Why N95 masks are hard to make
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#2Surgical and homemade masks are much better than nothing. And by better than nothing we mean reasonably effective.
Going into close contact with a person who has a known transmissible respiratory illness? N95 is minimum if you are a professional. And get your union to scream bloody murder if you are not allowed this essential safety equipment, and put complaints in writing so your heirs can later sue to oblivion.
Trying to massively reduce your risk when going out for supplies, or living with someone infected and have no other options? Surgical and homemade are vastly vastly vastly better than nothing.
Extremely antisocial, harmful, dangerous? Shaming those wearing masks.
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#3This is the price we pay for outsourcing our manufacturing capabilities. We should have kept in-house manufacturing alive, there is plenty of capacity for it here in the States.
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#4> China now makes 200 million face masks a day — more than twenty times the amount it made at the start of February.
That’s an insane number of masks.
Does one in seven Chinese wear a fresh one every day? Is this gonna be the new normal?
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#5This is the price we pay for outsourcing our manufacturing capabilities. We should have kept in-house manufacturing alive, there is plenty of capacity for it here in the States.
That's complete and utter bullshit.
There is not enough capacity to make N95 masks. China retooled entire factories to make enough just for their outbreak.
There's a global shortage of N95 masks. Maybe save your nativism until we're done with this.
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#6This is the price we pay for outsourcing our manufacturing capabilities. We should have kept in-house manufacturing alive, there is plenty of capacity for it here in the States.
Is there any reason to think that had that kind of manufacturing skills remained in the US that the situation would be better?
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#7Surgical and homemade masks are much better than nothing. And by better than nothing we mean reasonably effective. Going into close contact with a person who has a known transmissible respiratory illness? N95 is minimum if you are a professional. And get your union to scream bloody murder if you are not allowed this essential safety equipment, and put complaints in writing so your heirs can later sue to oblivion. Try…
Surgical/homemade masks are working only if everybody is wearing them and they just impede transmission from the wearer to other people around. If you are the only person wearing such mask, you might not impede infection by much.
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#8> China now makes 200 million face masks a day — more than twenty times the amount it made at the start of February. That’s an insane number of masks. Does one in seven Chinese wear a fresh one every day ? Is this gonna be the new normal?
They only provide protection for four hours
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#9I made a dozen good homemade masks in a few hours, and I am inept at sewing. With some practice I could make 200 a day. There's no point to doing so, it would be illegal for me to sell them.
US is doing nothing whatsoever to ramp up mask or ventilator production. It's going to result in a lot of deaths.
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#10Surgical and homemade masks are much better than nothing. And by better than nothing we mean reasonably effective. Going into close contact with a person who has a known transmissible respiratory illness? N95 is minimum if you are a professional. And get your union to scream bloody murder if you are not allowed this essential safety equipment, and put complaints in writing so your heirs can later sue to oblivion. Try…
Surgical/homemade masks are working only if everybody is wearing them and they just impede transmission from the wearer to other people around. If you are the only person wearing such mask, you might not impede infection by much.
That's false and you are wrong and are posting dangerous misinformation that is harming society.
If I am infected it protects others. If I am not infected it protects me.