# Director, Harvard Global Health Institute **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [June 30, 2020, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-harvard-global-health-institute/913872 "2020-06-30T23:28:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-harvard-global-health-institute/913872/1 "2020-06-30T23:28:05Z")
Dr Jha rated “civilian masks.” The gaiter is least effective! Rats! I just bought some cool ones! They ARE single thickness of a very lightweight polyester. When .i open my mouth to talk (or even breathe!) The fabric goes concave in my mouth. IF I had a cooperative neck (which I do not!), I’d finagle a lining. Oh well… ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-harvard-global-health-institute/913872/2 "2020-06-30T23:35:54Z")
I got some gaiters with a pocket for a filter. The filter looks like coffee filter paper quadrupled up. You can barely breathe through it. One way or another this virus is gonna get me. Death by infection or death by face mask. I’m deciding which one I like better. 😐😷 ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-harvard-global-health-institute/913872/3 "2020-07-01T02:12:51Z")
I don’t have that type of mask, but I’m curious: Why are gaiters least effective? Because they’re thin?? Beck, we canNOT lose you! Stay home. If you get bored, we can entertain you. I can sing “Moon River” without hitting a single note in the song. I mean, that’s talent, right? Wouldn’t that entertain you? Be sure to look for my new CD, “Opera for the Tone Deaf,” and my classic, “Barry Manilow’s Greatest Hits…on Helium!” ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-harvard-global-health-institute/913872/4 "2020-07-01T02:25:55Z")
@nelliebly, I haven’t left but 2 times to go to the clinic. I was very careful both times ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-harvard-global-health-institute/913872/5 "2020-07-01T02:31:42Z")
DON’T SING PLEEEEEAAASSSSEEE! 😁 Looks like I got a no-no message. My sentence is apparently not real. @discobot fortune ---
**Author:** ![discobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/discobot/32/570_2.png) [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-harvard-global-health-institute/913872/6 "2020-07-01T02:31:44Z")
> 🔮 It is decidedly so ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-harvard-global-health-institute/913872/7 "2020-07-01T02:32:05Z")
I knew I was right. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-harvard-global-health-institute/913872/8 "2020-07-01T03:36:37Z")
That little d\_\_\_\_bot (Don’t want to conjure it up.) is creepier than my singing, and that’s saying something. Can’t it be banned or something? ---
**Author:** ![Courk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@Courk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Courk)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-harvard-global-health-institute/913872/9 "2020-07-01T03:51:30Z")
Is there a link to the ratings? I’d be curious to read it. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-harvard-global-health-institute/913872/10 "2020-07-01T04:58:49Z")
The ratings were a blurb I caught on CNN. As for singing, I have a notoriety! I even get to sit out when everybody sings “Happy Birthday!” I have joked that one day, I’ll rent Carnegie Hall. I will charge admission, people will dress up and buy the tickets, they will sell out! The curtain will rise, I will walk to center stage…and I will DO NOTHING. I won’t sing! And there will be applause! I make money, and everyone goes home. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-harvard-global-health-institute/913872/11 "2020-07-01T06:08:43Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > got some gaiters with a pocket for a filter. The filter looks like coffee filter paper quadrupled up. You can barely breathe through it. > One way or another this virus is gonna get me. Death by infection or death by face mask I know it is little comfort but if it is hard to breathe through, that’s a good sign. Means it is filtering out relatively more of those infinitesimally tiny virus. (No, I don’t have a cite for that-I’m a nurse, we survive because we know s\*\*\* like that). If is very easy to breathe through that means a greater viral load of particles can be breathed in (not in your favor), as well as out (not in my favor). Kudos to you for wearing a mask. You can breathe near me any time-at least ten feet away of course. I’ll be the one wearing a fuchsia homemade mask sewn out of my daughter’s college curtains. She graduated in 2008. I knew if I just hung onto to those I would someday be glad-never dreamed it would be this. I was more thinking of a watermelon Halloween costume for a grandchild…sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-harvard-global-health-institute/913872/12 "2020-07-01T06:11:48Z")
@discobot likes me best. He’s stalking me, tho’ ---
**Author:** ![discobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/discobot/32/570_2.png) [@discobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/discobot)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-harvard-global-health-institute/913872/13 "2020-07-01T06:11:51Z")
Hi! To find out what I can do, say `@discobot display help`. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-harvard-global-health-institute/913872/14 "2020-07-01T06:12:25Z")
Hi, @discobot fortune Please. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-harvard-global-health-institute/913872/15 "2020-07-01T06:13:57Z")
Looks like I shook him. On to causing trouble somewhere else, no doubt. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/director-harvard-global-health-institute/913872/16 "2020-07-02T00:43:28Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > The gaiter is least effective! Rats! I just bought some cool ones! > > They ARE single thickness of a very lightweight polyester. When .i open my mouth to talk (or even breathe!) The fabric goes concave in my mouth. I have a gaiter plus a variety of fabric masks plus about 50 disposables. When I received the gaiter, I realized it was pretty thin, but I also found that I could fold the tube to half its length and breathing through the doubled thickness was almost as tough as through the triple thickness fabric masks. If I pull it on carefully, the “double tube” fold doesn’t undo, so I use it for when I take walks where I expect to encounter people who are also out walking about. It’s easy to wear around my neck and can quickly be pulled up when I encounter someone but left down most of the time. I find it tougher to do this with other masks (generally I knock my glasses off or the mask ends up popping off one ear because my hair got in the way behind the ear). I don’t wear the gaiter if I intend to go anywhere there is a chance I’ll be less than 6 feet from people for more than a few seconds (like stores).