A study from South Korea has found that N95 masks can release harmful chemicals at levels eight times higher than safety guidelines suggest. The Mailhas the story.
The surgical N95 mask has been held up as the gold standard when it comes to protecting against Covid.
But a study quietly re-shared by the National Institutes of Health in spring suggests the tight-fitting mask may expose users to dangerous levels of toxic chemicals.
Researchers from Jeonbuk National University in South Korea looked at two types of disposable medical-grade masks, as well as several reusable cotton masks.
The study found that the chemicals released by these masks had eight times the recommended safety limit of toxic volatile organic compounds (TVOCs).
Inhaling TVOCs has been linked to health issues like headaches and nausea, while prolonged and repeated use has been linked to organ damage and even cancer.
Samples A1 through B3 represent disposable masks, whereas samples C1 through E4 are cloth masks. Disposable masks had up to 14 times more TVOCs than cloth masks.
“It is clear that particular attention must be paid to the VOCs associated with the use of KF94 [medical] masks their effects on human health,” the researchers wrote in the study published in April.
However, there are ways to reduce the danger, they said. “Exposure can be significantly reduced if a mask is opened and left to sit for at least 30 min,” the researchers wrote.
This suggests that the packaging of these masks could play a role in the amount of chemicals they have.
The study was published in the journal Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety and on the NIH‘s website.
The NIH said: “Inclusion in an NLM database does not imply endorsement of, or agreement with, the contents by NLM or the National Institutes of Health.”
The researchers found that the levels of TVOCs were 14 times lower in cloth masks and didn’t pose a risk to human health.
However, the study did not measure the effect of people actually wearing the masks.
Dr. Stuart Fischer, an internal medicine physician in New York, told DailyMail.com that strong conclusions couldn‘t be drawn from the study.
However, he did say that increasingly evidence has shown the drawbacks of mask-wearing. He added that “there seems to be diminishing returns on the need for masks.”
In the latest study, researchers tested 14 disposable and cloth masks purchased online by measuring the amount of TVOCs in them. The disposable masks were KFAD and KF94 models, which were made from thermoplastics polypropylene and polyurethane nylon.
These masks have been popularized in South Korea, where the study was conducted, whereas KN95s are more popular in the U.S.
However, their differences are miniscule. KFADs and KF94s filter 94% of particles, while KN95s filter 95%.
The cloth masks were made from cotton, ramie – a vegetable fibre – and polyurethane.
“These TVOC concentration levels corresponded to a level that is harmless to the human body (no relevant health-related concerns),” the researchers wrote.
However, the disposable masks contained up to 14 times the TVOCs than cotton masks.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recommends keeping TVOC levels below 0.5 parts per million in indoor air.
The sample with the highest amount of TVOCs had 4,808 cubic meters per microgram, which is about 4.8 parts per million.
That’s more than eight times the recommended limit.
Stop Press: John Tierney, a former columnist for the New York Times who’s written a series of sceptical pieces about the lockdowns and related restrictions for City Journal, has just published a new piece about the growing drumbeat for the return of mandatory masking in America. He cites a number of studies showing masks make little or no difference in reducing the spread of Covid, including one published in the Lancet and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. As with all John’s pieces, this one is worth reading in full.
Stop Press 2: David Strom in Hot Air says the Chocrane Review has been turned out by the scientific establishment since it published its sceptical review of masking.
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One of the biggest problems in our society is that we’ve lost our suspicion of authority. It urgently needs to be restored.
We need a majority of people whose starting point is that anyone in authority is probably lying to them and needs to demonstrate otherwise, not the other way around.
Tvoc’s are also deadly to the environment, especially the marine environment! So when all these things find their way into the water courses as many do, God help the fish!
I think it’s mainly the US being assaulted with this BS atm. No sign of anyone displaying signs of being ‘MK Ultra’d’ round my way yet anyways. At least the muppets are easy to spot and give a wide berth though. I just avoid anyone who has a fanny pad or bra cup strapped to their mush. I think jockstrap versions are also available.
