Jonawan@lemmy.zip to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-219 hours ago‘Do you have to be dead?’: US coalminers plead for benefits as black-lung disease cases surgewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1185arrow-down12
arrow-up1183arrow-down1external-link‘Do you have to be dead?’: US coalminers plead for benefits as black-lung disease cases surgewww.theguardian.comJonawan@lemmy.zip to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-219 hours agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-squareZak@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·15 hours agoDisposable respirators in the modern style showed up in the 1970s, and the N95 standard everyone is now familiar with for unrelated reasons came out in 1995. Why does anyone have black lung?
minus-squarearrow74@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-210 hours agoThat’s kinda like holding an umbrella in a car wash, you’re still going to get wet. Respirators have cut the rates, but they aren’t fool proof. Plus they need to be changed out fairly regularly
minus-squaredeeprlyeh@lemmus.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 hours agoThey were given the cheapest respirators available. Nothing had powered air flow. So not wearing a mask was preferable so you could breath.
Disposable respirators in the modern style showed up in the 1970s, and the N95 standard everyone is now familiar with for unrelated reasons came out in 1995. Why does anyone have black lung?
That’s kinda like holding an umbrella in a car wash, you’re still going to get wet.
Respirators have cut the rates, but they aren’t fool proof. Plus they need to be changed out fairly regularly
They were given the cheapest respirators available. Nothing had powered air flow. So not wearing a mask was preferable so you could breath.