhibitor cell. This sets the stage for
contracting any infection, including covid-19, and making the consequences of that infection
much graver. In essence, your mask may very well put you at an increased of infections and
if so, having a much worse outcome.’

37.
Visors have one important advantage over masks. The evidence shows clearly that although
masks are useless at preventing the spread of infection they are potentially extremely
dangerous. On the other hand, although visors are just as useless as masks at preventing the
spread of infection they are at least relatively free of danger and are, therefore, the face
coverings of choice for those who feel the need to wear one. The fact that governments allow
citizens to use visors proves beyond any shadow of doubt that the whole mask wearing scam
is just that – a scam. The aim is to obtain psychological control rather than to control disease.

38.
Dr M Griesz-Brisson MD PhD is a leading European consultant neurologist and
neurophysiologist. In October 2020, she warned that rebreathing our exhaled air, because of
wearing masks, will create oxygen deficiency and an excess of carbon dioxide in the body.
‘We know,’ she said, ‘that the human brain is very sensitive to oxygen deprivation. There are
nerve cells in the hippocampus that cannot last longer than three minutes without oxygen.’ Dr
Griesz-Brisson pointed out that the acute warning symptoms of oxygen deprivation are
headaches, drowsiness, dizziness, difficulty in concentration and slowing down of reaction
times. The real danger is, however, that when the oxygen deprivation becomes chronic, the
symptoms disappear because the body gets used to them. However, efficiency remains
impaired and the damage to the brain continues. ‘We know that neurodegenerative disease
takes years to decades to develop. If today you forget your phone number, the breakdown in
your brain would have already started two or three decades ago.’
Dr Griesz-Brisson explains that while the mask wearer thinks that they are becoming
accustomed to re-breathing exhaled air, the problems within the brain are growing as the
oxygen deprivation continues.
She also points out that brain cells which die, because of a shortage of oxygen, will never
be replaced. They are gone for ever. She goes on to argue that everyone is entitled to claim
exemption from mask wearing because oxygen deprivation is so dangerous – and masks
don’t work.
Finally, Dr Griesz-Brisson points out that children and teenagers must never wear masks,
partly because they have extremely active and adaptive immune systems but also because
their brains are especially active and vulnerable. The more active an organ is the more
oxygen it needs. And so the damage to children’s brains is huge and irreversible.
She warns that dementia is going to increase in ten years, and the younger generation will
not be able to reach their potential because of the mask wearing.
Oxygen deprivation adversely affects the heart and the lungs but it also damages the brain.
And the damage will be permanent.
‘My conclusion has to be that no one has the right to force us to deprive our bodies of
oxygen for absolutely no good reason. Depriving individuals of oxygen is a crime perpetrated
by those demanding that we wear masks. Those who let it happen and those who collaborate
are also guilty. And those who wear masks in situations where they are not legally required
are cooperating in a criminal activity.’
Inevitably, Dr Griesz-Brisson’s interview was removed from YouTube as part of the
global suppression of medical information.

39.
The nasal flu vaccine, the one given to children, contains attenuated or weakened live viruses.
It is possible that if a child has a weakened immune system – as would doubtless be the case
if they’d been imprisoned and kept indoors a lot or had for absolutely no good reason been
wearing a mask for a long time – then the attenuated virus in the vaccine might cause the flu.
Because attenuated viruses aren’t quite dead, they could change or even become live and they
could mutate and they could result in other people being infected. So it is possible that a child
who has the nasal flu vaccine could transmit the flu virus to Granny – who might die as a
result.

40.
Many doctors now believe that masks are being used as a conditioning tool to make us more
compliant. Most people dutifully wear them, wrongly believing that their masks will protect
them from the coronavirus, and without any idea of the damage that is being done to their
physical and mental health. All around the world citizens have proved to be extraordinarily
obedient and gullible, pathetic even, accepting the lies and deceits quite freely. Social
distancing and the wearing of masks are both likely to be long-term and possibly permanent,
and the physical and mental damage done is also likely to be long-term and permanent.

41.
The rules about mask wearing change from time to time and from one area to another
(proving that there is no science behind mask wearing) and we never quite know what
punishments to expect. In one part of America you could be sent to prison for a year if you
failed to wear a mask. In another part of America you had to pay a 2,000 dollar fine but there
was no prison sentence. In Texas, some people have been told that they should wear masks in
their own homes. In one shop a guard pulled a gun on a man who was not wearing a mask.

42.
The Chinese wear masks routinely – to protect themselves from pollution. But the masks
appeared to make no difference to the spread of the coronavirus in China.
43.
Economists, professors of anything, engineers, bankers, teachers, company directors and golf
course management executives are all of one mind: we must all wear our masks.
Astonishingly, and inexplicably, the media is giving yards of print space and many
broadcasting hours to these people but denying space or time to experienced, well-qualified
doctors who simply want to provide truth, scientific evidence and common sense. The few
doctors who toe the ‘party line’ on the covid-19 hoax are guaranteed huge amounts of
publicity.

44.
Will masks become part of the new world religion (widely known to its supporters as
Chrislam)?

45.
In a paper published in MedRxiv.2020 entitled, Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce
the spread of respiratory viruses, T. Jefferson, M. Jones et al concluded that compared to not
wearing a mask there was no reduction of influenza-like illnesses when health care workers
or the general population wore masks.
In March 2020, Dr Jenny Harries, Deputy Chief Medical Officer in the UK, warned that it
is possible to trap the virus in a mask and start breathing it in. She said that wearing a mask
was not a good idea.

