Refuting Claims That Wearing a Face Mask is Harmful

Bruce V. Lee, a Senior Contributor at Forbes,  has written an excellent article in favor of face masks. The title is "Journal Retracts Flawed Study That Claimed Face Masks May Cause Covid-19 Symptoms", which anyone with brains would know is preposterous.

As he says, in an inimitable writing style:

"You could not mask the fact that this face mask study probably didn’t deserve to be published in a scientific journal in the first place. On May 12, 2023, a journal named Frontiers in Public Health issued a retraction of a very flawed publication that had made a bunch of unsupported claims about wearing face masks. This article was initially published on April 5, 2023 but over the ensuing month faced a lot of criticism from scientists and public health experts, you know the kind of people who can tell a good quality study from garbage. This thing formerly known as a publication had claimed that face mask wearing could somehow cause what the authors had dubbed as “mask-induced exhaustion-syndrome (MIES) and down-stream physio-metabolic disfunctions.” Not only that. This publication-no-more had also asserted that “several mask related symptoms may have been misinterpreted as long Covid-19 symptoms.” That may sound alarming, except for one itty-bitty-gigantic-how-did-this-thing-even-get-past-editorial-review-in-the-first-place problem: the article did not really provide that little thing called sound scientific evidence to support its claims."

To me, a face mask is only harmful to the COVID minimizers, deniers, and antivaxxers, who would do anything, and find any ridiculous excuse, to keep from putting a mask on their own face.

Read the whole thing, and continue to proudly wear your mask to prevent transmission of COVID.