It would have resulted in such a massive fail! Our squadron had pressure doors, showers, etc built in.
Posted on 01/24/2022 8:12:27 AM PST by conservative98
“If they aren’t fit tested, they are worthless.”
Nonsense. Even if they aren’t fitted, they can still signal your virtue.
Even with all of the safety precautions, we had to pee in a cup on a regular basis to check for mercury poisoning.
I don’t mind wearing a mask to enter a doctor’s office, etc. but down deep inside I know they are more or less useless. The ONLY way they might help is if somebody sneezes right in your face and you replace it immediately without touching the cloth.
Even I have to laugh at some of the masks I see on people’s faces while they think they are protected. They are thin cloth worn below their noses while gaping at every edge.
I sewed about 100 to give away when this all first started but mine were double thicknesses with pockets for filter material and the way I put the ear loops on pulled the cloth tighter around the face. I even put nose clamps in them. The hospitals that were asking for them had certain standards. If I gave one to an individual, instead of a medical person, I warned them to get something better as soon as they could. This was when they were required but nobody could find any commercially made. The hospitals and doctor’s offices wanted them to wear over the medical masks for more protection.
Now that we know more, we know that it wasn’t as deadly as we were told. People work in environments a lot more deadly than covid.
Also, no facial hair.
It would have resulted in such a massive fail! Our squadron had pressure doors, showers, etc built in.
Taught OSHA HazMat classes for years and have fit tested thousands of people as part of those classes. I’ve also developed PPE programs for a number of companies. Bottom line paper or N95, neither will protect you from a viral aerosol. The mask mandates are the perfect example of government incompetence. It’s not about public health and never has been.
OSHA requires a pulmonary function test if you are going to wear a respirator for work. N95 masks are considered respirators.
Ding-ding-ding! My wife and sister-in-law have worked or still work in the health care field and if you are not fitted and use proper techniques in putting the N95 on and off you are wasting your time just like you did with the surgical/cloth masks.
Our suits were bright Gumby Green. When I was an IC, I got to have a red stipe on my hard hat.
I HATED those things. Seemed we always had an acid tank fail in August. Never in January.
And the full Silkwood showers were fun. On joker put on an orange thong for the shower. In the parking lot. In full view of the Cracker barrel parking lot. Yeah, the Plant Manager got calls.
Still, I miss it in some ways. Thou Must Have Thou Crap Together to Play with HAZMAT.
Bitter or bananas?
I went to bitter, since you can fake not smelling and tasting bananas.
When this madness started, some of my old crew was calling me to scream that “These fools are wearing hankies and think it will protect them!”
And I almost got kicked out for walmart for wearing a N100 with Charcoal filter (old Hazmat stuff in my truck) since it wasn’t “Approved by Fauci”.
So, YOU contributed to the tyranny? Thanks for confessing it. When the Nuremberg-style trials begin (and it will happen), you better hope people have forgotten that you materially assisted the global medical-fascist tyrants.
Bananas
Free Republic is becoming full of kooks. Go bother somebody else.
I’ve still got me old 3M half face with asbestos filter down in the basement with an extra Tyvex suit. I’ve told people it’s like putting chicken wire in your front door as a screen and then wondering why you have mosquitos in the house. But I wouldn’t want to be accused of being a science denier by questioning Saint Antonio de Fauci.
Yep, had a complete physical every year, and no facial hair unless you’re wearing a positive pressure unit.
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