Thanks Corsaire and Crowbar for helping me sort through the face mask issue. Somehow I don’t feel preparing for an air-borne disease/worldwide pandemic is all that much of a stretch to believe it could happen more quickly than we can even imagine. So, I’m going to keep this matter right at the top of my prepping to-do list.
Thanks for your comment Crowbar as It seems from reading your posts for many months now, you are well informed so I pay attention to what you say. Also, thanks Corsaire for giving me a specific unit to look at. The more i research it seems the N100 mask may be the best for air-borne bad things although these do get a bit pricier than the N95.
I’ll soon be 81 years old with a long and interesting life behind me, so protecting my life is secondary to those of my children and grandchildren; but if I could perhaps gift all my immediate family with one of these things, praying that they will never need to use them, I think my concern can be alleviated somewhat. Who cares if we have tons of food, toilet paper, ammo and/or “fill in the blank” stored up, if the life threatening possibility of an uncontrollable pandemic covers our little planet? Okay, I’m just thinking out loud here but maybe we should take these threats more seriously. Who would have thought/dreamed/ever conceived that 19 crazy men would have successfully carried out their 9/11 diabolical plan? But they did. Just sayin’.
So grateful for all you who post and share your lives with us….I read them all….Some of my big news: Hannah, the recent graduate from Univ of MO, has landed a full time job she’s excited about!!! Yeah.