[PLUG-TALK] Masks with ear loops ... NIOSH?

[Keith Lofstrom]

My Honolulu sister bought some "KN95" ear-loop respirator
masks;  US manufactured by BNX (type number E95) but /not/
NIOSH-approved.  BNX makes a very similar respirator mask
(H95, around the head) that /is/ NIOSH approved.  A few
more random searches here:

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/respirators/disp_part/n95list1-a.html

I found no NIOSH-approved ear loop masks, though I did
not look at many. 

Some of you may have masks with ear loops - COULD YOU
SEARCH FOR THEM on the NIOSH data base and tell me if
they are approved?

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I hypothesize (based on sparse data) that ear location on
us American mongrels varies too much (up/down front/back)
for ear loops to reliably position properly on all of us.
Perhaps Han Chinese have more uniform heads, or perhaps
KN95 certification is less stringent, or perhaps gweilo
are fair game for mask fraud by a very few rat bastards.

Anyway, with more data (and appropriate application of
the clue stick) I can disprove my hypothesis ...

... or unwisely hector random strangers with ear loop
respirator masks, and get punched in the mask.  :-)

Keith

P.S.  Hawaii quarantined itself, vaccinated at high rates,
and had superb low COVID numbers a few months ago.  Then
they opened up for tourism.  My sister says Omicron
infection rates are now 17% (!!!) in Honolulu.  She is
vaxxed and boosted, and isolates paranoically, but had
a Very Bad Cold (???) last week. :-(

P.P.S.  I fret about Omicron and Delta coinfecting a person
and swapping genes, creating a new variant as transmissible
as Omicron and deadly as Delta:  "Doomicron".  I probably
fret too much.

-- 
Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com