Have you bought some face masks?

[rgG]

People are buying every dust/face mask we have. It is crazy.
This has been going on for a month and seems to be getting even worse.
We are mostly OOS but sometimes we will get a few in and then they fly off the shelves. lol

People that just need to keep dust out when doing a project are SOL.

[decay]

They don't stop germs, do they?

[decay]

N95 respirator mask is what you want.

[mattkime]

No, as there is only one confirmed case near us. There were over a dozen suspected cases that turned out _not_ to be covid 19.

Its best to allow them to be distributed to those who need them. Its silly to grab them from the shelves thinking its going to make a difference.

We do have a pretty good store of meat and kinds bars. Would leave the house for fruit and veg.

[jdc]

decay wrote:
N95 respirator mask is what you want.

Fitted by someone with training. And bad if you have current respiratory issues.

Wife spent 2 years working in bio-terrorism department for the County, and 15 years before that in infectious diseases/stds (hiv/aids/hep c) etc.

Shes "meh" on the whole thing so far.

[NewtonMP2100]

[Gareth]

decay wrote:
They don't stop germs, do they?

N95 respirator mask is what you want.

The actual virus is smaller than what an N95 mask would filter out, but assuming it's carried in a sneeze or cough, it might filter out the particles carrying the virus.

Although you have it use it properly! The local news was interviewing folks at LAX a while back and the two guys wearing N95 masks hadn't bothered to pinch the nose bridge, making the masks about as effective as a surgeon's mask (which isn't designed to filter you from the outside world, but rather protect the outside world from you).

If I was going to wear a mask, it would be a half mask respirator, and that would probably freak people out, but I find it way more comfortable and easier to breath in than the disposable kind.

[MrNoBody]

Got free ones last week when I had outpatient hospital appointments.
They have boxes of them @ every entrance!

[NewtonMP2100]

......Masks.......of the Red Death......????

[jh]

There was a little girl, and she had a little bird, And she called it by the pretty name of Enza; But one day it flew away, but it didn't go to stay, For when she raised the window, in-flu-Enza.

One of my grandfathers almost died from the "Spanish Flu". PBS American Experience had a informative program a while back about the it.