Negative Health Impacts of Masks

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Originally Posted by Raev [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ambiguously quoting tangential Wikipedia articles is a great debate strategy, but it's not a great way to arrive at the truth. Which one is your goal here?

https://english.stackexchange.com/qu...-but-by-washin

Reality holds more complexities than any singular truth, present or past, can do justice. A lot of what was true centuries ago doesn't track with our current understanding. Similarly, what's considered true today will be better understood and articulated centuries from now, assuming humankind survives itself. If it isn't the whole truth, than by definition it isn't the truth. That is the issue with having only one or two articles/studies to support an argument.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulty_generalization

And of course truth can also depend greatly on personal experience. For instance, an able-bodied person who claims that "masks don't do anything" would be considered addle-brained by anyone with cystic fibrosis. Something, something, risk–benefit ratio.

https://midwesternnewspapers.com/wea...stic-fibrosis/

“If medical science has proven it saves lives in the CF world,” said Shane. “It’s that simple. People did die because they thought CF kids needed an outlet, something in common so they had this camp for them to play but it backfired.

https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/full....201503-0481LE

The recently updated Cystic Fibrosis Foundation infection control guidelines advise people with cystic fibrosis (CF) to wear a surgical mask in healthcare settings to reduce the risk for transmission or acquisition of CF pathogens (1).

Surgical masks were originally developed to prevent droplet contamination of operating fields. Very little is known about their ability to prevent droplet nuclei generation. Some investigators suggest that droplet nuclei cannot be formed, as the originator droplets will be impacted on the mask (6). Others argue that small infectious particles originating from the lung, rather than impacting on an obstructing mask, will follow airstreams flowing around the edges of relatively loose fitting surgical masks (7). Both arguments relate directly to Newton’s laws of motion: Newton’s first law states objects in motion will continue to move in the same direction unless acted on by an unbalanced force. Therefore, large particles will impact on an obstructing object (a mask), whereas small particles do not need much force (F = ma; Newton’s second law) to change direction and might be able to follow airstreams around the mask’s edges.

We aimed to determine whether surgical masks were effective in reducing the airborne spread of P. aeruginosa by people with CF when coughing.

Despite these study limitations, we demonstrated that surgical masks were effective in reducing the airborne load of P. aeruginosa when colonized individuals with CF cough. Our data provide evidence for the new Cystic Fibrosis Foundation guideline to wear surgical masks in healthcare settings.

The italicized section is why some believe "masks don't do anything"; however, even in this study, that generalization is not accurate.