West Cook News

Activist William Mueller said he is extremely disappointed in Lyons Township High School after it disbanded a group of student activists who gathered for an on-campus anti-mask protest.

Mueller, said science shows it is not possible for the fibers on masks to prevent the virus from penetrating.  

“God bless those kids and damn the ignorant jackasses that removed them,” he told West Cook News.

Mueller said he aggrees with student arguments that wearing masks is ridiculous and is not backed up by science.

Dozens of students expressed their anti-mask stance by protesting without masks, supported by their parents.

The protests garnered the support of state Sen. Darren Bailey (R-Louisville), a gubernatorial candidate, and a number of other officials who said that they would join the next anti-mask protest scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 19 from 7 to 9:30 p.m. on the southern campus of Lyons Township High School, 4900 Willow Springs Road in Western Springs. The group leading the call to action is Turning Point USA. 

Mueller went on to praise those who publicly oppose wearing masks.

“The virus is 1,000 times smaller than the space between mask fibers … Pritzker can’t produce convincing studies to support this ridiculous mask wearing,” Mueller said.

In Mueller’s opinion, uneven mask usage and misapplication of public mandates creates a web of justifications for mask usage that are not backed up by science.

In a commentary for the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, two University of Illinois at Chicago professors wrote that "cloth masks and face coverings are likely to have limited impact on lowering COVID-19 transmission, because they have minimal ability to prevent the emission of small particles ... and offer limited personal protection with respect to small particle inhalation."

In "Does that Face Mask Really Protect You," a 2010 research article by Dr. Larry E. Bowen of the Southern Research Institute in Birmingham, Ala., Bowen fit various types of masks on a mannequin to study their effectiveness, and found that wearing surgical, bandana and dust masks offer "very little protection" and concluded that "wearing these face masks may produce a false sense of protection."

Mueller said science does not back up mask mandates.

“This virus has been deliberately mismanaged,” Mueller said.

Despite the protests against wearing masks, Gov. J.B. Pritzker has continued to issue executive orders mandating their usage.