Just saw it at Bunnings Chadstone on clearance. Whole crate full of KN95 masks 5 for $2
Disposable
Comfortable elastic ear loops & adjustable nose piece
Tested to GB 2626-2006 KN95
Five layer filtration
Dust protection
KN95 disposable respirator filtration provides daily protection against dust, air pollution, substances and particles. For single use only.
Beat me to it
My first achievement of 2022. HNY!
Haha HNY
Tried buying them online and send an SMS saying the masks are out of stock and refunded me. Try buying in-store if you can!
Dumb question, is KN95 similiar to P2 or N95?
Yes, think similar to both . Just different standards.
Oh okay. Thank you.
In anycase, they should be much better than surgical or fabric masks.
Yes. https://www.rollingstone.com/product-recommendations/lifesty…
The main difference lies in how the masks are certified. “In general,” says Sean Kelly, founder of New Jersey-based PPE of America, “N95 is the U.S. standard, and the KN95 is the China standard.” Because of this, only N95 masks are approved for health-care use in the United States, even though KN95 masks have many of the same protective properties.
They should be similar however
it should be noted that the KN95 is a self-reported test standard, and lacks strict government regulation by China, resulting in many underperforming and often flat-out fake masks
https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/27/best-masks…
Always this price ive been buying them for months .
Yeah, though TBF they were previously weren't on the website to be able to check stock and order online (just going off the comments).
This has been $2 for 5 forever (at least 12 months or more)
You can buy individual ones for 40c each if you don't want to commit.
All of the Bunnings I've been to sell them
Are they individually packed?
Yes
No. 1 pack of 5
SMH is such a fitting acronym for the Sydney Morning Herald lol
I would wear a mask if you don't mind
And don't wany to miss work or infect other people.
you can’t turn back time to undo the jab
Just dropped in to say Hi.
Also the holes in the mask is 2000 micrometers wide while the virus is 1 micrometer wide bahahahaha
You're wrong on both the size of the holes and the virus. Good to see you've stopped repeating this. You must have read some of the comments that point out you're saying the holes are 2mm, obviously false if you take a few seconds to think on it :)
@3sky: Well out of 130 odd only 2 sheep did fact check this lol and I wish you fact check the msm, oh wait you can’t cos the media is also the fact checker bahahahah
@sammyla: Why do you expect other people to fact check for you?
You made a statement that is obviously wrong. And when someone points it out, your response is there's so many that didn't point it out? Is that how you behave in the real world?
@3sky: Not at all but that’s how you accept things the media and politicians tell you. Bottom line mask does (profanity) all . We have lived for centuries without (profanity) masks man. Amazing how you never question the narrative, no pharmaceutical company or politician or big corporation one loves you or care about you. I hope one day you will realise it.
@sammyla: Perhaps question the narrative that you yourself cling to. Consider the many lives in the past that were lost for not having masks.
@3sky: Oh man let’s just stop, when your freedoms : are being taken away gradually one day you have none you’ll go “what the (profanity) but I help built this system why me” bingo!! Too late then friend! One thing I know for sure is that I have been right most of my life so I have faith in myself. Good day to you sir.
@sammyla: Yes, you've made your points. I have nothing positive to add to your opinions. But, if you have a spare 8-10 hours today I hope you use it on some quality sleep.
@3sky: Urm that’s quite impossible got two kids my younger son is just 8 months. Of course you don’t have to agree with me it’s a free country mate( at least for now), I’m usually right so let’s see eh? See you after 2030. Good day to you again, smile a bit lol
Hi Everybody! Dr Nick is a joke.
He puts politics before people and his mate is Christian Porter…
Opinion piece by former Deputy Chief Medical Officer, who said covid19 wasn't airborne; didn't need masks; and predictions of 25k cases in NSW by end of January was "alarmist". What a clown
Thanks OP, time to start stocking up ready to scalp them at the start of the next pandemic.
Lol yes let’s just focus on climate change now
Also 10 pack for $4 and in stock at more places:
https://www.bunnings.com.au/kn95-disposable-respirator-10-pa…
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These are great, very fitting and the mask doesnt touch your lips.
correct me if i am wrong but you dont wear the mask to protect you directly from the virus , you wear it to protect you from the large droplets from people breathing.
and mostly to protect other people from your droplets
Surgical masks are more to stop your droplets spreading through the air (because in a surgical setting that's what the concern is)
The sort of masks in this deal are for both yours and others.
2000 micrometers
That's 2 millimetres which is much larger than what the holes on the mask are.
Prehaps stop spreading junk information without educating yourself first
Didn't some Moran NSW Premier say masks were not mandatory indoors there for a period .
He achieved no confidence for people going out as of now with what he has created .
Masks were mandatory indoors from 24/12/21 onwards
You don't get it it was too late.
going out as of now with what he has created
enjoy your stroke
There's "Morans" everywhere.
One is my accountant, good guy!
Saves me heaps every year.
but it is not for Medical purpose.
Just dust right?
yes, I read that it doesn't mention viruses, so…..KN95 is the Chinese certification
KN95 is the Chinese standard and they should be similar.
