19) Is a mask blah blah blah free of potential hazards?
Abstract:
Many countries introduced the requirement to wear masks in public spaces for containing SARS-CoV-2 making it commonplace in 2020. Up until now, there has been no comprehensive investigation as to the adverse health effects masks can cause. The aim was to find, test, evaluate and compile scientifically proven related side effects of wearing masks. For a quantitative evaluation, 44 mostly experimental studies were referenced, and for a substantive evaluation, 65 publications were found. The literature revealed relevant adverse effects of masks in numerous disciplines. In this paper, we refer to the psychological and physical deterioration as well as multiple symptoms described because of their consistent, recurrent and uniform presentation from different disciplines as a Mask-Induced Exhaustion Syndrome (MIES). We objectified evaluation evidenced changes in respiratory physiology of mask wearers with significant correlation of O2 drop and fatigue (p < 0.05), a clustered co-occurrence of respiratory impairment and O2 drop (67%), N95 mask and CO2 rise (82%), N95 mask and O2 drop (72%), N95 mask and headache (60%), respiratory impairment and temperature rise (88%), but also temperature rise and moisture (100%) under the masks. Extended mask-wearing by the general population could lead to relevant effects and consequences in many medical fields.
We looked at 44 studies by other people that said masks are bad, and concluded that masks are bad. We conglomerated all this badness into a syndrome that we just made up, despite the fact that we have 125 years' experience of surgical team members (doctors, nurses, and techs) who've worn masks for literally hundreds to thousands of hours per year for years into decades, literally since McKinley was president, and no such syndrome has ever been reported, nor even contemplated.
After not doing any original research, we concluded from nearly four dozen totally disparate studies with wildly differing methodologies that masks could have "relevant effects". Not that masks are bad, or good, just that they could do...something.
Just not anything to do with stopping the transmission of aerosolize viral illness.
And btw, nothing in the universe is "free of potential hazards". Getting in the shower, you could slip and break your neck. If you want to live "free of potential hazards", you need to be wrapped in bubble wrap daily, candy ass.
20) Wearing a mask increases your CO2 level.
Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed worldwide hygiene practices. In particular, the use of filtering face piece (FFP) masks markedly increased. Concerns have been raised regarding possible negative respiratory effects of wearing FFP masks. The aim of this study was to investigate gas exchange and subjective breathing effort in hospital personnel wearing FFP2 or FFP3 masks.
Methods: In this prospective, single-centre, crossover study, 200 hospital workers were assigned to alternately wear FFP2 or FFP3 masks for 1 h during routine activities. Capillary blood gas analysis was performed to evaluate gas exchange while wearing the FFP masks.
Respiratory rate and subjective breathing effort increased significantly while wearing FFP2 and FFP3 masks.
Aesop summary: Word to your mother, Jeeves: An hour of routine activities without a mask will also increase you CO2, your respiratory rate, and subjective breathing effort. So will climbing stairs, playing sports, or travelling to cities at higher altitude. Yet no one is having a hissy fit about stairs in houses, or visiting Denver.
21) CO2 Levels behind and In Front Of Several Masks etc.
Abstract
Results: There were significantly higher CO2 concentrations behind the mask (3176 ppm) compared to the front (843 ppm) with an average of 49 minutes of continuous mask use. Of all the subjects, 76.6% had a behind-the-mask CO2 concentration of more than 2000 ppm (the threshold for clinical symptoms), and 12.2% had a CO2 concentration of at least 5000 ppm (occupational health exposure limit). The CO2 level behind the N-95 masks was highest (especially after exertion) and was lowest behind cloth masks. The combination of warm ambient temperature, an N-95 mask, exercise, and young age appeared to induce exceedingly high CO2 levels that should be avoided.
Aesop summary: In other news, Americans, especially the youngest ones, are the fattest little porkers in decades, and of whom only a fraction can even handle the military's most minimal physical fitness tests.
Nonetheless there is no record whatsoever of doctors making housecalls and dying, or surgeons and OR nurses dropping dead in droves in the OR.
After two years of Covidiocy (when this study was published) if there were any documented harm from wearing masks, it would have been about as hard to find as video of Emperor Poopypants falling on his ass. And the crybullies and sugar-coated whingers writing this sorry puke would've point to that, instead of saying that some people managed to exceed the OSHA speed limit while wearing a mask.
People didn't start dropping like flies from masks; that didn't happen until TPTB started giving folks the Vaxx Jab shotz.
Total number of these three studies and surveys which have any information or applicability of whether masks stop the spread of aerosolized viral infections: Zip. Nada. Zilch. Niente. Null. Bupkus.
Squared.
At 0 for 21, Team Claire is now at a hard D-, on the cusp of a straight F.
1 comment:
I've said this before on your blog, but when I was a wee child in the late 60s or early 70s my Dad was an engineer at a hospital. He brought me a cap and mask as used in the OR of the day, the only real difference between the mask he brought home and the ones we wore in 2020 was that ours had ear loops and theirs tied around the neck and head. And of course theirs were washed between uses, a notable difference.
Dad, who was not a doctor, didn't play one on TV, and whose college education was interrupted by World Was 2, stressed to me that the mask was intended to protect the patient whose insides were exposed to the outside, not to protect the wearer from whatever the patient may have carried.
Anyone who thinks their cloth mask will protect them isn't tall enough for the ride. It's to protect everyone else from your cooties. If you have none you don't need a mask, except that you have them for days before you can tell you have them.
And of course the virus has mutated to the point where it's not even the flu because a virus that kills its host goes extinct. I had Covid last February, I thoight i had a moderately bad head cold but took the test because we were going to visit my 90 year old mother in law, and popped positive, canceled the visit.
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