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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCleaned out my garage yesterday.
And I found a half-dozen masks. The Home Depot kind you find in the store's woodworking department.
I suppose these are nowhere need N95, but may be somewhat protective? I want to give a couple of them to my 2 kids. This is getting mighty surreal, mighty fast.
HarlanPepper
(2,042 posts)One of our pop up epidemiologists for even suggesting it.
Pop-up epidemiologists!
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,188 posts)better than nothing, eh, and where do you even buy a mask anyways, anywhere?
cayugafalls
(5,646 posts)Ebay sells tons for exorbitant prices.
brewens
(13,636 posts)would be. But it was from some operation in China, so anyone in the world could have got those. I don't think that made a dent in our supply.
By a half-hour later I was reading that we didn't really need them, and I realized at a little over a buck apiece with shipping, I got took. I went in and cancelled the order but was refused. Then I tried to give them away once, but our local FD said they could only use the N95's. Then I heard that we might need the masks after all, so I still have them. Looks like the 59 bucks or so wasn't so bad after all, because I'll be wearing them going grocery shopping at least from now on.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)There may be more but I don't want to dig. My husband (RIP) was a house painter so when all this happened I remembered when he would talk about a respirator.