WORLD NEWS AND COMMENTARY from Jeff Childers

'Whoopsies! More bad news for mask lovers. Another study critical of the mouth bandages ran about two weeks ago in the journal Public Health, titled “Physio-metabolic and clinical consequences of wearing face masks—Systematic review with meta-analysis and comprehensive evaluation.”

Rather than measuring how ineffective masks were at filtering viruses or preventing covid transmission, these researchers measured various health indicators on the people who WORE the masks. What they found was not good. Mask wearers had: decreased blood oxygen, increased blood CO2, increased heart rates, higher blood pressure, more difficulty breathing, higher skin temperatures, and higher reports of headaches, acne, skin irritations, feeling overheated, voice disorders, and dizziness.

Gosh.
Worse still, the researchers found that even short-term mask wearing can cause long-term medical problems, coining the term “mask-induced exhaustion-syndrome (MIES).” They even attributed that some “long covid” cases are really “long mask” cases:

Though evaluated wearing durations are shorter than daily/prolonged use, outcomes independently validate mask-induced exhaustion-syndrome (MIES) and down-stream physio-metabolic disfunctions. MIES can have long-term clinical consequences, especially for vulnerable groups. So far, several mask related symptoms may have been misinterpreted as long COVID-19 symptoms. In any case, the possible MIES contrasts with the WHO definition of health.
If they are right, and even some long-covid is really MIES, chalk up another massive fail by the public health establishment and add to the bill a lot of injured people who would otherwise have been just fine.

The researchers’ ultimate conclusion was stark:

In the absence of strong empirical evidence of effectiveness, mask wearing should not be mandated let alone enforced by law.
This helps explain why some people are still wearing the silly face rags. Their brains ARE broken.'

[coffeeandcovid.com]