@brainmist That seems kind of racist.
As of August 2, less than half of Black and Hispanic people have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose in the vast majority of states reporting data.
The percent of White people who have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose (49%) was roughly 1.3 times higher than the rate for Black people (38%) and 1.1 times higher than the rate for Hispanic people (43%) as of August 2, 2021. https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-data-on-covid-19-vaccinations-race-ethnicity/
@brainmist@OutbackJon Did you just have this copy / pasta ready if you saw keywords that didn’t match your Fox-news-jaded life outlook? Because that might be better served to deal with an IRK captcha.
All of that said, looking at the vaccination centers available in a certain large Southern city, a disproportionate number of them are located in areas that trend non-BIPOC, which probably reflects all of the other trends that cause lots of other facilities to also be found in those same kinds of places. Systemic racism and systemic economic starvation of the marginalized of any type, much? And the economically disadvantaged folks typically have a far greater degree of entrenched, with-cause distrust for the system (anybody recall Tuskeegee?) plus they typically don’t have access to the level of current information that would tell them both that the jab is free and where they can get it.
And that said, when I went to get my first jab back in January, over half of the folks lined up were older black and hispanic people, and this was not at a public clinic. But it was at a clinic that welcomes all, including LBGTQ+, which a great many places like big-ass fancy medifices inherently feel like they don’t, because they reek of the money that so many BIPOC folks ain’t got. Sometimes that shiny facade and parking lot full of Beamers screams “F*&^ You We’ve Got Ours” louder than any other message.
@brainmist@OutbackJon@tinamarie1974 In my state, the bouncing between the lowest vaccinated and second to lowest vaccinated in the country, we only have 6 ICU beds left in the entire state. This state is white majority. We could get into politics but I won’t.
It is the idiots of any race who aren’t getting vaccinated who are causing the problem now with them being the vast majority of the new cases. If we are lucky it will be Darwinism at work. Sigh.
And their actions puts immune compromised people, like myself, at risk. I was vaccinated almost as soon as I was eligible, spending hours online trying to get an apt. I am part of the leukemia and lymphoma society study, and here I am 4 months later with almost no spike protein antibodies. Even though I wear a mask all the unvaccinated idiots who won’t (and even the vaccinated indoors in larger groups), all the idiots who won’t get vaccinated (and there there is a very small subset of that who can’t so those people are being put at risk through no fault of their own too) are putting me at risk. Anyone with a blood cancer, if they are hospitalized with covid, have a 51% chance of dying, those with solid tumors a 36% chance if they are hospitalized with covid. The actions of the fuckwads who refuse to get vaccinated and wear a masks don’t just affect themselves, they affect everyone.
In my opinion if you refuse to get vaccinated and then get sick with covid, no medical care for you. What is going on now is largely preventable and the fault of the unvaccinated.
@brainmist@Kidsandliz@OutbackJon During Q1 and part of Q2 in Missouri the shots were NOT in major cities where the majority of the population resided. They were in small towns in middle Missouri where a small % of the population lived. I think here the decision was more political in nature.
@mike808 you got an opinion on Missery vaccine deployment
@tinamarie1974 Lifesaving vaccine deployment here in Misery was absolutely politically motivated while giving a pretense to Parsons, the state legislators, Hawley, and all of the wingnuts waving their racism/fascism/grifter flags high to replace Blunt) as cover for their ongoing systemic and institutionalized racism and economic warfare on the poor (and pretending that it isn’t racism).
@tinamarie1974
Vaccine deployment in Texas, where the surge is nearly as bad as Missouri, was initially mostly in the big cities because that’s where the virus cases were, too. People out in the sticks didn’t want the jab, spurned it when it became available, and are the source of a lot of the cases now. But even in the cities, there was a lot of variability in real access; if you didn’t have a car and couldn’t afford an Uber, the vaccine was probably out of reach. And for the folks who were terrified of The System, and were sure they’d get deported if they showed up for the vax, it didn’t matter if they could get there; they weren’t going to trust that it wouldn’t cause them to get chucked over a border. A lot of legal immigrants are in that latter category, because of the cavalier way that our government just summarily decides that nope, too bad, you’re outta here.
