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They are uncomfortable.
They restrict breathing.
They prevent people from taking cues off of your facial expressions.
They make people look inhuman.
If, and this is very much an if, they prevent the consumption of airborne viruses, doing such is harmful to overall health over one's lifetime, insofar as our immune systems, with regard to airborne viruses, have evolved to combat them with antibodies, and in order to develop antibodies well, you need constant minor exposures, which come with being unmasked and interacting with many other humans in many different settings. By inhibiting the development of this systems over a long period of time, you may be maximizing the chance that you suffer an incredibly harmful reaction to a significant exposure later in life.
If, however, they don't prevent the consumption of airborne viruses, than they are, from the inception, a complete waste.
Nature/God whatever you want to believe would have selected/evolved us in to having masks as part of natural selection if we "need" them. Theres a reason we have nose hair, ear hair, eye lids, etc....
Despite having "nose hair, ear hair, eye lids, etc...." people get sick with covid-19. Masks reduce exposure to airborne virus laden droplets.
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Originally Posted by 987ABC
They are uncomfortable.
They restrict breathing.
They prevent people from taking cues off of your facial expressions.
They make people look inhuman.
If, and this is very much an if, they prevent the consumption of airborne viruses, doing such is harmful to overall health over one's lifetime, insofar as our immune systems, with regard to airborne viruses, have evolved to combat them with antibodies, and in order to develop antibodies well, you need constant minor exposures, which come with being unmasked and interacting with many other humans in many different settings. By inhibiting the development of this systems over a long period of time, you may be maximizing the chance that you suffer an incredibly harmful reaction to a significant exposure later in life.
If, however, they don't prevent the consumption of airborne viruses, than they are, from the inception, a complete waste.
Surgical N95s can be uncomfortable, but they are not for the general public. KN95s are quite comfortable.
There is no such thing as a "minor exposure". In order to make antibodies to an infection you have to be infected.
Masks do not completely prevent infections; they do reduce them. Exposure without infection will not produce antibodies.
I barely ever got sick before Covid so I guess you have a weaker immune system. Stop wearing the mask and you will have better immunity.
I barely got sick either, but occasionally would get a common cold with running nose, sore throat, chronic cough in winter, etc., but the masked me got nothing. I won't play Russian Roullette and take a chance that I could pick up spike proteins from a covid infected person (and God knows what else from all the migrants arriving in NY) to make my immune system better. The spike proteins might shut down ALL my systems and I'll be dead (my age is in the higher risk group)!
Last edited by wp169; 05-12-2023 at 02:28 PM..
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