re: Anyone else automatically assuming one's political views when they see them w/ a mask on?

Why judge them at all, last I heard it was a free country. If wearing a tee shirt over their mouth makes them feel better than who cares. Maybe they can’t get mask right now & they are trying to do their part to be a citizen trying to prevent further spread.

If you have a stock of N95 masks, you should be donating them to your local hospital.

YOu will help yourself even more by wearing plastic gloves to the grocery store. The most likely way to catch Covid-19 is from a surface. Put the gloves on as you enter the store. Take them off after you unload your groceries at home. My wife leaves her's on until she wipes down everything I bought.

A little inconvenience might be worth it.

I think some people just wearing them like I got a mask and not you nana boo boo. Although I just found a pack of 10 of the mask with the little filter in the front of in my garage that I probably got about 15 years ago.

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I’m not a liberal and I was at home depot with my wife today and both wearing N95 masks.

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Where did you find an N95 mask?

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Because N95 masks are rated down to 0.3 microns with 95% efficiency while corona viruses are 0.125 microns, less than half the particle size N95 can mostly filter at best.

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While technically you're correct about the rating, the truth is that particles smaller than .3 microns are EASIER to filter than those at .3 and above. Why? Brownian motion. The small particles are *still* captured by the filter. This is called "diffusion."

Bottom line: these masks remove particles smaller than .3 microns just as well as they do particles at 0.3. Numerous scientific tests of the masks prove it. Here's a good article about it: LINK

So, you haven't been wearing a mask for the flu, all these years, and then the media blows up a similar virus, which actually has a lower impact on the general populous (excluding at risk people) into something we all know it is not, and you think the people who AREN'T wearing masks are idiots?

I have a question for you: Will you ever leave your house without a mask, ever again? Because if you've got it in your head that you might walk into a random "cloud" of germs floating in the air, then how will you ever feel safe? Don't you understand that this is EXACTLY what the left wants? They want us scared.

We can be "safe" without being cowards. If I'm even sick with a cold, I don't go anywhere I don't absolutely have to be, because I don't want to get people sick. That's how I've always been. But I have to do what I have to do, within reason. You can't take off work with a cold. You wash your hands, cover your mouth when you cough, etc. But life has to go on, and if we keep giving in to the hysteria, we'll keep losing liberties.

I wash my hands and use hand sanitizer more ,but do not wear a mask. I try not to judge someone too much ,because you do not know their medical history. I had a pack that I gave to my MIL and my wife and I not wear anything going out.

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While technically you're correct about the rating, the truth is that particles smaller than .3 microns are EASIER to filter than those at .3 and above. Why? Brownian motion. The small particles are *still* captured by the filter. This is called "diffusion."

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No, just no. You are grossly misinformed. Go look up the actual testing procedures involved in certifying these masks.

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Bottom line: these masks remove particles smaller than .3 microns just as well as they do particles at 0.3. Numerous scientific tests of the masks prove it. Here's a good article about it: LINK

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Wrong, and that article grievously misconstrued the results of the cited test (and there are many, many others that actually involve biological specimens) which is not surprising from an unethical air filtration company trying to peddle it's products. A better company explains that, even with HEPA filters capable of capturing particles far smaller than any virus, running such a system provides virtually zero additional protection in a given household from COVID-19.

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It’s also the reason HEPA purifiers must not be considered a first line of defense against the virus that causes COVID-19. “The big thing with trying to say that a HEPA filter would do any good is whether you’re getting anything to the filter or not,” said Kathleen Owen, a consulting engineer with nearly 40 years of experience in air filtration. “If it turns out—and this is the big if; I’m not sure you should even mention it—but if there’s stuff that’s getting into the air, HEPA would catch it.” Owen noted that the coronavirus that caused the SARS outbreak in 2003 was primarily transmitted person-to-person but is thought to possibly have been airborne as well. (A preliminary study suggests that the virus behind COVID-19 can become aerosolized and remain airborne for several hours, but the study’s authors note that even should this prove to be the case, person-to-person contact would likely remain the chief mode of transmission.)
Owen, too, reemphasized that as far as researchers know now, air is not the vector by which the virus spreads, and that air purifiers should not be considered protective.
So, follow the CDC’s best practices: Self-isolate, wash your hands frequently, and disinfect frequently touched surfaces. A HEPA purifier won’t hurt. But it probably won’t help.

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I've got fifteen 3M N95 masks in my work vehicle, they are barely adequate with fine MDF dust even when fitted well. There's a reason the CDC has been lukewarm in the population at large trying to wear N95 masks or homemade masks, it gives a false sense of protection and creates avenues for contact contamination which is the overwhelmingly largest contributor to P2P transmission.

People with masks and gloves .. smart. People without mask and gloves ...dumb or lazy.