a friend and I were talking about COVID precautions and they just sent me this paper which appears to raise concerns about safety and efficacy of wearing masks for COVID - does anyone here know anything about this paper + what conclusions should be drawn from it? I feel like there's probably *something* wrong with it given it very much is the consensus in communities I'm in (that seem to pay lots of attention to the literature) that wearing masks is a good precaution to take against COVID, but I'm not sure how to respond. is there a good analysis of the paper somewhere or anything like that?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9981272/

#COVID19 #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #covid

Possible toxicity of chronic carbon dioxide exposure associated with face mask use, particularly in pregnant women, children and adolescents – A scoping review

During the SARS-CoV-2-pandemic, face masks have become one of the most important ubiquitous factors affecting human breathing. It increases the resistance and dead space volume leading to a re-breathing of CO[2] .

^{PubMed Central (PMC)}

You can't really call yourself an inclusive community if you ignore the inconvenient folks.

You certainly can't call your community events inclusive if you won't consider robust policies for public health and community safety.

Especially if you also can't enforce those policies.

Folks will know not to contribute because they were an afterthought. They will not submit papers to conferences that will not state from the outset their public health policy.

It won't be safe.

#WearAMask

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, who identified a chemical tweak to messenger RNA that laid the foundation for vaccines against #Covid19, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/ Medicine.

As this photo shows, both scientists are wearing masks and NOT relying on the "vax and relax".

#WearAMask #WearARespirator
#MaskUp #NobelPrize #Covid #CovidIsNotOver #SarsCov2 #COVIDisAirborne

FOSSY 2023 - The FOSS Community is Patched and Back in Service

https://blog.brettsheffield.com/fossy-2023

"Every picture of a masked face. Every negative COVID test. Every captioned picture from the event makes a difference. Every single one helps to normalize taking these basic precautions. Thank you. You are my tribe."

#FOSSY #FOSSY2023 #PublicHealthPledge #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask