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Where do you buy a face mask?
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Given face masks are the new normal, where do you buy them? If you search online retailers like Amazon and Ebay you get thousands of listings for random things that may or may not be what you're looking for. What if you don't want to buy from them? Is there a good place to start, other than just searching keywords one at a time? How do you differentiate between a regular old cloth face covering and something that provides a little more filtration? Where do you get masks that have designs on them?
Curious what others have done in the past few months.
Curious what others have done in the past few months.
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After talking with a number of healthcare workers, you really don't need a high filtration mask unless you are using it at a business that works with people constantly. Even most doctors offices are just using cloth ones for the most part right now. It's only wards that are specifically treating the virus that are using higher filtration masks. If everyone is wearing a mask, the idea is that you are filtering the majority of the risk by keeping your own germs in.
A lot of gas stations are selling cloth masks in my area.
What's the adjustable thing you're referencing for glasses? My main challenge so far has been how much my glasses fog up.
Came out to a bit under 2 bucks a pop, washable and reusable.
Haven't noticed too much in the way of fogging up my glasses.
My concern is that it's not readily apparent how most non-medical/fabric masks are constructed.
According to the WHO video (in the spoiler tags), they recommend a 3-layer mask where the inner layer is moisture absorbent, the outer layer is moisture resistant, and a third inner layer acts as a primitive filter.
It's difficult to tell if a site says, "3-ply" if they've constructed it in this way, or if it's just three layers of the same material, or if the outer and inner layers are just plain cotton.
Anyone else who is smart on masks able to confirm if this is a good mask type?
I had bought a pack from" for days " and they are nice.
What filters are you using, if any?
Everyone wearing cloth masks provides so much more protection than one person receives from a n95 mask. Masks prevent spread, it essentially makes caught by less likely to spread the virus.
They are non woven
I didn't think this was true; I checked my pharmacy, and couldn't find anything on their website beyond skin conditioning masks. Then I checked Target's (my pharmacy is inside a Target) site, and same thing, all I could see was skin care products.
I went in this morning to pick up my prescription, and not only were they fully stocked on TP (remember the shortages? How quickly things can change...), but right on the end cap, boxes and boxes of 20-packs of disposable masks.