Read on Twitter
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
