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Folded Cloth Masks
self | 03/30/2020 | Brian Grifin

Posted on 03/31/2020 4:39:10 PM PDT by Brian Griffin

Cut a sheet into one by two feet pieces. Place a two-foot long piece of string in the middle of a piece. Fold the piece over the string. Loop the string over your ears. Flop the outer half of the piece over your head. Tie(or knot) the string around the lower half of the piece and your throat. Fold the top half of the piece back down. Put on eyeglasses to close off bridge of nose openings. To remove, cut string if exposed to hazard and discard, or if not, slip string over ears for reuse.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: cheap; clothmasks; diyfacemasks; easy; facemasks; mask; n95
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To: yarddog

I have some from Lowe’s for mowing that say N95 on the mask.


41 posted on 03/31/2020 5:47:02 PM PDT by Hattie
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To: Hattie

Mine came from Walmart and all the disclaimers may be more for liability purposes.


42 posted on 03/31/2020 5:50:06 PM PDT by yarddog ( For I am persuaded.)
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To: entropy12
"...keep the non-refrigerated stuff in the garage for a day or so."

LOL!! I live in an apartment, third floor. No garage in sight. But if I have more than I can carry upstairs on one trip, I leave the non-perishables in the car for a day or two until I go back out again.

43 posted on 03/31/2020 5:56:08 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

I used to live in a 3rd floor condo with NO elevator! Thankfully last June we moved into a one floor house.

So yes, leaving stuff in car for some hours will kill the virus.


44 posted on 03/31/2020 6:10:17 PM PDT by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or want gov't to guarantee your wages.)
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To: Brian Griffin
Nope. Won't protect you. A virus is far, far smaller than dust particles. You either need a REAL (not workshop special) N95-rated mask OR a CAPR/PAPR.

But if you want a false sense of security, go right ahead.

45 posted on 03/31/2020 6:17:13 PM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: entropy12

No elevator here either. I’m 72, so I make as few trips up and down the stairs as I can.


46 posted on 03/31/2020 6:21:42 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

lol

Well I went to high school 20 years later than your but 40 years earlier than now so I am more in line with your way of thinking.

There’s little discipline and what little there is isn’t enforced.

We’ve a lost generation on our hands and I hope they find their way back.


47 posted on 03/31/2020 6:29:23 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: dp0622
"We’ve a lost generation on our hands and I hope they find their way back."

Sadly, it won't be during my lifetime.

48 posted on 03/31/2020 6:36:00 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

Well here’s to hoping your lifetime has a lot more years in it.

Mom’s 87 and I got aunts and uncles in their 90s.

And they still make sense when they talk :)


49 posted on 03/31/2020 6:39:50 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Haha! I live in Harwich. Stay away from the masked people. They’re either weird, infected or both.
50 posted on 03/31/2020 6:41:37 PM PDT by chapin2500 ( MAGA is in progress)
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To: dp0622
"Well here’s to hoping your lifetime has a lot more years in it."

I'd like to hope so, but longevity doesn't run in my family. I'm the last one left...the only one that didn't smoke. My father died first at 72, mother at 69, brother at 51, one sister at 69, and the oldest sibling at 74. Father, Mother, and the one sister who died at 69 (on her birthday), all died of lung cancer. Brother died of a massive heart attack, and the oldest died of a stroke. At 72, sometimes I feel like I'm living on borrow time.

51 posted on 03/31/2020 7:19:41 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: chapin2500

FYI ... red bandanna guy was sighted at the Orleans Stop & Shop.


52 posted on 03/31/2020 7:48:08 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: mass55th

I am truly sorry you lost so many loved ones at what are now considered relatively young ages.

My pop and Uncle Ralph smoked. Died at 62 and 55.

You didn’t smoke. I’m betting you’re a strong guy.

I’m not a superstitious person but some of us Sicilians have a 6th sense on some things. Both the good and the bad.

I’m almost certain we will be exchanging posts on this board in 2030.

Don’t bet against it :)


53 posted on 03/31/2020 8:00:01 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: dp0622
"You didn’t smoke. I’m betting you’re a strong guy."

I'm an old lady, but I do like to think I'm strong/tough.

56 posted on 03/31/2020 10:49:30 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Brian Griffin

I hear silk panties also work...


57 posted on 04/01/2020 3:51:24 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: trebb

You wear silk panties to work?

I still get tripped up on the sequence where we are to slit our throat and sew our nostrils shut.... I’ll try one more time after I reread it. Reading comprehension has always been a challenge. <;^0


58 posted on 04/01/2020 3:59:12 AM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: Cvengr
Nah, if I wore the silk panties, I wouldn't want to use them as a "mask"....

Just a tongue in.....ummmmm....cheek comment.

59 posted on 04/02/2020 3:01:13 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Gotta get these to go with my mask.

Cheap, light weight, and snug.

ps -- These experts keep saying we get the damn disease from our mouth and eyes. Here is a great eye protection.

60 posted on 04/03/2020 3:34:37 PM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it unusual...)
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