How to Make Your own Face Covering

CDC/YouTube ^ | Apr 3, 2020 | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[umgud]

Bras, especially sports bras work good.

[FtrPilot]

Here’s how the Brits are coping with the mask shortage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8XaaF_FAHw

[goldbux]

Cut a Texas grapefruit in half. Hollow out the pulp, remove the seeds, save pulp for breakfast.

Punch two small holes in each hollowed-out hemispherical grapefruit rind; one at 3 o'clock position, the other at 9 o'clock.

Loop a sturdy rubber band through each hole, and attach the rind to yer face, fastened securely to each ear by the bands.

Makes an excellent facemask to block the bioweapon virus.

The rind will block the virus strands, even though each individual virus has a mass of ~ 10^-15 gram. That's one quadrillionth of a gram = one femtogram.

The grapefruit mask delivers an extra bonus of vitamin C tang when you inhale.

It also makes a formidable fashion statement.

[umgud]

That was brief.

[MinuteGal]

Which One Has the Toni ?

Leni

[yldstrk]

Bunch of us are using neck gators

[GailA]

Simple, printable pattern, skip elastic use fabric self ties.
https://www.craftpassion.com/face-mask-sewing-pattern/#face-mask-pattern

[Sirius Lee]

That face you make - out of someone else's.

[sbnsd]

bump for later. Thanks.

[chris37]

I think you’re right about that.

[sbnsd]

Here is a simple mask, no sewing, and if you have a filter to add, I think it’d easily fit in there, and at this link, it shows what each fabric’s effectiveness is:

(https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/best-materials-make-diy-face-mask-virus/ )

https://youtu.be/hBVtkX0yJ4Y

[sbnsd]

Here’s another one with a filter compartment for those who sew:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-vIyLMgUhg

[nevermorelenore]

Not doing it

Refuse to look like China

[redcatcherb412]

If the gubbmint makes masks mandatory then the gubbmint must supply actual virus/bacterial level blocking masks with eye protection from cough/sneeze aeresols instead of just "shove any old cloth on your face" which the docs say is not effective unless you aren't distancing and get sprayed by a close cougher/spitter etc.

Drape something loose, non fitting, too open a weave letting bacteria/viruses through and believing you are protected will just make people careless thinking they are fully shielded when they're not.

[Tennessee Conservative]

Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville has posted instructions on making them to donate to the hospital. I'm using their instructions to make them for family.

Vanderbilt Homemade Masks

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk.

[VanDeKoik]

“Refuse to look like China”

Not sure how that = China.

They didnt invent them.

[Texas Fossil]

Nuts!

[ought-six]

“I saw one made with a bandana and a coffee filter (inside the folds)...then, just tie the bandana end, on back of head.”

A lot of people are using that method.

[DesertRhino]

I thought they were saying even professionally made masks offered almost no real protection?

Oh wait, that was last week...