Just heard some woman on CNN say: People are dying wearing masks.

[LakeArenal]

Is that even true? Are there deaths attributed to wearing masks?

[Proud liberal 80]

1. You are talking about this crazy lady

Link to tweet

?s=21

[sop]

19. These citizen comment periods at county commission meetings can be proof we no longer live in

a sane world. This woman probably spends a lot of time calling in to CSPAN every morning.

[LiberalFighter]

29. At times people need to call them out on the spot.

[soothsayer]

2. Yes, I'm always stepping over dead, masked bodies

...in the grocery store.

[SoonerPride]

38. hahahahahaha

[SheltieLover]

3. My understanding is

Any mask besides N-95 or N-99 only protects others. Not a med professional, but that is my take.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. Other masks do provide some protection for the wearer but not enough

that you can rely on them without social distancing as well. They are definitely not enough protection for medical personnel.

[dawg day]

16. Masks protect us a little-- stop some droplets coming at us

Also we won't touch our mouths and noses so much.

But most important at this point (to protect ourselves), our wearing a mask adds to the normality of it for others. I am noticing in the grocery, almost everyone is wearing a mask-- peer pressure.

For me, it's just this big reminder-- got a mask on, don't touch your face. Got a mask on-- oh, right, I should also wash my hands.

[DBoon]

20. "some protection" is still a good thing

If I reduce the chance of contracting a deadly disease by 20% just by wearing a cloth mask, I'll take it

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

25. Yup. I'm all for mitigating risk as much as possible.

It's like people who whine about how flu shots don't provide 100% protection against getting the flu. Fine. Whatever. I've had the flu, I don't want to get it again, and I'm happy for whatever protection I can get.

[LAS14]

27. Then, if a "surgical mask" is not good enough for medical personnel, why are they called that? nt

[Phoenix61]

31. Surgical mask are to stop fluids, saliva, blood.

They are not for blocking viruses or bacteria.

[NutmegYankee]

32. Normally that mask is to prevent the wearer from contaminating a wound on a patient

Or introducing bacteria into a cavity like the chest. If the patient is believed to be carrying a disease, the procedures call for significant "gowning up" for protection.

[LiberalFighter]

30. Your source?

[mucifer]

34. you can get covid through your eyes so an N95 without faceshield or goggles

you could still get covid from close contact.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. No, it's bullshit.

[LakeArenal]

37. Thanks. I trust your response.

[mucifer]

5. that's because we are breathing our own carbon monoxide

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Either you have a problem with your fuel-air mixture

or your air filter is clogged. Better check it out before you put that mask back on!

[snort]

14. Just spray some ether on there

and you'll fire right up.

[DBoon]

22. Only if you are a charcoal BBQ grill

With living organisms, it is Carbon Dioxide

Of course if you are a charcoal BBQ grill, you probably have a hard time using a mask for other reasons.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Well, you DO have a better than even chance of catching the Virus, if

you don't wear your mask OVER YOUR NOSE . . . . . .

This week I had to tell two customers to cover their noses . . . . . .

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. It's like this:

[Bleacher Creature]

8. It's true.

If a crazy, Trump-loving snowflake wears a mask over his or her mouth, the warm air will almost certainly melt that snowflake, which I believe is fatal.

[Mariana]

11. No. The people who say that are lying. nt.

[RandiFan1290]

12. Surgeons and nurses have been dropping dead for decades!!1

Where have you been?

[SWBTATTReg]

13. Too bad the masks don't work against dumb people and the things that they say/claim. Idiot.

No wonder I don't participate in any community meetings. When you have idiots like this at the town council, taking up way too much time (the Nextdoor app is just as bad too) away from community issues that need dealing w/, and idiots such as this lady making such outlandish and idiotic claims. She deserves to be escorted out (and proof that she even deserves to be at the meeting, we have had community meetings in STLMO where the most vocal opposition raised were from people not even in the neighborhood).

[Newest Reality]

15. Ho, ho!

Haven't you seen the bodies of welders, drywall installers, surgeons, medical workers, etc., strewn everywhere? Its a hidden debacle.

Mask death is the number one fictitious killer on the delusional charts for sure.

[sop]

35. Would that it were true...the klan wouldn't still be around after all these years.

[tazkcmo]

17. No.

They're just forgetting to exhale.

[JHB]

18. Only by people who can't tell the difference between a face mask and...

...a plastic bag. In other words, nobody.

The persons making that claim are lying or off their rocker. Or so unquestioningly believes someone who is lying or off their rocker, which still counts as off their rocker.

[Bev54]

21. There is a level of crazy in the US

that cannot be explained. People are divorced from reality like their reality star president.

[ProfessorGAC]

23. She's A Nut, But What She Said Was...

...that people who were wearing masks died of COVID anyway.
I didn't her imply the masks killed them.
She was trying to justify her crazy by pretending they don't really do anything.
I said she was a nut! And, an idiot!
But, she wasn't claiming masks were the cause of death.
At least that's not how I took it.

[safeinOhio]

24. Their numbers are up.

Almost as many as windmill cancer deaths.

[Eugene]

26. There is some questionable reporting out there, just enough to make some people panic.

Chinese media report a handful of cases from doing gym class while wearing face masks.

Even then, that has not been confirmed. They were ruled sudden deaths, and mask use was not declared the official cause.

https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-two-chinese-boys-die-face-masks-gym-class-20200507-ruyinz7czjbqde3tprx647q3dm-story.html

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1005609/after-multiple-deaths%2C-officials-call-for-no-masks-in-gym-class

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My take: It's a low-probability risk, if that. Consider the proven risks of spreading the virus around to vulnerable people.

[Ms. Toad]

28. I can't find it now -

But there is an image going around with people wearing various kinds of masks with readings from pulse oximeters demonstrating same oxygen readings with and without masks.

Short answer: Absolutely not (absent an underlying medical condition).

[dawg day]

33. People are dying wearing masks....

when they fall off a cliff. Or their car plunges into the ocean.

Seriously, people in Asia have worn masks constantly for years, and they have longer life expectancies than we do.

For some reason, Trump has gotten all those nutcases to abandon whatever shred of common sense they ever possessed. It's head-swiveling to see them suddenly turn against something or someone, just because they perceive somehow hating that helps Trump. It really is like to them, he's some omnipotent, omniscient, and completely capricious god who will know when they are sufficiently faithful and insufficiently faithful. So today he wants them to hate windmills, and yesterday it was ramps, and tomorrow it will be cufflinks, and they throw themselves into it, insisting that rural Iowa (full of windmills) is a Soros-funded treason farm, and that their grandfather's cufflinks are full of radiation, and that ramps were invented by Democrats to enslave us and make us Zombies.

Right now they seem to think that Trump wants them to hate Dr. Fauci and even that he's not a real doctor. He and Bill Gates are conspiring to something something microchips.

[customerserviceguy]

36. Viruses are deadly

but I'd guess more people are killed by stupidity.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

39. Leading cause of death in Japan and Taiwan. Joking!

Probably the crazy religious lady in Florida said that?

[gollygee]

40. There's some confusion out in the world about masks

eg:

[LakeArenal]

42. Well, I wasn't questioning any of that

Simply is there any truth to the claim.

A reliable source says “It’s Bullshit”.

Good enough for me.

[betsuni]

41. Only if your breath is that bad.

[LakeArenal]

43. Well the state of dental health in US leads me to think this might be true.!!