Almost everyone can make a mask at home from materials around their home. Wearing one in public is already a requirement in the Czech Republic:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/03/28/masks-all-coronavirus/
Almost everyone can make a mask at home from materials around their home. Wearing one in public is already a requirement in the Czech Republic:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/03/28/masks-all-coronavirus/
"Austria will require the public to wear basic face masks in supermarkets, where they will be handed out probably from Wednesday in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus."
...“Many cannot imagine what is heading our way within weeks, but the truth is that this is the calm before the storm. And to tell how horrific that storm can be, you can look at our neighbour Italy,” Kurz said, referring to hospitals unable to cope with the number of sick people, and hundreds of dead a day.
The rate of infection remains “far too high”, Kurz said, adding that less than medical-grade masks would be distributed this week, probably from Wednesday.
“As of the moment, these masks are handed out in front of supermarkets it will be compulsory to wear them in supermarkets,” Kurz said, adding that the aim in the medium-term was for people to wear them in public more generally as well.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...asks-compulsory-in-supermarkets-idUSKBN21H16A
...“Many cannot imagine what is heading our way within weeks, but the truth is that this is the calm before the storm. And to tell how horrific that storm can be, you can look at our neighbour Italy,” Kurz said, referring to hospitals unable to cope with the number of sick people, and hundreds of dead a day.
The rate of infection remains “far too high”, Kurz said, adding that less than medical-grade masks would be distributed this week, probably from Wednesday.
“As of the moment, these masks are handed out in front of supermarkets it will be compulsory to wear them in supermarkets,” Kurz said, adding that the aim in the medium-term was for people to wear them in public more generally as well.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...asks-compulsory-in-supermarkets-idUSKBN21H16A
"U.S. Reviews Guidance on Masks to Fight Coronavirus as Europe Embraces Their Use
New evidence of asymptomatic transmission supports Asian practice: To make infected people wear masks, make everybody wear one
U.S. public-health authorities are reviewing recommendations for wearing face masks and a wave of European governments have ordered citizens to use them outside the home, signaling a shift among Western governments on a contentious issue in the coronavirus pandemic.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-re...urope-embraces-their-use-11585676543?mod=e2tw
"European governments have ordered citizens to use them outside the home, signaling a shift among Western governments..."
https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1245221890811138055
"Calls grow for Germany-wide use of face masks
Regional officials urge federal government to make usage mandatory to counter Covid-19
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/31/calls-grow-for-germany-wide-use-of-face-masks-covid-19
New evidence of asymptomatic transmission supports Asian practice: To make infected people wear masks, make everybody wear one
U.S. public-health authorities are reviewing recommendations for wearing face masks and a wave of European governments have ordered citizens to use them outside the home, signaling a shift among Western governments on a contentious issue in the coronavirus pandemic.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-re...urope-embraces-their-use-11585676543?mod=e2tw
"European governments have ordered citizens to use them outside the home, signaling a shift among Western governments..."
https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1245221890811138055
"Calls grow for Germany-wide use of face masks
Regional officials urge federal government to make usage mandatory to counter Covid-19
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/31/calls-grow-for-germany-wide-use-of-face-masks-covid-19
"[FONT="]After Austria ordered shoppers to cover their mouths and noses in supermarkets, increasing numbers of regional officials in neighbouring Germany are urging the federal government to introduce a similar rule. The Czech Republic and Slovakia have also just made masks mandatory.
[/FONT][FONT="]On Tuesday, the eastern city of Jena became the first German municipality to order mask use in shops and on public transport, though authorities are encouraging people to sew their own, or wear a protective cloth, rather than seek out medical masks which are in short supply.
...Earlier this week, the head of the German association of supermarkets, Nils Busch-Petersen, appealed to shoppers to wear masks, or some form of mouth and nose protection, for the safety of workers, who he said needed to know that shoppers were making an effort to keep them safe. German supermarkets have already taken measures such as putting cashiers behind perspex windows and employing a person at the entrance to disinfect every supermarket trolley.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/31/calls-grow-for-germany-wide-use-of-face-masks-covid-19[/FONT]
[/FONT][FONT="]On Tuesday, the eastern city of Jena became the first German municipality to order mask use in shops and on public transport, though authorities are encouraging people to sew their own, or wear a protective cloth, rather than seek out medical masks which are in short supply.
...Earlier this week, the head of the German association of supermarkets, Nils Busch-Petersen, appealed to shoppers to wear masks, or some form of mouth and nose protection, for the safety of workers, who he said needed to know that shoppers were making an effort to keep them safe. German supermarkets have already taken measures such as putting cashiers behind perspex windows and employing a person at the entrance to disinfect every supermarket trolley.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/31/calls-grow-for-germany-wide-use-of-face-masks-covid-19[/FONT]
"Fauci: Mask-wearing recommendation under ‘very serious consideration’
Administration officials have offered varying assessments of the mitigation measure in recent days.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, revealed on Tuesday that the White House coronavirus task force is seriously considering guidance that Americans wear masks to help thwart the rapid spread of COVID-19.
