Gainesville, FL — Lab testing revealed “dangerous pathogens” on children’s face masks after concerned parents sent them in for testing.
Six masks that were freshly laundered and worn for between five and eight hours were sent to the lab for study. One of the masks belonged to an adult and the others to children between the ages of 6 and 11.
In addition, unworn masks and a t-shirt worn by one of the children to school were used as a control. No pathogens were found on the controls.
The lab work was done at the University of Florida’s Mass Spectrometry Research and Education Center. The parents sent the masks in “because they were concerned about the potential of contaminants on masks that their children were forced to wear all day at school, taking them on and off, setting them on various surfaces, wearing them in the bathroom, etc.”
Half of the masks were contaminated with “dangerous pathogens,” while one-third were contaminated with antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria.
These are the 11 “dangerous pathogens” found on the masks, according to the report from Rational Ground.
- Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumonia)
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis (tuberculosis)
- Neisseria meningitidis (meningitis, sepsis)
- Acanthamoeba polyphaga (keratitis and granulomatous amebic encephalitis)
- Acinetobacter baumanni (pneumonia, blood stream infections, meningitis, UTIs—resistant to antibiotics)
- Escherichia coli (food poisoning)
- Borrelia burgdorferi (causes Lyme disease)
- Corynebacterium diphtheriae (diphtheria)
- Legionella pneumophila (Legionnaires’ disease)
- Staphylococcus pyogenes serotype M3 (severe infections—high morbidity rates)
- Staphylococcus aureus (meningitis, sepsis)
Rational Ground also stated:
Half of the masks were contaminated with one or more strains of pneumonia-causing bacteria. One-third were contaminated with one or more strains of meningitis-causing bacteria. One-third were contaminated with dangerous, antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens. In addition, less dangerous pathogens were identified, including pathogens that can cause fever, ulcers, acne, yeast infections, strep throat, periodontal disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, and more.
Dr. Rossana Rosa says it is not possible to develop bacterial pneumonia from breathing in the respiratory droplets exhaled into a mask.
The way bacterial pneumonia tends to develop is through aspirating – or breathing in – contents into the lungs. So, in terms of wearing a mask, the respiratory droplets you exhale that land on the inside of your mask that you then breath [sic] back in will not give you bacterial pneumonia.
If you have phlegm, you should find a way to safely spit it out. That way you aren’t at risk of breathing in large amounts of mucus or saliva into your lungs, which is how bacterial pneumonia develops.
Masks are gross. There is no doubt about that.
What is not fully clear is whether or not the presence of these pathogens on masks that are being taken off and put back on all day increases the risk of infections. With the increase in harmful bacteria that was found in the study, the risk of infection with one of these pathogens is theoretically higher.
The CDC is still recommending children wear masks through the end of the 2020-2021 school year.
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End the mask mandate now
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OK Dems then U wear masks OK
I have never seen a study where masks were useful or works. there are numerous studies like this one that proves that mask are harmful and do not work. What is it going to take to make these people understand that what they are doing is not helping but making matters worse?
The Chink-a-zoids, through their mouth piece Dr. Falsi, are hoping to harm us through our programmed overreaction to a little virus. This tendency to overreaction has been documented since the Civil War. British author Anthony Trollope noted during his visit to America during the 1860’s how official buildings in America tend to overheat, to the detriment of the populace. I myself would second his motion, moreover, also to note that Government buildings also overcool during summer months. The same idiosyncrasy is quite visible in our overreaction to a puny little virus which, as CDC notes, is > 99% survivable. Moreover, the little maskies do not help, but offer little protection and indeed HARM the populace. The maskies are but sponges to soak up nasty pathogens and they also force us to breathe less oxygen, compromising our immune systems.
The article stated that exhaling into your mask and then breathing it back in cannot cause any of the pathogens they found on these masks. So – how did it get there??? Anyone interested in THAT???!!! — Crickets…..
So the Democrats/Leftists/Liberals/Socialists are not satisfied with 600,000 Americans Killed by the Chinese Communist Party’s Corona Virus they want to force Children who have already proven to either not get the virus or get a very mild case, to die from these 11 “dangerous pathogens” that are found on masks. Just in case the CCP Virus was not deadly enough they are allowing THOUSANDS of Illegal Aliens to cross the border and releasing them into the US even when they test POSITIVE for the CCP Virus and God only knows what else. It is a good thing that they are on our side, imagine what they woudl do if they really hated us.