Please read Pollywog’s post #20951 again.
He's just butthurt. He's not interested in expert medical opinions because apparently, if it can be found on google, it's bad.
He doesn’t even trust the experience of a fellow ehMacer!
Of course Doctors do not breath entirely through medical masks as there are enough gaps that air flows around the mask as well as through it. Even so they are aware that the dangers of Hypoxia and or Hypercapnea do still exist, so the air in operating theatres is enriched with additional Oxygen.
The air flows around the mask for regular people too. Your point? The purpose of the mask is so that if you sneeze or cough you don’t spread your mucousy droplets across the room for someone else to breathe in. It’s about helping others more than yourself. This shouldn’t be so hard to understand.
I am eager to hear how your less than medical grade mask caused a significant drop in saturation and heart rate elevation, then. Is it Saran Wrap? If not it will have the same gaps, or worse. How come you can have a properly fitted mask, but professionals can't?
I wonder if there is a trend that will be moving away from cloth masks. I have dropped in at 2 clients offices that no longer allow for cloth masks and ask that you use their medical masks. First I had heard of this and then had 2 places in one day.
I wouldn’t doubt it, the threat of the newer variants seem to be concerning experts, and while the conspiracy twits will twist that as they have been doing this whole time, truthfully they are likely running clinical trials and gathering data because they still aren’t completely sure how much more contagious these variants are (though recently they seem more sure of that as data comes in) Or, if the new variants are deadlier or not. So I’m seeing recommendations moving towards more medical grade masks. Also, manufacturing capacity of medical grade masks have ramped up, so perhaps that’s also a factor, that they’re more available now to the public.
There has been a definite difference here health wise. Don't think we have had anyone down and out with a cold or flu at all this year. I know I usually get a bad cold come November/December. Nothing so far! I hope it is not considered a mandatory thing in the future, I can see people doing it out of consideration when they are sick but I really do not want to see this become the norm.
I doubt it'll be mandatory, mostly for political reasons, not so much for health. No political party, not even the liberals will want to wear that one in an election. Maybe the NDP, but its a safe one for them as the possibility of them taking power federally is very unlikely. But, it'll be great fodder for the conspiracy types. Im sure we'll hear on this subject soon enough!
Good question. I have a feeling that the current 2 layer cloth masks are about as much as most people will tolerate, mostly because they’re already bought and paid for. People will comply if the expectations are reasonable. It’s like getting people to pay 99 cents a song on iTunes even though they used to get them for free. Now it’s all about streaming subscriptions but people are still willing to pay if the cost is reasonable. I believe that’s how it will be with masks.
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