Doctor Puts On 6 Masks And Hooks Himself To An Oxygen Meter To Prove Anti-Maskers Are Talking Nonsense
A doctor in Dublin, Ireland, has gotten so many misinformed patients asking him if a face mask lowers a wearer’s oxygen levels that he decided to make his answer easy to understand and to make it public.
On July 14, Dr. Maitiu O Tuathail, whose Twitter profile states he is a general practitioner, posted a 70-second video standing next to a machine that measures oxygen saturation levels in the blood. With a monitor clip over his index finger, Tuathail is seen putting on a disposable medical mask. Then another one. And another. At the end of the clip, the doctor is standing with 6 masks on his face, while the numbers in the display remain steady and near-perfect — the oxygen saturation level fluctuates slightly between 98 and 99 percent.
Let’s hope this brings the whole debate surrounding face masks and their efficiency to an end. Or at least closer to it.
Dr. Maitiu O Tuathail said he’s met a lot of people who were misinformed about face masks
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So he decided to debunk one of the most popular myths surrounding them
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And posted this video
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Face masks are recommended, if not required, in public settings throughout many places around the world to protect wearers from contracting or spreading the novel coronavirus. Because they work.
A recent analysis of coronavirus outbreaks in 42 countries found that countries where mask wearing was common, like China and Japan, saw more modest outbreaks compared with nations that weren’t accustomed to the practice. “We believe broader mask use is key to control the pandemic,” the researchers wrote.
Bill Nye the Science Guy also turned to social media to demonstrate why face masks are important
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They even added this rhetorical question: “Is it not better to adopt a possibly imperfect protective measure, rather than waiting for more evidence at the expense of human lives?”
A model from the University of Washington predicted that the US could prevent as many as 33,000 coronavirus deaths by October if 95% of the population wore face masks in public.
Dr. Tuathail’s clip even started an interesting discussion
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It's not that you aren't getting enough oxygen. It's because it feels uncomfortable and stuffy, and a little claustrophobic Suck it up, buttercup, and put on your fricking mask.
If face masks caused hypoxia, surgeons would never be able to do their job.
Or welders, or people who work with clay, or anyone else who has to wear a mask for work - for 8+ hours a day.
Load More Replies...Well, I was running to work for more than 2 months in a mask (It was compulsory to wear mask in public) and I had no problem with that - to be honest, I was out of breath, but I think, that this was caused by my level of fitness :)
Fool! If you think those anti-maskers are motivated by facts you are deeply mistaken.
But, but, he's only a doctor, what does he know against the wisdom of the internet? He's obviously faking it, a government shill, and anyway, FREEDOM!!!! (just in case anyone thinks I'm serious here, I think that the people who won't wear a mask are entitled babies who should justgrow up. I don't really expect them to think of anyone but themselves)
He's clearly a Deep State doctor. He wants people to get sick from wearing masks so he'll have more patients. Or something.
Load More Replies...The oxygen/breathing problem is just an excuse. The REAL reason they won't wear masks is because they're in denial. As long as they pretend to themselves there is no risk, they don't feel afraid. The second they start wearing a mask, it becomes a real threat and they can't handle the fear. That's why anti-maskers react so strongly. You're forcing them to consider the reality of the threat just by mentioning it.
I'll give 'em a reason to wear a mask. If they come within ten feet of me without one, I'll pepper spray their asses. ;-)
Load More Replies...Okay, but I genuinely have trouble breathing in a mask. I NEVER feel like I'm getting enough oxygen, and the mask makes it worse. It's like my alveoli aren't processing enough oxygen. But you know what? I STILL WEAR THE DAMNED MASK IN PUBLIC, because I'm not an idiotic, selfish a**hole. I'd rather suffer discomfort than potentially put someone else's life at risk.
this was for a healthy man- tried it on a nurse that just had open heart surgery (is back to work) and her O2 SATs did drop- but stayed in the 90's.
well, not wearing a mask during a pandemic, and then going into crowded environments and contracting that virus..... could THAT be considered a (possible) 'cure' for stupidity? (to be read with the biting, morbid, sarcasm it was written with)
Load More Replies...It actually increased my chances of getting dates! Seriously though, I'm asthmatic too and I have no problems. Once you get used to the fact that your own breath smells like the devil, you get over the rest.
I just wish they had shown me how to pronounce some of those gaelic names..
THANK YOU DOCTOR. Please do another on a treadmill. A lot of people claim when they are the least exerted, they can't get a full breath.
It's all POLITICS. In the U.S., President Covfefe (King of Covid) didn't take the pandemic seriously and belittled all efforts from those who did. I have yet to meet a Liberal who objects to being part of the community that protects everyone.
