There seems to be a shortage of Norovirus-protective masks

[JGalt]

I stopped in at the Walmart pharmacy to day to see if they had any of those white masks that can prevent you from catching the dreaded norovirus disease. They were all sold out. So I checked the paint department to look at the protective masks they had. Most of them were pretty crappy, only meant for dust or paint vapors.

I then went to the Do-It Center, which is like a big hardware store, and found these: They're NIOSH N95-compliant masks that would work in a pinch, although not all N95 masks are guaranteed to block viral or biological agents...

Of course in the event of an actual full-scale epidemic, I'd probably break out these. They offer full protection from chemical, biological, or nuclear agents..

The one on the left is a full-faced US military MSA chemical/biological/nuclear mask...

I also have for my wife a standard M40-type mask that takes the 40mm NATO filters...

And a few US military C2A1 filters in the unopened cans...

And the protective hood, in case things really get jiggy...

I found these at some garage sales and have had them for several years. Hope it doesn't come to where I need to use them but like they say in the Boy Scouts, "Be prepared."


Edited to add: My wife just came in here to inform me that the first case of Corona Virus has shown up in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin confirms 1st case of new virus from China

 

[depotoo]

Sooo, your wife rates the lesser one...
Have you informed her yet?

 

[Thunk]

I've been focusing on food & water prep (and toilet paper).

Any kind of a panic will wipe the store shelves bare in hours (just like you are seeing with N95 masks). Bleach already seems in short supply.

All it takes is a panic and boom...it's too late.

 

[The Irish Ram]

My husband came home from work a few months ago and handed me a flak jacket!!! And said, "Here, you might need this." So I'm thinkin, "What do you know that I don't?"
So, I'm sleeping with a flak jacket and one eye open...

 

[beagle9]

I stopped in at the Walmart pharmacy to day to see if they had any of those white masks that can prevent you from catching the dreaded norovirus disease. They were all sold out. So I checked the paint department to look at the protective masks they had. Most of them were pretty crappy, only meant for dust or paint vapors.

I then went to the Do-It Center, which is like a big hardware store, and found these: They're NIOSH N95-compliant masks that would work in a pinch, although not all N95 masks are guaranteed to block viral or biological agents...

Of course in the event of an actual full-scale epidemic, I'd probably break out these. They offer full protection from chemical, biological, or nuclear agents..

The one on the left is a full-faced US military MSA chemical/biological/nuclear mask...

I also have for my wife a standard M40-type mask that takes the 40mm NATO filters...

And a few US military C2A1 filters in the unopened cans...

And the protective hood, in case things really get jiggy...

I found these at some garage sales and have had them for several years. Hope it doesn't come to where I need to use them but like they say in the Boy Scouts, "Be prepared."


Edited to add: My wife just came in here to inform me that the first case of Corona Virus has shown up in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin confirms 1st case of new virus from China

I can see you now shopping at Walmart in these mask... lol

I know, I know the alternative is way worse, but just sayin...

 

[JGalt]

I stopped in at the Walmart pharmacy to day to see if they had any of those white masks that can prevent you from catching the dreaded norovirus disease. They were all sold out. So I checked the paint department to look at the protective masks they had. Most of them were pretty crappy, only meant for dust or paint vapors.

I then went to the Do-It Center, which is like a big hardware store, and found these: They're NIOSH N95-compliant masks that would work in a pinch, although not all N95 masks are guaranteed to block viral or biological agents...

Of course in the event of an actual full-scale epidemic, I'd probably break out these. They offer full protection from chemical, biological, or nuclear agents..

The one on the left is a full-faced US military MSA chemical/biological/nuclear mask...

I also have for my wife a standard M40-type mask that takes the 40mm NATO filters...

And a few US military C2A1 filters in the unopened cans...

And the protective hood, in case things really get jiggy...

I found these at some garage sales and have had them for several years. Hope it doesn't come to where I need to use them but like they say in the Boy Scouts, "Be prepared."


Edited to add: My wife just came in here to inform me that the first case of Corona Virus has shown up in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin confirms 1st case of new virus from China

I can see you now shopping at Walmart in these mask... lol

I know, I know the alternative is way worse, but just sayin...

I always wanted to stroll into a Walmart wearing a white protective suit with a hood, a mask, and waving a a geiger counter back and forth. Just to see how people reacted.

But I would never really do something like that.

 

[beagle9]

I stopped in at the Walmart pharmacy to day to see if they had any of those white masks that can prevent you from catching the dreaded norovirus disease. They were all sold out. So I checked the paint department to look at the protective masks they had. Most of them were pretty crappy, only meant for dust or paint vapors.

I then went to the Do-It Center, which is like a big hardware store, and found these: They're NIOSH N95-compliant masks that would work in a pinch, although not all N95 masks are guaranteed to block viral or biological agents...

Of course in the event of an actual full-scale epidemic, I'd probably break out these. They offer full protection from chemical, biological, or nuclear agents..

The one on the left is a full-faced US military MSA chemical/biological/nuclear mask...

I also have for my wife a standard M40-type mask that takes the 40mm NATO filters...

And a few US military C2A1 filters in the unopened cans...

And the protective hood, in case things really get jiggy...

I found these at some garage sales and have had them for several years. Hope it doesn't come to where I need to use them but like they say in the Boy Scouts, "Be prepared."


Edited to add: My wife just came in here to inform me that the first case of Corona Virus has shown up in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin confirms 1st case of new virus from China

I can see you now shopping at Walmart in these mask... lol

I know, I know the alternative is way worse, but just sayin...

I always wanted to stroll into a Walmart wearing a white protective suit with a hood, a mask, and waving a a geiger counter back and forth. Just to see how people reacted.

