Barry Natchitoches
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Any of you ever hear of masks that have Air Purifiers built into them?
I am told that runners who are forced to mask up like them.
Please no comments about how you don't wear masks.
I have a wife with Stage 4 endometrial cancer, who is suffering really bad from chemo, and whose life I am doing everything I can to protect.
Right now, anytime I go out of the house, I wear: an N-95 mask with an exhale valve to protect me, which is then covered over by a neck gaiter (works like a cloth mask, that is - I wear it to protect you from anything I might be carrying), and then I put a face shield over all of that.
I also wear TWO pairs of gloves (disposable, well fitting nitrile gloves, which I cover with a largish pair of rubber dishwashing gloves - this allows me to rapidly change dishwashing gloves several times while I am out without exposing my hands to air outside my home),
A shower cap to protect my hair;
A disposable rain poncho to protect my clothing, and
Disposable shoe coverings.
A local doctor who I know saw me in that strange getup at Kroger this morning when I went in to get an emergency prescription for my wife.
He suggested that I might want to get a mask that has an air purifier built into it, and thinks he can actually get one for me. (They are not being sold to "civilians" right now, just front line health care workers.)
I am going to get one, because I will do anything that might help my wife.
But I have never heard of such masks.
Are any of you familiar with these masks?
Do you think they would be better than the extensive get-up I wear right now?
I am told that runners who are forced to mask up like them.
Please no comments about how you don't wear masks.
I have a wife with Stage 4 endometrial cancer, who is suffering really bad from chemo, and whose life I am doing everything I can to protect.
Right now, anytime I go out of the house, I wear: an N-95 mask with an exhale valve to protect me, which is then covered over by a neck gaiter (works like a cloth mask, that is - I wear it to protect you from anything I might be carrying), and then I put a face shield over all of that.
I also wear TWO pairs of gloves (disposable, well fitting nitrile gloves, which I cover with a largish pair of rubber dishwashing gloves - this allows me to rapidly change dishwashing gloves several times while I am out without exposing my hands to air outside my home),
A shower cap to protect my hair;
A disposable rain poncho to protect my clothing, and
Disposable shoe coverings.
A local doctor who I know saw me in that strange getup at Kroger this morning when I went in to get an emergency prescription for my wife.
He suggested that I might want to get a mask that has an air purifier built into it, and thinks he can actually get one for me. (They are not being sold to "civilians" right now, just front line health care workers.)
I am going to get one, because I will do anything that might help my wife.
But I have never heard of such masks.
Are any of you familiar with these masks?
Do you think they would be better than the extensive get-up I wear right now?
