How are the popular N95s with glasses? I’ve settled on classic nurse masks for now because they seal well around the nose and dont cause my glasses to fog.
3M Aura’s cured my fogging glasses.
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Re: Ready for an N95? Here's how to find a high-quality one that fits you well
#102I really don’t see the point unless you’re immune compromised or at some other high risk. Omicron is the evolutionary result you wait for, better at spreading and less health impact so it significantly outcompetes other variants (it has, something like 95% of infections). Peak omicron is coming withina master of days or already passed across the US. It’s virulence is such that you can only delay not expect to forever…
This is spot on. I'm really hoping omicron will be the wave that finally helps achieve some level of "herd immunity". It's sad that we had the opportunity to do so via vaccination but failed to capitalize. However a variant with high transmission and low chance of severe symptoms is the next best thing
The Delta and Omicron variants are sufficiently contagious that there will be no significant herd immunity effect to protect those who otherwise lack immunity. Instead we expect almost everyone will be exposed. Fortunately the vaccines and other therapies are pretty effective at preventing severe symptoms.
https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
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I just checked the data from https://covid19.who.int/ and Austria had 93 cases per 10,000 last week where as USA had 164 cases per 10,000. Which seems like a significant difference.
I don't know if Austria mandates masks but your last sentence doesn't seem to hold up according to WHO.
I know South Korea mandates masks and they had 5 cases per 10,000 last week. :)
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> FP2 or N95 do not work either. You can't stop an airborne virus with a mask. Bullshit. Not even worth refuting someone so far removed from reality.
no worth refuting because you have zero evidence that they work. All the empirical evidence (like the epidemic curves in countries that do require N95) points that they don't.
I'm sure doctors wear them just for show... :/
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#106It's mind blowing how 3 years into a pandemic, we're just having the conversation about N95 and mask fit vs kn95 vs cloth mask. What a huge miss in public health. Should have been done summer 2020. The most effective, cheapest solution was just to wear a properly fitted n95. Sure, vaccines good, retrovirals, yes, but this should have been done long ago. Given the airborne and aerosolized nature having a real mask wou…
I did find it very interesting that the people most excited about masks were, for the most part, not particularly interested in masks that are actually effective.
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Can you please share some sources that led you to this conclusion? I don't have a settled view on this, and I'm eager to find good sources of information.
Well, I mean, i understand the size of an airborn virus particle and the effectiveness of an N95 at filtering said particle sizes. Virus aren't magic.
My understanding is that there are relevant factors beyond just particle-size.
So I could be wrong, but I don't think we can get away with such simple reasoning.
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#108I really don’t see the point unless you’re immune compromised or at some other high risk. Omicron is the evolutionary result you wait for, better at spreading and less health impact so it significantly outcompetes other variants (it has, something like 95% of infections). Peak omicron is coming withina master of days or already passed across the US. It’s virulence is such that you can only delay not expect to forever…
Even if Omicron is 10x more contagious and not serious enough to require 1/10th hospitalizations than previous variants, the load on healthcare system doesn’t become lower than previous variants. Use of Masks slow down the rate of infections enough so that healthcare system doesn’t get overloaded again and cause more deaths and sufferings of both Covid and non Covid patients alike due to system load and failure.
When I read comments like yours, I am very glad that I decided to stay in Japan at the start of COVID-19 instead of returning to US. Here majority of people wear masks, irrespective of type and fit, when they leave home and take off only after returning home. Only taking off mask when absolutely needed such as eating or drinking.
Wearing mask is all about reducing viral load rather than preventing infection completely.
I hope for better critical thinking and logical reasoning and discourse on forums like HN. But I guess I have become too old and jaded.
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#109It boggles my mind that the general public, media, and even healthcare workers treat N95 mask as if they are as good as it gets. Industry routinely uses elastomeric half- and full-face respirators with P100 filters, and they have been easy to find in stock again since August 2020.
P100 is a comparable grade to HEPA, both 99.97%. Respirators are more comfortable and seal well easier than purely fabric masks, they don't pull on your ears, they don't fog glasses, it's just silicone making contact with your skin instead of gross wet fabric so they are much more comfortable. They are also much more effective for smoke and pollen.
I wear a 3M model 7502 face piece with model 7093 filters.
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#110> N95s aren't regulated for children, so if a mask says it's an N95 for kids, don't trust it. This makes me think we're still floundering at the basic protections. Our kids' school in the Bay Area recommends N95s for kids which, if this statement is true, don't exist.
I think the statement says that there are no legitimate N95s specifically labeled for kids, so any "N95" that has that labeling is suspect and may not live up to performance. But yeah, I can't imagine N95 designers were anticipating kids to ever need them.
It’s easy to get caught in compliance paralysis.
Generally speaking, masks will be designed or optimized for heads in different sizes. Until you get to really young kids where they don’t fit, there’s no magical reason that they won’t work.