Are You Wearing Your Mask Too Long? | DrEricBergDC

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let’s talk about the chronic wearing of masks okay now I can see wearing a mask

in a condensed area especially if someone’s coughing on you and things

like that but a lot of times when I go out for long walks in in an area where

it’s wooded I’m seeing people are just wearing the mask and they’re by

themselves I see people driving their car by

themselves and they’re wearing a mask so I want to just talk about if that’s a

good thing or a bad thing so here’s some things I want to talk about relating to

the mask a mask will restrict the air flow to your lungs okay and depending on

what type of mask that you’re wearing will determine how much air is getting

through the mask will stress the respiratory muscles okay around the lung

especially if you are wearing the mask for a long period of time now the mask

you probably saw me wearing in the in the thumbnail looks like this is

part of a hypoxic training program where I’m purposely restricting air flow to my

lungs intermittently for maybe like two minutes while I’m exercising and

breathing hard and then I’ll take it off back and forth so I’m creating a stress

it’s called a hermetic effect where you’re adding stress and letting your

body recover so you can then build up the muscles around the loan so I know

this is different because you’re doing exercise and of course people wearing

the masks are not necessarily exercising but sometimes they are as well so the

point I’m trying to make is that if someone is fragile and they’re older and

they’re wearing a mask 24/7 that may be a problem because you’re adding more

stress to an area of their body that is already weakened and they’re probably

already susceptible and vulnerable to getting that virus the point is when

you’re in the car by yourself or you’re outside not around people you need to

take that mask off and actually just let air go in unless you’re healthy and

you’re trying to get in shape but definitely you want to go back and forth

if you want to take it off and you want to put it back on but the fact is if you

put something over your mouth obstructing the air you’re going

to reduce oxygen into the lungs okay so that’s all I’m saying there’s different

types of masks that give you different filtration okay you have the n95 medical

mask gives you 95 percent of filtration with the pores being point three microns

so it’s pretty small that’s not a hundred percent but 95 percent is pretty

good a regular surgical mask will provide between 60 to 80 percent

filtration if you take a 600 thread-count

pillowcase and you have four layers that will give you about 60% filtration then

you have those bandanas 100% cotton bandana four layers will only give you

about 19.5% particle filtration so the best standard number you’re looking for

is a point three micron now the size of the virus is point one micron now you’re

saying well wait a second this virus can squeeze through this hole pretty easily

because this is three times the size true but the more filtration you have

the less air you’re going to get through the less you’re going to be able to

breathe so there’s a toss-up between getting enough oxygen and filtering out

a virus so you can pretty much put a plastic bag over your head and get a

hundred percent but of course you’re not going to be able to survive that long so

there’s some other factors involved one is this the virus itself usually is

traveling on a droplet especially if someone is sneezing coughing breathing

or talking to you so the size of the droplet okay is much bigger than the

virus because a droplet is composed of fluid some protein salts other minerals

electrolytes and even microbes so you have a lot of things kind of like a

little fluid gel that’s being projected in the air so now the viruses are

entrapped in this larger amount of fluid they’re going to be filtered out from

the mask there’s always a chance that you’re gonna get some of those viruses

that are gonna get through right but here’s the thing you have also the

variable of your susceptibility to the virus how

healthy your immune system is and the viral load or the concentration of viruses so

if there’s just a little bit of viral particles that are getting in your body

and you have a strong immune system you’re going to be able to handle that

with no problem so the sicker you are and the higher the viral load the more

you need to worry about your mask but if you’re healthy and you’re just not being

around people that are sneezing or coughing your face and you get exposed

to some viruses in the virus load is low your immune system will deal with it you

might have some very very mild symptoms so there’s a relationship between the

severity of the infection and this right here the viral load I think the worst

case scenario is if you’re a doctor or nurse working in a hospital and you’re

around the concentration of viruses then you have the velocity of someone else

maybe spreading some viruses on you so you have the sneeze which could

potentially project between seven and eight meters that’s 23 to 26 feet okay

depending on how strong that sneeze is or someone’s coughing on you that’s

between 5 to 6 meters 19 feet it’s pretty strong cough or if they’re

breathing on you we’re only talking about 2 meters about 7 feet now this is

the distance that it could potentially travel of course the greater the

distance the less the viral concentration but then we have the

droplet particles okay so if someone sneezing roughly could be around 40,000

droplets okay versus someone coughing on you

that’s 3,000 droplets or someone that’s talking to you for about 30 minutes that

could total about 3,000 droplets so you can see the concentration down here the

viral load is going to be a lot smaller than someone sneezing on you so the

reason I’m talking about this is just to show you the different variables of

velocity your own susceptibility the viral load the filtration and the time

that you wear the mask if you are weak and you have a poor immune system

especially if your chronic smoker or you have COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary

disease or asthma you shouldn’t be wearing this mask all day long anyway

that’s my thoughts and now I’m wanna hear your thoughts tell me what you

think about this topic and link down below

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