There's a noticeable push to urge the use of N95 masks. I've been reading about them a bit.
For reference, the COVID virus is said to be 125 nanometers across. The shortest wavelengths of visible light (violet) are roughly 400 nanometers.
Promotions for N95 masks tend to point out that COVID viruses travel in aerosol droplets, and therefore will be filtered out well with N95 masks.
The problem is that water evaporates. [It also erodes the electrostatic properties of the N95 masks that makes charged particles stick to the fibers. EDIT: My scientific opinion, which may be wrong. My sources say the electrostatic effect is diminished by filling up with particles or by being coated with microgoop.]
Additionally, broken-up COVID viruses become nanoparticles--particles of size smaller than 50 nanometers, which are just about the size that N95 masks filter worst (at 95% efficiency, at best).
Sometimes I wonder how we're not all dead yet.
This song is haunting, although not directly applicable to my personal experience.
There's an interesting semi-parallel in Revelation 7:17 and 8:1:
"...and God shall wipe all tears from their eyes. And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour."
Some years back there were some public comments from famous authors about the Susan in the Narnia books not being present for the Final Battle and what followed. It was framed as bigotry against women and people of average morals.
Neil Gaiman's came in the form of a short story, "The Problem of Susan," which from an excerpt I found is apparently quite vile.
Gaiman has fallen out of public favor as allegations against him have begun to surface.
Two other authors were J. K. Rowling, who ought to know better, and Phillip Pullman, who also writes vile stories, I've been told.
Pastor Douglas Wilson has a lucid, sensitive, and rather long rebuttal to the Problem of Susan; link below.
My own, lesser contribution here, is that C. S. Lewis was a fan of George MacDonald, and MacDonald wrote some vivid portrayals of spiritual devolution. In The Princess and Curdie, Curdie was given the ability to discern which beast a person's moral character was descending into by holding their hand. In ...