...“The idea of getting a much more broad, community-wide use of masks outside of the health care setting is under very active discussion at the task force. The CDC group is looking at that very carefully,” Fauci told CNN.
“The thing that has inhibited that a bit is to make sure that we don’t take away the supply of masks from the health care workers who need them,” he continued. “But once we get in a situation where we have enough masks, I believe there will be some very serious consideration about more broadening this recommendation of using masks.”
Fauci cautioned that while “we’re not there yet,” he said he believed the task force was “close to coming to some determination” soon on whether to expand the administration’s recommended mitigation measures to include masks.
“Because if, in fact, a person who may or may not be infected wants to prevent infecting someone else, one of the best ways to do that is with a mask. So perhaps that’s the way to go,” he said, adding that the subject was “under very active consideration” and would be raised at the task force’s meeting on Tuesday afternoon.
Some public health experts, including former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, have suggested that encouraging the wearing of masks in public could help curb the rate of COVID-19 transmission in the United States, which now has more confirmed cases than anywhere else in the world.
More than 174,000 Americans have become infected, and at least 3,416 have perished as a result of the disease. Because of limited testing capacity, experts agree the actual number of positive cases is much greater.
President Donald Trump on Monday said he had taken note of the mask proposal, outlined in a recent report Gottlieb co-authored, and that it could be possible that Americans will be directed to wear the face coverings “for a short period of time.”
“We’ll take a look at it. For a period of time, not forever. I mean, you know, we want our country back. We’re not going to be wearing masks forever,” Trump said at the task force’s daily press briefing.
...the administration’s current advocacy against masks is at odds with the views of several other countries fighting the coronavirus, some of which have proven more successful in halting its proliferation.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/31/fauci-mask-recommendation-coronavirus-157476
Administration officials have offered varying assessments of the mitigation measure in recent days.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, revealed on Tuesday that the White House coronavirus task force is seriously considering guidance that Americans wear masks to help thwart the rapid spread of COVID-19.
...“The idea of getting a much more broad, community-wide use of masks outside of the health care setting is under very active discussion at the task force. The CDC group is looking at that very carefully,” Fauci told CNN.
“The thing that has inhibited that a bit is to make sure that we don’t take away the supply of masks from the health care workers who need them,” he continued. “But once we get in a situation where we have enough masks, I believe there will be some very serious consideration about more broadening this recommendation of using masks.”
Fauci cautioned that while “we’re not there yet,” he said he believed the task force was “close to coming to some determination” soon on whether to expand the administration’s recommended mitigation measures to include masks.
“Because if, in fact, a person who may or may not be infected wants to prevent infecting someone else, one of the best ways to do that is with a mask. So perhaps that’s the way to go,” he said, adding that the subject was “under very active consideration” and would be raised at the task force’s meeting on Tuesday afternoon.
Some public health experts, including former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, have suggested that encouraging the wearing of masks in public could help curb the rate of COVID-19 transmission in the United States, which now has more confirmed cases than anywhere else in the world.
More than 174,000 Americans have become infected, and at least 3,416 have perished as a result of the disease. Because of limited testing capacity, experts agree the actual number of positive cases is much greater.
President Donald Trump on Monday said he had taken note of the mask proposal, outlined in a recent report Gottlieb co-authored, and that it could be possible that Americans will be directed to wear the face coverings “for a short period of time.”
“We’ll take a look at it. For a period of time, not forever. I mean, you know, we want our country back. We’re not going to be wearing masks forever,” Trump said at the task force’s daily press briefing.
...the administration’s current advocacy against masks is at odds with the views of several other countries fighting the coronavirus, some of which have proven more successful in halting its proliferation.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/31/fauci-mask-recommendation-coronavirus-157476
"A federal official said Tuesday that the C.D.C.’s review of mask wearing for the public stemmed from a request by the White House coronavirus task force, which is leaning toward recommending it.
...Dr. Fauci said: “The idea of getting a much more broad communitywide use of masks outside of the health care setting is under very active discussion at the task force. The C.D.C. group is looking at that very carefully.”
...If everyone wears a mask, individuals protect one another, reducing overall community transmission. And places like Hong Kong and Taiwan that jumped to action early with social distancing and universal mask wearing have gotten their cases under much greater control.
There have been troubling reports that indicate the coronavirus may be able to travel farther in the air and stay in the environment longer than is possible by respiratory droplets, which have so far been assumed to be the primary mode of transmission of the virus.
One study in Singapore found traces of the virus in air vents in patient isolation rooms. In another study, researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center detected extensive contamination in patient rooms as well as in air samples collected from the hallways outside rooms.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, said in an interview on Sunday that the C.D.C. should put out designs for cloth masks for the public. “The value of the mask isn’t necessarily to protect you from getting sick, although it may offer some protection,” he told CBS News. “It’s to protect you from other people. So when someone who’s infected is wearing a mask, they’re much less likely to transmit infection.”
