I was thinking along the same lines as some of the things.
The marketing strategy is built upon the idea that A. I can't take
responsibility for my own safety someone else has to come up with a device
to fix everything all at once or it is worthless.
B. By attacking a competition product, causing fear that if it doesn't work
tip top it must be bad so get rid of it.

HE references the airfilter as not doing enough so it shouldn't even be
used! However water is a bit different than air and dust. 1st Our lungs do
have a certain amount of filtering capacity, and it is exposure over time
that can cause problems. but because of how the respiratory system works
even a small exposure probably doesn't mean anything (otherwise you would
never recuperate from your cold or dust from the attic, etc.) (for the
general public not people with respiratory problems) and 2nd Muddy water
indicates bad stuff and one drink exposes you to the disease. Your chances
are even greater of getting the bacteria than having problems with filtered
air. The effect would be additive with filtered air. The big stuff doesn't
hang in the air because the collector. the filter reduces (notice the word
reduces not totally removes) the amount hanging in the air. The lungs are
no longer overwhelmed an expel the pollutants.
Even the title indicates that Dustcollectors themselves are very bad for
your health. As compared to what? Not having one at all? Come on! I
should stop wearing a dustmask too because I find some dust inside once in a
while. In the case of dust collection anything is better than nothing.
Ok enough said.

--
Young Carpenter

"Violin playing and Woodworking are similar, it takes plenty of money,
plenty of practice, and you usually make way more noise than intended"

{Put the fiddler back "on" the roof to reply}
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"hex" wrote in message
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"Bob S." wrote in message
.. .
Clarke,

Some friendly criticisms that may be helpful to you in the future and
hopefully you'll accept them in that tone.

Someone may in-fact have asked you to make this post. Would you care to
inform us who it is that is so interested in our health so we can thank
them?


Now Bob,

Clarke is probably just upset that when he actually posted to the
wreck with a subject line that indicated he was selling his
bag-o-bolts and sheet metal he didn't get much of a response back in
December. Possibly he has been learning from the best marketing
organization on the planet (Microsoft) and is now trying to spread
fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD). That's not to say the dangers of
dust aren't real. However, as all good marketers do he points to the
guy who has the worst possible response to a problem. Let's face it
there are no large controlled epidemiological studies comparing
hobbiest woodworkers to other hobbiests -- we don't know what the real
level of risk is. For example, weekend auto-body guys probably do
more neurological damage due to thinners in one spray job than a
lifetime of wiping on oil finishes. Seeking to foster a knee-jerk
reaction is the technique of people who wish to sue schools for
allowing those anaphylactic shock inducing peanuts in the lunch room.
Life is a statistical crap shoot, you cannot control the outcome.
You can bias the distribution by you actions or inactions --- each
bias comes with a cost (monetary, temporal, and/or emotional).

hex
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