Anyone suspect masks make us crazier..or maybe it just makes me crazier

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Anonymous wrote:just wear a mask if you are going to be around other people. This isn't hard.

and no, you are NOT going to get carbon monoxide poisoning (I got booted from a friend's facebook page for daring to say this to her-and this is someone with multiple degrees from a top university).

Wait -- where is the carbon monoxide supposed to be coming from? Or does she also think hydrogen peroxide is the same thing as H20?

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I wear one made of 2 layers of cheesecloth. I can 100% breathe, people can hear me speak and technically I'm in compliance.

Of course it offers no protection, but all of them except a properly fitted N95 offer nothing, but a placebo effect.

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Anonymous wrote:Breathing in your own carbon dioxide can’t be a good thing.

Medical professionals do it all day long on a regular basis. You’ve watched too many conspiracy theory videos.

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This ridiculousness must be getting spewed out on Fox news because my mother just told me the same thing about wearing masks.

If you were breathing in just carbon dioxide and there was no real air coming in, you'd be dead.

It is. I live in the south and these fools are all over social media spewing that "masks are unhealthy and more dangerous than the Covid because U are breathing in ur carbon monoxides". Being a southerner on social media right now be like....

Oh, Jesus.

I'm pretty much in rolling 30 day snoozes for my SIL but between snoozes I catch up on my latest right wing conspiracy theories. She went from from vaccines will kill my kidz to Bill Gates is chipping all of us to do <something incomprehensilble> to 5G will kill us all real quick. Masks were in there somewhere towards the end.

Sad part is she lives with 2 people who pretty much epitomize high risk for coronavirus, so I expect we'll have a couple of funerals soon.

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Anonymous wrote:Breathing in your own carbon dioxide can’t be a good thing.

This country has been full of doctors, nurses, and scrub techs working surgeries all day, wearing masks. The mask is not the problem.

You all keep making this argument. The masks that doctors, surgeons, ect. are wear are designed to be worn all day. They are so think they are like cotton candy. They are designed for air to flow easily and fully directly through the fabric. They aren't sterile because they trap air, but because they are electrostatically charged. The cotton masks do not allow for proper air flow. I don't watch Fox News, I am a scrub nurse. The cotton masks are not hurting us, but they are not meant to be worn for many hours per day and I just want to correct those of you making the comparison. It's not correct.

There are surgical masks (and similar type) available online and in some stores.

You think they are sterile after you put them on? You are either not a nurse, or not a very good one. Your surgical face mask is sterile int he unopened container. When it is on your face, if you touch it with a sterile-gloved hand, you have broken sterility. Why do you not know this? A first year med student knows this.

Aside from that ... masks made from 2 layers of different materials seem to be fairly effective (eg cotton + poly), probably due to electrostatic charge. They're also pretty easy to make or buy.

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No, I'm fine wearing a mask. I mean, it can get hot, but I forget a am wearing bit after a while.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the entire situation is making people nastier/more on edge.

What's making me on edge are the maga anti science idiots I have to avoid at the grocery store who refuse to wear masks. I usually shop at a smaller store but today went to Wegmans in Loudoun and it was full of inbred looking incels walking around with no masks. I think they were hanging there intentionally to make a point. I have never seen so many shaved headed males under 30 milling about in the store like today. It was a shit show. They would just stand in front of stuff and not move for other people.