How Many People From the General Public Follow These W.H.O. Safety Protocols For Wearing Masks?

When we were doing Mask Freedom Day last week, standing outside Wellington train station, handing out leaflets with information about face masks and how to get an exemption, one man challenged me with - "So you're saying you know more than the WHO, right!?" (his face mask was rapidly inflating and deflating as he angrily shouted at me). Well, I wonder how many people who cite the WHO when explaining why they wear a mask, actually follow these stringent safety protocols? How many even know about them?

"There are many dangers to wearing masks, and they've been known for a long time. One of the main dangers is that the mask that you're breathing through is a humid environment for all kinds of pathogens, bacterial especially. And you're touching the mask all the time, and God knows how you're storing it, and whether or not you're cleaning it, and are you using a new one each time? So there are many potential dangers which have been known to medicine for a long time, which is why responsible health officials have never recommended that masks be used in the general public, never. And in fact, they made a point of not doing so, and explaining why they weren't doing so. So the recommending of masks, to be used widely in the general public, is a complete reversal, done for political reasons in my view."

~Professor Denis Rancourt.