I have a physical disability that makes a lot of things hard to do. I can't really have hobbies or a job if my brain declines. That's one of the biggest reasons I still care about covid prevention. That and death (immunocompromised).

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Caught COVID last December working my retail job. I mask up but a lot of customers do not. For the holiday rush, I was transferred to a smaller location with short ceilings and no ventilation.

I took my two weeks off but unfortunately passed on the COVID to my medically fragile 15- month baby daughter.

Even with my wife isolating me in our one-bedroom apartment while my two ladies slept in the living room. They had to.stay in the hospital for a few days including Christmas 😔

Since then, my sense of smell has decreased significantly. And I remain the only one of my several retail co-workers that continues to mask. I live in a left-leaning city, which means 1 in every 5 or 6 customers does mask.

My work provides the basic hosputal-like mask but I need.to research something with more protection but that is still comfortable to wear for an 8, 10, even 12 hour shift.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wow, I'm so sorry you had to go through that scare with your daughter and didn't walk away unscathed yourself either. meow-hug

I'm trying to think of a good mask resource. I haven't really looked into him myself, but there's this guy that talks a shit ton about different masks and respirators and tests them to see how protective they are: https://twitter.com/masknerd?lang=en

He has a whole ass spreadsheet about it too lol: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M0mdNLpTWEGcluK6hh5LjjcFixwmOG853Ff45d3O-L0/htmlview?usp=drive_web&ouid=108355114845682180386&pru=AAABfniWips*ZW4K5ipiMBIUEgzyHDB1eA

I think I saw it posted on this site once before.