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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Really? Yes if you wear any sort of simple mask you do re-inhale some of the CO2 you have exhaled, but considering the millions of days spent wearing over many decades by millions of medical staff, paint-sprayers, power-tool users etc., many of who have successfully bred, one would have thought all these possible problems would have been identified long ago.
Rater like those who try to scare us about "electromagnetic fields"... and use the Internet to tell us so.
We all know why you are so glad to see and spread such an article though - you oppose anything that might protect us each and each other in pandemics of highly-infectious respiratory diseases.
Rater like those who try to scare us about "electromagnetic fields"... and use the Internet to tell us so.
We all know why you are so glad to see and spread such an article though - you oppose anything that might protect us each and each other in pandemics of highly-infectious respiratory diseases.
WalterF · 70-79, M
@ArishMell "Really?" you say? Apparently it's really so, as this, one of many studies, has demonstrated it.
Surely we need to make a distinction between professionals working with dangerous substances (assuredly significantly less than 1% of any population) , and everyman Joe Public (99%) , who should NOT be compelled to wear a mask. Especially when he is elderly and generally fragile, when masks can increase the danger to him. Have you read the results of any studies on the deposits of microbes and bacteria found on masks after a little use? Not reassuring.
Surely we need to make a distinction between professionals working with dangerous substances (assuredly significantly less than 1% of any population) , and everyman Joe Public (99%) , who should NOT be compelled to wear a mask. Especially when he is elderly and generally fragile, when masks can increase the danger to him. Have you read the results of any studies on the deposits of microbes and bacteria found on masks after a little use? Not reassuring.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@WalterF Very droll! There you go again - anything done by anyone with the best will in the world to look after us at public level, you can only ever attack, deride, sneer at and attack again.
Never any considered analysis, no thinking of hazard and risk you do presumably know are not synonyms; no constructive alternatives to possible, genuine flaws: just If The Government Done It, It Must Be Wrong.
WHY?
As it happens my portable 'phone would not be able to receive these warnings, but I understand they are already used in several other countries to warn of impending cyclones and the like.
Never any considered analysis, no thinking of hazard and risk you do presumably know are not synonyms; no constructive alternatives to possible, genuine flaws: just If The Government Done It, It Must Be Wrong.
WHY?
As it happens my portable 'phone would not be able to receive these warnings, but I understand they are already used in several other countries to warn of impending cyclones and the like.