Prolonged wearing of a surgical face mask, made compulsory in many settings in many countries during the Covid years, reduces cognitive function and increases reaction time in addition to increasing shortness of breath and fatigue. These are the findings of a study published in Nurse Education in Practice, an international peer reviewed journal, on September 15th 2023.
The study, carried out in Turkey and titled ‘The effect of prolonged use of surgical masks during face-to-face teaching on cognitive and physiological parameters of nursing students: a cross-sectional and descriptive study’ involved 61 nursing students who volunteered to participate in the study. The sample size was determined to be adequate for the study using the statistical method of power analysis. Information was collected on cognitive fatigue and dyspnoea (shortness of breath) using a self-administered questionnaire and cognitive reaction time was measured objectively using an app. Body temperature and blood oxygen saturation were also measured.
The students were asked to complete the questionnaires and measure the above parameters at the start of a five-hour class and to repeat the process at the end. Surgical face masks were worn for the duration of the class. With the exception of blood oxygen saturation, all the remaining parameters were adversely and statistically significantly affected over the course of the class.
At the end of the class, the students reported greater shortness of breath, cognitive fatigue and had demonstrably slower reaction times. They experienced a rise in body temperature which is an established correlate of physical fatigue.
The authors of the study are careful to point out that the design of their study was a pre-test/post-test where the participants were, effectively, acting as their own controls. It is possible, therefore, that alternative explanations may exist to explain the observations. For example, we do not know if or to what extent the observed changes in parameters may have taken place anyway after five hours in class. For that reason, as recommended by the authors, further study is required of these phenomena using a parallel control group who undergo the five-hour class but who are not subjected to wearing surgical face masks for the duration. The reported study was carried out under Covid restrictions, therefore, there was no possibility of incorporating a control group.
Assuming that the outcome of the study does provide evidence for the adverse effects of face masks then further study should be conducted. Furthermore, the implications of the study could be very important if transposed to clinical practice. Prolonged wearing of surgical (and even more restrictive) face masks was compulsory during Covid restrictions. The ramifications for the ability of clinicians to make the correct decisions and to act quickly in emergency situations are surely worrying.
Declaration of interests: the author is Editor-in-Chief of Nurse Education in Practice.
Dr. Roger Watson is Academic Dean of Nursing at Southwest Medical University, China. He has a PhD in biochemistry. He writes in a personal capacity.
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Racism pure and simple!
I wonder if this is racism too. It does make you wonder. The culprits are usually not white and the victims white. The name of the perp doesn’t sound very British to me. And how in the world can somebody be charged with GBH when they outright killed somebody?? This poor guy probably asked to see this psycho’s ticket then got stabbed for his trouble, if it’s anything like elsewhere in Europe.
Yet another reason why the Khant’s knighthood is just rubbing salt in the wounds of the British public who actually give a sh*t about their country;
”An Elizabeth line worker who died after being attacked at an east London station was “the most loving person”, his family has said.
Jorge Ortega, 61, was taken to hospital with serious head injuries after British Transport Police (BTP) officers were called to Ilford station at about 20:50 GMT on Wednesday to reports of a serious assault. He died on Friday.
In a family tribute Mr Ortega was described as “the kindest soul you could have the pleasure of meeting”.
Ayodele Jamgbadi, 28, of Kingston Road, Ilford, was charged with grievous bodily harm in connection with the incident.
DCI Paul Attwell said specialist family liaison officers were supporting the victim’s family.
He said: “This was a horrific and tragic incident which has resulted in a man losing his life.
“I would like to reassure the public that this is an isolated incident.”
Mr Jamgbadi appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court on Friday and was remanded in custody.
He has also been charged with affray and possession of a prohibited offensive weapon in a private place.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7kkpmr4p0o.amp
Yet we see nationality of criminals’ statistics not being available. “Community Relations” trumps the public’s right to know who is committing crime.
I thought it was illegal to discriminate against candidates for any position on the basis of their ethnicity?
It’s also the fact that there are 38,000 people who are Muslim on the MI5 terror watch list, 80% of open cases are Islamic, yet the majority of referrals to Prevent are of the phantom menace ‘far-right’ nature. So these above security agencies are discriminating against native, white patriots and favouring the very people who make up the vast majority of terrorists on their lists. Is it me or does that seem awfully topsy turvy to you and probably not the smartest thing when you’re in counter-terrorism?
https://x.com/HoodedClaw1974/status/1865445754338230375
Mogs, have a look at the Tom Armstrong article which I just posted.
Read it, thanks. Totally agree.
It just always strikes me as weird and unnatural why the globalists and puppeticians would wish to do this to themselves and their offspring. It’s like masochism and sadism rolled into one. Don’t they even care about the future of their kids/grandkids? 
