Mask at BOA Stadium

[appdaze]

Surgical masks are rated to protect against airborne particles 2.5 micrometers and larger, while N95 protect against 1 micrometers and up. Respirator masks worn by firefighters and automotive painters are rated for as small as 0.1 micrometers. Coronavirus is 0.006 micrometers.

But if it makes you feel better to keep inhaling the same dirty CO2 you exhaled for hours on end, knock yourself out.

Oh holy hell, here they come to comment on this one.

Just reading the Warning on the side of a box of BYD masks I have:
"The mask does not eliminate the risk of contracting any disease or infection."

Those warnings have been on those boxes for years. I used to be in charge of purchasing PPE and ensuring OSHA compliance when I was managing a collision repair shop. OSHA would have shut us down if we allowed our guys to wear surgical or N95 masks in the paint booth. As I mentioned automotive paint above, the particles in paint fumes are significantly larger than viruses. And yet the guys in the paint booth wore a much stricter mask than the ones we are being told to wear for this virus. And in the heady days before Covid, we all knew those paint respirators were ineffective against airborne viruses and bacteria. And OSHA also forbid our guys from wearing them for more than a short period because, in order to protect against such small particles, breathing was so severely restricted. But again, that was to protect against something as much as 100 times larger than a virus.

I'm not going to jump on the covid pissing contest because we are all big buys and girls that can take care of ourselves. I will say this though. Masks do work in preventing the majority of the spread. Yes the virus itself is too small but its spreading in the same manner that our seasonal cold and flu viruses spread, on water droplets. Those water droplets are absorbed/stopped by our masks because they are large enough to get caught thus mitigating some of the spread. N95 masks have always had the label, until recently, that they don't stop viruses because technically they don't so the companies don't want to get sued, but the reality is that they do stop the water droplets that we exhale that these viruses use as vehicles to spread.

Here is an interesting research paper from 2018/2017 that I find interesting for lots of reasons, but it has some good info within the abstract section about the spread of viruses.

https://www.pnas.org/content/115/10/E2386

[McLeansvilleAppFan]

Surgical masks are rated to protect against airborne particles 2.5 micrometers and larger, while N95 protect against 1 micrometers and up. Respirator masks worn by firefighters and automotive painters are rated for as small as 0.1 micrometers. Coronavirus is 0.006 micrometers.

But if it makes you feel better to keep inhaling the same dirty CO2 you exhaled for hours on end, knock yourself out.

Oh holy hell, here they come to comment on this one.

I'll only comment on the fact that the 0.006 micrometers is a few order of magnitudes smaller in size than what I have read. Here is an easy read (joking, this is pretty dense) in a peer-reviewed article with reviewer comments at the bottom along with author comments.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7224694/

[McLeansvilleAppFan]

Surgical masks are rated to protect against airborne particles 2.5 micrometers and larger, while N95 protect against 1 micrometers and up. Respirator masks worn by firefighters and automotive painters are rated for as small as 0.1 micrometers. Coronavirus is 0.006 micrometers.

But if it makes you feel better to keep inhaling the same dirty CO2 you exhaled for hours on end, knock yourself out.

Oh holy hell, here they come to comment on this one.

Just reading the Warning on the side of a box of BYD masks I have:
"The mask does not eliminate the risk of contracting any disease or infection."

It the mask eliminated 99.999% chance of contracting any disease or infection that would very good odds. And yet the above lawyer talk would still be true. And it would also be true that one would still be better off wearing a mask if trying to avoid Covid and other similar airborne diseases.

[87ASUgrad]

Got it = Wear a mask going into the ECU game even though I am vaccinated. No problem I can do that in order to attend an App State game. Let's GO!!
I hope we don't have to wear masks while outdoors inside the stadium...but if we do I am certain my mask ain't gonna work as designed while our defense is on the field.
Warning: If you are sitting in section 112 it's gonna be very loud!!!!

[Saint3333]

So excited the adults are in-charge.

[PBR1893-BEER-HAT-GUY]

Jesus, Mary and Yosef!
Y’all arguing over and over and most are just pontificating and bloviating about a subject that has been so divisive Very few have the professional back round to back up your “I did stay at a holiday inn last night” epiphanies.
So let me tell you the deal…fellas and ladies, I’d let a witch doctor shove a 10 foot needle up my ding dong if I thought it would end this pandemic!!!
PERIOD

[AtlAppMan]

Here is just a little common sense litmus test.

Have any of you been walking through a store over the last year or so with your reliable little mask on and walk by some nice lady and get a whiff of her loud perfume? I know I have more than a few times. And then did it occur to you that she didn't spray you with droplets of perfume, and you maybe were six feet from her but maybe merely walking near or behind that person, yet you still got plenty enough of that fragrance in your nose? Now my spidey senses start going and I am thinking, isn't that about what happens with a virus? How the heck is this mask on my face going to stop the dreaded virus if it can't stop that nice lady's perfume molecules from getting into my body? My simple conclusion is, it can't. I don't need anybody to tell me what I just figured out during a simple stroll through the grocery store. Talking heads on TV, so called doctors I know have an agenda, politicians and folks hoping it is true can give me all kinds of reasons and quotes from some source they find to back them up but that simple situation tells me all I need to know.

