Face masks are laced with cancer-causing toxic chemicals

Cancer News ^ | 4/5/2021 | Virgilio Marin

[familyop]

Sorry about my mistaken impression from the article. I only tried to wear one of those nasty, commercially made surgical masks once, a long time ago. See comment #39.

[Gene Eric]

Yes I did and surely deserve the abuse... I wasn’t serious in my reply to you, btw.

[jonrick46]

You better have concern for what's happening at the other end. Toilet paper is cancerous. Paper industries use chlorine and chlorine dioxide to bleach it. This process creates cancer-causing chemicals such as dioxins and furans. If you get cancer down there, ouch!

[PeterPrinciple]

What does the California warning label say?

[familyop]

"You can now buy aluminum strips with rounded ends to enclose in a pocket on the mask (I use twill tape to form the pocket) to make the nose snugger."

Thank you! Last spring, I cut and deburred some thin, galvanized steel strips for the ladies making masks here. Then one of the women found some extra large, colorful pipe cleaners in a Walmart craft department, tried those, and had more of them ordered for masks. They're easier to bend and more comfortable than the thin strips of steel.

They come out of the open end of a long, narrow pocket (like a hem with two separate stitches on it) across the top of each of the masks before laundering the masks. That prevents the wires in the pipe cleaners from corroding and getting too bent-up. They're put aside in a dry place until reinsertion in clean masks and replaced from time to time with new pipe cleaners. They're not really pipe cleaners. They look like pipe cleaners but in a jumbo, colorful size and are made for crafts.

Quilting cloth (not batting) is used for the cotton material for the masks made around here. It's the most closely woven, easily obtainable, cotton material that we could find. It also did the best of several common materials in some lab tests for filtering done last spring.

I look at the coronavirus epidemic as a training exercise, too, also with Prophets in mind (plague in troops encamped against Jerusalem, then spreading to the nations).

[familyop]

"Wish we had the option to not wear masks!!!"

Yes, I sincerely feel for people around densely populated cities, especially in blue states. Hope you have that option soon. Looks like the case numbers are starting to go down further again. Over 132 million people have received at least one dose of vaccine, and at a wild guess, maybe at least 60 million people have already had the virus and recovered.

[Norski]

One can do anything, if one is willing to pay the price.

[familyop]

"I am forced to wear masks all day at the creepy INTEL microchip factory , and Im in oregon a masked liberal stronghold, people jogging alone with masks on , people driving around in cars alone with masks on, everyone is going around giddy in a hypoxia daze ."

Wow. That is crazy. Hang in there for the job. Looks like the case numbers are starting to go down further again. Over 132 million people have received at least one dose of vaccine, and at a wild guess, maybe at least 60 million people have already had the virus and recovered.

I have a friend who has to wear masks all day while welding in a custom commercial truck body manufacturing shop. Seems unreasonable in a ventilated steel work shop. Another one works around hordes of customers from several states in a large store. They've adjusted to the masks after wearing them at work for about a year now, but no one wears them outside. Each of them were isolated after getting screened out at work once or twice over the past year. They look forward to the end of the mess.

[familyop]

"...but I wish COVID was 'over' so I could dispense with wearing masks in stores and while at the doctor."

I'm hoping that we're close. More than half of each in the adult population has received at least one dose of vaccine, and tens of millions have recovered from the disease. The national case rate has started inch further down over the past few days.

[GMThrust]

Lucky, I have a beard, wouldn’t stick very well.

[heavy metal]

never trust a government that opens its border and distributes thousands of disease carrying invaders across its country during a so called global pandemic...

[afchief]

I shop at Trader Joes all the time and NEVER wear a mask. I just tell them I have a condition and they give me this special cart.

I do it everywhere as I refuse to wear a mask anywhere.

[lightman]

Nice!

[FamiliarFace]

Fakebook gonna Fakebook. That whole website is spam.

[FamiliarFace]

Wash a disposable mask? That’s kinda funny.

[KrisKrinkle]

Don’t they also make it harder:

to pick you out of a lineup

for witnesses to describe you

to issue an effective BOLO

[EinNYC]

Here is the page from Amazon offering dozens of pre cut aluminum nose strips, adhered to sheets for easy peeling off. Amazon mask nose strips You don't have to remove the aluminum strips to launder the masks, as aluminum does not rust. It's also very lightweight.

I use closely woven cotton such as that used in quilting and the lightest NON-IRON-ON (don't want the glue on those clogging up the fabric or making the wearer have to breathe that chemical) non-woven interfacing as the interior layer. It helps to provide a bit of shape and keep the mask clear of your nose.

[JCL3]

https://americanconservativemovement.com/2021/04/17/stanford-study-quietly-published-at-nih-gov-proves-face-masks-are-absolutely-worthless-against-covid/

[EinNYC]

I am quite aware of those findings. Tell that to stores and doctors’ offices. They will not admit you without masks.

[Equine1952]

No harm, no foul. :)