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Re:Infrared thermometers to screen for Covid: more marketing... by mc32 on Monday August 03, 2020 @08:07PM (#24045022)
Also let’s not forget to have bearded people shave their beards, else they reduce the effectiveness of masks[1].

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/cdc-recommends-different-fac...

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Re:Infrared thermometers to screen for Covid: more marketing... by Scoundreller on Monday August 03, 2020 @08:47PM (#24045301)
I just transited through an airport, and it saddened me seeing how many people wasted perfectly good N95 and equivalents by poor fitness.

They’re no better than a surgical mask if you have a lot of gaps: they’ll filter nothing but your coughs. So little inhalation will be filtered because of the path of least resistance.

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