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Once you go elastomeric, you don't go back. I thought I'd get more flack than I would in a regular N95, but no. Hard to beat the level of security you feel with an elastomeric.
@hannu_ikonen Hello! Do you have any recommendations for N95 equivalent masks with replaceable filters? We've been using disposable "fish style" N95's for a couple of years now, they've been great but I am starting to feel bad for the volumes of plastic waste we're generating.
We've got the classic 3M half-face spray paint respirators with carbon and particulate filters, but they're not really suitable for wearing to the shops or the office... though it's sometimes tempting.
@james@hannu_ikonen@Brad I switched to elastomeric reusable respirators with P100 filters a while back; first the GVS Elipse SPR644 half face, then a 3M 6900 full face. I've had the luxury of not being forced to work in an office nor spend significant time in public shared air, so that may change the calculus. I'm only comfortable using FFRs (disposable N95s) outside; the seal an elasto achieves is far better and the P100 standard can ensure up 160x fewer particles get through (99.97% vs 95%, though many N95s filter higher than the standard).
If I'd not seen the example set by proponents on :deadbirb: I would not have known that people actually wore elastomeric respirators in public to ward off SARS-CoV-2, nor had the courage to use them myself.
Hoping some kind Covid-cautious types might advise:
Any suggestions as to a respirator appropriate for ice sports? My teen is trying out curling and finds the condensation build-up in his KN95 off-putting. My thought was to buy him an elastomeric (probably a Breathe), but not sure whether this will ameliorate or worsen the problem.
A "return to normalcy" is impossible in our current world.
We are in a pandemic world fueled by #ClimateChange that is causing massive fires, deadly warming of the oceans, mass extinctions, heavy pollution, record-breaking hurricanes and tornadoes and droughts, and we should be fighting against the "normalcy" that is allowing this all to happen.
All of these are CHOICES human beings made, and they can be fought against. We can CHOOSE to stop doing the harmful things, to do instead something that saves lives, that mitigates the pandemic and climate disasters to avoid further loss of life and biodiversity.
We can choose to do this. It is not impossible to choose to stop the cycles of harm.
But I don't know how to get folks to CARE about other people. To CARE about their own lives even. To care about the environment, which is also crucial to our survival.
And it's not my job to convince people to value life.
I tried so many times with various arguments from as many angles as I could think of, and shared it here and on other posts of mine, but some people just don't want to admit that their values do not include valuing the lives of others.
One of the most common arguments is masks.
Not wearing masks? That isn't at all like choosing tea or coffee. That's an ideological difference in how you value LIFE.
So people who don't mask regularly?
You are telling us you don't value LIFE. You don't value your own life even. Your comfort and denial mattered more than saving lives.
And that's an ideological difference that cannot be reconciled.
"We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist." -- Robert Jones, Jr.
The disagreement over masks is a denial of our right to exist. Not wearing masks makes you a vector in spreading a deadly, rapidly mutating vascular immuno-suppressive virus that kills and disables people on a mass scale. It denies other people's ability to exist in society, especially as society abandons us to death and extreme poverty.
And not wearing a mask? Not fighting for better air filtration/ventilation? Not fighting against the abandonment of millions of disabled and newly disabled people? Not fighting against this tide of eugenics?
That's denying the humanity of so many of us. It's treating us like trash to be thrown away.
All so the person can run around without a mask in a crowded venue in some sort of weird alternate reality.
Then when the person inevitably gets sick, and sometimes gets #LongCovid, and they come to us and ask how could this happen? Why don't we do more to stop this?
And I, and many others, look at them and say:
"We told you. We warned you. We gave you the tools. But you did not value life. You did not even value your own life.
We do not leave anyone behind, because our ideology values life and keeping each other alive. So we won't abandon you either.
Yes, this was a choice you made for yourself and all the people you were a vector to, so take the time to grieve and learn. So you don't continue the cycle of harm."
This is a nonnegotiable line in the sand. I cannot be friends with people whose ideology values comfort over saving lives, whose ideology denies the humanity and right to exist of others.
@matthewtoad43@TheBird 'scary' is a construct. Does that mean I and others who wear them 100% of the time in shared air don't feel the scorn/ridicule directed at us? No. But it's not intractable; it can be changed so that anyone can safely wear whatever they choose. The sooner we normalize elastomeric respirators, the better. ✊
3M elastomeric half face masks are lightweight & reliable respiratory protection when paired with the various P100 filter options & properly deployed/worn. They come in 3 sizes & are reusable with user replaceable parts. These (using the disc style filters) are also excellent for MRI & CT scans, as they contain no metal.