@werehatrack interestingly enough the rural (local) folks that had easy access in MO didn’t want the shots either. It ended up being a lot of people from STL and KC driving 2-4 hours one way to just get the opportunity. They had more vaccine than people and ended up throwing away a lot of product vs putting it in the populated areas where people could easily access. Wanna guess where the covid hot spots are now, those same rural areas where the locals turned their noses and refused the vaccine initially.
And as far as the immigrants, legal or otherwise that is a sad situation. I have a few friends in that category, parents immigrated when they were kids and they still have the fear for good reason unfortunately.
@OutbackJon And my very white state is struggling to get the nearly 100% white rural populations to vaccinate, in large part because our nearly 100% white GOP keeps downplaying the pandemic.
Systemic racism is indeed a problem with distribution, and historic medical mistreatment is a cause for hesitance. But that’s not what I meant when I said “But half this nation seems really committed to keeping the pandemic rolling”. I meant the people who have no excuses, no reasons, full access…and just don’t wanna.
So, what’s the shelf life on these? While I don’t personally think they will go bad, I know the ones I got in the mehrathon are labeled for two years and were made in April 2020.
@mehcuda67@mossygreen Hoping you are being sarcastic about working on only the original strain.
Most masks are listed as 2 years but everything I have read is that if you store them in a dark, dry place they should still be good to use past the expiration date. Since they aren’t fitted N95’s they are going to have air leakage anyway which cuts down on the protection.
From the FDA: "Face masks and surgical masks are designed to serve as protective barriers and may still offer some protection even if they are used beyond the manufacturer’s designated shelf life or expiration date. If there is no date available on the face mask label or packaging, facilities should contact the manufacturer. The user should inspect all masks prior to use and, if there are concerns such as degraded materials (such as elastic) or visible tears, the product should be discarded. "
@guybrush01 “expired” is sort of like “best by”. Heard a while ago that it’s the elastic strap that might lose effectiveness–so as long as the mask itself fits snug and you’re breathing through it (no gaps where air is sneaking around it) then they’re basically 100%
@guybrush01@Yoooder These will continue to be effective at lowering the rate of COVID-19 transmission, long after they start failing KN95 tests.
Most of the time, COVID-19 is transmitted in droplets of snot or saliva saturated with viral particles. Even plain old cloth is pretty good at catching tiny wet droplets. When air goes through a thick enough mass of fibers, particles in the air will have many chances to hit those fibers. Whether the particle bounces or gets stuck depends on the chemistry of the surfaces. Wet stuff easily sticks to hydrophilic surfaces.
KN95 masks are tested with dry particles (like smoke, pollen, and dust). To catch those particles, some of those fiber surfaces in the mask have to stick to dry stuff. That depends on more complex surface chemistry, like electrostatic effects.
Each time a KN95 mask gets too hot, is washed, is exposed to oxidizers, ages, etc…, it loses some of its dry stuff stickiness. Of course, the fibers will also simply get coated with dry particles after extended use. Or brief use, by a fire fighter.
So leave the masks in the plastic bags in a cool dry place until ready to use. Don’t wash them or “sterilize” them with heat, ozone, bleach, or anything else. Then they will be able to catch dry stuff for a whole week of use in a relatively clean indoor setting.
@guybrush01@Yoooder I think these kind of masks do “expire.” I have some from 2019, and they taste like drywall- definitely lost their flavor. Similar effect with stroopwaffles…
@meow57 That is a good point. I often use them in gardening at pollen time, and also lately due to wildfire smoke, plus in a drought region, the lawn doesn’t grow, but I have to mow the weeds periodically, and since it’s so dry, it kicks up a lot of dust.
