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Are there small masks that you can carry to protect yourself from poison gas?

I have a gas mask in my trunk with extra filters...




Its Army issued though. But seriously, would you want to carry a gas mask on you every day going to work? I fvcking hate toting my around for work. I'd rather just get killed then live through a biological or chemical attack.
 
Originally posted by: TallBill
I have a gas mask in my trunk with extra filters...




Its Army issued though. But seriously, would you want to carry a gas mask on you every day going to work? I fvcking hate toting my around for work. I'd rather just get killed then live through a biological or chemical attack.
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Im not talking about a full mask, im just wondering about a small mask like the one kim basinger used in Batman. I live in the motor city and we just drive everywhere, but if I lived in a big city subject to terrorist attack, I probably would carry a small mask in my briefcase.
 
The only way the mask is going to protect you is if you're wearing it, not carrying it around.
No one comes on a loudspeaker and announces, "Hey, everyone, we're about to release a biological agent. Put on your gas masks if you've got them."

Honestly, I really doubt you'd have sufficient warning to put it on in time. However, yes, they can protect you from many such poisons.
 
Are you seriously considering carrying a mask around everywhere you go? Don't bother

A) You won't get it on in time
B) It probably won't help you (chemical/biological agents that you don't need to breathe in)

Buy duct tape!
 
Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1205309,00.html

Evidently AlQueda was preparing to attack the NY subways with poison gas. Is there some sort of small resperator you could use to help prevent breathing the gas at all? Something along the sides of a particulate filter? Or are you just SOL if terrorists attack?
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That book got released too early for the November elections, they should have hyped it and released it in September.
 
Even if you were carrying a good one with you everywhere, odds are it won't do any good. You'll be too late, or won't put it on correctly.
 
If it's a nerve agent, you would need full-body protection, and it'd have to be the really GOOD stuff. Nerve agents are almost as easily absorbed through the skin as they are through the mucous membranes, and they're not really a gas so much as an aerosol liquid, usually viscous.

However, the threat from nerve agents, unless it's a massive dispersal and you're right by it, is very overrated. Dispersal of the agent is difficult, and most exposure can be survived if the antidote (atropine or 2-pam) can be reached within a period of time, depending on exposure. If the nerve agent lands on your skin, wiping it off with an article of clothing and discarding the clothing is the suggested route of action.

Wikipedia article on nerve agents
 
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
I always enjoy being the only person wearing a gas mask in location full of people and poison gas.
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Yeap, serious problem. Survival of the fittest applies here. i.e. who can wrestle the mask from you and keep it on themselves while everyone else around them is dieing.
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
The only way the mask is going to protect you is if you're wearing it, not carrying it around.
No one comes on a loudspeaker and announces, "Hey, everyone, we're about to release a biological agent. Put on your gas masks if you've got them."

Honestly, I really doubt you'd have sufficient warning to put it on in time. However, yes, they can protect you from many such poisons.
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agreed. By the time you saw people dropping from the gas, its too late to fish into your backpack to put your's on.
 
You should be more worried about a hurricane hitting NYC than a terrorist attack.

If a hurricane hits NYC area (which it does on average of every 70-80 years), you will be totally screwed.
 
Originally posted by: Ronstang
When it is your time, it is your time. Relax, enyoy life, and stop worrying. I sure as hell don't worry.
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Well you seem to be worried enough about other people worrying to advise them. I understand where you're coming from though, or almost. I don't worry about people worrying except where they're worrying about people who worry. For some reason that just drives me nuts. 😀
 
Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1205309,00.html

Evidently AlQueda was preparing to attack the NY subways with poison gas. Is there some sort of small resperator you could use to help prevent breathing the gas at all? Something along the sides of a particulate filter? Or are you just SOL if terrorists attack?
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Yes, there are masks for such things...sort of like there are devices to prevent alien abductions.
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
The only way the mask is going to protect you is if you're wearing it, not carrying it around.
No one comes on a loudspeaker and announces, "Hey, everyone, we're about to release a biological agent. Put on your gas masks if you've got them."

Honestly, I really doubt you'd have sufficient warning to put it on in time. However, yes, they can protect you from many such poisons.
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There was an attack in a Tokyo subway some years ago using Sarin nerve gas. That stuff sounds horrible. It is odorless too, so by the time you are aware that it's there, you're already pretty much screwed, or dead. Very low concentrations can cause problems too. The MSDS for sarin says that less than 2mg-min/cubic meter can cause onset of minor symptoms. 35mg-min/cubic meter can cause paralysis, and then 70mg is lethal.
I remember an article somewhere about a couple who, I think they just lived near the station or were near at the subway....the guy's wife was exposed to the gas and is now paralyzed. He has to just carry her or have her in a wheelchair now whenever they want to go out. Goddamn religious extremists.

From the article: "Obtain a few widely available chemicals, and you could construct it with a trip to Home Depot ? and then kill everyone in the store."
Well that's good to know. A quick Google search will probably tell you how to do it.
Heck, my high school physics teacher said he knew how to make cyanide. But he also said that, no, he would not tell us now.
 
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