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A grapefruit a day keeps the coronavirus away! Desperate Chinese resort to using FRUIT and BRAS as face masks… while pranksters mock the crisis with other hilarious alternatives
Daily Mail UK ^ | January 30, 2020 | Ross Ibbetson For Mailonline

Posted on 01/30/2020 1:24:33 PM PST by Morgana

Desperate Chinese citizens unable to buy face masks have deployed fruit rinds and plastic bottle helmets to shield against the deadly coronavirus.

Companies have been working overtime to supply citizens with protective masks amid surging demand as cases of the deadly flu-like virus soared to nearly 8,200 today.

Social media posts show people donning tangerine and grapefruit skins as masks, water-cooler bottle headgear, while pranksters have mocked the health crisis with absurd alternatives, including iceberg lettuce.

It comes as Chinese health officials warned people not to re-use their protective masks after videos emerged of people boiling their surgical masks and hanging them up to dry.

Medical experts warned that this greatly reduces the effectiveness of the masks, a spokeswoman for the Gansu province Health Commission added that they should be discarded after just four hours of use.

With more than 50 million residents on lock-down and 170 deaths in the country, some provinces such as Guangdong have mandated that people wear masks and are handing out fines for offenders.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Humor
KEYWORDS: 2019ncov; wuhanvirus
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FReepers I know some of you all are had a hand in this :P
1 posted on 01/30/2020 1:24:33 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Not quite as bad as what people wore in an attempt to avoid the Black Death.


2 posted on 01/30/2020 1:26:16 PM PST by C19fan
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To: Morgana

Grapefruit? Slowly I turned...
I don’t know why but every old person I talk about meds with, seems to be very concerned about grapefruits. They interfere with prescription drugs, or whatever. Somebody should write the song: “I can’t eat grapefruit!”
You would think they’d put a warning label on it.


3 posted on 01/30/2020 1:28:06 PM PST by Buttons12
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Fruit-Face-Mask

It pays to take precautions.

4 posted on 01/30/2020 1:29:51 PM PST by PGR88
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Surely there are teams in India call centers right now working out new and imaginative ways to take advantage of the pending global panic.


5 posted on 01/30/2020 1:30:05 PM PST by Hazwaste (Democrats are like slinkies. Only good for pushing down stairs.)
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To: Morgana

Face mask bra? Mine would be too big for my little face and no I won’t supply the pic to prove it :D
That said I am all in favor of frilly, colorful flu masks.


6 posted on 01/30/2020 1:32:33 PM PST by Buttons12
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To: Morgana

Tap tap tap...
Waiting for the Cagney picture.


7 posted on 01/30/2020 1:33:43 PM PST by Buttons12
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"Surely there are teams in India call centers right now working out new and imaginative ways to take advantage of the pending global panic."

I'm working out new and imaginative ways to take advantage of bras being worn as masks.

8 posted on 01/30/2020 1:36:05 PM PST by DannyTN
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Bra’s? I thought those were double barreled sling shots. ;-)


9 posted on 01/30/2020 1:38:55 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: Morgana
Only if you use them right.

img src="https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th/id/OIP.uGZHEgl8VnuRPhq1N6x_EQHaEB?w=300&h=163&c=7&o=5&pid=1.7">

10 posted on 01/30/2020 1:40:58 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: Morgana

When I was a freshman in high school there was a kid in my P.E. class who did not know what a jock strap was. This was in Los Angeles. We told him it was a smog filter. We showed him how to wear it on his head with the front part covering his mouth and nose. That is how he wore it on the first day of P.E. class.


11 posted on 01/30/2020 1:46:25 PM PST by forgotten man
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Can’t they just order masks on Amazon and get free two-day shipping?

Sounds like a chance for Bezos to be a hero.


12 posted on 01/30/2020 1:46:26 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Epstein pulled a Carradine, the bozo.)
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To: Morgana

These people are trying desperately to SURVIVE and they are getting mocked? The human race never ceases to amaze me.


13 posted on 01/30/2020 1:48:15 PM PST by Bitman
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To: DannyTN

“Cross Your Nose” facemask

Built-in spare...


14 posted on 01/30/2020 1:48:52 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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Hey honey, let’s sell your bras to the Chinese!


15 posted on 01/30/2020 1:58:04 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: Hazwaste

Surely there are teams in India call centers right now working out new and imaginative ways to take advantage of the pending global panic.


Huge meeting of Nairobi princes in full swing.


16 posted on 01/30/2020 1:58:07 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Can’t they just order masks on Amazon and get free two-day shipping?


good ones sold out and on way to relatives in China ‘all ur masks belong us’


17 posted on 01/30/2020 1:59:59 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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They are surely being creative. never would have dreamed of grapefruits or bras.


18 posted on 01/30/2020 2:04:22 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: forgotten man

We called it Jocksygen.


19 posted on 01/30/2020 2:05:15 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Buttons12

If you are on blood thinners (which seems to be more and more persons) grapefruit..it can cause bleeding. (as can CBDs BTW)


20 posted on 01/30/2020 2:11:39 PM PST by kaktuskid
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