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I'm not shaving my beard.

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n95 with the valves are called "easy breathers" or something like that.  N95 is a rating, not a mask name or model number.


I guess the .gov is going to make me shave as well???   Masks don't work if you have a bread.


Guess OSHA doesn't have a say anymore on mask usage?

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N95s have an exhalation valve, allowing the user to spread filth wherever they breath.

They protect the user from filth.

Does not fit the BS narrative of I wear the mask to protect everybody.

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So, the CDC says N95 are ok and protect you and everybody else, so the public buys N95.

How many of these masks do you think you will see the public wearing, thinking they are protecting everybody?

And how many morons, calling other people morons, think a bandana does anything?

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N95s have an exhalation valve, allowing the user to spread filth wherever they breath.

They protect the user from filth.

Does not fit the BS narrative of I wear the mask to protect everybody.

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I've heard the "viruses don't have wings!" argument before and think it's stupid reasoning. It's the equivalent of saying "a cork can't swim", but throwing a bucket of corks into a flowing river. Our bodies are constantly pumping in and out large volumes of moisture rich particles every minute. If moisture escapes then would the virus.

My wife is a respiratory therapist and used to conduct PPE mask fitting when she worked in hospitals.  She says N95 masks are useless unless fitted properly.  They leak around the edges, especially with anyone who has facial hair ... in those cases theybhave to be fitted with full-head respirators, which have a clear face cover and a hose out the back, connecting to a belt-worn filter cartridge. (like the ones worn by people who spray paint all day).

If your mask is not fitted properly then doing the cough/sneeze test you suggested will blow smaller plumes of particles around the poorly fitting areas of the mask. Anyone standing to your sides or in the direction of air current will still be exposed to whatever that wearer happens to cough/sneeze.

My RT wife also said N95 masks are designed to be worn one 8hr shift then discarded. The polyethylene fabric gets saturated at that point (with moisture and bacteria/viruses) and you are then presenting more risk to yourself and everyone else (plus the filtering efficiency drops AND they become harder to breathe through - causing higher blood sat. of CO2 and Hypoxia - particularly troubling for anyone with anemia whose blood already has less capacity for carrying oxygen without the reduced input caused by mask wearing).

If you get a headache whenever you wear a mask, as most hospital workers reportedly do, then the mask is causing Hypoxia. And please, If you find wearing a mask gives you frequent migraines then stop wearing them!  

IMO The N95 proposal is just a cover story before the accuracy of testing is quietly improved, resulting in a dramatic drop in the number of positive cases. They have to give some reason for why there will be a sudden improvement in the population... and

Right now there are a massive number of false-positive cases of CoVID-19. The WHO now recognizes this and is saying that the number of amplification steps (Ct) in the PCR test is too high (now 37 - 40 Ct), but experts warned early last year that 30 Ct would be more suitable/accurate. (See here:  https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/11/no_author/the-covid-19-rt-pcr-test-how-to-mislead-all-humanity-using-a-test-to-lock-down-society/ )
...I would put money on them quietly reducing the amplification cycles to 30-32 within the next 3 months, then claiming "WE BEAT IT!", as the CoVID-19 cases plummet.

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So, unless Biden is going to supply everyone with enough N95 masks for every 8hrs they are in public, then he will be creating a greater danger for everyone.


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An easy demonstration for mask effectiveness is to be physically active (ie: walking etc) in a cold dark environment.  By placing a light to on side you'll (most likely) see the fog of your exhaled breath or the venting from a cough/sneeze.  If water vapor (1um/1000nm typ.) can get out then the much smaller SARS-Cov2/CoVID-19 (60nm to 140nm) would definitely be able to get through.

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True spac N95 do not have a valve. There are plenty claiming N95 that do though. Read there description most will say they use N95 type materials.

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Tell your wife that there's numerous studies on the efficacy of using masks more than 1x or rotating them so that by the next time they're worn the virus is inactive.

Efficacy studies by actual doctors with education beyond that of a 40k/yr respiratory therapist show your wife is wrong.

The idea that people wearing N95's are at higher risk then people breathing in free air is downright laughable.

As posted by someone here earlier - and lines up with exactly what you'd expect based on simple high school level Physics.
https://msphere.asm.org/content/5/5/e00637-20

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every N95 maker has versions with a valve

https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-61hvb7k83t/images/stencil/500x659/products/50420/30093/3mtm-particulate-respirator-8210v-n95-600x600compressed__66731.1587747852.png?c=2

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as a Haz Mat Tech . an N95 is considered a respirator and would require a respirator fit test before an employer could require you to wear it.

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https://i.postimg.cc/rmwZ5wk7/n95.jpg


If you just say N95, you will not protect.

Just like the cloth face covering being 0% effective, but equal to everything else.  There is a standard to follow or it is all just BS.

You decide.

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Fuck it. If anyone on any public payroll from the POTUS to the assistant dog catcher in Frog Crotch MS told me the sky was blue, I'd drop what I was doing and look for my umbrella.  And that goes double for anyone connected with public health in any capacity.  I hope every goddamn one of them dies screaming from fulminating ass cancer.  And soon.  Very soon.

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Jesus, tell us how you really feel.

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Well, a valved N95 will still reduce the amount of exhaled particulates (those that contact the inside of the mask) and what does come out will be slowed down and directed downwards.

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Who gives a shit?

PPE protects the wearer. The wearer of a valved N95 is just as protected.  

If you want to be protected, protect yourself.  Take responsibility for yourself. Thats it.  Thats how all PPE works.

If your personal evaluation of risk is different, thats cool too.

The truth is the government wasn't prepared for this and didn't have stockpiles of PPE that would actually work, so it took them a month of thinking to come up with this idiocy that you wearing an improvised mask that doesn't protect you, protects others.  Despite decades of government regulation, training and guidance that states exactly the opposite.  Had to keep the masses busy thinking they were doing something.

Its science or something.

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N95s have an exhalation valve, allowing the user to spread filth wherever they breath.

They protect the user from filth.

Does not fit the BS narrative of I wear the mask to protect everybody.

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By the time you need an N95 or above you need eye protection. Then theres the fact N95 does not work on virus size stuff. It was printed as such on older N95's made by 3M

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Not so much from China virus but isn't that why surgeons and anybody in a sterile field wear PPE?
(to protect the patient from infection from Dr/Nurses).