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Facial Hairstyles and Filtering Facepiece Respirators [pdf]
- 6581 7y agoThat is a very convoluted way to show that your beard should not cross the seal. If you want to get the message across, diagrams like this are not very helpful. It leads to people checking for which part of it might apply to them without making them aware of the underlying reason for it.
- wheelerwj 7y agoat the same time it removes the need for critical thinking while giving the best and easiest option for a solution in the first square.
- dullroar 7y agoAND teaches you all the cool names for facial hair! :)
- artsyca 7y agoWayyyy too much research went into this but it is worth it in the end
- 6581 7y agoIt's only the best and easiest option as long as what you consider your beard style to be is actually aligning with what that diagram shows. When does a walrus moustache become a horseshoe? When does a villain moustache become a dali? That diagram tries to deliver its message by using ambiguous terms instead of fixating on the actual problem (which is to prevent your beard crossing the seal).
- mygo 7y agoI find “facial hair shouldn’t touch the seal” to be much easier to remember than “here are 45 different facial hair styles, some of them are good for respirators, some of them are bad.” the latter takes much more critical thinking for me than “if the seal is on facial hair then it isn’t sealed at all!” now off to clean-shave my stubble (but keep my soul patch)
- Seenso 7y ago> at the same time it removes the need for critical thinking while giving the best and easiest option for a solution in the first square. It also makes it a little fun so people might actually pay attention. Not everyone responds best to a concise abstract rule given in a Ben Stein voice.
- carb 7y agoNo, it's a viral way to show that your beard should not cross the seal. :) It's being shared a lot and raising awareness.
- true_religion 7y agoWhen you said it like that I assumed that stubble and chinstraps would be fine, since they aren't beards in my mind. However according to the chart, they will interfere with the mask. The chart is the best. It answers all questions, requires no reading, and also lets you figure out how to modify your facial hair to be "good".
- mattxxx 7y agoyea, "toothbrush" mustache.... :thinking_face:
- Mountain_Skies 7y agoCharlie Chaplin really upset people with his later productions.
- kps 7y agoI'll assume you haven't seen The Great Dictator.
- Mountain_Skies 7y agoI have but wanted to make the Chaplin joke anyway. Can't let Hitler get all of the association for that moustache style even if Chaplin did muddy the waters with The Great Dictator.
- neurobashing 7y agoIf you’ve ever wondered why the military has a [extremely Sgt Maj Sixta] grooming standard, this should enlighten. Gas masks don’t seal on beards.
- IvyMike 7y agoSupposedly that's why Hitler had his distinctive mustache.
- jshevek 7y agoI never heard this before, so I looked into it just now. There appears to be some dispute, since he allegedly had the closely cropped mustache before WW1, which was when he was allegedly ordered to crop it short for gas masks.
- m0zg 7y agoUS military allows Sikh men to keep their beards IIRC. I wonder what those men will do in the case of a chemical attack.
- samatman 7y agoThe Canadian Minister of Defense, also a Sikh, has a relevant patent: https://www.sikhnet.com/news/defense-minister-sajjan-patented-military-sikh-gas-mask https://www.sikhnet.com/news/defense-minister-sajjan-patente...
- remarkEon 7y agoLots of other militaries allow their soldiers to maintain groomed beards. The US is actually kind of an outlier in this regard. But, the military being the military, should they enter a theatre that has a significant likelihood of chemical attack I'm sure those grooming standards would change.
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- planxty 7y agoMullet? Check.
- a-nikolaev 7y agoBased on the title, I thought it is a new machine learning paper from China on removing facial hair and respirators/masks from photos.
- rayuela 7y agoGlad I'm not the only one who thought this. I guess it's really not that far from the realm of possibility these days. Why apply machine learning to finding a cure when you can develop a selfie filter that makes for better insta posts during a pandemic?
- mmanfrin 7y agoI wish someone would invent a respirator that worked with beards :/
- kps 7y ago3M's BE-10BR qualifies.
- totetsu 7y agoheh
- Mountain_Skies 7y agoI hear ya. My beard goes almost down to my navel. It'd be a shame if I had to shave it off. Guess I could go for a full hood biocontainment suit.
- totetsu 7y agoMaybe a PAPR?
- burfog 7y agoAttach a filter to a snorkel mouthpiece.
- justlexi93 7y agoSo it has a name that isn't the hotler mustache interesting
- gumby 7y agoThe original name was “toothbrush” and it was quite common into the 40s as a way of showing you were a WWInvereran of the trenches. Obviously one person in particular managed to drive it out of fashion
- anigbrowl 7y agoThis could usefully have been replaced with 'shave and let it grow back later.'
- greesil 7y agoCool product idea: Masks sold with depiliartory cream.
- portlander12345 7y agoI have a short full beard but seem to be able to form a seal. If I follow the directions for checking the seal — blocking the intake and breathing in, checking for the mask to collapse in, then blocking the outlet and checking for it to balloon out — it works. So do I have a seal or not?
- jay_kyburz 7y agoIf you want to live, lose the beard. If you are just wearing the mask for no real reason, who cares?
- portlander12345 7y agoIn case of a coronavirus outbreak I am definitely losing the beard if for some reason I have to leave the house. But I also use a respirator for semi-routine tasks like woodworking to minimize dust exposure.
- js2 7y agohttps://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2017/11/02/noshave/ https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2017/11/02/noshave/
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoThe "villian" is just a well developed handlebar. It's not like you can't tuck it in.
- eugenhotaj 7y agoMisleading -- you can just tuck in your fu manchu
- snapetom 7y agoI'm very impressed that the CDC knows the difference between a fu manchu and a horseshoe.
- reaperducer 7y agoClicked for the Poirot. Left disappointed.
- totetsu 7y agoLooks like this has been around a while. https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2017/11/02/noshave/ https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2017/11/02/noshave/
- dreamcompiler 7y agoEvery firefighter knows this. Which is why you never see firefighters with beards. (Or sometimes you do but we'll also be shaving on the way to the fire while the truck is bouncing down the road. Some lessons are learned the hard way.)
- AstralStorm 7y agoFacepiece respirators are trash anyway. You also need goggles.
- jhart99 7y agoThis is the truth. People really need to wear some sort of eye protection in addition to a face mask.