[exnavy]

A little reality check; a n95 filters to.004, a virus is .001. Good luck with that mask thingy.

[Vaquero]

All I can hope for is lack of spittle coming in or going out.

[Veto!]

And the N-95 makes it impossible to breathe. I have a few, was grateful when air in our town was HAZARDOUS thanks to smoke from forest fires in CA and OR.

[CurlyDave]

A little reality check; a n95 filters to.004, a virus is .001. Good luck with that mask thingy.

Well, let me give you a little reality check in return.

1. That .001 virus measurement is done in a vacuum, in an electron microscope. It is the measurement of a dried-out virus which has the same relationship to a live virus as a raisin does to the original grape it came from.

2. A bare naked virus particle is not what I have to worry about. It will dry out and become non-viable in minutes. The thing that is infectious is a virus floating in a water droplet, or more likely, a snot droplet. If a mask filters out the snot droplets it is going to protect me from the virus.

[Jane Long]

Exactly.

[NELSON111]

You aren’t filtering the virus because the virus isn’t traveling by itself. It travels on respiratory droplets. How you don’t understand this is totally beyond me. It’s ignorance to a completely née level. But since you think it doesn’t work, have you surgeon take it off the next time you are operated on. Let them breath droplets all over you.

It’s easier to filer wet concrete than dry concrete, which is basically what is happening. Figured I needed to draw this out with a crayon for you.