It's hay fever season, and one in five Germans suffers from a pollen allergy.
To alleviate the symptoms, the Nürnberg Health Office is now advising people to wear masks outdoors.
Climate change is extending the pollen season for some trees, grasses and other plants.
Climate change also causes significant increases to the concentration of pollen earlier in the year.
You should think about masking to combat allergies now, even though you never did before, because of climate change, or something.
It's all based on the ravings of an allergist at Berlin Charité named Karl-Christian Bergmann, who is probably not smart enough to be a deep-cover mask sceptic secretly committed to depriving community masking of all credibility, and is in all likelihood issuing his obnoxious opinions on the continued use of public face coverings in all sincerity.
The recommendation comes just six weeks after the publication of a literature review in Heliyon, which surveys the existing experimental evidence to find that wearing a face mask for more than five minutes can increase the carbon dioxide concentration of inhaled air to as much as 3.2% - fully 80 times the concentration in fresh air, and perhaps ten times the toxicity threshold for chronic exposure.
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