HOMEMADE MASKS? - Page 2

1Snickers · ‎03-19-2016

As a child I recall helping my grandmother roll bandages for the WW 2 soldiers. I don't know how they were sterilized or if they were.

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

@1Snickers -

Wow, that is an amazing memory

and legacy!

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew. Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

1Snickers · ‎03-19-2016

@on the bay We also saved aluminum foil and rolled it in balls to be reused. (Even from chewing gum wrappers). Red rationing stamps fascinated me. people all helped then.

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

@1Snickers -

I can imagine they did!

My mother still washes tin foil and plastic bags!😳

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew. Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

Dusty1 · ‎03-10-2010

I suspect it is mostly to make people feel like they are doing something productive & helpful.

My aunt that works at a hospital requested seamstresses to make masks.

My local quilt shop cut the fabric, batting & elastic (all things that they donated) & put them into kits to make 25 masks for our local hospital.

I doubt that they are very effective masks, but I will "roll my bandages" because people that I care about asked me to.

KrissyE · ‎08-17-2014

The masks aren't contaminated. The material they are made from lets in particles of the virus potentially.

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

@KrissyE wrote:
The masks aren't contaminated. The material they are made from lets in particles of the virus potentially.

@KrissyE That's worse than if the people making them or someone in the house is carrying the virus.

CelticCrafter · ‎03-09-2010

@Shanus wrote:
@KrissyE wrote:
The masks aren't contaminated. The material they are made from lets in particles of the virus potentially.

@KrissyE That's worse than if the people making them or someone in the house is carrying the virus.

All the posts I've seen about homemade masks say to leave an opening in the top so that some sort of a filter can be put in them.

As far as the filter I've heard coffee filters, rinsed and dried Clorox or Lysol wipes, tee shirt fabric and interfacing.

I don't who are using all these homemade masks, I think it makes people feel like they are doing something useful and good.

If a lot of places aren't taking them, it's a waste of well meaning peoples time and material.

Scooby Doo · ‎03-14-2010

These home made masks are not meant to replace the hospital N95 mask. They will be a cover to go over the N95 mask and will help to prolong use of the N95. Many nurses are given one N95 that has to last them all day. The fabric mask can be changed and washed several times a day.

riley1 · ‎03-10-2010

@Shanus - Hospitals in my area have said they cannot be used by medical staff. So, while the thought is wonderful, many other people may get use out of them.