I transferred alcohol into a spray bottle so I spray them inside and out before leaving overnight. The next day I rotate which mask I use and spray both when returning the next one for the night. Each mask is sprayed twice and left for two nights between uses.
So do you have to close or can you stay open? You can say you're essential business. You're like a bank to the poor people.
Good point. I have bought 2 sets of N95, one in 2017 the other 2018 for wildfires. The first has no valve, the second one way valve and exhaling gas would not be filtered. I think the non-valved ones would be better both for preventing the wearer from being infected and obviously to keep the wearer from infecting others. I've not seen/heard this mentioned elsewhere.
That's exactly what I plan on saying. The same state division that license/oversee the banks also regulate me.
Myself, I've done nothing other than let them sit indoors untouched in a box for a week or more. Presumably any spores will have died by then... well, if what they say is true. IF.
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So, those people need a shorter fuse, so to speak. Yeah, it sucks. If that were me and I was 45 minutes away from a hospital I'd hope to have portable oxygen to tide me over in getting to a hospital, assuming that's available.
Doctors scramble for best practices on reusing medical masks during shortage
These masks aren't healthy to reuse, period. But some medical professionals have to right now.
Lots of places have patterns or directions on how to make a cloth mask, at least.I wish I could find a mask.
There aren't any left.
They like to argue they were switching to a consignment model. But assuming it's not because of a cash crunch, they're still done for. Even if they could restock all the shelves now, it's not like all those customers are coming back. They've moved on.
But not even hospitals have been able to get enough masks. Wouldn't advising everyone to start wearing them only exasperate the supply issue?
That's crazy stuff. That's like my brother-in-law. He works for medical equipment company that provides surgery equipment so he's always going into different hospitals. He's been using regular surgical masks at the hospitals. I gave him couple extra 3M N95 masks I have so he could wear it when he visits the different hospitals. He said thanks but he told me he couldn't wear the 3M N95 mask because doctors and nurses would give him the evil eye and chase him out of the hospitals because they don't have enough N95 masks themselves. So he has to keep wearing the inferior surgical masks while at the hospitals to not piss them off and keep his job. I told him that's crazy. But that's the social pressure right now. If you're not medical professional and wear N95 masks, you're somehow selfish. Being proactive and prepared is now selfish.
just tell them you had the mask from way back when you were doing some construction projects, and youve been wearing it for a month straight because thats all you have.
It's not for me. It's for my brother-in-law. He can't wear N95 masks in hospital because he's not medical professional. So I'm going to get him some KF94 masks from South Korea. That's like our N95 mask. But because the South Korea KF94 is styled differently, US doctors and nurses won't likely recognize the mask and will think it's just regular no rating mask. It's stupid I'm having to go through all this trouble for my brother-in-law when he has N95 masks he could use, but that's the reality we're living in right now. I'm doing this to protect my brother-in-law but also to protect my sister and their kids.
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