Just wait until people actually wear a KN95 mask. Way more annoying than the idiot paper of cloths masks. maybe then the covidiots will figure out mask theater is just that for show.
Just wait until people actually wear a KN95 mask.
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Indeed. Those masks were designed as task-specific tasks for protection while doing things like sanding wood or installing insulation. They are not intended for wearing all day, day in and day out.
A lot of Americans must be quite the wimps. Asians laugh at us for it. Most KN95’s are not bad to wear at all. They are, however (at least all I have seen), prone to not sealing particularly well. Aside from iffy wearer protection, they can fog glasses, esp. in cool weather if breathing technique is poor. (Water vapor cannot carry COVID, but condensation on glasses IS annoying.)
If you want discomfort, try the version of 3M N95’s with a valve and hefty straps. Now, those used properly, protect the wearer quite well. But they are only partially effective in reducing spread FROM the wearer. And, they ARE uncomfortable, and will leave quite a mark on one’s face if worn for hours.
Last fall, I ended up in a situation where my only reasonable option was a 26 hour (including some short layovers) bus trip. Masks required, on the busses and in terminals, and, among that crowd in fall on a bus I’d likely want a mask even if “only” flu was about. I am over 65 and have a couple other moderate COVID co-morbidities, one being a prior issue. (No, I’m not a smoker.) The best wearer-protective masks I could find were the above-mentioned N95’s, BUT, they were not sufficient to get on a bus or be in a terminal, as I could be spreading through the valve. So, I double masked: 3M valved mask inside, a KN95 on the outside. For roughly 24 of those 26 hours. Maybe a bit more.
Was it fun? Hell, no. But I manned up and got through it. And never got a sniffle from the trip. Am pretty sure I gave none, either.
Since then, better, more comfortable full protection valveless N95’s have come out from 3M. I bought a pack of 20 3M “9205+” masks on Amazon a bit B4 Christmas.
I certainly don’t consider myself particularly “tough”. So, except for someone with some sort of physical non-tolerance condition (allergy to materials, etc.), for those who find mere KN95’s really annoying to wear, I’m with the Asians. The TIME burned to properly use them & sterilize them for re-use, and a nod to cost of good masks, are my “gripes”. Well, that, and that it took nearly 2 years to get improved US-made N95’s available to the public...
Real annoyance are those juvenile, cloying CDC ads...