Posted on 12/24/2021 10:13:41 PM PST by Beowulf9
July 23, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Prior to facemask mandates as an alleged preventive for Covid infection and transmission, such masks were infrequently worn in hospitals and other medical facilities. They were only used in operating theatres or for visiting seriously ill patients in order to prevent infection from spit or droplets into open wounds or to partially protect visitors from acquiring and transmitting pathogens more dangerous than Covid. Many doctors and nurses have told LifeSite that for decades, if not longer, staff wearing medical masks were an uncommon sight in health care facilities other than as mentioned
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has given Americans a choice. If you don’t get the COVID-19 vaccine, you still need to cover your face with a mask. But if you get the shots, you can ditch them. The CDC announced its turnaround on masking policy yesterday. President Biden hailed it as a turning point in America’s pandemic.
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PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: The CDC is saying they have concluded that fully vaccinated people are at a very, very low risk of getting COVID-19. Therefore, if you’ve been fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask....
ROCHELLE WALENSKY: Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate in indoor and outdoor activities, large or small, without wearing a mask or physical distancing.
HARRIS: But then came the caveats. It doesn’t apply to people on public transit or airplanes. It doesn’t apply in health care settings. She also said it will be up to local officials about how the guidelines are carried out in schools, stores and other local settings. And, you know, that could be a formula for confusion...
Occasionally, a vaccinated person does get infected with the coronavirus, but the risk of serious illness in that circumstance is extremely low. - https://www.npr.org/2021/05/14/996760412/cdc-fully-vaccinated-people-can-stop-wearing-masks-indoors-outdoors
Diaperfaces conveniently wear the stupid on their mugs so it’s easier to identify and avoid engaging in conversation with them. They might as well take a sharpie and draw dicks on their foreheads and put on Bozo shoes.
> 47 studies
That’s not science. Fauci is science.
"Received for review July 13, 2020," while indeed more recent studies (not that all the contrary ones are) must be considered.
While masking can be generally warranted in close contact scenarios (like bars and indoor social events) — even to reduce colds — as they can at least reduce the amount of viral transmission, yet the overall effectiveness of such which would warrant required extensive wearing of them at all times is at least questionable, especially in consideration of negative effects of such. Unequivocally requiring most people to wear masks whenever and wherever outside in public places (as was required in states as MA) is unwise and unwarranted, especially when alone and when exercising.
And the overall issue is whether the positive negative effects, and how far should the government go in protecting us and others? I do not believe seat belt laws (for adults over 25) should be mandatory, except by insurance companies. And yet if everyone wore crash helmets when driving then even more lives could be saved. However, the inconvenience alone should be enough to dispense with that.
Then there are laws to protect other people, but while licensing of all food pantries might save a few lives that were lost due to food poisoning, such regulation is not warranted in modern society and would increase the waste of food (not that multitudes of people are going hungry for lack of food like some liberals cry),and increases the cost and overreach of government.
As far as Covid, for those under 65, and far more so for those fit and in good health, the reality is that the risk of death due to Covid is very low, and on that basis then the long-term restrictions on freedom of association, travel, expression and even breathing are not reasonably warranted. Thus the issues as regards justification for such restrictions is that of transmission to those who are the most vulnerable, but in that case then masking when inside with such (esp. in extended care facilities) should be required, while such could be particularly protected such as by having certain hours for such to shop, as they were early on.
Meaning that overall the most vulnerable need to be targeted more, which is my argument here.
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EVERY box I have seen on the masks we can buy CLEARLY states NOT effective for medical use.
It depends if effectiveness = virtue soapboxing?
From your study page:
“It found that face masks were 79% effective in preventing transmission if they were used by all household members prior to symptoms occurring. The study did not look at the relative risk of different types of mask.”
Doesn’t sound like an in-depth study of masks at all. Were the masks tested N-95 or cloth and paper?
