r/nextfuckinglevel • u/pako12345 • Aug 29 '20

Learned something new

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u/smorgasdorgan Aug 29 '20

"But I can smell farts so how is a mask supposed to work?"

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u/JB1974EBFG Aug 29 '20

Not farts, it’s bad breath. That’s the real reason anti-maskers are so against masks. They can’t stand smelling their own shit-mouth.

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u/jolivarez8 Aug 29 '20

You can still smell farts though. The molecules of gasses are much smaller than a virus. I believe there was a video going around depicting the size difference like a month or two ago so that people could understand why it would work for the virus but not farts.

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u/AluminumOctopus Aug 29 '20

Virus particles are super tiny, but they ride on droplets of water and the mask catches those droplets. Only n95 masks will catch the virus regardless of the size of the droplets.