Seriously psychopathic. But then i do think traits of psychopathy are what gets these people into their leadership positions in the first place. And the vast majority just so happen to be male, which does tend to debunk the misogynists’ delusional viewpoint, inconveniently for them.
Watching “Kleo” the other night. Funny, my dad worked for the CIA, and the joke about black people working at the CIA being sp__ks seemed to resonate with with him. The black folks in 1980’s West Germany kind stick out like a sore thumb.I all for equal opportunity in the spy game, just have your ducks in a row.
Anti-whitism from the decadent British Establishment. Who’d have thought! The collapse can’t be far off now.
I suspect when you say ”anti-whitism” you’re really referring to the woketards’ favourite oxymoronic term of ”positive discrimination”. It sounds so much fancier than plain old ‘racism’.
Gosh, what a perfect opportunity for Al-Queda to insert some of its operatives, like the ones now on the outskirts of Damascus, busy toppling a statue of President Assad’s father, whom he helped drive the Muslim Brotherhood out of Syria.
Rebel forces ‘reach Damascus suburbs’ as protesters topple statue on outskirts
Another shocking thing for me is this:
Al-Qaeda-linked ‘rebels’ in Syria say they ‘love Israel’. USA gave them billions in weapons & support – Geopolitical Economy Report
Does that mean that Israel is about to take over Syria by proxy, in revenge for being defeated by Assyrians a couple of thousand years ago?
And since the Southport Stabber was found with an Al-Queda manual for making ricin, and now-deleted news reports said Al-Queda had actually claimed him as one of their “operatives”, what does that mean for our relationship with Israel? It’s all such a tangled web that I feel sorry for the security services trying to figure it all out.
“The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.”
I’ve just been reading that the Israelis are keen to fulfil the End Times prophecies of Isaiah 17:1, destroying Damascus in order to allow Israelites to rule humanity on earth. Or something…
MI6 has embraced the woke mind virus and is fully onboard with identity politics, but I think most of us knew that already. At least many of these young men arriving on small boats will be able to apply once Labour has rushed their asylum application through and legalized them as citizens, so that’ll make up nicely for the lack of native patriots, I guess;
”Recently I got an ad to apply for MI6, which boasted it’s one of Stonewall’s Top Global Employers.
These groups are sowing discord in the West, which risks our security. So how can we have MI6 supporting them?”
https://x.com/CharlotteCGill/status/1865449766647161309
https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/1865385725912342797
I think this is a mistake. I think all racial groups have their strengths but you cannot show me in the history of humanity more developed minds than the Aryans, especially when it comes to strategy. For one thing trudging across the ice for thousands of years brings about certain challenges which can only be solved by a rapidly evolving intelligence. Of course the blessing contains the curse. Western man’s relentless search for transcendence which in our time is like the Chinese curse, may you live through interesting times. 2020 was the opening of the first seal. Just think about how much has been revealed since then. Every revelation contains more delight than misery in that it wipes more mud off your windshield.
We are a bit down on ourselves these days. There was a study in The Economist a few years ago which attempted to identify problems with the British economy. It found that in essence you had huge numbers of very well-educated people who had no jobs to go to that were commensurate with their abilities. You shouldn’t do that even from the point of view of self-interest. To let your greatest assets rot on the vine. What is wrong with you?
Even if you feel a bit poisoned and a bit nasty please don’t do this to the best of your own people.
How is this legal.?
As far as Kneel and co are concerned legal, or illegal is whatever they say it is.
https://www.freespeechbacklash.com/article/british-government-guilty-genocide-against-british-people
An excellent article by Tom Armstrong at Free Speech Backlash.
Of course this government is intent on genocide of the British people. I have pushed this argument for many, many months. Destroy our culture, our history and destroy the people.
Not only racist, but bringing possible radicals into security services, what could go wrong?, and like it or not, more likely from certain ethenticitys.
Imagine if the advert said from ” A white, Black, mixed heritage background” or “A white, Asian, Mixed heritage” etc background. That would be recognised as racial discrimination. Not very D.E.I is it? But if you are White, and if you happen to have a traditonal family background of working parents you are truly scum in the eyes of the British establishment and deserve not to be given an opportunity. M..I 5 would seem to be racist in their exclusion of white people.
But whatever happened to just choosing the best most competent individual for the job, and be blind to race, creed, colour or sex? that is true equality, not the confected divisive programme the Government and it departments seems to be advocating.
And don’t forget the race which makes up the largest part of these isles is funding this Government inspired discrimination,
Par for the course.
Another way of looking at it is that the demographic they wish to infiltrate isn’t white British. Not defending the obvious racism, but this is a possibility
Ah, mixed heritage. Back to the old “One Drop Rule”.
I wonder if an enterprising young person could take a 23 And Me genetic test into GCHQ and remind them that almost all of us have “mixed heritage”.