The main problem with masks is we are just not used to wearing them. You will soon adjust to wearing them. Think of them as a face hammock! As for reducing air flow and oxygen levels, I think there are a lot of people panicking at the initial strangeness of wearing the mask. I have asthma. I can, and do, wear a mask. Some are more comfortable than others, so a little trial and error is involved. Do your best to look after your loved ones. We are not being asked to do that much. Stay at home or wear a mask where necessary.
another doctor did it first -- and it was in BoredPanda: https://www.boredpanda.com/face-mask-oxygen-levels-coronavirus-prevention-megan-hall/
I always wear a mask but this makes me wonder: if it's so easy for air to get through - isn't it easy for the virus too?
i did the same. uploaded a video on Facebook where I tried three different types of mask (surgical, FFP2, FFP3) while wearing my oxygen meter, after coming home from work (where I'd been wearing a FFP2 mask for 6 hours straight). i would link it but it's in Italian.
If I, an autistic person with skin sensitivity issues, can wear a mask for a few hours while I'm out, the rest of you Karens and Kyles can suck it up too.
If it doesn't appease their agenda they just won't care, you could put them in front of the best scientists in their field, back up by multiple studies, all the books to prove everything. But because someone who's a blogger made up a ramble and they're besotted by them, they'll dismiss it as Fake news. You really cannot argue with stupid, their proof is bollocks written by someone who knows more of the inside of a cookie jar than the human body, let alone epidemiology. When people are in too deep, they will find all excuses to keep following the cult like personalities, because one time they said something that may have been loosely based on fact.......but probably not.
Stop whinning you self cenntered, uneducated about lungs, thoughtless, pampered , tiresome people who have never been through anything.You suffacate people far more than a mask.
It's never good to accuse others of being uneducated when your comment lacks punctuation and is rife with misspellings.
Load More Replies...Surgical masks. Some of the fake Chinese masks aren't the kind of thing you want anywhere near your face.
Some of the Chinese masks have been proven to work better than the American cloth ones. Also, most surgical masks in non-pandemic times are made in China, so do your research before being blindly racist, AndyR
Load More Replies...Sorry but no. I don't believe a statement like "most doctors and nurses have no clue how these devices work" to be true, coming from an anonymous post from someone who obviously isn't a doctor himself. If what you said is true then we have a big problem and I suggest you put your concerns on a forum where they can be properly addressed. To write something like that here just sounds like you're trying to be clever.
Load More Replies...I've been biking 45 minutes a day, outdoors in Alabama, while wearing a mask. It doesn't bother me at all.
Load More Replies...If you're worried about CO2 then you should be doing more about global warming.
Load More Replies...No it didn't, you're on the verge of being dead when it hits 92-93.
Load More Replies...Because, dumbass, you don't wear a mask to protect YOURSELF, you wear it to protect OTHER PEOPLE.
Load More Replies...Yes you're correct. There is no way a mask can fix your disease. No cure for stupidity I'm afraid.
Load More Replies...Folded fabric masks are almost as good as n95. Just bc u have low cognitive ability compared to people that actually understand that wearing a mask protects other people doesn't mean we need to hear your conspiracy theories. Keep them to yourself you are not an expert. Be self aware ffs
Load More Replies...It's not that you aren't getting enough oxygen. It's because it feels uncomfortable and stuffy, and a little claustrophobic Suck it up, buttercup, and put on your fricking mask.
If face masks caused hypoxia, surgeons would never be able to do their job.
Or welders, or people who work with clay, or anyone else who has to wear a mask for work - for 8+ hours a day.
Load More Replies...Well, I was running to work for more than 2 months in a mask (It was compulsory to wear mask in public) and I had no problem with that - to be honest, I was out of breath, but I think, that this was caused by my level of fitness :)
Fool! If you think those anti-maskers are motivated by facts you are deeply mistaken.
But, but, he's only a doctor, what does he know against the wisdom of the internet? He's obviously faking it, a government shill, and anyway, FREEDOM!!!! (just in case anyone thinks I'm serious here, I think that the people who won't wear a mask are entitled babies who should justgrow up. I don't really expect them to think of anyone but themselves)
He's clearly a Deep State doctor. He wants people to get sick from wearing masks so he'll have more patients. Or something.
Load More Replies...The oxygen/breathing problem is just an excuse. The REAL reason they won't wear masks is because they're in denial. As long as they pretend to themselves there is no risk, they don't feel afraid. The second they start wearing a mask, it becomes a real threat and they can't handle the fear. That's why anti-maskers react so strongly. You're forcing them to consider the reality of the threat just by mentioning it.
