[Thud]

BS. Stop peddling establishment propaganda. I, my brothers and our wives are all wearing N95 masks I bought in February because we NEED them for protection when shopping due to being in high-risk categories. Anyone over 59 with diabetes, is obese or has hypertension needs N95 masks when going out into public for grocery shopping. There aren't enough delivery services for all of us, and those are only available in urban areas.

N95 are simply better at protecting us from any sort of airborne disease than homemade masks, which at best are only equivalent to surgical masks which only protect other people from the wearer.

Furthermore healthcare workers need better protection than N95 masks against the Wuhan Virus. The things are too uncomfortable to wear long, unuseable when doing heavy labor like turning patients over, and simply don't provide enough protection against the Wuhan Virus. They're just better than nothing. What healthcare workers need are N98 and N99 masks with better air flow and filters.

[EarlyBird]

Hey Thud, did you ever consider that if everyone around you was wearing a mask that prevented them from spreading the virus to you, you would not need N95, N98, or N99 masks?

The healthcare workers need these masks because they don’t know which patients are infected.

You really should donate your N95, N98 and N99 masks to them.

In the meantime, shelter in place until this effing government can provide enough simple surgical masks for everyone.

And stop posting to me - I’m tired of your BS.