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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 14 2020, @04:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the riveting-drama dept.

Original 'Rosie the Riveter' makes masks to fight COVID-19:

At age 94, Mae Krier is back on the front lines — hard at work, helping her country.

One of the nation's original "Rosie the Riveters" employed by Boeing in Seattle during World War II, she built B-17 and B-29 bombers to help support the war effort decades ago.

Now she's fighting a different war, as her still nimble fingers turn out face masks to prevent spread of the deadly coronavirus.

"People say to me, "You helped win WWII and now you are helping our country win this battle over this virus. These are nice things to hear," Krier said.

She makes the mask like the red polka dot bandanas she also makes to remind people of the Rosies, those women who toiled in manufacturing plants with their heads wrapped in bandanas so their hair wouldn't get tangled in the machinery they used to make supplies for the military serving overseas.

They were depicted by a World War II era poster of "Rosie the Riveter" created by J. Howard Miller in 1943.


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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by VLM on Tuesday July 14 2020, @05:33PM (3 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 14 2020, @05:33PM (#1021367)

    There is no hard science

    OSHA would beg to differ.

    https://www.osha.gov/Publications/laboratory/OSHA3404laboratory-safety-guidance.pdf [osha.gov]

    If you want to work with COVID your employer will require gloves, surgical cap hoods, booties, gowns, face protection shields, eyepro, a bunch of other stuff.

    Basically if you aren't dressed like an HIV biochem researcher, you're merely virtue signalling by wearing a mask.

    Could you even imagine an employer in 2020 requiring lead paint removal or mercury abatement or asbestos removal providing the advice "just wear a bandanna around your pie hole" ? All those activities are less risky than COVID.

    Masks are the filtered cigarette of 2020. Nothing but false hope. Minimize your risk and take risks wisely, but don't think fake magic will prevent a real disease.

    Another excellent analogy would be pretending a bandanna prevents COVID is about as stupid as the Army trying to change the women's utility uniform to a literal DnD style chainmail bikini. Sure, young athletic women in chainmail bikinis would look impressive, and would probably wildly improve the male soldier's morale, but can anyone actually be gullible enough to think a chainmail bikini is as effective armor as wearing an IOTV with (full) plate carrier?

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2020, @05:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2020, @05:50PM (#1021376)

    "Virtue signalling by wearing a mask"

    Wow, you really are dumb. I know it isn't ignorance, the reasons for wearing masks have been widely discussed on SN. That means you are guzzling Fox News propaganda, or worse, Facebook groups!!!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2020, @06:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2020, @06:42PM (#1021411)

    [...] Masks are the filtered cigarette of 2020. Nothing but false hope. [...]

    Being a smoker, I just cut the filter off.

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2020, @06:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2020, @06:57PM (#1021420)

    I think it's very justified to expect that employers should do far more than just require masks. And I'd agree that employers aren't doing nearly enough to protect people. No problem there, masks are only one part of the solution. I see no problem with expecting other measures to be taken like physical distancing, temperature screenings, and having employees work remotely whenever possible. Improving ventilation in buildings would also be helpful.

    However, your comment that masks alone are virtue signaling amounts to weapons grade stupidity. The primary sources of viral particles that infect others are the nose and mouth. Masks don't filter out all viral particles, but will certainly catch some of them. This means fewer viral particles make it into the air, resulting in lower airborne concentrations of the virus. This matters because reducing the viral load can prevent people from being infected or quite possibly reduce the severity of infections.