RE: https://zeroes.ca/@Njord/116347075782355504

this is what the dust storm we had in cyprus did to our air intake's *prefilter*

wanna take a guess how many people outside were wearing masks?

couldn't be me. i don't want crud like that in my lungs

imagine being so scarred for life from being asked to wear a mask for covid for a while that you'd rather inhale liquid desert than wear a mask again
@eniko "Ohhhhhh but the mask makes it so hard to breathe......... ​ "

unlike literal foreign material in the lungs, that's just fine
@queenofsquiggles yeah fucking up your lungs makes it real easy to breathe!
@eniko @queenofsquiggles it does accelerate solving the breathing problem altogether though
@eniko not to be confused with liquid dessert, which is a milkshake
@foone still probably best not to aspirate milkshakes either
@eniko you're not my mom, you can't tell me what to do!
@eniko @foone
Liquid desert, liquid dessert, whatever. I just try to not aspirate liquids. I'm not always successful.
@eniko An old person told me: By wearing a mask, people think I'm infectious and "repudiate" me with a grin face of disgust. This attitude is the result of some level of illiteracy. Wearing a mask protects others more than the wearer. Note: Depending on the particle size, normal masks ---mostly surgical--- are not effective. Sadly, the best method is to avoid going outside when pollutants are high.
@eniko
If you're lucky like me your liquid desert comes with free asbestos! Hilarious that Americans would mask for the great dust bowl but not covid or the Spanish flu
@eniko i have one of those rabbitairs. I got levoit ones too which have cheaper filters to replace. Cleaning the air++
@eniko And a lot of that is not organic. People are essentially giving themselves Miner's Lung from breathing that stuff. I lived on Maui, there were some times when there were fairly major eruptions going on and my Corsi box would saturate with black crud inside of a month. When there is no eruption going on I could usually get by with rebuilding the filter box once every 6 months. Everybody else was just breathing that "fresh tropical air."