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.”
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.
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Common sense should tell us breathing back in our own exhaust is not good for us. Pretty sure past generations had enough common sense to know this instrinctively. We each have millions upon millions of viruses to take out the trash in our bodies, and here are those who want to breathe it all right back in again. So, less oxygen for their brains to give risk of stroke, less oxygen for their lungs to give hypoxia, for their hearts to give a heart attack, for their muscles to give cramps. What could go wrong. If they were told to jump off a cliff, would they?