Covid timeline - exactly one year ago every health professional recommended AGAINST wearing masks.
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I think it's important to keep facts on our side.
I'm a physician and am very anti-mask, but it's important not to resort to hyperbole and magical thinking like the other side does.
Appreciate your perspective. Not trying to argue with you but are medical masks not disposable for hygiene and infectivity purposes?
I'm sorry, I don't understand the last part of your question.
For instance, I have a friend who is a neurosurgeon. She was trained to toss a mask after every use and not to treat it as reusable as it could become a vehicle for germs, whether spreading to herself or her next patient.
I don’t think you can find a rational pulmonologist who won’t admit that hypoxia can occur while wearing masks, just look at the difference in treatment between ‘masking up’ and altitude masks. Just as we know that maintaining tropical levels of heat and humidity in any environment let alone in front of your face is insane and why the studies mention that they have people wear masks for ‘at least ten minutes’ or ‘exercise for 15 minutes’ and then proclaim that the humidity levels actually help fight Covid because the humidity hasn’t had time to reach dangerous levels or detrimental levels (>60%). These studies are malicious, scientists know full well that workers don’t just wear mask for 10-15 minutes. We also know that prolonged heat, concentrated humidity and lung/heart complications are deadly. Pretending like people working manual labor 8 hours a day wearing a mask (that probably isn’t new or clean) is not causing at least short term health complications is asinine. People are quitting healthcare jobs because of the health complications that prolonged mask use is causing. As a physician you are probably well aware or the difference between a practical and political study, we have only seen the latter in regards to mask use.
In Oregon we had a high school girl pass out because she had to wear a mask for an outdoor track and field event.
https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/2021/april/high-school-athlete-collapses-at-finish-line-after-being-forced-to-wear-a-mask-during-race-i-just-felt-super-dizzy
I almost passed out wearing one while skiiing a few years back. Felt myself blacking out, then ripped that thing off and just suffered through my face being cold the rest of the day.
I don't want to get down in the weeds about this one.
I would instead appeal to first principles:
The same reason masks are ineffective due to viruses being too small to filter out is the same reason they can't impair oxygen transfer in any meaningful way to a person with normal lung function, as oxygen molecules are even smaller.
Which would be a rational argument if known humidity increases weren’t noted in every case of mask use. My argument is that making contained environments that are known to increase humidity and have been seen to make levels that restrict lung oxygen volume. Sitting in a steam room with a mask vs without one will cause a noted difference in lung function due to unnatural levels of heat and humidity. Adding to this is the increased pressure on breathing through a mask vs no mask and there is a very real reason to be concerned with hypoxia.
A study was conducted in the Before Time on the efficacy of masks and found higher rates of illness in the cloth mask group.
A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers: