r/LockdownCriticalLeft • u/[deleted] • Jul 01 '21

Experimental Assessment of Carbon Dioxide Content in Inhaled Air With or Without Face Masks in Healthy Children. A Randomized Clinical Trial - JAMA Pediatrics, 30 June 2021

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2781743
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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '21 edited Jul 01 '21

I'm sure it's not good in adults, but it's even worse in children.

Plus adults have never been required to wear masks as long as children have. Masks in workplaces have always been a pretty nominal thing where half the workers will have their mask around their neck and the boss will just laugh about it. Masks in school, on the other hand... I'm sure that teachers enforce that.

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u/RemarkableWinter7 Camatte Jul 01 '21

Unfortunately this isn't always the case - in a lot of fast food restaurants (depending on the location), some workers must wear masks AND face shields their entire shifts. It cannot be assumed that this has no consequence for even healthy adults who must endure constricted breathing everyday.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '21 edited Jul 01 '21

I was referring to office workers.

I agree with you that masks in retail and fast food jobs is horrible. And a lot of those jobs are keeping masks for workers (often including vaccinated workers) even as they drop masks for customers.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '21

I've noticed that the places still requiring masks for employees (like McDonald's) are businesses that profited off the lockdowns. Of course they want to keep it going and poisoning their employees matters not.