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I think it just varies, but I'm with you. It might be because I also wear glasses, do you? I feel like the ear loops press my glasses harder into my ears, preve

I think it just varies, but I'm with you. It might be because I also wear glasses, do you? I feel like the ear loops press my glasses harder into my ears, preventing longer term wear (they're great for a half hour, not so good for six hours straight). I mostly use behind the head but foldable ones now, the ones to TC-84A-9315 spec (H95W) are pretty good for me but my nose is a bit too pointy to fit right at the nose. They seem to work really really well for people with slightly flatter features, the little nose metal form doesn't quite hold well enough.

bee_rider 5y ago
No glasses for me. Interestingly, my SO who wears glasses prefers some random behind the ear looped kn-95s. No accounting for comfort I guess.
- neltnerb 4y ago
  In all honesty, I've yet to find a flexible N-95 of any kind that doesn't seem to leak like a sieve around the nose. If someone is cool with that wearing it fairly loose is pretty comfortable... this is how I almost always see people wearing them, they're obviously not sealed at the upper edge. I imagine it still helps some, but I'm very attentive to leaks at the top because glasses. If you wear it loose enough the gaps at the top are so big it doesn't fog your glasses anymore, I go the opposite direction and fiddle with it all day long trying to get the nose piece rigid enough to stop the leak. I'm not sure which approach is more risky... touching your mask is a nono too. I guess a good mask with leaks is better than a surgical mask maybe, dunno if it's better than a rigid mask with an exhalation port TBH though, at least if you're not exhaling strongly there are no leaks and it's good for personal protection -- and since we've as a country decided it's everyone for themselves I feel pretty okay wearing a vented rigid N95 in an environment with a bunch of unmasked people.

bee_rider 5y ago

No glasses for me. Interestingly, my SO who wears glasses prefers some random behind the ear looped kn-95s. No accounting for comfort I guess.

neltnerb 4y ago
In all honesty, I've yet to find a flexible N-95 of any kind that doesn't seem to leak like a sieve around the nose. If someone is cool with that wearing it fairly loose is pretty comfortable... this is how I almost always see people wearing them, they're obviously not sealed at the upper edge. I imagine it still helps some, but I'm very attentive to leaks at the top because glasses. If you wear it loose enough the gaps at the top are so big it doesn't fog your glasses anymore, I go the opposite direction and fiddle with it all day long trying to get the nose piece rigid enough to stop the leak. I'm not sure which approach is more risky... touching your mask is a nono too. I guess a good mask with leaks is better than a surgical mask maybe, dunno if it's better than a rigid mask with an exhalation port TBH though, at least if you're not exhaling strongly there are no leaks and it's good for personal protection -- and since we've as a country decided it's everyone for themselves I feel pretty okay wearing a vented rigid N95 in an environment with a bunch of unmasked people.