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the thing about having to wear a mask in public is
no one knows that underneath i'm rocking a Hugh Jackman Wolverine beard. i wanted to try it. don't judge.  X-Men stuff is on Disney+ now. if you clicked this thread title hoping it was going to be political then take a chill pill, and learn to have some fun. Sep 10 20 09:30 pm Link The cool thing about having to wear a mask in public is people notice my eyes more ☺️ Sep 10 20 10:33 pm Link Never liked the mask thing but being stopped by someone asking for directions or pleading for help is too much of a risk. So now I wear one even outside. Sep 11 20 07:57 pm Link I purchased several gory Joker style masks. The looks and reactions in public are awesome! Sep 12 20 07:36 pm Link The only complaint i have about the masks is that it's harder to get and give facial context when communicating. Sep 12 20 08:07 pm Link Lets see, it rides up under my eye lashes so I am always ajusting it. I wear a trifocal lens so my vision is always off but since my glasses are always fogging up I can fake it that I can't see anything. I am always ichy and god for bid I have to blow my nose. The new ones I just got remind me of a girl whose tub top is always slipping and she is constantly pulling it up. The masks are just a bit small and always seem to be sliding. If I go back to the white cloth ones I can draw pictures and messages on them. That was interesting! Sep 12 20 09:00 pm Link rick lesser wrote: oh yeah - the fogging up of glasses! that is the most frustrating. Sep 12 20 10:07 pm Link DCurtis wrote: just goes to show you how not sealed it is. Sep 14 20 03:05 pm Link It is really hard to read lips. Sep 14 20 08:27 pm Link Paolo D Photography wrote: I only wear it in certain stores - the Oxxo, Chedraui, Super Cava. It's mostly a symbolic mask. It costed 10 pesos, I don't see any reason to spend more. Sep 14 20 09:59 pm Link Hunter GWPB wrote: just put some lipstick on the outside of your mask, or draw a mouth and encourage others to do the same Sep 14 20 09:59 pm Link Wonder how all those hospital workers manage wearing masks all day...doctors, nurses. Sep 15 20 03:58 am Link Paolo D Photography wrote: Plug your ears up so that you loose about 80% of the sounds that most people hear and see if your solution helps you. I am confident that the lipstick on the mask is not going to move in unison with a person's lips. Sep 15 20 04:06 am Link Paolo D Photography wrote: ... it is both financially and environmentally beneficial. Sep 15 20 05:49 am Link I think what I like best about the masks are their de-humanizing effects. Sep 15 20 11:42 pm Link Hunter GWPB wrote: 'twas a joke FIFTYONE PHOTOGRAPHY wrote: always a bright side! DCurtis wrote: thats ironic to me since I usually have to walk around in a humanizing mask. Sep 16 20 01:42 am Link Paolo D Photography wrote: I am aware that it was a joke for you and no hard feelings or anything, but it is a communication killer for me. But, other people's safety is more important than my ability to "hear." Sep 16 20 04:10 am Link Paolo D Photography wrote: There IS a solution! Sep 17 20 11:19 pm Link rick lesser wrote: So what's the problem? Sep 17 20 11:25 pm Link DCurtis wrote: no kidding - I fell down some stairs a month ago because my glasses were so fogged I couldn't see the last step... Sep 18 20 10:30 am Link "dehumanizing"  No one's grabbed me or stopped me as I walked by on the street just to tell me "hey come on sweetie, how about a smile?" in half a year If anything I am more humanized, not less. I get to go about my life in a fraction of more peace. Sep 21 20 01:30 am Link Laura UnBound wrote: for reals. i like the people giving space aspect.... Sep 21 20 04:03 pm Link I'd love to be convinced they do any good, these masks. The small amount of research I did included a series of tests of the N95 grade masks that are mandated for situations which involve treating people with Covid-19. Assuming the information was accurate the tests showed a fairly high degree of efficiency when those masks were properly fitted to seal gaps. When gaps associated with normal - ie, careless - fitting were simulated the efficiency dropped massively. The N95 masks I bought have a rubber fringe to them to close off gaps as well as a front vent to aid breathing. A normal, unfitted cloth mask - a barrier mask, so called - that is being worn everywhere can have virtually no filtration efficiency. If you stand in a queue of people you can see each the gaps either side of each mask from behind, out of which exhaled air is streaming. If the person has Covid-19 then that air is passing directly to you to breath in. Add to that gaps al the way around then the air is going to be passing in and out almost unhindered. The more impenetrable the mask cloth, the more air is going to pass in and out of the gaps. So the only way those masks can work, as far as I can see, is if someone coughs or sneezes, and that expulsion is trapped by the fabric. All normally exhaled air is full of moisture and that moisture