You better wear a plastic face shield and mask to Home Depot just to be safe
Here’s an idea. If you want to wear a mask, wear one. If you don’t want to, don’t. Then leave other people alone. Here’s another idea. Start to lose interest in the COVID snipe hunt as more of your neighbors are every day. What has been happening behind the curtain while the rest of us were compliantly squabbling with each other over stupid BS is a lot more important.
You know that’s really illogical. There is no “dose” of infection if you get it, you got it. Once you get it, it replicates itself inside your body.
How badly you get it depends on your body’s resistance to the virus.
Face masks: Yes, they may not be the most pleasant item to wear, but they are not depriving people of needed oxygen, a new study confirms.
“The findings should counter a common anti-mask myth — that donning a face mask is unhealthy.”
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Theres a reason why people and animals have open breathing holes. If you take more breaths with a mask and have healthy lungs, you can, in theory, get the same amount of oxygen; but why should we be required to get used to heavy breathing through masks that leak?
I can confirm that my mask at work last night may have saved a few customers but did nothing for me.
Of course, that was after I had a piece of the “Garlic Lover’s” pizza that the manager ordered for us, however.
Good, sounds like folks are final,y getting sick of it. Unfortunately we still have many around our town that do still wear them, but the majority don’t thankfully
Unless a person is hyperventilating or engaged in an activity that results in retaining Oxygen, a Sat of 100% is unusual. A person on supplemental O2 would indeed frequently have a Sat of 100%. If I had a Patient with a Sat of >93% I would not fret a bit. 93 or 100 is pretty much the same thing.
When a Sat does drop to 88% or lower than that might raise concerns.
Of course there are large numbers of Patients where one might be actually normal at 88%. We refer to such persons as ‘Retainers’ and they are usually long term smokers or persons who worked for long periods under conditions where the O2 was not optimal. It is very common to see the orders ‘Maintain Sats 88-92%’ especially in Chronic Care Hospitals.
There are even more unusual conditions where a Patient might require even lower Sats. It is rare and I have seen it very infrequently. One Patient had a Sat of 79%. That was normal. Turns out that was one who was born with a heart condition where the Fetal Circulation never was ‘normal.’ As I recall it was Tetrology of Fallot,’ but there are other shunting conditions, very rare in adults, and this person was back then about early 50s.
Anyhow, the Index of Ventilation is Carbon Dioxide. That stuff is acidic in the human body and elevated levels must closely monitored, usually via Arterial Blood Gasses to assess the Ph levels.
Actually, I avoid strip clubs, and anyone who gets closer than 6 feet to me had better be a friend or family.
Studies prove that respiratory disease cannot be stopped by any means outside a full on face respirator, properly worn and service.
I am a painter. Using toxic paint, in a toxic and low oxygen environment. Without a properly fitted mask and a clean shaven face, you would get sick and die fairly quickly. With the mask on, your oxygen levels drop quickly. You can function, but not as well. You do have to take them off to go home though.
N-95 respirators? Wear them all the time when spraying Latex inside and outside on homes. You get plenty of paint in your nose, because it is not possible to stop even latex paint, which is water based. Just like sneezes and coughs, it is unavoidable.
Simply put, if you are a habitual mask wearer, you have a serious mental issue. The slaves in China wear them, sure. They think it protects them, and hides their identity. That is an entire culture that is totally mental. We should follow their example /s
You are correct, wear a mask a lot and you get sinus and ear infections. Humans are the result of design and natural selection. Masks are a necessary evil in some trades and situations. Used by laymen to stop a virus, they are a joke and a symptom of mental illness.
Winner winner, turkey dinner.
“The virus is smaller than the spaces in the mask. Can pass right through them.”
True, however, Brownian Movement causes small partciles to vibrate, and as a result, the virus is trapped in the mask fibers.
I yearn for the days when walking into a bank with a mask on got you arrested on the spot.
Enter a room that stinks. Put on a mask. It still stinks.
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