Can anyone recommend some good COVID protection stuff?

[brianmanahan]

Most people know 3M generally makes a quality product.

they're the only place i buy 3.5 floppies from

 

[dullard]

Trying to be focused on just the facts here. Covid-19 is spread almost entirely through respiration. You want quality methods to block small droplets from getting into your airways. The best, reasonable, approach is N95 mask + face shield. The face shield works best for large droplets flying right at you (probably the highest chance of catching it), the N95 mask catches any small droplets that might be able to turn corners mid-air (a much smaller, but non-zero chance).

And know how to use the mask. If you just pull the mask away from your face every time you want to speak, let it ride down to expose your nose, etc., then it is far less useful for you. Have a good fitting mask that you don't have to think about and lets you breathe easily.

Airplane travel is actually pretty safe. It is HEPA filtered air, blowing from above you to below you (if you open up the air valve!). That airflow pattern makes disease spread on airplanes rare. Studies are showing that plane transmission is possible, but does not happen very much. https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/cdc-11000-may-have-been-exposed-to-covid-19-on-airplanes

 

[deadlyapp]

Trying to be focused on just the facts here. Covid-19 is spread almost entirely through respiration. You want quality methods to block small droplets from getting into your airways. The best, reasonable, approach is N95 mask + face shield. The face shield works best for large droplets flying right at you (probably the highest chance of catching it), the N95 mask catches any small droplets that might be able to turn corners mid-air (a much smaller, but non-zero chance).

Airplane travel is actually pretty safe. It is HEPA filtered air, blowing from above you to below you (if you open up the air valve!). That airflow pattern makes disease spread on airplanes rare. Studies are showing that plane transmission is possible, but does not happen very much. https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/cdc-11000-may-have-been-exposed-to-covid-19-on-airplanes

Probably more likely to catch it in the airport itself, which is where I've tried to be safer. Idiot human cattle standing in line, on the jetbridge, in security lines, etc. I flew a couple months ago and was pretty comfortable on the plane but the idiots in the airport are the ones that I was worried about.

 

[dullard]

Probably more likely to catch it in the airport itself, which is where I've tried to be safer. Idiot human cattle standing in line, on the jetbridge, in security lines, etc. I flew a couple months ago and was pretty comfortable on the plane but the idiots in the airport are the ones that I was worried about.

I agree completely. Long lines in the airport, packed together, sometimes for hours is where you get exposed to the most people and are most likely to get sick.

 

[BudAshes]

Can't silly, for travel overseas.

Mexico. Cancun. Playa de Carmen. Los Cabos.

Don't blame Trump for the Chyna virus lol.

Thanks!

Babynuts at it again.

 

[BudAshes]

In all seriousness though, going to Mexico right now is a bad call if you are at risk. I work with and am friends with a lot of Mexicans and a good portion of those that have gone to visit Mexico have come back with Covid.

 

[Craig234]

 

[Craig234]

I agree completely. Long lines in the airport, packed together, sometimes for hours is where you get exposed to the most people and are most likely to get sick.

I've always felt that lines are dangerous. People stand 6 feet apart in line, and then walk to stand right where someone was just standing before, in the same air, over and over.

 

[Craig234]

I am currently on vacation in a major city and took a flight two days ago. It was fine.

You could probably say the same thing after Russian Roulette. Why do people make the obvious fallacy of responding to risk with an anecdote where the risk didn't happen?

 

[Craig234]

Probably more likely to catch it in the airport itself, which is where I've tried to be safer. Idiot human cattle standing in line, on the jetbridge, in security lines, etc. I flew a couple months ago and was pretty comfortable on the plane but the idiots in the airport are the ones that I was worried about.

The airport might be the highest risk, but the planes are not safe.