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Next-Level Protection: Anti-Covid Helmet Uses Space Technologies to Stop Virus in its Tracks

posted by Fnord666 on Monday August 03 2020, @05:51AM   
from the looking-like-a-martian dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:

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...

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• Re:there is this thing called doublethink Re:there is this thing called doublethink (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2020, @06:16PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 03 2020, @06:16PM (#1030828)

  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.

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• Re:there is this thing called doublethink (Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Thursday August 06 2020, @12:26PM

  by jmichaelhudsondotnet (8122) on Thursday August 06 2020, @12:26PM (#1032225) Journal

  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.

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