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[–] carbunkie@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When we had the Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 in Australia we were recommended to stock up on P2 (local equivalent to N95) masks for the smoke, and we never expected we'd end up using them for a completely different reason only a few months later