Posted on 04/15/2020 8:14:15 AM PDT by fwdude
Facemasks made of leftover fabric from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt are being donated to the homeless and those suffering from substance abuse, according to People Magazine.
The quilt was the brainchild of activist Cleve Jones who saw it as a way to honor the lives of those taken too soon during the AIDS crisis.
The National AIDS Memorial had planned on displaying the quilt in San Francisco this April after spending 20 years in Atlanta. The introduction of social restrictions in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic cancelled those plans, though. Immediately recognizing the dangers inherent in the current crisis, the creators of the quilt quickly identified an urgent area of need and sprang into action.
(Excerpt) Read more at hivplusmag.com ...
Everyone has AIDS
My grandma and my dog ‘ol blue
(AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The pope has got it and so do you
(AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
C’mon everybody we got quilting to do
(AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
We gotta break down these barricades, everyone has
AIDS, AIDS, AIDS
AIDS, AIDS, AIDS
AIDS, AIDS, AIDS
Take my blood donation
No questions asked
AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS
Shouldn’t they repurpose that cloth into the “COVID Quilt”?
I just want them to keep these diseased rags out of the general public.
How special.
I've known zero people who died from coronavirus.
No thanks.
I took my young son to a San Francisco Giants baseball game about 23 years ago and they unfurled that monstrosity on the field. Try explaining that to your six year old.
The main seamtress will be using leftover material from a project of 20 years ago. I would not chose that fabric for face masks. We have no idea how sterile it is. Twenty year old fabric tends to fall apart easily.
I also would not play up the connection between the free masks and the AIDS Quilt. That seems kind of morbid, and may make a few folks uncomfortable. But then, these are not really for the general public anyway. Special interest groups will get them first.
Gross
Faux-chi will be happy.
I’m surprised that the Quilt isn’t already in the American Museum at the Smithsonian. It does exemplify a defining moment in the history of our country, doesn’t it? /s
That’s right up there with Clinton selling prisoners blood with aids to Canada.
Things I had read suggested that cloth is not a suitable material for a covid-19 mask. Any truth to that?
This wont actually happen OR make any meaningful difference.... it is only PUBLICITY.
That would make sense.
Yeah thats what I want to breath in. Rather have a mask made from asbestos!
My mask smells funny..?
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