@Nanny Beach The blue mask I wore once was loose, thin and gaped at the sides and slid down my nose and needed constant adjustment. I did not feel safe in the sense that I didn't feel it was preventing me from shedding any virus I may have picked up.
My own are two layers of outer cotton with a finer weave cotton layer in the middle. Their size and shape suit may face shape as does the length of the elastic. Distancing in France is just one metre. I have not acquired the virus in my weekly shopping runs so I suspect I haven't passed it on either.
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I wasn't naming and shaming anyone. Course you don't know if you have contracted the virus, because so many people have been asymptomatic. It's believed I had it early 2020 but my antibodies blood test results failed through not enough blood. I never had a single symptom, although every one of my kids and hubby did
I had an eye clinic hospital appointment some months back. I wore a fabric mask, when I went in for the tests they made me change it for one of their disposable ones. They were doing that to everyone, no reason given.
They did say a while back that fabric ones weren’t any good and there was talk of banning them, seems anything goes now though, under the nose, under the chin, forever fiddling with them. I’ve never thought much about this one way thing, surely if someone coughs on you, you want your mask to protect you.
I had a dentist appointment back in November, they gave a fresh mask plus a squirt of hand gel, on the bill, £15.00, The masks were the ones you buy in Tesco for £3,50 for 10.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Mask won't protect against someone else coughing. I must be lucky. Saw emergency dentist at my practice last August,she was private,BUT didn't charge me, suggested I came back to see National health one, had to wait just 4 weeks for an appointment. I got invites several times for follow up but they clashed with my vaccine jab
I switched to quality disposable four weeks after my second jab, as I was suffering constant outbreaks of acne where the fabric rubbed from my layered cotton masks. The cotton ones were washed after a single use, I didn't wear makeup on the lower half of my face, etc. Obviously acne is better than Covid, but after a year and now being fully vaccines, I made the switch. Acne is pretty much cleared up, as I only use them a single day then dispose. I hate adding plastic to the trash, but it was only to get me to the end of term.. and now school is out, and we are still avoiding public until our young boys get vaccinated.. so an occasional cloth mask will work just fine for the grocery store or takeaway pick up.
The quality of masks is hugely variable. Some of the ones I've seen for sale are just ridiculous, like putting tights over your face and expecting them to have any effect whatsoever, or the neoprene types that are not the least bit breathable so your breath goes up by your nose or around the sides.
At the beginning of this whole thing I did a lot of reading about home sewn masks and made several different types. Until recently I only left the house once a week to walk to the supermarket and they seemed to be effective enough that I haven't been sick. Now that I've had the vaccine I've been taking the bus to work a couple of days a week and it's still remarkable how crappy some of the masks people are wearing are. I might be totally off base but I trust the ones I've made custom fit for my face a lot more than the one size fits all blue ones.
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My own are two layers of outer cotton with a finer weave cotton layer in the middle. Their size and shape suit may face shape as does the length of the elastic. Distancing in France is just one metre. I have not acquired the virus in my weekly shopping runs so I suspect I haven't passed it on either.
I’ve never thought much about this one way thing, surely if someone coughs on you, you want your mask to protect you.
I had a dentist appointment back in November, they gave a fresh mask plus a squirt of hand gel, on the bill, £15.00, The masks were the ones you buy in Tesco for £3,50 for 10.
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At the beginning of this whole thing I did a lot of reading about home sewn masks and made several different types. Until recently I only left the house once a week to walk to the supermarket and they seemed to be effective enough that I haven't been sick. Now that I've had the vaccine I've been taking the bus to work a couple of days a week and it's still remarkable how crappy some of the masks people are wearing are. I might be totally off base but I trust the ones I've made custom fit for my face a lot more than the one size fits all blue ones.