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Why is everybody freaking out about this disease when the death rates are so low? Why are people so obsessed with the idea of telling others to wear masks?

I'm pretty sure I'm completely right. Covid-19 is a bad flu. I just feel like the last sane person in the world. Let me put it to you this way the odds that I'm in a simulation have never been higher.

I really just share no reality with the vast majority of these fucking people. That is because I live in reality and they do not. Yet they're so rudely convinced that they're right it's just an astonishing display of ego beyond anything I would have ever expected to see in my worst nightmare.

Why is everybody freaking out about this disease when the death rates are so low? Why are people so obsessed with the idea of telling others to wear masks? I'm pretty sure I'm completely right. Covid-19 is a bad flu. I just feel like the last sane person in the world. Let me put it to you this way the odds that I'm in a simulation have never been higher. I really just share no reality with the vast majority of these fucking people. That is because I live in reality and they do not. Yet they're so rudely convinced that they're right it's just an astonishing display of ego beyond anything I would have ever expected to see in my worst nightmare.

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[–] [deleted] 40 pts

They're not. They're just stupid. The average person doesn't look into anything or think for or do for themselves. They are trained to be on the government tit from day 1. They're very easy to manipulate. It could be anything. Look at all these retards running around screaming about race all the time. But they wouldn't be anywhere else at any other time.

[–] [deleted] 19 pts

Normies need to be redpilled. I'm always dropping redpills on family. I don't argue with them, or attack their beliefs. I just state my point of view, and why I believe it. The easiest way to persuade people is explaining that this is happening because of money. Everybody, even the biggest idiot, knows that people do sick shit for money. Once you show them all the money that's being made, and by who, they start listening.

[–] 10 pts

Normies need to be redpilled.

It doesn't help retardation, unfortunately.

Also, not everyone needs to be saved.

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The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll whisper "no." -- Rorschach

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Some get it but I've talked with people and told them about the vaccine and they say don't say that shit to me because I have to get it. Those people deserve what they get. They are more than happy to trust the government and the corporations even though they know they shouldn't.

[–] 9 pts

"I have to get it"

No they fucking well don't, and if enough people said that, the authorities would have nothing to stand on.

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Elaborate on the money thing please.

[–] [deleted] 10 pts

endless vaccines is big profit for pharma and the pols who get kickbacks. small business has essentially been murdered but the big guys are doing just fine. amazon, walmart, etc...

that sort of thing.

it is also about control.

[–] 4 pts

Money is green. It comes in rectangles and circles. Sometimes we give our magic squares to ladies who give penis massages. You’re better than we are though. So you’ll send me your dick pics for free.

[–] 2 pts

Imagine you can sell an expensive product that only 2 or 3 other people can sell, and if you just make a few scary exaggerations then every single person in the world is guaranteed to buy a new one every year. That’s what the healthcare industry is setting up via covid.

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Vaccines make more revenue for Merck alone than EA makes in a year. And vaccines have MUCH lower overhead than videogames.

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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

Big brain stuff. We don't have a lot of big brains. Always been that way.

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Not everyone is stupid. A lot of people are just brainwashed. Some of them are not redpilled about covhoax but they know something's fishy.

[–] [deleted] 5 pts

to be easlily brainwashed equals stupid, does it not?

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How can I brain wash you into sending me your nudes

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Not when it starts in kindergarten... Not when a shit ton of "vaccines" destroy your brain and health.

Have you always been redpilled, in other words, you never needed to seek the truth because you always knew the whole truth, about every subject the government and other institutions are lying about?

In western countries, most people read books and other form of media. Do you pretend you never read a piece of propaganda and if you do not, do you pretend that you were never influenced by it? Maybe you were lucky enough to be home-schooled and protected from the filth and propaganda but most of us, were not.

I did believe that two planes destroyed the World Trade Center before watching Loose Change and learning about the third building.

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The worst thing about talking to a brainwashed person is they don’t know they’re a brainwashed person. I wonder why I snapped out of it. I mean i was never all that left anyways. But I wonder. Surely I’m not smarter than all these other people. That can’t be it. THERE CANT BE THAT MANY STUPID PEOPLE. WHY CANT THEY ASK WHY? “Why” that’s all it takes and all the bullshit falls away like your pants before you send me your dick pics: pm me

It's likely tied to genetics and independence. Weak people depend on being clingly little faggots and need to suck up. You clearly don't care what people think about you

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It's not a question of intelligence, it's a question of time. Most people are too busy running their lives to seriously question what they see in every newspaper, every news channel and hear on every radio station.

