About Whooping Cough
By John Hopkin’s University
SUMMARY:
Whooping cough is caused by a bacterium called Bordetella pertussis. The illness is characterized by coughing spells that end with a characteristic "whoop" as air is inhaled. Whooping cough caused thousands of deaths in the 1930s and 1940s. With the advent of a vaccine, the death rate has declined dramatically. Pertussis vaccines are very effective. However, if pertussis is circulating in the community, there is a possibility that even a fully vaccinated person could catch the disease…
LINK:
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/whooping-cough-pertussis-in-adultsCOMMENT:
One of the great benefits of proper masking with an N95 mask to help prevent covid is that masking helps prevent
all airborne illnesses and airborne diseases such as whooping cough as well!
Herein lies the beauty of masking: The mask is like the all-in-one multifunctional Swiss Army knife of protection for airborne illness and disease: wear a mask and you’ve got most all your bases covered,
Mask for to prevent covid and you’ll be masking to prevent whooping cough, influenza, pneumonia, flu, avian flu, allergies, occupational airborne hazards, etc.
Mask to prevent one airborne illness and you’ll be masking to prevent all of them! Now to get all that protection from a mask.. that’s some power, that’s a bargain, and that’s a good deal!,
The Masked Man
P.S.
“Long-term effects of whooping cough can include pneumonia, seizures, and brain damage, particularly in infants, and complications like broken ribs, hernias, and weight loss in older children and adults.”
.. to cough so hard you “break your ribs and have hernias”!? That’s not just coughing that’s dying! That’s some violent convulsive suffocating! I prefer masking to prevent this! I prefer masking in this day and age to prevent breathing in a multitude & slew of airborne hell & torture.
I’m not gambling that. I don’t care what the odds are, I mask because the stakes are too high.
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