46.
A meta-analysis published in May in 2020 by the Centers for Disease Control was entitled,
Non-pharmaceutical measures for pandemic influenza in non-healthcare settings – personal
protective and environment measures. The authors concluded that the evidence from
randomized controlled trials of face masks did not support a substantial effect on the
transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza, either when worn by infected persons or by
persons in the general community to reduce their susceptibility.

47.
In May 2016, a meta-analysis written by J. Smith and C. MacDougall and published in the
Canadian Medical Association Journal concluded that both randomised controlled trials and
observational studies of N95 respirators and surgical masks used by health care workers, did
not show any benefit against the transmission of acute respiratory infections. The authors also
concluded that acute respiratory infection transmission may have occurred via the
contamination of provided respiratory protective equipment during storage and through the
reuse of masks and respirators during the working day.

48.
In 2019, a scientific paper written by L.Radonovich and M.Simberkoff was published in the
Journal of the American Medical Association. The paper was entitled, N95 respirators vs
medical masks for preventing influenza among health care personnel: a randomized clinical
trial. The study involved 2,862 volunteers and showed that both surgical masks and N95
respirators ‘resulted in no significant difference in the incidence of laboratory confirmed
influenza’.

49.
In 2011, a meta-analysis of 17 separate studies regarding masks and the effect on the
transmission of influenza found that none of the 17 studies established a conclusive
relationship between mask or respirator use and protection against influenza infection. The
study was conducted by F. bin-Reza, V. Lopez et al.

50.
It was proved in 1920 that cloth masks fail to impede or stop flu virus transmissions. It was
concluded that the number of layers of fabric required to prevent pathogen penetration would
require a suffocating number of layers and could not be used. It was also recognised that
there was a problem of leakage around the edges of cloth masks.

51.
A paper entitled, Use of surgical face masks to reduce the incidence of the common cold
among health workers in Japan: a randomized clinical trial was published in the American
Journal of Infection Control in June 2009. The authors concluded that face mask use was
found not to be protective against the common cold when compared to controls who did not
wear face masks.

52.
In 2009, investigators studied masks for an article published in the Journal of Occupational
Environmental Hygiene. The authors concluded that for both N95 masks and surgical masks,
expelled particles were deflected around the edges of the masks and that there was
measurable penetration of particles through the filter of each mask.

53.
A paper entitled, Face coverings, aerosol dispersion and mitigation of virus transmission
risk, written by M. Viola, B. Peterson et al, was published in 2005. The authors concluded
there have been farther transmissions of virus-laden fluid particles from masked individuals
than from unmasked invididuals, by means of leakage jets, including backward and
downward jets that may present major hazards. All masks were thought to reduce forward
airflow by 90% or more over wearing no mask; however Schlieren imaging showed that
surgical masks and cloth masks resulted in a greater upward airflow past the eyebrows than
occurred in individuals not wearing masks at all. Backward unfiltered air flow was found to
be strong with all the masks tested, compared to individuals not wearing masks. In other
words, if a person wearing a mask has an infection then the risk of being infected is high for
anyone standing behind the wearer.

54.
A paper by H. Jung and J. Kim, which was entitled, Comparison of filtration efficiency and
pressure drop in anti-yellow sand masks, quarantine masks, medical masks, general masks
and handkerchiefs, was published in Aerosol Air Qual Res in June 2013. The paper studied
44 mask brands and found that the average penetration was 35.6%. Even most medical masks
had over 20% penetration. Most importantly, the study found that general masks and
handkerchiefs had no protective function in terms of aerosol filtration efficiency.

55.
A study published in 2015 in the British Medical Journal by C. MacIntyre, H. Seal et al,
entitled, A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in
healthcare workers found that penetration of cloth masks by particles was almost 97% while
penetration of medical masks was 44%. The authors showed healthcare workers wearing
cloth masks had significantly higher rates of influenza-like illness after four weeks of using
masks at work – when compared to controls.

56.
It is widely assumed that surgeons and operating theatre staff must wear masks but a paper by
N. Mitchell and S. Hunt entitled, Surgical face masks in modern operating rooms – a costly
and unnecessary ritual which was published in the Journal of Hospital Infection in July
1991– found no difference in wound infection rates with and without surgical masks. Other
scientific research papers have established similar conclusions. There was, for example, a
paper published in 2015 in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine by C DaZhou, P
Sivathondan et al. The paper was entitled, Unmasking the surgeons: the evidence base behind
the use of facemasks in surgery.

57.
No one should wear a mask while exercising. There have been several reports of masked
children dying while exercising. There is evidence showing that mask wearing reduces blood
oxygen levels even when the wearer is standing still. Also, individuals who exercise are
likely to sweat. Masks then become damp more quickly and the damp promotes the growth of
microorganisms.

58.
S. Bae and M. Kim et al published a paper in April 2020 in the journal Annals Internal
Medicine 2020. The title of their paper was, Effectiveness of surgical and cotton masks in
blocking SARS CoV 2: A controlled comparison in 4 patients and they concluded that ‘neither
surgical nor cotton masks effectively filtered SARS-CoV-2 during coughs by infected
patients’.

