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Bob F

On 1/1/2021 5:08 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 20:34:28 -0800, Bob F wrote:

On 12/31/2020 8:00 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 22:29:43 -0500, FromTheRafters
wrote:

After serious thinking micky wrote :
In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 31 Dec 2020 20:26:25 -0500, Hal Bundy
wrote:

On 1/1/2021 12:24 AM, micky wrote:
OT? Why is it that everyone one sees on the news, politicians of both
parties and others, is wearing a cloth mask rather than an N95 or even
KN95 mask?

You can tell by looking that they are cloth.

But in addition, all N95 masks have, aiui, rubber bands around the head
rather than earloops. KN95 masks seem to all have earloops and I'm not
sure why, but afaik they all seem to be "beak" masks and no one on the
news is wearing that.

Is it just because they can't get N95 masks? I try not to be cynical
but when did that stop a US Senator, esp. for example McConnell?

Someone recently published a list of dozens of hypocrite politicians who
were ordering people to wear masks but were later caught in public without
one.

But it's way beyond that. I'm talking about people who wear masks not
for the image it gives, but because they don't want to get sick, but
still wear only cloth masks, which doctors and scientists say are much
more beneficial for other people around you than they are for the
wearer. So why don't they get better masks?

Because they are still more necessary for HCWs and supplies should be
reserved for them. Besides which, the general public most likely
wouldn't don them or doff them properly anyway which would defeat their
purpose.

Chinese surgical masks seem to be a glut on the market right now. I
doubt HE's are having trouble getting them. Now finding a "certified"
surgical mask might be a bit tougher. Nobody knows what these things
they sell at Costco, Walmart or Amazon do.

I do agree about how people wear their mask. About 20% have them below
the nose. I also still see plenty of bandanas and neck gaiters.

I usually wear a face shield. That shuts people up and I can breathe.
The surgical mask makes my nose run and pretty soon it is trash.
Fortunately I carry a box of them in my car for the places that seem
really seem like virus central.

The face shields do very little to protect anyone. They might keep you
from getting infected in the eyes, but next to nothing either way for
inhaled virus.

It makes the mask police happy tho.

Not really.