Posted on 05/15/2020 6:00:36 PM PDT by raisetheroof
Every Karen on Facebook is shaming her neighbors for not wearing a face mask. We are being told by governors that if we don’t wear masks we are selfish, horrible human beings with no souls who want Grandma to die a horrible death. Police are tackling people who don’t wear face masks properly in the subway. Grocery stores are throwing maskless people out and denying them service.
But now, there’s another doctor weighing in—besides Dr. Fauci, bonafide sex god and ruler of us all, who also said face masks are largely security theater and of no use to the healthy. Dr. Russell Blaylock, a neurosurgeon, has written an editorial saying that “masks pose serious risks to the healthy.”
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Can't breathe with them. Can breathe without them.
My right to breathes trumps Karens' "right" to feel "safe".
I see a lot of people wearing the “valved” (on exhale) type masks....totally ineffective for protecting people around them.
The article says masks do not keep healthy people from infection. Nobody has claimed that a mask will keep you from getting covid. The mask is to prevent sick from spreading it. We don’t know who is sick, and sick people can be asymptomatic, hence the masks. Is it that hard to understand?
Of course. There is a reason OSHA requires employees to undergo a medical evaluation before they can be required to wear masks or respirators. And that is for OSHA-approved equipment, not makeshift stuff made on Karen’s sewing machine.
It was absolutely irresponsible for the CDC to recommend masks for everyone without even mentioning this. They should at least have told anyone with heart or lung conditions, diabetes, or any of a number of other conditions to check with their doctors first.
Blaylock is a RETIRED neurosurgeon. He hasn’t been licensed to practice medicine in a decade and a half, he’s made ridiculous claims like that aspartame and monosodium glutamate are toxic at levels widely used (Ever had a diet pepsi? According to Blaylock, you should be dead).
This is not a reliable source. Provide some data, Blaylock, not just ridiculous claims.
I think the masks are in case some people would open mouth cough or sneeze as opposed to just breath. Breathing is acceptable but who would dare sneeze in public?
Rush talked about this today.
What is the origin and meaning of this "Karen" phrase?"
Anybody here know?
Wearing a mask does not prevent sick people from spreading the Wuhan Virus.
It’s a term for meddlesome, largely thirtysomething females who are offended by everything.
It also says that people get both a reduction in blood oxygen and an elevated blood CO2 with these masks. The result of that is an impaired immunity system, which leads to a greater vulnerability, not just to the coronavirus, but to other infections as well.
Do you have a source for the OSHA reference?
A lot of employees are now required to wear masks.
When I sneeze I lower the mask I’m forced to wear at work. I’m not wearing a loogie smeared mask after my thunderous sternutations.
Ewww!
I wore a mask, long-term, today for the first time. Here are my observations.
If anyone sneezes, coughs or expels whatever in my close vicinity, it’s going to get into my much more vulnerable eyes as well.
It quickly gets hot, stale and moist inside the mask; uncomfortable to say the least, but can become somewhat unsettling and stressful. You want to get the darn thing off and air yourself out at every possible opportunity.
Trying to drink essential, hydrating water (or anything else) requires the mask to be pushed up (folding over into your nose &/or eyes) or pulled down/off — contaminating hands, neck, hair, etc.
Many people I saw wearing masks had gaps on the tops or sides, had their noses out, or masks folded over so glasses wouldn’t fog up.
Pretty much useless, and creating a false sense of security, IMO.
“It also says that people get both a reduction in blood oxygen and an elevated blood CO2 with these masks. The result of that is an impaired immunity system, which leads to a greater vulnerability, not just to the coronavirus, but to other infections as well.”
This might be true if we wore masks all the time. Wearing a mask while in the grocery store probably not. Masks, especially N95, help prevent someone who is infected from spreading the disease. They probably help prevent you from getting infected too if sized and used properly.
Security theater.
To me all the masks do well is block sneeze droplets. The question is, in real life, do people sneeze into the mask or do they pull the mask out of the way?
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