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  1. McFirst says:

    FIRST!!1!

  2. dissimilitude says:

    Hasn’t it already been established that this is a respirator fit test? *yawns*

    • DRH says:

      Wrong! It’s funny because… um….

      Nevermind. I got nuthin’.

    • Lucid says:

      Yes, yes it is. Or training for such an emergency.

      • Captain Wow the Ambassador of Awesome says:

        I live not five minutes from the Bluegrass Army Depot here in KY and they have these disaster kits they handed out for all the residents w/in 30 mile radius. Now in class they explain to use the execution of the kits and evacuation plan. My favorite teacher showed us the BS and said, “If that place blows up, basically you’re fvcked.”
        -
        PS it’s on the list of places mostly likely to be targeted in a terrorist attack. :-( I can has optimism?

        • Captain Wow the Ambassador of Awesome says:

          and by use I me us.
          *facepalm*

          • viking gal says:

            When I was a teen in NJ, a friend and I figured that we were 1/2 way between NYC and Washington, D.C., so we were in the maximum fallout zone, either way. We figured it was probably better to head right for the blast site, and get it over with!

            • Default User says:

              I’m screwed if they decide to attack here, I’m surrounded by bases, go two miles in almost any direction and you’ll find a base. My house may just be ground zero *Paints large red target on the roof just to be helpful*

        • ay dios mio says:

          I knows how that goes. I live 20 minutes from an old nuclear plant and 20 minutes from an arsenal. We were high on that list too.

          • I used to work at an Air Force base where they store nukes. 9/11 made things very interesting for us. It was always interesting when they were transporting them, the base would just about come to a stand still. I will say though, it would take quite a bit of work for any terrorist to even get close to the storage facility, plus they were kept inside the mountain.

    • Flip says:

      true dat.

    • ay dios mio says:

      THIS ONE’S BELGIAN!!!!!111!!!!!

    • foomanchu says:

      Umm, we’re on PK. It’s your comment equal to saying “Haven’t we determined the cat was actually jumping in the air, not riding an invisible bike?” on lolcats?

    • Yes. N95s don’t necessarily “work” unless you find a model that fits you correctly, which is why I find the boatloads of people stocking up on surgical masks amusing.

      On the other hand, when I see someone with a surgical mask PULL IT DOWN to sneeze or cough, then I just want to smack them.

  3. Skyfire says:

    Shouldn’t that be ‘affects’ not ‘effects’?

  4. Greg Skibo says:

    It’s actually mandatory TB mask fitting training, which is required by every hospital and most clinics in the US. You have to go through it every year. If the mask is fitted properly, when they spray this atomized sickly-sweet scent into the hood, you shouldn’t be able to detect it at all. Oh – and they make you sing “Happy Birthday” while you’re doing it, so that your jaws can move and maintain the seal. I know – I was among the first to test it, with 3M reps performing the procedure. Later I was certified as an instructor myself.

    • medman says:

      ya and when i was training we thought the sugar spray was not strong enough so i put a dab of it on my finger and dabbed it on my tongue… i regained my sense of taste about 3 days later and my eyes watered for a good 2 hours… dont mess with the sweet spray!

    • irisheagle says:

      ok im not entirely sure how this works, but im ASSUMINg, that by the picture, there is no air feed into those masks, and also im ASSUMING that a TB outbreak is something you’ll need to protect yourself from for more than a few minuites. so umm…. what happens when the air runs out?

    • Jen says:

      Someone showing a massive amount of logic in the comments? Wow! I also got to get fitted for one of these when I worked in the RT dept of our local hospital. Fun.

  5. subtitles says:

    getting fitted for a n-95 mask

  6. ~ says:

    Affects, not effects.

  7. Kn0wledge1ne says:

    BEHOLD! How the average American is reacting to the Swine Flu vaccine!

  8. Greg Skibo says:

    No, you don’t hallucinate, you cough until you puke, then the instructor blames the “bad fitting of the mask” on you, and you get to do it all over again. If you don’t comply, immediately, they’ll contact HR and have you written up. If you don’t make a follow-up visit, you can and will be terminated.

  9. Kelly says:

    when you work in health care you need to wear respirators. the respirators need to be fitted to you so there are no air leaks. they are fit testing the people in the picture. they put that hood over your head and spray a chemical into it. if you taste the chemical, there is a leak in your mask…if you don’t it fits properly

    • RunsWithScissors says:

      Definitely N-95 fit testing. We use spray saccharin when doing our fit tests and as someone above said, it’s mandatory for all direct caregivers.

  10. Jeri says:

    So if my respirator has a good ‘seal’ do I still have to crawl under my desk in case of emergency?

    If you get a leak in your mask TB then stands for “Too Bad”.

  11. Soooooooo…are they fit testing the masks?

  12. Jehosephat says:

    N95 mask fit-testing. Meh.

  13. slatfatf says:

    Don’t want to be a pedant but shouldn’t it be Affects rather than Effects?

  14. Ghostwish says:

    OMG PARANOIA FLU!!11!!11!!!

  15. IPv6Freely says:

    Grammar FAIL

  16. Endarkend5 says:

    I had the full fledged swine flu. Sadly, I died….
    But I somehow survived! Aren’t I lucky?

  17. Claire says:

    I had to do this when I started working at a hospital as a CNA. They’re getting fitted for tuberculosis masks. What they do is they put a mask on your face that they think should fit you, then they place the plastic helmet over your head. They then spray a fine sugar-water mist into the plastic helmet, and ask you to inhale deeply. If you can taste the sugar through the mask, then the mask isn’t tight enough and you need to be refitted, because if you can taste sugar, then TB molecules can get through as well.

  18. Richard says:

    N95 respirator fit test. The chemical they spray in the hood taste bad. REAL bad.

  19. Nate says:

    learning grammar before posting on the internet – priceless

    it would be affect not effect


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