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But, but, but... nothing new. Mask wearing has been tried against pollen in the past. It doesn’t work. Hay fever is a systemic immune over-reaction to a foreign protein. I suppose too much to expect a ‘health’ expert’ to know that. First reason it doesn’t work, the mask doesn’t cover the eyes where the pollen lands causing the hyper-immune response. It doesn’t have to get up your nose. In the same way, people with severe peanut allergies don’t actually have to eat the peanut, airborne proteins released from the surface of the peanut, or skin contact can trigger the hyper-response. And of course the masks are not airtight so pollen will be drawn in around the sides and, er... through the mask which does not have a sufficiently tight enough weave to stop it. And... it’s quite a list... masks get moist with expelled water droplets after 10 to 15 minutes, so a hygroscopic gradient moves small particulates across the mask fabric, touching the mask - skin oils render them useless.

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Apr 17, 2023Liked by eugyppius

Just when you think things couldn’t possibly get any more stupid ....

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Apr 17, 2023Liked by eugyppius

Yes, by all means save yourself from the sneeze in favor of headaches, brain fog, rebreathing spent CO2 & bacteria into your lungs & having sweat, secretions & snot from all that hay fever plastered to your face. Win-Win!!!!

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Apr 17, 2023Liked by eugyppius

As any guy with an allergies could tell you… beards make them worse. The allergens stick to the facial hair.

How is a mask different?

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There's DumbF'ckery and then there's health expert DumbF'ckery.

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This is really a Babylon Bee parody posing as a Nuremberg Health Department statement, right?

Nuremberg, really? Source of the Nuremberg Code?

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Apr 17, 2023Liked by eugyppius

Masking is just cult behavior at this point,I saw 2 supposedly adult Boomer men ,one black and one white pass each other at the door of a restaurant I was in.They acknowledged each other’s existence similar to how military people greet each other.This was a few days ago,I still see random masked people were I live.

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Apr 17, 2023·edited Apr 17, 2023Liked by eugyppius

Oh I do not think so.

Seriously, inhaling pollen is a bummer but it is part of being alive.

Next thing these nut cases will believe we should live in our own plastic bubble.

Do they know pollen enters the body through the eyes?

I guess goggles will be up next as well

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Oh for the love of God.

I voluntarily wear a mask when I am working around wood dust, fiberglass, and carbon fiber. Because it would be a terrible idea to ingest too many particles into my lungs because you never get rid of them, your exposure is cumulative, and after decades you may develop COPD. And I take the mask off as soon as I can because it is quite obvious that breathing through a mask is also terrible even in the short term -- just less terrible than signing up for pulmonary fibrosis.

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Apr 17, 2023·edited Apr 17, 2023Liked by eugyppius

A personal silver lining of the pandemic for me is that taking Quercetin as a "prophylactic" for Covid-19 resulted in significantly reduced need to take antihistamines for seasonal allergies. Even the "non-drowsy" antihistamines seem to slow my brain down, and there's not enough speed as it is! Not so with Quercetin. If you try Quercetin for seasonal allergies, just don't double up with antihistamines.

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Apr 17, 2023Liked by eugyppius

I think it’s botanical sexism. The city planners are planting too many male trees, leading to a lot more pollen competing for less female trees. So lack of diversity is at play and blatant sexism. They won’t see the irony in that, because maybe some of the trees are trans.

The idea of the masks is moronic. Almost like Self-inflicted legionnaires disease with constant use of them.

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Apr 17, 2023Liked by eugyppius

Next on the list: tree and shrub social distancing : 2 metre distancing should be observed when in the vicinity of large green leafy life forms, especially during the flowering season and when gardening or walking in wooded areas and parks.

Another mind bender for the horticulturally and arboreally minded amongst us: how to water, feed, prune, pot on ,apply pest control measures and enjoy fragrance from a distance of 2 metres/ 6 feet ?

I think I'll just carry on as normal

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Apr 17, 2023·edited Apr 17, 2023Liked by eugyppius

That's sly of them. This way, they connotate masks with climate change and wearing them reminds the other people not any more for the time being of their ideological goal which is a deadly-pathogen-legitimized dictatorship, but for now, of their ideological goal which is a climate-legitimized dictatorship. The common denominator being a collectivist-fetish dictatorship. Totalitarian cross-marketing.

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Apr 17, 2023Liked by eugyppius

Will interesting to see the compliance rate. It should be 0% plus a double shot of the middle finger.

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There is one public health advisement I think we all should follow: Don't listen to anything public health officials say! Except for "Wolf!"

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Let's block the filter of the body our lungs, so that they can filter out allergens and toxins more efficiently by breathing in nanoparticles. Logically insane. Or it is insane logic? Insane.

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