Handy to know-how to make mask

[*kazumi*]

If you cannot buy one, you can make one.  Apparently, in the USA even doctors use home made ones if they cannot get supply of the real thing.  Not the best, but better than nothing.

https://www.livescience.com/cloth-masks-coronavirus.html

[icyfroth]

Or...we could go back to baking our own...like previous generattions did....

Seeing we're so BORED at home.

There's plenty of flour and yeast on the shelves.

[ambercat16]

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@icyfroth wrote:

Or...we could go back to baking our own...like previous generattions did....

Seeing we're so BORED at home.

There's plenty of flour and yeast on the shelves.

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Not in NZ😳.  

In Aus supermarkets are running out of toilet paper, in NZ it's flour and yeast.  I would be interested to know what the shortages are in some other countries 😉.  Might be an insight into the people of the countries (would be an interesting project for someone)

[davidc4430]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

if only some smarty would start a milk and bread delivery service huh?

you could have a cart pulled by an old plodding horse even

hmmm, thats thinking 'outside the box'

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think about it

hundreds employed building carts

hundreds of horses saved as cart pullers

ex footballers employed as delivery drivers (good excercise running along side the cart!)

free manure for gardens!

win win win situation!

[*kazumi*]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

i know even though i dont need it now

if i see toot paper i'll be buying what i can

ive believed all the 'dont panic there is plenty' stories but ive stopped believing now

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In hindsight, those who panicked and stocked up on toilet paper might have been the smart ones. At least they can now lock themselves away in the safety of their homes for many, many motions while others brave the supermarkets at their risk.

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Yes, it certainly would be good for individuals to have 6 months of supplies, and never have o leave the house.  I have hear it is a bedlam in our supermarket; my daughter walked by and apparently there was a long line of car waiting to get into the car park.  Normally, our car park is half empty, only the day before Xmas it is anywhere near full.  So, I would hate to have to go in,  But there was no way that there was enough for everybody for 6 months. 

There should have been plan for pandemic made ages ago.  It would not have been difficult to have ready rationing scheme that could be rolled out quickly.  Maybe using medicare card as base, as each has dependents listed.  Everybody would then get a card with the monthly allocation of staples that would have to be scanned. 

UK had ration coupons during WW2; they managed when they were under threat from Germany and had hundreds of thousands refugees from Europe. 

So now they shortened the shopping hours, which means the store is always crowded.  That is counterproductive.  It puts everybody on edge, and in lot more danger.

[*kazumi*]

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@lurker172602 wrote:

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Check out the listings ......

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The masks people are using are not being taken out of hospitals; those on eBay and other places are coming directly from China.  The government can commandeer the whole import consignment if they need to.  And people protecting themselves could mean less people getting so sick they need to go to hospital.  All the countries that are managing to keep their numbers of cases relatively low have mandated wearing of masks.  I am sure there are other factors in play, but that is what they all have in common. 

[davidc4430]

although i dont believe the wearing of masks will stop one getting the virus or giving it to others

i can see a point when some out there will be of the belief anyone not masking up is a threat, 

and we may well see a problem between the masked vs the unmasked citizens.

as the authorities are not out there being very clear on the mask situation its not a huge strech to see some with little knowledge deciding 'they know best' and casting the first stones at the unclean! (so to speak)

i honestly dont know if wearing any kind of mask, be it a simple cloth mask to a super expensive wizz bang mask, makes any real difference to us plebs.

i get it when i see it in health care workers, different situation when your in the trenches dealing with the sick.

[lionrose.7]

Just get a pair of cotton Knickers, put your head through one leg hole, twist and put the other leg over you hair.

I tried it and had the neighbours in fits of laughter, I am so bored LOL

[davidc4430]

this is how i allways go online?

[imastawka]

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@icyfroth wrote:

Or...we could go back to baking our own...like previous generattions did....

Seeing we're so BORED at home.

There's plenty of flour and yeast on the shelves.

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I'm not bored.   I bake my own bread.

Minimal flour available, and no yeast to be had in Melbourne that I can find.

Not even on the net in Australia.

I still have some, but yeast tends to die over time and not work.

[davidc4430]

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@imastawka wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

Or...we could go back to baking our own...like previous generattions did....

Seeing we're so BORED at home.

There's plenty of flour and yeast on the shelves.

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I'm not bored.   I bake my own bread.

Minimal flour available, and no yeast to be had in Melbourne that I can find.

Not even on the net in Australia.

I still have some, but yeast tends to die over time and not work.

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i was thinking the same, flour has been listed as an item sold out.

not something i buy much of, happy to buy bread allready cooked.

so far breads been available as has milk and pet food