It's delusional. Honest question because I find it important. How many here are APR/PAPR/SCBA certified or licensed for hazmat at or above IDLH warm zone response?
Why is that important? People who have had zero training, have never sat in a class, or have never been in a lethal environment are running around thinking they are safe by improperly using paper respirators, PPE's, and cloth masks. The entire notion is feeding off of fear from ignorance.
What is being discussed... is a paper or cloth mask used to keep a contagion from spreading. Why don't professionals/first responders use paper masks when working with level C3 contagion? This is half/full mask APR/PAPR territory. Paper masks are level D. No IDLH. (Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health) A contagion, is at, or above IDLH.
Have you ever actually looked at how many people do not wear a mask correctly? The bridge of their nose, or their nose is outside of the mask. And if you got a beard, or large enough mustache you are breathing through your facial hair.
Then there are the masks themselves. How many days have you been breathing your warm, most breath through that filter? How many germ and bacteria colonies are you rebreathing? How about sweat? If you have a washable mask, what are you washing it in? What chemicals are you inhaling all day from that laundry detergent and fabric softener that smells so good?
How about contaminates and decontamination? Whenever you leave a contaminated area you need to throw away whatever PPE you utilized in that area, wash up, and use new PPE for the next area. Is that being adhered to? If not, you are doing nothing except carrying that contamination with you. And putting it right back on your face in the next area. And then you have people that wear the same gloves, that have everything they have ever came in contact with all day long all over them, going from one place to the next touching things. Brilliant!!
This is a nightmare in the terms of actually spreading a virus.
