Mask Mask Mask

[john70t]

The best consumer mask is N95, with the check valve.

It only filters incoming air and allows the free expelling of unfiltered lung gasses.

It is 95% effective for the particle sizes rated for.
(meaning 5% still gets through, and the remaining 95% build up on the mask itself)

[GH85Carrera]

The mask my wife bought for us at the beginning of the Wuhan Flu problem has a activated charcoal insert on the inside of the mask. We pull that out to wash the masks, and we change them after a while. It had a valve, but my glassed sure fog up so I know it leaks at the top.

[dad911]

Originally Posted by john70t

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.....with the check valve. It only filters incoming air and allows the free expelling of unfiltered lung gasses.
....

I see people wearing masks with the port/check valve, but that defeats the reasons for wearing a mask when social distancing isn't possible.

[island911]

Originally Posted by dad911

I see people wearing masks with the port/check valve, but that defeats the reasons for wearing a mask when social distancing isn't possible.

How?

Seriously?

Or do you believe that surgical masks don't vent off the edges?

BTW, those M95 vents vent downward.

[pmax]

Originally Posted by island911

This is 2017 (CDC)



A lot of people die each day. Thousands in the US. Every day. Cold & flu seasons push a few more hundreds over the edge. -every day!

Some people insist that we must stop living until people stop dying.

Paradoxical, that.

At this rate, we would've cured every other disease.

[ramonesfreak]

since being out of work, i’ve been cycling a lot. i don’t wear a mask. a few months ago i was at the park stopping for some water and another cyclist came down the park road all alone wearing a mask and i thought damn that’s stupid and really paranoid. as the weeks have gone by and i think of the hundreds of miles i’ve put in riding past dog walkers and stroller pushers, i gotta wonder if i’m dooming myself but who the hell wants to wear a mask on a bicycle. i might as well stay home.

[RWebb]

low likelihood from just riding past someone

riding behind for a prolonged period = more risky

wind will disperse the cloud of virus laden droplets

the real problems happen indoors where a lot of people are yelling and talking loudly - say at a bar in s. Dakota ...

[ramonesfreak]

i rarely leave the house. if i do, other than cycling, i wear mask

[pmax]

Just bought some stuff at Target.

Pains me to see a senior citizen working the self checkout lines helping customers not social distancing but yeah, wearing a mask mask mask.

Hope she doesn't think it protects her.