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.
Rush talked about this today.
What is the origin and meaning of this "Karen" phrase?"
Anybody here know?
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.
This neurosurgeon is an anti-vaxxer. He has a long history of making controversial claims often without scientific studies to back them up.
You can google his name with the word Quack at the end of it to see some of the controversy.
He is absolutely wrong when he says there are no studies saying masks work. There is one in Nature Magazine in April that says masks are effective for Coronavirus.
Given that many health care workers wear masks sometimes for long stretches his claims of masks doing harm would seem to be greatly exaggerated if not baseless.
Most people would not have to wear a mask for hours on end. You wear one when you go into a grocery store or other public place.
This article mentions people who are infected with Covid19 rebreathing the virus and increasing their viral load, potentially becoming sicker.
Better that than them infecting other people. You have to lack a sense of common good, of civic virtue, to think, well, at least I kept my viral load low, it doesn’t matter what chain of infection I started.
Also mentioned, people with cancer. Not healthy people.
Also mentioned, hypoxia and headaches. I go double masked, fabric over N95, up to 14 hours a day at work. I am headache prone, and I don’t have great aerobic capacity. Headaches aren’t any worse, occasionally I feel a bit winded. I’ll check my oxygen saturation at the end of shift, but I seriously doubt my sats are lower by more than a point off baseline.
” The mask could make you sicker. It could also create a “deadly cytokine storm” in some.
There is another danger to wearing these masks on a daily basis, especially if worn for several hours. When a person is infected with a respiratory virus, they will expel some of the virus with each breath.
If they are wearing a mask, especially an N95 mask or other tightly fitting mask, they will be constantly rebreathing the viruses, raising the concentration of the virus in the lungs and the nasal passages. We know that people who have the worst reactions to the coronavirus have the highest concentrations of the virus early on. And this leads to the deadly cytokine storm in a selected number.”
So when elderly people with lung problems pass out and hit their head while wearing a mask, is that classified as a Covid related death?
When I worked I worked in a class one clean room.
I ain’t gonna wear no stinkin mask
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If wearing masks work, why did businesses need to be closed?
And if wearing a mask doesn't work, why are we being forced to wear them?
Karen’s are everywhere! Karen’s are everywhere!
No seriously I’m absolutely serious this is the most ridiculous crap I’ve ever seen in my life
I’m out in the mountains in the middle of freaking nowhere I see two women walking toward me on the trail they immediately put their masks on and walked by me I’m like - are you fucking kidding me?
Of course I’m very nice I say nothing I say “ hello” and smile
Back in the day people wore magic amulets to protect them from evil and especially the evil eye. In todays society face masks are the new amulet to protect from the evil virus and the evil eye of social shamers.
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