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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Yesterday I was pumping gas when I heard the man in the kiosk ask a heavyset masked woman if she was alright. She was huffing and puffing like she'd just ran a marathon & I heard her tell the guy that she was tired. So she starts pumping her gas, which just happened to be on the other side of the pump I was using. The following convo ensued: Me: Ma'am, are you alright? Her: (huffing & puffing) Yeah I'm just tired and I'm going to have back surgery in a couple of weeks and I forgot my cane. Me: It's such a beautiful day out (67 & sunny) you should take your mask off and get some fresh air so you're not breathing in your own Co2 Her: Yeah, maybe, I had my second Moderna shot 2 weeks ago. Me: Then you definitely need to take that mask off, it's unhealthy and you need to breathe fresh air, there's no reason to wear that mask. But good luck with your back surgery! My dad used to say about people that they'd been beaten with an ugly stick, in this case, the woman had been beaten to within an inch of her life by a stupid stick.