Politics, not public health, at root of mandatory masks, say protesters – Timmins Press

A small group of demonstrators who rallied at Hollinger Park Thursday night said the media and left-leaning political forces are misleading the public and concealing various truths about COVID-19.

The truth, they say, is masks aren’t effective in preventing the spread of the virus.

In addition to that, they say the fear being generated about this virus is simply a ploy to prevent the re-election of U.S. President Donald Trump.

“We have basic human rights,” Donald Bruneau told The Daily Press. “The biggest, the most important thing in our life is our health. So based on my research and research by scientists, the mask does not protect you from the virus. And this is a fact. But those facts are hidden by the media. The media is our biggest enemy.”

For example, he said he supports the findings of former physics professor Denis Rancourt, who recently authored a paper entitled Masks Don’t Work. However, articles published in response to his findings, including one in Psychology Today, portray Rancourt as a discredited “pseudoscientist” and question his sources.

Bruneau also cited the media coverage of Dr. Stella Immanuel, a Nigerian physician whose findings were recently heralded by President Trump.

“She herself has said a few days ago with the front-line doctors that she has healed over 350 patients of COVID-19 with hydroxychloroquine and zinc but mainly hydroxychloroquine. The U.S. media and the medical establishment in the U.S. don’t want anyone to know what I just said — that hydroxychloroquine cures COVID-19.”

Bruneau said “dozens of doctors” are claiming they have had “100 per cent of success” in curing the virus. “Why don’t they want the media to hear about the hydroxychloroquine drug? It’s because all of this came about because they do not want Donald Trump to win the next election at all costs. The Democrats don’t want him to win, so they need to get the virus going, put everybody in lockdown and then get an election hopefully by mail where there will be all kinds of corruption going on.

“Plus Trump can’t hold his rallies like he’d love to because of the lockdown. It’s all about Donald Trump; it’s all about getting everyone in control. The bad guys are China, the Democrats, World Health Organization (WHO) — you can’t trust them at all.”

Bruneau said, “We have nothing to be afraid about. We just want to send out a message through this protest that be honest and let the word come out that hydroxychloroquine heals.”

Another demonstration was held on Thursday evening by bunch of people who stand against mandatory masking and vaccines in the community.

Annabelle Laferrière, the main organizer of the protest, agreed.

She said this demonstration is not just a protest against mandatory use of masks.

“It’s also about government policies in general. There are lots of different things that led up to this and it’s just an overall of how the government handles the situation, how the government has been taking advantage of us over the years and it’s just an accumulation of a bunch of different things.”

Laferrière questioned why the Porcupine Health Unit would impose the use of masks now.

“It was very late in the pandemic where they decide to impose this on us and if it was really something that they believe was helpful they would’ve done it at the beginning of the pandemic,” she said.

“We’ve done a pretty good job as a community of containing this spread so far, so I think it should’ve been left as it is and may be if we would’ve got the second wave then may be the mask could’ve been discussed then.”