59.
It is not just out of politeness that surgeons and dentists traditionally remove their masks
when talking to patients. They do so because they know that patients and relatives find it
more reassuring, and more comforting, to see a whole human face rather than just part of one.
Moreover, it is often exceedingly difficult to understand what someone is saying when they
are wearing a mask.
60.
‘The face mask traps warm moisture that is produced when we exhale,’ says dermatologist Dr
Maggie Kober. ‘For those with acne, this can lead to acne flares. For many others, this warm,
moist environment surrounding skin creates the perfect condition for naturally occurring
yeast and bacteria to flourish and grow more abundant. This overgrowth of yeast and bacteria
can produce angular cheilitis, the cracking and sores at the corners of the mouth.’
Face masks can also present a risk of contact dermatitis and can increase the risk of staph
infections.

61.
In June 2020, researchers suggested that the oxygen reduction and carbon dioxide build up
(hypercapnia) might put a considerable strain on the heart, lungs, kidneys and immune
system. This risk has not been disproven. The paper was written by B. Chandrasekaran, S.
Fernandes and entitled, Exercise with facemask: are we handling a devil’s sword – a
physiological hypothesis.

62.
Research has shown that respirators and masks contained influenza bugs found on their outer
surfaces. The risk was higher the longer the masks were worn. It has also been established
that bacteria accumulate on masks – and those bacteria can cause lung infections.

63.
Mask wearers are more likely to develop an infection than non-mask wearers. This is most
likely to be a result of the wearer breathing in their own heavily contaminated air and,
therefore, developing bacterial pneumonia. Infections may also be due to the fact that masks
reduce blood oxygen levels and adversely affect natural immunity. It is likely that anyone
who wears a face mask for long periods will have a damaged immune system – and be more
susceptible to infection. Studies have shown that hypoxia can inhibit immune cells used to
fight viral infections. Wearing a mask may make the wearer more likely to develop an
infection – and if an infection develops it is likely to be worse. Low oxygen levels reduce T
cells and therefore reduce immunity levels.

64.
‘Is a mask necessary in the operating theatre?’ by N. Orr, published in Annals Royal College
of Surgeons England in 1981, found no difference in wound infection rates whether or not
surgeons wore surgical masks.

65.
Thousands of years ago, it was discovered that forcing people to wear masks covering much
of their faces broke their will and made them subservient. The masks depersonalised the
wearers and dehumanised them too.

66.
Dr Scott Atlas, White House coronavirus advisor, claimed that face coverings are not
effective in stopping the virus’s spread. He tweeted, ‘Masks work? NO’ alongside a link to an
article that argued against the success of face coverings. Twitter removed his tweet.

67.
Children are now demanding to be allowed to wear masks (so that they look ‘grown up’) and
some are even fitting masks onto their dolls. Parents do not seem aware that children are
especially vulnerable to the brain damage which will inevitably be a result of the hypoxia that
is induced by mask wearing.

68.
In some parts of the world (particularly parts of the United States of America) it is
compulsory to wear a mask even while exercising. This is particularly dangerous and will
lead to a dramatic increase in the number of people dying while exercising.

69.
CIA torture techniques include forcing people to remain isolated (as in lockdowns), to keep
their distance from others (social distancing) and to wear masks.

70.
A paper in the journal, Ophthalmology and Therapy (published in September 2020), written
by Majid Moshirfar, William B. West Jr and Douglas P. Marx warned of an increase in dry
eye symptoms among mask wearers. Those using masks regularly for extended periods are
more likely to show symptoms. The condition is caused by exhaled air blowing upwards from
the mask into the eyes. The increased airflow causes irritation or inflammation. The authors
conclude ‘this mask-associated ocular irritation raises concerns about eye health and
increased risk of disease transmission in prolonged mask users’. Their advice is that lubricant
eye drops should be used and goggles should be worn.
Dry eyes lead to individuals rubbing their eyes which will lead to an increase in the risk of
infection.
Doctors and opticians are also reporting an increase in the number of patients complaining
of persistent headaches – because of mask wearing.

