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Friday, January 21, 2022

Costs of Masks, Tests Deepen Pandemic Wedge Between Haves and Have-Nots

In recent weeks, as the omicron variant spread rapidly across the U.S., Americans have found that the financial costs of the pandemic are increasingly falling on their shoulders. 

As COVID-19 cases have climbed, public health experts have urged people to dump their cloth masks in favor of higher-quality options — especially the disposable N95 or KN95 masks — and to test more frequently to curb the virus.

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  1. Around here very few are wearing any face covering, storre employees mostly. I can't speak on testing but I haven't heard of anyone doing any testing either.
    So Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year has gone past the 14 day incubation period of this flu and as of yesterday none of the 25 people that gathered together to celebrate have gotten sick and again my son is the only one to get the jab. The group consisted of age groups of 7 to 63
    Stop listening to the idiots and go live your life
    JD

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  2. "especially the disposable N95 or KN95 masks"
    New product to sell?

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    1. No, they've been around for awhile, paint and bodywork guys use them when sanding bondo among other things
      JD

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  3. I am so tired of people being scared of the common cold I could vomit.

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  4. ......and the B.S. keeps getting deeper & deeper. Way up past my knee boots and even hip waders.

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  5. Not buying masks or tests. This shit is getting so old.

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  6. N-95 is a "non-toxic particle mask" which indicates to me it's no better at stopping a little bitty virus than a cloth mask is.

    CC.

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  7. Hospital/clinics here where I live are the only ones requiring a mask. They want you to bring your own. I tell them, you want me to wear a mask then you supply. If you refuse me service I whip out my lawyers business card and tell them he is itching for a malpractice suit... I get the slave mask and purposely wear in inside out and below my nose.

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  8. When I got fitted for an N95 at work, they had a fugly, noxious smelling vapor to test it.
    If it fits, you don’t smell it. Who’s fitting everyone in the US to see if you got the right size?
    Yeah - nobody.

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  9. N95 just means it will stop about 95% of particulates above a certain size. These are useless for an airborne virus. OSHA guidelines say that you shouldn’t wear one of these longer than 1/2 hour. Wearing one for an 8 hour shift will only up your chances of infecting yourself with bacterial pneumonia.

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    1. Which is what Fauci's research on the Spanish Flu showed. Hmmmm.....

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  10. N-95? We were told explicitly to NOT use N-95 at the beginning of the scamdemic.

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