You Probably Should Be Wearing a Face Mask If You Can

Re:You Probably Should Be Wearing a Face Mask If You Can by Wowfunhappy on Monday March 30, 2020 @08:41PM (#22733850)

Firstly, if everyone does this, there's 10% fewer masks for doctors than there'd be otherwise. I would posit that their need is so much drastically greater that they really should get every last one.

Remember—your job is to stay six feet away from everyone else, on the off chance they might have the Coranavirus. Doctors and nurses are getting up close with people they know for sure have the Coronavirus, all day, every day.

But more importantly, the masks are disposable! It's not like you can keep one and use it indefinitely.

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Re:You Probably Should Be Wearing a Face Mask If You Can by collinmanderson on Monday March 30, 2020 @09:04PM (#22733990)

The homemade mask in the video I linked above is made out of a tshirt and is washable except for the papertowel filter.

> if everyone does this, there's 10% fewer masks for doctors than there'd be otherwise

Right, but the point is to make as many as possible, hopefully with a better ratio.

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