Posted by alexandra_k on April 5, 2020, at 3:01:43
In reply to Re: NZ prime minister, posted by beckett2 on April 5, 2020, at 1:48:01
And then you need to fit-test it.
It's hot.
And it becomes humidified. Your airways... I don't remember what... What percentage of humidity they are. Your body is designed to humidify the air inside the lungs. With a fit tested mask you will get condensation inside mask. Water. It's disgusting to start with -- but you get used to it, I guess. Water. Dripping off your nose and running down your face and falling into your mouth when you open it. Dripping off your chin.
So very tempting to make an air vent for the humidity to escape. So very very very much more comfortable. Less hot. Etc.
I don't know how many people are fit-test wearing the masks they've got.
I have been thinking about so many things...
Dyes.
We were starting to think about it. The human worker cost. The people working in production of things like that. Dyes. To dye the fabric. To make the clothes. The exposure that workers have to these toxic chemicals. The protective equipment that has been developed.
The true cost of our inks and dyes.
The manufacturing that goes into filtration.
It isn't fair that the Free World has had 'two-rules' -- one for its own people and another for the Chinese people. Requiring higher test scores for admissions. Etc etc etc.
The mass production of rubbish product that was toxic to workers and so on...
Well, I guess now we've been reminded of the high quality and essential products that we have been relying on China to produce.
3M did an amazing job of marketing. But the magic in the manufacturing was... NOt properly appreciated.
And that's not fair.
poster:alexandra_k
thread:1109408
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/poli/20191212/msgs/1109421.html