Study Shows MOST People Now Have Microplastics — Found in Disposable Masks — in Their Lungs

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[–]weavilsatemyface 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

The microplastics are everywhere. In our food, in our drinking water, in the air we breathe. Every time you drink from a plastic bottle, you ingest microplastics. Our oceans are full of microplastics. They are in the soils where we grow food, and from the soil it goes into the food we eat. Any contribution from surgical masks is a tiny fraction of a percent of the total microplastic load.

If you are worried about microplastics from masks, you should be ten thousand times more worried about the vastly greater amount of microplastics from the breakdown of plastics in, well, pretty much everything in the modern industrial world uses tons of plastic.

Unrestrained greed and cheap plastics are poisoning us all. Its not just Big Pharma.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I thought you were going to say something interesting but just a load of guff to get to the whataboutery.

If microplastics are bad then we want to cut them out from every source were can, no matter how small.

[–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If microplastics are bad then we want to cut them out from every source were can, no matter how small.

Right.

So which are we more upset about, the tiny insignificant dose of microplastics from wearing a mask, or the ten thousand times bigger exposure from our food, our drinking water, the air we breathe, etc?

If we care only about the microplastics in masks, and not about the global pollution in our food and drinking water, then we don't really care about microplastics.

The whole mask thing is the most ludicrous culture war to get heated up over, on both sides. Masks are not going to keep you safe, and failure to wear a mask is not murder. There are plenty of people who shouldn't wear masks, but most of them are small children, and plenty of people for whom it is literally no big deal one way or another. The fact that the least important part of the pandemic response has generated the most controversy tells us that we're having the wool pulled over our eyes by both sides.

When people generate a huge amount of smoke and flame over something so unimportant, whether it is Pro or Anti, you know that there's a scam involved.

[–]Rusty_Foster 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

OWNED BY PLASTIC SHIT!

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Masks don't have this type of plastic in them. This plastic is floating in the air everywhere. You are probably better off wearing a mask to protect against this plastic.

[–]springfall 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

i believe it, those cheap disposable ones barely hold together. i wounder if the same is true for reusable ones. most of them apear to be made of that synthetic cloth.