In case anyone wants to make their own. A couple of patterns and suggestions. Simply cannot find any to purchase that are commercially made.
Homemade Face Mask Patterns and Suggestion
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Brenda read that after Hepa vacuum bag filters, those rolls of the hydro knit blue shop towels are about the best fabric you can get for the DIY face masks. I came across an Irag gas mask last year. Unfortunately I sold it at my fall antique sale... I would definitely have made a fashion statement with that... Lol...
My son who has some talents his father lacks made this "Plague" Mask for the kids. Scares the hell out of everyone!! 
Hepa bags apparently have some drawbacks and you need to be careul about which ones you use.
True hepa filter material is hard to breath through. But more importantly, the material some are made from is not non-woven polypropylene but glass fibers. Ingesting glass fibers is not good for your respiratory system and can result in lung cancer.
If you feel the need to use Vacuum bags to make masks, make sure you know what they are made of or you could be making a bad situation worse for yourself.
Personally, I'm sewing masks from 100% cotton fiber, 3 layers thick and inserting a 3M filtrete filter panel cut from a larger furnace filter. These are polypropelyne and work on the "static charge" filtering scheme the n95 masks use. Perfect? Nope. But they are better than nothing and relatively safe to use.....
I'm not making masks.... No need if you stay home and keep the gate locked.... I have dust masks... which is pretty much what a furnace filter is...
We are lucky to have a couple of n95 masks. My wife worked at the TB clinic at the Vancouver Hospital for 32 years, so quite a few years ago she brought a couple home. Just wanted to say that these N95 masks are a little hard to breath through especially if you are walking or anything that requires constant movement.
I agree...Having to wear it for 8 hours a day while doing strenuous and heavy lifting is no walk in the park (if you were allowed to) either. Very hard to catch your breath.
Had to wear them during SARS whenever we did a housecall. It was a pain but necessary then as I am sure it is now
I saw a family wearing jock straps for masks in the grocery store. LOL I guess you make do with what you have...
Not a bad idea! Sell used jock straps on EBAY as Corona Killers. Heck we'll be driving Mid Engine jobs in no time.....
only probelm is how you would explain to your doctor how you got genital warts on the end of your nose or shin. Or worse, to have to explain how you have gonorrhea of the face.....That would probably kill any virus.
only probelm is how you would explain to your doctor how you got genital warts on the end of your nose or shin. Or worse, to have to explain how you have gonorrhea of the face.....
Not even going to comment on that question....
