I took my kids into the doc's today for a checkup. While i'm waiting, I start fooling around with the pulse/ox meter that goes on your finger. With my mask on, my oxygen saturation was around 91 % and pulse around 90. Without it, oxygen around 96% and pulse around 82, which is closer to normal. From now on, I'll only be wearing them when I perform surgery. I'm a chef by trade.
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This is a good report and I'm surprised no one has tried it and reported the results before this. Physiologically, the low oxygen and compensatory high pulse rate should create some anxiety. Masks are unhealthy and they don't stop disease transmission. But if they slow oxygen, to some degree they must slow a virus.
Many, many years ago, I had a high school chemistry teacher whose favorite saying was, "You've gotta be smarter than a brick."
Clearly you're not.
Wow, you're dumb.
I can't say I appreciate the insinuation that I'm lying. I'm merely relating my experience. Fairly enough, if you know anything about those finger units, their margin of error is 2%, so it could be an accurate reading, or anywhere between 89 and 93% on the low end. Regardless, those were the readings, I kept it on for a minute roughly, until the numbers stabilized, with the mask on and again without it. I did it twice each. This wasn't a controlled study, just a casual experiment. Say what you like, but that's what I observed.
OK this is sarcastic. They work really well for the cabal.