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Carbon Dioxide Poisoning

 Has anyone else noticed the increased number of freakouts and fights at airports and on airplanes lately (not just here but overseas as well)?  I can’t prove it and I don’t have any real data, but it seems that there is an escalation due to the mandate of wearing masks on planes and at airports (unless you’re John Kerry).  

I’m not talking about fights about wearing masks.

According to one article I saw, a person can get carbon dioxide poisoning by “rebreathing exhaled air (e.g., from a blanket over the head or sleeping in a tent)”.  

So, imagine if you’re wearing a really small blanket over your nose and mouth and you HAVE to keep it on…

Serious symptoms can include:

Paranoia, depression, and confusion

Muscle twitches

Seizures

Palpitations (a feeling that you are having a rapid heart rate)

Panic, or a feeling of impending doom

Dilation (widening) of superficial veins in the skin

Papilledema (swelling of the optic nerve)

This was interesting:

Carroll doubts that any cloth face covering would ever fit against the face so tight that someone would pass out from a lack of oxygen. “You’d take it off because it’s uncomfortable well before that happens,” he says. 

But what if you can’t take them off? Like if you’re at an airport or on a plane?

Not saying that there’s a direct cause/effect, but I’m guessing there’s a correlation between having to wear masks and the increased violence at airports.



16 responses to “Carbon Dioxide Poisoning”

  1. Soooo, only blacks are affected this way

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  2. I don't think it's racial, I think it's impulse control that gets out of whack due to carbon dioxide. The folks in London were white as well as the guy on the plane (link added).

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  3. This whole Faudemic and normal travel stress is setting people off.I think half the population of our town has forgotten how to drive after the last 15 months.

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  4. Gerry-I think the travel stress is definitely exacerbated by this masking thing. True on the forgetting to drive. Bad driving is every day now, not just Sundays.

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  5. Can't be… I never saw a single Black person wearing a mask properly last week when I flew to Atlana. Not a one had the mask over their nose. Not a single one.

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  6. B–good point. Just a hypothesis…

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  7. If these masks….most of which function almost identically to the masks that surgeons and others wear in an operating theatre during procedures….resulted in irrational behavior then we would have seen this LONG AGO with LOTS of negative outcomes and actions occurringduring operative procedures….some of which can take HOURS….sometimes 12 or more hours nonstop. Nope….not buying the BS about masks causing hypoxia or other blood gas changes.If masks can't stop a virus then they SURE AS HELL can't stop O2 and CO2 molecules from passing freely…..because a virus is SEVERAL orders of magnitude larger than those gas molecules are.

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  8. Hi Dan,To a point I agree. However, the cloth masks that definitely don't do anything to stop a virus (if you can smell it when someone farts and you're wearing a mask, it kind of proves it), however, they do restrict breathing (or at least that's my experience). Medical masks are for keeping the big droplets out of open wounds and are actually a lot looser.Like I said, it was a hypothesis–I have nothing but anecdotes to support it.

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  9. Soooo, only blacks are affected this way

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  10. I don't think it's racial, I think it's impulse control that gets out of whack due to carbon dioxide. The folks in London were white as well as the guy on the plane (link added).

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  11. This whole Faudemic and normal travel stress is setting people off.I think half the population of our town has forgotten how to drive after the last 15 months.

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  12. Gerry-I think the travel stress is definitely exacerbated by this masking thing. True on the forgetting to drive. Bad driving is every day now, not just Sundays.

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  13. Can't be… I never saw a single Black person wearing a mask properly last week when I flew to Atlana. Not a one had the mask over their nose. Not a single one.

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  14. B–good point. Just a hypothesis…

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  15. If these masks….most of which function almost identically to the masks that surgeons and others wear in an operating theatre during procedures….resulted in irrational behavior then we would have seen this LONG AGO with LOTS of negative outcomes and actions occurringduring operative procedures….some of which can take HOURS….sometimes 12 or more hours nonstop. Nope….not buying the BS about masks causing hypoxia or other blood gas changes.If masks can't stop a virus then they SURE AS HELL can't stop O2 and CO2 molecules from passing freely…..because a virus is SEVERAL orders of magnitude larger than those gas molecules are.

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  16. Hi Dan,To a point I agree. However, the cloth masks that definitely don't do anything to stop a virus (if you can smell it when someone farts and you're wearing a mask, it kind of proves it), however, they do restrict breathing (or at least that's my experience). Medical masks are for keeping the big droplets out of open wounds and are actually a lot looser.Like I said, it was a hypothesis–I have nothing but anecdotes to support it.

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