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Next-level protection: Anti-Covid HELMET uses space technologies to stop virus in its tracks (VIDEO):
The futuristic headgear is intended for use by people who are most vulnerable and who "really live their daily lives with a lot of risk" of getting sick, aeronautical engineer, Andres Felipe Giraldo, told RT's Ruptly video agency.
Yet, according to the helmet's co-creator, Ricardo Andres Conde, it will also fit "anyone who wants to protect him or herself" from the disease, which has already infected around 296,000 and killed over 10,000 people in Colombia.
[...] The helmet consists of a plastic structure, an electrical fitting, filters and a battery to allow for circulation of clean, uncontaminated air inside. While it may look big and bulky, it weighs just 650 grams (22.9 oz) and allows the user to talk on the phone without any complications as the video proves.
I especially liked the part in the video where they are wearing masks while assembling the helmets. Unfortunately the masks have exhaust valves...
(Score: 1) by Guppy on Monday August 03 2020, @06:30AM (3 children)
Looks like it's basically a PAPR for civilian use. There's various form-factors available, with half-mask, full facial mask, and hood/helmet types. Most have the motor and filter on a separate unit with a hose connection, but some come with an integrated blower and and filter on the headpiece.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered_air-purifying_respirator [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by Username on Monday August 03 2020, @06:51AM (1 child)
I have three 3M Versaflo M-407, with various supply attachments. It makes me look like a badass midevil executioner when i wear it with a dark leather apron.
(Score: 2) by TrentDavey on Monday August 03 2020, @07:17PM
Like halfway between mortal and devil "question mark".
(Score: 1, Troll) by driverless on Monday August 03 2020, @10:15AM
And the best thing is that if you line it with tinfoil it also protects you from the mind control rays!
(Score: 3, Funny) by Username on Monday August 03 2020, @06:48AM (2 children)
When you wear this you need to yell, "To infinity…and beyond!"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2020, @11:35AM
I sensing a market here for SpaceX. Their space suit is so much more stylish.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday August 03 2020, @11:36AM
Here's the better suit:
This hazmat-inspired suit lets you dance, drink, and even vape while staying safe from the coronavirus at concerts and clubs [businessinsider.com]
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(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2020, @07:25AM (7 children)
Wearing a mask (no exhaust valve, you idiots!): "I may be asymptomatic, so just in case I wear this to protect all of you. And slow down the spread of the pandemic."
Wearing this contraption: "I am really, really scared that I will catch this and die, so I am isolating myself from all of you, so you can fuck off and die."
Do we really think that this will get the sociopaths to start to wear something to slow down spread, by appealing to their selfish egoism and egoistic paranoia? What ever works. We can execute them all later.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2020, @07:40AM (3 children)
If you can't catch it because of a spacesuit, you can't spread it. If you really cared about protecting others, you would wear a spacesuit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2020, @07:53AM (2 children)
Unless, you are asymptomatic, in your space suit, and you can't get out, and you are re-infecting yourself! Building up such a huge mass of viral load, that eventually you and your suit explode, spreading the virus to a range not normally possible. And they say viruses are too stupid to think, and come up with propagation strategies that take advantage of paranoic conservatives, and Brazilians.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2020, @09:01AM
Stop spreading your coronavirus and get in the fucking spacesuit, ari.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2020, @01:14PM
"re-infecting yourself! Building up such a huge mass of viral load, that eventually you and your suit explode"
At which point you will be spaced out.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Username on Monday August 03 2020, @08:04AM (2 children)
It's far more selfish to demand that society protect your health for you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2020, @07:14PM (1 child)
remember comrades, you're an elitist/racist/something "terrible" if you don't get the dna modifying "vaccine"!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2020, @08:40PM
DNA-modifying? So . . . a vaccine doesn't even exist yet, and already Breitbart, OANN, and whatever other bullshit sites you read or listen to are pushing propaganda about it? And you, as usual, are fucked up enough to believe them?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2020, @08:04AM
FY!, "nutherguy" is a sockpuppet of the beloved old coot, Runaway1956. Treat the submissions accordingly.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by SpockLogic on Monday August 03 2020, @01:09PM (2 children)
"Ruptly GmbH is an international video news agency specializing in video on demand, based in Berlin, Germany. It is a division of the RT (formerly Russia Today) news network. Ruptly says that it is editorially and commercially independent, but its sole shareholder is ANO "TV-Novosti", a Russian government-funded non-profit organisation which also controls RT
Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2020, @02:06PM (1 child)
I'd also note that exactly *zero* other news outlets have picked up this story, at least based on a cursory web search.
Which makes it obvious that those news agencies hate America and Americans and want to kill us all. Otherwise, this would be on the fron page (web or print) of every single American news outlet. But no, they hate us and want us to die.
The only folks who care about America, Americans and our democracy are the wonderful Russians. Hooray for Russia's free press! Hooray for Vladimir Putin! He will save our wonderful America!
USA! USA! USA!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2020, @05:42PM
Yes! The bear cavalry will save us from COVID, homosexuality, and women who think their husbands shouldn't beat them!
(Score: 1, Troll) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday August 03 2020, @03:59PM (2 children)
Me last year: maybe you shouldnt trust hardware and software made by companies that are owned by the cia or other countries that constantly run spy operations on civilians, this entire cloud and systemd and "smartphone" craze seems iffy to me, what do you think?
Everyone last year: STFU TAKE YOUR MEDS YOU NUT CASE NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU THINK, YOU PARANOID DELUSIONAL FREAK
Everyone this year: GET YOUR FULL ENCLOSURE HEADGEAR THERE IS A VIRUS EVERYWHERE THAT HAS EVERY SYMPTOM IMAGINABLE HIDE UNDER A ROCK OMFG GTFO WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO
Me: prepared for death or whatever, believes nothing, reads everything and waits for more evidence, not surprised one bit, nothing to fear, laughs, makes witty commentary on obvious doublethink and mass mania, sips tea while rolling eyes
Orwell: told you this was going to happen, enjoy your cages and other punishments coming for your lack of foresight and utter naivete
Surprise, surprise:
thesesystemsarefailing.net
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2020, @06:16PM (1 child)
The whole thing seems a bit hysterical, granted. Instead of using early contact tracing and testing to get out in front of it and contain it, we get yet another media FUD narrative. Our institutions have failed us, so be afraid! Everybody for themselves! It's such an American way of doing things, too. It's too bad that we couldn't have taken direction from South Korea.
The media of course wants your eyeballs. So a public health issue gets scooped up by the media and turned into a big political issue. In the process, most of the credibility gets sucked out of the issue by the media's lack of credibility. Don't pretend that Faux News isn't part of the media. The narrative is under control from both ends. The RNC's goal of killing off undesirables is being accomplished, and the political goals of the sources that take direction from the DNC may or may not be accomplished.
Only massive working class action can get us public health systems capable of handling things like COVID. They're just nature doing its thing, and they're going to keep happening.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Thursday August 06 2020, @12:26PM
We are the media now.
It is more than a bit hysterical, may be the most hysteria at one time in the history of the world.
To me it seems like the new tower of babel falling, no one can agree on anything and everyone is running away from each other.
I do not at all think this is an accident.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2020, @04:38PM (1 child)
"Gotta keep civilization going as long as possible. By the time they figure it out, who cares?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2020, @05:53PM
I'm not afraid of a world government. The only ones afraid of a world government are the ones that don't want the messiah's return.