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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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The size of the covid-19 virus ranges between 0.06-0.14 microns (1 micron is one millonth of a meter). An N95 mask is rated for 95% of particles, 0.3 microns or larger. This means that the covid virus can get through an N95 mask. It's like driving through a garage door entrance that's twice as large as your vehicle.

Can the N95 mask be useful, yes. Is it effective against other bugs, yes. Should you be confident that an N95 mask is completely screening the covid-19 virus, absolutely NO.

Same with HEPA filters. They have different levels of effectiveness in screening viruses depending in their HEPA rating. The very expensive better ones can screen the covid-19, not all can.


Wash your hands, keep them off your face.
I do believe it's time for a little 'afternoon delight', which at 74.5 equals nap.
 
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Working in person is the exception for me. There's no need for me to be in physical proximity when at work. Started with teleconferences, and now of course videoconferences are de rigueur. Some of them are run pretty tightly. What I find important working from home is to mind my personal appearance in the same way as if I were working on site. Not the business suits! :vomit: Gave all my work clothes to goodwill.
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The size of the covid-19 virus ranges between 0.06-0.14 microns (1 micron is one millonth of a meter). An N95 mask is rated for 95% of particles, 0.3 microns or larger. This means that the covid virus can get through an N95 mask. It's like driving through a garage door entrance that's twice as large as your vehicle.

Can the N95 mask be useful, yes. Is it effective against other bugs, yes. Should you be confident that an N95 mask is completely screening the covid-19 virus, absolutely NO.

Same with HEPA filters. They have different levels of effectiveness in screening viruses depending in their HEPA rating. The very expensive better ones can screen the covid-19, not all can.


Wash your hands, keep them off your face.
Thanks beans. I was about to order an N95.
 
Thanks beans. I was about to order an N95.

The N95 is what most people buy and the one that's available. The mask that you buy should come with an N95 label or certification. I saw some for sale in a pharmacy that had no markings at all, I figured that they didn't meet the N95 standard. They were made in China, some sort of bootleg. Be careful what you buy.
 
My SO did just that this afternoon! Well, it actually an "after-office-happy-hour" this time'round. :smug:
I've always wondered Jeff, did you ever receive or sort out the Dr. Bass cab that you ordered back in 2009?
Yes, I did, thanks to a TB member who lived in the area. The cabinet was very nice, actually, but given the ordeal I went through to get it, it only got a couple of gigs, then I sold the cab to divest myself of anything Marc Serio related. That's when I started getting cabinets made by Don Oatman of LDS.
 
The N95 is what most people buy and the one that's available. The mask that you buy should come with an N95 label or certification. I saw some for sale in a pharmacy that had no markings at all, I figured that they didn't meet the N95 standard. They were made in China, some sort of bootleg. Be careful what you buy.
Nah, came with virus pre-installed.
 
Considering my Saturday as I take coffee with you virtual people, who have actual physical bodies (to hear tell).

One of the benefits of my own virtual work is I'm used to it. And my own work has doubled in the last week or so, owing to <who knows what> . One of these days I'll be getting around to updating that Website (not my bass Website). It's been years now and I really need to tear it up and build it fresh. My daily focus has been on the bass (and not eating what I prepare for dinner ;) ). But I took the first step in thinking about it. So it's there <shrug>

Mostly when I talk about the other work I do, people go real quiet and that's the origin of our six foot radius. So I tend not to talk about it. What I can say is without having actively promoted / marketed my consults, getting lots more work anyway. Ten hours of of work a week is a good agreement.

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Considering my Saturday as I take coffee with you virtual people, who have actual physical bodies (to hear tell). ... ...


Oy! Touchè! Ye be findin' me one (woeful) weakness. But, aye, it be me great spirit that shall yet overcome!

Top o' the Saturday to ya. ;) Stay virtual, ... , uh, or er ... virtuous, ... as the case may be.
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