Posted on 03/27/2020 5:57:12 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
Baseball jersey fabric is going to the front lines of the fight against coronavirus.
In an effort to help mitigate the national shortage of personal protective equipment that has become a pressing issue for healthcare workers and emergency personnel battling the COVID-19 outbreak, Fanatics, the company that manufactures the official uniforms for Major League Baseball, is taking the raw materials typically used in the creation of MLB jerseys and instead using them to create masks and hospital gowns. MLB and Fanatics are absorbing all costs associated with the endeavor.
We hope this effort can play a part in coming together as a community to help us through this challenging situation, Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement.
Fanatics has halted jersey assembly, instead using its 360,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Easton, Pa., to create up to 1 million masks and gowns, with plans to produce these items as long as the need exists. The distribution of the equipment has begun throughout the state of Pennsylvania and will extend across New Jersey and New York, which has become the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States.
The initial masks and gowns have been made from the jerseys of the Phillies and Yankees -- complete with each clubs recognizable pinstripes. As production and distribution expands, other team jersey materials will be utilized.
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It’s a fool’s errand unless the thread count will block CV. But great PR.
I think the idea is to use them as covers over the masks so that it extends the use. They can be washed and sanitized.
You raise a great point. The thing about PPE- especially respirators- is that any flaw in the fit (i.e. wearing the wrong size) or an imperfect seal defeats the whole purpose of wearing one in the first place.
N95 respirators come in different sizes. Wearing the wrong size for your face distorts the mask. Distorted masks will not "seal" against your face correctly. And if you have a beard- even coarse stubble- the mask will not work.
Some have recommended applying Vaseline to the face to create a better "seal." Nope. Don't do that. The vaseline will act as a "flytrap" for particles- including viruses- that are in the air. You touch it, you get it.
As to your question: if you go into any public place with a poor-fitting or inappropriate mask (like those cheapo blue single rubber band masks that you find in any store), you may as well wear nothing at all. It won't protect you, even a little. Any gap, or the wrong type of filtration, is all it takes.
And please, don't wear a bandana or scarf over your face. Those won't work either and you may be mistaken for an antifa punk or cattle rustler.
The best things to do if you have to go out and don't have the right PPE is to watch your social distance, turn away from anyone who coughs or sneezes, wash your hands, cover you own cough or sneeze, don't touch your face, and avoid non-essential trips for the time being.
And if you have any cold or flu-like symptoms, then for God's sake stay home.
Hope this helps.
The other one was wind-whipped and torn from the big winds we have had.
Now *someone* is going to have to put the wall bracket back up that also was ripped down.
I don't do ladders....but I will hold the ladder. Honest.:)
Not as long as you and the Aard-bark (see what I did there?) stay inside while wearing those.
Now excuse me while I wipe the coffee from my monitor.
Hey, that was my line for the O’s....
just no MLB jockstraps.
Mike Lindell of “My Pillows” has turned his entire manufacturing plant over to making masks and I don’t think he needed the president to twist his arm...Good guy tho’ the commercials do get tiresome - I guess we can put up with them ...
Some folks are just too ingenious for words. ;)
'Mercans -- it's always those peculiar "Can-Do" people out to save the world in spite of itself, because that's just how we roll.
"Jezreel" means "God sews" er sows. :)
Big fixation on "gathering" these days -- we've been told not to do that.
The "tell" is the weird. When the secrets of the universe are revealed on the snack aisle, it's way past time to question the established order!
I'm thinking of a way to make a full-body suit.....to contain the shedding from our 3 Labs.
All I do,all day long, is vacuum their magical fibers of love. :)
Mike Lindell says MyPillow making masks to fight COVID-19, calls on other manufacturers to help
Whatta American hero.
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