[postalapp90]

Here is just a little common sense litmus test.

Have any of you been walking through a store over the last year or so with your reliable little mask on and walk by some nice lady and get a whiff of her loud perfume? I know I have more than a few times. And then did it occur to you that she didn't spray you with droplets of perfume, and you maybe were six feet from her but maybe merely walking near or behind that person, yet you still got plenty enough of that fragrance in your nose? Now my spidey senses start going and I am thinking, isn't that about what happens with a virus? How the heck is this mask on my face going to stop the dreaded virus if it can't stop that nice lady's perfume molecules from getting into my body? My simple conclusion is, it can't. I don't need anybody to tell me what I just figured out during a simple stroll through the grocery store. Talking heads on TV, so called doctors I know have an agenda, politicians and folks hoping it is true can give me all kinds of reasons and quotes from some source they find to back them up but that simple situation tells me all I need to know.

Turn in your common sense card. Obviously you know nothing about particle size. Just because a bear cant get in the hole in my chicken coop doesnt mean it keeps out a weasel too.

[sixtoes9134]

The most masked and most vaccinated state, Hawaii, has spike curves equal to Texas. This thing is just gonna have to run its course. Its just that simple. If it makes you feel better to wear a mask, wear it.

[Thor58]

Jesus, Mary and Yosef!
Y’all arguing over and over and most are just pontificating and bloviating about a subject that has been so divisive Very few have the professional back round to back up your “I did stay at a holiday inn last night” epiphanies.
So let me tell you the deal…fellas and ladies, I’d let a witch doctor shove a 10 foot needle up my ding dong if I thought it would end this pandemic!!!
PERIOD

You have just identified the problem. The witch doctor would shove the 10 foot needle up your ding dong and you would think you were fine. The next week he/she would come back and say, "I messed up. I should have used a 12 foot needle." You would allow him/her to do it again and the next week, he/she would tell you that it should have been a 15 foot needle. Then a week or so later, it would be a 15 foot needle while you were hanging upside down. I think you get my drift. I do not think there will ever be an end to this. Those is power are having too much fun controlling the masses and those providing treatments/prevention are making too much money!!!!!!

[Gonzo]

But if it makes you feel better to keep inhaling the same dirty CO2 you exhaled for hours on end, knock yourself out.

If you’re afraid of inhaling CO2 I’ve got some really bad news about the climate and the environment.

[Yosef84]

Just a reminder folks and then let's please get back to the football discussion. Covid is not a true airborne virus. It is born on those "droplets" of moisture from breath, which are in fact large enough to be filtered by a mask. That's why masks are recommended and effective. Can we please just stop re-hashing the same discussions that have been going on for a year and a half? I have some opinions about this issue as well, but I really don't care to discuss them on this board.

Go Apps!

[mike87]

Thread title is Mask at BOA Stadium. It's begging for this discussion...not football related. Pure entertainment though, nothing of any substance here.

[MrCraig]

Has anyone other than me noticed a pretty big drop in overall participation on the boards since COVID hit?
You’d think with a lot of people having more time on their hands we would have a lot of great discussions.
Maybe, MAYBE, folks are sick of y’all idiots spitting your stupid, incorrect takes on this virus.

[asumba95]

You only have to wear the face diaper in the indoor sections of the stadium (300 and 400 level where you are in the hallways). Not in the open air concourses nor when out in the seating bowl.

So what they are saying is, when in the hallways or indoor areas, wear it. But, somehow, your safe sitting in packed rows of people without it.

Makes perfect sense, huh?

[appstate24]

You only have to wear the face diaper in the indoor sections of the stadium (300 and 400 level where you are in the hallways). Not in the open air concourses nor when out in the seating bowl.

So what they are saying is, when in the hallways or indoor areas, wear it. But, somehow, your safe sitting in packed rows of people without it.

Makes perfect sense, huh?

Hello?!? It’s called science, and it is written in the gospel of lord Fauci.



This crap hasn’t made any sense from the start. Look no further than your hypocritical “leaders” that spend every breath telling you to wear 12 masks and get the jab, while partying with each other without these stupid masks.

GO APPS!!

[Capt. Ed]

It makes sense that the world is flat, just look outside, dummy! Of course, the earth is the center of the universe, everything revolves around us, can't you see! The Lock Ness Monster and Big Foot are real, too many people have seen them for it to be false! My neighbor broke a mirror and had lots of bad luck right after, so be careful with mirrors!

I don't need no scientist or gubment to tell me whats what! Gotto go now, meeting Elvis at the ECU-App game!

[bcoach]

Thank god these are not the generations that fought WWII. We would have lost.

[DontPlayWithYosef]

See you in Charlotte and in Miami...not packing masks for either game. Fire Fauci

[JGthatsme86]

I used to visit this site daily for updates. I maybe drop by once every other week these days, because every damn thread turns into a pissing match about Covid. Every. Single. Thread.