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Anonymous ID: c3d41c May 16, 2020, 4:16 a.m. No.9198142   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8281

Face Masks Pose Serious Risk to Healthy People. No Scientific Evidence That Masks Are Effective Against COVID-19 Transmission, Neurosurgeon Says

 

https://techstartups.com/2020/05/15/face-masks-pose-serious-risk-healthy-people-no-scientific-evidence-masks-effective-covid-19-transmission-neurosurgeon-says/

 

There have been a lot of debates about the effectiveness of face masks against the transmission of coronavirus. Back in March, the US Surgeon General Dr.

Jerome Adams recommended against the use of facial mask. At the time, Dr. Adam said: “The data doesn’t show that wearing masks in public will help people

during the coronavirus pandemic.” ←– [https://www.foxnews.com/media/surgeon-general-explains-masks-public-coronavirus]

 

Dr. Adams went on to say that wearing a face mask “can also give you a false sense of security.” Citing WHO and CDC, Dr. Adams said: “What the World

Health Organization [WHO] and the CDC [The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] have reaffirmed in the last few days is that they do not recommend

the general public wear masks.”

 

That all changed on April 13 after the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that Americans wear cloth masks or face

coverings when in public to try to limit the spread of the coronavirus. In a recommendation posted on its website, the CDC said: “CDC recommends wearing

cloth face coverings in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain (e.g., grocery stores and pharmacies), especially in

areas of significant community-based transmission.

 

CDC also advises the use of simple cloth face coverings to slow the spread of the virus and help people who may have the virus and do not know it from

transmitting it to others. Cloth face coverings fashioned from household items or made at home from common materials at low cost can be used as an

additional, voluntary public health measure.”

 

Dr. Adams also changed his message. He said: “In light of this new evidence, CDC recommends and the task force recommends wearing cloth face coverings

in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain,” Adams said. “These include places like grocery stores and pharmacies.

We especially recommend this in areas of significant community-based transmission. It is critical.”

 

However, the debate about face mark gets a new life after a neurosurgeon sounded alarm about its danger. Dr. Russell Blaylock, a nationally recognized

board-certified neurosurgeon, said that face masks pose serious risk to healthy people. Dr. Blaylock attended the Louisiana State University School of

Medicine and completed his internship and neurological residency at the Medical University of South Carolina. For 26 years, practiced neurosurgery in

addition to having a nutritional practice. He recently retired from his neurosurgical duties to devote his full attention to nutritional research.

 

In a long editorial published at technocracy, Dr. Blaylock said there is no scientific evidence that masks are effective against COVID-19 transmission.

 

As for the scientific support for the use of face mask, a recent careful examination of the literature, in which 17 of the best studies were analyzed, concluded

that, “ None of the studies established a conclusive relationship between mask/respirator use and protection against influenza infection.” Keep in mind, no

studies have been done to demonstrate that either a cloth mask or the N95 mask has any effect on transmission of the COVID-19 virus. Any recommendations,

therefore, have to be based on studies of influenza virus transmission. And, as you have seen, there is no conclusive evidence of their efficiency in controlling

flu virus transmission.

 

It is also instructive to know that until recently, the CDC did not recommend wearing a face mask or covering of any kind, unless a person was known to be

infected, that is, until recently. Non-infected people need not wear a mask. When a person has TB we have them wear a mask, not the entire community of

non-infected. The recommendations by the CDC and the WHO are not based on any studies of this virus and have never been used to contain any other

virus pandemic or epidemic in history.

 

Dr. Blaylock warns that not only do face masks fail to protect the healthy from getting sick, but they also create serious health risks to the wearer.

 

Now that we have established that there is no scientific evidence necessitating the wearing of a face mask for prevention, are there dangers to wearing a face mask, especially for long periods? Several studies have indeed found significant problems with wearing such a mask. This can vary from headaches, to increased airway resistance, carbon dioxide accumulation, to hypoxia, all the way to serious life-threatening complications.