Covid-19 lockdown check-in

[fromtia]

I felt pretty much the same way, felt odd wearing a mask. I have some newer ones to wear, and ordered some more on line. Most people that I encounter are wearing them but not everyone. But in some parts of Boston, namely Cambridge and Somerville, there are hefty fines for not wearing one. Also required in a few other towns/cities, like Lawrence.

Here in St.Augustine, FL, when I go to the store its about 50/50 maybe? As my purse strings have tightened I've gone from Publix to Wal Mart and Aldi. About 50/50 mask versus non mask across the board. I've made perhaps two trips to the local Lowes and it was about the same. All the stores have sneeze guards and one way systems and lots of disinfecting of carts and so forth.

[derspiess]

I have a couple gaiters/balaclavas/masks/wraps/whatever I ordered from Amazon that should be here hopefully Saturday.  Most of what was available had some jingoistic design/slogan on it or was camo, so I had to click through to find something plain-ish.

Thought about getting a Gadsden flag one or somesuch just to post on here about, but the truth is I'm not much on drawing attention to myself in public.

[Razgovory]

I admit I felt really weird going into a gas station wearing a mask.  "I'm not here to rob you, I just need a soda."

[Syt]

I admit I felt really weird going into a gas station wearing a mask.  "I'm not here to rob you, I just need a soda."

Two years ago, the government introduced a ban on wearing face cover in public. This week the conservative interior minister announced that participants at demonstrations must wear masks.

[Sheilbh]

I admit I felt really weird going into a gas station wearing a mask.  "I'm not here to rob you, I just need a soda."

Two years ago, the government introduced a ban on wearing face cover in public. This week the conservative interior minister announced that participants at demonstrations must wear masks.

This has been noted in the UK - especially by some young Muslim women reporters

[Zanza]

I admit I felt really weird going into a gas station wearing a mask.  "I'm not here to rob you, I just need a soda."

Two years ago, the government introduced a ban on wearing face cover in public. This week the conservative interior minister announced that participants at demonstrations must wear masks.

In Germany wearing masks at demonstrations is still forbidden. I guess the police's ability to identify protesters is somehow more important than their health. 

[PDH]

Tomorrow I am taking a day off.  This might not seem like much, but this is the first time since the Shelter in Place orders that I have been able to take a moment.  Setting up the PPE storage and distribution for the campus, changing over to receiving all the UPS and Fedex, trying my best to take care of the 5 workers I have.

I am mentally exhausted by this.  Emotionally I am a beaten dog.

[grumbler]

Still haven't been able to buy a single mask.  Three orders from Amazon for the disposable ones were cancelled after a week.  Finally, I just went with the washable cloth kind, because they were supposed to deliver in three days.  Today was the third day, and i just got notified that delivery would be made May 12. 

I see lots of people walking around in masks.  How are they getting them?  Is there some secret store that i just don't know about?

[fromtia]

I am mentally exhausted by this.  Emotionally I am a beaten dog.

This too shall pass. Hang on old bean.

[fromtia]

I see lots of people walking around in masks.  How are they getting them?  Is there some secret store that i just don't know about?

I've been using the same one for weeks. I only use it maybe once a week for 45 minutes to get groceries, but I think it's more of an enviromental hazard at this point than anything else. My girlfriends mother is a pharmacists assistant, she got us the mask in early march, and brings us toilet paper from time to time.

[Eddie Teach]

I get one free with every dialysis treatment.

[PDH]

I treat them like office supplies, so I take them home.

[Iormlund]

I've got a few masks I got in early February and the washable cloth ones my employer got us (each employee gets 10). A surprising amount of colleagues are using surgical or N95 masks, so there must be some way of acquiring them.

As part of the disinfection process I leave masks exposed to sunlight for a few hours after each use.

[DGuller]

Still haven't been able to buy a single mask.  Three orders from Amazon for the disposable ones were cancelled after a week.  Finally, I just went with the washable cloth kind, because they were supposed to deliver in three days.  Today was the third day, and i just got notified that delivery would be made May 12. 

I see lots of people walking around in masks.  How are they getting them?  Is there some secret store that i just don't know about?

Gray market would be my guess.  In NYC area you can buy them in many stores, regardless of what merchandise they usually deal in, or even from street merchants, as long as you're willing to pay $1-$1.5 per surgical mask.  The shadier the neighborhood, the more available they are.

[Hansmeister]

Well, both my wife and I are fully recovered and back to work.