DC raw food business wonât open until mask order is lifted, owner says
By FOX 5 Digital Team
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The owner – Khepra Anu – confirmed for Washington City Paper that he’d posted the message condemning masks.
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The post claims that The body uses your exhaust channel to remove CO2 to regulate alkalinity in the body. Therefore mask wearing will produce an over acidic environment that would become more susceptible to illness and disease.
It also claims that respiratory illnesses are not contagious.
The novel coronavirus has sickened more than 41,000 D.C. residents since its official arrival in March 2020, and led to more than 1,000 deaths.
Khepra’s Raw Food Juice Bar owner
Khepra Anu vowed on social media this week not to open a storefront in D.C. until the city lifts its mask-wearing requirements. The posts say mask-wearing “does not promote health and definitely doesn’t provide safety” despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Countries around the world have encouraged or mandated wearing masks in order to limit the spread of COVID-19, which has so far killed 2.5 million people worldwide, 1,027 of them District residents.
Just today, the Centers for Disease Control released a report that found mandating masks was associated with “a decrease in daily COVID-19 case and death growth rates within 20 days of implementation.” Masks work, according to the CDC, because the “virus is transmitted predominantly by inhaling respiratory droplets from infected persons.”