71.
Those who defend mask wearing claim that the practice must be safe because surgeons and
operating theatre staff wear masks. But operating theatres are climatically controlled, masks
are replaced every couple of hours, and those working in an operating theatre do not rush
around doing their shopping. It is important to remember that surgeons who wear masks (and
not all do) work while standing, rather than walking, and they work in a controlled, air
conditioned environment. They do not touch their masks and they change them regularly.
Indeed, Physician, Dr J. Meehan MD, who has performed over 10,000 surgical procedures,
has this to say to those who argue that, ‘If masks don’t work, then why do surgeons wear
them?’
‘Although surgeons do wear masks to prevent their respiratory droplets from
contaminating the surgical field and the exposed internal tissues of our surgical patients, that
is about as far as the analogy extends…The covid-19 pandemic is about viral transmission.
Surgical and cloth masks do nothing to prevent viral transmission. We should all realize by
now that face masks have never been shown to prevent or protect against viral transmission.
Which is exactly why they have never been recommended for use during the seasonal flu
outbreak, epidemics, or previous pandemics. If a surgeon were sick, especially with a viral
infection, they would not perform surgery as they know the virus would NOT be stopped by
their surgical mask. Another area of “false equivalence” has to do with the environment in
which the masks are worn. The environments in which surgeons wear masks minimize the
adverse effects surgical masks have on their wearers. Unlike the public wearing masks in the
community, surgeons work in sterile surgical suites equipped with heavy duty air exchange
systems that maintain positive pressures, exchange and filter the room air at a very high level,
and increase the oxygen content of the room air. These conditions limit the negative effects of
masks on the surgeon and operating room staff. And yet despite these extreme climate control
conditions, clinical studies demonstrate the negative effects (lowering arterial oxygen and
carbon dioxide re-breathing) of surgical masks on surgeon physiology and performance.
Surgeons and operating room personnel are well trained, experienced, and meticulous about
maintaining sterility. We only wear fresh sterile masks. We don the mask in a sterile fashion.
We wear the mask for short periods of time and change it out at the first signs of the
excessive moisture build up that we know degrades mask effectiveness and increases their
negative effects. Surgeons NEVER re-use surgical masks, nor do we ever wear cloth masks.
The public is being told to wear masks for which they have not been trained in the proper
techniques. As a result, they are mishandling, frequently touching, and constantly reusing
masks in a way that increase contamination and are more likely than not to increase
transmission of disease.’

72.
Although the evidence clearly shows that masks do more harm than good, we are told that
fines for not wearing masks are going up and the military will be brought in if the police
cannot cope.

73.
Mask wearing is making shopping unpleasant, and thereby destroying thousands of small
businesses. This is one of the changes in society which will lead to the global reset promoted
by the United Nations and its Agenda 21 and the World Economic Forum. The plan is to
force us to live in sterile cities and to do all our shopping online.

74.
Mask wearing, social distancing and testing will become a permanent part of our world. The
end result will be the permanent closure of schools – and the moving of education online.
Teachers who insist that pupils wear masks and maintain social distancing rules are
destroying their own jobs.

75.
A study entitled, Optical microscopic study of surface morphology and filtering efficiency of
face masks concluded that face masks made of cloth are not very good at filtering out viruses
because the pores are much bigger than the particulate matter that needs to be kept out. One
study showed that face masks may have pores five thousand times larger than virus particles.
This means that the virus will wander through the face mask much like a mouse wandering
through Marble Arch.

76.
The World Health Organisation recommends that disposable masks should be discarded after
one use. Few people can afford to buy two or more disposable masks for every member of
their family, and so masks are frequently worn more than once. This massively increases the
risk of a chest infection developing. I predict that in a year or two, there is going to be an
epidemic of bacterial pneumonia which is going to be blamed on covid-19 or one of the many
mutant strains.

77.
Professor Chris Whitty, the UK’s Chief Medical Officer, said in March 2020 that wearing a
face mask had almost no effect on reducing the risk of contracting covid-19, and that the
Government did not advise healthy individuals to wear masks. Instead, he suggested that
people should wash their hands for roughly 20 seconds.

78.
Surgical masks are worn to stop respiratory droplets and human debris from the surgeon or
nurse from falling into a wound.

79.
Much of the air we breathe in and out goes around the side of the mask unless it is very tight
fitting. Loose fitting masks are therefore entirely useless. Tight fitting masks may provide
some filtration protection but the tighter a mask is the greater the risk of serious hypoxia and
hypercapnia developing.

80.
It is sometimes said that masks should be worn to protect the elderly, the sick and those with
serious health problems. It would make far more sense to suggest to such individuals that
they protected themselves from society, if they chose to do so. But they should have the
choice. And there is absolutely no reason to force younger, healthy members of society to
endure lockdowns (which will clearly kill far more people than covid-19), social distancing
(which will create massive psychological problems) or to wear masks (which will do no good
but which will cause physical and mental health problems).

81.
A paper published by Boris Borovoy, Collen Huber and Q. Makeeta investigated all types of
masks and discovered that ‘loose particulate was seen on each type of mask’. They also noted
that ‘tight and loose fibres were seen on each type of mask’ and warned that ‘if even a small
portion of mask fibres is detachable by inspiratory inflow, or if there is debris in mask
manufacture or packaging or handling, then there is the possibility of not only entry of
foreign material to the airways but also entry to deep lung tissue, and potential pathological
consequences of foreign bodies in the lungs’. The authors draw attention to a correlation
between the inhalation of synthetic fibres and various bronchopulmonary diseases such as
asthma, alveolitis, chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis, fibrosis, spontaneous pneumothorax
and chronic pneumonia. The authors warn that if widespread masking continues, then the
potential for inhaling mask fibres and environmental and biological debris continues on a
daily basis for hundreds of millions of people. This should be alarming for physicians and
epidemiologists knowledgeable in occupational hazards.’ The authors warn that pulmonary
fibrosis, a risk of mask wearing, cannot be cured and has a 5 to 20 year survival rate of only
20%.

82.
A mask worn by a child in school was examined in a laboratory. Tests showed 82 bacterial
colonies and 4 mould colonies growing on the mask.