Mogwai
1 year ago
Check out this nifty little 30sec video. Do you think this is enough to vindicate that judge in Germany who was sent down for 2 years for protecting the rights of children and not behaving like a complete Nazi?
I can immediately make up an argument against that: If viruses are that small, cloth mask fibres are like concretewalls compared to them and will stop a real lot from getting past and every virion that’s stopped reduces the risk of infection! If in doubt, do it like Trish and wear underpants over your head! A little protection is still a lot better than no protection!
That’s obviously nonsense but true believers won’t accept that.
Medical masks were never intended to protect the wearer, nor designed so they could. Their use is specific to prevention of cross infection of open wounds from resident disease causing bacteria in the nasopharynx of medical staff which might be carried in droplets exhaled by them during surgical procedures. Such infection is direct person to person in near contact, since the droplets do not become airborne and soon fall to ground.
They can also protect immune compromised people from droplet infection by bacteria from others.
They cannot protect against viral infection as these are spread in the form of aerosols, not droplets, exhaled into the air (medical masks, bits of cloth cannot prevent this) which circulate in the air and can linger for hours. These airborne viral aerosols are then inhaled (masks that are not air-tight, cannot prevent this), and the level of infection depends on the viral load in the air and duration breathing it in.
Similarly the amount of airborne virus in an environment depends on how many infectious people have visited it, and the duration of their stay.
Open environments… outdoors… it is very difficult to be infected unless an individual is in close, face to face, prolonged or intimate contact.
Summary: if you can breath out, you can spread a respiratory virus;if you can breath in you can catch it.
“He cites a number of studies showing masks make little or no difference in reducing the spread of Covid”
Why, especially now that everyone has had “it” probably several times, and that everyone has been “vaccinated”, is “reducing the spread of Covid” an important or desirable goal? What exactly do people mean when they say “reducing the spread of Covid”? If such a thing were possible, what does it achieve? It makes absolutely no sense to me. Let’s say you wear masks for a few months and it “works” – then you stop wearing masks and everybody who “avoided” being “infected with Covid” will then promptly “get it”, will they not?
It’s fine up to a point to talk about masks being harmful or “not working” but I think you have to question the base assumption. Let’s say that a mask could be made that 100% stops you getting Covid and is absolutely not harmful to your physical health. Would you wear it? Would it be desirable to make people wear them? Logically you would have to make people wear them forever. The whole thing is founded on muddle headed thinking.
It’s purely so they can test the waters to see the public’s levels of compliance. That’s why no amount of scientific study or any sort of logic is remotely useful. There’s a mountain of this now and the masktard Nazis just over-ride it all anyway, same as with all things jab-related. Facts don’t matter when you have the next phase of the totalitarian plan to progress to. What you want to glean is an indication of just how effective your intensive PsyOp has been on the masses before you move things up a notch. That’s why this season’s new look is such a hit with those who enjoy the prospect of sleepwalking into tyranny and feel thinking independently is over-rated;
Certainly those with an evil agenda know very well that there is no science or logic behind it. But my point is that even sceptical journalists mention “reducing the spread of covid” as if it were a meaningful or desirable outcome, and I think that’s very dangerous for the reasons stated. The start and end point should be “there was no pandemic, no public health emergency, covid if it exists is mild for most, we must live with it, and any notion of reducing its spread is simply plain silly”.
Words and definitions matter. There are no vaccines for respiratory virus according to the proper definition of vaccine. There was no pandemic in the proper context of the meaning of that word.
Disease can spread, but not ‘be’ spread. It is the disease-causing pathogen that can ‘be’ spread.
Vaccines – effective ones – can only protect the person vaccinated, they provide no protection to anyone unvaccinated.
“A study from South Korea has found that N95 masks can release harmful chemicals at levels eight times higher than safety guidelines suggest.”
No S***T Sherlock.
