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Ears Will be OK
If you were concerned that your ears would become a bit too protruded after wearing a face mask for so long, have no fear. A group of Israeli plastic surgeons have come out to assure the public that wearing masks will not cause any permanent change to a person’s ear, even though there may be some physical, short-term discomfort.
According to the doctors, the ear canal stops developing at age six and therefore there is no reason for “its structure to change following the pressure of a rubber band or lanyard.” In Israel, residents are required to wear masks in public areas. Those flouting the law can face a fine of up to NIS 500. There is no requirement to wear a mask with ear straps; a bandana or scarf is still considered OK. Even so, wearing a mask for long periods may not be healthy. In an article published by Technocracy News, Dr. Russell Blaylock wrote that the side effects from prolonged wearing of a face mask “can vary from headaches to increased airway resistance, carbon dioxide accumulation and hypoxia, all the way to serious life-threatening complications.” The side effects vary depending on whether they are cloth or paper surgical masks or N95 respirator masks, because the N95, being a more effective filter, also limits breathing to a greater degree, and is therefore more commonly associated with headaches, he reported.
Trump Bans TikTok
President Donald Trump issued two executive orders over the weekend effectively banning the use of the popular social media apps TikTok and WeChat throughout the United States. The order came a week after Trump announced that he would outlaw TikTok due to concerns that the Chinese-owned video app was a conduit for a Beijing spying operation.
Owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, TikTok currently has an estimated 80 million users in the U.S. and is the fastest growing app in the world. The pair of executive orders Trump signed on Friday outlaws any transaction with TikTok, WeChat, and any other app developed by ByteDance for 45 days. The order means that Apple and Google would be prohibited from listing TikTok on their mobile apps store without running afoul of the ban. The ban would likely not apply should TikTok be bought by a non-Chinese firm. ByeDance is said to be in talks to sell parts or all of TikTok to Microsoft. Upon announcing the ban, Trump said that apps such as TikTok that are owned by Chinese firms “threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.” He pledged to further crackdown on Chinese spying. The order maintains that the Chinese firms are exploiting the app’s popularity to illegally collect user data and transfer it to Beijing’s ruling Communist Party. “The spread in the United States
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