83.
‘I’m seeing patients that have facial rashes, fungal infections, bacterial infections,’ said Dr J.
Meehan. ‘Reports coming from my colleagues all over the world, are suggesting that the
bacterial pneumonias are on the rise. Why might that be? Because untrained members of the
public are wearing medical masks, repeatedly in a non-sterile fashion. They’re becoming
contaminated. They’re pulling them off their car seat, off the rear-view mirror, out of their
pocket, from their countertop, and they’re reapplying a mask that should be worn fresh and
sterile every single time.’ Dr Meehan also reported an incident where one patient wearing a
mask passed out due to low oxygen while at work and fell off a ladder, resulting in serious
physical injuries.

84.
If mask wearing were a science, the rules would be constant – but they are not. It is clear,
therefore, that there is no science behind mask wearing. Citizens are being forced to wear
masks for political reasons.

85.
It is frequently argued that Sweden, which had no lockdown and no mask requirements, has
had a very high death rate. If anyone in the media were interested in the facts they would see
that the average age of Swedish citizens who died was well over 80, and the great majority of
deaths occurred in care homes and nursing homes. The mortality level in Sweden remained
below a bad flu season. The Swedish people now seem to have a high, natural immunity. Fact
checkers around the world might like to look at the Imperial College projections, which were
alarming, and the actual death rate which was not. Other countries which did not make masks
compulsory (such as Japan and some African countries) also had relatively low mortality
rates.

86.
A study by M. Walker in 2020 (MedPage Today 2020 May 20) found that 624 out of 714
people wearing N95 masks left visible gaps when putting on their masks.
87.
N95 respirators (or masks) are made with a 0.3 micron filter. Their name comes from the fact
that 95% of particles having a diameter of 0.3 microns are filtered by the mask.
Unfortunately, coronaviruses are approximately 0.125 microns in diameter. Still, these masks
will certainly prevent snowballs, flies and other objects getting through.

88.
T. Tunevall wrote a paper called, Postoperative wound infections and surgical face masks: a
controlled study which was published in the World Journal Surgery in 1991. The author
reported that the use of masks in surgery was found to slightly increase the incidence of
infection over not masking in a study of 3,088 surgeries. The surgeons’ masks were found to
give no protective effect to the patients.

89.
In the UK, if you don’t wear a mask because you have decided you are exempt – and the
Government says this is a personal choice – the official advice is that you should not
routinely be required to produce any written evidence to justify the fact that you are not
wearing a mask. And although I’m no lawyer, I rather doubt that busy bodies, whoever they
are, have any right to ask you why you have decided that you are exempt. My website
www.vernoncoleman.com includes a link to a section of the Government website which
provides an exemption form which can be printed out and attached to a lanyard.

90.
Nine medical authors from Australia and Vietnam studied cloth face masks and concluded
that cloth masks should not be recommended for health care workers.

91.
A meta-analysis published in May 2016 concluded that masks did not have any useful effect
but that reuse of contaminated masks did transmit infection. Some packs of face masks states
that masks do not protect the wearer from the coronavirus.

92.
There is a risk that viruses may accumulate in the fabric of a mask – thereby increasing the
amount of the virus being inhaled.

93.
Putting a mask on a baby or an unconscious patient is dangerous. The mask may result in the
wearer choking on vomit. In my view, masks on babies could increase the risk of sudden
infant death syndrome. No baby should be forced to wear a mask, and yet there are plenty of
pictures on the internet showing masks on babies. In some parts of the world, children as
young as two are forced to wear masks. Small children are more likely than adults to touch
their masks, thereby rendering the masks useless and even more dangerous. Also, small
children are more likely to develop a weakened immune system if they wear a mask. Making
children wear masks is a form of child abuse.
‘It is extremely dangerous to cover a baby’s mouth and nose and the design of ‘cute’ baby
face coverings that have been brought to our attention look like they would greatly increase
the risk of suffocation. I would strongly advise parents not to use any form of face covering
for their baby,’ said Dr Rebecca Fletcher, chair of Bury, Rochdale and Oldham Child Death
Overview Panel.

94.
Some people claim that face masks give them a sore throat, reports Dr Armando Meza an
infectious disease specialist in Texas. ‘Humidity will let bacteria continue to grow inside the
mask so if you were growing bacteria in that area and you were breathing that inside, you can
potentially get an infection, especially strep or any other bacteria that can cause infection.’

95.
In some countries, quite small children are forced to wear masks on transport and even in
schools. The evidence supports the view that politicians, teachers and parents who force (or
even allow) children to wear masks are guilty of child abuse.

96.
A mask can substantially reduce blood oxygenation – leading to a possible loss of
consciousness. At least one road crash has been blamed on a driver wearing a mask. Police
reported that the driver of a single car crash in New Jersey, U.S. is believed to have passed
out behind the wheel after wearing a mask for too long. Passengers would be wise to avoid
travelling in public service vehicles (buses, coaches, etc.) in which the driver is wearing a
mask.

97.
Surgeons and nurses are trained never to touch any part of a mask except for the nose bridge
and the ear loops. If any part of a mask is touched accidentally then the mask is discarded and
replaced.

98.
Over 2,000 Belgian medical professions have urged that covid-19 be prevented by
strengthening natural immunity. Their recommendations include specifically to exercise in
fresh air without a mask.

