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

[rogespeed]

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@ecar3483 wrote:

I reduced a small child (and their attendant parent, but they hid it better, ha ha) to fits of giggles at the supermarket, earlier.

They won't let you in with a trolley unless you use the hand sanitiser first.

So.. A squirt in each palm and rub my hands together while singing "Happy Birthday to you... You live in a zoo... You look like a monkey... and you smell like one too!"... ha ha.

I've done my bit to make the world a more mirthful place, ha ha...

🙂

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Our local IGA, doesnt even have trolley wipes, so I take  a cpl  of my own in a zip lock bag

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which isle are trolley wipes in?

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Not sure what you mean? I use disinfectant wipes through out my home , always  have, so I pop a cpl in a zip lock bag when I go shopping up the road  ......Make sense now?

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it was a joke

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OK  ..... I guess I didnt find it funny, particularly atm

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Trolley and basket handles being plastic can technically accumulate 3 days of active virus - how possible ? I do not know even if plausible but next time i shall take a sanitising wipe with me .... just the thought of someone else's grime.... 

[davewil1964]

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@lyhargr_0 wrote:

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@ecar3483 wrote:

I reduced a small child (and their attendant parent, but they hid it better, ha ha) to fits of giggles at the supermarket, earlier.

They won't let you in with a trolley unless you use the hand sanitiser first.

So.. A squirt in each palm and rub my hands together while singing "Happy Birthday to you... You live in a zoo... You look like a monkey... and you smell like one too!"... ha ha.

I've done my bit to make the world a more mirthful place, ha ha...

🙂

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Our local IGA, doesnt even have trolley wipes, so I take  a cpl  of my own in a zip lock bag

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which isle are trolley wipes in?

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Not sure what you mean? I use disinfectant wipes through out my home , always  have, so I pop a cpl in a zip lock bag when I go shopping up the road  ......Make sense now?

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Yep. With that system you would never have built up any immunity to anything. I'd be ultracautious if I was that silly.

[*kazumi*]

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@domino-710 wrote:

I - absolutely know - cause I haven't been anywhere.

Stop - just stop - with the carp.

Stop spreading fear - just stick with what you should have done always.

Wash your damn hands - clean your kitchen - clean your bathroom - normal hygeine.

If you have to be told this - you've been doing it wrong all along.

Sheesh.

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If you are locked in your home, I really do not know why do you bother comment in this post.  It is for people who have no choice but to go out, and who do not have masks, and may not be able to get one. 

I am not saying we should wear masks 24/7, but if we go to supermarket, or any other crowded space, it is wise.  I only go out when I   run out of milk = about once a week, but every time the shop was rather crowded.  I put the mask when I get there, and take it off when I get back into my car, I do not use the trolley as I use my walker.  The only reason I do have a mask is because I needed it at the time of the fires as my lungs are compromised, so it is now couple of months old and as our hospitals are expected to reach capacity within few weeks, it is wise to protect ourselves and do anything we can to limit spread of the virus.

[*kazumi*]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

Coronavirus: Face masks not recommended for healthy individuals, but essential for health workers and sick people

https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2020-03-25/coronavirus-covid-19-face-mask-surgical-mask-protectio...

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The government cannot say use masks when they do not have any to give us.  They need what hey have for health workers.  But in other countries most health experts agree that if person is infected wearing mask or even scarf over nose and mouth can protect others, and slow down the spread = helps to flatten the curve.  They are divided on how much it proects the person actually wearing the mask, but even if it just reduces the chance that is good enough for me. 

[domino-710]

Where did I say I was locked at home - I simply said I haven't been out.

As advised.

Australian Department of Health.

Surgical masks

If you have COVID-19, wearing a surgical mask can help to prevent spreading it to others.

If you are well, you do not need to wear a surgical mask. There is little evidence that widespread use of surgical masks in healthy people prevents transmission in public.

Find out more in our fact sheet about the use of surgical masks.

[*kazumi*]

People are contagious before they develop any symptoms; some go around for 2 weeks infecting others before they get sick.  Obviously person who is not infected cannot infect others, BUT if you have been out, you just do not know.  The moment you are for a while in situation where there are other people, there is chance of you getting infected, all it needs is to come across one person who has it.  In this moment chances are not very high, but every day there are new cases confirmed; 114 in the last 24 hours; and the numbers are growing exponentially.  We are on the same trajectory Italy was few weeks ago. 

The Chinese managed to control the outbreak, and they demanded that everybody wears mask when in public, and that is now what other countries consider good way to slow down the spread.  Our government is NOT necessarily always correct.  they change the rules every other day, and I would not be surprised if we were soon urged to wear masks when in public,

https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-do-face-masks-work.html?utm_source=Selligent&utm_medium=emai...

[domino-710]

OK - you talked me into it - I have to go out anyway. lol

[joz*garage]

This mask thing; don't doctors wear them for self protection also?

[icyfroth]

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@domino-710 wrote:

I - absolutely know - cause I haven't been anywhere.

Stop - just stop - with the carp.

Stop spreading fear - just stick with what you should have done always.

Wash your damn hands - clean your kitchen - clean your bathroom - normal hygeine.

If you have to be told this - you've been doing it wrong all along.

Sheesh.

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Totally with you on that one, Dom!

[icyfroth]

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@imastawka wrote:

Yeah, I know.

The problem with masks is, your face gets sweaty/itchy, and before you know it....

you've put your hand under it to have a scratch.

Defeats the whole purpose.

I'm practising safe computering.

I have put a surgical glove on my cursor.

Doing my bit.

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The  lady serving at my local chemist was wearing a mask and gloves today, cant say I blame her, she need to protect herself as much as possible    ...... There was also a bottle of hand sanitiser avail  on the counter, for those who chose to use it

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I find they make my glasses fog up...