What Makes a Face Mask More or Less Effective?
GEAR:30
BLISTER
4.9 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Not all bikes or skis are equally good at all things — and the same goes for protective face masks. So we talked with Alex Lauver and Kat Schoewe of Outdoor Research about what type of masks are the most and least effective; how Outdoor Research’s work on medical-grade PPE has influenced their commercially available Essential Face Mask; we make some predictions about the upcoming ski season; and more.
TOPICS & TIMES
- Alex & Kat’s backgrounds (3:34)
- History of Outdoor Research (6:41)
- Current state of PPE? (10:06)
- Differences in protective coverings (11:50)
- When to wear masks? (35:36)
- The future of masks(41:34)
- Predictions on this coming ski season (50:59)
- What We’re Celebrating This Week (56:37)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:10.9 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over |
| 0:16.2 | at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:30.1 | So today on the show we are talking about face masks and we are going to kind of dive into the details on face masks and protective coverings and the rest and try to just get an up-to-date and informed sort of |
| 0:39.4 | state of the union of where we are with all this face mask stuff. |
| 0:45.5 | So to that end, we have with us today from the company Outdoor Research, Alex Lover and Kat |
| 0:52.6 | Shaywe. And the reason that we are talking with Alex and Kat about this |
| 0:57.2 | topic is because outdoor research has been doing a lot of very serious work in the personal |
| 1:04.6 | protective equipment space. And that has translated over to what they are doing in terms of face masks and protective coverings on the commercial side of things. |
| 1:16.4 | And so Alex and Kat do a terrific job of kind of walking through that whole space and how this is all working at outdoor research. |
| 1:24.6 | And they also provide, I think, a pretty helpful overview on outdoor research |
| 1:30.6 | in general about the origins and history of the company and what the company looks like today. |
| 1:36.8 | And I suspect that there are quite a few of us who aren't actually all that familiar |
| 1:41.5 | with the origins of outdoor research and sort of what the |
| 1:45.3 | company looks like today. |
| 1:48.3 | So I should also say here, we recorded this conversation with Kat and Alex on Friday, August |
| 1:55.5 | 21st. |
| 1:56.6 | And I just want to point that out because certainly it is the case that standards and the emerging science and all the rest, as you all certainly know by now, well, these things are emerging and changing. |
| 2:11.2 | And so I think it's right that you know that this conversation was the 21st of August. |
| 2:19.9 | And honestly, at this point, who the hell knows what kind of standards or scientific discoveries we're going to learn |
| 2:26.0 | going forward? So that is what we have on tap. We are talking about masks. And honestly, |
| 2:33.4 | I think anybody who sits around listening to this conversation |
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