will carry virus. It is that moisture content that causes your glasses to fog up. This would be no worse than not wearing a mask if it were not for the observable fact that wearing the masks causes people to slacken off where social distancing is concerned. It may be different elsewhere int he world, but here virtually nobody is socially distancing. So adding all that up it seems to me that the most probable outcome of caring these masks is to increase the transmission of Covid-19, not decrease it. So I wear the mask, because I do not want the fines, or to be accosted by someone close to hysteria, but I have yet to be convinced they are in any way fit for their intended purpose. Sep 25 20 07:14 am Link I'd love to be convinced they do any good, these masks. The small amount of research I did included a series of tests of the N95 grade masks that are mandated for situations which involve treating people with Covid-19. Assuming the information was accurate the tests showed a fairly high degree of efficiency when those masks were properly fitted to seal gaps. When gaps associated with normal - ie, careless - fitting were simulated the efficiency dropped massively. The N95 masks I bought have a rubber fringe to them to close off gaps as well as a front vent to aid breathing. A normal, unfitted cloth mask - a barrier mask, so called - that is being worn everywhere can have virtually no filtration efficiency. If you stand in a queue of people you can see each the gaps either side of each mask from behind, out of which exhaled air is streaming. If the person has Covid-19 then that air is passing directly to you to breath in. Add to that gaps al the way around then the air is going to be passing in and out almost unhindered. The more impenetrable the mask cloth, the more air is going to pass in and out of the gaps. So the only way those masks can work, as far as I can see, is if someone coughs or sneezes, and that expulsion is trapped by the fabric. All normally exhaled air is full of moisture and that moisture will carry virus. It is that moisture content that causes your glasses to fog up. This would be no worse than not wearing a mask if it were not for the observable fact that wearing the masks causes people to slacken off where social distancing is concerned. It may be different elsewhere int he world, but here virtually nobody is socially distancing. So adding all that up it seems to me that the most probable outcome of caring these masks is to increase the transmission of Covid-19, not decrease it. So I wear the mask, because I do not want the fines, or to be accosted by someone close to hysteria, but I have yet to be convinced they are in any way fit for their intended purpose. Sep 25 20 07:15 am Link I'd love to be convinced they do any good, these masks. The small amount of research I did included a series of tests of the N95 grade masks that are mandated for situations which involve treating people with Covid-19. Assuming the information was accurate the tests showed a fairly high degree of efficiency when those masks were properly fitted to seal gaps. When gaps associated with normal - ie, careless - fitting were simulated the efficiency dropped massively. The N95 masks I bought have a rubber fringe to them to close off gaps as well as a front vent to aid breathing. A normal, unfitted cloth mask - a barrier mask, so called - that is being worn everywhere can have virtually no filtration efficiency. If you stand in a queue of people you can see each the gaps either side of each mask from behind, out of which exhaled air is streaming. If the person has Covid-19 then that air is passing directly to you to breath in. Add to that gaps al the way around then the air is going to be passing in and out almost unhindered. The more impenetrable the mask cloth, the more air is going to pass in and out of the gaps. So the only way those masks can work, as far as I can see, is if someone coughs or sneezes, and that expulsion is trapped by the fabric. All normally exhaled air is full of moisture and that moisture will carry virus. It is that moisture content that causes your glasses to fog up. This would be no worse than not wearing a mask if it were not for the observable fact that wearing the masks causes people to slacken off where social distancing is concerned. It may be different elsewhere int he world, but here virtually nobody is socially distancing. So adding all that up it seems to me that the most probable outcome of caring these masks is to increase the transmission of Covid-19, not decrease it. So I wear the mask, because I do not want the fines, or to be accosted by someone close to hysteria, but I have yet to be convinced they are in any way fit for their intended purpose. Sep 25 20 07:15 am Link I'd love to be convinced they do any good, these masks. The small amount of research I did included a series of tests of the N95 grade masks that are mandated for situations which involve treating people with Covid-19. Assuming the information was accurate the tests showed a fairly high degree of efficiency