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does wearing a mask mean you are breathing in carbon dioxide?

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  • Joe
    Lv 6
    3 weeks ago

    Perhaps a tiny bit more than usual but the masks aren't air tight to oxygen will get into your lungs.

  • Audrey
    Lv 7
    3 weeks ago

    Yes and basking in your own germs and any one else's that happen to Get close to you. Yummy, huh?

  • Rick B
    Lv 7
    3 weeks ago

    Not a simple surgical mask, no.

  • Anonymous
    3 weeks ago

    Yes and less oxygen to the brain.

  • 3 weeks ago

    Nope. Masks are permeable to the molecules of gasses involved in respiration. They stop droplets carrying virus.

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