What Personal Protective Equipment is appropriate?

A person working on a platform 8 feet in the air using a 50' lanyard firmly attached to a beam 2 feet above the worker's head. Everything is right except the worker will hit the floor before the lanyard stops him.
A truck driver walks into a welding shop and stares at the arc because he is wearing his truck driver sunglasses will soon be blind from retina damage despite wearing tinted lenses.
A worker removing asbestos wears a dust mask to prevent breathing in the particulate will soon develop cancer.
A guy working in a virus lab wears a medical mask to prevent getting the virus. He will soon be a very sick individual.

The point of this mind exercise is to get people to realize that just because you are wearing PPE does not make you safe. Is the PPE being worn properly? Is the PPE effective against the environment that you are entering?

Just food for thought the next time a politician tells you to wear a mask to stop the spread of a virus. There isn't a mask on the market that will do that. You need a full pressurized suit with an outside air source for that.

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hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M

@Quimliqer That is what we are being sold. The evidence to back it up just isn't there. Sadly. What we have here is little more than superstition. Doctors all over the world are starting to tell us that masks don't work based on their medical practice. I honestly don't care one way or the other. I simply want to have hard and fast evidence before we all make fools of ourselves. No study indicates what we want to believe. When did the masking rules come in for the seniors residences? What do we see in practice? Despite virtual lock down and masking, gloves etc people are getting sick and dying. Granted they are the most vulnerable but still if masks actually worked Granny Grunt would still be with us. I saw a study where they put a mask on a patient then waited an hour. They then examined the mask. It had virus both inside and out. Who knows how much virus had gone through the mask. We know that it can escape around the edges with ease. I sent a crew into a sawmill and they had to wear a fit test mask (no beards) with a specified cartridge capable of stopping the particulate in the air. A virus in magnitudes smaller than the smallest particulate in the saw mill.

Quimliqer · 70-79, M

@hippyjoe1955 Hence social distancing. For the comprised ones In these homes there isn’t enough control to keep them safe.

hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M

@Quimliqer there simply is no way to keep everyone safe. the virus escaped a level 4 virology lab. What does that tell us?

Elessar · 26-30, M

@hippyjoe1955 It escaped no lab. Only the head of some conspiritard.

[quote]It is improbable that SARS-CoV-2 emerged through laboratory manipulation of a related SARS-CoV-like coronavirus. As noted above, the RBD of SARS-CoV-2 is optimized for binding to human ACE2 with an efficient solution different from those previously predicted. Furthermore, if genetic manipulation had been performed, one of the several reverse-genetic systems available for betacoronaviruses would probably have been used. [b]However, the genetic data irrefutably show that SARS-CoV-2 is not derived from any previously used virus backbone[/b]. Instead, we propose two scenarios that can plausibly explain the origin of SARS-CoV-2: (i) natural selection in an animal host before zoonotic transfer; and (ii) natural selection in humans following zoonotic transfer.[/quote] [[u]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9[/u]]

Those who claimed to have "evidence of artificial spreading" haven't yet published anything and are completely avoiding the subject now, guess why.

hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M

@Elessar We don't know where it came from but it remains possible that it escaped a level 4 lab. It was found in Wuhan. Where is the level 4 lab? Wuhan. The rest of your bunk is pure bunk since the virus had been sequenced some time ago. Hmmmm. That you would cite the most corrupt journal in the scientific community tells me all I need to know. Might as well cite the Lancet and their retracted studies. Too funny. Run along son you just made a fool of yourself again. You do that a lot you know.

Elessar · 26-30, M

@hippyjoe1955 Then yours is speculation, not a proven fact. Don't try to sell it as such, especially after those who tried to push that narrative failed to provide proof (or better, we're still waiting to see it).