High-speed visualizations of air flow from home-made masks.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

NIST: The high-speed visualizations illustrating a flow of air when breathing and coughing using home-made face coverings.

Cover smart. Do your part. Slow the spread.

KY

[SheltieLover]

1. Thank yoy, KY!

[marble falls]

2. Good stuff. We need to do each other a solid, we all should be wearing masks.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Don't leave home without it...

[paleotn]

25. And if you do leave home without it....

turn around and go get it. Had to do that a couple times before it became as automatic as bringing my wallet.

[Wounded Bear]

27. Been there, done that...

I like to take it off when outside walking with no one around, but I have the mask in my hand for when I go in a store or come up on somebody.

I've walked out a time or two without one, but as soon as I remember I turn around and go get it.

[sheshe2]

3. Thank you.

I don't go out without one.

[wnylib]

5. And I steer clear of anybody without one.

[marble falls]

7. Funny how that works! I'll stay even farther from those in masks with their noses hanging out.

[wnylib]

10. That too. Wonder why they bother

with a mask at all.

[marble falls]

11. The video looked to me like their 'plume' spread out further than no mask! They're only ...

wearing one under duress!

[Demobrat]

20. I live on a very steep hill and walk everywhere

I will pull my mask below my nose sometimes when I am walking up hauling heavy grocery bags. The mask makes it very hard to breathe if I am already winded. Of course I pull it up if people are around.

I have actually been yelled at to pull it up - by people wearing no mask at all.

Uh, okay.

[colorado_ufo]

12. Not only that, but they are breathing in everything that has settled on the OUTSIDE of the mask!

[marble falls]

18. And the nose is a more hospitible place to land than in the mouth. It drives me crazy.

[Grokenstein]

22. My favorites: the facelift crowd.

You know, the ones who indignantly point to the mask strapped tightly under their chin and bellow "I am wearing one!"

[marble falls]

23. Just saw that one today!!!!

[sheshe2]

8. Lucky here in MA.

We all where one, wnylib.

Stay safe.

[wnylib]

14. Here in NY, most people do wear one.

Management of public places are authorized to refuse access to people not wearing a mask. But some places are lax about enforcing the mask rule. Sometimes I encounter an employee on their way to a break who has pulled off the mask.

I live in an apartment building. Most of the residents do not bother with masks when outside their apts. Twice I have had people get angry when I refused to let them in the elevator with me. I motioned them to wait and then quickly pushed the "close door" button and moved on.

[marieo1]

6. Small Price

I don't go anywhere without a mask on - it's a small price to pay for everyone's safety, my own and others, plus I social distance. Thanks, sheshe2

[sheshe2]

9. Brothers and sisters protect one another.

[relayerbob]

13. Thanks! Excellent video

[rurallib]

15. may want to steal this

[KY_EnviroGuy]

17. Please do and spread it around.

I originally found it here: https://www.youtube.com/user/usnistgov

Lots of interesting videos there.

KY

[I_UndergroundPanther]

16. I wear a mask and a face shield

Keeps me from touching my mask and face

[mjvpi]

19. This mask thing makes me wild

The ones that wear them are protecting the willfully ignorant that don’t. I’m a mask wearing godless heathen, but wearing a mask seems to be the Christ like thing to do.

[oldsoftie]

21. And will be ignored by the "i have a right not to wear one" folks.

I still havent figured out what rights you lose by wearing one

[appalachiablue]

24. Great post on Masks, esp. Plumes & Volcanoes! Thanks.

[dalton99a]

26. Kick