COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

sammymvpknight said
I'm not trying to be argumentative, but who on this forum has worn a mask for more than 2 hours at a time? I do it on a regular basis, and it's a miserable existence. I do it because I come into contact with sick people and I don't want to bring something home with me. But boys, I'm not sure it is practical to ask people wear PPE for a 10-hour work day. I think that is a very reasonable request in short bursts, such as going to a sporting event, going to the grocery store, going to the restaurant. I also have very little confidence that the average person can wear PPE that long without touching the outside of their evil PPE and completely defeating the purpose of the PPE in the first place.

I think that at some point we are just going to have to send the kids back to school...ready or not. And it'll have to be without PPE. They will be little carrier monkeys, and we will have to try to keep them away from immunocompromised or elderly. Kids that are immunocompromised will have to be home schooled. It's unfortunate, but it's time to put forward realistic strategies.

I addressed the long-term mask wearing with management last week.

We were discussing how we were going to proceed when we go back to work. They were talking about n95 masks.

I brought up that it's, often, 100-120 degrees and humid on the floor. The masks are fine for people in the pulpits who are sitting in chairs a d pushing buttons but the masks won't last 30 minutes on the floor. Even if they do it'll be very difficult to breathe in them, and they'll fog our safety glasses, in those conditions.

We have face shields that attach to our hard hats that cover our entire faces. They're not as effective as masks in normal conditions but I think that it's a good compromise.