Reupping this for consideration, I think it's too late- even if there were some physiological differences it's become so political there's no hope of addressing it now. But it's worth knowing about if you have a hard time masking- try a bunch, try a PAPR, might change things.

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Well shit. I was going back to First Principles on masks, and I think I may have fallen for “it works for me” engineer syndrome.
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“Well shit. I was going back to First Principles on masks, and I think I may have fallen for “it works for me” engineer syndrome. 🧵 1/18”

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I continue to feel the "if you find masks uncomfortable you're a bad person and should feel bad" response directed at people who are ardently pro-mask and trying to find a solution to be extraordinarily unhelpful and counterproductive. There are options- and we need even more.

@SexyCyborg I agree wholeheartedly with this. We need to find solutions for everyone who wants to wear a mask.

I have zero time for people who are claiming masks are unsafe in general - especially since they wear masks when they are trying to overthrow a government - but as one of the only people still masking at my workplace, which contains 20K-60K people, I want to make sure everyone who wants to mask is able to do so. #COVID #masks