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Which supermarket chains have the signs which require face coverings? I want to put them to the top of my list of stores to visit.
All open stores in my city by order of the Mayor require something in front of your mouth along with the security guard outside who has to keep count for the new company determined social distancing maximum occupancy limits. Which are far stricter than any limits the Fire Marshal ever dreamed of enforcing.
In fact I was in one 24 hour drug store with a sign up stating by order of the Mayor of Los Angeles when I was across the border in a different city
I make my own masks from items that should be available at many stores for low prices.
Scott blue shop towels are sold in a roll of 55. That makes 55 masks, and this material works better than most cloth masks. Cost under $3 per roll. Try an auto supply store.
Go to an office supply store or maybe Target. Buy some long, heavy duty rubber bands, at least 7" long.
Google "blue shop towel mask" to find all sorts of you tube videos. Sewing machine not needed, I use a plain stapler to make mine. They work fine and I leave one in the car at all times for visiting any store or any place where I might be close to another person.
I wear a neck gaiter, which is much more comfortable because I can't wear a mask. A mask restricts my breathing, and also fogs up my glasses. I ordered the neck gaiter from someone on NextDoor.com that makes masks also, and I'm ordering two more in the morning.
Luckily I was doing a house painting project in 2018 and bought 10 boxes of 3M N95 face masks. They were $7 a box of 10 at Home Depot. I would never pay more than $10 a box for 3M stuff the legit stuff. BTW, surgical masks are not as good as N95. They are meant to protect the spread of germs from the person wearing not protect them from air droplets. You need a N95 for fumes and dust, doctors don't wear it because it causes vaporing of their goggles and eyeglasses. I also have anti-fogging goggles used when I was painting the house.
Never hurt to have face masks around the house even after this crisis is over I will have couple of boxes of them.
Yup, it's a rip off. But still less than most co-pays, and surely less than a hospital stay.
And it's a whole hell of a lot cheaper than a funeral. But like a lot of other posters upthread, I made my own. They're selling homemade cloth masks on etsy, too.
I wouldn't pay $0.01 for a mask; even less for a box of them. I reject mass hysteria; yet I enjoy staying home.
Masks provide "the illusion of safety". Of course, if people want to wear them and think there is a benefit, go for it. But I will not participate.
We appreciate your social conscience. The benefit of you wearing a mask is to the rest of us, not you.
I wear a bandana. I'm in the SW and kind of starting to like it as a stylish accessory.
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