Thursday, December 23, 2021

Health Note - N95

  Beloved,
I wish above all things that thou mayest...be in health...
3 John 1:2
 
As we've pointed out that study after study show that the cloth masks don't really work good (that's why politicians earlier this year told you to wear two---and they knew this the whole time--just see the hypocrite Fauci's emails). 
BUT there are masks that can do a much better job---the N95.
Here is a Link to order some Below

"With another coronavirus variant racing across the U.S., .... it's seriously time to upgrade to an N95 or similar high-filtration respirator when you're in public indoor spaces. 
"Cloth masks are not going to cut it ...," says Linsey Marr, a researcher at Virginia Tech who studies how viruses transmit in the air.
Omicron is so much more transmissible than coronavirus variants that have come before it. It spreads at least three times faster than delta. 
 "It's very contagious," says Dr. Robert Wachter, chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. "And the kind of encounter that you could have had with prior versions of the virus that would have left you uninfected, there's now a good chance you will get infected from it." 
Marr notes that preliminary data from scientists at the University of Hong Kong has shown that omicron multiplies 70 times faster inside human respiratory tract tissue than the delta variant does. That study also found that omicron reaches higher levels in respiratory tract tissue 48 hours after infection, compared with delta. "That would suggest to me that maybe it reaches higher levels and then we spew out more [virus particles] if we're infected," Marr says.
Given all this, you want a mask that means business when it comes to blocking viral particles. Unlike cloth masks, N95, KN95 and KF94 respirators are all made out of material with an electrostatic charge, which "actually pulls these particles in as they're floating around and prevents you from inhaling those particles," Karan notes. "And that really is key" — because if you don't inhale virus particles, they can't multiply in your respiratory tract. The material in surgical masks also has an electrostatic charge. But surgical masks tend to fit loosely, and a snug fit — with no gaps around nose, cheeks or chin — "really makes a big difference," says Marr, who has studied mask efficacy.
KN95s tend to be a bit more comfortable than N95s, but counterfeits continue to be a problem. For safer shopping, check out a site like Project N95, a nonprofit that helps consumers find legitimate personal protective equipment. Or check the CDC's site for advice on how to spot a counterfeit and a list of trusted sources for surgical N95s." YourHealth