Thank you so much for these links! You are very kind to have resourced them for us and your work and efforts are appreciated!

Having read this, my impressions are thus:

So much care is taken to protect the caregivers, and to provide them the best possible information, education, and protection, which is only right - these people are doing a job none of us would gladly take on - because the job is so dangerous, so difficult, and we mustn't lose sight that each individual is required to don all this protective gear in jungle heat and humidity and cannot break protocol suddenly for a breath of cool air or to wipe sweat from a face - I can't help but believe that every bit of equipment they wear is considered the best possible protection.

I didn't see any discussion - if I missed it please direct me - of the protective equipment failing in any way. This includes the N95 mask. In fact, I am left puzzled that they have not been instructed to use the N100 or P100, if there is thought to be the slightest chance that the ebola virus is sickening them as a result of mask failure.

There was a time of failure, and resulting ebola cases among staff, in some way in 2014 which was found to be an issue during removing, or doffing, the protective gear, and that protocol was changed to include a person responsible for assisting in the doffing, and who was trained to make certain it was done in the correct order and with adequate caution. This change immediately reduced the number of illnesses among caregiving staff.

Thus I return to you, and ask you to tell me again - what was the information that caused you to determine that the P95 mask is not adequate against ebola? I believe you - that you are the loveliest and most sincere of people, and genuinely want to prepare and warn us of possible need to upgrade equipment is evident. I believe it was information given to your husband? Is this correct?

By now I am thinking I would like to order N100 for myself, and recommend this to others, yet I don't feel I have enough reason to recommend the upgrade. I would be willing to say the second is better than the first, but I cannot say why I make that statement.

Would you please share with us again why you felt so strongly in your original post about this change? If it is back channel information, in other words if your husband knows this to be fact, yet cannot tell us how he knows this, I would accept that. We receive a lot of news on GLP that comes from back channels such as that, and later proves to have been factual.

Regarding scarcity of masks - I well remember that in 2014 masks went from great availability and low prices to more difficult to find, and higher prices. Thus, whatever mask people are to purchase, now is the time to do so, you are entirely correct there!

As I consider everything, I think from now on I would prefer to recommend the N100, and explain the P100 in case people would prefer that mask, but I don't feel I have a reason to give for this change. Hope you will give me one.

Thank you again for all your help, and your work in finding these links!

I'm curious - you said there are more links but you have been asked not to give them out publicly. These are links on the internet in publicly available sites? Why would anyone ask you not to mention public sites? Curious.