Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2021 9:31am
CO2 should not be a problem as gas diffuses quickly and any increase would just increase your breathing rate or the depth of your breath. That in itself may make people feel uncomfortable because you are having to breathe harder for the saem activities - if the mask fits. One reason why masks are not worn during exercise where you can freely breathe coronavirus anywhere you want?
Prolonged mask wearing is never advised unless absolutely necessary and there are strict rules about it in professions like paint spraying or working in dusty environments ,like flour mills. The main problem (out of many) will be increased humidity, changing the environment of the throat which can encourage all kinds of respiratory problems with bacteria, yeasts and viruses. Generally speaking manufacuring processes are changed to make it unecessary for human mask wearing for long periods where possible and the masks used are totally different and expensive.
Of course we never had and do not have now, constant mask wearing. You can be exempt if you are at home with family or guests that you can contaminate freely and they in turn go to others and do the same. People do not wear masks properly and you don't have to wear a mask but a 'face covering' - how can that help anything, the rule makers do not see any difference between a mask and a scarf which makes you wonder what they are trying to achieve?
People here are slowly beginning to realise this is bogus information. Yesterday, I saw two couples getting out of their cars in the middle of the street and stand within 1m of each other chatting whilst they also blocked the road. regardless of how ineffective you think masks are, people will lower any effect. All over town people either did not know the rule had changed (again) or were ignoring it.
Garlic and other bulbs like onions do have agents that are antiviral but I wouldn't use one as airbone protection.
If the doctors who are now getting to grips with what is really killing people after they get a viral infection you will find that there is already one antiviral drug on the market to treat the virus at an early stage and reduce that. It was publicised in the press just before christmas BUT the evidence now suggests that many are dying due to the allergic reaction to the spike protein and here anti-inflammatory drugs seem to be the answer. If that is true then there was no reason for people to have died and will be a bit of a bomb shell, that all these medications are at doctors disposal already. I wait to see how these treatments are accepted or not but it sounds promising. It would really reduce the status of this virus from doomsday bug to influenza and take a lot of politicians with it.