Posted on 03/12/2021 10:17:14 AM PST by Repent and Believe
"Asbestos particles are on average 5 microns, which are much larger than SARS-CoV-2, yet nobody in my field – industrial hygiene – would recommend that we could protect workers from asbestos exposure using a mask," said Stephen Petty, a certified industrial hygienist and hazardous exposure expert, on my podcast last week. "In fact, I would argue that you'd lose your credentials for saying such a thing."
The notion that cheap cloth and surgical masks are considered proper protection, much less bona fide PPE, for a virus that is 0.1 microns – 1/50th the size of average asbestos fiber – was always absurd. And the fact that this virus spread for two entire subsequent waves after masks became universal, with zero evidence they played any role in altering the natural course of the virus – is proof of this universal fact that OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) and other agencies that dealt with hazardous exposure always understood.
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It is no different except in the name, than the climate change religion, Al Gorism.
But it’s good for virtue signaling.
Readers need to be clear on the terminology. OSHA/NIOSH are consistent. The media and most others are not. The cloth and blue things people wear are masks, not respirators. N95’s are respirators. Things with cartridges on them are respirators. NIOSH does not certify surgical masks. They do certify respirators. KN95s fall into a grey zone since they are intended to be respirators, but not certified by NIOSH.
the article is misleading. It insinuates that an N-95 respirator would NOT be effective in protecting you from asbestos or the virus.
A respirator would need to be fitted.
I am waiting for the Ad Blitzes from Lawyers ready to SUE anyone and everyone that forced you to wear an Unsafe, Unproven Medical Device
I don’t use straight up fiber N-95 masks for a dust mask because they don’t fit my thin face and I can always see where the dust gets in as dirt lines on my face after taking them off. I used to wear one that has the fiber part that fits in a silicone rubber frame, in size medium. Couldn’t find any replacement fiber parts because covid so I went to the welding supply store and found a silicone framed mask that takes two fiber cartridges and looks similar to my paint mask that had charcoal filters with fiber pre-filters on top of that.
NONE of the above have ever been certified for mist or medical use. They allowed N-95 to start being used because there were plenty of them and surgical masks had run out. That happened back when Fauxi was telling us not to wear masks.
Once china was able to manufacture millions of cheap surgical masks and people at home were sewing them up fro cloth and selling them on etsy, then Fauxi changed his tune and wanted everyone to mask up.
None of it has been about following the science.
On the bright side, I’m noticing how many girls have really nice eyes now.
The things they call respirators are not respirators. Operators operate, motivators motivate. The suffix -or is active, as in something that does something. The things called respirators do not respirate, they filter. I refuse to use the term in that way. Protect our language.
Fauci , the WHO, CDC, The New England Journal of Medicine all shared the same opinion pre Covid as OSHA...masks can NOT protect you from airborne molecules outside a negative presssure environment.
yes, and a good lawyer may venture to demonstrate how that their client has been forced to wear a religious symbol.
Ok, but the first usage was in the 1860's. The US military typically calls them masks. Currently it's the M50 Joint Service General Protective Mask.
Masks made it worse as people touched it, their faces all day long and spread their germs and viruses onto other things which were then touched.
‘Horowitz’ characterization of it as a religion is spot-on.’
I have maintained in the past we would all be better off without religion of any type, other than what personal revelation affords; but I’ve amended ‘religion’ to ‘zealotry’, which of course includes many organized religions, but then again of course not all...
that said, people’s meek acceptance of absurd mask mandates indicates zealotry of remarkable scope...
The article insinuates nothing of the kind. It is crystal clear that the author is speaking ONLY of cloth and medical masks. There is no discussion of of N95 masks at all.
You are inferring something into the article that is not implied.
I was using some silicone today. The vinegar smell and acetic acid. M
Just for kicks I put my useless mask on and took a whiff. Of course I smelled acetic acid. Then I still smelled it with two masks.
Acetic acid particle size is much larger than the particle size of a virus.
Any mask which either 1) is not form fitting, and 2) is not fixed in position, is compromised no matter what its filtration qualities. Wearing two such just compounds the issues.
Very few people wear masks correctly, and the longer you wear one the more likely you are to compromise it, just from a physical consideration. That’s not even taking into account the micro-environments or other issues.
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