This is certainly an interesting time right now. I know many of us around the world are social distancing, self-quarantining, or whatever phrase you are using for it.
So let's take a moment and check-in here and let the community know how you're doing during all this.
Here, if you are a little bit handy you can make some yourself:Answers to your DIY face mask questions, including what material you should useHope that might be of some help ?
Thanks Tom! I can make a mask here, but out of a paper towel and rubber bands, but it probably isn't that great. I appreciate the link.
I have made a few with material and hot melt glue and rubber bands.
Damn sideways crap.
Well, they got fixed, somehow.
It is better then nothing though. From what I read about the virus it is really small but need the 'saliva/droplets' to travel and that is larger bit and can be easier stopped. If you have a handkerchief you wont mind "losing" then use some rubber bands and do as RedNeck done above. If no glue, maybe carefully make some small holes in appropriate places and use the rubber bands to secure it with.
In these times I guess we have to be creative as to what we using, as you already been with using paper towels.
Apart from masks, health authorities are warning that masks alone are not sufficient protection and that eyes should also be covered from the saliva droplets from sneezing/coughing people infected with the virus. So if any of you need to go out at any time, please wear some sort of eye protection as well.... snugly fitting/enclosed sunglasses or spectacles should suffice.
Another thing, too, is how the incorrect use of gloves is not actually protection for the wearer and can give a false sense of security.
A vile practice I'm increasingly reading about here in Oz is spitting in the faces of police and medical staff just doing their jobs. It always was a disgusting thing, spitting at people, but in this devastating time of the Corona virus it is even more abhorrent than ever, whether the person is infected or not.... and even worse when they claim to their victims to have the disease.
I always believed Australians were better than that, and the majority are, but there is a handful of parasites who are totally un-Australian and should be locked up for a period, not just fined, as several have been, to ponder their filthy, nasty habits. Fines alone are obviously not enough as the crime seems to be increasing while this pandemic continues and has so many people scared.
Glad everyone is keeping safe.....
I live on Sydney Harbour and catch the ferry to work each morning to Circular Quay where it meets the Circular Quay train station there that heads to the airport and out west.
Every morning I float past the cruise ships that are in port...and when the ferry is late... I have to run up the escalators to to the train to jump quickly into the middle carriages with the swarms of people and their luggage from the cruise ships heading to the airport or home out west.
If the ferry is early... I have time to go past them and head to the first carriage that I usually have to myself.
The last day I went to work before being able to relocate to be working from home was Thurs March 19th.... and to look at the cruise ship I passed in the ferry and filmed... gives me the shivers..... perhaps you've heard of it in the news.... the Ruby Princess....
I'm grateful the ferry was early that morning.... and I was not crammed in with all those unfortunate people heading home from the cruise... unaware they were on a floating Covid-19 incubation ship.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-ill-fated-journey-of-cruise-ship-the-ruby-princess-20200410-p54iu5.html
I reckon I dodged a bullet...
...but feel so sorry for the folk on board who were not warned.... there are about 660 Covid cases from the ship and at least 13 deaths and growing... it's been the biggest spreader in Oz.... and so avoidable...
(from my ferry)
Glad you weren't infected Syd. Stay safe!
You too Tom...
Well I work with a coworker who made her mask out of a braw.
Lace ain't gonna cut it....
we can only hope for her sake it was padded...
Reminder about masks guys: It won't stop you getting infected, but helps prevent spreading the infection if you have it or are a carrier.
Me n Kitz are still alive -Things are still pretty normal here in Sweden.
Om man kan kalle Sverige for normal, eller hur?
On Monday, my mother passed away from complications from the corona virus. Her name is Emma Lou and she was 90 years old. Apparently one of the employees at the nursing home was asymptomatic and passed the virus among many at the facility which is located in central Florida. What makes it especially sad for us is that mom had just begun to regain her strength from a fall that resulted in a few broken bones. My sister and her family live close by so mom was not alone, thankfully, in her final hours. Mom had a good long life, it just seems so unfair that her life would be snatched away so quickly in this manner. I know she is in heaven now with my dad, and that , makes me smile.
-- Ace --
Sorry for your loss, Ace.
Very sorry to hear of your Mom's passing Ace. May she Rest-in-Peace.
Sorry for your loss, Ace. It doesn't matter how old a person is when he/she passes on as far as I'm concerned. It's always too soon. One of my grandmother passed away in 2006 at the age of 97 and that was still too soon.
I'm worried the same may happen to my 91 year old mom. She fell a couple weeks ago and is in a nursing home at this time. As for as I know, nobody there has tested positive but one never knows. Anyway, Mom is pretty darned weak so it's doubtful she could put up much of a battle against the virus.
My condolences Ace.
My sympathies, Ace.
One small comfort [to me] was that I didn't know of anyone specific that had passed.
Not any more.
Condolences to you and your family, Ace, may your mother rest in peace as she always remains in your heart.
Prayers your way, Ace.
Thank you everyone for your kind thoughts and prayers. I know she wouldn't have wanted anyone to make a fuss.
My commute is around 15km. So I actually love these days. Working from home and getting lots of free time.
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