[–] 7 pts

I don't think busy is the right word. They're addicted to modern entertainment and therefore never take the time to learn anything that isn't put into the form of entertainment. Everyone does something during their down time. Most want to "vegetate" in front of the screen. It's such low IQ behavior. I guess the fluoride, food additives, vaccinations, and programming has worked beyond their highest dreams.

[–] 5 pts

Exactly. It's not a lack of time. Its a surplu of distraction. It's almost as if it is designed that way. No...no...that would be a conspiracy theory.

[–] 2 pts

Reminds me of an NPR show ad I heard "We sort all the news stories of the week out for you so you don't have to."

Fucking morons want an authority figure to filter their content for them.

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In reality though, they're not entirely wrong. There is too much happening in the world to make sense of it all. They just don't realise that their content aggregators are all part of the same oligopoly working against their interests. They think that by reading a few newspapers and channel hopping they're getting a broad overview.

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Nah almost all of the news they get from the environment is so fucking obviously retarded, dishonest and agenda driven that the most rudimentary human mind would stop to make a masturbatory gesture.

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Maybe. But when I point out why they’re wrong and why niggers are not human they have no excuse for their ignorance

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Bullshit.

The average American spends about 4 hours a day consuming entertainment/media. It's willful ignorance or gross incompetence that facilitates this bullshit.

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I really need to figure out how to not be angry about it and learn to somehow exploit the reality that these retards exist for my own advantage

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I remember all my peers in school regurgitating the material we were taught like computer programs giving the output the programmers wanted them to give.

Now those kids have grown up and are in all societal positions.

I remember a math teacher that would mark answers wrong if they didn't use the formula taught in class. It was like she didn't know any others. She would refuse to teach students, tried to get me to teach her class, and when she finally fucked around and marked me down for giving correct answers using different equations I reported her to the school and told her to her face if she didn't change that mark I'd gut her in the parking lot like the fat pig she was. She ended up losing her job and I didn't have to stomp her face into gravel. I still want to kick her face relentlessly though. Fat lazy fuckin cunt

[–] 14 pts

I was thinking this thought as well leaving work seeing people drive with masks in their own car. And at the gas station people wearing masks even walking outside on the side walk.

This seems like a really long prank.

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Who cares what people do in their own cars?

[–] 5 pts

umm like every police officer lookin to generate some revenue and keep job security

[–] 1 pt

If I was a cop I would constantly be confiscating drugs and letting them go so I could do the drugs

[–] 3 pts

who cares what people do in their own bedrooms? now we have to hear about gay shit all the time. im just saying if im about to crash and i have the choice between hitting a masked car and a non-masked car i'm going for the masked car.

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Yeah, whatever, but if people want to wear a mask in their cars, that's fine

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I do if it means they might pass out from lack of oxygen or too many fried brain cells

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I fried my brain cells more than 99% of the population but I’m not so fucking stupid that I’ll walk around derrrrrrrrrrrrr letting them fill my head with whatever they want. What’s the NPC thing? Says most people don’t have an inner dialogue. I can’t believe that but what other explanation is there? Btw send me your dick pics

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What the fuck is wrong with you frankentard? Try to keep up idiot

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What do you want to do? Ban masks in cars? Who gives a fuck what people were

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Because the stupid is still on display.

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Plenty of people think wearing maga hats is ok

[–] 12 pts

Yeah it’s been really hard to witness

[–] 5 pts

I’m consistently overwhelmed by my anger

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Ya. I’ve been listening to “reduce anger” isochronic tones and subliminal messaging. It helps me sleep and not wake up so pissed off.

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It helps to ration information and step away for a while. Reading news updates all day will surely make one go insane. Checking in on current events only once every 2 days makes a phenomenal difference. Also staying physically active away from all electronic devices. Then work on recognizing anger right when it starts so you can stop it short and change the behavior.

Another great tool is EMDR. If you can find a guided EMDR video or app you will absolutely witness your anxiety reducing as you go through it. Even 10-minutes. I haven't had a single 10-minute EMDR session that didn't result in anxiety reduction. Sometimes I do it twice, but every time it works. I'm sure if more people knew about EMDR, anti-depressant sales would reduce.

