Curiously, do you ever have philosophical ruminations, or do the nuts and bolts comprising buckets of questions define philosophical appropriateness?Gary Childress wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 10:59 pm I will say that wearing a mask does seem to help. My family and I have been wearing them pretty consistently and this past season is one of the few cold and flu seasons that none of us came down with any kind of virus or infection. Knock on wood, hope it stays that way.
I’ve always worn a respirator outdoors when spraying paint and it doesn’t take too long for the particulates to build up in the filters. Respirators also filter out odours and fumes, I suppose to a point, and a comfortable one can be had. I don’t know if they would stop a virus but they stop a lot more than what folks wear for fashion statements, and if folks were serious about mask protection, public wearing of a respirator would likely be socially acceptable these days, and effective if one handled it with kid gloves and ultraviolet decontamination. Enough cash will get a comfortable one and filters aren’t too terribly expensive. A good fashion designer might make them more comfortable and purdier.
I thought of this when sitting at a light and watching a man up on a ladder spray painting a building, without a mask. I guess he figured the wind would take it away but wind doesn’t work that way up against a large wall or the face of a cliff. I always provide my own respirator/mask when spray painting this or that, the house or a chair or one of the old cars of past years, or when other solvent/epoxy fumes are involved, when sanding drywall plaster or a lot of wood, although there comes a time in life when you look at the cost effectiveness of just how ordered things must be, and much motion becomes unnecessary, particularly when viewed from a hammock on a warm summer afternoon that threatens thunderstorms, listening to the songs of the birds and sipping a delicious beverage that is in the many ways of delicious. The guy on the ladder will have a cold comfort in knowing that no one gave him a mask to wear, or cold comfort in the knowing, after he has learned the difference, that no one had taught him right from wrong, or maybe it was that he had not listened.
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