Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:

They are just trying to hold off an armed riot, because if they said there was going to be no in-person school this year there literally would be one.

I'm not exaggerating. Pickens county courthouse was the last place I saw an honest to god klan rally (~2002)

Mr Interweb posted:

ANOTHER chud state rep died today

https://twitter.com/SaraForMissouri/status/1428301872335622148

https://twitter.com/JeffReedMO/status/1428357781564772366

Google Butt posted:

If you have the money there's no harm in buying a variety of different ones and find what work for you. A full face will always be the safest way to go if you're willing to rock it.

Captain Magic posted:

two fellow teachers and I freaked out in the parking lot after work today; sucks to freak out but we felt relieved that someone else actually seemed to be paying attention.

we have had fully virtual remote PD (professional development) meetings all week but we’re supposed to see (masked) kids on Monday. why is it safer to meet each other virtually but not the children? Jfc. oh and there is brand new curriculum to “make up for lost time” so we can’t use many previous lessons from years prior lol. group work is a mandatory part of the curriculum. I will have six units when I normally teach four. tbh a lot of it sounds great, but for a year that isn’t going to be full of infectious disease outbreaks.

anyway I sold the other teachers both on getting KN95s and maybe an air purifier/cleaner of some kind, so that’s a win. We are talking about quitting.

I’m not sure where to draw my line for quitting tbh. should probably figure that out. Pretty much every teacher I know has it baked in to make the best of a bad situation; we are born suckers for more work.

FizFashizzle posted:

Zinc competitively bonds with b12 and too much can cause neuropathy.

Biowarfare posted:

i'm sorry what

they just accepted people threatening violence instead of putting the threat down by any means necessary?

Captain Magic posted:

oh and there is brand new curriculum to “make up for lost time” so we can’t use many previous lessons from years prior lol.

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

They're a lot more expensive, aren't they? It's not so much about caring what I look like in public so much as the cost. Otherwise yeah, I'd go full face.
But yeah, still a bit confused,
1. So uh, is my seal good then or no?
2. Speaking of cheap other options. May order this https://www.airgas.com/product/Safety-Products/Respiratory-Protection/APR-Masks%2C-Cartridges-%26-Filters/p/3MR7503 I assume that's the one from the old thread's OP flowchart and that this is the proper filter to keep me safe from the plague.

Tzen posted:

based off your previous posts it seems to lift off when you do the positive seal check? that will happen if you're blowing it hard enough
if you breathe out normally and it doesn't pop off, then your seal should be fine.

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

They're a lot more expensive, aren't they? It's not so much about caring what I look like in public so much as the cost. Otherwise yeah, I'd go full face.
But yeah, still a bit confused,
1. So uh, is my seal good then or no?
2. Speaking of cheap other options. May order this https://www.airgas.com/product/Safety-Products/Respiratory-Protection/APR-Masks%2C-Cartridges-%26-Filters/p/3MR7503 I assume that's the one from the old thread's OP flowchart and that this is the proper filter to keep me safe from the plague.

inferis posted:

if you are already considering quitting you might as well try organizing some kind of collective action if your other teachers feel similarly

mdemone posted:

gently caress my arm hurts

Captain Magic posted:

You are correct; one reason I am not quitting is because I’m in a pretty good union. Honestly the president has been suspiciously silent; I’ve been so worked up with getting class ready I haven’t quite noticed. I should find out wtf they’re doing.

I think a lot of people are thinking the mask mandate our SD has will save us. It is good but it is not enough.

External Organs posted:

My intubated breakthrough patient got off the vent today. Long way to go but a good sign.

Google Butt posted:

Nobody will protect you but yourself

Gunshow Poophole posted:

if you're getting air seepage around your nose during REGULAR BREATHING, play with the straps probably loosening the neck one and tightening or re-seating the top one.

or have a spouse/partner help you start from scratch, they can tighten them for you while you hold the mask in a comfortable position or vice versa.

no air should escape during normal breathing with your hands not near your face. during seal tests the mask will inflate/constrict briefly, and then break when the pressure exceeds the seal around your face parts.

Casey Finnigan posted:

I feel like people should be maybe more worried, about the hospital system collapsing

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/pitchforkfest/status/1426196933769670657?s=20

Casey Finnigan posted:

I feel like people should be maybe more worried, about the hospital system collapsing

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

Thank you! I seem to be good then! I may still order that 3M I linked above (was I right on the filters?) though when I have some spare dough, because maybe it's more comfy, and it looks nice.
And sadly, I am a single goon and while I do have friends, like gently caress am I letting a friend into my home right now to get up in my grill and gently caress with my mask. But yeah. Part of why I've been turning to goons, normally I do have a fairly good IRL support network but besides the circumstances of this problem beyond beyond the experience of my friends and family, there's obviously the issue of 'no you can't come inside.'

You're all making me feel a bit less antsy though, so if you need a reason to feel a bit less poo poo today, take some solace in having helped a fellow Goon freak out marginally less about their own personal safety.

I am, of course, still apopleptic over Massacre of the Innocents 2: Electric Boogaloo.

mdemone posted:

gently caress my arm hurts

Google Butt posted:

Personally if I had the security to just walk away, I would (I don't and I'm not a teacher tho)

Google Butt posted:

From our dear Rubby:

Most people find PPE that is actually responsive to a global pandemic of an airborne respiratory virus incredibly unsettling. We have, as a population, become complacent that What Was is what always Will Be and the suggestion that life has changed and that change is required of us in order to meet the challenges of the day is met with unrelenting cognitive stress. Easier to narrow the locus of perception to that which allows one to continue as if the status quo has not changed. By choosing to don an elastomeric respirator one is choosing to embody Death in the eyes of those people. Not in the micro, the individual concept of lives lost but in the macro, the collective Death of the mind, the Death of comfort, the Death of ignorance. The one who is willing to stare unblinkingly in the abyss and whisper "Not Today". To wear an elastomeric respirator in public is an aggressive, unyielding reminder that this is Not Normal and that they are Not Safe; that they had a choice -- and in the final accounting... they chose wrong.

RoboChrist 9000 posted:

Breathe out normally while doing the seal check/covering the exhalation valve? Or breathe out normally as in 'my hands at my side, nothing covered (besides my face obvs) and just breathing.
Because, yeah, I'm A-OK insofar as I can tell on the latter.

Oh also what's a good air purifier?

mdemone posted:

gently caress my arm hurts

Gunshow Poophole posted:

if you're getting air seepage around your nose during REGULAR BREATHING, play with the straps probably loosening the neck one and tightening or re-seating the top one.

or have a spouse/partner help you start from scratch, they can tighten them for you while you hold the mask in a comfortable position or vice versa.

no air should escape during normal breathing with your hands not near your face. during seal tests the mask will inflate/constrict briefly, and then break when the pressure exceeds the seal around your face parts.

Thoguh posted:

Stevie Lee posted:

wow, armand hammer at 1pm is disrespectful as hell. they deserve top billing; literally the two best rappers on the planet.

please stay safe woods and ELUCID.

skewetoo posted:

The respirators manifesto

Google Butt posted:

The vast majority of the country has no idea that this is happening lol

Casey Finnigan posted:

I feel like people should be maybe more worried, about the hospital system collapsing

Tzen posted:

yeah just like in the video i posted, cover the exhaust, breathe out normally, it should bulge but not pop off or leak air