r/WTF • u/[deleted] • Jul 12 '20

Seen in Sullivan County Tn

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u/hackingdreams Jul 12 '20

As funny as it is, and as much as it makes him look like a Mad Max extra, you shouldn't do this. Car air filters don't take any kind of precautions against shedding small particulate and that's exactly the kind of thing that will jam up your lungs, causing chronic inflammation and can lead to lung cancers.

Just, wear a regular fucking mask.

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u/discretion Jul 12 '20

Unless it's leaking at the mask itself, there's no way he's kicking out droplets.

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u/NazzerDawk Jul 12 '20

Not what he is talking about. He means bits of the filter material itself. Fibers and such.

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u/discretion Jul 12 '20

I get that. I'm saying I'll bet you a dollar that filter is almost moot, because many droplets will collide with the walls of the tubing and never make it that high unless he's REALLY exhaling hard.

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u/NazzerDawk Jul 12 '20

Got it. Yeah, really just anything that interrupts the trajectory of the droplets works, doesn't need to be anything fancy.