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A vigorous outlet for your anger works better. Be careful not to train yourself to be passive.

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I'm pretty sure I'm completely right. Covid-19 is a bad flu.

it's a bad flu / nasty cold at worst but in truth, covid isn't real. at all. this whole thing was bullshit from beginning to now.

clearly.

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yup, terrain theory. 80+% of hospitalized positive screwy pcr tests were obese...

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I'm a believer that it isn't even real. How do we know it's real? THEIR tests? Even if you were willing to believe results that strictly came from them, they already admitted the false positive rates were astronomically high to the point of being complete trash results.

Seriously they were so bad originally you could flip a coin in the other room and come out with equal results.

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it is absolutely not real. it's completely fucking bullshit.

but for argument's sake, even if it is real, we'd all be collectively better off pretending it wasn't.

because at its most dangerous it is equivalent to any other of the thousands of cold and flu strains we have lived with since being born.

the reaction and compliance is so fucking retarded on a level i can't even begin to grasp.

covid-19 is CLEARLY a hoax.

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you are a baboon at best

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and you're a dumb nigger loving cunt, at best.

what, you're scared of the virus that exclusively kills the already unhealthy, dying, obese, and ancient? haven't figured out that PCR tests are completely bogus, yet?

stupid dumb fucking cunt.

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i really wish some nigger kills you today

[–] 6 pts

The truth of the matter is that most people are risk averse and confrontation avoidant. I believe that a decent portion of people know that masks dont do anything to "protect" them. They just wear the stupid things to avoid unnecessary hassle. Why? Because no one wants to go through their day dealing with any more BS than they already have to endure... so they would rather just put the stupid mask on to avoid potential confrontation. Lets be honest, most of you on this site wear masks too for this very reason. This mentality is the problem though. Most people do not have enough conviction in their principals to outwardly take a brave stand on anything anymore and why should they? Why would anyone put their ass on the line when everyone else is too self centered to step up and join in for the collective good? This is the same reason why we keep falling down this rabbit hole of clown world... we are just too selfish, broken down and ravaged due to simply existing as morally bankrupt debt slaves in a spiraling downwrd trend of existence to drum up the courage to suffer additional consequences of taking moral stands. The controllers above us who set up this satanic system are in complete control, it wont be until a complete horrific catastrophe happens that people will finally be brave enough to say something but by then it will probably be too late. Bad times seem to be an inevitability at this point. I hope I'm wrong.

[–] 2 pts

One component of that complete catastrophe may be mass deaths as the result of this vaccine stuff. Already 300million+ and counting... People won't be able to look away, while the rest of the awake will, oddly, likely survive in a positive eugenic sense

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Because they believe what the media, social media and the TV tell them to believe. They are brainwashed sheep.

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There was this one famous experiment done with monkeys.

A room was set up with bananas on top of a ladder. But every time a monkey tried to climb the ladder, the experimenter sprayed all of the monkeys with icy water. Eventually, each time a monkey started to climb the ladder, the other ones pulled him off and beat him up so they could avoid the icy spray. Soon, no monkey dared go up the ladder.

We are animals who are more prone to societal cues. And every time people go out to work or a store, there would be other people chiding them for not putting on a mask. Some would inquire into the reason behind it, but most people just follow and repeat what they have been conditioned to do by other people. What YOU can do is to understand there are people like that and instead of hating them, treat them with compassion. Hate won't help solve any problem.

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Except for the whole covid pandemic you're ignoring. There's a reason behind wearing the mask

[–] 1 pt

Terrain theory, read about it sometime. Or the history of the first failed vaccines by Pasteur, killed off quite a lot of livestock because of faulty thinking and honestly shitty science.

Bechamp for life

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A 2020 meta-analysis found that face masks have no detectable effect against transmission of viral infections. It found: “Compared to no masks, there was no reduction of influenza-like illness cases or influenza for masks in the general population, nor in healthcare workers.”: T Jefferson, M Jones, et al. Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses. MedRxiv. 2020 Apr 7. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.30.20047217v2

Another 2020 meta-analysis, published by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), found that evidence from randomized controlled trials of face masks did not support a substantial effect on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza, either when worn by infected persons (source control) or by persons in the general community to reduce their susceptibility: J Xiao, E Shiu, et al. Nonpharmaceutical measures for pandemic influenza in non-healthcare settings – personal protective and environmental measures. Centers for Disease Control. 26(5); 2020 May. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article

