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Throck

(2,520 posts)
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 05:37 AM Jan 2022

Time To Ditch Your Cloth And Surgical Masks For Respirators

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2022/01/06/best-covid-masks/

I've seen several HEPA filter inserts for these. Problem is the price. I have no idea how long the cartridges are good for. My brother is a retired asbestos removal contractor and said models made by a company called MSA are reliable and approved by OSHA.
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BigmanPigman

(51,432 posts)
1. I got a box of 20 3M N95s for $18 about 3 weeks ago.
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 05:54 AM
Jan 2022

I wonder if they are still in stock on Amazon. I only wear N95s and I recycle them a lot. They're very tight, which is a good thing.

Kaleva

(36,149 posts)
5. Told my wife we have enough food and stocks on hand for well over a month.
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 06:14 AM
Jan 2022

Have to go to the local hospital today for bloodwork and then to the local VA clinic this afternoon for my booster and I'll be wearing an N95 mask . A different respirator for each stop. Then I can hunker down at home for sometime.

Kaleva

(36,149 posts)
3. Article says surgical masks are still good for quick in and outs.
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 06:08 AM
Jan 2022

"First, the material. Cloth masks offer the least protection, and surgical masks are marginally better. Dr. Brosseau says both are good for errands that take a few minutes, and that’s about it.

“Put it on, go into a store and don’t stay there very long,” she said. “Once you go into a store and you know you’re gonna be there for more than a couple minutes, you’ve got to wear a respirator.”"

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2022/01/06/best-covid-masks/

Throck

(2,520 posts)
14. I can see some people's mouths through their cloths masks.
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 09:03 AM
Jan 2022

For the life of me, some people do not comprehend how small a viral particle is.

MFM008

(19,782 posts)
4. next it will be
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 06:12 AM
Jan 2022

a bubble like the one Travolta lived in in the movie.
Not going to happen.
People are tuning out no matter what, I see less people masked in the grocery store than ever.
maybe that's the real reason its spreading...

Sucha NastyWoman

(2,726 posts)
7. That's like saying contraceptives are not 100%
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 06:30 AM
Jan 2022

True maybe, but irrelevant since most heterosexual people are not going to totally abstain.

Sucha NastyWoman

(2,726 posts)
12. Seat belts don't save lives 100% of the time.
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 07:12 AM
Jan 2022

But they are still a very effective way to prevent death.

And I’d course hanging a baby isn’t the same as trying to avoid dying a miserable death, but the point is they are both very effective at preventing something you don’t want to happen.

Kaleva

(36,149 posts)
13. Preventing is not the same thing as reducing.
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 07:36 AM
Jan 2022

Birth control reduces the chances of unwanted pregnancies. Seat belts reduce the chance of being killed in a car accident and wearing masks reduces the chances of contracting COVID.

"but the point is they are both very effective at preventing something you don’t want to happen."

We basically agree but I argue that wearing a mask does not "prevent". It only reduces the chances.

Response to MFM008 (Reply #4)

retread

(3,752 posts)
15. Getting our local knuckle draggers to wear even a cloth mask in public is an impossible
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 09:30 AM
Jan 2022

task.

Before buying I go to the NIOSH web site and verify approval of the N95's we buy.
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/respirators/disp_part/n95list1-a.html

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