Question for the mask experts

[ThatOwlWoman]

Our masks have replaceable filters and exhaust ports. Plus I have an IR hand held sterilizer.

Well done.

I made a boat load of masks a few months ago. They're all washable and go into the sink when we get home, and hung out in the sun to dry. Now that commercially-made ones are finally available again, have some on order from Amazon that are disposable.

Most people out there are you like and me and take sensible precautions. It's the ones who don't who are the problem rather than the solution.

[anonymoose]

Some do. Others dont, also wear the same gloves day in day out.
They do not understand the intent.

I'm amused seeing cashiers at drive thrus wearing gloves and never changing them. None of them do.

[ThatOwlWoman]

Well, you’re wrong.

Anything that impedes airflow into the lungs is going to increase blood CO2 level. Masks included. Granted, if you’re just standing there during a surgery or walking through a store it’s not going to be significant. But that can change when you start asking people to wear masks doing anything like strenuous work.

Cover your face with a mask and take a brisk walk and you will instinctively pull it down pretty quick. That’s your brain telling you about your blood O2/CO2 levels.

So who is advocating wearing masks while doing "strenuous work"? Mr. Owl's gym just reopened; they do not require masks.

See, you start with a fallacy and then just double down on it. If wearing a mask for hours was dangerous, surgeons would be dropping like flies on their patients. So would store employees. Stop promoting stupidity. Thanks.

[ThatOwlWoman]

I'm amused seeing cashiers at drive thrus wearing gloves and never changing them. None of them do.

You must have a dull life if you sit in drive-throughs and watch the window ppl to see if they are changing their gloves. lol

[ThatOwlWoman]

I go in stores to look at merchandise and sales not advertised. Some of us are not rich

And some of us prefer to select our own produce, meats, and seafood. That's where the anti-maskers who call us "scared" and "sheeple" are so wrong. We're not afraid. We are careful, and we care enough about our fellow human beings that we want to protect them by taking sensible precautions, like wearing a mask.

[archives]

No lol, it’s because *I know* I’m not supposed to touch it and then squeeze cantaloupe to see if it’s ripe.

It’s a hassle and I don’t want to deal with it. And masks are overrated unless you’re in a high risk environment.

So masks don’t protect other people from catching the virus from you? Why would you even be willing to take the risk of contaminating another just because you find the mask annoying?

[anonymoose]

You must have a dull life if you sit in drive-throughs and watch the window ppl to see if they are changing their gloves. lol

I do but it's entertaining. When I get bored with that I sit in my back garden, turn on the sprinkler and watch the grass grow.

[Celticguy]

I'm amused seeing cashiers at drive thrus wearing gloves and never changing them. None of them do.

Exactly.

[Trumpet]

If one wears a mask won’t they rebreathe their own CO2?

And isn’t CO2 a greenhouse gas that causes warming?

Therefore won’t people who wear masks overheat their innards?

Did your brains get over heated, and disintegrate????????????

[Darth Omar]

Dr. Darth, why not give it a rest for a bit. You're at odds with almost the entire medical and healthcare community at this point.

"Improper use" - do you think that maybe they have determined that less is spread through touching, and that even with poor handling masks stop those pesky respiratory droplets more effectively?

Have they lol.

I heard something about burlap and fan.

[Darth Omar]

So who is advocating wearing masks while doing "strenuous work"? Mr. Owl's gym just reopened; they do not require masks.

See, you start with a fallacy and then just double down on it. If wearing a mask for hours was dangerous, surgeons would be dropping like flies on their patients. So would store employees. Stop promoting stupidity. Thanks.

Mr. Owls gym could be a high risk environment if it’s real crowded.

I’m promoting physiological facts, but I appreciate your concern.

[Into the Night]

I have that moron on ignore. Is he actually claiming that wearing a home-made fabric or consumer-grade mask will increase the CO2 level in your blood? I'm just shocked that the people I see in stores -- as well as the medical professionals I worked with in my career -- aren't dropping like flies. lol

Actually, it does. Anything that restricts breathing (including cloth or N95 masks) will raise the CO2 level in the blood. It does not cause people to drop dead, since there is an allowable range of CO2 levels in the blood without any ill effect.

[Into the Night]

Good points. That's why you use disposables, or wash fabric masks.

No need to use a mask at all. Masks do not stop a virus.

[Into the Night]

He's trying some crazed argument about global warming because we breathe CO2 wearing our masks. Well, that's what I got from the discussion preview anyway.

I thought it was hilarious. The same idiots that believe in the Church of Global Warming and the harmful magickal effects of CO2 suddenly have no problem with the stuff increasing in their bloodstream due to the use of masks!

[ThatOwlWoman]

Mr. Owls gym could be a high risk environment if it’s real crowded.

I’m promoting physiological facts, but I appreciate your concern.

Then present the facts correctly and stop using them to excuse being a selfish knucklehead. Thanks.

You are correct about the gym. He's only gone once so far, and was the only customer. I'm trusting him to have the sense to skip it if there are other ppl in the weights area.