A mask is a medical device, a medical intervention, for which one must give fully informed consent & mask guidelines in the Health & Safety legislation state that an individual risk Any assessment has to be carried out before one can wear one.
Anyone who is insisting that you wear one – in a shop, in a medical setting – can be challenged by asking for their name & for an individualised risk assessment to be arranged by an appropriately qualified occupational health practitioner. Tell them that they will be personally liable for any harms incurred by wearing said mask without following the H&S legislation.
Folk will back down when they are being made personally liable. They go along with the crowd, no way do they want to stand out from the crowd when they have nowhere to hide.
The N95 is so called because it is claimed it can stop 95% of particles 3microns and above – the size of exhaled water droplets – and their integrity decreases with time, so that after about 10 minutes of wear, they become moist from exhaled breath which facilitates the transit of pathogens through the fabric in either direction to either surface.
Any safety device which is not 100% effective all the time is not a safety device, it’s a hope and prayer, a talisman, a superstition.
I agree but in this context it is being used as a medical device, therefore it has to be consented to be worn & that consent needs to be fully informed otherwise it is not valid consent & any harms arising from its use are accountable to a named individual who has coerced its use.
It’s a sign of compliance & the useful idiots who are involved in the coercion have been fully programmed by the narrative & know not what they do.
It gets better than that: Popular masks aren’t usually N95 masks, they’re labelled KN95. That’s because they’re a Chinese imitation of US N95 masks (EU FFP2) produced without quality control. At least in Germany, it’s illegal to use KN95 masks in healthcare setting instead of N95/FFP2 masks. But that’s not widely known among the general public.
But a virus particle is though to be about 100 nanometres or smaller (strangely no one has an electron micrograph of Covid) so an N95 mask is also useless. You see, there is no end to the lies.
zebedee
1 year ago
Were any actual N95 masks tested or just KN95 masks? My understanding was that KN95 was a marketing designation (Kounterfeit N95?) and had no actual efficacy claims though I’m willing to be disabused.
What a surprise. So many people were stupid enough just to do what they were told to do, rather than thinking it through, although to be fair there was dearth of proper independent advice for a long time.
What does not appear to be mentioned though is the actual environment within which the measurements were done. It should be well known by those concerned that the air content is a major factor. E.g. the humidity levels, what the ventilation is like, is there any treatment for recycled air (in air con systems), and a long list of things that can be done to modify it. Things like Ultra Violet C sterilisation can be done, e.g. Ultimately, if they say nothing about it at all, are their results of any use?
Arum
1 year ago
‘The sample with the highest amount of TVOCs had 4,808 cubic meters per microgram’ ?!?
True Spirit of America Party
1 year ago
Wow. If this does not herald the permanent end of masks, there is really no hope for our species. Homo sapiens are really not as sapient as they claim to be.
True Spirit of America Party
1 year ago
Masks are clearly an IQ test. Those who still wear them have failed, lol.
JohnnyDollar
1 year ago
Nothing about the masks was true . I feel sorry for those who wore it & even more for those who are still wearing it
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Brilliant headline ….thats going to confuse some people or promote the “mask a la chin”look for the convinced..
I hope they feel badly misled by our authorities.
One of the biggest problems in our society is that we’ve lost our suspicion of authority. It urgently needs to be restored.
We need a majority of people whose starting point is that anyone in authority is probably lying to them and needs to demonstrate otherwise, not the other way around.
Tvoc’s are also deadly to the environment, especially the marine environment! So when all these things find their way into the water courses as many do, God help the fish!
I think it’s mainly the US being assaulted with this BS atm. No sign of anyone displaying signs of being ‘MK Ultra’d’ round my way yet anyways. At least the muppets are easy to spot and give a wide berth though. I just avoid anyone who has a fanny pad or bra cup strapped to their mush. I think jockstrap versions are also available.
