Posted on 10/02/2020 11:36:20 AM PDT by familyop
Breathe easy. A new study suggests that surgical face masks don’t cause a buildup of carbon dioxide or restrict oxygen, despite opposing claims. The study, on the “Effect of Face Masks on Gas Exchange in Healthy Persons and Patients with COPD,” which was published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society on Friday, was conducted after a group of Florida residents challenged Florida’s mask-wearing mandate in June, arguing that wearing the protective face coverings could result in the buildup of too much carbon dioxide.
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Agree! I take vitamin D, zinc, C, and the other recommended supplements, wear the mask in crowds, and keep my hands clean. I’m healthy but was born with asthma so I have to be careful. I think I had it in March but they wouldn’t test me because I didn’t have a fever. She prescribed steroids, a Z-pack, and prescription cough meds. I eventually got better.
I don’t know what you’re talking about - but it’s not addressing the posed questions, anyway. You’re rambling about something completely different.
Maybe so, but I have to pull mine out every couple minutes to take some deep breaths else I get sleepy and even start to lose balance- I am a night security guard at a shipyard and am required to wear it in the early morning when the workers are coming in.
You are obviously a liar.
When all this sillyness started I went to a doctor's appointment. Because I was still trying to be polite (at this point I don't give a rip) I wore a mask.
I had the usual blood pressure, temp, blood oxygen test and my oxygen level was in the 80's.
The doctor came in, looked at my numbers and told me, "Take that silly thing off."
In about a minute he rechecked and my numbers were back in the 90's where they belong.
So should I believe this study or my lying eyes and my doctor?
Let's me make it simple. Try to stick a mask on me and I will stick it in you.
I had to go up 10 flights of stairs at a customer site yesterday while wearing a mask.
Ya, the dam things restrict air flow, and unless I’ve been misinformed, we get oxygen for the air we breathe.
These igits can shove heir study up the posteriors.
“...surgical face masks don’t cause a buildup of carbon dioxide or restrict oxygen...”
They sure don’t for me, unless I actually wear one of the stupid things.
Droplets, is it?
People have been expelling droplets since the dawn of humanity.
You better just wear a mask for the rest of your life, so you “feel safe”.
I think I’ll follow President Trump’s advice and wear one while indoors in public places during a pandemic that’s killed 250,000 Americans. The end of the pandemic is soon (once safe and effective vaccines are deployed). I can make the small sacrifice of wearing a mask in indoor public places for a short time until that happens.
You do whatever you like. But understand that if you’re infected - even if not showing any symptoms - you may be unknowingly infecting others.
Absolutely. I had the symptoms of Covid19 back in the first week of January after a short trip back to California where we were exposed to a large family of Chinese in a Denny’s Restaurant just north of McCarran Airport in Las Vegas. This family were all hacking and coughing while chatting away in Chinese, while eating not more than a few feet away from where we were sitting. They had luggage with them, and were obviously just off a plane.
Shortly after returning from the trip both my lady and I came down with mild symptoms similar to those that were later reported to be Covid19, deep dry cough, loss of taste (actually everything tasted somewhat metallic), a fever, and exhaustion. Everything except the exhausted feeling lasted about two weeks. The exhausted feeling is still present months later, something described be many recovered Covid patients.
My lady developed Covid Toe in the months post that episode. In early March, I went in for an independent medical procedure during which they routinely applied a Blood Oximeter to my finger. The assistant was surprised that my blood O2 saturation was only 88%! So was I, as every time before, including the previous November, it had been 97% to 98% or even higher. Throughout my life, it has always been 97% or higher, even when I was in the midst of a myocardial infarction (heart attack). When I had managed the dental office before retiring, we had Blood Oximeters there and had played with them, trying to get our blood O2 down to less then 97% by holding our breath, not breathing, etc., and found it was impossible to do. Yet, here my normal breathing, not short of breath or any feeling of distress, my blood sat was 88%!
Fearing their unit was bad, they got another and it reported the same 88%. The specialist doing my procedure called my primary who ordered an overnight test to find out what was going on during sleep. In my overnight sleep, the O2 level was below 86% for 276 minutes and as low as 81% seven times. . . All with zero signs of sleep apnea.
In addition, this was ALL before we learned that some people who were in recovery from Covid were showing a SIMILAR blood O2 symptom as I am.
The lead up to this is that I now have an O2 concentrator machine which supplies me 96% to 98% pure O2 at night which raises my blood O2 to 95% to 96%. As soon as a few minutes pass from taking off the cannula, my O2 level drops back down to 91%, 90%... My doctor has told me to never wear a mask because doing so might put me far into the danger zone for blood O2. I carry my blood oximeter with me where ever I go. Sometimes, I have a 94% saturation. Most times, not. Putting on a mask, and it easily drops to 89%. If I started at 89% and put on a mask, how low would it go???
Medicare will not approve daytime oxygen. Not medically necessary. 88% and up is still within normal range, you see. . . But I don’t dare put on a mask. Not with a heart condition and NOW a lung alveolar/blood hemoglobin issue. Stupid is as government bureaucracies do.
Oh, my lady? Her blood PO2 level? 98% to 100% and once 104%. Go figure. Still has the Covid Toe and perpetual tiredness, though.
Once again....
FOX = CNN = MSDNC
No, it is not. It’s about whether wearing a mask can adversely affect a person’s long term health. That it can. You are trying to hijack the discussion to a limited question. No one is claiming that wearing masks can universally kill people. The question is do they have adverse health impacts that we need to be aware of, and how to ameliorate those issues. NOT DO MASKS KILL!
Quit trying to obfuscate the issue.
Are these the math geniuses who stated the hymalayas would melt by 2020.
Exactly. Especially by the end of a 12 to 15 hr shift.
“A new study suggests that surgical face masks don’t cause a buildup of carbon dioxide or restrict oxygen, despite opposing claims.”
So if I throttle you by stuffing a rag down your throat, that doesn’t restrict your oxygen intact.
Liberals are morons.
so were you over the top or not. Karen fits. wear it.
“If I’m in public my mask is on.”
Obedient servant. Your masters approve.
“Which is why surgeons who wear them all say long have been dropping dead for years????”
What surgeons would that be?
You’ve never been in an OR, have you?
No, people are dying EVEN though they are wearing the masks... your flimsy argument cuts both ways because it is not a valid argument.
Why haven’t we all died because we are not wearing the masks?
And yet my blood CO2 was above normal for the first time ever !
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