Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of Facemasks [Make your own face mask.]

CDC ^ | March 17, 2020 | CDC

[Oatka]

[familyop]

"The gloves are disposable because they are only used temporarily, very temporary. Back to dialysis protocol, a tech goes through three sets of gloves in five minutes when connecting a patient to a dialysis machine. Once you touch a surface with the glove, it's infected."

That's worth showing here again, by the way, and very applicable to what the med tech is doing. It illustrates the level of risk involved and how easy contamination happens. Sincerely, thank you!

"It's not effective going to the grocery store, people are touching stuff all over the place and it is almost guaranteed that they would touch their face, eyes, ears or something that a bug will catch a hold of."

Well, no, it won't protect the herds of zombies around us. Wish we could save them all, but, well, see my tagline. :(

It will keep *some* of the zombie cooties off of my hands and out of my house, though, if I otherwise use the gloves properly. By the way, it's best to dispose of gloves, clothing and everything contaminated outdoors before entering the home. Then straight to the shower, and sanitize the shower and bathroom afterwards while wearing fresh, clean protection, bathroom door closed and window/exhaust fan open. Just be sure to avoid being publicly nude while doing it putting clothing and etc. in the laundry tub with a lid and full of warm water and laundry detergent outside.

Look, I've kept a large supply of those gloves (well, large from the perspective of a small family, a box of a hundred or so) for about ten years now. That's because we wore them for six of those years every time we did the unpleasant chore of emptying or servicing a travel travel trailer waste tank. Oh, and there were the times that deer mice got into the trailer or a shed (Hantavirus). Oh, and the endless sea of prairie dogs that were connected all the way across the Rockies (the Plague), our dog, etc.,... We only used cheaper nuisance dust masks for those chores involving pests, by the way. Without using them as well as we did, we probably would have been dead before now, thanks to the animal worshipers, HOA queens, local government regulators, gigantic, global NGOs, big corporations with their marketing claims about protective equipment and other groups trying to drive the rest of humanity into the ground.

[the_daug]

[Mastador1]

Hmmm, I didn’t see rat tail whip anywhere on the list, get a good sized bandana, wet it and do the rat tail fold and roll and if anyone remembers gym class you have a devastating weapon.

[exDemMom]

No scolding.

As others may have pointed out, a mask is not much protection. But it does help you to avoid touching your face, and that is an important factor in preventing disease transmission.

I can see making a whole bunch of cute, fashionable masks.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I guess everyone in Antifa is safe from coronavirus

[moovova]

I licked myself to see if I could get/give the flu from/to me. So far, I’m still healthy...except for the taste of underarm deodorant in my mouth.

(Note to self...don’t lick your armpit next time.)

[moovova]

Also, please note...

You can not wash used toilet paper in the laundry.

[caww]

Well I found my disposable gloves much better than using santizer when I went out shopping. I disposed of them when I left the store.

One family takes the cart out to where their car is and sprays the entire cart with Lysol.

You do what you can and that’s all people can do.

[caww]

I wear gloves because they do stop me from touching my face.

[Travis McGee]

5-MINUTE D.I.Y. ANTI-VIRUS FACE MASK
Posted by Matt Bracken | Mar 20, 2020
https://www.americanpartisan.org/2020/03/5-minute-d-i-y-anti-virus-face-mask/

[Travis McGee]

[familyop]

Walmart assistant managers just told cashiers and other employees to stop wearing gloves, because they were panicking customers. They also told the employees not to start wearing masks.

Some liability building up there. I wonder how many employees and family members around the U.S. will be affected by that (deaths, extreme negligence) and need to be told to seek attorneys. Looks like most attorneys are going to be busy for years taking down the big breeches targets.

[familyop]

Great mask design contribution, Sir! Thanks for your comments #31, #32 and your dedication to our country. That was the fastest response time that I’ve ever seen for posting a how-to!

[familyop]

"I can see making a whole bunch of cute, fashionable masks."

That's a great idea! It might take a tiny bit of the drain off of the supply of manufactured masks.

[Travis McGee]

That’s stupid. When everybody out and about is wearing masks, and cashiers also gloves, the spread will drop fast. This is a clear lesson from China and S. Korea.

[Travis McGee]

If you have a good pattern and a sewing machine, you can crank them out with any attractive outside pattern. HEPA cloth in the middle provides maximum protection, but the overall mask is washable. The more folks sewing these the better. Donate them to your local hospital, or sell them on E-bay, or anything in between. The more the better.

The first version uses a sewing machine, the second is hand-stitched. Both are genius.

Reusable mask DIY! Free pattern - Interchangeable filter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlrSNFC4DLs

DIY Free Reusuable mask - Sewing machine less, 30 minutes project!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdR4q9DOSws

[exDemMom]

I bet I can use my Cricut Maker to make them even faster!

[Travis McGee]

I’ll bet, and I don’t even know what a Cricut Maker is!

[exDemMom]

A Cricut Maker is a wonderful little machine that can cut cloth, paper, vinyl, thin wood, cardboard, etc., up to 12x24 inches. I have used mine to make pot holders, greeting cards, fabric and paper flowers, and all kinds of cool stuff. For a mask, all I need to do is program the machine to cut the pieces and sew them together. I love the Cricut!

https://cricut.com/en_us/cricut-maker