@meow57@pmarin Re: using masks to protect from smoke, pollen and dust - that is precisely why I bought some of these in a previous offering (100 for $15). Mowing the weeds in drought conditions kicks up hellacious clouds of dust and these seem to help. No smoke here so far, but I’m sure it’s just a matter of time till the wind shifts and we get our share.
@sammydog01
Honestly, given the capabilities of even the mid-level phone cameras now, that could be good enough. Cheap digitals handily outperform a heck of a lot of the most expensive film kit from the '70s and '80s.
Did Meh actually predict the returning need, or just stumbled into something useful? Nah, some salesperson was just too optimistic about the vaccine. Woo-hoo, Meh finally scored something good.
@craigcush neither are cloth masks, but those are proven to help stop people spraying everyone else with spittle droplets. These are just great backups for those “oops forgot my <insert popular cultural reference> themed mask” moments, for guests who “forget” their mask when visiting your home, and for the lobby at work for customers who “forget” theirs.
@craigcush
The differences are much less critical than the similarities; both are highly effective by comparison to the common blue surgical masks, particularly since most of those don’t actually seal around the nose at all.
The last batch of these red-and-white-box masks worked pretty well, so I guess we’ll be getting some more, because Texas. (And in September, Georgia and Indiana, and then Ohio in October.) (I sell stuff at conventions.)
I had problems earlier trying to order the N95 masks, and I sent support a message, please disregard my email to the support group…MY ORDER WAS PLACE for 3 boxes of the N95 masks. Thanks
We keep saying droplets in this feed. We should be saying mist.
Mist does not fall to the ground it floats around for a long time!
Droplets fall in 6 feet!
Mist floats around in a big room for a long time and until you suck it down your nose and plant them in your sinuses.
@jbluther
It means that the masks were made to the specifications of the (K)N95 industrial application, which has slightly different characteristics than the medical N95 spec. Both do the job well for this purpose, and the industrial version is easier to get and less expensive. Medical masks are more focused on aggressive retention of fluid particles than industrial, but at this level of filtration, both do an adequate job of aerosol interdiction.
I have some of these left from an earlier sale. I like that they are individually wrapped as that makes them handy for carrying spares, giving out etc. But, they aren’t such great masks: I’ve been using real N95’s lately, which cost more but which have more filtration. I might buy another pack of these anyway.
As an ambulance driver (not yet an EMT) I’m envied by my coworkers because I have the more comfortable kn95 while all the company will buy are those super uncomfortable (and ill fitting) duck masks.
I reckon I ought to splurge for another 50 seeing as I can’t help but share
Edit: Ye gats, make that a hundred, shipping prices went up so I need to lower the average shipping cost
Are you guys sure these masks are the real deal? I just did the water test where the real ones are supposed to hold water and not have drips on the outside after two minutes……hmmm…not sure there
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Who was that masked man?
RIP Ron Popeil
When Meh is getting as burned out with the pandemic as the rest of us
I wish we were done with these. But half this nation seems really committed to keeping the pandemic rolling.
@brainmist That seems kind of racist.
As of August 2, less than half of Black and Hispanic people have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose in the vast majority of states reporting data.
The percent of White people who have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose (49%) was roughly 1.3 times higher than the rate for Black people (38%) and 1.1 times higher than the rate for Hispanic people (43%) as of August 2, 2021.
https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-data-on-covid-19-vaccinations-race-ethnicity/
@brainmist @OutbackJon I didn’t see any reference to race, religion or political preference in the original post. Let’s not start fights for no reason
@OutbackJon Glad you are able to spot the results of systemic racism that cause these kinds of disparities.
@brainmist @OutbackJon Did you just have this copy / pasta ready if you saw keywords that didn’t match your Fox-news-jaded life outlook? Because that might be better served to deal with an IRK captcha.
@yakkoTDI lol - “systemic racism” - in the fact that this country is loaded with science-denying morons?
At this point injections are available to everyone, everywhere - if you’re not getting vaccinated it’s a choice, not a “social condition”
/giphy sure-jan
@brainmist - those people would be fans of Thanos.
