Which mask?

[CNXexpat]

For all people who are in the drugstore and do not know what to buy:

[tifino]

but the above gasmask will Guarantee you won't catch anything on an airliner...

 - a US fell just got kicked off, for all the excitement he caused

[Tayaout]

P100 is missing

 

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

15 minutes ago, Tayaout said:

P100 is missing

 

 

 

There are regular disposable mask versions of the 100 class (100%) masks that don't look like something out of a cyborg movie. But they're even more expensive than the N95 (95%) class masks, and generally are harder to breath in when wearing. And probably impossible to find in Thailand right now.

 

 

 

[4MyEgo]

I find the N95 mask to be ok, add to that that I do my best to stay away from everybody, albeit a little hard when your at your local waterhole and the bloke next to you who you know very well sneezes 19 times in 5 minutes and you aren't wearing your mask because you don't want to be made fun of...lol, or cry ?

[shadowofacloud]

 

This will make people avoid you, thus minimizing the risk of transmission. Add a chainsaw and you're safe and sound (though soundness of mind may be in question).

 

[Denim]

Images from China show people with 5 liter water bottles covering their heads completely plus a mask underneath.

 

Way to go if you want to be safe.

 

Or leave the city and spend a week at a small provincial town where Chinese tourists don't go.

[tifino]

maybe mask smell just as important?

- depends upon your sense of priorities here...

 

[shadowofacloud]

40 minutes ago, Denim said:

Images from China show people with 5 liter water bottles covering their heads completely plus a mask underneath.

Yeah, saw that as well:

--> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7942159/Nervous-Chinese-travellers-pictured-wearing-face-masks-plastic-bottles.html

 

Not sure if daily mail mail isn't a total rag tho.

[Tayaout]

[kevin612]

The best mask is don’t go to crowded areas.

[eggers]

Don't think the masks serve much purpose, from what I've read.  When used one was just breathing in 'old air" which is no good for U anyway!!

The masks are just a 'moneymaker' for 3M & others! 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

43 minutes ago, eggers said:

Don't think the masks serve much purpose, from what I've read.  When used one was just breathing in 'old air" which is no good for U anyway!!

The masks are just a 'moneymaker' for 3M & others! 

 

Ya, that's why all the medical staff dealing with real and potential coronavirus cases wear them without exception. Because they don't "serve much purpose"... 

[ThaiBunny]

Just now, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Ya, that's why all the medical staff dealing with real and potential coronavirus cases wear them without exception. Because they don't "serve much purpose"... 

I assume it's on the same basis as the x-ray machines at the airport - they're just there to reassure the punters

[jojothai]

56 minutes ago, eggers said:

Don't think the masks serve much purpose, from what I've read.  When used one was just breathing in 'old air" which is no good for U anyway!!

The masks are just a 'moneymaker' for 3M & others! 

The masks may not be so effective to stop people contracting the virus, and i understand that it  can be contracted through the eyes.

But you need to understand that the surgical type masks have the fluid barrier to stop the spread of droplets from the user. 

This is just as important in preventing the spread of the disease. 

[tifino]

On 2/2/2020 at 12:54 AM, Tayaout said:

 

good old meme been doing the rounds for some time now... on the world wide web of forums

 

 

 Mind you the 'circle'd one... is for Couples 

 

Incontinence ones perfect for stopping 'you' from spreading to others...

[tifino]

 

ah ha!!   Not really natural Chinese ingenuity after all  

[CharlieH]

I got this type.....

 

Wraps around the face better than the surgical type, soft cotton, comfortable, washable and has replaceable charcoal filter.

 

 

[JungleBiker]

On 2/1/2020 at 6:21 PM, tifino said:

but the above gasmask will Guarantee you won't catch anything on an airliner...

 - a US fell just got kicked off, for all the excitement he caused

 

So you're telling us, "You won't catch anything"... not even the airliner!

[Catoni]

Viruses are so damn small...(much, much smaller than a bacterium) that they pass right through most of those masks like air molecules pass through mosquito netting.

[patrick1968]

free virus no worry's  

[eggers]

3 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Ya, that's why all the medical staff dealing with real and potential coronavirus cases wear them without exception. Because they don't "serve much purpose"... 

Think U will find medical staff wear surgical quality masks: not the single layer flimsy masks that most people wear, that provide little or no protection what so ever!!

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

6 minutes ago, eggers said:

Think U will find medical staff wear surgical quality masks: not the single layer flimsy masks that most people wear, that provide little or no protection what so ever!!

 

I've been talking all along about N95 respirator masks -- not the cheap paper drugstore variety...  After about 100 such posts here on the subject, I've given up on people who can't or won't understand the difference.  The medical staff in hospitals treating virus patients are NOT wearing the cheap paper variety, generally speaking, perhaps unless nothing else is available.

 

[Tony125]

1 hour ago, Catoni said:

Viruses are so damn small...(much, much smaller than a bacterium) that they pass right through most of those masks like air molecules pass through mosquito netting.

This is not an airborne virus like say a gas that is in the air and could go around non fitting masks. This virus is transmitted by flem,mucus,silava ,nasil escreations. A mask can prevent someone transfering liuid emmisions to aother as well as protecting  from getting the spray in your nose/mouth. Even glasses/sun glasses could protect you from nasil spray/cough spray from getting in your eyes. I have seen DR.s in China with plastic face shields (not goggles) that prevent nasil spray from contacting their eyes with a surgical mask underneath. (Around nose  mouth)

Also transmitted from surfaces an infected person has sneezed on which is why you should wash hands often and wipe down surfaces with alcohol.

[berrec]

WHAT IS AIRBORNE TRANSMISSION ?

Worth a quick read of Droplets /  Airborne Transmissions.  

[Max69xl]

On 2/1/2020 at 6:23 PM, Tayaout said:

P100 is missing

 

 

"Ultra-fine dust mask"

Does it help against the Coronavirus?

[tifino]

24 minutes ago, berrec said:

WHAT IS AIRBORNE TRANSMISSION ?

Worth a quick read of Droplets /  Airborne Transmissions.  

 ummm Line of Sight?

[khaowong1]

Had a friend go to the doctors office this morning here in Arizona, USA.  3 people in the waiting room coughing their lungs out.  My friend asked the nurse, hey, how about some face masks here.  The nurse said, all you have to do is ask.  SMDH.  

[codebunny]

All about as useful as this:

 

 

[tifino]

7 minutes ago, codebunny said:

All about as useful as this:

 

 

 undie-nighably!