Post AlzocRmF4WWw3T3eQy by be@floss.social
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(DIR) Post #AlzocQsaPS0jGr1CgS by be@floss.social
2024-09-13T17:51:28Z
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Wearing a mask is not a big deal. Not wearing a mask is a big deal.
(DIR) Post #AlzocRmF4WWw3T3eQy by be@floss.social
2024-09-13T18:13:56Z
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Until a year or so ago, I thought that wearing an N95 was a big deal because my experience with N95s was extremely uncomfortable hard shell masks provided by an institution that I couldn't tolerate wearing for more than 20-30 minutes. It is a massive failure of public health education that I did not know that comfortable N95s exist and they cost less than a dollar each so long as you don't buy a tiny 3 pack at Walgreens.
(DIR) Post #AlzocSZW7JwgWI70Eq by be@floss.social
2024-09-13T18:21:38Z
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4 years into this airborne pandemic, I still see people wearing surgical masks in public. There's no good reason for that when actually effective masks are so cheap. It's a huge failure of public health education. The system won't educate us, so we have to educate each other.
(DIR) Post #AlzocTDZiNzKWWqzg0 by be@floss.social
2024-09-13T18:23:20Z
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Did you know that not only are N95 masks very effective at protecting the wearer, they're also very effective for source control to avoid infected people spreading viruses? https://sph.umd.edu/news/study-shows-n95-masks-near-perfect-blocking-escape-airborne-covid-19Of course symptomatic people should wear N95s without exhalation valves.
(DIR) Post #AlzocTqvM5SoUZGQ0e by meowski@fluf.club
2024-09-14T13:56:03.339946Z
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@be they're not "very effective" they offer marginal protection only when worn by trained people. for the general public, that benefit is questionable. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577