All of that said, looking at the vaccination centers available in a certain large Southern city, a disproportionate number of them are located in areas that trend non-BIPOC, which probably reflects all of the other trends that cause lots of other facilities to also be found in those same kinds of places. Systemic racism and systemic economic starvation of the marginalized of any type, much? And the economically disadvantaged folks typically have a far greater degree of entrenched, with-cause distrust for the system (anybody recall Tuskeegee?) plus they typically don’t have access to the level of current information that would tell them both that the jab is free and where they can get it.
And that said, when I went to get my first jab back in January, over half of the folks lined up were older black and hispanic people, and this was not at a public clinic. But it was at a clinic that welcomes all, including LBGTQ+, which a great many places like big-ass fancy medifices inherently feel like they don’t, because they reek of the money that so many BIPOC folks ain’t got. Sometimes that shiny facade and parking lot full of Beamers screams “F*&^ You We’ve Got Ours” louder than any other message.
@brainmist @OutbackJon @tinamarie1974 In my state, the bouncing between the lowest vaccinated and second to lowest vaccinated in the country, we only have 6 ICU beds left in the entire state. This state is white majority. We could get into politics but I won’t.
It is the idiots of any race who aren’t getting vaccinated who are causing the problem now with them being the vast majority of the new cases. If we are lucky it will be Darwinism at work. Sigh.
And their actions puts immune compromised people, like myself, at risk. I was vaccinated almost as soon as I was eligible, spending hours online trying to get an apt. I am part of the leukemia and lymphoma society study, and here I am 4 months later with almost no spike protein antibodies. Even though I wear a mask all the unvaccinated idiots who won’t (and even the vaccinated indoors in larger groups), all the idiots who won’t get vaccinated (and there there is a very small subset of that who can’t so those people are being put at risk through no fault of their own too) are putting me at risk. Anyone with a blood cancer, if they are hospitalized with covid, have a 51% chance of dying, those with solid tumors a 36% chance if they are hospitalized with covid. The actions of the fuckwads who refuse to get vaccinated and wear a masks don’t just affect themselves, they affect everyone.
In my opinion if you refuse to get vaccinated and then get sick with covid, no medical care for you. What is going on now is largely preventable and the fault of the unvaccinated.
@brainmist @Kidsandliz @OutbackJon @tinamarie1974 posting facts about the vaccinated getting Covid will probably get Meh censored or even depaltformed, so I won’t.
@brainmist @Kidsandliz @OutbackJon During Q1 and part of Q2 in Missouri the shots were NOT in major cities where the majority of the population resided. They were in small towns in middle Missouri where a small % of the population lived. I think here the decision was more political in nature.
@mike808 you got an opinion on Missery vaccine deployment
@tinamarie1974 Lifesaving vaccine deployment here in Misery was absolutely politically motivated while giving a pretense to Parsons, the state legislators, Hawley, and all of the wingnuts waving their racism/fascism/grifter flags high to replace Blunt) as cover for their ongoing systemic and institutionalized racism and economic warfare on the poor (and pretending that it isn’t racism).
@tinamarie1974
Vaccine deployment in Texas, where the surge is nearly as bad as Missouri, was initially mostly in the big cities because that’s where the virus cases were, too. People out in the sticks didn’t want the jab, spurned it when it became available, and are the source of a lot of the cases now. But even in the cities, there was a lot of variability in real access; if you didn’t have a car and couldn’t afford an Uber, the vaccine was probably out of reach. And for the folks who were terrified of The System, and were sure they’d get deported if they showed up for the vax, it didn’t matter if they could get there; they weren’t going to trust that it wouldn’t cause them to get chucked over a border. A lot of legal immigrants are in that latter category, because of the cavalier way that our government just summarily decides that nope, too bad, you’re outta here.
