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In May 2020, within a matter of days of each other, at the height of the initial panic surrounding the COVID-19 ‘emergency’, two people, one American and one Canadian, lost their lives due to actions committed by individuals in state-funded positions of authority. These deaths, their manner and the role of certain individuals in them,…

Some good news – kinda! Care Minister Helen Whately has just announced masks won’t be required on staff in care homes in England… hopefully this is another nail in the coffin of widespread masking, though in typical Government fashion, Whately doesn’t have the guts to just bin the travesty of masking altogether and signal a…

Masking ‘requirements’ still have a foothold in the UK, in many healthcare settings. Even if this doesn’t affect you directly at the moment, it’s a problem because: it normalizes masking engrains it as a habit, and reinforces the fiction that widespread masking significantly reduces viral spread – and thereby helps the NHS. All of which…

Watch the replay of “Masks in the Working Environment: What does the law say?” – recorded 11 August 2022 WITH RYAN KARTER, EMPLOYMENT ADVISOR FOR WORKERS OF ENGLAND UNION Employer asking or ‘requiring’ you to wear a ‘Covid mask’ at work? Can they do that? How might it be challenged? What does the law actually…

Professor of Microbiology Beny Spira wasn’t initially a mask sceptic. It was only when mask mandates were announced in Brazil that the university of São Paulo academic became curious: what did the existing scientific research show about the effectiveness of masks? “Turns out there were lots of studies,” he told Smile Free’s Dr Gary Sidley,…

Some news since our Open Letter with over 8,850 signatures – including from over 2,000 Doctors and other healthcare professionals – went to the NHS Chief Executives to end the mask ‘requirement’ in healthcare settings: NHS England has changed its mask guidance for healthcare settings – this IS progress – but not good enough, and here’s why……

Here’s an “all-purpose” message or email to please send to any holdouts still “requiring” masks…. Airlines, airports, opticians… you can send this to just about any organisation still “requiring” masks though they are not legally obliged to, with a bit of tweaking if you are outside of England. Yes: we know he’s changed his tune…

Budget flight and package holidays operator Jet2, which flew 3 million passengers in 2020, has become the first UK airline to ditch compulsory face masks on their planes – at least in England and Northern Ireland. According to its website, Jet2’s policy on face masks in flight for England and Northern Ireland as of today…

With the predictions of armageddon over the Omicron variant in tatters and the mood changing fast, the govt is under pressure to get rid of ALL restrictions by 26 Jan, so… …NOW is the time, please, to contact your MP using our quick template below. Yes – we know far too many MPs don’t reply,…

This week’s recommendation for secondary school children to wear masks all day in class has to be a new low, even for this cowardly, dishonest government. Perhaps even worse is the way they’ve trotted out their own “dodgy dossier” of “evidence” (great demolition job here) to justify a sickening move that appears nothing more than a…

As we approach Christmas 2021, the Government and their blinkered scientists are – once again – trying to impose mask mandates upon us all. We must all HOLD THE LINE and keep on smiling free; non-compliance seems increasingly to be the only dissent our political leaders understand. Although it is often not an easy task,…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mask mandates far from harmless, point out campaigners SUMMARY: Compulsory mask rules have been re-imposed in England, but masking the healthy is not and has never been a harmless intervention. For many deaf or hard of hearing, abuse victims, PTSD sufferers, the autistic and more, mask mandates and ‘masked society’ destroy quality…

The primary objective of the Smile Free campaign is for all UK mask mandates to be permanently lifted. Here I lay out the case as to why healthy people should never be compelled to cover their faces in everyday public venues. By Dr Gary Sidley. The Government requirement for healthy people to wear a face…

1. Go to the free website writetothem.com and put in your postcode. 2. Select your MP (and in a minute, repeat the process for your local councillors too – let them ALL know!) 3. The website will give you a space to put your message and send it with one click – write your own, or adapt our text…

Click here to complain to Transport for London about their forced masking, adapting the points below if you like I’m writing to you today to express my disappointment with Transport for London deciding to impose its own mask mandate. Masking the healthy is not, and has never been, a harmless intervention. In a democratic society,…

Here’s a template for a letter, email or message you can use to provide feedback to a business with masked staff. Dear XX I visited [name of establishment] in [location] on [date] and I wanted to give you some feedback. I was very disappointed to find that your staff were wearing face coverings, which I…

One doctor’s 12 month fight over a Freedom Of Information request has revealed that not only were “face coverings” first mandated in the UK based on no peer-reviewed scientific evidence – but a government department breached the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by not responding to his request. UK mask mandates began with public transport…

Following the imposition of mask mandates in summer 2020, supermarket shoppers without face coverings – even those with disabilities and valid medical exemptions – have often suffered harassment and intimidation from security guards and in-store staff. On the 19th July 2021, the legal requirement to wear a mask in retail outlets was lifted in England…

“You can’t justify the mask mandate when the science around them is flaky at best… it’s extraordinary we are having to fight and battle to breathe freely,” host Mark Dolan tells Smile Free’s Dr Gary Sidley on TalkRadio.

>>> Here’s today’s quick action to help us get rid of all mask mandates from the UK on 21 June… We don’t expect talking to MPs and elected representatives will be enough on its own – sadly, most have not covered themselves in glory lately, have they? But it is an important element – they need to…

A few days ago, my home province of Quebec (I am a Canadian) passed a regulation that made compulsory the use of face masks in public. The main motivation for the regulation is the prevention of a second wave of the coronavirus. The reaction has been virulent on the part of skeptics who argue that…