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[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

Can’t believe they didn’t ask us to make homemade masks… some would’ve still made a run on store-bought masks, but we could’ve been a little better protected. (Protected better by how much much still seems to be hard to determine exactly?)

[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah. I certainly made my own homenade masks when bought ones were scarce.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They did! There was a a video by the US surgeon general showing how to make a mask out of a t-shirt and rubber bands. That was an unexpectedly spooky video.

https://youtu.be/PI1GxNjAjlw?si=nEKQbzqis8XQnKGq

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

I remember that!

I should’ve been clear that I was referring to only the earliest days of the pandemic. Wikipedia's summary jives with my memory:

Federal officials initially discouraged the general public from wearing masks for protecting themselves from COVID-19. In early April, federal officials reversed their guidance, saying that the general public should wear masks to lessen transmission by themselves, particularly from asymptomatic carriers.

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