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Cloth Masks Don’t Protect Against Wildfire Smoke – Lifehacker Australia
If you are living in a literal hellscape (as much of the western United States is at this point), you know that you can wear masks to protect yourself from coronavirus, and masks to protect yourself from the particulates in wildfire smoke. However: these are …
If you are living in a literal hellscape (as much of the western United States is at this point), you know that you can wear masks to protect yourself from coronavirus, and masks to protect yourself from the particulates in wildfire smoke. However: these are not necessarily the same masks.
Cloth masks block droplets, but not the fine particles in smoke. Thats because the holes in the weave are relatively large. (The virus is small, but microscopic droplets of spit and snot are big enough to be …
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