[familyop]

"Masks are hazardous to the wearer's own health...Why don't you listen to a REAL Medical Doctor, and Neurosurgeon ?"

Then doctors should stop wearing masks in COVID-19 hospitals.

[Yosemitest]

Read this:

... The widespread use of cloth masks by healthcare workers may actually put them at increased risk of respiratory illness and viral infections and their global use should be discouraged, according to a UNSW study.

The results of the first randomised clinical trial (RCT) to study the efficacy of cloth masks were published today in the journal BMJ Open.

The trial saw 1607 hospital healthcare workers across 14 hospitals in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, split into three groups: those wearing medical masks, those wearing cloth masks and a control group based on usual practice, which included mask wearing.

Workers used the mask on every shift for four consecutive weeks.

The study found respiratory infection was much higher among healthcare workers wearing cloth masks.

The penetration of cloth masks by particles was almost 97% compared to medical masks with 44%.

Professor Raina MacIntyre, lead study author and head of UNSW's School of Public Health and Community Medicine, said the results of the study caution against the use of cloth masks. ...

[MayflowerMadam]

“Then doctors should stop wearing masks in COVID-19 hospitals.”

Really. Because the doctors’ spouses sit at home at their sewing machines, making little masks for them out of leftover quilting scraps. (I could be wrong, but ... oh, I dunno ... it COULD be that the masks doctors wear in COVID-19 hospitals are of a higher quality. Of course, I could be wrong about that.)

Next month, if my surgeon walks into the room wearing a mask of puppy dog paw prints, or Star Trek characters, I might worry.