On Sunday, June 7, 2020 at 1:55:55 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 19:29:10 -0700 (PDT), Its Me

A few hours? How freaking long does it take for you to buy some groceries?

I usually have several things I do when I go out and 3 hours is not
unusual.
I would either be using several masks that I throw away, wearing one
the whole time or handling the mask a lot.

3 hours? What are you doing, going to a Grateful Dead concert?
You do know you don't have to wear it from the time you leave home until you get back, right? Put it on when you're walking through the door of the business, and take it back off when you're leaving. That 3 hour jaunt equals whet, 30-40 minutes of mask time spread out over "several" stops? The mask is not wet, it's fine.

Now take your air gun and blast it with a short shot,
replicating a sneeze.

I don't have an air gun up my nose.
Have you not heard that if you are sick (sneezing, coughing) that you should stay at home? Why would you go to a store, sneezing and coughing, with or without a mask? Really?

I wouldn't go out if I was sneezing or coughing but that seems to be
the common scenario.

Wife and I went to Lowes Foods this morning, bith with masks on while we were there. Didn't hear a single sneeze of cough. Everyone except one female had a mask on. Maybe people are less thoughtful and aware of being sick where you live.

The actual power of a sneeze is certainly in the range of a blast from
my air gun.

Really? What PSI seeting? 30, 50, 100 psi? How long is the blast? 327ms? Maybe 489ms? Does it have a 0.125 inch nozzle, or is it dual nozzles that have over 0.500 - 0.750 exhaust area with diffusing hair inside? Got that thing calibrated?

You can be silly and pedantic, so can I. grin


This "mask" thing is to help prevent asymptomatic people from spreading the virus. You know, the folks that aren't sneezing, coughing, or otherwise thinking they are sick at all. Like you.

I did notice that you said you were social distancing, and not putting yourself into situation where you *should* were a mask. Good for you. Keep it up. Maybe you do have a social conscience after all.

Not wearing a mask does tend to have the scared people keeping their
distance. I am OK with that.

I guess as long as you're OK with possibly being asymptomatic and spreading it ultimately to someone's 80 year old grandmother and killing her, that's your choice. Not her choice, though. Is it?

I'm out.