Yet another 2020 meta-analysis found that masks had no effect specifically against Covid-19, although facemask use seemed linked to, in 3 of 31 studies, “very slightly reduced” odds of developing influenza-like illness. The remainder of the 31 studies did not confirm that finding: J Brainard, N Jones, et al. Facemasks and similar barriers to prevent respiratory illness such as COVID19: A rapid systematic review. MedRxiv. 2020 Apr 1. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.01.20049528v1.full.pdf

A 2019 study of 2862 participants showed that both N95 respirators and surgical masks “resulted in no significant difference in the incidence of laboratory confirmed influenza.”: L Radonovich M Simberkoff, et al. N95 respirators vs medical masks for preventing influenza among health care personnel: a randomized clinic trial. JAMA. 2019 Sep 3. 322(9): 824-833. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2749214

A 2016 meta-analysis found that both randomized controlled trials and observational studies of N95 respirators and surgical masks used by healthcare workers did not show benefit against transmission of acute respiratory infections. It was also found that acute respiratory infection transmission “may have occurred via contamination of provided respiratory protective equipment during storage and reuse of masks and respirators throughout the workday.”: J Smith, C MacDougall. CMAJ. 2016 May 17. 188(8); 567-574. https://www.cmaj.ca/content/188/8/567

A 2011 meta-analysis of 17 studies regarding masks and effect on transmission of influenza found that “none of the studies established a conclusive relationship between mask/respirator use and protection against influenza infection.”: F bin-Reza, V Lopez, et al. The use of masks and respirators to prevent transmission of influenza: a systematic review of the scientific evidence. 2012 Jul; 6(4): 257-267. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5779801

Face mask use was likewise found to be not protective against the common cold, compared to controls without face masks among healthcare workers: J Jacobs, S Ohde, et al. Use of surgical face masks to reduce the incidence of the common cold among health care workers in Japan: a randomized controlled trial. Am J Infect Control. 2009 Jun; 37(5): 417-419. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19216002

Masks have been assumed to be effective in obstructing forward travel of viral particles. Considering those positioned next to or behind a mask wearer, there have been farther transmission of virus-laden fluid particles from masked individuals than from unmasked individuals, by means of “several leakage jets, including intense backward and downwards jets that may present major hazards,” and a “potentially dangerous leakage jet of up to several meters.” All masks were thought to reduce forward airflow by 90% or more over wearing no mask. However, Schlieren imaging showed that both surgical masks and cloth masks had farther brow jets (upward airflow past eyebrows) than not wearing any mask at all, 182 mm and 203 mm respectively, vs none discernible with no mask. Backward airflow was found to be strong with all masks compared to not masking: M Viola, B Peterson, et al. Face coverings, aerosol dispersion and mitigation of virus transmission risk. https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10720, https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2005/2005.10720.pdf

For both N95 and surgical masks, it was found that expelled particles from 0.03 to 1 micron were deflected around the edges of each mask, and that there was measurable penetration of particles through the filter of each mask: S Grinshpun, H Haruta, et al. Performance of an N95 filtering facepiece particular respirator and a surgical mask during human breathing: two pathways for particle penetration. J Occup Env Hygiene. 2009; 6(10):593-603. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15459620903120086

A study of 44 mask brands found mean 35.6% penetration (+ 34.7%). Most medical masks had over 20% penetration, while “general masks and handkerchiefs had no protective function in terms of the aerosol filtration efficiency.” The study found that “Medical masks, general masks, and handkerchiefs were found to provide little protection against respiratory aerosols.”: H Jung, J Kim, et al. Comparison of filtration efficiency and pressure drop in anti-yellow sand masks, quarantine masks, medical masks, general masks, and handkerchiefs. Aerosol Air Qual Res. 2013 Jun. 14:991-1002. https://aaqr.org/articles/aaqr-13-06-oa-0201.pdf

In another study, penetration of cloth masks by particles was almost 97% and medical masks 44%: C MacIntyre, H Seale, et al. A cluster randomized trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers. BMJ Open. 2015; 5(4) https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577.long

A meta-analysis found that N95 respirators did not provide superior protection to facemasks against viral infections or influenza-like infections: V Offeddu, C Yung, et al. Effectiveness of masks and respirators against infections in healthcare workers: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Clin Inf Dis. 65(11), 2017 Dec 1; 1934-1942

