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No. Don't plan on ever wearing one.
NOW with the COVID 19 threat the story about masks is completely opposite, very very interesting.
Yes, I realize your experience is different. However, the "masks are more to protect others from YOU" is the entire premise between how they have been widely used in Asian countries for years. IE, In Japan, the person with a cold or cough is the one wearing the mask.
Do you have the option of doing a tele-medicine appointment in lieu of going to the doctor's office? My insurance company is encouraging this alternative whenever possible, to cut down on traffic in the medical offices, in the interest of protecting everyone, but especially vulnerable populations.
Excellent.I had a box of 10 N95 masks that I ordered 5 weeks ago. I read an article about how health care providers are not being provided proper protective gear and it made me so angry to think they're out there risking their lives to help other people. I gave the masks to a neighbor who is a nurse.
I had a box of 10 N95 masks that I ordered 5 weeks ago. I read an article about how health care providers are not being provided proper protective gear and it made me so angry to think they're out there risking their lives to help other people. I gave the masks to a neighbor who is a nurse.
I hope this puts this mask shortage in perspective: A friend works for a laboratory that picks up specimens. Several of their customers do Colonoscopies. IMO this may be diagnostic but definitely optional. Yet these customers are performing 20-40 procedures per day 5 days a week. With necessary gown, masks, and gloves being changed. Where is the shortage? Where is the priority.
If I had more than the 2 that I have already worn when working with spraying glaze in the ceramic studio I would do the same. I have too many former students who are now in the medical profession that I fear for.I had a box of 10 N95 masks that I ordered 5 weeks ago. I read an article about how health care providers are not being provided proper protective gear and it made me so angry to think they're out there risking their lives to help other people. I gave the masks to a neighbor who is a nurse.
If you only have a couple of N95 masks for what ever use they may be, how can they be sterilized after each use?
Cheers!
I have never looked for or seen them in grocery stores but I still see them sold online including Walmart.I saw lots of masks in the grocery store yesterday. I imagine you'd see many more if people could get them. I have on that I only use if necessary. I had a cold and wore it when going to my Dad's house to protect him.
If you only have a couple of N95 masks for what ever use they may be, how can they be sterilized after each use?
Cheers!
I have never looked for or seen them in grocery stores but I still see them sold online including Walmart.
Ah, you're right. I just woke up...I think it was meant that people were "wearing" them in the grocery store, not that they were sold there. I went to 2 grocery stores yesterday and saw one person wearing a mask at each on. That was the first time. We still have no reported cases in our county, plus masks aren't easy to get a hold of, plus there's a plea for people to save them for the healthcare community, so those factors combine to limit public use, otherwise I bet there would be more people wearing them in public. These were not N95 masks.
I had a box of 10 N95 masks that I ordered 5 weeks ago. I read an article about how health care providers are not being provided proper protective gear and it made me so angry to think they're out there risking their lives to help other people. I gave the masks to a neighbor who is a nurse.
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While cleaning out the garage I ran across a box of N95 masks I had forgotten about. There were 14 out of the original 20 left. I called the nurse that lives across the road from us to ask if she could use them. I got an enthusiastic "yes!" in reply. She said her department was completely out.
I had an EGD on the 11th in a dedicated ambulatory facility. I was scheduled for a followup with the G.I. doc for the 30th. I called the doctor's office on Friday and asked about whether my followup could be done by phone and the assistant said yes. She also mentioned that their ambulatory facility was closing down for now so maybe is happening with the ones you mentioned too.I hope this puts this mask shortage in perspective: A friend works for a laboratory that picks up specimens. Several of their customers do Colonoscopies. IMO this may be diagnostic but definitely optional. Yet these customers are performing 20-40 procedures per day 5 days a week. With necessary gown, masks, and gloves being changed. Where is the shortage? Where is the priority.
We are advised locally that a mask and gloves are required in the markets.