Posted on 06/29/2020 9:57:36 AM PDT by Grandpa Drudge
Keep in mind, no studies have been done to demonstrate that either a cloth mask or the N95 mask has any effect on transmission of the COVID-19 virus.
Now that we have established that there is no scientific evidence necessitating the wearing of a face mask for prevention, are there dangers to wearing a face mask, especially for long periods? Several studies have indeed found significant problems with wearing such a mask. This can vary from headaches, to increased airway resistance, carbon dioxide accumulation, to hypoxia, all the way to serious life-threatening complications.
While most agree that the N95 mask can cause significant hypoxia and hypercapnia, another study of surgical masks found significant reductions in blood oxygen as well. In this study, researchers examined the blood oxygen levels in 53 surgeons using an oximeter. They measured blood oxygenation before surgery as well as at the end of surgeries.4 The researchers found that the mask reduced the blood oxygen levels (pa02) significantly. The longer the duration of wearing the mask, the greater the fall in blood oxygen levels.
The importance of these findings is that a drop in oxygen levels (hypoxia) is associated with an impairment in immunity. Studies have shown that hypoxia can inhibit the type of main immune cells used to fight viral infections called the CD4+ T-lymphocyte. This occurs because the hypoxia increases the level of a compound called hypoxia inducible factor-1 (HIF-1), which inhibits T-lymphocytes and stimulates a powerful immune inhibitor cell called the Tregs. . This sets the stage for contracting any infection, including COVID-19 and making the consequences of that infection much graver. In essence, your mask may very well put you at an increased risk of infections and if so, having a much worse outcome.5,6,7
(Excerpt) Read more at technocracy.news ...
Captain Kirk?
He’s mainly well known for going after all sorts of additives claiming they will give you cancer. He may be an anti-vaxxer as well. He’s generally seen as a “kook.”
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/glp-facts/russell-blaylock/
There are several potential causes of hypercapnia. It may result from hypoventilation, diminished consciousness, lung disease, rebreathing air, or exposure to an environment high in CO2 (e.g., near a volcano or geothermal vent or under in some workplaces). It can also occur when supplemental oxygen is administered to a person with sleep apnea.
Rebreathing air previously exhaled into a face mask over and over again gradually increases the concentration of CO2 and reduces the concentration of oxygen that actually gets into the lungs. Each exhale adds a higher level of CO2 to the air that remains in the face mask between breaths, accelerating this process.
Hyperventilation, whether from a panic attack or otherwise, would be rather opposite from hypercapnia, with CO2 concentration in arterial blood too low. Thats why breathing into a paper bag helps, to increase the CO2. level in the blood.
Here is a good article on CO2 to help understand it's effect on respiration.
Good grief! I made a comparison from whom the ink flows. Could be an editorial, opinion piece, commentary left or right.
The article you linked on Blaylock was obvious to me ... that the author was being judgemental towards Blaylock in a belittling/mocking way in an effort to discredit his views and expertise by suggesting he meddles in conspiracy theories. The article was more propaganda then truth.
Opinions are not truth but propaganda woven from ‘truths.’ Accepting one persons opinion is a discredit to your ability to question its veracity and candor. Indeed that’s exactly how conspiracy theories/rumors start and propagate.
My purpose in this thread is simply to help people understand how badly they are being mislead by our arrogant and power hungry government bureaucracy (tyranny).
I'm quite sure several members of that bureaucracy (and the "mainstream" media) are busy watching and creating obfuscation in threads like this. I believe we are getting better at recognizing and countering (or ignoring) such obfuscation.
The push back must follow after enough people understand.
And avoids battles with Karens. Good idea!
Super elite Dr Louis P Coates must be proud!
My problem is that the standard surgical mask creates a severe case of Hypercapnia, physically disabling me, within 15 minutes of walking around masked with a shopping cart in a grocery store. (and I'm old, but I DON'T have COPD or any other serious lung condition)
Somehow, I feel that risk far outweighs whatever small risk there is for me from Covid-19
And by the way, me wearing a mask dosen't protect you any better than it doesn't protect me, for exactly the same reasons.
Of course they do. They’re petri dishes breeding bacteria and viruses. I’m waiting for the medical announcement of chronic breathing issues.
“...that the author was being judgemental...”
Isn’t every writer/author “judgmental”? I think so. Of course, opinions are like assholes; everyone has one.
I read a half-dozen other articles on that DDG Link, and just presented that one for you to comment on, and you did.
Your “opinion” is noted.
Blaylock is not kooky, he is brilliant. Person insulting him doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Blaylock doesn’t buy into mainstream medical propaganda, but he is a medical doctor, i believe a neurologist.
Masks stop viruses the same way that underwear keeps farts from smelling.
Exactly!
Left wing rag? The “bio” was a hit piece from a corporate front group. That is indisputable. Just look up who the group is?
It’s interesting that surgeons and surgical nurses wear a mask all day, doing things a hell of a lot more stressful than wandering around a store or going for a walk, and do so without whining or crying that their rights are being imposed upon.
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