Re: [RBW] Re: COVID face mask that lets you breathe and doesn't cause glasses to fog?

2020-11-30 Thread Joel Stern
No problem Patrick. My daughter may or may not have had the virus in April, before much was known. She is in CA and has Kaiser, they never tested her, hardly have her any meds just an inhaler. I finally sent a zpack that I had in the house to her and that seemed to help so maybe it was just a bron

Re: [RBW] Re: COVID face mask that lets you breathe and doesn't cause glasses to fog?

2020-11-30 Thread Patrick Moore
Thanks for the alert, Joel. No need for a purchase link; I'll continue to use the base-model masks and my new (to be delivered today) Buff neck gaiter, this one doubled over to prevent sneeze spray. I use masks for other people, mostly, and for social courtesy, less to keep myself safe, for which I

Re: [RBW] Re: COVID face mask that lets you breathe and doesn't cause glasses to fog?

2020-11-29 Thread EricP
This has also been a problem for me. While I now carry a mask when riding, it has not been easy to transition myself to wearing one while riding. My breathing is heavy enough without. Only because I have a steep (for me) climb right off the bat to go anywhere. Have a buff, but for all the reaso

Re: [RBW] Re: COVID face mask that lets you breathe and doesn't cause glasses to fog?

2020-11-28 Thread Patrick Moore
I wish I'd seen this earlier; more effective than the Buff (as remedy with the Buff, I'll control my sneezing) and cheaper. Might spot-glue or thread-tack a layer of cotton inside the Buff. On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 9:39 AM Surlyprof wrote: > I probably read the same article Philip did. The synt

Re: [RBW] Re: COVID face mask that lets you breathe and doesn't cause glasses to fog?

2020-11-28 Thread Surlyprof
I probably read the same article Philip did. The synthetic gaiters and single-layer gaiters pose the problem that Philip mentioned (micro dispersing sneezes). I did a little more research and everyone points to double layered cotton as the best protection. That prompted a search for double l

Re: [RBW] Re: COVID face mask that lets you breathe and doesn't cause glasses to fog?

2020-11-26 Thread Patrick Moore
I tried bandanas. Perhaps I'm just fussy, but I had a hard time keeping them from slipping down. In the event, I ordered a Buff synthetic gaiter on the recommendation of someone onlist. Buff has a bewildering plenty of colors and patterns, and I fretted about choosing one that will go with all of

Re: [RBW] Re: COVID face mask that lets you breathe and doesn't cause glasses to fog?

2020-11-25 Thread Philip Williamson
I do the bandanna - Rivendell sells densely woven ones. I have some looser-woven Chinese ones from Etsy I try not to wear in grocery stores, but I feel okay wearing them to ride. Bandannas work great; easy up, easy down, but they do fog my glasses now that the weather is colder. Maybe I should

Re: [RBW] Re: COVID face mask that lets you breathe and doesn't cause glasses to fog?

2020-11-25 Thread Patrick Moore
Thanks, Chris. Two new possibilities. I'll look at the Buff gaiter too. I actually bought a poor substitute gaiter at a hardware store for a few bucks, but it was so thin that it wouldn't stay up, and probably wouldn't keep my sneezes in anyway. On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 7:48 AM Christopher Cote <

Re: [RBW] Re: COVID face mask that lets you breathe and doesn't cause glasses to fog?

2020-11-24 Thread Drew Saunders
Regarding the O2 levels, in this video: https://youtu.be/npXP5wqNzaI He wears 6 masks and wears a pulse-ox meter. The results of wearing 6 (count 'em, 6!) surgical masks for 5 minutes: 1: No change in O2 levels 2: His ears really hurt. I'm about to get surgery (not voluntary, not in a pandemic!)

Re: [RBW] Re: COVID face mask that lets you breathe and doesn't cause glasses to fog?

2020-11-24 Thread Sky Coulter
I was wearing my respirator on the bike when the lower mainland (bc) was very smokey for a week or so with the northward drift of smoke from west coast fires. Then the new west pier caught on fire and added a couple more smoke filled days. The p100 filters did an amazing job of filtering the ai

Re: [RBW] Re: COVID face mask that lets you breathe and doesn't cause glasses to fog?

2020-11-24 Thread Joel S
I wish they would come out with a list of masks that might help. There is much controversy. I wear a mask anywhere others are and just don’t know if they do much good. I believe they do cause us breathing problems if used for prolonged times. I have 2 nice fabric masks, one with a pocket th

Re: [RBW] Re: COVID face mask that lets you breathe and doesn't cause glasses to fog?

2020-11-24 Thread 'Eric Norris' via RBW Owners Bunch
The CDC recommends mask wearing, both to protect you from others and to protect them from you: CDC recommends that people wear masks in public settings, like on public and mass transportation, at events and gatherings, and anywhere they will be around other people. Note that the CDC does not k

Re: [RBW] Re: COVID face mask that lets you breathe and doesn't cause glasses to fog?

2020-11-24 Thread Sky Coulter
I haven’t found a simple mask that doesn’t fog my glasses to some degree or other. Closely pinching a wire frame along the top to the bridge of your nose wolill reduce the fog as long as u have the sides of the mask w a bit of a gap for the hot air to escape thru. I have to wear a half mask r

Re: [RBW] Re: COVID face mask that lets you breathe and doesn't cause glasses to fog?

2020-11-23 Thread Benz Ouyang, Sunnyvale, CA
I’m usually skeptic of simplified news reporting, especially in the presumed context of (rightly) trying to convince the general public that masks aren’t really an impediment to daily routine activities. Regardless, what exertion level did they measure the various oxygen levels at? If one is ju

Re: [RBW] Re: COVID face mask that lets you breathe and doesn't cause glasses to fog?

2020-11-23 Thread rltilley
I just saw a news report that had a study showing that masks don’t have any effect on your oxygen levels. That say they feel like they do but the numbers show you are still getting the same oxygen moving around your body as you would without a mask. I have a hard time wearing a mask while ridi