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Thanks. This helps.
Yossarian
Get thee behind me, Santa
They should be free - idled factories should have been retooled and put to work many weeks ago, with workers on extremely good wages making masks to be delivered to every household in the land, and it would all have cost a fraction of what a longer lockdown would cost the country, but unfortunately this government doesn't seem to understand the concept of taking proactive measures.
krtek a houby
Kick me again Jesus
That said, it all depends on the quality of said masks. I don't know what the masks are like in the UK.
A family member has just made us some, complete with tea filters! See above...
Cid
Proper break this time
Yeah, £2-3 was normal for an n95 mask I think (proper one from 3M or similar), surgical style dunno.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
The N95s are hopeless for protecting others are they not ?
(certainly the ones like mine with a flapper valve.)
(certainly the ones like mine with a flapper valve.)
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
The advice in the uk is not to purchase n95 masks at the moment, so that there is stock available for key workers.
bmd
Island in the stream.
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
Here masks are only really being worn by Chinese students, it's very rare to see anyone else in one.
Have been wearing those 'neck roll' things whenever entering shops etc. Better than nothing I feel.
Get home and sling them straight in the washing machine with tshirt. Have four of them so can rotate.
Brought a couple of surgical (looking at least) masks from local Nisa but gave them to neighbours who are still working in logistics.
Get home and sling them straight in the washing machine with tshirt. Have four of them so can rotate.
Brought a couple of surgical (looking at least) masks from local Nisa but gave them to neighbours who are still working in logistics.
Yu_Gi_Oh
天天好心情
The ones with the valve, for sure. N95's for sale here now don't have valves. There are a few styles of N95 too. Korean ones are a totally different shape and design to the ones I can get in China. N95 is just the filtration rating. It doesn't describe a style of mask as such.
SheilaNaGig
Break requested
This Texas nurse has apparently come up with a mask that performs better than an N95. She made the prototype in her time off from from the front line by trial and error, with air conditioning filters.
And the step-by-step process for making your own is linked in the article.
medicalxpress.com
And the step-by-step process for making your own is linked in the article.
This nurse didn't just create a replacement N95 mask—hers works better
As Tommye Austin made her way around the COVID-19 unit, she saw patients on ventilators fighting for each breath. She heard nurses, respiratory therapists and other workers talking about how anxious they were about being exposed to the coronavirus, and perhaps spreading it to their loved ones.
bmd
Island in the stream.
It looks as though it's as much of a social barrier that stops people wearing them, than any idea about saving them for NHS staff and others or them not working. I bought some a few months ago because I liked the sense of social responsibility that is folded within them. I got the idea from seeing the Chinese people wearing them, who go to the language school near us. It seems as though it's a part of their sense of society, whereas we just don't seem to have the same levels of that in the UK.
krtek a houby
Kick me again Jesus
It's normal to see people wearing masks anytime of the year in Japan, especially during the flu season. But the first time I saw it, I was wondering what the story was.
Iirc, maybe ten years ago in the UK, there was worries about some kind of outbreak and I did notice folks wearing masks in London.
SheilaNaGig
Break requested
It’s a bit strange for me to see how swiftly things like wearing a mask have become normal.
I have a couple of single-use surgical masks that were given to me by the shop manager where I work. I’m hanging them in sunshine and reusing these judiciously, knowing they’re less effective each time.
I also have several home made masks of various designs, all with pockets for paper of some kind (for example Henry hoover filter paper), very kindly gifted to me by an Urbanite. I’m road testing them.
Plenty of people hereabouts using the single-use surgical masks but really badly (nose sticking out, huge beards apparent on all sides, around their chin while smoking, children being made to wear them and constantly tugging at them because they don’t fit etc). Also lots of people wearing gloves.
The litter in the street has changed from chicken shack boxes to surgical masks and hairdressing gloves. Pigeons are well pissed off, started coming into my garden to find what they can. And apparently street smarts is not the same as garden smarts because the neighbourhood cat who prowls my garden can’t get near the blackbirds or blue tits, but I have pigeon feathers all over the place.
My mother, who lives in Greece, tells me that they’re being advised to use a hot iron on their facemasks to re-use them. I don’t have an iron because I don’t need or use an iron. My mother is now insisting that I buy an iron. It is her new obsession.
Oh. Going back to my original point:
Even though there are plenty of people not wearing masks of any kind, I notice that my brain has already factored in “Is wearing a mask” as an option when I look at someone’s face, rather than “Person with a strong beard”.
Similarly (I think others have remarked on this already) the immediate feeling of concern and alarm when I’m watching telly and I see crowds or hand shaking or kissing and hugging.
The Before Times...
