Considering the wide range of homemade mask quality, it’s impossible to answer, but better than nothing.

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Apr 5, 2020
2:56:48pm

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SJS

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Do most of these homemade masks even work? I'm seeing mask making parties everywhere. social distancing being used

BYUALWAYSNUM1 All-American

4/5/20 2:49pm

RE: Do most of these homemade masks even work? I'm seeing mask making parties

Jericho

4/5/20 2:51pm

Reminds me of this one

maxpowers

4/5/20 2:52pm

Cloth only blocks about 5 % of the virus

WashingtonCoug

4/5/20 6:10pm

Which is why ours have 20 layers of fabric

Cru Jones

4/5/20 7:21pm

Do we believe CDC of a week ago, or CDC today? It's a tough nut to crack.

Plato

4/5/20 2:52pm

Homemade masks are meant to prevent asymptomatic Covid (+) people from spreading to others

SJS

4/5/20 2:54pm

I get that, but I still don't know if they actually work

BYUALWAYSNUM1

4/5/20 2:56pm

Considering the wide range of homemade mask quality, it’s impossible to answer, but better than nothing.

SJS

4/5/20 2:56pm

helps you not touch your mouth and nose, where the majority of the transmission occurs. IMO

BlueFrog

4/5/20 2:57pm

I don’t think that’s where majority of transmission occurs

Memmo

4/5/20 2:58pm

Pray tell

cougarnerd

4/5/20 3:04pm

where do you think?

BlueFrog

4/5/20 3:06pm

According to Twitter, it is in volleyball pits.

ochobeeguy

4/5/20 3:29pm

Licking toilets

StantonMac

4/5/20 3:30pm

The majority of cases come from ingesting droplets from other people’s

Memmo

4/5/20 4:31pm

this article says its hand to face contact after your hand touches a driplet

BlueFrog

4/5/20 5:21pm

Depends on the fabric

Gigo

4/5/20 3:01pm

Masks worn by the public help protect others from you not you from them

LaserCoug

4/5/20 3:01pm

This!!!!

charles

4/5/20 3:06pm

Yes, when you consider something is better than nothing.

Mister P

4/5/20 3:07pm

My wife has sewn hepa filter material & other pressed fabric material (nothing

WDaddy

4/5/20 3:11pm

Same here.

NewMexiCoug

4/5/20 6:06pm

Yes they work! Lowers the viral dose you get

CallingDingo

4/5/20 3:27pm

No need for one. I just use the n95 mask that I have in my emergency prep stash.

kcca

4/5/20 4:24pm

They can't hurt. If nothing else, helps keep hands away from face.

Benfica1

4/5/20 5:30pm

They will help stop droplet transmission, both from the infected person wearing

BeardedSpock

4/5/20 5:34pm

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