Taxi driver chat: Non surgical face masks & increased risk of pneumonia?

[Chocolateteabag]

Just had a taxi driver give me a lecture on how "many many hospital folk" have told him that non-surgical face masks are causing lots of cases of lung issues - pneumonia etc
Apparently small particles & micro-plastics from the masks are inhaled and are now causing other respiratory illnesses. Also increased amounts of bacteria held/grown in the masks them selves then rebreathed in.

Is this taxi driver chat or has any one else heard of this?

www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-masks-hypoxia-idUSKBN2AM2IC

Surgical are obviously better than a mask made out of your gran's old bloomers, but I'd say it's conspiracy theory bollocks rather than taxi driver chat.

Thank you - I really didn't know what to think as I sat wearing my Seasalt mask in the back and he went on and on telling me it was going to kill more than covid

Complete and utter bollocks from the taxi driver