Another study found that 624 out of 714 people wearing N95 masks left visible gaps when putting on their own masks: M Walker. Study casts doubt on N95 masks for the public. MedPage Today. 2020 May 20. https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/publichealth/86601

A 2010 study found that surgical masks offered no protection at all against influenza: 16 C MacIntyre, Q Wang, et al. A cluster randomized clinical trial comparing fit-tested and non-fit-tested N95 respirators to medical masks to prevent respiratory virus infection in health care workers. Influenza J. 2010 Dec 3. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1750-2659.2011.00198.x?fbclid=IwAR3kRYVYDKb0aR- su9me9vY6a8KVR4HZ17J2A80ffXUABRQdhQlc8Wo

Another study found that surgical masks had about 85% penetration ratio of aerosolized inactivated influenza particles and about 90% of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, although S aureus particles were about 6 times the diameter of influenza particles: N Shimasaki, A Okaue, et al. Comparison of the filter efficiency of medical nonwoven fabrics against three different microbe aerosols. Biocontrol Sci. 2018; 23(2). 61-69. https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bio/23/2/23_61/_pdf/-char/en

Use of masks in surgery were found to slightly increase incidence of infection over not masking in a study of 3,088 surgeries. The surgeons’ masks were found to give no protective effect to the patients: T Tunevall. Postoperative wound infections and surgical face masks: A controlled study. World J Surg. 1991 May; 15: 383-387. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF01658736

Other studies found no difference in wound infection rates with and without surgical mask use during surgery: N Orr. Is a mask necessary in the operating theatre? Ann Royal Coll Surg Eng 1981: 63: 390-392. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2493952/pdf/annrcse01509-0009.pdf; N Mitchell, S Hunt. Surgical face masks in modern operating rooms – a costly and unnecessary ritual? J Hosp Infection. 18(3); 1991 Jul 1. 239-242. https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/0195-6701(91)90148-2/pdf

A 2015 study found that “there is a lack of substantial evidence to support claims that facemasks protect either patient or surgeon from infectious contamination.": C DaZhou, P Sivathondan, et al. Unmasking the surgeons: the evidence base behind the use of facemasks in surgery. JR Soc Med. 2015 Jun; 108(6): 223-228. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4480558

A 2020 study found that medical masks have a wide range of filtration efficiency, with most showing a 30% to 50% efficiency: L Brosseau, M Sietsema. Commentary: Masks for all for Covid-19 not based on sound data. U Minn Ctr Inf Dis Res Pol. 2020 Apr 1. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/commentary-masks-all-covid-19-not-based-sound-data

A study of aerosol penetration showed that two of the five surgical masks studied had 51% to 89% penetration of polydisperse aerosols: S Rengasamy, B Eimer, et al. Simple respiratory protection – evaluation of the filtration performance of cloth masks and common fabric materials against 20-1000 nm size particles. Ann Occup Hyg. 2010 Oct; 54(7): 789-798. https://academic.oup.com/annweh/article/54/7/789/202744

In another study, that observed subjects while coughing, “neither surgical nor cotton masks effectively filtered SARS-CoV-2 during coughs by infected patients.” And more viral particles were found on the outside than on the inside of masks tested: S Bae, M Kim, et al. Effectiveness of surgical and cotton masks in blocking SARS-CoV-2: A controlled comparison in 4 patients. Ann Int Med. 2020 Apr 6. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1342

Cloth masks were found to have low efficiency for blocking particles of 0.3 microns and smaller. Aerosol penetration through a variety of cloth masks examined was found to be between 74 and 90%. The filtration efficiency of fabric materials was 3% to 33%: S Rengasamy, B Eimer, et al. Simple respiratory protection – evaluation of the filtration performance of cloth masks and common fabric materials against 20-1000 nm size particles. Ann Occup Hyg. 2010 Oct; 54(7): 789-798. https://academic.oup.com/annweh/article/54/7/789/202744

Healthcare workers wearing cloth masks were found to have 13 times the risk of influenza-like illness than those wearing medical masks: C MacIntyre, H Seale, et al. A cluster randomized trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers. BMJ Open. 2015; 5(4) https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577.long

