"The feeling is excruciating, like your lungs are trying to kill you from the inside out. The sting in your eyes is painful, too. But oddly, after you've been tear gassed enough times, you mostly just resent the inconvenience of having to stand around and involuntarily gasp and sob. That summer, I learned the art of walking out of a cloud of tear gas - briskly, but not too briskly, lest you lose breath control and take in a huge huff of aerosolized pain."
"as I watched Trump Attorney General Pam Bondi appear on Fox News after Customs and Border Protection agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. "How did these people go out and get gas masks?" she asked, incredulously. "These protesters - would you know how to walk out on the street and buy a gas mask, right now? Think about that." As a longtime gas mask user, I can sympathize."
Tear gas causes excruciating internal lung pain and a painful sting in the eyes, often forcing involuntary gasping and sobbing. Repeated exposure leads people to learn techniques for exiting gas clouds, such as brisk but controlled walking to avoid inhaling concentrated aerosol. Public figures questioned how protesters obtained gas masks amid incidents of lethal force, prompting reflection on accessibility. Reliable information about acquiring appropriate gas masks is scarce, particularly for the purpose of living under state repression. Simple protective steps can escalate from goggles to half-face respirators to full-face gas masks as needs increase. Practical knowledge enables safer acquisition and effective use.
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