Mask observation

[Ben]

Apparently this is the latest mask celebrities and virgins are wearing. I notice the site is rather vague on both filtration in and out. It's apparently in double secret probation beta mode right now, price estimated at $300.

https://www.razer.com/campaigns/road-to-zephyr

[dogmush]

That's hilarious.

I have a Razer laptop, and it's great. I've used a Razer keyboard and mouse,  and they were good for gaming.

Not sure they'd be my first choice for PPE.

[Ben]

Not sure they'd be my first choice for PPE.

From the minimal gazoogling I did, they said they wanted to design the mask to be cool (as in hip), comfortable, and good for the environment (due to disposable mask pollution). Might be good fashion reasons, but yeah, for effectiveness, I'll stick with people like 3M.

[Grebnaws]

I have never seen anything more guaranteed to cause instantaneous soy face than that device. I'll stick to the same dirty cloth masks I've been wearing since the beginning and treating with reckless abandon.

[Bogie]

Are those HF masks any good at all? How many plies are they?

Uh... They work very good at getting Karen to STFU.
 
That's about it.
 
Pretty much NOTHING you can buy retail these days will do much to stop viral particles.
 
But they signal the BLEEP out of virtue.
 
Oh yeah - blue masks mean  you support the Thin Blue Line - spread that word...

[Bogie]

For what it is worth...
 
I sell stuff to people who do automotive body work. Who sand bondo and fiberglass. Who paint cars.
 
I can't get PPE for my people, because there are people attempting to signal virtue. Can't get actual useful masks. And some folks wonder why I laugh at the crap that fashionable people are flaunting. Because I can't cry about it.
 
I can't get frickin' GLOVES for my customers. I wonder how many people will have problems due to the chemicals that they now have to be in contact with to do their jobs.
 

[kgbsquirrel]

For what it is worth...
 
I sell stuff to people who do automotive body work. Who sand bondo and fiberglass. Who paint cars.
 
I can't get PPE for my people, because there are people attempting to signal virtue. Can't get actual useful masks. And some folks wonder why I laugh at the crap that fashionable people are flaunting. Because I can't cry about it.
 
I can't get frickin' GLOVES for my customers. I wonder how many people will have problems due to the chemicals that they now have to be in contact with to do their jobs.

I expect a wave of new cancer to happen in the next couple decades from the excessive and continuous exposure to chemical agents.

[Bogie]

Nationally, this DEADLY disease has had 0.195% of the overall population die WITH it. Or at least attributed to it.
 
It is SO transmissible. Your best friend could be a carrier. SHUN them!
 
Oh, and most of those numbers were terminally ill patients over 70.
 
But SHUN your neighbors!

[dogmush]

For what it is worth...
 
I sell stuff to people who do automotive body work. Who sand bondo and fiberglass. Who paint cars.
 
I can't get PPE for my people, because there are people attempting to signal virtue. Can't get actual useful masks. And some folks wonder why I laugh at the crap that fashionable people are flaunting. Because I can't cry about it.
 
I can't get frickin' GLOVES for my customers. I wonder how many people will have problems due to the chemicals that they now have to be in contact with to do their jobs.

Your distributors suck.  I haven't had a problem getting PPE for my guys except for a couple months right at the beginning.

[Bogie]

We would normally have about 50 or so boxes of gloves on the shelf, different weights and sizes. Now we've got about a dozen, and they're pretty much reserved for the shops. They have also darn near doubled in price.

[JTHunter]

Many of you have probably heard that IL-ANNOY's governor, "Jabba the Hutt", ordered everybody mask up, indoors and out, regardless of vaccination status, effective 8/30/21.
I went to three grocers on Friday and only one even bothered to say anything to me.
I stopped in a local "Walfart" today and the greeter offered me a mask.  I just said "No thanks" and continued into the store.  I stopped at a Ace Hardware store a little while later and nothing was said.
So much for Jelly Belly's "executive order".   

[Bogie]

Had another customer ask for a free mask.
 
And put it in his pocket.
 

[kgbsquirrel]

Governor Brownshirt has decried masks for everyone everywhere and the morons out here Goebbles'd it right up like it was the sacred truth to not dying.

[Bogie]

My observation, from dealing with people, is that the low information folks are scared bleepless.
 
Generally not the smartest sheeples...
 
Unless, of course, they are really woke.
 
How to make one of those folks' head hurt: "You know, I've been wanting to get a good mask - do you know where I can get one that is certified to stop that virus thing?"

[Ben]

Governor Brownshirt has decried masks for everyone everywhere and the morons out here Goebbles'd it right up like it was the sacred truth to not dying.

Everyone in Eastern OR is ignoring her. Even places like Albertsons and Home Despot, who last time both had signs out and were semi-sorta-enforcing masks, this time have no signs and are enforcing nothing.

It appears they are enforcing masks for their employees, but personal observation shows perhaps 10-20% of customers wearing masks. Further personal observation shows zero compliance with the outdoor mask mandate.

[zxcvbob]

Everyone in Eastern OR is ignoring her. Even places like Albertsons and Home Despot, who last time both had signs out and were semi-sorta-enforcing masks, this time have no signs and are enforcing nothing.

It appears they are enforcing masks for their employees, but personal observation shows perhaps 10-20% of customers wearing masks. Further personal observation shows zero compliance with the outdoor mask mandate.

They have not learned one of the first rules of leadership (it might even be rule #1, I'm not sure)  Never give an order that you know will be ignored/disobeyed. 

[kgbsquirrel]

They have not learned one of the first rules of leadership (it might even be rule #1, I'm not sure)  Never give an order that you know will be ignored/disobeyed.

Unless you want it disobeyed as a legal excuse to push an agenda.

[MechAg94]

Unless you want it disobeyed as a legal excuse to push an agenda.

IMO, the mask orders are just virtue signalling and they don't really care about them.  They never have cared about masks for themselves as leftist elites all over the country have been caught not wearing masks where they recommend everyone else wear them. 

I think the politicians in office are generally the useful idiots that are too stupid to know good leadership.  The smart ones are probably running the billion dollar foundations that funnel money to those politicians and push agendas.

[Blakenzy]

Psaki let's one slip off her toungue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfjrj-_rjVg

Freudian slip if I ever saw one 

[makattak]

Tar. Feathers. Rail. Those.... people... in the back row.

Some assembly required.

[Ron]

Some good links regarding mask mandates.

Briggs has done a yeoman's job of collating information during the pandemic.

It's a little over my head but maybe some of you guys might find the discussion about the Bangladesh study interesting.

https://wmbriggs.com/post/37320/

[MillCreek]

^^^That is a very interesting website, Ron.

[dogmush]

Who are the adults in this picture?  Someone I should recognize?

[RocketMan]

^^^^  Teachers.  At a school where there is likely a mask mandate.

[Boomhauer]

^^^^  Teachers.  At a school where there is likely a mask mandate.

And you know at least one of them has ranted on Facebook about how going back to in person school is “literally killing us”