> I don't understand how people assume it is healthy to breathe through a mucus-laden cotton sheet filled with microorganisms captured from the air, ...
Tell that to the millions of people who go skiing every year, or the people who work in hospitals all day long, every day.
I wash my mask every time I use it and I rotate through several of them. Nobody is asking you to wear a dirty mask.
none of that mask wearing is done at the scale and in the manner forced upon the population
nurses change their masks all the time, nobody skis every day for eight hours, (FWIW the vast majority of people skiing don't wear masks over their mouths)
> I wash my mask every time I use it and I rotate through several of them
Like every hour? If not good luck with that, it is a pit of infection, a wet and warm substrate for bacteria and fungi.
do yourself a service and read a real scientific paper on masks (pre-covid when people dared studying the negative effects) and read what happens on the inner side of a mask
in a nutshell stuff that would leave your body when you exhale will now be trapped on the inner side of your mask where it gets more and more concentrated, far more concentrated that what normally enters your lungs, the new stuff gets deposited on top the old, building it up to form a biofilm unlike any other part of the body
The microorganisms in the warm and wet environment breed, bacterial growth happens fast, doubling times can be 15 minutes. Within an hour you got yourself a bacterial colony right there in front of your mouth, every breath you take is filtered through that mucus laden bacterial colony
Would you like to quote a 'real scientific paper' for me to read? Or just have a snarky response.
People have been wearing face coverings since the dawn of time.
Can you tell me the number of deaths attributed to wearing a mask? I can't even google it since all the things that come up now are recommendations to wear a mask.
> in a nutshell stuff that would leave your body when you exhale will now be trapped on the inner side of your mask
If you want to take the 'it is just a flu argument'... I'm more worried about catching covid than I am about the microorganisms coming out of my own breath. They are already in me, in a very concentrated form.
Tell that to the millions of people who go skiing every year, or the people who work in hospitals all day long, every day.
I wash my mask every time I use it and I rotate through several of them. Nobody is asking you to wear a dirty mask.