• ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 days ago

    Masks where one of the first things to go, they where let go completly by febuary. What really sucks for this is that due mostly in part to the US will chose the regulations it controls both MSHA and OSHA requrie NIOSH apporoved masks and do not accept equivelents. so no new masks can enter circulation

    Also for what its worth what I read of the KN95 standard (the english translation) it is better than the N95 mask, and as someone who wears a KN95 every day unless required to wear an N95 for respretory protection (see regulation wierdness) the focus on sightlines the KN95 mask has that n95 does not is amazing

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      4 days ago

      It would be funny if someone at OSHA decided KN95s were acceptable and 3M and co’s masks became unprofitable overnight, with everyone importing Chinese masks.

      • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺@lemmygrad.ml
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        4 days ago

        I mean 3m Masks will soon be either unprofitable or need a new rating or an internal one, because no new mask can be rated any more, so when they need to be retested, or a new moddel comes out, they cannot and so they cannot stamp n95 on it any more