Plan B Forum

Is at this link.

https://www.michaelzwilliamson.com/cms/index.php

World Health Organization:

https://www.who.int/?fbclid=IwAR3QOlTdf ... tiYW4tBiIM

From the WHO: There is limited evidence that wearing a medical mask by healthy individuals in the households or among contacts of a sick patient, or among attendees of mass gatherings may be beneficial as a preventive measure.14-23 However, there is currently no evidence that wearing a mask (whether medical or other types) by healthy persons in the wider community setting, including universal community masking, can prevent them from infection with respiratory viruses, including COVID-19.

Prolonged wearing of the surgical mask causes loss of intellect potential and cognitive performance due to a decrease in blood oxygen and subsequent brain hypoxia. Note - some changes may be irreversible.

Quote doesn't appear anywhere at the link provided. Did the "author" think that no one would check?

"Report on surgical mask induced deoxygenation during major surgery" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18500410

"Seventy percent of the patients showed a reduction in partial pressure of oxygen (PaO2), and 19% developed various degrees of hypoxemia. Wearing an N95 mask significantly reduced the PaO2 level"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15340662

"Wearing N95 masks results in hypooxygenemia and hypercapnia which reduce working efficiency and the ability to make correct decision."

I guess it's a good thing, then, that the public has been advised to use NON-medical masks i.e. not surgical or N95 masks.

CDC

Outside the health care and medical transport settings, CDC does not recommend the routine use of respirators. Most people who develop SARS become infected through contact with other people who are ill with SARS, not by breathing contaminated air. If a person does contact the SARS virus, it is most likely to be on a surface such as a door knob. The best protection from SARS in public places, (including workplaces other than health care and medical transport settings) is to wash your hands frequently and avoid touching your eyes or nose. [COVID is SARS-CoV-2]

I guess it's a good thing, then, that no one is advising the general public to use respirators.

National Institute of Health

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl ... _IJyKKv8rs

"No direct evidence indicates that public mask wearing protects either the wearer or others."

The quote in context actually reads: "When we apply the principles of evidence-based medicine to public policy, there is high-quality, consistent evidence that many (but not all) cloth masks reduce droplet and aerosol transmission and may be effective in reducing contamination of the environment by any virus, including SARS-CoV-2. No direct evidence indicates that public mask wearing protects either the wearer or others. Given the severity of this pandemic and the difficulty of control, we suggest that the possible benefit of a modest reduction in transmission likely outweighs the possibility of harm. Reduced outward transmission and reduced contamination of the environment are the major proposed mechanisms"

U Minn

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspec ... 3sRjni3HhY COMMENTARY: Masks-for-all for COVID-19 not based on sound data

A cloth mask or face covering does very little to prevent the emission or inhalation of small particles. As discussed in an earlier CIDRAP commentary and more recently by Morawska and Milton (2020) in an open letter to WHO signed by 239 scientists, inhalation of small infectious particles is not only biologically plausible, but the epidemiology supports it as an important mode of transmission for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Oh, look another cherry picked quote that neglects a key conclusion - "we support the wearing of face coverings by the public when mandated and when in close contact with people whose infection status they don't know", as well as the following update: "The authors and CIDRAP have received requests in recent weeks to remove this article from the CIDRAP website. Reasons have included: (1) we don’t truly know that cloth masks (face coverings) are not effective, since the data are so limited, (2) wearing a cloth mask or face covering is better than doing nothing, (3) the article is being used by individuals and groups to support non-mask wearing where mandated and (4) there are now many modeling studies suggesting that cloth masks or face coverings could be effective at flattening the curve and preventing many cases of infection."

So the cow is still standing firmly on four legs.

In future, try actually reading the shit you dig up before you post it.

I went to the linked website and wanted to know more, so I clicked on "About" and received the following message:

"The requested page can't be found."

Hmmm...