99.
A report by Boris Borovoy, Colleen Huber and Maria Crisler reported: ‘Masks have been
shown through overwhelming clinical evidence to have no effect against transmission of viral
pathogens. Penetration of cloth masks by viral particles was almost 97% and of surgical
masks was 44%. Even bacteria, approximately ten times the volume of coronaviruses, have
been poorly impeded by both cloth masks and disposable surgical masks. After 150 minutes
of use, more bacteria were emitted through the disposable mask than from the same subject
unmasked. A paper by these authors entitled, Masks, false safety and real dangers, Part 2:
Microbial challenges from masks is available on the internet and contains a list of 62
scientific journal references showing that masks have no significant preventative impact
against any known pathogenic microbes. These authors conclude, ‘Specifically, regarding
covid-19, we have shown…that mask use is not correlated with lower death rates nor with
lower positive PCR tests.’ The authors add that, ‘Masks have also been demonstrated
historically to contribute to increased infections within the respiratory tract’ and they
conclude that ‘the use of face masks will contribute to far more morbidity and mortality than
has occurred due to covid-19.’
In their following paper entitled, Masks false safety and real dangers, Part 3: Hypoxia,
hypercapnia and physiological effects they state: ‘In our previous paper in this series, we
found a historical correlation with a hypercapnic practice, specifically mask-wearing, and a
severe surge of bacterial pneumonia deaths. This time period was mis-named the Spanish Flu,
due to a number of reasons, too extensive for this paper. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s research team
found that every cadaver exhumed form that time in 1918 – 1919 showed the cause of death
was bacterial pneumonia, secondary to typical upper respiratory bacteria.’ They also go on to
say: ‘Common and life-threatening diseases of impeded air flow included both obstructive
disorders such as asthma, COPD, bronchiectasis and emphysema, as well as restrictive
disorders, such as pneumothorax, atelectasis, respiratory distress syndrome and pulmonary
fibrosis.’

100.
There is much more evidence supporting the fact that masks should not be worn. Over a
dozen scientific papers show clearly that masks are ineffective in preventing the movement of
infective organisms and/or reduce oxygen levels, and expose wearers to increased levels of
carbon dioxide. Over a dozen studies failed to show that wearing a mask provides protection
against infection. In 2011, a meta-analysis of 17 separate studies proved that none of the
research showed masks to be useful in preventing influenza infection. The available medical
evidence proves overwhelmingly that masks do no good in preventing the spread of infection
but do a great deal of harm to those wearing them.

101.
Dr Eric Nepute of St Louis, made a video, which went viral, telling others about what had
happened to a four-year-old relative of a patient of his, who nearly died after developing
bacterial pneumonia because of prolonged mask use.

102.
At the University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany, an online registry has been set up where
parents, doctors, pedagogues and others can enter their observations. On 20.10.2020, 363
doctors were asked to make entries and to make parents and teachers aware of the registry.
By 26.10.2020, the registry had been used by 20,353 people. Parents entered data on a total
of 25,930 children. The average wearing time of the mask was 270 minutes per day.
Impairments caused by wearing the mask were reported by 68% of the parents. These
included irritability (60%), headache (53%), difficulty concentrating (50%), less happiness
(49%), reluctance to go to school/kindergarten (44%), malaise (42%), impaired learning
(38%) and drowsiness or fatigue (37%).
103.
Kester Disability Rights in the UK helped a disabled woman to win the first face mask
discrimination case. The woman was refused access to an unnamed service because she was
unable to wear a face mask, and as a result of this egregious discrimination, she was paid
£7,000 in compensation. The pay-out was achieved through negotiation as there was no
dispute that access had been denied, or that the Claimant had a disability exemption.

104.
In February 21, The North Dakota House of Representatives passed a bill that would prohibit
state and local governments, schools and businesses from ordering mask mandates. The bill’s
sponsor, Rep. Jeff Hoverson who described the rules requiring face masks as ‘diabolical
silliness’ also said, ‘The mask is a part of a larger apparatus of a movement of unelected,
wealthy bureaucrats, who are robbing our freedoms and perpetuating lies.’

105.
Fifteen million face masks provided to pharmacists in Belgium to be distributed free of
charge, caused health chiefs some concern when it was discovered that the face masks might
contain nanoparticles of silver and titanium dioxide that when inhaled could lead to
pneumonia.

106.
In March 21, a 13-year-old boy was banned from attending classes at the British International
School, Stockholm in Danderyd, until he agreed to remove the facemask he was wearing. The
public Health Agency of Sweden states, ‘Children do not need to wear face masks. It is
difficult for children to handle and wear face masks the right way, and children are not the
drivers (of infection) in this epidemic and do not spread infection in the same way as adults’.

107.
A recent study in the Journal Cancer Discovery found that inhalation of harmful microbes
can contribute to advanced stage lung cancer in adults. It is known that long-term use of face-
masks may help breed dangerous pathogens. Microbiologists agree that frequent mask
wearing creates a perfect, moist environment in which microbes proliferate before entering
the lungs. The invading microbes travel down the trachea and the bronchi until they reach the
tiny alveoli.
‘The lungs were long thought to be sterile, but we now know that oral commensals –
microbes normally found in the mouth – frequently enter the lungs due to unconscious
aspirations.’ – Leopoldo Segal. Study Author and Director of the Lung Microbiome Program
and Associate Professor of Medicine at New York University Grossman School of Medicine.
According to the study, after they have invaded the lungs the microbes cause an
inflammatory response in proteins known as cytokine IL-17.
‘Given the known impact of IL-17 and inflammation on lung cancer. We were interested
in determining if the enrichment of oral commensals in the lungs could drive an IL-17-type
inflammation and influence lung cancer progression and prognosis,’ said Segal.
Whilst analysing lung microbes of 83 untreated adults with lung cancer, the research team
discovered that colonies of veillonella, prevotella, and streptococcus bacteria, which may be
cultivated through prolonged mask wearing, are all found in larger quantities in patients with
advanced stage lung cancer than in earlier stages.
The presence of these bacterial cultures is also associated with a lower chance of survival
and increased tumour growth regardless of the stage.

