Absent from this discussion is the fact that industrial hygienists (IH) are PPE experts and professionally recommend levels of protection for industrial applications, such as removal of mold and asbestos. During the peek of the pandemic I saw ONE video on social media from an industrial hygienists pleading with a local school board to re…
Absent from this discussion is the fact that industrial hygienists (IH) are PPE experts and professionally recommend levels of protection for industrial applications, such as removal of mold and asbestos. During the peek of the pandemic I saw ONE video on social media from an industrial hygienists pleading with a local school board to reverse their mask mandate on children and adults alike, as they do more harm than good. IH use scientific FACT along with long established LAW to recommend appropriate PPE for public employee application of PPE, yet these experts have been eliminated from the discussion. If you want an idea of what PPE is necessary to prevent the spread of a virus, look at what scientists wear in a level 4 biolab. Full negative pressure suits. Bam. Also ignored is the fact that more people died of bacterial pneumonia than the Spanish Flu in 1918 - due to overuse of facemasks. The solution? Put patients outdoors, maskless, in the fresh air and sunshine. Virus defeated.
Those are some excellent points! I hadn't thought about industrial hygienists and their PPE guidelines. I'll have to add that to the research reading list for the next time this masking nonsense comes up.
That's great! A casualty of the cancel culture! Also, I am 22 years US Army, Combat Medic (5 years) and Medical Service officer (17 years). Trained in biological warfare survival for all that time. We used FILTERED protective masks, hoods, gloves, boots, suits, self-decon, and other survival techniques, NONE of which include the wearing of a surgical mask. Since I worked with docs and nurses, I only ever saw surgical masks in use in surgery or in a negative pressure room with TB patients. Surgical masks were designed to reduce the risk of BACTERIAL contamination of the surgical field. NOT designed to wear while walking, daily activity, talking much. If a mask is TOUCHED, becomes MOIST/WET, SOILED in any way, it is considered CONTAMINATED and must be replaced. The BOX in which surgical masks come in have a DISCLAIMER printed on the outside of the box stating they are NOT effective against COVID-19 (or any virus for that matter). Early on, February 2020, CDC stated masks were ineffective against viruses, but they wanted everyone to wear one to 'remind everyone there was a Pandemic going on' and to do all the other things possible to protect themselves. I knew DOCTORS who would NOT use PPE because they wanted to get the illness so that their body could produce ANTIBODIES. Our immune systems WORK (for most of use who are not immunocompromised). God help us, this profound ignorance of basic human biology. Keep up the good fight! Signed, a retired public school health educator and administrator. ;-)
Absent from this discussion is the fact that industrial hygienists (IH) are PPE experts and professionally recommend levels of protection for industrial applications, such as removal of mold and asbestos. During the peek of the pandemic I saw ONE video on social media from an industrial hygienists pleading with a local school board to reverse their mask mandate on children and adults alike, as they do more harm than good. IH use scientific FACT along with long established LAW to recommend appropriate PPE for public employee application of PPE, yet these experts have been eliminated from the discussion. If you want an idea of what PPE is necessary to prevent the spread of a virus, look at what scientists wear in a level 4 biolab. Full negative pressure suits. Bam. Also ignored is the fact that more people died of bacterial pneumonia than the Spanish Flu in 1918 - due to overuse of facemasks. The solution? Put patients outdoors, maskless, in the fresh air and sunshine. Virus defeated.
I should like to make a small request:
Do you have any online sources or documents that I can reference? I like to have as many primary sources as I can get.
Those are some excellent points! I hadn't thought about industrial hygienists and their PPE guidelines. I'll have to add that to the research reading list for the next time this masking nonsense comes up.
Because you know there will be a next time.
That's great! A casualty of the cancel culture! Also, I am 22 years US Army, Combat Medic (5 years) and Medical Service officer (17 years). Trained in biological warfare survival for all that time. We used FILTERED protective masks, hoods, gloves, boots, suits, self-decon, and other survival techniques, NONE of which include the wearing of a surgical mask. Since I worked with docs and nurses, I only ever saw surgical masks in use in surgery or in a negative pressure room with TB patients. Surgical masks were designed to reduce the risk of BACTERIAL contamination of the surgical field. NOT designed to wear while walking, daily activity, talking much. If a mask is TOUCHED, becomes MOIST/WET, SOILED in any way, it is considered CONTAMINATED and must be replaced. The BOX in which surgical masks come in have a DISCLAIMER printed on the outside of the box stating they are NOT effective against COVID-19 (or any virus for that matter). Early on, February 2020, CDC stated masks were ineffective against viruses, but they wanted everyone to wear one to 'remind everyone there was a Pandemic going on' and to do all the other things possible to protect themselves. I knew DOCTORS who would NOT use PPE because they wanted to get the illness so that their body could produce ANTIBODIES. Our immune systems WORK (for most of use who are not immunocompromised). God help us, this profound ignorance of basic human biology. Keep up the good fight! Signed, a retired public school health educator and administrator. ;-)
Thank you for the encouragement. So long as I can speak the truth, I shall continue to do so.
I'm stubborn... can't really do anything else! 😉
Outstanding! God bless you!