Adding A Nylon Stocking Layer Could Boost Protection From Cloth Masks, Study Finds

NPR ^ | April 22, 20201:34 PM ET | Maria Godoy at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C.

[conservative98]

Didn't ask, for Hillary's permission

[pa_dweller]

People are making masks out of bra cups. Add panty hose on top of that and ... lingerie is back in style again.==========+=======

And now it’s unisex!

[markoman]

Nylon??

I thought is was silk.

Marko

[JohnnyP]

I dreamed I was the president, in my Maidenform Bra.

[Mashood]

Don’t forget the propeller cap...very important...

[TribalPrincess2U]

It’s complicated.

[Boogieman]

In olden days, a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. But now, Heaven knows, anything goes.

[DugwayDuke]

Parmy wrote: “That’s right. I have seen people pick up their mask from the center console in their car seat. Put it on their faces with unsanitary hands. Go into the store and touch the cart and other surfaces. Pay their bill and go to their car and take off their dirty mask with their dirty hands.”

Why does that matter? These masks do not protect you from getting the virus. They do prevent those who have the virus from spreading it.

[JayAr36]

So would a plastic bag. Tie tightly.

More BS from the frightened children of Whinmerica.

[KarlInOhio]

JMHO, but if you make the mask material so thick and impervious that air won’t flow relatively easily through it, the aspirations of the wearer will merely move the air AROUND the mask, through any available opening at the nose, etc., and there will be no filtering taking place at all. 

At work we have to wear a mask when outside of the office or cubicle. One worker has a beard that looks loke a cross between Amish and Mountain Man. Unless his beard has some type of antiviral properties, that mask does nothing except filter a sneeze.

We got a whole list of instructions about cleaning hands before and after putting on and taking off the mask, how to store it and how to wash it daily. It looked like the suiting up scenes from The Hot Zone. I have seen no one follow those instructions.

[CurlyDave]

...That's right. I have seen people pick up their mask from the center console in their car seat. Put it on their faces with unsanitary hands. Go into the store and touch the cart and other surfaces. Pay their bill and go to their car and take off their dirty mask with their dirty hands...

Maybe you have seen me. I am older, with other health issues, and have an N95 mask I keep in a brown paper bag. Maybe 2 or 3 times a week I go out to a store. I drive my own car, which no one else has been in for months, without the mask. I park, put on the mask and get whatever I need. Then I stop in the washroom and wash my hands thoroughly. I get back in my car without touching anything in the store, and take the mask off.

Now just where in that process did my "dirty hands" have a chance to pick something up?

I am conserving N95 masks for other people. I have worn one for several weeks, but probably a total of less than 8 hours.

[spokeshave]

One worker has a beard that looks loke a cross between Amish and Mountain Man.

Is this the guy?

[beef]

“Well, women don’t seem to wear stockings for anything any more”

That’s better than mashed down leg hair.

[beef]

“Pick up their dirty mask with their dirty hands and put it on their faces and go into the store”

What are we supposed to do? Have our Mommy’s put it on for us? The mask is there to keep your germs in, not other people germs out.

[Bob434]

cut a small piece, and glue it to the mask-

[9YearLurker]

Nylon??

I thought it was pantyhose.

[shanover]

The world around me is a clown show.

[Bob434]

one thing to help is to take and soak your mask with hand sanitizer, or rubbing alcohol, or hydrogen peroxide- or even just soap and water when you take it off (keep small bottle of hand sanitizer, or soapy water even- keep it in a soda bottle or soemthing- in car for those times when you gotta shop or get gas or whatever)- then do hands after cleaning the mask briefly- - You could also spray it with lysol but when you get home clean it with soap and water to get lysol off the mask- don’t wanna breath that in-

[Bob434]

oh an i keep hearing and seeing articles saying ‘masks are to prevent people from transmitting the virus- but not for protecting against getting the virus’- if that is true- why does the mask prevent particles from going out, but it can’t prevent them from coming in? and m ost articles that say it doesn’t prevent catching the virus- go on to claim people are putting doctors and nurses at risk by hoarding the masks- but wait- i thought masks didn’t prevent people from getting it? If so, why do docs and nurses need them to be protected?

something isn’t adding up-

[Parmy]

To all you guys that wear masks. If it makes you feel safe and better, by all means wear the thing. No matter how long you wear it or as many times you have breathed into it. Good luck!