Check out this nifty little 30sec video. Do you think this is enough to vindicate that judge in Germany who was sent down for 2 years for protecting the rights of children and not behaving like a complete Nazi?
https://twitter.com/TheSocrateej/status/1691137859485573120
Love these vids!
I can immediately make up an argument against that: If viruses are that small, cloth mask fibres are like concretewalls compared to them and will stop a real lot from getting past and every virion that’s stopped reduces the risk of infection! If in doubt, do it like Trish and wear underpants over your head! A little protection is still a lot better than no protection!
That’s obviously nonsense but true believers won’t accept that.
Yes I’ve mentioned this before, it’s like throwing pingpong balls at a builders scaffolding, just to get a sense of the scale!
Or mosquitoes and chain-link fences.
Anyone dumb, gullible and cowardly enough to wear a mask to protect them from viral infection deserves everything they get.
What we should make a point of doing is approaching them and asking how many Covid jabs they’ve had, then stand and wait for the penny not to drop…
You might have a long wait! These people are idiots.
For a hundred years or more we have known…
Medical masks were never intended to protect the wearer, nor designed so they could. Their use is specific to prevention of cross infection of open wounds from resident disease causing bacteria in the nasopharynx of medical staff which might be carried in droplets exhaled by them during surgical procedures. Such infection is direct person to person in near contact, since the droplets do not become airborne and soon fall to ground.
They can also protect immune compromised people from droplet infection by bacteria from others.
They cannot protect against viral infection as these are spread in the form of aerosols, not droplets, exhaled into the air (medical masks, bits of cloth cannot prevent this) which circulate in the air and can linger for hours. These airborne viral aerosols are then inhaled (masks that are not air-tight, cannot prevent this), and the level of infection depends on the viral load in the air and duration breathing it in.
Similarly the amount of airborne virus in an environment depends on how many infectious people have visited it, and the duration of their stay.
Open environments… outdoors… it is very difficult to be infected unless an individual is in close, face to face, prolonged or intimate contact.
Summary: if you can breath out, you can spread a respiratory virus;if you can breath in you can catch it.
There is then the question: can you actually find a virus in the air? No one has yet overcome the challenge BTW. It is a supposition only.
Natural selection, basically.
“He cites a number of studies showing masks make little or no difference in reducing the spread of Covid”
Why, especially now that everyone has had “it” probably several times, and that everyone has been “vaccinated”, is “reducing the spread of Covid” an important or desirable goal? What exactly do people mean when they say “reducing the spread of Covid”? If such a thing were possible, what does it achieve? It makes absolutely no sense to me. Let’s say you wear masks for a few months and it “works” – then you stop wearing masks and everybody who “avoided” being “infected with Covid” will then promptly “get it”, will they not?
It’s fine up to a point to talk about masks being harmful or “not working” but I think you have to question the base assumption. Let’s say that a mask could be made that 100% stops you getting Covid and is absolutely not harmful to your physical health. Would you wear it? Would it be desirable to make people wear them? Logically you would have to make people wear them forever. The whole thing is founded on muddle headed thinking.
It’s purely so they can test the waters to see the public’s levels of compliance. That’s why no amount of scientific study or any sort of logic is remotely useful. There’s a mountain of this now and the masktard Nazis just over-ride it all anyway, same as with all things jab-related. Facts don’t matter when you have the next phase of the totalitarian plan to progress to. What you want to glean is an indication of just how effective your intensive PsyOp has been on the masses before you move things up a notch. That’s why this season’s new look is such a hit with those who enjoy the prospect of sleepwalking into tyranny and feel thinking independently is over-rated;
https://twitter.com/CartlandDavid/status/1696067132029571132/photo/1
Certainly those with an evil agenda know very well that there is no science or logic behind it. But my point is that even sceptical journalists mention “reducing the spread of covid” as if it were a meaningful or desirable outcome, and I think that’s very dangerous for the reasons stated. The start and end point should be “there was no pandemic, no public health emergency, covid if it exists is mild for most, we must live with it, and any notion of reducing its spread is simply plain silly”.
