Anyone have updated recommendations for a kids’ KN95 mask? I might try one or two places from here, but I’m not wild about spending >$2/mask on single-use masks.
Welp, looks like I’m about to order more masks. Thought I was done with that shit a few months ago.
Cloth, though. Not asking my kids to wear N95’s and shit in school. Fortunately, the prices are still really good for the ones we like.
Links for comfortable kn95 masks?
These are the ones I ordered this morning:
- A KF94 on Amazon (Apparently KF94 are more or less the same as KN95, just made in Korea rather than China)
- A KN95 from Vida
- A KN95 from Green Supply
I hope to get them by the end of next week, and will update the thread if I remember. (Spoiler: I won’t remember.)
I’ll bug you for an update if I don’t see you post one.
Really don’t want to go back to wearing my RZ mask.
You’re much better off ordering the disposable paper/surgical masks then cloth. They are much more breathable then cloth for the kids, and they’re more effective then cloth. The kid sizes (if you need that) have come down quite a bit on amazon.
Edit: this is what I normally get (although lol, prices going up again, I wonder why):
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08FXLVHTY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
You know, I’ve got a lot of anger/resentment built up over the past 18 months and I feel like, if I ran into a group of people coming at me for wearing a mask during a pandemic, I might do something I would later regret.
One thing that China does correctly is put these people in labor camps.
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I’d call this mostly a failure. The first pack of KF94 were terrible based on their shape. It’s hard to describe, but you kind of had to unfold the top and bottom to get into mask position, and after you did that it didn’t feel very face-shaped.
Of the remaining two, I think both felt like they were good shape/structure. And both were appropriately sized for my 11 year old kid. But at least one (maybe both, I’m not sure) had a very strong chemical smell that the kid (rightly) wasn’t willing to put up with. Maybe that dissipates over time.
So we ended up ordering a bunch of 3-layer surgical masks, and that’s probably what he’ll wear. I expect I’ll wear something similar when I go back to teaching in person next week.
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