Pay attention to this "declaration of responsibility" on wearing a mask

Pupils from the age of six must now wear a mask at school (illustrative image).

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• A "declaration of responsibility" linked to wearing a mask is circulating on social networks.

  To be signed by the professors, it would make them responsible for any “harmful impact on health”.

• This document "has no legal value", specifies the National Education at

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• Above all, wearing a mask has no adverse health consequences.

A new masked re-entry.

While the National Education has just extended the wearing of masks to students aged six and over, a supposed "declaration of responsibility" is circulating on social networks.

With this form, to be signed by the “school teachers”, specifies the Internet user who shared it, the teachers would declare “to personally assume full responsibility for any impact on health” linked to “the obligation [ …] To wear a face mask ”.

The document is supplemented by a paragraph, wrongly presented as being an extract from article 16 of the Civil Code: "The mask, affecting physical integrity by lowering the oxygenation of the body, and therefore affecting the fundamental and inalienable right to breathe, can in no case be compulsory.

This obligation is therefore totally illegal.

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This document "has no legal value", specifies the Ministry of National Education at

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It was not the “school teachers” who decided to extend the wearing of masks to primary school pupils.

The announcement was made on October 29 by Prime Minister Jean Castex.

As high school and middle school students have been required to do since September, schoolchildren are now required to wear the mask both inside and outside the classroom.

Pupils with pathologies can only be exempted on the advice of a doctor, according to the health protocol in force.

Wearing the mask, even prolonged, does not lead to a "lowering of the oxygenation of the body" as is claimed in this document.

"No valid scientific study, that is to say validated by peers, has spoken of hypoxia [low oxygen supply in the tissues] linked to the wearing of the mask", reminded the pulmonologist Jean-Philippe Santoni to

in May.

Inserm also notes that the masks “are designed to be worn for a period of several hours by health professionals, without hindering their ability to work, nor impairing their breathing capacities.

If some people may feel embarrassed by the fact of wearing a mask, it is because of a lack of habit: these protections are developed so as to allow oxygen to pass through the body.

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