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• uan2

  easy way to make your own protection...make multiple ones, so you can wash and let dry for several days before reusing them.

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  • posting this to encourage proactivity. don‘t buy masks as market is still struggling to provide enough masks for health workers. make your own.uan
  • Disclaimer: These home-made masks have a 12-33% protection efficiency against Covid-19.
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  • I've been thinking to buy HEPA vacuum bags and play around with those, see if there's any way to make something neatNairn
  • also behind ear straps don't work, just pull your ear, needs to go back of head to get the right tightnessshapesalad
  • wearing a mask gives you a false sense of security, its a mental thingBennn
  • See, you've got it exactly wrong, Bennn - the mask isn't for your benefit, it's for everyone else's. We don't have that culture in the West. Yet, anyway.Nairn
  • If you want to protect yourself, you 'need' a full N95+ mask, face shield and protective clothing, which you burn when you get back home after every shop.Nairn
  • That's what's always made me smirk when I see fearful people with shitty masks - if anything, all they're doing is concentrating nasties 5mm from their mouthNairn
  • this corona thing is a learning process, masks are useful but only in combination with other measures, that are more important.uan

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