Naupaka leaf might work but it’s a little exotic. Something more readily available is toothpaste, a small dab rubbed on the inside lenses then thoroughly cleaned off will prevent fogging in a dive mask. My father, a navy man, showed me this trick. Not sure if it would work with eye glasses but it’s never failed me for dive mask.
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If your mask steams up your glasses, you’re not wearing it correctly. (Or it’s perhaps not the most efficient sort of mask.)
ETA: Sorry not attempting to mask shame.
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Well, it’s not like I have my choice among a wide array of available masks. With all I have been able to try, adjusting them means either fogged glasses, or lowering the top of it so far that a lot of air gets through. Anyway, I look forward to trying some of the methods mentioned above. 
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The last time I went snorkeling, the boat crew used a spray of diluted Johnson’s baby shampoo. It seemed to work. Maybe there’s a common element?
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I think it’s because they’re surfactants.
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If your glasses have any of those anti reflective coatings, it’s probably not a good idea to smear toothpaste all over them.
My solution to the fogging problem is to make sure the fit of the mask is close to the mouth. You should feel it all around your lips. Then breathe through the mouth. Not very natural feeling (and if you’ve put furnace filter in the mask it’s takes some effort to breathe because it’s all going through that filter, which is good, right… that’s why you put it there in the first place), but the glasses aren’t fogged up…
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Don’t do this with eyeglasses! Toothpaste is mildly abrasive (you can use it as a plastic or even metal polish), it will remove any coatings on your glasses.
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Yes, thank you for pointing this out, I have no experience with eye glasses only dive masks.
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I have to say - some of these electives sound quite necessary. Not easy for people at all.
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The point is less to kill the NYT than to try and scare them into being better (no, quiet, reasoned argument will not work). But this latest objectitudinality bullshit did cost them Madam Mrs The Ratel’s subscription.
Keep Fucking That Chicken
There is no evidence that sunlight, bleach or any disinfectant can cure coronavirus in the body https://nyti.ms/2Kzr8U8
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Please Do Not Eat Disinfectant
There is no evidence that sunlight, bleach or any disinfectant can cure coronavirus in the body.
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2,794 people are talking about this
But maybe with some clinical trials we’ll find some!
The thing is, this isn’t the Times being OBJECTIVE and refusing to take a stand, this is the Times granting limitless authority to people in power. If I call up the Times and say, “drinking bleach cures the virus,” they don’t run a piece saying, “some say bleach drinking cures the virus.” If enough people call them up and say that, they assign a reporter to cover “the crazy conspiracy on the internet.” But if one powerful person joins up, then they have to Take It Seriously.
It is not a way to inform readers. It is a way to privilege power. And power has enough of that without the Times providing an assist.
@nytimes
Comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted.
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Is that normally for snorkeling/diving goggles? Looks much easier (and smaller) than carrying Johnson’s baby shampoo.
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Also doesn’t work so well if you’re going to be in the water for a while.
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I picture his campaign folks watching a real-time dashboard of Fox News polls with Trump’s approval ratings in a big control room. When he started talking about injecting bleach, the numbers started to tank and his campaign manager, chomping a cigar, yelled, “Get him out of there!”
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https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/states-containment-table-20200420/
Late June, “with containment strategies that include testing, contact tracing, isolation and limiting gathering size.” Shall we take any bets on that?
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Regarding the “HOW WILL WE PAY THIS BACK” sign; you can start paying back what you owe to the frontline health care workers by GOING HOME.
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This is good advice. It’s almost like you’re kissing the inside of the mask. This works for me (along with pinching the mask to fit the bridge of my nose) even when I’m exerting myself running or biking. Note that this technique is for fabric masks. The semi-rigid masks like N95 have malleable metal nose bridges that should be formed to fit the bridge of your nose, and that should be sufficient.
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“What Did Our Anzacs Die For?”
Beats me, but I know what a lot of them died from.
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I need to rant: I am tired of seeing studies in which the percentages of comorbidities for COVID-19 patients are listed without also listing their prevalence in the general population. As an example, today in CBS This Morning they were taking about a study that said that 41.7% of patients with severe COVID-19 were also obese. This is the study:
What they failed to mention is what the rate of prevalence of obesity, and other comorbidities, is for the general population. I don’t know what the numbers are in the New York City area for the age and socioeconomic distribution of the patients that were studied, but for the United States the percentage of adults that are obese was estimated to be 39.8% in 2015-2016, with another 31.8% overweight, and those rates are increasing. When compared with the prevalence in the general population, the data point loses its significance. I have also seen the otherwise esteemed Dr. John Campbell commit the same sin in some of his videos, even asking for people to lose weight as a way to avoid a more severe outcome. I suppose that making people feel bad, ashamed, and scared about their health conditions is considered to be okay by some people. They should be more careful.
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