Dunno who needs to hear this, but people are still dying of #covid. A family friend just passed after catching it a couple weeks ago.
Please mask up and talk to the mainstream, more trusting people in your life who think they're invincible because they got vaccinated a couple times. They seem to be the ones hurting the most this round and are generally unaware of the risk of organ damage and long covid.
"The device ... allows electrical potentials of up to 40,000 volts to be obtained in a compact device ... The efficiency of the masks was tested after being washed in water; efficiency was significantly restored after brief exposure to the electric field generated by the device."
That's awesome, I'm glad you've been able to do that! The exact level of filtration is usually less important than how well they fit to the face. Leaks let so much more in than less-than-perfect filtration material -- some experts have even highlighted that the aerosols we exhale are bigger and slower than what NIOSH uses in their testing, thus are caught much more readily. And with the el cheapo DIY ways of fit testing, it's really easy to get an idea of how well any given mask seals. Really blew my mind the first time I did it. Showed me which ones fit my face best and gave me a lot of confidence wearing them.
@trendless I think this is a binary view of a floating-point situation. Breathing in "a few" COVID virii is better than breathing in a lot: lower chance of infection, less severe infections. Obviously no virus is the best choice, but improving the odds by a lot isn't nothing.