# Grooming Masks
February 11, 2022

## Expression
Emotion less deducible. Volume less audible. Unique feaures less observable. You are presented to be less unique and more ambiguous. You feel you can hide yourself, and that you are less recognizable.

## Agency
Knowing that you are less observed changes your innate and intuitive sense of exposure. You feel less involved with your surroundings and better able to maintain anonimity.

You feel that large sections of your face which communicate your thoughts and mood are less exposed, thus allowing you to hide from observers in the surroundings. This means your presence does not imply as great of a commitment to the moment and that there is less of a consequence for your expression.

## Significance
Why do you wear the mask?

It might be your personal preference, but it was likely not something done previously. Therefore, you are doing it for the new circumstance, but is that circumstance a change of understanding which would retroactively suggest that we may have always been better off wearing masks? Would we have even better mask fashion now and had we been making use of and accessorizing and "personalizing" ourselves with them all this time?

## Why
You wear them because of first order threat or delegated threat. Either you are otherwise at risk of:
 - a) becoming incidentally ill (in which case, what are the pros and cons of a more or less exposure)
 - b) dying
 - c) having permanent damage, or;
 - d) you are being asked to incur some level of personal risk (however small you know or do not know it to be), and are doing this to the primary benefit of those who work in your professional environment or are your family.

 All of this assumes that any of these masks have been working for all this time, and are only considering one dimension from which to draw an evaluation.

 Are there never to be causes for concern? Is it improper to take seriously any additional concern? Are we really being honest about our effort to understand the detrimental consequences of masking children?

 Moisture builds in the mask, which contains a composition/matrix of microorganisms which live in your mouth, nose, throat, as well as the environment at large. The organisms, like us, sustain themselves through cellular respiration (except viruses), and this process takes energy. That energy can come in several forms, and the availability of each form in conjunction with the ease by which each can be sought and utilized informs survivability and competitive performance in the face of an ecological system. One set of forms of energy are those composed or derived from our own tissues. If tehre is a breach in tissue, fo rexample, then some resources are made available and this facilitates resource utilization and cellular respiration by corresponding organisms of relevance that may be present.

 What this means for us is both growth of organisms in our mouth (affecting microbiotic accrual and proportions as well as increased infiltration of our respiratory airways and organs).

 To put it more simply, acute infections by pathways that are otherwise less potent. The potentiating of these pathways as a result of following orders. We can speak of RCTs, most of which have been insufficient, and have also not been useful in demonstrating the necessity of masking, but we'll never have RCTs for the sorts of possible detrimental affects being mentioned here.