This image was taken on a Lufthansa flight October 2013 . I am wearing the mask to avoid toxic fumes and other pollution in the cabin. (©tvbmedia)
Is wearing a Mask Fun?
Sun, Jul 26 2020, 3:43 PM
No, wearing a mask is not really fun...BUT.
There's a lot of false "facts" going around, creating another panic. So here's my research based experience . First: masks do not give us CO2 poisonings and do not reduce oxygen levels... if they did, I'd be dead and doctors, nurses and millions of people in other fields that require them to wear a mask would be passing out on a regular basis. Where do people come up with this stuff?! I have been using/testing masks for over 20 years, and have worn them on long flights to i.e. South Africa and on shopping trips to town, when refilling my car with petrol, or walking in city traffic - so anything from 30 minutes to many hours, non-stop. When flying it was to protect my lungs from filthy, polluted cabin air and the disinsection spraying processes before landing - not to forget all the "lovely" chemical fragrances other passengers and crew drown themselves in, the fumes of which cause people like me lots of problems!
Actually: such fumes cause breathing problems, NOT the wearing of masks to protect me from them!
I never ever passed out or felt ill because of wearing a mask. I DO feel ill and CAN pass out from toxic fumes!
HOWEVER: I always used high-quality FFP2 or FFP3 masks with integrated filtering linings of i.e activated carbon and now, for improved protection against viruses, silver lining. I never used surgical masks. Heavy-duty half- or full-face respirators are the ones that can be difficult to wear over a longer period of time, but then THEY really seal off and one has to breathe harder due to the cartridges. I have one of those handy as well.
I think that being rather safe than sorry at this moment in time is better than defending some sort of (imagined?) deprivation of personal liberty. It is not helping those of us who actually have (other) reasons for wearing a mask - those who have a lowered immune systems due to chemo, or COPD, or other respiratory problems following i.e. inhalation of toxic fumes (example: in aircraft cabin air)and who should really wear a mask for protection - on the contrary.
Videos: Medical Staff/Physicians demonstrating masks and O2 levels:
1) https://youtu.be/k5npQivAmcE
2) https://youtu.be/ChD4zmdruhQ
3) https://youtu.be/0ZEYFgmXrLc
Studies: The preponderance of evidence indicates that mask wearing reduces the transmissibility per contact by reducing transmission of infected droplets in both laboratory and clinical contexts. Public mask wearing is most effective at stopping spread of the virus when compliance is high.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0843-2
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.22.20109231v4
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31142-9/fulltext
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202004.0203/v1
MASK INFO for Passengers&Crew and additional info for CREW
Sun, Jul 26 2020, 3:43 PM
No, wearing a mask is not really fun...BUT.
There's a lot of false "facts" going around, creating another panic. So here's my research based experience . First: masks do not give us CO2 poisonings and do not reduce oxygen levels... if they did, I'd be dead and doctors, nurses and millions of people in other fields that require them to wear a mask would be passing out on a regular basis. Where do people come up with this stuff?! I have been using/testing masks for over 20 years, and have worn them on long flights to i.e. South Africa and on shopping trips to town, when refilling my car with petrol, or walking in city traffic - so anything from 30 minutes to many hours, non-stop. When flying it was to protect my lungs from filthy, polluted cabin air and the disinsection spraying processes before landing - not to forget all the "lovely" chemical fragrances other passengers and crew drown themselves in, the fumes of which cause people like me lots of problems!
Actually: such fumes cause breathing problems, NOT the wearing of masks to protect me from them!
I never ever passed out or felt ill because of wearing a mask. I DO feel ill and CAN pass out from toxic fumes!
HOWEVER: I always used high-quality FFP2 or FFP3 masks with integrated filtering linings of i.e activated carbon and now, for improved protection against viruses, silver lining. I never used surgical masks. Heavy-duty half- or full-face respirators are the ones that can be difficult to wear over a longer period of time, but then THEY really seal off and one has to breathe harder due to the cartridges. I have one of those handy as well.
I think that being rather safe than sorry at this moment in time is better than defending some sort of (imagined?) deprivation of personal liberty. It is not helping those of us who actually have (other) reasons for wearing a mask - those who have a lowered immune systems due to chemo, or COPD, or other respiratory problems following i.e. inhalation of toxic fumes (example: in aircraft cabin air)and who should really wear a mask for protection - on the contrary.
Videos: Medical Staff/Physicians demonstrating masks and O2 levels:
1) https://youtu.be/k5npQivAmcE
2) https://youtu.be/ChD4zmdruhQ
3) https://youtu.be/0ZEYFgmXrLc
Studies: The preponderance of evidence indicates that mask wearing reduces the transmissibility per contact by reducing transmission of infected droplets in both laboratory and clinical contexts. Public mask wearing is most effective at stopping spread of the virus when compliance is high.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0843-2
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.22.20109231v4
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31142-9/fulltext
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202004.0203/v1
MASK INFO for Passengers&Crew and additional info for CREW
