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WayneBGood's avatar

I would like a one page printable article with some studies linked at the bottom - the one page would explain in layman's term what each study means. A grocery store manager isn't a scientist; I'd like to hand them something they can understand. More than one page and their eyes would glaze over.

Another good one would be perhaps two pages to send to a medical clinic manager. These seem to be mask holdouts. They think they are showing how medically brilliant they are - actually it's makes me think they are medically incompetent. With all medical clinics forcing masks we have no choice but to seek help from medical idiots. They have the test machines.

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Percey Blakeney's avatar

Without getting to the minute details of this study, it was, to me, obvious the mask thing was a problem created by unqualified government agents early on.

FIRST, there was that the general population did not need masks, and only first responders did. Reasonable minds cannot fathom how it is only first responders needed protection.

SECOND, there were self appointed experts insisting we needed to abandon those silly N95's and other masks for surgeons' masks. Anyone who has seen surgeons masks and understands a LITTLE about air movement knew the experts pushing them were not experts, but just fearful, power abusing fools.

THIRD, in all the mask mandates, no criteria for what qualified as a mask that would protect against a virus was given.

For example, in my shop you will find a hundred N95's, four or five P100's, respirators for gases, for solid particles and so on. You will even find a full face mask and an air fed mask, which is just a mask filtered at another location. Also, you will find three dust collectors, each which came with what, in the industries, are called dust pump filters.

A so called dust pump is just a dust collector with such horrible filtration that all the dangerous, fine particles are put back out into the air. To get around this, we replace these filters with after market ones that, as a general rule, filter at the level of a half micron to a single micron.

These stock, dust pump filters filter at about thirty microns. In other words, they are chip filters, more than anything else.

Now go to the common bandana. I have no idea of the filtration level of such things, but, putting one up next to a stock, dust collector canvas bag suggests fifty micron might be pushing it.

From here, we can go to common filters used in homes and commercial businesses. These are rated in, for example MERV units. At about a fifteen MERV rating, a filter will remove all bacterial and even most, if not all, viruses.

Most household motors cannot push air through filters with a high MERV rating. Especially when they start loading with debris, making the motors work even harder to push air through them. Though it would be possible, if you increased the surface area SIGNIFICANTLY. Otherwise, you'd burn up the motor.

Now, think of us as these motors. We can be worked too hard, trying to draw air through fine masks. We saw that kind of ignorance and stupidity in sports, however.

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