Anyone with industrial hygiene experience could have predicted this. Even so, my workplace wanted people to wear surgical masks that wouldn't be approved for work with hazardous dusts.
It's madness. Surgical masks and false sense of security is running DEEP. Just today I was helping clean out an old building that has a mold problem. People were wearing surgical masks, and even after I explained that those masks leak like a sieve and are pointless for mold spores people still wore them.
It doesn't matter how many times it is explained that surgical masks keep spit from flying out of your mouth into a wound or blood drops/debris out of your mouth, that's it, people are going to use them as talismans of protection for years.
I saw and experienced the same thing in China. The difference in effectiveness of a proper N95 mask (worn properly) and a poorly fitted N95 or a surgical mask is night and day.
Remember when the fires were all burning in 2020 and the CDC (or similar bureaucracy) sent out a thing saying "masks don't work because the particles are too small"?
That was good for a chuckle. And there was a two week period around that time I noticed an obvious increase in mask non-compliance, because the smoke was really bad and trying to wear one when it's already hard to breathe was just making a bad situation worse.
People were wearing surgical masks, and even after I explained that those masks leak like a sieve and are pointless for mold spores people still wore them.
I have to wear a full gasmask & faceshield to deal with pollen. The idea that people think that they are protected from mold (which is probably more dangerous and lethal to them than Covid) with a fucking N95 mask means they should be immediately escorted off the premises for their own safety.
Anyone with industrial hygiene experience could have predicted this. Even so, my workplace wanted people to wear surgical masks that wouldn't be approved for work with hazardous dusts.
It's madness. Surgical masks and false sense of security is running DEEP. Just today I was helping clean out an old building that has a mold problem. People were wearing surgical masks, and even after I explained that those masks leak like a sieve and are pointless for mold spores people still wore them.
It doesn't matter how many times it is explained that surgical masks keep spit from flying out of your mouth into a wound or blood drops/debris out of your mouth, that's it, people are going to use them as talismans of protection for years.
I saw and experienced the same thing in China. The difference in effectiveness of a proper N95 mask (worn properly) and a poorly fitted N95 or a surgical mask is night and day.
Because the surgical mask is the kippah to these people. It is an article of religious attire for the Cult of Wokeness.
Remember when the fires were all burning in 2020 and the CDC (or similar bureaucracy) sent out a thing saying "masks don't work because the particles are too small"?
That was good for a chuckle. And there was a two week period around that time I noticed an obvious increase in mask non-compliance, because the smoke was really bad and trying to wear one when it's already hard to breathe was just making a bad situation worse.
I have to wear a full gasmask & faceshield to deal with pollen. The idea that people think that they are protected from mold (which is probably more dangerous and lethal to them than Covid) with a fucking N95 mask means they should be immediately escorted off the premises for their own safety.