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Blaylock: Face Masks Pose Serious Risks To The Healthy
Technocracy News ^ | 11/5/20 | Russell Blaylock, MD

Posted on 05/16/2020 4:48:54 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

With the advent of the so-called COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen a number of medical practices that have little or no scientific support as regards reducing the spread of this infection. One of these measures is the wearing of facial masks, either a surgical-type mask, bandana or N95 respirator mask. When this pandemic began and we knew little about the virus itself or its epidemiologic behavior, it was assumed that it would behave, in terms of spread among communities, like other respiratory viruses. Little has presented itself after intense study of this virus and its behavior to change this perception.

This is somewhat of an unusual virus....There is growing evidence that the treatment protocol issued to treating doctors by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), mainly intubation and use of a ventilator (respirator), may have contributed significantly to the high death rate in these select individuals.

As for the scientific support for the use of face mask, a recent careful examination of the literature, in which 17 of the best studies were analyzed, concluded that, “ None of the studies established a conclusive relationship between mask/respirator use and protection against influenza infection.”....

It is also instructive to know that until recently, the CDC did not recommend wearing a face mask...

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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corona; facemasks; healthy; moreoldnews; risks
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1 posted on 05/16/2020 4:48:54 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

Wearing a mask was always more about virtue signaling than for actual health reasons.


2 posted on 05/16/2020 4:55:47 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Eleutheria5
in which 17 of the best studies were analyzed, concluded that, “ None of the studies established a conclusive relationship between mask/respirator use and protection against influenza infection.”....

A lot of Freepers claim to have become much better scientists in the past few weeks than any of the slocks who did these studies.

3 posted on 05/16/2020 4:57:55 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

From the sound of the article, masks could very well be killing people!


4 posted on 05/16/2020 4:59:52 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Eleutheria5

If you like his thoughts on masks, you’ll probably enjoy his thoughts on MSG, fluoride, and chemtrails.

He’s a well known loon.


5 posted on 05/16/2020 5:09:38 PM PDT by FreedomForce
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To: Eleutheria5

So surgeons are operating impaired by masks?


6 posted on 05/16/2020 5:17:44 PM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: FreedomForce

I personally like his thoughts on MSG, flouride, and chemtrails. Just think about the masks. . .you know everyone is not taking sanitary measures using them. Have you priced them?


7 posted on 05/16/2020 5:23:55 PM PDT by Maudeen (OUR ONLY HOPE IS JESUS)
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

Surgical masks are not worn by surgeons to protect from a virus


8 posted on 05/16/2020 5:26:00 PM PDT by Joshua (who is going to make up the)
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To: Eleutheria5

Please stop posting this article. This guy is a well known nut case who thinks we are intentionally being poisoned by jet chemtrails.


9 posted on 05/16/2020 5:35:37 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Eleutheria5

I don’t wear a mask inside a store to keep from getting it. I know better than that. I wear it to attenuate my own viral load in case I already picked it up.


10 posted on 05/16/2020 5:40:46 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Wu Flu! (when I feel heavy metal) Wu Flu! (when I'm pins and I'm needles) Wu Flu!)
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To: Eleutheria5

save for later use


11 posted on 05/16/2020 5:50:52 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Wear your face homemade coverings (not a N95 please) when you zoom into work to show you care.)
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...a recent careful examination of the literature, in which 17 of the best studies were analyzed, concluded that, “ None of the studies established a conclusive relationship between mask/respirator use and protection against influenza infection.

Seriously?

He's going to make that claim and not provide a reference to this "examination"?

12 posted on 05/16/2020 5:58:03 PM PDT by semimojo
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

I have difficulty breathing through my N-95. I don’t use them anymore.
This article got swiftly pulled off Facebook-LOL


13 posted on 05/16/2020 7:51:21 PM PDT by magna carta
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To: Eleutheria5

No mask -> no ventilator.

If you don’t want to wear a mask to protect me and/or my loved ones, I don’t want to pay for the ventilator for you.

It is ‘virtue’ signaling, it’s saying that ‘my’virtue’ is that I don’t care if you or your loved ones get sick and die’.

The mentality of people who pee in a swimming pool, because ‘they can’t tell me what to do’.


14 posted on 05/16/2020 7:57:55 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca. Deport all illegals. Abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF,.)
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To: semimojo

I make a habit of wearing a mask when out and about, but only because it makes scared people more comfortable, because it couldn’t hurt, and it might actually help.

I’m losing patience, though, with people who claim those who fail to wear masks are killing Grandma. For those that do, please quantify the increased risk to Grandma that this behavior causes. Show me your proofs, and compare the numbers to things like risking the lives of others just by driving your car to the market instead of walking. Otherwise, get off your high horse. My read is that the data aren’t sufficient to support your sanctimony.

I don’t know about this guy’s “examination”, but I have read a few research articles questioning the value of masks, e.g.

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1342

Also, I haven’t forgotten the old-think on masks. Before, the public was discouraged from wearing them. E.g.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cornoavirus-mask-protection-195815084.html

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/02/dr-birx-civilians-wearing-masks-may-get-false-sense-of-security/

Nowadays, people are being arrested for not wearing them. What’s changed?


15 posted on 05/16/2020 10:18:44 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Eleutheria5

The bandanna , as old as the old west , is the answer

To comply with these stupid ass mandates, just tie one around your neck !!

don’t put anything on your face at all !!! and then make the stupid Karen’s say some thing to you. - They won’t ! They’re KARENS !


16 posted on 05/16/2020 10:44:07 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: kaehurowing

WRONG.


17 posted on 05/17/2020 12:42:43 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: kaehurowing

18 posted on 05/17/2020 12:43:24 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: RedStateRocker

Obey or die? Wow. What other edicts do you declare.


19 posted on 05/17/2020 2:26:54 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: RedStateRocker

Hello, Karen.

I have a congenital heart defect and, when I wore a mask to walmart, I couldn’t breathe and almost passed out.

Sorry, but I’m not going to risk my health to satisfy your hypochondria.

As for the ventilators, don’t worry. I possess a strong immune system and I’m immune to the Chinese bad cold. I will never be on a ventilator.


20 posted on 05/17/2020 2:32:32 AM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (“Welcome Down to my Planet Hell”- Nightwish)
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