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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I well remember the mixed messaging of the early days. The news said don't wear N95. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I looked at the box I had bought a couple years back when we had too many days with smoke filled skies. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">In that same time, an email list for engineers tried to over-analyze N95. The spec </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">was written to keep out dust particles of a certain size. But COVID-19 virus was smaller. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Maybe N95 couldn't stop the virus.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Now we understand that most of the problem is droplets of water and virus. N95 is good, so are </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">many kinds of fabric.</div><div><br></div>
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On Saturday, December 26, 2020, 08:24:38 PM PST, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div><br></div><div><br>Afterwards, this topic made me remember February/March, when we came to <br>grips with that: Everyone learned that N95 & equivalent respirators<br>were protective if fitted, but effectively out of stock, and had other<br>problems (omitted here), so (most) people fell back on what we could<br>get, which was a variety of disposible or cloth surgical masks, or<br>things equivalent to that.<br><br><br></div>
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