Did some painting yesterday and the mask I was wearing didn’t stop me from smelling the fumes. The size of the fumes are larger than the Covid virus, so the mask I was wearing was and is a waste of money. Sorry I lost the link to this information.
Particle size.
This is exactly right! I work in dentistry. You are supposed to have your N-95 masks “fit tested”, so that you can’t smell anything. On top of everything else, most people who wear masks are wearing them wrong and/or constantly touching their faces to adjust it.
Do yourself a favor. Buy a charcoal filtered RESPIRATOR.
The kind that has two screw on replaceable filters. This is the kind professionals use for spraying paint on your car, furniture lacquer finishes, etc.
They cost about $40. You will have it for the rest of your life. Most good hardware stores carry them.
FYI, the reason that they are no good for covid is because they protect YOU and not the people around you. They have a valve that lets YOUR respiration out unfiltered.
Highways are kilometers,
Human heights are meters,
Firearm gauges are millimeters,
Droplets and airborne particles are micrometers, and
Vapor molecules are nanometers.