Medical facemasks, or more generally, obstructing your airway, have been linked to a rise in cases of the Wuhan flu and death. Additionally, evidence and research link face mask-wearing to other illnesses, including cancer and increased exposure to other pathogens, as well as a wealth of additional research on how they don’t help are bad for you, and now – confirming research similar to what we’ve already published, toxins baked into the mask before you ever put them on.
From Science Direct (archived at the National Institutes for Health): “Wearing face masks as a potential source for inhalation and oral uptake of inanimate toxins – A scoping review.”
24 studies were included (experimental time 17 min to 15 days) evaluating content and/or release in 631 masks (273 surgical, 228 textile and 130 N95 masks). Most studies (63%) showed alarming results with high micro- and nanoplastics (MPs and NPs) release and exceedances could also be evidenced for volatile organic compounds (VOCs), xylene, acrolein, per-/polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), phthalates (including di(2-ethylhexyl)-phthalate, DEHP) and for Pb, Cd, Co, Cu, Sb and TiO2.
Which means what?
Undoubtedly, mask mandates during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic have been generating an additional source of potentially harmful exposition to toxins with health threatening and carcinogenic properties at population level with almost zero distance to the airways.
As previously reported, the stuff of which masks are made results in the potential for exposure to a long list of harmful chemicals that are detrimental to your health before we even revisit the matter of blocking your airway and trapping carbon dioxide, which is rebreathed. None of this is a conspiracy. It is a medical fact. That’s what happens, but as this research points out, there has only recently been an increase in interest in what that means to a population, both physically and psychologically.
Nano-Plastics
Chemicals and hypoxia are not the only problems. Any recent rise in nano and micro plastics in human beings is probably due to mask mandates (although we’ve shared evidence of complicity from wind turbines as well).
Exposure to plastic particles has increased continuously in the modern world (Prata et al., 2019), but the obligations to wear masks around the world during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic 2020–2023 (Face covering policies during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2023) has increased this exposure even further (Tesfaldet and Ndeh, 2022). Recent environmental studies have reported that plastic-based personal protective equipment (PPE) releases substantial amounts of NPs and MPs, to the environment (De-la-Torre et al., 2021; Fadare and Okoffo, 2020). The NPs and MPs released from face masks were detected even in marine organisms showing their broad distribution (Chen et al., 2021; Khan and Jia, 2023). Once released, these MPs and NPs (MPs, < 5 mm, NPs, < 1 µm) originating from masks pose a delayed indirect environmental health risk to humans regarding oral uptake and inhalation (Du et al., 2022).
Synthetic macromolecules with repeating units (plastic polymers) are the primary component of all types of face masks (Khan and Jia, 2023). This fact is responsible for the mask being a significant source of plastic fiber and particle release
This research is fascinating, haunting, and devastating (not to mention affirming). Did you know that “the release of MPs and NPs is predominantly higher for the N95 type when compared to the surgical mask”?
In the evaluated literature we found a possible maximal release of MPs up to 5390 particles per mask within 24 h (Zuri et al., 2022) and a maximum mass loss of 0.831 mg/N95 mask (particles and fibers) during 24 h (Liang et al., 2022).
When worn properly, which means no touching or adjusting, it still increases particulates. And I see people regularly who are still wearing these who won’t understand why they will develop complex chronic respiratory distress despite their diligence sooner or later.
If you know anyone who is still on the fence about medical face masks, send them this. If you know anyone who wears them but appears open-minded enough to at least consider a competing view, send them this. And the next time someone in some assumed position of authority proposes facemasks, send them this not to be contrary but in the interest of informed consent.
You can wear a mask, but there are risks, and this is what you are signing up for; I just thought you’d want to know.
