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		notabee on Jan 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Switching to an N95 mask gives a 75x boost in Covi... You can if it's an average and you're not being overly literal about it. Don't break out a stopwatch and assume you're safe if you run out of the room before the average time is up.

Symmetry on Jan 12, 2022 [–]

It's not a matter of differences you need a stopwatch for, it's that the times plausibly vary between a second and years.

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