Covid and What We Peasants Can Do to Protect Ourselves

Covid and What We Peasants Can Do to Protect Ourselves

#masks #resources
Sharyn Blum on Twitter
Sharyn Blum on Twitter

Today's a great day to remember that, if you need a doctor's note to wear a mask at work:

  1. The CDC has helpfully provided a list of high risk conditions which can necessitate masking in order to protect yourself or a loved one, and...

  2. Many of them are very, very common.

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Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 on Twitter
Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 on Twitter
I've been trying to explain this for two years now. N95s were designed primarily for male caucasian faces. KN95 and KF94 standards came about not because we wanted a knockoff mask standard, but because Asian faces could not pass fit tests with N95 masks.
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Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 on Twitter
Home fit testing kit!
Home fit testing kit!

Faces come in different shapes. (For example, most well-rated N95s leak at my nose and don't fit my cheekbones. Oft-maligned ear loop Kf94s fit me perfectly, and pass fit tests.) How to fit test masks at home:

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Home fit testing kit!