@werehatrack interestingly enough the rural (local) folks that had easy access in MO didn’t want the shots either. It ended up being a lot of people from STL and KC driving 2-4 hours one way to just get the opportunity. They had more vaccine than people and ended up throwing away a lot of product vs putting it in the populated areas where people could easily access. Wanna guess where the covid hot spots are now, those same rural areas where the locals turned their noses and refused the vaccine initially.
And as far as the immigrants, legal or otherwise that is a sad situation. I have a few friends in that category, parents immigrated when they were kids and they still have the fear for good reason unfortunately.
@OutbackJon And my very white state is struggling to get the nearly 100% white rural populations to vaccinate, in large part because our nearly 100% white GOP keeps downplaying the pandemic.
Systemic racism is indeed a problem with distribution, and historic medical mistreatment is a cause for hesitance. But that’s not what I meant when I said “But half this nation seems really committed to keeping the pandemic rolling”. I meant the people who have no excuses, no reasons, full access…and just don’t wanna.
I’m holding out until every mask has a trackr included, and a spare battery, for less than $0.10 a piece… My prediction is that’ll be next week.
Pandemics back on, boys! At least my job is requiring face coverings again… So
/giphy tiresome-invisible-scale
So, what’s the shelf life on these? While I don’t personally think they will go bad, I know the ones I got in the mehrathon are labeled for two years and were made in April 2020.
@mossygreen They only work on the original strain of the virus, sorry.
@mehcuda67 @mossygreen Hoping you are being sarcastic about working on only the original strain.
Most masks are listed as 2 years but everything I have read is that if you store them in a dark, dry place they should still be good to use past the expiration date. Since they aren’t fitted N95’s they are going to have air leakage anyway which cuts down on the protection.
From the FDA: "Face masks and surgical masks are designed to serve as protective barriers and may still offer some protection even if they are used beyond the manufacturer’s designated shelf life or expiration date. If there is no date available on the face mask label or packaging, facilities should contact the manufacturer. The user should inspect all masks prior to use and, if there are concerns such as degraded materials (such as elastic) or visible tears, the product should be discarded. "
@Kidsandliz @mehcuda67 @mossygreen I looked into this with N95s, because at the beginning I had access to a small stock of recently expired ones.
The big concern seems to be that the elastic bands break down and may lose tautness/ fail. This is aggravated by sun exposure.
Expiration Date? Not that I had any idea these expired until I got a box of them that expire in October in my IRK…
@guybrush01 “expired” is sort of like “best by”. Heard a while ago that it’s the elastic strap that might lose effectiveness–so as long as the mask itself fits snug and you’re breathing through it (no gaps where air is sneaking around it) then they’re basically 100%
@guybrush01 @Yoooder These will continue to be effective at lowering the rate of COVID-19 transmission, long after they start failing KN95 tests.
Most of the time, COVID-19 is transmitted in droplets of snot or saliva saturated with viral particles. Even plain old cloth is pretty good at catching tiny wet droplets. When air goes through a thick enough mass of fibers, particles in the air will have many chances to hit those fibers. Whether the particle bounces or gets stuck depends on the chemistry of the surfaces. Wet stuff easily sticks to hydrophilic surfaces.
KN95 masks are tested with dry particles (like smoke, pollen, and dust). To catch those particles, some of those fiber surfaces in the mask have to stick to dry stuff. That depends on more complex surface chemistry, like electrostatic effects.
Each time a KN95 mask gets too hot, is washed, is exposed to oxidizers, ages, etc…, it loses some of its dry stuff stickiness. Of course, the fibers will also simply get coated with dry particles after extended use. Or brief use, by a fire fighter.
So leave the masks in the plastic bags in a cool dry place until ready to use. Don’t wash them or “sterilize” them with heat, ozone, bleach, or anything else. Then they will be able to catch dry stuff for a whole week of use in a relatively clean indoor setting.
They will catch wet stuff for much longer.
@guybrush01 @Yoooder I think these kind of masks do “expire.” I have some from 2019, and they taste like drywall- definitely lost their flavor. Similar effect with stroopwaffles…
@MrNews
That’s what happens when you store them on the bedpost overnight.