when those masks were properly fitted to seal gaps. When gaps associated with normal - ie, careless - fitting were simulated the efficiency dropped massively. The N95 masks I bought have a rubber fringe to them to close off gaps as well as a front vent to aid breathing. A normal, unfitted cloth mask - a barrier mask, so called - that is being worn everywhere can have virtually no filtration efficiency. If you stand in a queue of people you can see each the gaps either side of each mask from behind, out of which exhaled air is streaming. If the person has Covid-19 then that air is passing directly to you to breath in. Add to that gaps al the way around then the air is going to be passing in and out almost unhindered. The more impenetrable the mask cloth, the more air is going to pass in and out of the gaps. So the only way those masks can work, as far as I can see, is if someone coughs or sneezes, and that expulsion is trapped by the fabric. All normally exhaled air is full of moisture and that moisture will carry virus. It is that moisture content that causes your glasses to fog up. This would be no worse than not wearing a mask if it were not for the observable fact that wearing the masks causes people to slacken off where social distancing is concerned. It may be different elsewhere int he world, but here virtually nobody is socially distancing. So adding all that up it seems to me that the most probable outcome of caring these masks is to increase the transmission of Covid-19, not decrease it. So I wear the mask, because I do not want the fines, or to be accosted by someone close to hysteria, but I have yet to be convinced they are in any way fit for their intended purpose. Sep 25 20 07:15 am Link I had to go get a root canal. Dentist went off about the masks as they used to cost him about 10 cents apiece and now they jumped up to $1.25 each and both come from China through his supplier. Not to mention all the other garb they wear like the bio suits and gloves. He really went off on China basically bombing the world with Covid and now profiting off the outcome. He doesn't think the mask thing will go away soon and may be here for a couple of years - if not permanent like some burka wearing country. Sep 25 20 09:08 am Link Amateur wrote: LOL--- gotta love the forum software--- not a double, not a triple but a quadruple post. Sep 25 20 10:35 am Link apparently that person just replied based on the thread title without reading what the thread is about. everyone can GTFO of here with that bullshit, dont start. this thread isnt for politics and statistics. back on actual topic: my facial hair grew out enough now that i could trim it all one length and not have a wolverine beard anymore. maybe next i'll try the "monkey tail" beard Sep 25 20 11:23 am Link Paolo D Photography wrote: sorry to disappoint you Paolo. You have been around long enough to know you have no control over what gets posted in "your" thread. Sep 25 20 12:08 pm Link wrote: Against my better judgement, I’ll toss one out: Sep 25 20 02:00 pm Link 
Model Posts: 6640 MacMurdo - permanent station of the US, Sector claimed by New Zealand, Antarctica rfordphotos wrote: Funny... Didn't you say in your Pandemic thread something to the effect.. anyone who didn't like what you were posting about should just not read it and move on? Sep 25 20 04:31 pm Link
Model Posts: 6640 MacMurdo - permanent station of the US, Sector claimed by New Zealand, Antarctica I've noticed I can't chew gum and wear a mask at the same time. Facts, bitches. Sep 25 20 04:34 pm Link MoRina wrote: Yes, I did MoRina. The advice still stands. If you dont wish to read my posts, I just cant figure out why do you? I gave you a very simple solution---SKIP THEM. Sep 25 20 04:48 pm Link
Model Posts: 6640 MacMurdo - permanent station of the US, Sector claimed by New Zealand, Antarctica rfordphotos wrote: The smell of hypocrisy was hanging so thick in the air I had to find it. You know like when there's something dead in your backyard and it smells awful but you have to go find out what it is and bury it? Sep 25 20 05:03 pm Link Paolo D Photography wrote: I can dress like a hobo and no one will recognize Me. I've been wearing the same grey sweatpants for a week, come to think of it they're all that fit. Sep 25 20 05:08 pm Link Amateur wrote: Regarding the poor fit of some masks. The blue paper ones leave gaps at the side, but you can fold them in half length wise and use a glue stick on the edges. Once they dry, the edges are sealed, you can tie the ear cord into a knot as close to the edge as you can and you get a much better fit. It only takes a few seconds to stick the sides together with a sewing machine and not very long with needle and thread. You can do similar things with cloth masks to tighten them up. Sep 26 20 06:27 pm Link Hunter GWPB wrote: yeah, the ones with the one-way check valve are for construction. not medical, Sep 26 20 08:10 pm Link Well as of now in Florida no mask equals no fine! Sep 27 20 10:49 pm Link rick lesser wrote: faces are cool Sep 27 20 11:50 pm Link |
