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Interestingly, fog on glasses does not appear to be a strong indicator of a poor fit: https://www.ijccm.org/doi/IJCCM/pdf/10.5005/jp-journals-1007...

Consider how the fit can be pretty and still result in fogging up your glasses. In general but especially on cold days, you avoid fogging your glasses because the air you exhale is moving usually quickly enough that it is past your glasses by the time any of it starts diffusing and moving upward.

An N95 slows it down enough that some of the warm, moist air will make its way up to your glasses. It'll be especially noticeable if you're outdoors int he winter. Plus, the shape of some N95s and KN95s looks like it would cause some of your exhaled air to diffuse out through the mask in a more upward direction that it would if you were maskless.



Interesting!

So two of what I considered indicators of fit are probably wrong. I'll call that a good day. (:




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