But I would never really do something like that.

That would garner some looks for sure.. lol comedy gold.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

I stopped in at the Walmart pharmacy to day to see if they had any of those white masks that can prevent you from catching the dreaded norovirus disease. They were all sold out. So I checked the paint department to look at the protective masks they had. Most of them were pretty crappy, only meant for dust or paint vapors.

I then went to the Do-It Center, which is like a big hardware store, and found these: They're NIOSH N95-compliant masks that would work in a pinch, although not all N95 masks are guaranteed to block viral or biological agents...

Of course in the event of an actual full-scale epidemic, I'd probably break out these. They offer full protection from chemical, biological, or nuclear agents..

The one on the left is a full-faced US military MSA chemical/biological/nuclear mask...

I also have for my wife a standard M40-type mask that takes the 40mm NATO filters...

And a few US military C2A1 filters in the unopened cans...

And the protective hood, in case things really get jiggy...

I found these at some garage sales and have had them for several years. Hope it doesn't come to where I need to use them but like they say in the Boy Scouts, "Be prepared."


Edited to add: My wife just came in here to inform me that the first case of Corona Virus has shown up in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin confirms 1st case of new virus from China

I can see you now shopping at Walmart in these mask... lol

I know, I know the alternative is way worse, but just sayin...

I always wanted to stroll into a Walmart wearing a white protective suit with a hood, a mask, and waving a a geiger counter back and forth. Just to see how people reacted.

But I would never really do something like that.

Dont give me any ideas lol

 

[JGalt]

I stopped in at the Walmart pharmacy to day to see if they had any of those white masks that can prevent you from catching the dreaded norovirus disease. They were all sold out. So I checked the paint department to look at the protective masks they had. Most of them were pretty crappy, only meant for dust or paint vapors.

I then went to the Do-It Center, which is like a big hardware store, and found these: They're NIOSH N95-compliant masks that would work in a pinch, although not all N95 masks are guaranteed to block viral or biological agents...

Of course in the event of an actual full-scale epidemic, I'd probably break out these. They offer full protection from chemical, biological, or nuclear agents..

The one on the left is a full-faced US military MSA chemical/biological/nuclear mask...

I also have for my wife a standard M40-type mask that takes the 40mm NATO filters...

And a few US military C2A1 filters in the unopened cans...

And the protective hood, in case things really get jiggy...

I found these at some garage sales and have had them for several years. Hope it doesn't come to where I need to use them but like they say in the Boy Scouts, "Be prepared."


Edited to add: My wife just came in here to inform me that the first case of Corona Virus has shown up in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin confirms 1st case of new virus from China

I can see you now shopping at Walmart in these mask... lol

I know, I know the alternative is way worse, but just sayin...

I always wanted to stroll into a Walmart wearing a white protective suit with a hood, a mask, and waving a a geiger counter back and forth. Just to see how people reacted.

But I would never really do something like that.

That would garner some looks for sure.. lol comedy gold.

Yeah. And probably like the guy who showed up at that Walmart in Missouri, dressed in full combat gear and carrying and AR, I'd probably get arrested.

 

[waltky]

It just goes to show...

... how vulnerable to Chinese bio-logical warfare...

... we are!

 

[JGalt]

It just goes to show...

... how vulnerable to Chinese bio-logical warfare...

... we are!

...or more likely, how vulnerable they are to their own biological warfare. It wouldn't be the first they accidentally infected themselves.

 

[Dick Foster]

I stopped in at the Walmart pharmacy to day to see if they had any of those white masks that can prevent you from catching the dreaded norovirus disease. They were all sold out. So I checked the paint department to look at the protective masks they had. Most of them were pretty crappy, only meant for dust or paint vapors.

I then went to the Do-It Center, which is like a big hardware store, and found these: They're NIOSH N95-compliant masks that would work in a pinch, although not all N95 masks are guaranteed to block viral or biological agents...

Of course in the event of an actual full-scale epidemic, I'd probably break out these. They offer full protection from chemical, biological, or nuclear agents..

The one on the left is a full-faced US military MSA chemical/biological/nuclear mask...

I also have for my wife a standard M40-type mask that takes the 40mm NATO filters...

And a few US military C2A1 filters in the unopened cans...

And the protective hood, in case things really get jiggy...

I found these at some garage sales and have had them for several years. Hope it doesn't come to where I need to use them but like they say in the Boy Scouts, "Be prepared."


Edited to add: My wife just came in here to inform me that the first case of Corona Virus has shown up in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin confirms 1st case of new virus from China

None of those things are effective. Surgical masks are as ineffective against viral infection as clear glass is to daylight.
To even see a virus requires an election microscope as optical microscopes simply aren't powerful enough.
Attempting to block a virus with a surgical mask is like trying to shift flour with a picket fence.

 

[percysunshine]

The sporting goods department has them.

 

[Dick Foster]

The thing that worries me about thepis crap are the places our government is choosing to use as quarantine sites for aircraft returning from China. The first was March AFB which is now just a reserve base often used for public airshow. March is in near proximity to the greater los angeles metro area.
This morning I heard that they are now landing and quarantining folks returning from China at Travis AFB which is smack dab in the middle between the greater Sacramento area and the greater San Francisco bay area.
No I ask you are these people just plain nuts or stupid or do they have a plan that they aren't telling us about to rid this nation of crazy whacked out Californians. I'm just sayin. They have other much more remote locations available.
Like how about Homey Airport or Groom Lake aka area 51? It's very remote and has very long runways available.
There are better choices than those adjacent and in close proximity to major metropolitan areas.