A mask really helps keep my hands of my face and
Although it may not work, in case I am ignorantly asymptomatically spreading hopefully my guilt would be less,
BUT
Our healthcare workers desperately need all of the protective personal equipment (PPE) that we have.
Our police need them. Our firefighters need them. Our postal workers need them. For goodness sake, every grocery store worker should be masked, along with every essential delivery worker.
We are the wealthiest country in the world and we have only fulfilled one state (Florida's) PPE requests, although strangely Oklahoma and Kentucky received more than the state's requested. We are already losing critical first responders to this shortage, sidelined by quarantine and death.
It is horrible enough that we are not consistently, repeatedly testing our first responders; it would be cataclysmic if we jump on board the mask 😷 bidding game. PPE already costs 20 times what it did before this virus.
If we join in the mask hunt, with this political hackery price gouging proceeding apace, millions more of us will die, not only here but all over this world.
There is a solution, though.
We make our own masks 😷. There are multiple you tubes, articles, and goodness only knows on-line classes, on how to make your own mask 😷 Most are no sewing required.
For heaven's sake, make your own. Wash one you have in your closet (if you have one) and wear that.
Please do NOT buy medical masks 😷.
Our doctors and nurses need them to keep on risking their lives to save ours.
It is the absolute least we can actively do.
Wear a mask 😷, but make your own!
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