What you said at the start was mostly logical but the mask thing... Where did that stuff come from? Normal everyday masks are basically very thin cloth... That is it... It stops water droplet sized objects that is why it gets foggy that is about it. The droplets/dust are the things viruses hitch a ride on. Where the f**k does this o2 level drop complete b******t come from? It does not physics correctly XD Look... you're telling me that the militaries of the world went through insane lengths to come up with gas mask since ww1... But ALL ALONG they could have just worn a mask??? Think of how insanely hard it is to contain gazes... Have you wondered why storing hydrogen or oxygen long term always leaves you with less and less over time? THAT is because even the airtight seal let some permeate!!! That is HOW HARD it is to contain some gazes oxygen being one of them XD Look this up https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/oxygen-permeability There is a whole field of science studying this effect. As in how to stop and how to enable permeability of gases! Sometimes it is beneficial like with the link I have show! Where scientist use material permeability through different mediums to determine what kind of contacts are best cus the corneas need oxygen! Unless physics has changed in the latest patch or something... THERE IS NO WAY A PIECE OF CLOTH influences the oxygen intake of a person. Try it out put your most tightly woven shirt on your mouth and breathe in... Yeah this is probably some political b******t propaganda or conspiracy theory... Not the cool ones but on the level of flat earth type b******t XD As for vaccines and medication in general not being good for babies... I would say that is a good approch as there were horrific mutations caused by medication offered to pregnanet women that did alot of damage... That being said it is hard for me to imagine how mrna based vaccines can do damage but i am ismply not knowledgeble enough to give them the 100% pass. Babies in general tend to have very good odds with influenza type viruses. So far there is no recommendation for them to take such vaccines. But covid is a new thing so maybe it will be updated.

Ben - I'm normally on board with you for most things, but Bruno DID mention that their child has a genetic illness. I don't know what illness or what its symptoms/severity is, but I know that wearing a mask (even a thinner one) can make an asthmatic person feel breathless/like they aren't getting enough air. Masks don't WORSEN asthma, and even patients with COPD get enough oxygen to breathe (according to studies about masking for patients with asthma/COPD) but it CAN make one feel panicked and short of breath. But, for someone with cystic fibrosis, PAH, or mitochondrial disorders (those that cause the patient to have compromised oxygen uptake) - wearing a mask CAN drop their oxygen saturation levels, especially in pediatric/severe cases. So it's not good to completely dismiss that wearing a mask COULD drop someone's O2 saturation levels, especially in someone with a genetic condition. For healthy people, there's no proof that wearing a mask drops O2 sat levels, you're correct.

I think my point still stands. Mask don't restrict oxygen intake. Asthma or whatever genetic disease does that not the mask. I am curious about the specific case you describe. It is interesting in a doc house kind of way! Got a link?

Only to studies about masks NOT affecting people with stuff like COPD: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9993157/ - my info about people with conditions like CF/etc. is more about their physical inability to take in as much oxygen as a healthy person. A mask won't lower one's O2 sat, but CAN (slightly) decrease the amount of air you breathe in with each breath, because it's a literal physical impediment. Again, people with CF and other lung/immune disorders are amongst those with the greatest NEED to wear a mask in public, due to their compromised immune systems/higher susceptibility to viruses and bacteria that affect the pulmonary system, but a mask CAN lower the literal amount of air they breathe in (however slightly.) Again, I'm only referring to the patients with the worst cases of things like CF/PAH/mitochondrial disorders. But even then, the benefits of wearing a mask outweigh a lowered O2 sat, as long as their sat is monitored carefully as well.

Thanks for the link! Yeh these studies were probably made to counter this flat earth like conspiracy theory... Hell they even went out of their way to include N95 masks and found negligible to no difference at all!

So glad the censors came out knowing more about vaccines than the CDC and more about my son's oxygen levels than the testing equipment I used. The CDC does not approve of the Covid-19 or flu vaccines for infants less than 6 months old; you don't know s**t about medicine, Ben, and you've made that very plain. I know enough about medicine from my biology undergraduate that I can competently read the literature and at least know what questions to ask, but not enough to make any medical decisions without consulting my doctor. Please note that it wasn't that I didn't like my answer, but that he didn't address my concerns. And yes, oxygen readily passes through (and around) a mask (so do viruses, but at least they stop some and keep you from spitting accidentally on people which we do way more than we realize). But carbon dioxide does build up marginally, and not everyone's body reacts appropriately to a marginal build up of CO2.

All I know is masks don't reduce O2 intake. That was what i addressed. As for me not knowing s**t as you claim... Yeh you can think what you will. The moment there was something I was not sure about guess what I did! "As for vaccines and medication in general not being good for babies... I would say that is a good approch as there were horrific mutations caused by medication offered to pregnanet women that did alot of damage... That being said it is hard for me to imagine how mrna based vaccines can do damage but i am ismply not knowledgeble enough to give them the 100% pass." I SAID I DON'T KNOW! So you can double down all you want and throw insults OR you can simply say " I was wrong " learn and move on.

OTOH, as an example of how a little knowledge can be dangerous, I was very misled by context and unnecessarily alarmed by articles which had been censored by Google which described the basis for OSHA prohibiting workplaces with low O2 or high CO2 levels, with "low" 02 defined as far higher than found behind masks, and CO2 defined as far lower, correlating them with significant brain damage. However, it turned out that OSHA was using O2 and CO2 levels as proxies for proper ventilation. Studies conducted on masking found O2 and CO2 levels were safe, but did cause stress and other significant physiological responses in surgeons, pilots and carpenters; I was concerned that these responses made to keep blood oxygen levels sufficient might be impaired. Instead, the issue merely turned out to be a nerve behind the ear which can be affected by masks and trigger headaches.... because I found a doctor who listened rather than immediately presuming I must be a political zealot.