Face masks

[Mation]

Do you know where I can get some from? They need to be pretty - can't be doing with white or black ones

Hardware shops, possibly. My local independent pound/tat shop has some. (Not pretty ones, though.)

Or making them; that's why I've just got some pipe cleaners. How much sewing this actually translates into remains to be seen, however.

 

[The39thStep]

Compulsory in shops and on public transport here in Portugal. They make my glasses steam up a bit and when it’s hot in the afternoon end up sweating . They’ve just reduced the vat on them to 6%.

 

[Orang Utan]

I can't make them, will need to order in.

 

[wiskey]

No, I don't go anywhere that isn't my house or the local shop and I have to wear a frsm at work for the whole shift and hate it.

 

[Orang Utan]

what's a frsm?

 

[wiskey]

Fluid resistant surgical mask.... Blue paper ones

 

[Orang Utan]

Fluid resistant surgical mask.... Blue paper ones

ah, i googled it and came up with Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine!

 

[ffsear]

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

How's it going mate! !

 

[steveo87]

I wear a cotton snood whenever I'm on public transport (which is every day for work), it's more that I think there'll definitely be a second bounce fairly soon, so I'm playing it safe.

 

[editor]

I always take one out with me but only put it on when there's people nearby (i.e. not when I'm in the middle of an empty park).

 

[krtek a houby]

Not in UK but wear it the moment we step outside, and all day at work.

 

[Aladdin]

I have not been out since lockdown started at all..
But I have to go to the GP on Thursday and I will wear a mask for that.
If a time comes when I have to or need to go out to a shop etc I will wear a mask and gloves.

 

[The39thStep]

Getting one of these

 

[The39thStep]

Do you know where I can get some from? They need to be pretty - can't be doing with white or black ones

Etsy has loads , not cheap but you'll stand out in a crowd

 

[Epona]

Honestly I think wearing gloves is a mistake, give me a sec and I'll explain.

I spent some time in my job mentoring youngsters in painting and decorating, and a lot of them used to go "urgh I don't want to get paint on my hands" and would grab a pair of disposable gloves to wear.

What would invariably happen is that if they got paint on their bare hands, they would go wash it off before touching anything. If they got it on disposable gloves, it ended up everywhere - walls, ceilings, floors, soft furnishings, their face, their hands when they were taking off their disposable gloves, around hand basins where they would wash their hands, and then there's a pair of contaminated gloves shitting up the inside of the bin for whoever has to deal with the rubbish.

Washing your hands regularly or using hand sanitiser if you are out and about is preferable.

(EDIT TO ADD: People who wear gloves in a surgical or medical setting are using 1 disposable pair in a very limited amount of space for a very limited amount of time to reduce physical contact for a particular reason - 1 operating theatre with 1 patient, or treating 1 patient on a ward within an environment that already has a protocol for barrier care and disposal of used items - they aren't wandering around the space equivalent of from home to Sainsbury's and back touching a load of stuff all over the place and spreading germs around).

 

[ddraig]

Have worn one about 3/4 times, only when shopping and on way back as others have said
Got a homemade (partner has made some for NHS) one and cheap blue one from shop

 

[Marty1]

The top brass at my Amazon depot use those face screen thingies - probs just to show their status as Amazon underlings just have the disposable face masks they give us drivers.

 

[purves grundy]

Back in March I was the only one on the Bangkok BTS train without a mask. Got some dirty looks

 

[Yossarian]

I wear a mask or bandana in shops or anywhere else where I'm likely to be within 2 meters of anybody, but not when walking down mostly deserted streets. But even in big shops, mask-wearers seem to be in the minority, which is just weird at this point - the contrast between places where mask-wearing is almost universal, like Hong Kong, South Korea, Vietnam, etc. and the places where the pandemic is still raging seems clear enough.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

I think it's only a matter of time before we're using nasal filters.

Nasal plugs for preventing respiratory infections - PubMed

Nasal plugs were made from an N-95 respirator, surgical mask or a cotton ball and inserted into the nares of volunteer healthcare workers for 30 min. Initial and persistent respiratory resistance, choking sensation, and discomfort in the mouth and nose areas were recorded for the three different...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[SheilaNaGig]

I think it's only a matter of time before we're using nasal filters.

Nasal plugs for preventing respiratory infections - PubMed

Nasal plugs were made from an N-95 respirator, surgical mask or a cotton ball and inserted into the nares of volunteer healthcare workers for 30 min. Initial and persistent respiratory resistance, choking sensation, and discomfort in the mouth and nose areas were recorded for the three different...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Like in Dune

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

It's been mandatory in Poland for 3 weeks now.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

I saw one guy today wearing one across his chin. Not his nose and/or mouth, his chin. Anticipating having to speak to the people he was about to be in close contact with, presumably. One old girl last week had seemingly fashioned one herself from sellotape and bits of shredded carrier bag. And she'd carefully cut a mouthhole into the ensemble. She was wearing a false beard basically. A white plastic false beard. Made from a carrier bag.

Relax social distancing now! Yaaaaaaaayyyyyy!!!!!!!

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

I wear an N95 mask if I'm indoors, like in a shop or taking the lift, but a surgical mask if I'm outside. You don't really have to wear a mask outside here at this point, especially if you're 2 meters away from other people, but almost everyone does. The majority of people just wear a surgical mask all the time now. N95's are less and less worn.

 

[maomao]

I wear an N95 mask if I'm indoors, like in a shop or taking the lift, but a surgical mask if I'm outside. You don't really have to wear a mask outside here at this point, especially if you're 2 meters away from other people, but almost everyone does. The majority of people just wear a surgical mask all the time now. N95's are less and less worn.

Best thing about n95 masks is you can't smell cigarette smoke. I'm thinking of wearing one outside forever.

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

Best thing about n95 masks is you can't smell cigarette smoke. I'm thinking of wearing one outside forever.

N95's were already pretty popular here in the winter when the AQI was high, before the pandemic, as I'm sure you know. They're certainly good for filtering more than just viruses.

 

[cybershot]

With no idea how much these things were before, and knowing it’s probably going to become mandatory to wear one on public transport what ‘SHOULD’ the price of these things be?

 

[Supine]

I was given a mask when I went to the doctors last week. I don’t use it yet but I’m ready for when the trains require it and I’m not the only person in the carriage.

 

[rubbershoes]

No. I've only been to the supermarket three times during lockdown and go right at the end of the day when there are no queues.

I'm the street it's easy to keep a decent distance as my village is small and the people are sensible.

I appreciate that masks are largely for the protection of others rather than my protection, but I'm fairly confident I don't have it and the south west hasnt had a large number of cases. The local hospital is beginning to open up to other non CV patients.

When lockdown relaxes and London comes down here on holiday, the infection rate is likely to rise and a mask may become more appropriate.

 

[krtek a houby]

With no idea how much these things were before, and knowing it’s probably going to become mandatory to wear one on public transport what ‘SHOULD’ the price of these things be?

Well, before all this, we'd pay the equivalent of 70p for a packet of 20 or 30. We sent away for a couple of better quality ones that cost than equivalent of £2.10 per mask.

A few months back, some entrepreneur got nicked for trying to flog masks at a vastly inflated price... But that kind to thing seems to be stopped...