The irony. And a good response from this guy, that pretty much states that!
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Almost all of this argument is good. But there's no need to muddy it up by saying it's hard to breathe through a thin piece of paper.
For a good long while, I thought anti-maskers were crazy because they kept bringing this up. I've learned a lot since then, but seriously, it isn't worth throwing in the mix.
If you can breathe through a scarf, you can breathe through a mask. But if that mask does no good, you have good reason to question the need to wear it, without bringing up some weak whiner argument like "I can't breathe." (Saying this as someone who's had to call 911 multiple times because I couldn't breathe anymore due to asthma.)
Hook yourself to an O2 monitor and see what your readings are with and without a mask. Unless your mask is made out of a screen, or VERY thin material (which makes it virtually useless even for catching sneezes), you will see a drop in your oxygen levels when breathing with a mask on. I was in the hospital for a kidney stone (didn't know it was a stone at the time) and they made me wear a mask in the ER. While hooked up to all the monitoring equipment, I checked the change in oxygen levels with and w/o the mask, because I had read that it decreased your oxygen, but I thought "there is such a small amount of volume inside the mask, how could it significantly drop oxygen levels in your blood?", but sure enough, 5 or 6 points of change occurred.
If I ever get the chance, I'm actually gonna give that a try. I still find the masks to be far worse in itch factor than air quality though, and the constantly fogging sunglasses are a pain.
They sell the fingertip oxygen sensors for a pretty low price now, that work with a smart phone.