Medical Chief: Face masks can increase risk of infection
Members of the public could be putting themselves more at risk from contracting coronavirus by wearing face masks, one of England’s most senior doctors has warned. Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer, said the masks could “actually trap the virus” and cause the person wearing it to breathe it in.
“For the average member of the public walking down a street, it is not a good idea” to wear a face mask in the hope of preventing infection, she added.
Sales of the masks have sky-rocketed since the Covid-19 outbreak began, with retailers including Boots and Amazon selling out of the products before the virus had even taken hold in the UK.
Asked about their effectiveness, Dr Harries told BBC News: “What tends to happen is people will have one mask. They won’t wear it all the time, they will take it off when they get home, they will put it down on a surface they haven’t cleaned.
“Or they will be out and they haven’t washed their hands, they will have a cup of coffee somewhere, they half hook it off, they wipe something over it.
“In fact, you can actually trap the virus in the mask and start breathing it in.”
Asked if people are putting themselves more at risk by wearing masks, Dr Harries added:
“Because of these behavioural issues, people can adversely put themselves at more risk than less.”
However, she said those who are advised to wear one by healthcare workers should follow their guidance. Demand for face masks in China, where the coronavirus outbreak began, exceeded 200 million a day in January, prompting manufacturers to cancel staff leave and increase wages to ramp up production.
But Jake Dunning, head of emerging infections and zoonoses [infectious disease spread between humans and animals] at Public Health England, told The Independent there was “very little evidence of a widespread benefit” from wearing them.
“Face masks must be worn correctly, changed frequently, removed properly, disposed of safely and used in combination with good universal hygiene behaviour in order for them to be effective,” he added.
Read more at www.independent.co.uk
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Charles Higley
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The WHO website actually says that masks cannot cause hypercapnia or reduced blood oxygenation. They are lying. It is clear that the outward flow of air away from the face from the nose or mouth during exhalation is diffused by a mask such that it goes out in all directions. The next inhalation, caused by decreased air pressure in the lungs, pulls in air from around the faced from all directions. To pretend that a mask does not interfere with a person receiving fresh air with each breath is to LIE to the public.
An interesting effect in information from authorities is that it sometimes appears that information from the CDC or WHO is driven by the need to deny the real science of disease and physics. Just the idea that asymptomatic positive-test people would then be carriers, and for the President, he would be a Supercarrier (of course), is a joke as such carriers are rare in history, which is why Typhoid Mary is famous. Now they want us to believe that 25% of the population are asymptomatic carriers and we have to be fearful of everyone, as (cringe and looking around) you never know who might be a carrier.
This all reminds be of first grade kids who talk about other kids having Kooties and there is no way you can convince someone you do not have Kooties because they do not exist. Truly a case go Gas-Lighting the public.
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Dean Michael Jackson
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” Just the idea that asymptomatic positive-test people would then be carriers…”
By medical definition a disease can only occur when one is actually sick, one can’t be not sick, not showing symptoms, but said to also have a disease, be sick! Being sick involves symptoms, symptoms being the body’s mechanism for remedying the disease.
Those who are asymptomatic or presymptomatic can’t spread a disease because they are not sick, being sick is required for having a disease, therefore one can’t spread a disease. And the reason asymptomatic and presymptomatic aren’t sick – don’t have a disease – is because of the low amount of virions in the lungs that are immediately destroyed by the lung’s mucus lining. Mucus has a salt content of 1%,[1] while for virions it’s 7%. Mucus’ salt content is at least seven times less than that of a virus, whereby the virus explodes through its uncontrolled intake of saliva and mucus’ water. Only when one is sick, where virions are massive in amount compared to numbers for asymptomatic, then mucus in the lungs is no longer capable of destroying all the virions, which is why the body initiates coughing and sneezing that ejects tens of thousands of virions, many still having their envelops that allow for infection; those who are sick can’t spread the disease by mere talking or breathing either, because those ‘independent’ virions not ejected en masse by coughing or sneezing were earlier destroyed by mucus. That’s why it can take up to thirty minutes for transmission to occur between two parties…it took thirty minutes for the diseased individual to cough or sneeze:
“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 30 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.”
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006372
[1] https://healthtalk.unchealthcare.org/mucus-our-bodys-silent-defender/
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Dev
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Exactly – rational comprehension of breathing is completely obvious – masks are obstruction -1
masks retain residual co2 -2 which obviates incrementl O2 deficiency! -3
No risk assessment! -4
Unlicenced mass psychological behavioural modification -5
illegal & prosecutable -6
If there is no legal system it has to be created from the bottom up!
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Dean Michael Jackson
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Oral Health identified itself as a Marxist rag by removing the October 18 2016 article that addressed the science that wearing masks offers no protection to the wearer, when in fact wearing masks are dangerous by (1) rebreathing exhaled viruses, bacteria and fungi, thereby inhibiting the body’s mechanism for respiratory health, leading to respiratory infections as viral, bacterial and fungal loads are increased; and (2) inhaling with each breath 40x more carbon dioxide than with unobstructive masks, thereby activating dormant viruses.
With children the damage is more critical, because children require 50% more oxygen by body mass than an adult, leading to (1) physical and cognitive deficits as the growth process is interrupted, leading to (a) subnormal body mass and height; and (b) subnormal brain mass and associated cognitive deficits; and (2) system wide cancers due to cellular interruption in required oxygen levels.
The 2016 article is supposed to be here…
https://www.oralhealthgroup.com/features/face-masks-dont-work-revealing-review/
The following is the conclusion taken from removed article that outs the Marxist establishment’s purpose for the COVID-19 ‘pantasy’, that being the “abolition of religion”, and the destruction of those civilizations “whose spiritual aroma is religion”:
“Conclusions
The primary reason for mandating the wearing of face masks is to protect dental personnel from airborne pathogens. This review has established that face masks are incapable of providing such a level of protection. Unless the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, national and provincial dental associations and regulatory agencies publically admit this fact, they will be guilty of perpetuating a myth which will be a disservice to the dental profession and its patients. It would be beneficial if, as a consequence of the review, all present infection control recommendations were subjected to the same rigorous testing as any new clinical intervention. Professional associations and governing bodies must ensure the clinical efficacy of quality improvement procedures prior to them being mandated. It is heartening to know that such a trend is gaining a momentum which might reveal the inadequacies of other long held dental infection control assumptions. Surely, the hallmark of a mature profession is one which permits new evidence to trump established beliefs. In 1910, Dr. C. Chapin, a public health pioneer, summarized this idea by stating, “We should not be ashamed to change our methods; rather, we should be ashamed not to do so.” 36 Until this occurs, as this review has revealed, dentists have nothing to fear by unmasking.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20170512002228/https://www.oralhealthgroup.com/features/face-masks-dont-work-revealing-review/
At my blog, bead the articles…
‘House of Cards: The Collapse of the ‘Collapse’ of the USSR’
‘Playing Hide And Seek In Yugoslavia’
Then read the article, ‘The Marxist Co-Option Of History And The Use Of The Scissors Strategy To Manipulate History Towards The Goal Of Marxist Liberation’
Solution
The West will form new political parties where candidates are vetted for Marxist ideology/blackmail, the use of the polygraph to be an important tool for such vetting. Then the West can finally liberate the globe of vanguard Communism.
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https://djdnotice.blogspot.com/2018/09/d-notice-articles-article-55-7418.html
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