Question: Coronavirus & home sewn masks?

Being allowed out masked, is surely better than having to stay contained much longer?

This article says shops in LA will only serve customers wearing masks. Sounds sensible I think.

https://totallythebomb.com/if-youre-not-wearing-a-mask-you-are-part-of-the-problem

 

Enjoy this little video, of mask clad bunnies for Easter. Happy Easter!
I note, however, the chap making these is not mask clad!
https://nationalpost.com/news/world...ies-with-protective-masks-for-covid-19-easter

 

Hmm, the trouble with that, as I see it, is that I can think of at least 3 different types of dish towel:
- linen ones (e.g. the sort of thing sold as souvenirs the world over)
- cotton ones
- towelling or other fluffy ones.

Which is meant, and is there a significant difference between their relative particle-trapping abilities?

 

The picture shows the traditional check cotton one that is soft and absorbent but not fluffy. I think linen would have big holes. Towelling would be too hot and stuffy. The check cotton ones would seem likely to be good to me because their absorbency reflects a fairly deep mesh of fine fibres.

 

Apologies for cross-posting (I just mentioned this on the 'spread' thread) but I just caught a guy on BBC Radio 4 saying that the exit strategy (?) in the UK would involve more wearing of masks. He was talking about the bluetooth contact-tracing idea, among other things. Didn't catch his name.

I'm still surprised that we in the UK are so late to be told to adopt masks and that it's being left to individuals to make that choice.

 

It also conflicts with herd immunity strategy, which I am not convinced ever disappeared

 

Think that was David Nabarro, who is the guy who didn't get the job at WHO got by Tedros. He works in WHO. I think the subtext was that he thinks masks are an essential part of a control strategy but he cannot say anything that goes against WHO policy.

I think it was him who also mentioned neighbourhood tracing groups. That sounds pretty much like telling people to take charge of their own destiny like neighbourhood watch groups for crime.

 

Mask wearing.
(Article is also shared on the other thread about masks)

https://www.fast.ai/2020/04/13/masks-summary/

 

Canada Post here in Metro Vancouver has always left small packages outside. The large packages that are delivered by truck, if no one is home, are taken to a local post office and you have to pick them up there.

I've noticed that some of the postal workers are wearing masks, and others are not.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2eZT3RldfY

 

I've noticed a lot of homemade cotton masks now being offered on Ebay for about £5-10 including postage. These include the type where you can insert a filter.

 

Thanks for posting this other option @Sean I've tried it. Nice and easy to follow and will be good for the winter months.

 

Hmmmm

BBC:
Coronavirus: UK to be 'guided by scientists' on face masks

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52321378

They suggest at the end masks “ may do more harm than good”.

Really don’t know how they reach that conclusion

 

I think it is because people keep touching their faces to make the mask comfortable and to talk to people but it can also give a false sense of security and stop them social distancing. Two people with masks on may feel they can stand closer.

They know that as more safety measures have been put into cars the more risks some drivers take. It may not be a problem now, but I saw a programme years ago which said that as cars got safer more pedestrians were injured.

I think wearing masks should be the norm, but the decision to make them compulsory is not completely straightforward and thought is going into it.

 

I liked the way Fiona Bruce on Question Time kept saying 'well masks seem quite a good idea then?' while surrounded by idiots.