Negative Health Impacts of Masks

[Raev]

Is a Mask That Covers the Mouth and Nose Free from Undesirable Side Effects in Everyday Use and Free of Potential Hazards?

Basically, this is the correctly done version of the 'Medical Hypotheses' paper that was retracted. Here are some highlights:

• statistically significant drop in blood oxygen saturation (SpO 2 ) (p < 0.05)
• The masked subjects showed statistically significant increases in heart rate (p < 0.001) and respiratory rate (p < 0.02) In addition, the investigators observed dizziness (p < 0.03), listlessness (p < 0.05), impaired thinking (p < 0.03) and concentration problems (p < 0.02)
• As early as 2012, an experiment showed that walking in the 20 masked subjects compared to the identical activity without masks significantly increased heart rates average +9.4 beats per minute, p < 0.001) and breathing rates (p < 0.02)
• In the evaluation of the primary papers, we also determined a statically significant correlation of the drop in oxygen saturation (SpO 2 ) and fatigue with a common occurrence in 58% of the mask use studies with significant results (Figure 2, p < 0.05).
• In their level III evidence review, neurologists from Israel, the UK and the USA state that a mask is unsuitable for epileptics because it can trigger hyperventilation. The use of a mask significantly increases the respiratory rate by about plus 15 to 20% [15,21,23,34,64]. However, an increase in breathing frequency leading to hyperventilation is known to be used for provocation in the diagnosis of epilepsy and causes seizure equivalent EEG changes in 80% of patients with generalized epilepsy and in up to 28% of focal epileptics
• Physicians from New York studied the effects of wearing masks of the surgical-type mask and N95 among medical personnel in a sample of 343 participants (surveyed using standardized, anonymized questionnaires). Wearing the masks caused detectable physical adverse effects such as impaired cognition (24% of wearers) and headaches in 71.4% of the participants. Of these, 28% persisted and required medication. Headache occurred in 15.2% under 1 h of wear, in 30.6% after 2 h of wear and in 29.7% after 3 h of wear.
• Confusion, disorientation and even drowsiness (Likert scale questionnaire) and reduced motoric abilities (measured with a linear position transducer) with reduced reactivity and overall impaired performance (measured with the Roberge Subjective Symptoms-during-Work Scale) as a result of mask use have also been documented in other studies
• Significantly increased headache (p < 0.05) could be observed not only for N95 but also for surgical masks in participants of another observational study of health care workers
• The use of masks for several hours often causes further detectable adverse effects such as headaches, local acne, mask-associated skin irritation, itching, sensations of heat and dampness, impairments and discomfort predominantly affecting the head and face
• According to a questionnaire survey, masks also frequently cause anxiety and psychovegetative stress reactions in children—as well as in adults—with an increase in psychosomatic and stress-related illnesses and depressive self-experience, reduced participation,social withdrawal and lowered health-related self-care. Over 50% of the mask wearers studied had at least mild depressive feelings
• Provocation of gingivitis (inflammation of the gums), halitosis (bad breath), candidiasis (fungal infestation of the mucous membranes with Candida albicans) and cheilitis (inflammation of the lips), especially of the corners of the mouth, and even plaque and caries are attributed to the excessive and improper use of masks.
• The results of a Chilean study with health care workers show that masks act like an acoustic filter and provoke excessively loud speech. This causes a voice disorder

So, if anyone is asking why you don't want to wear a mask, send them this paper and ask whether all of that is really a good idea, especially considering that masks do not prevent COVID transmission.

[HalflingSpergand]

Yes i think that masks go well with antidepressants.

[starkind]

Antidepressants are more dangerous than opiods.

[G13]

In before Rolling Stone article claiming masks work because Koch Brothers or something

[BlackBellamy]

Obvious study is obvious.

Let me shove a bunch of shit over my mouth and nose holes that tens of thousands of years of natural selection and evolution have designed to operate efficiently and think nothing bad will happen.

[Ennewi]

Originally Posted by G13 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

In before Rolling Stone article claiming masks work because Koch Brothers or something

I like articles that aren't retracted.

[Raev]

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

Obvious study is obvious.

Let me shove a bunch of shit over my mouth and nose holes that tens of thousands of years of natural selection and evolution have designed to operate efficiently and think nothing bad will happen.

The real question in my mind is "Why are these obvious facts no longer obvious to people who went to college"?

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

I like articles that aren't retracted.

Does that include this one? I think the risk of retraction is near zero. One of the annoying things about the retracted paper was that the author cited a bunch of medical textbooks rather than actual studies regarding the negative impact of masks on health. In other words, he was correct, but sloppy.

[Ennewi]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk–benefit_ratio

Analyzing a risk can be heavily dependent on the human factor. A certain level of risk in our lives is accepted as necessary to achieve certain benefits. For example, driving an automobile is a risk most people take daily, also since it is mitigated by the controlling factor of their perception of their individual ability to manage the risk-creating situation. When individuals are exposed to involuntary risk (a risk over which they have no control), they make risk aversion their primary goal. Under these circumstances individuals require the probability of risk to be as much as one thousand times smaller than for the same situation under their perceived control (a notable example being the common bias in the perception of risk in flying vs. driving).

[Raev]

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?

[G13]

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

I like articles that aren't retracted.

Don't bother reading The NYT or AP then

P.S. Nobody is wearing N95 masks except some loser on these forums who is probably lying