02-25-2020, 10:49 PM
decay wrote:
They don't stop germs, do they?
N95 respirator mask is what you want.
The actual virus is smaller than what an N95 mask would filter out, but assuming it's carried in a sneeze or cough, it might filter out the particles carrying the virus.
Although you have it use it properly! The local news was interviewing folks at LAX a while back and the two guys wearing N95 masks hadn't bothered to pinch the nose bridge, making the masks about as effective as a surgeon's mask (which isn't designed to filter you from the outside world, but rather protect the outside world from you).
If I was going to wear a mask, it would be a half mask respirator, and that would probably freak people out, but I find it way more comfortable and easier to breath in than the disposable kind.