@guybrush01 @hamjudo @Yoooder “Most of the time, COVID-19 is transmitted in droplets of snot or saliva saturated with viral particles. Even plain old cloth is pretty good at catching tiny wet droplets.” The linked interview is well worth listening to for some good, up to date information on masking and social distancing from one of the best experts IMO. https://www.wliw.org/programs/amanpour-and-company/do-masks-provide-much-protection-we-think-bglhwy/
@guybrush01 @MrNews @Yoooder Have you tried resting them on top of your mug?
@blaineg Normally, I place them on the front of my mug.
Just had a request from my staff to provide these due to the wildfire smoke drift…so
/giphy dark-amicable-frankenstein
@meow57 That is a good point. I often use them in gardening at pollen time, and also lately due to wildfire smoke, plus in a drought region, the lawn doesn’t grow, but I have to mow the weeds periodically, and since it’s so dry, it kicks up a lot of dust.
@meow57 Cool order name – just put it on a line of its own and you’ll get your gif!
@meow57 @pmarin Re: using masks to protect from smoke, pollen and dust - that is precisely why I bought some of these in a previous offering (100 for $15). Mowing the weeds in drought conditions kicks up hellacious clouds of dust and these seem to help. No smoke here so far, but I’m sure it’s just a matter of time till the wind shifts and we get our share.
/giphy terrified-auburn-corn
Is the photography department a CS person with an iPhone?
/giphy prosperous-naughty-marble
@sammydog01
Honestly, given the capabilities of even the mid-level phone cameras now, that could be good enough. Cheap digitals handily outperform a heck of a lot of the most expensive film kit from the '70s and '80s.
Did Meh actually predict the returning need, or just stumbled into something useful? Nah, some salesperson was just too optimistic about the vaccine. Woo-hoo, Meh finally scored something good.
@hchavers Or… meh is purposely prolonging suffering and spreading the virus, just to sell a few more masks.
I hate that I just hit the buy button but I thought I’d grab a box for the staff.
Wait, who’s not just stealing these by the box from work?
@Spheyr those of us who have to provide them.
/giphy smiling-inane-chemist
@InFrom I’ve been instructed to get more.
/giphy hesitant-spongy-jeans
@InFrom I had to fish for a while to get Walter, but this one is a nice match for him, no editing needed.
Not medical grade
@craigcush neither are cloth masks, but those are proven to help stop people spraying everyone else with spittle droplets. These are just great backups for those “oops forgot my <insert popular cultural reference> themed mask” moments, for guests who “forget” their mask when visiting your home, and for the lobby at work for customers who “forget” theirs.
@craigcush
The differences are much less critical than the similarities; both are highly effective by comparison to the common blue surgical masks, particularly since most of those don’t actually seal around the nose at all.
/giphy elicit-stylish-servant
/buy
@ZeroedIn It worked! Your order number is: comical-hapless-judge
/image comical hapless judge
/giphy comical-hapless-judge
/buy
@Stumpy91 It worked! Your order number is: unfair-pink-saffron
/image unfair pink saffron
/giphy meddlesome-witchy-thought
Here’s something to spice up the mask post:
KN-95 stands for “Kinda N-95”
New little fun fact for the next time
/giphy scrawny-fictional-zinc
I use mine during bike rides for two reasons.
using mines for international travel.
@mayhilliare aren’t mines in travel against the Geneva Conventions?
@hchavers @mayhilliare Definitely against Starfleet regulations.
I hope these are Niosh approved masks…ie, not counterfeit…
Life is like a box of generic Chinese KN-95 masks:
Ya never know what yer gonna get…
The last batch of these red-and-white-box masks worked pretty well, so I guess we’ll be getting some more, because Texas. (And in September, Georgia and Indiana, and then Ohio in October.) (I sell stuff at conventions.)
