Why not hire people that are out of work through restaurant closings or other closings to make masks?
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March 18th, 2020
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I saw that hospital workers were at tables making masks because they can’t get them. Why not open make-shift shops and employee the unemployed to make them. Of course make it a sterile environment. It would help hospitals to get masks and keep them from being pulled away from patients care.
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If the goal is to not have people working close to each other, how would you gather people together to make masks (or anything else)? How would you train them? And how do you know if the laid-off people are carrying the virus in the first place? You wouldn’t want them – carriers – to be making surgical masks.
It’s a worthy idea, but I struggle with why people think these masks are effective enough to bother with.
They in no way prevent the virus from entering the eyes, are often not tight enough to the nose/mouth & make the wearer sweat while wearing one.
Each to their own of course, but you won’t ever see me with one across my face.
@ucme Most people have got that memo. These would be for hospital use.
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Most people, hahahaha…that’s ambitious!
To answer the question, one of the columnists in the Times proposed a similar scenario. Converting factories to make necessary medical equipment and using unemployed people to work in hospitals disinfecting rooms, etc. We may need a new New Deal!
Good thought @chyna .
Good idea, there’s just one problem – the idea of closing restaurants, bars, etc is to keep people away from each other to contain the spread of the virus.
My thoughts would be it has to be a sterile environment, people not close to each other, and perhaps tested beforehand. But it doesn’t seem to be an idea that is going over well.
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