Face masks

[Reno]

You'd need a new pair after every doorknob, button press etc. Better to just wash your hands.

For a commute on public transport, I'd wear one pair for the journey. And as elbows said, you'd be far more conscious about touching your face and other things you may contaminate while wearing rubber gloves.

Just went to my supermarket for a bit of light panic buying (no toilet paper, but non-perishable food and cat food) and all the staff there wore rubber gloves, which I think is sensible.

 

[8ball]

I've got something like this knocking around but I would rather risk infection that walk around wearing it in public, unless everyone else does first.


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[chilango]

A significant rise in the wearing of masks on campus today.

Still seems confined to students from East Asia though.

 

[Jackhand]

Yes.
No.
Maybe.
I bought this type of mask last week, but I am not sure whether it can help to protect myself from the coronavirus, when I go outside.

 

[weltweit]

I still haven't seen face-masks, either in the shops or on people's faces.

I do live in the sticks though.

We're hard in them their sticks!!!

 

[campanula]

I have a roll of horticultural fleece and a Darth Vader black plastic thing (left by one of the offspring). Doubt I would wear it to my local Tesco. In truth, my main avoidance tactic seems to be holding my breath whilst I rush around for milk and poking the chip and pin digits with a handy cable knitting needle.
Am considering going feral in Norfolk.

 

[Boudicca]

An inventor friend of mine has just made this. Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best.

 

[Aladdin]

This is pretty ingenious too.

 

[treelover]

Some chinese shops here are giving them away as their market has largely gone home.

 

[tony.c]

 

[Marty1]

Wrong thread

 

[tony.c]

 

[editor]

Some good info here:

What to Know If You're Wearing a Cloth Mask in Public

The CDC now recommends “cloth face coverings” to slow the spread of COVID-19. As we’ve discussed before, there are pros and cons to cloth masks , a

vitals.lifehacker.com

 

[Sprocket.]

I asked one of the nurses if it was any advantage in me wearing a face mask. She said it is always good to err on the side of caution, but one of the biggest advantages was they stop you touching your face.

 

[muscovyduck]

People around here have started wearing them, they seem to think it means it's safe to go out and act as normal

Eta: people are selling ones made out of fun patterned material and they don't look like they fit very well or do much.

 

[Sprocket.]

People around here have started wearing them, they seem to think it means it's safe to go out and act as normal

Eta: people are selling ones made out of fun patterned material and they don't look like they fit very well or do much.

There seems to be plenty of masks slipping lately!

 

[Sprocket.]

Not you muscovyduck.

 

[frogwoman]

I cover my face when I go out and for me it's a reminder that I can't just act as normal?

 

[tony.c]

I bought one online before the lockdown, after seeing people wearing them in other parts of the world. I know they probably don't do that much to protect the wearer, but might help to prevent the wearer transmitting non-symptomatic virus.
I haven't been out since the lockdown so I haven't worn it yet, but I'm running out of food so I'll have to go to shop soon and will wear it then. I'd think it would be reassuring for any shopworkers I might come near.
I think it's also a way of showing solidarity, one reason why a lot of people in SE Asia wear them.

 

[Yossarian]

The CDC in the US is now recommending people wear cloth face masks when they're in public - seems to be partly a way of reserving supplies of proper masks for health care workers, and partly a way of overcoming strong cultural resistance to wearing surgical masks in public . Nobody wants to look like a patient, but tell them they can walk around looking like bank robbers and they'll probably be a lot more likely to comply.

 

[editor]

Neat

 

[Orang Utan]

JCRT are doing some fit as fuck masks, though they’ll take a while to get here:

Face Masks

Face Masks

www.jc-rt.com

 

[Kanda]

Just interested if people in UK are wearing Facemasks when oot and aboot...

 

[quimcunx]

I put one on before going into shops then usually keep it on until I get home.

 

[weltweit]

Almost none at the supermarket last evening, SW England.

I haven't got one myself.

 

[gentlegreen]

In shops - the only time I get close to people and it seems like the least I can do to reassure staff I'm not breathing crap all over them and the stock.
At present it's just a tubular scarf doubled-up.
I also flush my throat and nose, scrub up and then use gel as I leave.

 

[oryx]

Just interested if people in UK are wearing Facemasks when oot and aboot...

Generally, no. A few people are but not many, in my area (S. London) at least.

 

[Mation]

I also flush my throat and nose

How?

I do sometimes. Depends which shop I'm going to.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

In shops, yes. That’s the only time I get close to anyone, apart from immediate family. I still feel a bit of a twat, though, at the moment, but I suspect I’ll get used to it.