this is (slightly) better for humankind in the long run
We don’t have to get into this here if you don’t want to, but flagging that I’m not convinced of this.
It isn’t quite an apples-to-apples comparison … do worse by a factor of about 10
Thanks for looking into this! I am pretty skeptical of studies that don’t explicitly compare the two options, because there are really quite a lot of variables that can go into measuring absolute effectiveness that are nicely factored out when you measure relative effectiveness.
The way it’s supposed to work is that going from n95 to n100 should get you from 95% to 99.97% on the worst performing non-oilborne particle size, and then n100 to p100 would get you coverage for oilborne (which we don’t expect to need for a pandemic, but is useful in industry). But I haven’t looked into studies to verify that it does actually work that way in practice.
We don’t have to get into this here if you don’t want to, but flagging that I’m not convinced of this.
Thanks for looking into this! I am pretty skeptical of studies that don’t explicitly compare the two options, because there are really quite a lot of variables that can go into measuring absolute effectiveness that are nicely factored out when you measure relative effectiveness.
The way it’s supposed to work is that going from n95 to n100 should get you from 95% to 99.97% on the worst performing non-oilborne particle size, and then n100 to p100 would get you coverage for oilborne (which we don’t expect to need for a pandemic, but is useful in industry). But I haven’t looked into studies to verify that it does actually work that way in practice.