3M V-flex 9105 #N95 masks 98% effective at stopping respiration of #covid aerosols into the surrounding air, this study finds.
This translates to: people sick with COVID wearing these masks means lower transmission.
They did not study the risk of transmission of the virus to a non-infected person wearing a mask in said airspace -- that is, if wearing one of these protects the wearer FROM the virus.
But still. Could be helpful in health and long term care. #MaskUp
-Worldwide surge worsens: US, NZ, AU, more
-Australia (NSW) health minister urges people to “mask up”
-Egypt surge prompts covid crackdown & Philippines enacts covid border screenings
-Hawai'i still reports hospital data, reveals seriousness of new surge
And much, much more.
@violetblue 's Pandemic Roundup is always free and always worthy of support:
In the United States, North Carolina and Ohio are introducing and resurrecting mask bans in an effort to suppress pro-Palestinian protestors. What was once a law in Ohio to prohibit masks for groups like the KKK is now being used to charge folks wearing respirators with felonies. In North Carolina, they are attempting to move forward with this law with no exemption for medical reasons.
We need to be working together to solidify our abolitionist and disability justice politics and fight attempts to push eugenics and squash dissent.
This means returning to masking as a regular, everyday practice, as centring the most vulnerable continues to be our best path forward to liberation.
The gym is definitely the place I consistently get the most puzzled/mocking looks for wearing a mask, but since most of the people I know who said things in 2020 like "I don't need a vaccine, I have an immune system" were also ostensibly the health and fitness crowd...
@airadam that's a neat mask! Is it n95? I've not seen any stylish n95s around here. (I'm not much of a gym person, but I'm definitely a masking person. Considering getting a Flo mask for an upcoming flight.)
@violetblue 's Covid Sanity Handbook is "a direct challenge to the social and political gaslighting conspiring to make us feel crazy, isolated, hysterical, misinformed, overreacting, excluded, broken, somehow unwilling, or paints us as threatening simply because we do not want a Covid-19 infection."
One of the Covid Sanity Handbook's exemplary stretch goals is a DRM-free audiobook, and it's very close. Help it get there:
I had to go to urgent care earlier today (nothing serious, needed antibiotics for infection).
I'm please to report that the nurse, the doctor, and all the patients I saw (about 8-9?) were wearing masks of some kind. I was pleasantly surprised! 😷😁
Reality is that you only really need to wear a mask and consider air quality if:
-you breathe air regularly.
-you care about your brain, heart, immune system, lungs, kidneys, bones, teeth, eyes, liver or other organs.
-you ever have other people around you.
@violetblue 's Covid Sanity is "a self-defense guide, a conversation starter, a resource for finding community, a helpful tool for hard decisions, and a means with which we ultimately disallow our valid refusal to endure repeated Covid-19 reinfections to be used against us."
"We're made to feel separate from society for avoiding covid, but we are far from alone."
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A question, fellow #COVIDSafe folk, what do we think about KN95 mask expiration dates? Seeing a lot of expired or soon to expire masks for sale and my mum is asking if they are still good? So I am asking all of you.