Before 2020, I don’t think you’ll find many articles on GraniteGrok about medical facemasks or face covering with an alleged medical purpose. Maybe one or two. It’s 2023, and we’ve got close to 400 of them, and guess what?
“Masks interfered with O2-uptake and CO2-release and compromised respiratory compensation,” the review states. “Though evaluated wearing durations are shorter than daily/prolonged use, outcomes independently validate mask-induced exhaustion-syndrome (MIES) and down-stream physio-metabolic disfunctions. MIES can have long-term clinical consequences, especially for vulnerable groups.”
Continuous rebreathing of carbon dioxide results in the “right-shift of hemoglobin-O2 saturation curve.”
“Since O2 and CO2 homeostasis influences diverse down-stream metabolic processes, corresponding changes toward clinically concerning directions may lead to unfavorable consequences such as transient hypoxemia and hypercarbia, increased breath humidity, and body temperature along with compromised physiological compensations,” the review states.
The review also said that several mask-related symptoms may have been misinterpreted as symptoms of long COVID. “In any case, the possible MIES contrasts with the WHO definition of health,” it states, referring to the World Health Organization.
None of this, I admit, is new to you, who have been reading here or sending us links to similar research for as long as we’ve been told we have to wear facemasks. It is data these researchers sifted at length to arrive at their summary. This a conclusion that makes perfect sense in a world where politicians won’t make room for it.
It suggested that the side effects of face masks be assessed based on risk-benefit analysis after taking into consideration their effectiveness against viral transmissions. If “strong empirical evidence” showing the effectiveness of masks is absent, the study recommended that wearing masks should not be mandated, “let alone enforced by law.”
Red Bull does not give you actual wings, but politicos, so-called public health experts, the media (which knows little about anything), and the Karens would have you believe it will if that advances the correct agenda.
Before the COVID mandates, the evidence on masking was clear as vodka. Medical masks worn by professionals – the ones they asked you to use – are not meant to prevent viral transmission. They are incapable of it, and the manufacturers have long been required to state as much to avoid being called out by consumer advocacy groups, government agents, or agencies pretending to be about consumer protection.
At best, they might prevent you from spitting on someone or them on you, but that’s not how airborne viruses find new hosts. Viability on surfaces is fleeting and inefficient. It can happen, but the perceived benefit does not outweigh the risk, including the threat mandates present to natural rights and liberties.
We’ve said it many times. Freedom is far more fragile and rare than human life, so preserving it is job one, and too many of us are still sleeping on the job, and a few of us are still wearing facemasks that don’t do any of the things attributed to them but can cause medical harm.
