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Will painting respirators protect one from the COVID-19 virus?

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m98:
You don't have to worry about individual, dry virons floating around. The biggest risk are aerosols from infected people sneezing, coughing and speaking. Those are filtered out just fine by regular FFP2 and FFP3 masks. Also, reducing the "viral load" by any amount directly reduces your infection risk.

I get why it's propagated that any form of PPE is totally ineffective against viruses, as this prevents the general population from buying out the market, but still, take :bullshit: for what it really is.

SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: m98 on March 20, 2020, 04:16:51 pm ---You don't have to worry about individual, dry virons floating around. The biggest risk are aerosols from infected people sneezing, coughing and speaking. Those are filtered out just fine by regular FFP2 and FFP3 masks. Also, reducing the "viral load" by any amount directly reduces your infection risk.

I get why it's propagated that any form of PPE is totally ineffective against viruses, as this prevents the general population from buying out the market, but still, take :bullshit: for what it really is.

--- End quote ---

Agree with this. Although not 100% effective, anything just objectively lowering the load reduces the risk, so it's certainly NOT useless at all.

AS you just said, many countries just can't provide the necessary amount of masks if everyone was buying them anyway - so it's convenient to just say it's ineffective and confine people.
The truth is that those masks are basically reserved for medical staffs (which makes sense), since we just don't have enough for everyone. But if medical staffs wear them, you can probably assume that they are somewhat effective... ::)

Some asian countries, like South Korea, have things to teach us. They are used to this, people are used to wearing masks (which we all tended to find funny outside of Asia), and they are doing well even in this exceptional case. There was no strict confinement there as far as I know. I have have witnessing of people living there and apart from slightly less people in the streets and almost all wearing masks, they are basically doing business as usual. Meanwhile, we here keep debating about everything and we are currently doing a lot worse. Probably time to get more humble maybe and start producing protection devices as much as we can.


SiliconWizard:
As to the above paint masks, I would also say this is a very bad idea. Just stick to FFP2 masks.

ebastler:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 20, 2020, 04:39:40 pm ---As to the above paint masks, I would also say this is a very bad idea. Just stick to FFP2 masks.

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If you can get them. (Which is certainly not the case over here.) I took the question about paint masks to mean: "Can you use these as a workaround?" 

SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: ebastler on March 20, 2020, 04:59:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 20, 2020, 04:39:40 pm ---As to the above paint masks, I would also say this is a very bad idea. Just stick to FFP2 masks.

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If you can get them. (Which is certainly not the case over here.) I took the question about paint masks to mean: "Can you use these as a workaround?"

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I know availability is a huge issue in many countries.

Anyway, I'd tend to think as I said above that those paint masks if effective would probably not be for very long, and then they'd start being a hazard, as you can't just dispose of them entirely (too expensive.)

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