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Why does my hotel have a gas mask under the night stand?
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In Xuchang, near Zhengzhou. Why?

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Yes, and no.

I worked in a place where the equivalent of these were issued as rescue breathers and, honestly, they're kind of useless and a huge expense.

Here's why:

They give you 5 minutes of use before it's as useless as no mask at all. When you work in a chemical factory where you wouldn't even get out of the building within 5 minutes - let alone the miles it would take to outrun the cloud of gas - that 5 minutes is just enough time to say your goodbyes and kiss your own 🍑 goodbye - ultimately nothing more than a feel-good measure. I can't imagine you'd get out of a high-rise hotel any quicker....

And, they're only good for a few years even sitting on the shelf (at least in the US, with regulations and all). So, every few years you have to replace thousands of these things at a cost of tens, or hundreds, each.

Eventually my employer went to mini scuba tanks that brought us up to 15 minutes, but you'd still probably be dead - just on your way to the gate instead of still inside the building.

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