• @Jamablaya@lemmy.today
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    3 months ago

    the shortage was for a few months at best, I was working as a trucker hauling grain then, wheat dust is fucking nasty, I often wore a mask for that, an N95, which I went out of my way to get in bulk. Cloth masks can’t keep grain dust out of your lungs, don’t tell me they do anything as to a virus.

    • WrenM
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      3 months ago

      don’t tell me they do anything as to a virus.

      Okay. I won’t, but the NIH would like a word.

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          3 months ago

          Grain dust PPM to a person working in a grain dust rich environment ≠ covid particles in every day air, So…. I don’t know why you feel the need to make such a bad faith a comparison of the two.

          Additionally, masks of ANY type are helpful as they can assist in the virus containment of the WEARER should they be the one exposed.

          Lastly, seriously… How do you not understand that there are two sides to a mask and that air travels in more than one direction through them?

    • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      33 months ago

      And those were also the few months that NYC was using refrigerated semi trailers as extra morgue space because so many people were dying. And yeah they do. Some virus particles will be too small to be stopped but some will be riding larger particles and be stopped with them. Reducing the sheer amount of virus in an area is always better. Whether it’s by 10 percent or 90 percent.

      • @Jamablaya@lemmy.today
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        13 months ago

        sorry I had to block the community because the mod is a dumbass fuck who can’t handle very simple and demonstrable facts.