108.
Each month, it is estimated that 129 billion face masks and 65 billion gloves are used and
disposed of globally. A lot of this waste is ending up in landfills, waterways and oceans,
which is having a harmful effect on wildlife - particularly sea life. Non-reusable masks,
which are made out of plastics such as polypropylene, take around 450 years to biodegrade,
making them just as environmentally unfriendly as plastic carrier bags.

109.
According to the UK Government’s website (at the time of writing), the following do not
need to wear a face covering:
1) children under the age of 11 (Public Health England does not recommend face coverings
for children under the age of 3 for health and safety reasons)
2) people who cannot put on, wear or remove a face covering because of a physical or mental
illness or impairment, or disability
3) where putting on, wearing or removing a face covering will cause you severe distress
4) if you are speaking to or providing assistance to someone who relies on lip reading, clear
sound or facial expressions to communicate
5) to avoid harm or injury, or the risk of harm or injury, to yourself or others – including if it
would negatively impact on your ability to exercise or participate in a strenuous activity
6) police officers and other emergency workers, given that this may interfere with their
ability to serve the public.

110.
The UK Government’s website has this to say about exemption cards:

If you have an age, health or disability reason for not wearing a face covering:
1) you do not routinely need to show any written evidence of this
2) You do not need to show an exemption card
This means that you do not need to seek advice or request a letter from a medical professional
about your reason for not wearing a face covering.
However, some people may feel more comfortable showing something that says they do
not have to wear a face covering. This could be in the form of an exemption card, badge or
even a home-made sign.
Carrying an exemption card or badge is a person choice and is not required by law.

111.
There is a considerable amount of evidence from around the world to show that politicians
who have ordered the public to wear face masks have themselves benefitted financially. For
example, in the UK the National Audit Office found that companies recommended by MPs,
peers and ministers’ offices were given priority as the Government sought to obtain Personal
Protective Equipment.
Conclusion
At no previous time in history have large numbers of people been forced to wear masks. The
long-term physical and psychological consequences are unknown though those ordering that
masks be worn are no doubt aware of the extraordinary risks and of the way that masks can
be used to oppress and subjugate a population. The evidence clearly shows that mask wearing
is likely to do no good but a great deal of harm. The big lie, which the WHO, governments
everywhere and YouTube want to disseminate, is that wearing masks is essential to control
covid-19. But the medical and scientific evidence (banned by YouTube and most mass
media) shows that masks have little or no useful effect but can increase the risk of infection
and can make breathing difficult. There is little doubt that masks do far more harm than good.
Cloth masks are permeable to 97% of viral particles. A study by the University of East
Anglia concluded that wearing masks was of no benefit and could increase infection. Experts
in respiratory disease and infection protection from the University of Illinois have explained
that face masks have no use in everyday life – neither as self-protection nor to protect other
people. A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine concluded that neither fabric
masks nor surgical masks can prevent the spread of covid-19 by coughing. An article in the
New England Journal of Medicine, published in May 2020 concluded that masks offer little
or no protection and that the call for masks to be compulsory was an irrational fear reflex. A
German study showed that masks had no effect on infection rates. Dr Fauci, the American
covid-19 supremo, expressed real doubts about masks. On May 28th 2020, he admitted masks
are little more than symbolic. Virtue signalling. A meta study on influenza, published in May
2020 by the CDC in America, found that face masks were of no help. The available evidence
shows clearly that masks do not work but do have the potential to cause a variety of health
problems – including short-term problems such as breathlessness and long-term problems
such as brain damage and death. And yet, despite all this, there have been suggestions from
various authorities that mask wearing and social distancing will need to be permanent. It has
also been suggested that masks should be worn in the home. The sceptical will find it
impossible to avoid the conclusion that there is far more to masks (and compulsory mask
wearing) than meets the eye.
Afterword
There is absolutely no scientific reason for mask wearing under any circumstances. The
covid-19 hoax is an IQ test. Anyone who wears a mask after studying the evidence has
clearly failed the test.

