Researchers: One face mask is good. Two is better

I wear a plastic bag for supreme safety

WHERE DOES IT END?!

3 masks, face shield, goggles, gloves. Just to be safe.

I can go 10 days between laundry so I just put 10 chin diapers on and take one off each day until it is time to do laundry again.

I tried condoms but they kept breaking when I was stretching them over my head.

rojo wrote:

Boys, Masks are not like condoms. Researchers have determined it's better to wear two rather than one.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/health/coronavirus-masks-transmission.html

Except, condoms always seem to fall off.

TMADDOX wrote:

Except, condoms always seem to fall off.

Hope it helps solve your problem

Really? I tend to find them more likely to explode like Popeye’s shirt, or sometimes they burn up as the RPMs increase like an asteroid entering the atmosphere.

N95 masks are best. Can you buy them in the US if you aren't a health care provider? No. Why is that? We have been talking about masks for almost a year? It is because the inept Trump administration has done absolutely nothing to ramp up production of N95 despite having war production act powers.

rojo wrote:

Boys, Masks are not like condoms. Researchers have determined it's better to wear two rather than one.

Boys?

Precious Roy wrote:

N95 masks are best. Can you buy them in the US if you aren't a health care provider? No. Why is that? We have been talking about masks for almost a year? It is because the inept Trump administration has done absolutely nothing to ramp up production of N95 despite having war production act powers.

Will wearing one of those masks keep me from getting a woman pregnant?

Of course you NEVER have to wear any mask if you never come out of your basement.

F45 5k to marathon wrote:

rojo wrote:

Boys, Masks are not like condoms. Researchers have determined it's better to wear two rather than one.

Boys?

Me too, I'm shocked he assumes his general audience gets action.

rojo wrote:

One face mask is good. Two is better

Same goes for impeachments.

grow a pair why don't cha? wrote:

Same goes for impeachments.

Post of the Day. Well done.

There are different levels of masks that provide different levels of protection based upon the size of particles an individual will come in contact with. Cloth masks are only good against larger particles on water droplets. Medical grade masks have from 3-5 layers (as opposed to the cloth masks that are typically single and sometimes double layer). Wearing two cloth masks does offer an extra level of protection, but you are still better off with a cheap 3-layer disposable (like they give you if you show up at Walmart without a mask). My wife is a dentist and they typically wear two masks (a high end N95 / KN95 five layer mask) with a cheap 3-layer disposable on top that they change out between patients (the five layer is worn most of the day). In summary, the cloth masks are not great, but they work fairly well in normal circumstances where all parties are wearing masks. Disposables are better when an individual is wearing a mask where others are not, and a five layer disposable when there are aerosols or known infected individuals that are unmasked.

rojo wrote:

Boys, Masks are not like condoms. Researchers have determined it's better to wear two rather than one.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/health/coronavirus-masks-transmission.html

Thanks for a post encouraging safer behavior. Good thread.

many reasons wrote:

rojo wrote:

Boys, Masks are not like condoms. Researchers have determined it's better to wear two rather than one.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/health/coronavirus-masks-transmission.html

Thanks for a post encouraging safer behavior. Good thread.

I seriously bet three masks is even better than two.

the sheeple have been fleeced wrote:

Precious Roy wrote:

N95 masks are best. Can you buy them in the US if you aren't a health care provider? No. Why is that? We have been talking about masks for almost a year? It is because the inept Trump administration has done absolutely nothing to ramp up production of N95 despite having war production act powers.

Will wearing one of those masks keep me from getting a woman pregnant?

Of course you NEVER have to wear any mask if you never come out of your basement.

To be fair, out of all the things Precious Roy does, wearing two masks is probably pretty low on the list of things that help keep him from getting a woman pregnant so it's not really a fair question.

Math genius wrote:

I seriously bet three masks is even better than two.

At a certain point you just need to buy a better mask. The current masks most people wear are just a couple pieces of random cotton. Much better than nothing but far from ideal. You got to imagine that some material science company could come up with a more efficient mask material and design. We might not need the full N95 thing with the seals and the like but surely we can have one that does a bit better of a job at filtering out droplets.