As regards children wearing masks, let alone all day 5 days a week, let me present to you our experts in NOVEMBER 2018, and even further prior below:
"Small children should not wear masks. California's Dept. of Public Health points out, "Children should not wear these masks – they do not fit properly and can impede breathing."
This is particularly true for children with breathing problems such as asthma.
"N95 respirator can make it more difficult for the wearer to breathe due to carbon dioxide buildup, which reduces the intake of oxygen, increased breathing rates and heart rates."
Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you allow your child in anything from preschool through high school be placed in or forced to wear a face mask. Period.
Additional pre-COVID medical warnings about raised CO2 when breathing and wearing masks support that it is a TERRIBLE idea for all children, let alone a mandatory school attendance requirement:
December 2017
"A person wearing any kind of mask faces breathing resistance as air filters through the device, making the wearer work harder to inhale than he would without the mask. This can have several adverse physiological effects when the mask is worn for long periods of time. Moreover, carbon dioxide that is exhaled can get trapped in the chamber of the mask the re-enter the body each time the mask user inhales. This delivers less oxygen into the body than when the person is not wearing a mask.
“It can lead to oxygen shortage, suffocation, respiration trouble, and heart attacks,” said Dr D Saha, scientist and additional director at the Central Pollution Control Board.
He pointed out that masks are a potential source of bacteria and viruses. “The moisture from exhalation inside the mask, when in constant contact with the 37 degrees Celsius warm human body, becomes ideal place for virus and bacteria to thrive,” he said. This could result in the growth of microbes on masks and aid the spread of airborne diseases like influenza."
"study found “statistically significant and meaningful reductions in decision-making performance” in test subjects as CO2 levels rose"
"The new study used a lower CO2 baseline than the earlier study. They found that, on average, a typical participant’s cognitive scores dropped 21 percent with a 400 ppm increase in CO2. Here are their astonishing findings for four of the nine cognitive functions scored in a double-blind test of the impact of elevated CO2 levels"
"As a result, NASA has already lowered the maximum allowable CO2 levels on the space station. The ISS crew surgeon who is the lead for studying the impact on astronauts of CO2 (and other gases) told Climate Progress he considers the original LBNL-SUNY study “very credible.” "
Those of us working with kids have been advocating for smaller classes and better basic hygiene training in school for DECADES now-
-and have been endlessly told it was unaffordable, impractical, not important, and-
-that it didn't make any difference in learning, when every study shows a HUGE benefit with smaller classes and lower germ spread (not none, just not multiple epidemics a year!).
The masks on the other hand- yeah no.
Look up rebreathing of CO2 and trapped germs and you'll never wear a covering mask for more than 30m of low exertion ever again!
Let alone put your growing child in one all day 😒🚫
Key and downright eye-rollingly conflicting with their "plans" info from the article:
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed $14 billion in budget cuts because of the coronavirus, with more than half coming at the expense of public schools.
Thurmond made his remarks in advance of a virtual meeting Thursday with representatives from 1,000 districts where they will talk about “what schools are thinking they’ll have to do in terms of how they arrange students, how they arrange personnel and how they utilize a maximum amount of personal protective equipment to keep our schools safe and sanitized.”
Thurmond also said that schools have told his department that some parents want distance learning to continue.
For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia, and death
More importantly:
As regards children wearing masks, let alone all day 5 days a week, let me present to you our experts in NOVEMBER 2018, and even further prior below:
"Small children should not wear masks. California's Dept. of Public Health points out, "Children should not wear these masks – they do not fit properly and can impede breathing."
This is particularly true for children with breathing problems such as asthma.
"N95 respirator can make it more difficult for the wearer to breathe due to carbon dioxide buildup, which reduces the intake of oxygen, increased breathing rates and heart rates."
https://www.sfgate.com/california-wildfires/article/n95-masks-county-health-safe-advice-doctor-13399569.php
Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you allow your child in anything from preschool through high school be placed in or forced to wear a face mask. Period.
Additional pre-COVID medical warnings about raised CO2 when breathing and wearing masks support that it is a TERRIBLE idea for all children, let alone a mandatory school attendance requirement:
December 2017
"A person wearing any kind of mask faces breathing resistance as air filters through the device, making the wearer work harder to inhale than he would without the mask. This can have several adverse physiological effects when the mask is worn for long periods of time. Moreover, carbon dioxide that is exhaled can get trapped in the chamber of the mask the re-enter the body each time the mask user inhales. This delivers less oxygen into the body than when the person is not wearing a mask.
“It can lead to oxygen shortage, suffocation, respiration trouble, and heart attacks,” said Dr D Saha, scientist and additional director at the Central Pollution Control Board.
He pointed out that masks are a potential source of bacteria and viruses. “The moisture from exhalation inside the mask, when in constant contact with the 37 degrees Celsius warm human body, becomes ideal place for virus and bacteria to thrive,” he said. This could result in the growth of microbes on masks and aid the spread of airborne diseases like influenza."
https://scroll.in/pulse/860276/no-good-choices-a-mask-may-block-out-some-pollution-but-have-other-ill-health-effects
And
October 2015
"study found “statistically significant and meaningful reductions in decision-making performance” in test subjects as CO2 levels rose"
"The new study used a lower CO2 baseline than the earlier study. They found that, on average, a typical participant’s cognitive scores dropped 21 percent with a 400 ppm increase in CO2. Here are their astonishing findings for four of the nine cognitive functions scored in a double-blind test of the impact of elevated CO2 levels"
"As a result, NASA has already lowered the maximum allowable CO2 levels on the space station. The ISS crew surgeon who is the lead for studying the impact on astronauts of CO2 (and other gases) told Climate Progress he considers the original LBNL-SUNY study “very credible.” "
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/exclusive-elevated-co2-levels-directly-affect-human-cognition-new-harvard-study-shows-2748e7378941/
This is absolutely HILARIOUS-
Those of us working with kids have been advocating for smaller classes and better basic hygiene training in school for DECADES now-
-and have been endlessly told it was unaffordable, impractical, not important, and- -that it didn't make any difference in learning, when every study shows a HUGE benefit with smaller classes and lower germ spread (not none, just not multiple epidemics a year!).
The masks on the other hand- yeah no. Look up rebreathing of CO2 and trapped germs and you'll never wear a covering mask for more than 30m of low exertion ever again! Let alone put your growing child in one all day 😒🚫
Key and downright eye-rollingly conflicting with their "plans" info from the article:
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed $14 billion in budget cuts because of the coronavirus, with more than half coming at the expense of public schools.
Thurmond made his remarks in advance of a virtual meeting Thursday with representatives from 1,000 districts where they will talk about “what schools are thinking they’ll have to do in terms of how they arrange students, how they arrange personnel and how they utilize a maximum amount of personal protective equipment to keep our schools safe and sanitized.”
Thurmond also said that schools have told his department that some parents want distance learning to continue.
For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia, and death
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/california-3/state-schools-boss-expect-masks-sanitizer-smaller-classes/2293961/?fbclid=IwAR0Wi2k0pw8o5LAbeuM0ddoyM7-1YKY0AdLltEUqMYowGKPGZT7ZKC1jmq4