Until recently, it was very uncommon to wear a face mask in the USA. But in recent years, massive wildfires have become more common in California and the Pacific North West. And now, with a worldwide pandemic, masks are becoming even more commonplace. Today, there is still a lot of confusion aro...
You should always feel more protected when wearing a mask. Many masks make claims of military grade filtration, or have numbers like 99.97% as part of their marketing. The trouble is, that filtration score can be achieved when strapping the filter fabric to a test machine, which doesn't give you ...
As we write this article, we are nine months into the coronavirus pandemic. And most notably, the healthcare system is still facing crucial shortages of life-saving respiratory protection and other PPE. Unfortunately, many other industries rely on respirator style masks as well, with the N95 resp...