An Army of Sewers Is Making DIY Masks for Health Care Workers. Will Hospitals Use Them?

NBC Connecticut ^ | Today | Danielle Abreu

[cba123]

Everybody's pitching in...

:)

[cba123]

https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/coronavirus/n-army-of-sewers-is-making-diy-masks-for-health-care-workers-will-hospitals-use-them/2245393

[Persevero]

Ha, I read this as sewers. Like where the toilets Dean. I was like, “What?”

[rfp1234]

Same here. An army of sewer rats?

[Prince of Space]

Me too! They could have used a different word. Thesaurus anyone? 🤣

[JPJones]

“Mary Dale Peterson, president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and chief operating officer at a Corpus Christi, Texas, children’s hospital, said she declined volunteers’ offers to make masks.”

That’s a dumb decision. She should have taken them, gratefully, and stored them.

Just in case.

[dfwgator]

“A sewer worker is like a brain surgeon. We’re both specialists.”

[yldstrk]

How to sterilize them?

[Ciaphas Cain]

Too bad we can’t use “seamstresses” anymore.

[SpaceBar]

Autoclave.

[PGR88]

Ha, I read this as sewers.

So did I. Is the correct word seamstresses or tailors?

[Macoozie]

Cloth masks keep the doctors sweat and dripping nose from contaminating the patient.
They can help on the margins, to keep YOU from infecting others if YOU are sick.

Totally inadequate for preventing viruses from getting in.

All those Hipsters will FINALLY start shaving their nasty goats as whiskers don’t make for a good seal.
That’s why WWI Gas Masks brought about the clean shave after the Whiskers of the Civil war.

[madison10]

The word used now is “sewist.”

[kingu]

Don’t forget your post office like most of the district management already has forgotten. Hand sanitizers (there’s no place to wash in the mail truck), masks and gloves are, well, for many stations, non-existent. Cleaning supplies are about the same.

[Persevero]

I think so. Not sure. Funny, anyway.

[kingu]

In the oven, 175 degrees for one hour.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Ha, I read this as sewers.

So did I. Is the correct word seamstresses or tailors?

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A clever editor could have found a work around for this word problem. Wouldn't even have taken a cunning linguist.

[I-ambush]

Can’t say “seamstress.”

[nascarnation]

[Robert DeLong]

Do they smell like sewers? Eeeww. 8>)

All joking aside, good on them. 8>)