So true. They are testing the waters to see how far we will let them so. So we must “nip it in the bud” and DO NOT COMPLY from the start!
See https://odysee.com/@drsambailey:c for a full analysis of “virology”. It is shocking.
Words and definitions matter. There are no vaccines for respiratory virus according to the proper definition of vaccine. There was no pandemic in the proper context of the meaning of that word.
Disease can spread, but not ‘be’ spread. It is the disease-causing pathogen that can ‘be’ spread.
Vaccines – effective ones – can only protect the person vaccinated, they provide no protection to anyone unvaccinated.
Totally agree.
Having never owned a mask of any sort, I’ll sleep soundly tonight.
“A study from South Korea has found that N95 masks can release harmful chemicals at levels eight times higher than safety guidelines suggest.”
No S***T Sherlock.
A mask is a medical device, a medical intervention, for which one must give fully informed consent & mask guidelines in the Health & Safety legislation state that an individual risk Any assessment has to be carried out before one can wear one.
Anyone who is insisting that you wear one – in a shop, in a medical setting – can be challenged by asking for their name & for an individualised risk assessment to be arranged by an appropriately qualified occupational health practitioner. Tell them that they will be personally liable for any harms incurred by wearing said mask without following the H&S legislation.
Folk will back down when they are being made personally liable. They go along with the crowd, no way do they want to stand out from the crowd when they have nowhere to hide.
The N95 is so called because it is claimed it can stop 95% of particles 3microns and above – the size of exhaled water droplets – and their integrity decreases with time, so that after about 10 minutes of wear, they become moist from exhaled breath which facilitates the transit of pathogens through the fabric in either direction to either surface.
Any safety device which is not 100% effective all the time is not a safety device, it’s a hope and prayer, a talisman, a superstition.
I agree but in this context it is being used as a medical device, therefore it has to be consented to be worn & that consent needs to be fully informed otherwise it is not valid consent & any harms arising from its use are accountable to a named individual who has coerced its use.
It’s a sign of compliance & the useful idiots who are involved in the coercion have been fully programmed by the narrative & know not what they do.
It gets better than that: Popular masks aren’t usually N95 masks, they’re labelled KN95. That’s because they’re a Chinese imitation of US N95 masks (EU FFP2) produced without quality control. At least in Germany, it’s illegal to use KN95 masks in healthcare setting instead of N95/FFP2 masks. But that’s not widely known among the general public.
Indeed, the KN95 is a cheap Chinese knockoff of the real N95s.
But a virus particle is though to be about 100 nanometres or smaller (strangely no one has an electron micrograph of Covid) so an N95 mask is also useless. You see, there is no end to the lies.
Were any actual N95 masks tested or just KN95 masks? My understanding was that KN95 was a marketing designation (Kounterfeit N95?) and had no actual efficacy claims though I’m willing to be disabused.
The KN95 is a cheap Chinese knockoff of the real N95s.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/mask-cult-back-pandemic-propaganda/5830335
A proper carve up of the mask nonsense.
What a surprise. So many people were stupid enough just to do what they were told to do, rather than thinking it through, although to be fair there was dearth of proper independent advice for a long time.
What does not appear to be mentioned though is the actual environment within which the measurements were done. It should be well known by those concerned that the air content is a major factor. E.g. the humidity levels, what the ventilation is like, is there any treatment for recycled air (in air con systems), and a long list of things that can be done to modify it. Things like Ultra Violet C sterilisation can be done, e.g. Ultimately, if they say nothing about it at all, are their results of any use?
‘The sample with the highest amount of TVOCs had 4,808 cubic meters per microgram’ ?!?
Wow. If this does not herald the permanent end of masks, there is really no hope for our species. Homo sapiens are really not as sapient as they claim to be.
Masks are clearly an IQ test. Those who still wear them have failed, lol.
Nothing about the masks was true . I feel sorry for those who wore it & even more for those who are still wearing it