[BLU/Officers] Webcam for peering into things

[Kurt Keville]

Oh, I wasn't talking about those... I was talking about these... Ed Rohmer
looked into them...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-15/biovyzr-hazmat-suits-aim-to-make-flying-safer-during-coronavirus

I saw someone wearing one once... on a Spirit flight ... which is probably
a good idea even in non-COVID times...

On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 12:16 PM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 8:09 PM David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> wrote:
>
>> I just flew to DC and back for the World Science Fiction convention, and
>> at least American was not allowing any masks with ports on them.
>>
> Good!
> Masks with Ports are for HAZMAT protection of the wearer.
>
> The point of masks in *this *pandemic is bilateral:
> protecting the wearer from others
> and others from wearer,
> who may be unwittingly shedding virus in pre-symptomatic phase
> ... or even wittingly walking around contagious because employer says
> "don't tell anyone and do your shift or your sacked".
>
> Using those vented masks in a pandemic is saying "I don't care if I infect
> you, i only care about me."
>
> (Vented masks *may* be acceptable in a clinical environment if e.g.
> they're testing people every 4 hours?)
> (Vented unilaterally filtered respirators can be used in Ebola epidemics'
> PPE because the doctors were obviously not contagious since they were
> capable of standing. But not COVID-19/SARS-COV-2, which has virus shedding
> *prior* to symptom onset.)
>
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