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All you have to do is use common sense to understand that wearing a mask is not good for you aside from possibly protecting you from the virus.
Does that benefit outweigh the damage you are doing to yourself by rebreathing cloth over and over again?
I guess if you are 79 years old, obese, and have diabetes and respiratory problems, then the benefit of wearing a mask outweighs the damage.
But if you are a healthy younger person, I’m skeptical that a mask is in your best interest.
Which leads to my final point, which is it’s not my problem if your body can’t fight off the virus. Nor is it yours if my body can’t either. So wearing the mask to protect others is a bunch of BS.
Please note that this blog is specifically about respirators used by healthcare workers during long shifts and not facemasks worn as barrier control to stop the spread of COVID.
They are talking about RESPIRATORS!!!
And LONG SHIFT!!!
Holly cow, the fake news spread by the right-wing is getting even more ridiculous, something I didn't think possible.
God doesn't exist and did not design our bodies. Scientists with Bachelor's of Art degrees have the knowledge and expertise of the human respiratory system. Listen to the science. A mask is the only way from not getting the 100% fatal coronavirus
The study lacks evidence on masks and isn’t linked to Stanford.
Websites and social media users ranging from political candidates to health influencers and ignorant rabble rousers are falsely claiming a study published on a digital research repository came from Stanford University and proves face masks are ineffective.
In reality, the study is not affiliated with Stanford and is based on debunked claims about face masks, including the false notion that wearing a face covering decreases oxygen levels and increases carbon dioxide levels.
Here is a credible multi-sourced article and fact checking story from The Associated Press which explains and debunks yet another piece of propaganda masquerading as science. AP is involved in an ongoing effort to fact-check misinformation that is shared widely online, including work with Facebook to identify and reduce the circulation of false stories on the platform.
This study is not affiliated with Stanford University, nor does the author work for the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System as he claims. The study presents a hypothesis that includes false claims about the health effects of wearing masks. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to recommend wearing face coverings to reduce the spread of COVID-19, as research shows they can block the transmission of respiratory droplets, which spread the virus.
The study circulating online this week was first published in November in the journal “Medical Hypotheses,” which writes that its purpose is to “publish interesting theoretical papers.” Articles submitted to the journal are not meant to prove findings using primary data, but instead to advance hypotheses.
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The journal has a “long history of publishing fringe science and hypotheses,” according to David Gorski, a surgical oncologist who blogs about medical misinformation.
The study’s author, Baruch Vainshelboim, is listed in the study as being affiliated with the cardiology division at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System/Stanford University.
However, a representative for the VA Palo Alto Health Care System told the AP in an email that Vainshelboim does not work there.
“I can confirm this person is not one of our physicians,” wrote Michael Hill-Jackson, a public affairs specialist with the system. “I do not see him in our system and our Cardiology team has never heard of him.”
Vainshelboim also does not work for Stanford, according to Julie Greicius, senior director of external communications for the university’s medical school.
“Stanford University has never employed Baruch Vainshelboim,” Greicius wrote in an email to the AP. “Several years ago (2015), he was a visiting scholar at Stanford for a year, on matters unrelated to this paper.”
Vainshelboim, who lists himself on LinkedIn as a clinical exercise physiologist appears to be unemployed.
Yes the CDC confirms this about a specific mask. Do you even read your own links ?
From the CDC blog:
https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-...10/ppe-burden/
Please note that this blog is specifically about respirators used by healthcare workers during long shifts and not facemasks worn as barrier control to stop the spread of COVID.
All you have to do is use common sense to understand that wearing a mask is not good for you aside from possibly protecting you from the virus.
Does that benefit outweigh the damage you are doing to yourself by rebreathing cloth over and over again?
I guess if you are 79 years old, obese, and have diabetes and respiratory problems, then the benefit of wearing a mask outweighs the damage.
But if you are a healthy younger person, I’m skeptical that a mask is in your best interest.
Which leads to my final point, which is it’s not my problem if your body can’t fight off the virus. Nor is it yours if my body can’t either. So wearing the mask to protect others is a bunch of BS.
There are about no risks with masks, unless you are already respiratory compromised. There is no damage to yourself from rebreathing cloth or paper masks.
I work out at the gym almost daily, and when wearing a mask during the Pandemic noticed little difference. Although no doubt it would have to restrict some very high level of aerobics. My O2 sat during my higher level of aerobic exercise on room air at about 600 ft elevation was 100%.
The curve did flatten - it didn't say 15 days to remove the virus from the planet. The point was to prevent a NYC / Lombardi type situation from happening in any other USA town - and mainly, it did not.
I'm sorry if you thought that meant it would be gone in 15 days - that was never on the table.
So to you are doctors and nurses ignorant fools for wearing masks while on duty, including when they are working in covid wards?
I personally am not worried about the dangers of wearing a mask but there is a difference between a doctor or nurse wearing a mask in a Covid ward and an individual in a grocery store who is socially distancing.
Also medical personnel change the masks more frequently.
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