My friend told me about the scam it's very convincing.most of us wouldn't click on a link but enough people do otherwise the scummy scammers wouldn't bother
@Obelixx, just read that the French Government have banned the use of home made masks as they are not effective. Cue a quick rise on prices and internet crashes as people try to source the medical grade ones? Is it true?
I don't think you'd have to click on page 2 to smell a rat.........I can smell mine in a completely inaccessible space under the bathroom floor. Nothing quite like a shower accompanied by the smell of dead rat
It’s a smell that takes me back to my childhood @philippasmith2 🙄 😂... I grew up in a very very very old farmhouse ... sloping bedroom floors had been levelled by building a second layer of floorboards over the sloping layer ... providing perfect snug homes for rats and mice who lived and had their families there. So as farmers do, Pa made rat poison available to them ... and it worked ... as the manufacturers promised, the rats returned to their nests under my bedroom floor and died 🤢
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My fabric masks are all 3 layers with fine cotton jersey in the middle and fine cotton either side. The WHO says they're OK and I only use mine for a one hour max jaunt round the SM each week. It is then hung up to dry completely and then steamed for several minutes before being ironed at top heat and steam before being used again.
I did have to use a disposable one once at the vet's when I'd dropped mine twixt house and car and it was awful. Very thin and loose and not as wide or deep. I did not feel safe.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I agree that the ‘surgical’ masks are thin, very poorly fitting and gape, unlike my 3 layered home made ones. None of them protect you much though, it’s about minimising dishing out your own droplets. If I see another ‘chin’ mask though 😡
I know they're more about protecting others from me and thus do keep my distance and use all the sanitising options for hands and trolleys. So far, so good but then we have few cases of the more infectious variant here as yet.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I hope our government don't copy that one. The disposable masks that can be bought in the UK are too big and loose on me so they slip down and constantly need pulling back up even when fitted as tight as I can make them, and there are gaps around my nose, cheeks and chin. Worse than useless I think. It seems they're supposed to be one size fits all. My 2- or 3-layer fabric ones seem much better. They fit more closely and don't slip down while I'm walking around. You wouldn't think I have a small mouth but my dentist says I do (small cheekbones, upper and lower jaw apparently).
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
In the US they are recommending a double mask, to protect from the new super-spreading variants. My double layer quilting cotton ones have been washed weekly (front load, in mesh bag, warm water, line dried) I expect they've lost some of their protection.. next time I venture indoors with the general public, I plan to tuck a KN95 mask under my cloth one.. they are the Chinese version, supposedly with five layers of blown fiber, approved by the US gov't website that I looked at their import number on.. but as with anything off Amazon, I'm not willing to bet much on them. I've worn a few of them multiple times (put away for a week between wears), and they fit tight and are a bit easier to breath through than my cotton ones.
I spent a solid week before school started sewing dozens of masks for my family of four (two teachers, two primary students).. but I wonder if I should sew a new batch.. I'm finding the elastic is going out of my set (purchased during the great elastic shortage of 2020 from China).
Do you suppose the weave of the fabric has actually gotten tighter and more fibrous with all that washing? Or do you think it's actually more open, as the bits of fiber lint have come off from wash and wear? It would be much easier to just replace all the elastics.
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Shameful.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
made rat poison available to them ... and it worked ... as the manufacturers promised, the rats returned to their nests under my bedroom floor and died 🤢
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I did have to use a disposable one once at the vet's when I'd dropped mine twixt house and car and it was awful. Very thin and loose and not as wide or deep. I did not feel safe.