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Originally Posted by Linnberg
N95 masks protects the user as well as others. It has special material and filter. They are for HEALTH CARE WORKERs ONLY as not enough in the whole world for everyone and they need multiple as they only last once or twice. It is the only protection between them and their positive patients (along with protective gear, eye covering and gloves)
The rest of us only need masks to ensure if we are asymptomatic but could be positive, we will keep it from reaching others. Those masks (Not N95) will probably not protect you and you have to hope the rest of the people you meet in crowd situations ie; grocery stores care enough to protect you by also wearing a (NON N95) mask.
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I accept that there is a shortage of N95s and that medical personnel need them more than I do. Why did officials begin by telling us they wouldn’t help us? Why lie about it early & often? How did they immediately know there would be a shortage? There wasn’t a shortage during 2008-9 H1N1 Swine flu which was also a deadly widespread respiratory virus.
If non-medical masks are now officially advocated, why doesn’t our government supply them to us? We can’t even buy them. Aren’t there any private sector producers who could supply them?
I often watch NHK, Japanese “Public” tv. They commonly wear fancy personalized masks (or sometimes surgical masks) in public all the time. They have 94 deaths and 4667 confirmed. They only recently locked down. I was told that they do it out of respect for others. Interesting?