[BLU/Officers] Webcam for peering into things

[Kurt Keville]

Note that I was only addressing Shankar's long hours mask wearing
experience. Certainly one of these beekeeper outfits would go a long ways
to ameliorating that torture.. you might even be able to sleep in it! Not
sure it is any healthier though....

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05/27/nation/wearing-face-mask-with-valve-it-might-be-time-find-something-else-some-experts-say/

On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 1:11 PM Kurt Keville <kurt.keville at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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