I overwhelmingly support this petition.  It is time for the Board of Physical Therapists to recognize the science behind masking shows it is completely useless and has not saved any lives. More than 17,000 physicians and medical scientists have signed Declaration IV – Restore Scientific Integrity, demanding that the state of medical emergency must be lifted on May 11th.  Physicians who have actually treated COVID-19 patients and who are the established experts on proper treatment protocols have deemed overwhelmingly that masking is useless, and forcing patients to take vaccines as a precondition to receiving necessary compassionate care is unethical:

https://globalcovidsummit.org/news/declaration-iv-restore-scientific-integrity.

Their declaration includes the following statement:

"After two years of scientific research, millions of patients treated, hundreds of clinical trials performed and scientific data shared, we have demonstrated and documented our success in understanding and combating COVID-19. In considering the risks versus benefits of major policy decisions, our Global COVID Summit of 17,000 physicians and medical scientists from all over the world have reached consensus on the following foundational principles: 

1. We declare and the data confirms that the COVID-19 experimental genetic therapy injections must end.
2. We declare doctors should not be blocked from providing life-saving medical treatment.
3. We declare the state of national emergency, which facilitates corruption and extends the pandemic, should be immediately terminated.
4. We declare medical privacy should never again be violated, and all travel and social restrictions must cease.
5. We declare masks are not and have never been effective protection against an airborne respiratory virus in the community setting.
6. We declare funding and research must be established for vaccination damage, death and suffering.
7. We declare no opportunity should be denied, including education, career, military service or medical treatment, over unwillingness to take an injection.
8. We declare that first amendment violations and medical censorship by government, technology and media companies should cease, and the Bill of Rights be upheld.
9. We declare that Pfizer, Moderna, BioNTech, Janssen, Astra Zeneca, and their enablers, withheld and willfully omitted safety and effectiveness information from patients and physicians, and should be immediately indicted for fraud.
10. We declare government and medical agencies must be held accountable."

Of particular relevance is the consensus on masking, which states:

"5. We declare masks are not and have never been effective protection against an airborne respiratory virus in the community setting."

In addition, the following consensus on denying someone critical needed care (including physical therapy), if they choose to not receive the experimental COVID-19 "vaccine," must end:

"7. We declare no opportunity should be denied, including education, career, military service or medical treatment, over unwillingness to take an injection."

Will the Board of Physical Therapy listen to the actual proven, evidence-based scientific results achieved by over 17,000 medical professionals who have first-hand experience in the treatment protocols for the virus that causes COVID-19, or will they continue to rely on outdated, useless, and proven false, fear-based assertions that masking and forced “vaccination” is still required for someone to receive compassionate physical therapy services?  This petition absolutely must be passed.  I wholeheartedly support.