I'll give 'em a reason to wear a mask. If they come within ten feet of me without one, I'll pepper spray their asses. ;-)
Load More Replies...Okay, but I genuinely have trouble breathing in a mask. I NEVER feel like I'm getting enough oxygen, and the mask makes it worse. It's like my alveoli aren't processing enough oxygen. But you know what? I STILL WEAR THE DAMNED MASK IN PUBLIC, because I'm not an idiotic, selfish a**hole. I'd rather suffer discomfort than potentially put someone else's life at risk.
this was for a healthy man- tried it on a nurse that just had open heart surgery (is back to work) and her O2 SATs did drop- but stayed in the 90's.
well, not wearing a mask during a pandemic, and then going into crowded environments and contracting that virus..... could THAT be considered a (possible) 'cure' for stupidity? (to be read with the biting, morbid, sarcasm it was written with)
Load More Replies...It actually increased my chances of getting dates! Seriously though, I'm asthmatic too and I have no problems. Once you get used to the fact that your own breath smells like the devil, you get over the rest.
I just wish they had shown me how to pronounce some of those gaelic names..
THANK YOU DOCTOR. Please do another on a treadmill. A lot of people claim when they are the least exerted, they can't get a full breath.
It's all POLITICS. In the U.S., President Covfefe (King of Covid) didn't take the pandemic seriously and belittled all efforts from those who did. I have yet to meet a Liberal who objects to being part of the community that protects everyone.
The main problem with masks is we are just not used to wearing them. You will soon adjust to wearing them. Think of them as a face hammock! As for reducing air flow and oxygen levels, I think there are a lot of people panicking at the initial strangeness of wearing the mask. I have asthma. I can, and do, wear a mask. Some are more comfortable than others, so a little trial and error is involved. Do your best to look after your loved ones. We are not being asked to do that much. Stay at home or wear a mask where necessary.
another doctor did it first -- and it was in BoredPanda: https://www.boredpanda.com/face-mask-oxygen-levels-coronavirus-prevention-megan-hall/
I always wear a mask but this makes me wonder: if it's so easy for air to get through - isn't it easy for the virus too?
i did the same. uploaded a video on Facebook where I tried three different types of mask (surgical, FFP2, FFP3) while wearing my oxygen meter, after coming home from work (where I'd been wearing a FFP2 mask for 6 hours straight). i would link it but it's in Italian.
If I, an autistic person with skin sensitivity issues, can wear a mask for a few hours while I'm out, the rest of you Karens and Kyles can suck it up too.
If it doesn't appease their agenda they just won't care, you could put them in front of the best scientists in their field, back up by multiple studies, all the books to prove everything. But because someone who's a blogger made up a ramble and they're besotted by them, they'll dismiss it as Fake news. You really cannot argue with stupid, their proof is bollocks written by someone who knows more of the inside of a cookie jar than the human body, let alone epidemiology. When people are in too deep, they will find all excuses to keep following the cult like personalities, because one time they said something that may have been loosely based on fact.......but probably not.
Stop whinning you self cenntered, uneducated about lungs, thoughtless, pampered , tiresome people who have never been through anything.You suffacate people far more than a mask.
It's never good to accuse others of being uneducated when your comment lacks punctuation and is rife with misspellings.
Load More Replies...Surgical masks. Some of the fake Chinese masks aren't the kind of thing you want anywhere near your face.
Some of the Chinese masks have been proven to work better than the American cloth ones. Also, most surgical masks in non-pandemic times are made in China, so do your research before being blindly racist, AndyR
Load More Replies...Sorry but no. I don't believe a statement like "most doctors and nurses have no clue how these devices work" to be true, coming from an anonymous post from someone who obviously isn't a doctor himself. If what you said is true then we have a big problem and I suggest you put your concerns on a forum where they can be properly addressed. To write something like that here just sounds like you're trying to be clever.
Load More Replies...I've been biking 45 minutes a day, outdoors in Alabama, while wearing a mask. It doesn't bother me at all.
Load More Replies...If you're worried about CO2 then you should be doing more about global warming.
Load More Replies...No it didn't, you're on the verge of being dead when it hits 92-93.
Load More Replies...Because, dumbass, you don't wear a mask to protect YOURSELF, you wear it to protect OTHER PEOPLE.
Load More Replies...Yes you're correct. There is no way a mask can fix your disease. No cure for stupidity I'm afraid.
Load More Replies...Folded fabric masks are almost as good as n95. Just bc u have low cognitive ability compared to people that actually understand that wearing a mask protects other people doesn't mean we need to hear your conspiracy theories. Keep them to yourself you are not an expert. Be self aware ffs
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