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Where to get a non ripp off face mask ?

mondeo · 2020-03-17 11:44:20

Seems everywhere is hiking up the prices because of the virus... Surely these should be given out for free ? I need them for my parents and I am considering using one myself to be honest. Are you wearing a mask and where did you get one ? I'm not paying a tenner for a fckn mask that probably cost half that 2 weeks ago.

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#32 17-03-2020 7:32pm

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Wibbs wrote: »

The bloke on the left's face is priceless.

It's gas.

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#33 17-03-2020 7:35pm

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The other issue is many of those old masks were designed to neutralise chemicals in a battlefield, they may not necessarily be all that effective at removing virus particles which are absolutely tiny. They're only around 120 nm

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#34 17-03-2020 7:39pm

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Well the cold war and current stuff is NBC rated so nuclear, biological and chemical so they would be effective in that sense.

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