He said studies involving the flu suggested that you could reduce your ability to spread the flu by about 50 percent if you wore a mask.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/health/cdc-masks-coronavirus.html
...Dr. Fauci said: “The idea of getting a much more broad communitywide use of masks outside of the health care setting is under very active discussion at the task force. The C.D.C. group is looking at that very carefully.”
...If everyone wears a mask, individuals protect one another, reducing overall community transmission. And places like Hong Kong and Taiwan that jumped to action early with social distancing and universal mask wearing have gotten their cases under much greater control.
There have been troubling reports that indicate the coronavirus may be able to travel farther in the air and stay in the environment longer than is possible by respiratory droplets, which have so far been assumed to be the primary mode of transmission of the virus.
One study in Singapore found traces of the virus in air vents in patient isolation rooms. In another study, researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center detected extensive contamination in patient rooms as well as in air samples collected from the hallways outside rooms.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, said in an interview on Sunday that the C.D.C. should put out designs for cloth masks for the public. “The value of the mask isn’t necessarily to protect you from getting sick, although it may offer some protection,” he told CBS News. “It’s to protect you from other people. So when someone who’s infected is wearing a mask, they’re much less likely to transmit infection.”
He said studies involving the flu suggested that you could reduce your ability to spread the flu by about 50 percent if you wore a mask.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/health/cdc-masks-coronavirus.html
"[FONT="]Disease spread through both direct (droplet and person-to-person) as well as indirect contact (contaminated objects and airborne transmission) are indicated, supporting the use of airborne isolation precautions."
[/FONT]https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.23.20039446v2
[/FONT]https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.23.20039446v2
Another reason given to wear a mask is...even if while wearing one you become infected, there is a "much better chance of "starting [at a] small" low inoculum level= a much better disease outcome".
This is explained in the following video from about 18 minutes in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1256&v=2w9M6K9vSUM&feature=emb_title
This is explained in the following video from about 18 minutes in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1256&v=2w9M6K9vSUM&feature=emb_title
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti urging residents to wear masks....
https://time.com/5814245/los-angeles-coronavirus-masks/
https://time.com/5814245/los-angeles-coronavirus-masks/
Vancouver hospital rejects masks' donation.
Many authorities have been concerned about the public purchasing masks they claim are needed by hospitals. I recently contacted a downtown hospital concerning 50 medical masks i had obtained. These masks were not N95's but similar to these:
https://www.amazon.com/Disposable-S...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=G8WT3BD68NETQWC67D0Q
The hospital (St. Paul's) informed me they would not accept these masks because they need to be sealed. So maybe hospitals are not really so desperate for masks?
Those masks say "disposable" but i wonder if they can be sterilized & reused &/or some tissue or plastic material placed between them and the user's face for safety before reuse.
In other news, i noticed that way more people are wearing masks than a week or two ago, both employees in stores & pedestrians walking about.
Many authorities have been concerned about the public purchasing masks they claim are needed by hospitals. I recently contacted a downtown hospital concerning 50 medical masks i had obtained. These masks were not N95's but similar to these:
https://www.amazon.com/Disposable-S...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=G8WT3BD68NETQWC67D0Q
The hospital (St. Paul's) informed me they would not accept these masks because they need to be sealed. So maybe hospitals are not really so desperate for masks?
Those masks say "disposable" but i wonder if they can be sterilized & reused &/or some tissue or plastic material placed between them and the user's face for safety before reuse.
In other news, i noticed that way more people are wearing masks than a week or two ago, both employees in stores & pedestrians walking about.
What kind of a mask did you use, Doug? I've found some "fogging up" of my specs, especially indoors where it is warmer, but it's not enough to make me blind or unable to see where i'm going. It may become an issue as the weather gets warmer, in which case i can either take off the glasses while still wearing the mask or seek out a different type of mask/face shield that doesn't fog up. BTW, I've seen anti-fog goggles being advertised on Amazon.
https://www.rx-safety.com/anti-fog-prescription-safety-glasses/
https://www.google.com/search?q=ant...ar&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
the kind that loop behind your ears, the ones they give away free at a place where you get a blood draw.
I'll just do the distancing thing and call it good, I only go beyond the mailbox like once a week now anyways.
I'm the guy that rides a motorcycle with eye protection only and no helmet, I'll even ride it in the rain.
It rains way more here around Old Saybrook, Ct than even Seattle ( 48" vs. 38" ). I guess Seattle is much like Vancouver, BC rainwise, eh ?
I hate rain and even worse snow, that's why I moved to San Diego right after High School, wish I was still there....maybe ?, it's gone to shit since the 80's
I'll just do the distancing thing and call it good, I only go beyond the mailbox like once a week now anyways.
I'm the guy that rides a motorcycle with eye protection only and no helmet, I'll even ride it in the rain.
It rains way more here around Old Saybrook, Ct than even Seattle ( 48" vs. 38" ). I guess Seattle is much like Vancouver, BC rainwise, eh ?
I hate rain and even worse snow, that's why I moved to San Diego right after High School, wish I was still there....maybe ?, it's gone to shit since the 80's
