📣 PSA: Masks do not lower your oxygen levels 📣
Now, all of these statements are in reference to a classic surgical mask worn properly. That means over your nose and mouth, none of this down around your chin nonsense.Dr. Tom Lawton, an intensive care unit doctor in the U.K., decided to run a half marathon in a face mask to prove it doesn’t impact oxygen levels and raise money for food banks there.
He conducted a poll on Twitter to determine what type of mask he should wear on the run, with the classic cloth mask winning out. There is absolutely no scientific evidence that mask wearing or physical distancing weakens the immune system.“As an intensive care doctor dealing with some of the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic I am massively in favour of anything that might keep us all safe,” he wrote. “If I can run 16-21 miles masked, you can probably make it round the shops.”
Lawton, a former triathlete, ran to and from his hospital job wearing a homemade cloth face mask made from a pillowcase and curtains. And his oxygen levels stayed near 98 per cent the whole way. In one of these I've been wearing a mask for a couple of minutes. I'll let you guess which.
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