A 2020 Duke University study found that a likely reason for the poor effect of cloth masks is that the mesh of the mask dispersed larger expired respiratory droplets “into a multitude of smaller droplets... which explains the apparent increase in droplet count relative to no mask in that case.” It was also noted that those smaller particles are likely to stay airborne longer than larger droplets, which resulted in “counterproductive” use of these cloth masks: E Fischer, M Fischer, et al. Low-cost measurement of face mask efficacy for filtering expelled droplets during speech. Science Advances. Sep 2 2020. 6 (36). https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/36/eabd3083?fbclid=IwAR0TPVlflF_sUEiSdad6oM1NVQGO5w2S7Wfs tCIKaIJ15JJaKaDMzBkD5YY

The New England Journal of Medicine editorial on the topic of mask use versus Covid-19 assesses the matter as follows: “We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Public health authorities define a significant exposure to Covid-19 as face-to-face contact within 6 feet with a patient with symptomatic Covid-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes (and some say more than 10 minutes or even 20 minutes). The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.”: M Klompas, C Morris, et al. Universal masking in hospitals in the Covid-19 era. N Eng J Med. 2020; 382 e63. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006372

Surgical mask wearers had significantly increased dyspnea after a 6-minute walk than non-mask wearers: E Person, C Lemercier et al. Effect of a surgical mask on six minute walking distance. Rev Mal Respir. 2018 Mar; 35(3):264-268. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29395560

Researchers are concerned about possible burden of facemasks during physical activity on pulmonary, circulatory and immune systems, due to oxygen reduction and air trapping reducing substantial carbon dioxide exchange. As a result of hypercapnia, there may be cardiac overload, renal overload, and a shift to metabolic acidosis: B Chandrasekaran, S Fernandes. Exercise with facemask; are we handling a devil’s sword – a physiological hypothesis. Med Hypothese. 2020 Jun 22. 144:110002. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32590322

Healthcare workers’ surgical masks were considered as “personal bioaerosol samplers” and were found to collect and to harbor influenza virus: F Blachere, W Lindsley et al. Assessment of influenza virus exposure and recovery from contaminated surgical masks and N95 respirators. J Viro Methods. 2018 Oct; 260:98-106. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30029810

Various respiratory pathogens were found on the outer surface of used medical masks, which could result in self-contamination. The risk was found to be higher with longer duration of mask use: A Chughtai, S Stelzer-Braid, et al. Contamination by respiratory viruses on our surface of medical masks used by hospital healthcare workers. BMC Infect Dis. 2019 Jun 3; 19(1): 491. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31159777

Surgical masks were found to be a repository of bacterial contamination. The source of the bacteria was determined to be the body surface of the surgeons, rather than the operating room environment. Given that surgeons are gowned from head to foot for surgery, this finding should be especially concerning for laypeople who wear masks: L Zhiqing, C Yongyun, et al. J Orthop Translat. 2018 Jun 27; 14:57-62. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30035033

Healthcare workers wearing cloth masks had significantly higher rates of influenza-like illness after four weeks of continuous on-the-job use, when compared to controls: C MacIntyre, H Seale, et al. A cluster randomized trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers. BMJ Open. 2015; 5(4) https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577

The increased rate of infection in mask-wearers may be due to a weakening of immune function during mask use. Surgeons have been found to have lower oxygen saturation after surgeries even as short as 30 minutes: A Beder, U Buyukkocak, et al. Preliminary report on surgical mask induced deoxygenation during major surgery. Neurocirugia. 2008; 19: 121-126. http://scielo.isciii.es/pdf/neuro/v19n2/3.pdf

(from 'Masks are neither effective nor safe: A summary of the science' by Colleen Huber, NMD, https://files.catbox.moe/vq07ln.pdf)

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Out of interest, if you are in a busy place, like a queue for food, a subway or bar and you were going to sneeze, do you cover your mouth?

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i love how you think the word "pandemic" has any meaning at all anymore. you might as well say happy meal.

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I've been feeling the same way, like I'm the last sane person on the planet. Glad to hear there's someone else that lives outside of the Matrix.

[–] 3 pts

Many of us feel like that. Now we just need to unite and create communities. Easier said than done... We're jn for big troubles as the world sinks deeper into madness.

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Connect through communities. Imo the decentralized money approach will later lead to decentralized governments, run and agreed upon by us, scattered everywhere. Wander among the dead but we meet eachother and transact at a lower viscosity, discount eachother because we're serving our collective purpose, not the programmed one.

I'd say its already throughly in development. This is just the final roll call to see who's awake enough to onboard when it goes live to a degree

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