Face masks may raise the risk of stillbirths, testicular dysfunction and cognitive decline in children, new research suggests.
The reason? According to a review of dozens of studies on face coverings, they can cause carbon dioxide poisoning when worn over long periods. DailyMail.com has more.
The German academics who carried out the research believe masks create a pocket of dead space between the mouth and mask, which traps the toxic gas.
They say the build-up of CO2 in pregnant women’s bodies could cause complications for the unborn fetus. They point out that CO2 also contributes to oxidative stress, which can affect cognition and cause testicular issues in men.
But independent doctors have questioned the conclusions of the study — which never directly looked at health complications and mask use, describing the link as “unlikely”.
Alluding to the surge in stillbirths during the pandemic, the German researchers said: “Circumstantial evidence exists that popular mask use may be related to current observations of a significant rise of 28% to 33% in stillbirths worldwide.“
“[And] reduced verbal, motor, and overall cognitive performance of two full standard deviations in scores in children born during the pandemic,” the researchers wrote in the paper, published in the journal Heliyon.
But the study could not conclusively prove that the masks were directly responsible for any of these complications. …
The German research team gathered data from 43 previously published studies on exposure to CO2, mask-wearing and pregnancy.
They found that after wearing a mask for more than five minutes, CO2 levels in the inhaled air rose to between 1.4% and 3.2%.
One mask study conducted in Germany, researchers measured the CO2 concentration of air behind surgical masks worn by 15 healthy men. Within 30 minutes, the CO2 concentration rose to roughly 2.8-3.2%.
In another study in Italy, scientists measured the air under surgical masks worn in a lab and found a concentration between 0.22 and 0.29% within five minutes.
Masks provide breathing resistance and create a dead space that traps CO2, leading to more inhaled and re-breathed CO2, the reviewers said.
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But what a colossal waste. I mean, if you can make clothes out of Coke bottles surely they could’ve recycled these into something actually useful and given them a second life. Also what was wrong with giving them to hospital theatre departments, dentists and other health care settings that routinely use them?
Going out of date. Yes, masks have a ‘Use by’…
Crikey! Who knew?
But I still refuse to believe they couldn’t have done something constructive with them. Even making hamster bedding or nappies would’ve been better than just burning them.
You’re ignoring the fact that Germany’s short of fuel for its power stations atm…
Who would have thunk?! plastic has a use by date!
So did some salt I bought. Been around for millions of years but suddenly due to be out of date, probably turning into uranium or something!
They should have put them into a huge perspex cube and placed that somewhere near the Reichstag building to commemorate the FRG’s finest hour.
They could have entered them for the Turner Prize.
What are these items unable to do after the expiration date that they were able to do prior to it?
Seems a waste of energy – they could surely flog them off for DIY purposes. Might keep a bit of sawdust from entering the nose even if they are useless against viruses.
No good for DIY either as they don’t fit properly to keep out the dust. Basically useless for anything but carrying snot and germs around on! My grandsons cloth mask was disgusting by the end of a schoolday!
I suspect someone somewhere has made a lot of money from the procurement of masks in Germany.
That is an absolutely outrageous comment. Contracts will have been exchanged in good faith.
Wow, this is a classic example of Poe’s Law.
What’s poes law?
I guess it’s marginally better than them ending up in the ocean. But if you’re gonna burn it, then you know you’re gonna breathe it, like the song goes.
And … that’s the punchline … all trials of politicians (mostly national and state MPs) who secured huge provisions to help providers get mask deals resulted in not guilty verdicts. Democracy at its finest.
Secondary punchline: The national German mask industry which was created with huge state subsidies so that masks would be available in case the Chinese would ever stop selling them never produced a single mask for anyone as they couldn’t competitively do so. At one point, they demanded federal regulations for environmental and workplace standards to render Chinese masks unsellable to ensure that their absolutely security-critical facilities could actually operate.
Quintuples all around.
Everything about Corona is such a multifaceted ridiculous farce.
Indeed, but it has revealed just how useless, corrupt and pig ignorant our politicians, institutions and media actually are.
Couldn’t Germany have used all that energy to heat their homes?
I wouldn’t mind resurrecting a medieval custom for a few days and thermally reprocessing a few people who are responsible for the COVID policies they’ve tormented us with for 3 years, and watch them go up in smoke with their beloved masks. It would be a gruesome and yet strangely poetic ending.
Now that’s something I’d bang a few pots and pans for and I’d willingly contribute some fuel to start the thermal reprocessing.
“Everything about Corona is such a multifaceted ridiculous farce.”
Yep, just about sums the last 34 months.
Trouble is it’s still going on, masks in hospitals and even some schools apparently. I have written twice now to my local health authority CEO asking what rationale he has for mask wearing in medical environments and answer come there none. Still if Rebel News can’t get an answer out of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla or Greta Thunberg at Davos what Hope have I?
Thermal Reprocessing. Is this a way we can deplete the worlds gas and oil reserves in a more environmentally jargoned manner, by distillation, refraction, and industrial processing all requiring the newly established and environmentally acceptable system of thermal reprocessing
I hope they burnt them by battery!
You don’t want to go burning things using fossil fools!