Posted on 10/29/2020 5:51:31 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
I happen to know a thing or two about masks and safety.
Why? Because for 25 years I was the editor of an award-winning trade magazine called HazMat Management that covered such topics as pollution prevention and compliance with health & safety laws.
We routinely published articles on masks, gloves, respirators and other forms of personal protective equipment (PPE).
Now let me tell you a few things about that mask you’re wearing.
And please note that what I’m about to share was also stated in the most recent edition of Del Bigtree’s program The Highwire when two OSHA mask experts spoke to the fact that the kinds of masks people are wearing were never (never!) designed to be worn for long periods and doing so is very harmful.
The blue typical mask depicted in the photograph contain Teflon and other chemicals.
A Facebook friend reminds us:
1. Masks are “sterilized” with Ethylene Oxide — a known carcinogen. Many teachers in various school boards have been experiencing significant symptoms as a direct result of the effects of this chemical.
2. The masks contain (not sprayed with) PTFE which makes up Teflon along with other chemicals. I found and have posted the US patent to allow manufacturers to use PTFE as a filter in commercial masks… “breathing these for extended periods can lead to lung cancer.”
Don’t agree? Argue with the experts at OSHA, which is the main US agency, i.e., its Occupational Health & Safety Agency.
These masks are meant to be worn only for short periods, like say if you’re sanding a table for an hour and don’t want to inhale sawdust...
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Mine are made of T-shirt material that doesn't seem to shed, so I doubt I am inhaling that many fibers. I washed them in the beginning and let them air out in the sun.
T shirt material is worthless on stopping bacteria much less that a virus spore. Just as well wear a fishnet for all the good it does.
But it doesn’t trigger my asthma as much as other material.
Any kind of face covering (even a T-shirt mask) is enough to get you past the Guardians of the Universe (ie, the guards at the doors of most stores).
Because it’s about compliance, not safety.
>> “T shirt material is worthless on stopping bacteria much less that a virus spore. Just as well wear a fishnet for all the good it does.” <<
It’s not a matter of stopping every individual bacterium or spore, but of reducing the quantity that reach others. As I understand it, most are in relatively large droplets of moisture that can be stopped or kept from going as far.
Early in the mask controversy I did a common-sense experiment of my own. I tried coughing with my mouth uncovered, and could feel the air from the cough on my hand held a couple of feet in front of me. I then covered my mouth with a t-shirt folded over a couple of times and coughed again. I couldn’t feel even a whiff of air (I suspect a fishnet wouldn’t have done as well :-).
Dry cleaning bags work even better.
If the mask is actually stopping large droplets full of bad stuff right there, at your mouth, you are then breathing that crap back in over and over and over again. That intensification may well make you sick or more sick from some faint virus or bacteria that otherwise wouldn’t have reached a critical concentration to hurt you.
>> “Dry cleaning bags work even better.” <<
‘Fraid I couldn’t get my head back out.
“If the mask is actually stopping large droplets full of bad stuff right there, at your mouth, you are then breathing that crap back in over and over and over again. That intensification may well make you sick or more sick from some faint virus or bacteria that otherwise wouldn’t have reached a critical concentration to hurt you.”
That’s retarded. You’re going to give yourself a cold you already have? The amount of virus that you exhale is miniscule compared to what’s in your body busy making more little viruses, AND it’s stuck on little droplets of saliva, mucous, stuff you didn’t floss away, what ever, which is why the masks (including crappy makeshift cloth masks) are effective to some degree.
When it comes to viruses, I doubt that maskless infected persons are helping themselves much by breathing the “bad stuff” out, not enough to counterbalance the harm caused by spreading it farther, and infecting others. These masks aren’t airproof. The bad stuff goes out, just not as far.
The fly in your ointment is that many studies have shown masks don’t at all slow the spread of coronaviruses.
Ah, no. Have you seen Dr. Judy Mikovits (sp?) speak to this?
Ponder that for a moment.
It’s been documented that mask users have developed Legionnaires from mask wearing.
Not that I think science will persuade you.
>> “The fly in your ointment is that many studies have shown masks don’t at all slow the spread of coronaviruses.” <<
Many other studies show they do, and that quantity matters. Common sense tells me that masks reduce the quantity of spores that reach people who aren’t near you.
When in public I try to remember not to touch my mouth or eyes, and to wash my hands before doing so (that’s my usual practice in ordinary times). Apparently it helps. In the last 10 to 15 years, I’ve had the flu just once, and no colds at all.
(I do live a more solitary life than most persons, and no doubt that helps me too.)
Yes, I have to wonder why we weren’t forced to wear surgical gloves.
I have them all the time, so it’s no problem for me. But I think this is all hokum if we’re not told to use gloves as well.
No they don’t! For decades no studies showed that. Only since the lockdown did they try ti gin some up, but the large legit study is getting blackballed by the Gates funded medical journal establishment.
>> “It’s been documented that mask users have developed Legionnaires from mask wearing.” <<
Assuming that’s true, are more persons dying from that or from COVID-19? It’s a matter of weighing risks and benefits.
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