Yeah, so masks were mandated at my work.
I worked in a grocery store, gosh, like a month ago,
way before the public was mandated here.
And I tried, I tried to wear a mask.
We were given one little surgical mask that we were supposed to keep in a paper
bag and keep protected and clean for I don't know how long, weeks on end, I guess.
And I tried wearing it, but immediately I would get dizzy, lightheaded,
start to hyperventilate, just get really hard to breathe.
I couldn't breathe and I'm required to walk around,
I'm required to talk to customers, I'm required to climb a ladder, squat down.
And it was nearly impossible for me to wear a mask while doing my job.
So I would wear it, pull it down as much as I could.
I'd wear it off my nose, on my chin, and do whatever I could to get away with not
wearing it while still being in compliance of wearing it.
So what happened?
So right at the beginning, I started asking,
how do I get out of wearing a mask at work?
I physically can't wear a mask.
I was also starting to have palpitations.
My blood pressure was going through the roof.
And I was told that there's nothing.
You either wear a mask or you don't work.
And I said, yeah, but for medical exemption,
somebody who medically can't wear a mask, there has to be some sort of out.
You can't force a person to wear a mask who medically can't wear one.
And they said, well, no, you either wear a mask or you go home, you don't work.
And I said, so I'm out of a job or I wear a mask and suffer my health and
potentially my physical being, and what if I pass out while I'm working?
And they said, yeah, okay, so I talked to a lot more people over the course of
a few weeks and a lot of employees were having similar issues to me,
some even worse, and yet none of them were able to get out of wearing a mask.
They were saying, hey, I'm about to pass out, I feel dizzy.
I feel like I'm having a heart issue, not a tax, but
people are having really bad heart problems, palpitations.
And they were just told, well, you wear a mask or you go home.
So finally, I pressured my employer.
I sent them a bunch of emails about the dangers of wearing masks,
how they're unsafe, how they harbor virus and bacteria,
how they cause a lack of oxygen.
You're breathing in your own oxygen, I can't even talk, carbon dioxide all
the time, how they can cause palpitations,
heart murmurs, high blood pressure.
And I pressured them about OSHA regulations.
OSHA states that employer has to maintain a safe working environment.
Well, if I can't breathe in a mask, I feel like I'm gonna pass out,
that's not a safe working environment to me.
So I pressured them with the fact that OSHA says that they have to maintain
an atmosphere of, don't quote me exactly, but it's 20% of oxygen, 21 or something.
And when you're wearing a mask, that goes down to 19, 18, 17 with some people.
So again, they're not maintaining a safe working environment by mandating masks.
And eventually, I got told that you can get a doctor's note
to not have to wear a mask if you have a medical condition.
So that's what I did.
Went to my doctor, spoke to my doctor, and she said, yeah, duh, you can't breathe,
you shouldn't be wearing a mask, it's very harmful for your health.
Harmful for anybody, but
especially people who have medical conditions and have a hard time with a mask.
And so she wrote me a medical exemption, I submitted it, and
I was able to work without wearing a mask now.
Fortunately, a lot of employees, friends that I have also cannot wear masks.
They have a lot of health issues doing them.
They don't feel good, they're getting headaches.
They can't, they are sleeping more than ever, they're getting dizzy,
they're getting lightheaded, they're having to leave work early.
But they aren't going out and getting that medical exemption.
They're just sucking it up because they're told by the employer that that's
their only choice.
It's not right.
Yeah, so you had to go out and pay to go see a doctor to get this.
Yeah, yeah, and so I had asked them that.
I said, so you're gonna pay for me to get a doctor's note?
Of course, no, you have to do that on your own.
So I had to pay for a doctor's appointment to see my doctor,
to explain to her my conditions, have her evaluate me, to ascertain that yes,
you have medical conditions that prevent you from being able to wear a mask
safely at work.
So yeah, it was out of my pocket.
And-
Do you mind saying how much that was?
It was 110, I think, something like that, for a doctor's visit.
Yeah, I don't have insurance, I pay cash.
Well, that's interesting.
So again, can you just say your thoughts on the mandate?
First of all, I don't believe it's constitutional at all to mandate masks.
So that is mandating somebody's own personal decision on their own health and
safety.
Second of all, I don't believe masks are beneficial.
I believe that they cause more harm than good.
People wanna say they protect others from you spreading the virus to others.
That's not true.
There's no evidence that they protect against spreading viruses.
There's a lot of evidence they do cause health issues and
that they can cause serious harm to the wearer themselves.
So I think if people wanna wear a mask, they feel it's beneficial for them and
for protecting others, they absolutely should wear a mask.
But should you mandate everybody, including healthy adults and
children, to wear a mask?
Absolutely not.
It's completely asinine.