Using a Bandana

Not bad. Beats not having one. Like the accent of the narrator!

Homemade Face Mask Using Oversized Bandana

Need to scotch guard it or something to make it waterproof. If you have the germs on the bandana and it gets wet and gets to your mouth....you might have it then

Probably better than N95.

id pick a neutral color if in the city.

Bloods and Crips might not be amused.

You probably be ok if you took one of each and
folded so it showed both colors.

Today I was wishing I still had my sewing company. We could produce 12,000 to 15,000 of those a day with 4 girls. Maybe cost $.50 each. We use to produce 10,000 units a day with a lot more difficult product.

Masks serve to protect the people around you rather than the person wearing it. Basically it will trap the mist cloud from a cough or sneeze and keep it from spreading.

A homemade mask is only providing nominal protection to the person wearing it if a virus contacts the outside.

I found a picture of Mudshark and Derek modeling their prototypes

Help me understand. If a mask will stop the mist cloud from a cough, wouldn't the same type mask stop a virus from coming in if worn by another person. In other words, if it stops the virus from going out, wouldn't it also be able to stop the virus from coming in?

Putting a mask on an infected person doesn't totally STOP particles with the virus from getting out, but it DOES stop a LOT of them. So, in that manner, there is a lot less of the virus in the air to begin with. What does get out may not go as far. Add that to the fact that you keep your distance, and roll the dice. The odds of getting enough viral dosage to infect you has been impacted quite a bit by this action. Most of it never has a chance to get to you. If any gets on your skin or clothing, it's probably a lot less than would have if that sneeze wasn't behind the mask on the other person.


Now, reverse the scenario. A highly infected person coughs and sends a large volume of particles your way. Some of them hit your face. You're wearing a mask, so it gets contaminated on the outside, and not all of your face is covered so some particles land on your skin. A small number of particles may actually make it through the mask. Even at this point, you may not actually inhale any of the few particles that get through the mask. Again, way better than nothing. But....eventually you handle the mask to take it off. You must take great care doing this to keep from getting infected at this time by your own doing. You must also insure that you get your face cleaned without getting any virus into your mouth or nose. You might even touch a glob of sneeze with virus sitting on your shirt, then touch your nose or mouth. The risks abound because you can't tell where all the contaminants are. The other person spewed it all over you. This is very unlike the first case where the spewing was greatly curtailed at square one, before it ever had a chance to head toward you.

Both wearing a mask is the best from an odds perspective, but if only ONE mask were available, greatest good is derived from having the infected person wear the mask.

A big part of it is the silent carriers.
Asystematic have coronavirus and show no signs.
I have heard they can just breath on you and
deliver the virus.

my mom made some for us to wear.