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Philip027 posted...

There is no amount of examples you can provide that would change the fact that my breathing is noticeably impaired when I'm wearing a mask.

It is not an anxiety response. I don't experience any such thing about wearing a mask. I know what an anxiety response looks/feels like, and it's not what I'm experiencing here.

Which explanation do you think is more likely?

• Feeling like your breathing is impaired is a subconscious panic response (albeit a mild one) to having something covering your mouth/nose
• Your respiratory system somehow works differently from that of everyone that has conducted such an experiment, all of which have found no measurable changes in breathing ability

The data's out there, and there is absolutely no evidence that masks reduce blood oxygenation. Whatever you're feeling, it's not hypoxia (or hypercapnea, since that's the body's actual metric for identifying such problems), no matter how strongly you feel that it must be a physical issue.

Philip027 posted...

Again, please don't try to dictate to me or others what's going on in our heads.

Technically, I'm dictating what's going on in your lungs, which is going to be a consistent experience because everybody's lungs work the same way (at least as far as this is concerned). What I'm suggesting is going on in your head is just the most plausible explanation for your experience, since there's nothing going on in your lungs that would explain it.

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