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You guys are awesome: your efforts are a true labor of love.

I wish her luck with that!!! I have a friend who just switched to vaping, and he loves his Arizer Solo II. It is indeed a matter of finding a vaporizer that the switcher likes. I don't know all the details about combustion makes folks "feel higher," or so they say, but once I adjusted to the...

I mentioned the context in which I would use an N95 mask, and it wasn't outdoors waiting for a bus. You seem to think that no one but medical personnel know how to use these masks... which is also incorrect.

This is the big difference between vapers and smokers: once you start vaping, it's hard to believe how much bud is consumed in a joint or two. Not only that, but I have seen varying statistics about what percentage of the THC is immediately destroyed when it's set on fire. So one uses more and...

Siebter, I understood your point to be that N95 masks don't protect the wearer, and clearly not all of the "experts" agree with you.

From the CDC: https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2020/04/09/masks-v-respirators/ "FFRs are designed to protect the wearer (e.g., healthcare worker) by removing at least 95% of particles from inhaled air....Surgical masks, on the other hand, are not specifically designed to protect the...

Well, viruses are some nasty ass shit: measles, smallpox (which has been around for over 2,500 years), chickenpox, herpes, etc.--viruses never completely disappear. Why shouldn't it happen with covid19?

Except that most of those masks from your article have the recommended 95% level of protection... Not that one wants to gamble with who the manufacturer is.

This is the walking dead in real life. As I already wrote, I believe we'll see an increase in cases in the US beginning in around 2 weeks. I would be ecstatically happy if I were wrong, but I trust what Fauci says. Wow. This is what happens when the world grinds to a halt. I wonder how many...

Dude, I wasn't hiding anything. This is absurd. If you go back and look at my original post, this is so tangential. I hate it when this happens: silly bickering about nothing at all, really. Do your thing, Siebter, in good health. And I'll do mine. This is no competition, my brother. Yes, I...

Actually, it's global. But yes, systemic, and permeating every social institution we can think of: legal, penal, educational, religious, political, etc. It's deeply woven into the fabric of the US since its inception. And then there's western Europe, with its own history of slavery and...

I'm a dudette, and my original post stands as it stands. I can't explain everything to everyone or take any responsibility for your assumptions.

That and get rid of white supremacy...

Well, I can't. I'm a professor and I'm coming up with strategies for the fall semester that will reduce my risk for whenever classes are convened face to face again. One of the decisions I've made is not to allow anyone to come inside my office until we all know for sure that everything is safe...

To all and sundry, and especially EverythingsHazy I apologize because I came off condescending and angry. I teach at a small public HBCU in the dirty south, and I've been seeing every day what poverty and economic and cultural marginalization do to people: it fks them up. EH, I wouldn't want...

You don't even know in what circumstances I would be wearing the N95 mask. You jump to all sorts of conclusions without knowing anything about my context. I have a terminal degree, I am educated, and one of my best friends is a pulmonologist in Austin, Texas, who I consulted on these issues...

What is your point? That nobody should wear them since some can't use them properly? I mean, what's your point?????

So you're saying that doctors wear masks to protect their patients? I don't think so. As a matter of fact, it's absurd. Clearly you and I have differing sources of information on the protection that a masks provides to the wearer. I maintain that masks protect wearers as well, and N95 masks...

You and I clearly don't understand "low econ. class" the same way. I don't know what group you're referring to, but nobody wants to live in poverty, with all of the deprivations that accompanies poverty. If you don't understand the kinds of deprivations that poverty in this country brings, it's...

That's the world I want your kids to grow up in, too. When I was growing up in the 50s-60s, my mom would get so disgusted with the shit on television that she'd give the tv away, and we'd have to read books. That's how I fell in love with reading books, and it breaks my heart to see these...