Only health professionals should be wearing these. The public should not be wearing them as there is already a global shortage and they are badly needed by those caring for the sick.

Bunch of nonsense.

If you're in a high risk group, you should absolutely be wearing a mask. Every high risk group prevention is potentially worth an ICU bed or a hospital admission slot.

Ideally, yes, but if you didn't have a suitable respirator already you're going to have a hard time finding one now.

As some other people mentioned in other threads, aliexpress seems to be restocked on some "alleged" FFP2 and shipping them including express shipping with DHL. Risky and expensive bet tho.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000768665097.html

China ramped up their production and now that the coast is (mostly) clear there, we we're bound to see this.

I've ordered a bunch at about $0.50 and if I get the order, I'll be driving most of them over to one of the local hospitals in Seattle.

JBTools.com has a bunch of the N95 half face and full face respirators last time I checked.

Do you have any resources on that? I'm new to this, and trying to find my way around the details is hard.