KN95, P2, N95 etc all aim to filter 95% of particulates and are generally interchangeable offering the same protection
However
it should be noted that the KN95 is a self-reported test standard, and lacks strict government regulation by China, resulting in many underperforming and often flat-out fake masks
https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/27/best-masks…
Good deal if you don’t like dust… in this case the K stands for knock-off, as in Knock-off N95s
KN95 is not a knockoff.
N95 is the American standard
KN95 is the Chinese standard
Knock off standard.
That doesn't make the standard garbage.
The people who claim their sub standard product meets the standard are garbage
good for filtering virus and pollen????
No holes in these are like 2000 micrometers so it’s 2000 times bigger than the virus
Yes, they will filter out aerosol sized particles that people exhale that could contain Covid… And yes for pollen as well. They do a better job than cloth masks a lot of people wear now.
Worth trying KF94 masks. I find them to be much more comfortable than these kn95 or n95.
We need more deals on designer masks. I think Apple might have missed an opportunity — they have the Apple Polishing Cloth, so why not the Apple Filtering Mask? They could put a subtle Apple logo on it… maybe a spot for a personal political slogan… or maybe the default “If you have a Mac, you’ll never get a virus”
Apple do make some masks for their employees, it's nifty design too
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/28/apple-engineers-designed-pro…
KF95 is a standard and has nothing to do with how a mask fits.
Even on the same standard one brand will offer your face better protection than mine.
That's why fit testing is recommended in the Australian Standards (AS/NZ 1715:2009) so you know what brand and size fits you best.
Perhaps that's true. If you take a look online, you can see 95% of KF94 masks are designed in a very specific way which makes them sit further away from your face. I had assumed it was a part of the Korean standard but perhaps that's just how they all happen to make them.
Either way, whether it's the standard or just western vs Korean design, I suggest trying a mask labelled kf94 to see if people like the fit better.
King of Fighters 94 was a good game. Brings back memories. Which was ya fav character?
Gotta be Kyo?
These have been 50c or $1 (can't remember) at my local Bunnings for a while now. These started as individually packed and then changed to all five packed in one bag. They also don't fit quite as well as the earlier model.
Bought at least 50 of these and used them for a while, but have moved onto better quality and fit masks (for much higher cost) due to genuine risk factor.
Ready your respirator — this thing will be endemic for the remainder of existence
Endemic means the end of the pandemic right?
That's good news!
1pk or 5pk ? 50c ?
There is still a bit of store variability. There's this Wellcare one, which I think is the same as the Craftright branded one. At another store I got a box of "Sojo" ones which are slightly larger but they feel slightly more papery rigid too so they don't conform as well (they kinda soften after a few uses lol). This was before any were on the website again.
I've seen some people at the shops wear what is probably yet another variation of it.
Bought both. Wellcare are not the same as Craftright. Completely different manufacturers.
What's the point? We're all going to get it at some point according to the pollies. Might as well be now.
We're all going to die at some point to according to history and generic. Might as well be now.
I'll ready the nukes
By that logic… might as well die from a blood clot now than roll a dice? And nukes are so 1980s…
Pretty sure lower viral load is correlated to a less severe infection.
i think lower viral load .. correlate to less chance of infection break through
The evidence suggests an association of viral dose with the severity of the disease. However, the evidence of the relationship is limited by the poor quality of many of the studies, the retrospective nature of the studies, small sample sizes and the potential problem with selection bias.
.https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/sars-cov-2-viral-load-and-the-severity-of-covid-19/
It has a high re-infection rate. How many times do you want it? Also, you don't want to be one of the unlucky bastards developing long covid, it's nasty and put people out of action for over a year.
Note that these are primarily for dust and lack the waterproof outer layer (the blue outer layer) on surgical masks and may not provide droplets protection.
So only a blue layer is waterproof and can provide droplet protection?
These are a different brand to the KN95s that Bunnings were previously stocking, but worth noting that the previous ones were counterfeit/not up to standard: https://mobile.twitter.com/doctorkarl/status/126650705332278…
So how do we know if the current ones are up to scratch?
Plenty at Hoppers Crossing if anyone out West Melb is looking for some.
Can you explain?
I don't know what you took last night but it's good stuff!
@gonan: Hmm I know what you took , a vaccine booster lol yo got chills from it? You love the chills don’t you lol
Anti mask is still a thing? It's not 2020 anymore. You know the effectiveness of masks has been scientifically proven over and over again. And again just for good measure.
@tharlow: here you go a paper from you guessed it…2020, when all the anti mask junk was proven wrong.
https://msphere.asm.org/content/msph/5/5/e00637-20.full.pdf
@stanard: Quote from your source:
These results indicate that it is difficult to completely block this virus even with a properly fitted N95 mask.
Nothing is proven — quite the opposite
@tharlow: So you're just ignoring the rest of the paper?
Our airborne simulation experiments showed that cotton masks, surgical masks, and
N95 masks had a protective effect with respect to the transmission of infective
droplets/aerosols and that the protective efficiency was higher when masks were worn
by the virus spreader
No one has ever claimed that masks are 100% effective. I know it's a hackneyed comparison but you can still be injured or die in a car crash when wearing a seatbelt. Are seatbelts just a method for reducing stress too?
@stanard: Bad analogy. It only takes one viral particle to infect… a seat belt is probably not going to save your life if you slowly drive over a speed bump
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