I'll use it, but they love wearing the masks so much. To them it's a display of what good people they are. And it's the first time they've ever felt important.
The majority of deaths in the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic likely resulted directly from secondary bacterial pneumonia caused by common upper respiratory–tract bacteria. Less substantial data from the subsequent 1957 and 1968 pandemics are consistent with these findings.
Using culture approaches and 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing, we analyzed the microbial community on surgical and/or cotton face masks of 13 healthy volunteers after 4 h of wearing. Cotton and surgical masks contained on average 1.46 × 105 CFU/mask and 1.32 × 104 CFU/mask, respectively. Bacillus, Staphylococcus, and Acinetobacter spp. were mostly cultured from the masks and 43% of these isolates were resistant to ampicillin or erythromycin. [...] According to dedicated questions in the large-scale Corona survey of the University of Antwerp with almost 25,000 participants, only 21% of responders reported to clean their cotton face mask daily. [...] Taken together, this study suggests that a considerable number of bacteria, including pathobionts and antibiotic resistant bacteria, accumulate on surgical and even more on cotton face masks after use.
Good stuff. I’ve saved this before as well. The most interesting part of all of these studies is the fact that surgical masks either do nothing for post-surgery infection rates, or they actually make things worse. Pretty crazy to learn that even surgeons shouldn’t wear masks.
[ + ] yesiknow
[ - ] yesiknow 2 points 3.3 yearsDec 29, 2021 18:44:32 ago (+2/-0)
[ + ] thebearfromstartrack4
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[ + ] GloryBeckons
[ - ] GloryBeckons 1 point 3.3 yearsDec 29, 2021 21:00:05 ago (+1/-0)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2599911/
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2021.732047/full
Meanwhile:
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-pneumonia-idUSKCN26E2NA
We will never know how many people have been killed by masks, because any attempt to pursue that question is immediately and systematically shut down.
But, whatever that number is, it is certainly far from 0.
[ + ] ReturnOfTheGoats
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