“non-medicinal” - so you know they comply with the rigorous standards around SN-95 masks.
@Pufferfishy
That would be a very light and previously undocumented isotope.
Mask Up!
/giphy unfair-pink-saffron
Meh. Now if you were selling South Korean KF94 masks, I might go for it…
I had problems earlier trying to order the N95 masks, and I sent support a message, please disregard my email to the support group…MY ORDER WAS PLACE for 3 boxes of the N95 masks. Thanks
Man, the gifs are cool today. Trying to make up for the bleakness of the purchase, perhaps?
/giphy black-nippy-cap
/giphy revered-crucial-necromancer
I already have some from the last sale, but, ok.
/buy
@Vertabrae It worked! Your order number is: goofy-welcoming-form
/image goofy welcoming form
@mediocrebot
I would like a do over on my image plz
striped-mindful-oxygen
/giphy prickly-lucky-owner
/giphy nefarious-aboard-oatmeal
In 2 weeks these will be back selling for 50 bucks
@somf69
And the hoarders will be holding out for $200.
/buy
@barnabee It worked! Your order number is: heroic-divergent-butter
/image heroic divergent butter
Where were these made?
We keep saying droplets in this feed. We should be saying mist.
Mist does not fall to the ground it floats around for a long time!
Droplets fall in 6 feet!
Mist floats around in a big room for a long time and until you suck it down your nose and plant them in your sinuses.
@mooseis
Even more technically, aerosols. Mist is often visible; aerosols almost always are not.
/giphy wanted-feathered-cub
Can I get the Meh doll wearing it in the photo?
@AllisonIvy We keep begging for an Irk plushie; @tinamarie1974 started a petition last month, but they won’t give us one.
@AllisonIvy @Kyeh I know!!! I think @Snapster likes to tease us!!
What does “non-medical” mean? Coronavirus is medical, right?
@jbluther
It means that the masks were made to the specifications of the (K)N95 industrial application, which has slightly different characteristics than the medical N95 spec. Both do the job well for this purpose, and the industrial version is easier to get and less expensive. Medical masks are more focused on aggressive retention of fluid particles than industrial, but at this level of filtration, both do an adequate job of aerosol interdiction.
Here we go again
/giphy limping-bored-swan
Big $$$$ Day at Meh!
Fuck
/buy
@tmdowling It worked! Your order number is: tame-potent-koala
/image tame potent koala
Ugh, FINE!
resounding-fouled-tulip
Sigh.
/buy
@blaineg It worked! Your order number is: fattest-predictable-mamba
/image fattest predictable mamba
/giphy fattest predictable mamba
I caved!!
/giphy depressed-urgent-tick
/giphy grody-fair-school
I have some of these left from an earlier sale. I like that they are individually wrapped as that makes them handy for carrying spares, giving out etc. But, they aren’t such great masks: I’ve been using real N95’s lately, which cost more but which have more filtration. I might buy another pack of these anyway.
/buy
@relm256 It worked! Your order number is: abundant-aspiring-skeleton
/image abundant aspiring skeleton
As an ambulance driver (not yet an EMT) I’m envied by my coworkers because I have the more comfortable kn95 while all the company will buy are those super uncomfortable (and ill fitting) duck masks.
I reckon I ought to splurge for another 50 seeing as I can’t help but share
Edit: Ye gats, make that a hundred, shipping prices went up so I need to lower the average shipping cost
Is this good for people with big heads?
/buy
@carminian It worked! Your order number is: uptight-potent-vacation
/image uptight potent vacation
Cheaper on Morningsave when I bought 200 back in July. Just saying.
These appear to be better made than the kn95 masks I bought at blue home repair outlet.
Are you guys sure these masks are the real deal? I just did the water test where the real ones are supposed to hold water and not have drips on the outside after two minutes……hmmm…not sure there
Please come back with the KN95 masks soon! All my friends need and want them!
@davemehbruemmer They’re for sale on Sidedeal:
Unfortunately pretty small for an adult male