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Thread with links to papers on health problems from masks
1. Headaches: subjects wearing surgical masks experienced an average 4.9 days of headaches in 77 days compared to 1.3 days for those without masks. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19216002/
1. Headaches: subjects wearing surgical masks experienced an average 4.9 days of headaches in 77 days compared to 1.3 days for those without masks. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19216002/
2. Self-contamination: People who have received no training in how to don a mask, how to avoid touching it and their faces, and how to safely remove it are very likely to contaminate themselves, since medically trained staff do so. https://www.cmaj.ca/content/175/3/249
3. Sleepiness from lower oxygen and higher CO2 levels inside the mask makes accidents from operating lab equipment or machinery more likely. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18500410/
4. Skin damage: 41.5% of staff wearing a mask <6 hours a day reported skin damage to their cheeks, rising to 58.5% for >6 hours. The skin damage suffered ranged from mild (desquamation, i.e. peeling skin, 62.2% of participants) to serious (ulcers, 10.1%). https://www.jaad.org/article/S0190-9622(20)30392-3/pdf
5. Staphylococcal skin infections such as impetigo, while usually a problem for young children, have been shown to be caused in adults by mask wearing. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dth.13636
6. Masks act as “personal bioaerosol samplers” and pose an indirect contact transmission risk. This is especially likely to be the case for non-medically trained staff. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30029810/
7. The health effects of cloth masks may be closer to those of veils than close-fitting N95 masks. Ventilator function was found to be 28-30% lower among Saudi Arabian women who wear the niqab. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/244485085_Effect_of_face_veil_on_ventilator_function_among_Saudi_adult_females/link/54bd4eb60cf218d4a16a25b6/download
8. Asthma is significantly more common among Saudi Arabian women who wear a veil, probably as a result of prior infection. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1081/JAS-100001497
9. Mental health: 60% of Germans report serious psycho-social damage due to the mask mandate, e.g. social withdrawal, reduced health self-care (e.g. avoiding doctor's appointments) or the intensification of prior health problems (PTSD, herpes, migraines) https://corona-transition.org/der-maskenzwang-ist-verantwortlich-fur-schwere-psychische-schaden-und-die
10. The 0.25% CO2 that comes about within a few seconds of donning a mask robs you of your initiative and sense of strategy. You can still carry out basic motor tasks, which is all the cabal needs you to do. https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/full/10.1289/ehp.1104789?rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&url_ver=Z39.88-2003&
11. In a 2020 study of New York healthcare staff, over 90% suffered health damage from wearing masks. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/bdea/3aef30775ad4505dc7a7c19e9b41ff89baef.pdf
12. Not health damage, but when you wear them all day they don’t bloody work! After 2 hours subjects emitted as many bacteria as if they weren’t wearing a mask. http://www.ijic.info/article/view/10788
If you know of another particularly good paper showing the health damage caused by masks, ideally with one good chart, please reply or PM me and I'll add it into the next version of this list.
