Where are we at on making effective masks available for everyone? There s a plan for that

[brewens]

isn't there? Isn't there? I'd like to see that asked at the next campaign presser.

Getting everyone at least a couple good masks would help a lot. There have to be a lot of people that would wear one if they got them for free. It would be nice if businesses could have enough of a supply to give to any customers that didn't have one. Your average person can get by with just a couple if they're doing what they should be. I just leave mine in my truck, knowing it's going to be a week before I need it again. If that mask happened to be contaminated, it should be clear by then.

It's pretty hard to mandate masks when so many people would have to make their own and are being told those are ineffective anyway.

[dawg day]

1. We need to remember that many people don't have access to laundry machines-

So they might need more than 2, especially with a family.

[redwitch]

2. I hand wash mine at the kitchen sink with hot soapy water.

Hand washing works fine. Air dry.

[triron]

3. I just bought 2 n95 8210 masks on ebay. I think these are the best.

[Shermann]

4. This question seems to have faded away

A N95 mask that's been washed a couple of times has to be at least as good as a sock rubber banded to your face.

[htuttle]

5. I've been making these from Wypall X80 shop towels

I'm running low on rubber bands, so I'm now letting them sit in a plastic bag for a week between uses. Some hospitals were making medical personnel do the same thing (reuse masks after isolating them for a period), so I'm thinking it's still better than nothing.

The shop towels made from 'hydroknit' paper fabric tested fairly well for filtration, if you use two layers.

[Steelrolled]

10. While we don't have numbers data for masks

we know that COVID virus on paper surfaces loses viability after 24 hours, in laboratory conditions (it goes down by half every 4-6 or so hours if I remember). Fibrous surfaces disrupt the virus more than smooth surfaces.

So I think your method will be very safe and effective.

[Rae]

6. Any face covering is better than none at all

Bandanas, scarves, etc. I've seen videos of how to make no sew masks with a footie. Where there's a will, there's a way.

[TreasonousBastard]

7. I've seen dozens of designs for very effective no-sew masks made with common materials...

and high on the lists of materials are things like blue shop towels and coffee filters.

Coffee filters! Whoda guessed? And if you want to go really pro-- you can make one with a pouch and stick a HEPA filter in there.

https://www.syracuse.com/coronavirus/2020/04/need-a-coronavirus-mask-for-nys-new-order-heres-how-to-make-one-at-home-videos.html

Here's just one at that link:

I'm trying to find the link I had to making a mask from a gym sock. Real easy, and it has its own pouch.

Myself, I found a cheap baseball cup that can be adapted...

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Turn it upside down, fill it with coffee filters, and guaranteed the 6 people you will see in a day who know what it is will leave you alone.

[frazzled]

8. Again, local efforts and ingenuity and luck will prevail.

On the personal side, we had pretty much exhausted the few surgical masks we happened to have (we were steaming and rotating them after 3 or 4 days' rest). And the homemade, no-sew mask I'd made wasn't too practical. I ordered two cotton washable masks from Etsy, but they're taking forever to come. In the meantime, by a stroke of luck and generosity, two students in my husband's department, now temporarily back in their home countries of South Korea and China, sent 250 and 300 masks, respectively, to the department chair, who has allocated them to full and part-time faculty and staff. We got ours yesterday!

In the meantime, local millionaire nutcase perennial mayoral candidate Willie Wilson, who happens to own a medical supply business, donated a million masks for aldermen to distribute in their wards to their neediest and most compromised constituents (after first trying to extort several million dollars for them from the City and State).

CHICAGO — Local businessman and former mayoral candidate Willie Wilson will donate 1 million protective face masks to Chicago residents in an effort to ensure the city’s must vulnerable residents have face coverings.

Wilson, who owns a medical supply company, will donate 20,000 masks to each of the city’s 50 aldermen, the businessman announced late Monday. A group of aldermen will join Wilson on Tuesday outside the Thompson Center to announce the donation.

Wilson has already donated 1 million masks to Chicago hospitals, Cook County Jail, senior homes, the Chicago Transit Authority and other agencies, said spokesman Scott Winslow. Aldermen are expected to distribute the masks throughout their wards, Winslow said.

“Senior citizens, residents living in underserved communities, the needy all need face masks to protect themselves from COVID-19 and to comply with Governor [JB] Pritzker’s order,” Wilson said in a statement.

The donation comes after Wilson sought to sell protective masks and other medical equipment to the city and state, but Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Pritzker balked at the deals.

https://blockclubchicago.org/2020/04/28/ex-mayoral-candidate-willie-wilson-to-donate-1-million-masks-20000-for-each-city-ward/

[Coventina]

9. Elizabeth Warren would have a plan for that.

Just sayin.....