🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

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>One, I come from a personal standpoint where I used to work in a nuclear laboratory and I wore a full hazmat daily for a couple of years. Hazmat has a connotation that if it's not what you're intending, it comes off hyperbolic. I can understand your technical term, but, an N95 is not considered "hazmat" to the casual reader.

I dont think the semantic point is important.. Butt the fact is if your in a lab and a disease equires a resperator, then your going to be in LevelD hasmat gear at that point, which is just splash resistant clothes (what they wear for simple PPE) plus the mask, which is all that is needed for level D. So in my mind it s very similar to hazmat.. if you want to call it PPE, go for it.. either way im not likely to support such an excessive level of response to a very low risk.

> From that standpoint, and I admit that's not everyone's standpoint, an N95 is super easy. I've thrown one on every time I've gone out since I was horribly ill in December of 2019 and into January of 2020, and *irregardless of COVID* I've thoroughly enjoyed not having so much as minor sniffles in going on 3 years now and intend to keep it up. I can tell I'm healthier in my day to day life. This has led me to a lot of different decisions that I didn't anticipate, but that's a discussion for another day.

I have seen the opposite, and in fact even some studies that would back me up here loosly. In Israel I havent seen a single mask worn in a bout a year. Not a single person in my company has called out sick in that time except one, which is statistically MUCH less than what we saw pre-COVID. No one has talked about heealth problems, nothing. The one guy who was sick did catch COVID and was back in a few days without a complaint to be heard. I got it 6 times and not a single health issue. In factt im much healthier as I've lost weight.

If you want to wearr a respirator, I certainly wont stop you... from my prospective I wont touch it, it feels like hypochondriacism at that point and not an appropriate way to live the rest of your life. The risk reward balance isnt there.

Its also worth mentioning we have countless studies showing if people try too hard to avoid "germs", such as through excessive cleaning, wearing respirators, and otherwise just living in clean-room like conditions without any exposure, then people start to develop autoimmune diseases over time. So if anything it may be causing far more harm than any possible good.

@haimoptysis yea its huge.. currently in a minute or two we can take a breath and indicate with 91% ccuracy if you have COVID or not... the cool thing is once we onboard even thousands of diseases the time to diagnose all diseases at once is still just a minute or two.