I have a couple of single-use surgical masks that were given to me by the shop manager where I work. I’m hanging them in sunshine and reusing these judiciously, knowing they’re less effective each time.
I also have several home made masks of various designs, all with pockets for paper of some kind (for example Henry hoover filter paper), very kindly gifted to me by an Urbanite. I’m road testing them.
Plenty of people hereabouts using the single-use surgical masks but really badly (nose sticking out, huge beards apparent on all sides, around their chin while smoking, children being made to wear them and constantly tugging at them because they don’t fit etc). Also lots of people wearing gloves.
The litter in the street has changed from chicken shack boxes to surgical masks and hairdressing gloves. Pigeons are well pissed off, started coming into my garden to find what they can. And apparently street smarts is not the same as garden smarts because the neighbourhood cat who prowls my garden can’t get near the blackbirds or blue tits, but I have pigeon feathers all over the place.
My mother, who lives in Greece, tells me that they’re being advised to use a hot iron on their facemasks to re-use them. I don’t have an iron because I don’t need or use an iron. My mother is now insisting that I buy an iron. It is her new obsession.
Oh. Going back to my original point:
Even though there are plenty of people not wearing masks of any kind, I notice that my brain has already factored in “Is wearing a mask” as an option when I look at someone’s face, rather than “Person with a strong beard”.
Similarly (I think others have remarked on this already) the immediate feeling of concern and alarm when I’m watching telly and I see crowds or hand shaking or kissing and hugging.
The Before Times...
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
BB1 has been making loads of them as part of a collective making stuff for Frimley Park Hospital and associates care homes. She has material to make two for me, if they are mandated in tomorrow’s announcement she’ll make them for me, but so far have not used one. The only place to wear one would be in Sainsbury’s as the queue and the shop are the only places I come close to others, so far no more than one in ten people there seem to bother though and none of the staff do.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Some fit ones here:
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Masks should be compulsory, says man feeling like twat because nobody else is wearing one
A MAN who feels like a right knobhead for being the only person in Asda wearing a mask has argued they should be made compulsory.
www.thedailymash.co.uk
A MAN who feels like a right knobhead for being the only person in Asda wearing a mask has argued they should be made compulsory.
Martin Bishop did a full week’s shop wearing a face mask and came out furious at the irresponsibility of other shoppers who he suspects of sniggering at him.
Bishop said: “I’m not wearing this mask to protect myself. I’m wearing it to protect others should I be asymptomatically infected. So they should have the good grace not to act like I’m the weirdo.
“If everyone was wearing a mask not only would we be reducing the risk, but people wouldn’t flinch away from me when I appear round the corner of the cheese aisle looking like Immortan Joe from Mad Max.
“So Johnson should make masks compulsory from Monday. Either that or next time I go shopping I’m leaving my mask in the car and not telling the wife.”
wayward bob
i ate all your bees
i'm resisting them until compulsory because the only situation i've ever been in that involved wearing them is one i don't want to revisit without having a say in it :/
when they become normalised (which can only happen with legislation/"rules" i think) i'll get over myself, and make a batch for the giving out of. but not unless i have to.
Cid
Proper break this time
Yeah, you may be right. My proper mask would be worse than useless (it drips), I suppose that also happens to some extent with the smaller ones.
dessiato
4 years and I still cry sometimes
There's talk of them being made compulsory here. Currently it's only on public transport.
The price has been fixed by the government at 1€. Local councils have been giving masks to everyone. We got four each.
I went shopping today and was pleased to see the vast majority of people were wearing masks.
The cloth/padded material masks keep your face warm - not good in this current warm weather for prolonged periods of used but will be good in the winter - though hopefully this pandemic will have fecked off by then. Doesn’t help that the N95 cloth masks I got are also black colour which is bad in the sun.
The surgical disposable masks don’t heat your face up too much and are easier to breathe thru.
The surgical disposable masks don’t heat your face up too much and are easier to breathe thru.
miss direct
misfungled
Wow, only 1tl here (11p)
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
1 euro here as genrally well but I dont think the price is fixed as you can get them in some places for 90c and they've just dropped the VAT/IVA to 8%. Just spent a good hour at the small bar down the road from me, its a local farmers bar tbh, and first day of opening there was a good stream of locals, The owner put the mask on when serving people over 70 but he must be early 70s himself.
Kanda
Diving wanker
I got caught riding my scooter with my mask down around my neck the other day, was stopped and made to do 20 star jumps. The police and medical staff then checked my temperature and gave me a new mask 
They've been compulsory here since the beginning of March. Thailand has only had 55 deaths.
They've been compulsory here since the beginning of March. Thailand has only had 55 deaths.
Kanda
Diving wanker
It's 34 degrees most days here and don't have a problem with them.
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