Dear Reader
If you found this book useful I would be enormously grateful if you would post a review on
social media or your preferred online site. It would help a great deal more than I can tell. And
please ask everyone you know to read this book. Thank you
Vernon Coleman
The Author
Biography and reference articles

Vernon Coleman was educated at Queen Mary’s Grammar School in Walsall, Staffs. He then
spent a year as a Community Service Volunteer in Liverpool where he was the first of Alec
Dickson’s ‘catalysts’. (Ref 1 below). He studied medicine at Birmingham Medical School
and qualified as a doctor in 1970. He has worked both in hospitals and as a GP. He resigned
from the health service on a matter of principle. (Ref 2 below).
Vernon Coleman has organised many campaigns concerning iatrogenesis, drug addiction
and the abuse of animals, and has given evidence to committees at the House of Commons
and the House of Lords. For example, he gave evidence to the House of Lords Select
Committee on Animals in Scientific Procedures (2001-2) on Tuesday 12.2.02
Dr Coleman’s campaigns have often proved successful. For example, after a 15 year
campaign (which started in 1973) he eventually persuaded the British Government to
introduce stricter controls governing the prescribing of benzodiazepine tranquillisers. (‘Dr
Vernon Coleman’s articles, to which I refer with approval, raised concern about these
important matters,’ said the Parliamentary Secretary for Health in the House of Commons in
1988.) (Ref 3 below).
Dr Coleman has worked as a columnist for numerous national newspapers including The
Sun, The Daily Star, The Sunday Express, Sunday Correspondent and The People. He once
wrote three columns at the same time for national papers (he wrote them under three different
names, Dr Duncan Scott in The Sunday People, Dr James in The Sun and Dr Vernon
Coleman in the Daily Star). At the same time he was also writing weekly columns for the
Evening Times in Glasgow and for the Sunday Scot. His syndicated columns have appeared
in over 50 regional newspapers in the United Kingdom and his columns and articles have
appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world. Dr Coleman resigned from The
People in 2003 when the editor refused to print a column Dr Coleman had written criticising
the Government’s decision to start the Iraq War. (Ref 6 below)
He has contributed articles and stories to hundreds of other publications including The
Sunday Times, Observer, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Express,
Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Punch, Woman, Woman’s Own,
The Lady, Spectator and British Medical Journal. He was the founding editor of the British
Clinical Journal. For many years he wrote a monthly newsletter called Dr Vernon Coleman’s
Health Letter. He has worked with the Open University in the UK and has lectured doctors
and nurses on a variety of medical matters.
Vernon Coleman has presented numerous programmes on television and radio and was the
original breakfast television doctor on TV AM. He was television’s first agony uncle (on
BBC1’s The Afternoon Show) and presented three TV series based on his bestselling book
Bodypower. In the 1980s, he helped write the algorithms for the first computerised health
programmes – which sold around the world to those far-sighted individuals who had bought
the world’s first home computers. (Ref 4 below). His books have been published in the UK
by Arrow, Pan, Penguin, Corgi, Mandarin, Star, Piatkus, RKP, Thames and Hudson,
Sidgwick and Jackson, Macmillan and many other leading publishing houses and translated
into 25 languages. English language versions sell in the USA, Australia, Canada and South
Africa as well as the UK. Several of his books have appeared on both the Sunday Times and
Bookseller bestseller lists.
Altogether, he has written over 100 books which have, together, sold over two million
copies in the UK alone. His self-published novel, Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War has been
turned into an award winning film (starring Pauline Collins, John Alderton and Peter Capaldi)
and the book is, like many of his other novels, available in an audio version.
Vernon Coleman has co-written five books with his wife, Donna Antoinette Coleman, and
has, in addition, written numerous articles (and books) under a vast variety of pennames
(many of which he has now forgotten). Donna Antoinette Coleman is a talented oil painter
who specialises in landscapes. Her books include, My Quirky Cotswold Garden. She is a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Vernon and Antoinette Coleman have been married for
more than 20 years.
Vernon Coleman has received numerous awards and was for some time a Professor of
Holistic Medical Sciences at the Open International University based in Sri Lanka.

Reference Articles referring to Vernon Coleman

Ref 1
‘Volunteer for Kirkby’ – The Guardian, 14.5.1965
(Article re VC’s work in Kirkby, Liverpool as a Community Service Volunteer in 1964-5)
Ref 2
‘Bumbledom forced me to leave the NHS’ – Pulse, 28.11.1981
(Vernon Coleman resigns as a GP after refusing to disclose confidential information on sick
note forms)
Ref 3
‘I’m Addicted To The Star’ – The Star, 10.3.1988
Ref 4
‘Medicine Becomes Computerised: Plug In Your Doctor.’ – The Times, 29.3.1983
Ref 5
‘Computer aided decision making in medicine’ – British Medical Journal, 8.9.1984 and
27.10.1984
Ref 6
‘Conscientious Objectors’ – Financial Times magazine, 9.8.2003

Major interviews with Vernon Coleman include

‘Doctor with the Common Touch.’ – Birmingham Post, 9.10.1984
‘Sacred Cows Beware: Vernon Coleman publishing again.’ – The Scotsman, 6.12.1984
‘Our Doctor Coleman Is Mustard’ – The Sun, 29.6.1988
‘Reading the mind between the lines.’ – BMA News Review, November 1991
‘Doctors’ Firsts’ – BMA News Review, 21.2.1996
‘The big league of self publishing.’ – Daily Telegraph, 17.8.1996
‘Doctoring the books’ – Independent, 16.3.1999
‘Sick Practices’ – Ode Magazine, July/August 2003
‘You have been warned, Mr Blair.’ – Spectator, 6.3.2004 and 20.3.2004
‘Food for thought with a real live Maverick.’ – Western Daily Press, 5.9.2006
‘The doctor will see you now’ – Independent, 14.5.2008

There is a more comprehensive list of reference articles on www.vernoncoleman.com