FYI; N95 masks, driver passes out, has accident

[Jersey mike]

https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/04/driver-wearing-n95-mask-for-several-hours-passes-out-crashes-into-pole-police-say.html

https://www.nj.com/morris/2020/04/can-you-pass-out-from-wearing-a-mask-for-too-long.html

This is probably a case of underlying conditions but I’m just passing along some FYI info, I’m NOT looking for debate or stir the pot.

Happy Sunday, be safe out there in TV land.

[0leman]

Not sure about others here, but why are was the driver wearing the mask while driving.  Was there strangers in the vehicle??   

I don't wear mine when driving?  Do you?

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[Dave Ritsema]

Not sure about others here, but why are was the driver wearing the mask while driving.  Was there strangers in the vehicle??   

I don't wear mine when driving?  Do you?

I have noticed many drivers that are by themselves in their vehicles wearing masks and thought "What the heck are they afraid of in their own car?" I have made a consistent effort to not get sucked in the non stop news about the virus and the mass hysteria it is creating. Yes its real, yes we need to make common sense decisions on protecting ourselves. I get it, and I don't need to hear the same recycled crap over and over. I rarely take anything seriously I see in the media any more, there is so much false narrative and just shoddy reporting.

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Wearing the mask in a car so they don't have to touch it between stops?

Or they have the plague and don't want to contaminate the car interior?

[Jess from VA]

I've seen the masks in cars too.  ?

About a quarter of the walkers in my neighborhood are wearing masks, but most of them have it pulled down below their nose.  Maybe the idea is to pull it up if someone gets too close... but I'd just walk away before someone got too close.  I spent all afternoon yesterday, mowing and blowing and edging my front yard (busy corner lot), and the walkers moved to the other side of the street.

As a glasses wearer I know, pulled up properly the damn things fog your glasses.

I have not been out much (three grocery runs), and have not yet worn a mask.  But my next grocery run I will.  With good procedure (distance and touching), I'm not too worried about it, but it seems the mask is more about not polluting others than not getting polluted.  And not wearing one makes people afraid of (or angry at) you.  So it's more of a polite thing, than a protection thing.  I know for certain that I'm not polluted, but no one else knows that.  

[Willow]

Not sure about others here, but why are was the driver wearing the mask while driving.  Was there strangers in the vehicle??   

He was obviously protecting himself from his own breath.