Dwindling Supply of KN95 Masks
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Comments (12)I occasionally ship packages via priority mail and they always ask if there is anything “liquid, perishable, or lithium batteries” in it, so I’m not sure if that would work. I am part of a mask making group in our state and as an offshoot of that, we recently filled a truck full of supplies and a couple of volunteers drove it to the Navajo Nation. It was pretty neat to see how people pitched in to provide the goods for that truck!...See MoreHooray for Costco!
Comments (70)So my thought is that the blue mask is more of a spit shield because it does not form a good fit. Most that I’m finding on the market seem to have a plastic strip that barely holds its shape over the bridge of your nose, but even the wire ones don’t seem great. As stated previously this is why I have been using first aid tape to close the gaps. But inadequate coverings including gapping masks are so common in my area that I don't really think this can be blamed that much on varying recommendations from official sources. I think a lot of it is people still not taking the threat seriously - particularly in local rural areas, where completely uncovered faces being presented to randomly encountered other people not living in the same household is apparently still commonplace. Otherwise what I see is people working together not covering, as though they think the same household rule applies to same workplace as well - this morning while channel surfing I came across a talk show that is said to be broadcast live where the two hosts on screen at the time where uncovered and sitting barely 6' apart, if that. And probably many of us now know about the TV interview with the ER nurse who described how she is is getting terminal COVID patients who insist right up to their last breath that they don't have COVID. I think we really are to the point where going out in public just isn't feasible for anyone who needs/wants to be sure of staying safe - which is quite a problem for me because I don't want to expose my credit card to the internet. And of course any delivery driver bringing stuff so ordered could be infected, same as the guy standing in front of me in a checkout line this week wearing a dish towel low on his nose. With a gap at the bottom - every time myself or another ends up in such circumstances we could be stepping into a COVID cloud after the careless party ahead moves closer to the register....See MoreJoanns? stay or be gone?
Comments (15)I remember Sofro Fabrics. It was one of the first to close when they all began to topple like dead trees. There were changes in the textile industry about that same time and that is the time when most textile mills here turned off the machines and left the building. Some parts of the world that had been textiles intensive just fell hard. It is my understanding that England had a healthy textiles industry that went down. Our own was already faltering by that time. I think that what happened to the textiles industry had a lot to do with the demise in home sewing. I am not sure at all just what brought about the changes and the demise, but I suspect that it had something to do with cheap overseas labor. It was not long that the industry stopped producing those old types of fabrics that we took for granted were going to be there in the store. It turned to synthetic knits and that god awful fleece. It is my opinion that they turned to producing the types of fabrics that suited the fast fashion industry for factory make clothing and left behind the market for better fabrics that many of us used to buy. What the factory needed was knits for cheap tshirts. There was very little fit of any kind involved and they needed no construction details such as bust darts or shoulder darts. Out sourcing cheap overseas labor gave us a standard for cheap clothes. Some things I would not even bother to sew, such as most t-shirts. I never did like sewing with knits, anyway. I still sew my pants and simple dresses to just how I like them and I am glad that I can do that. I will use mostly linen now because it is just about the only real fabric that is left to buy. But don't look for it a Joanns in any meaningful quantity or quality. One reason that you might have gotten the different responses from men and from women is likely that more women feel that they "own" the ability to sew, whereas most men don't. Men have no reason to pretend that they know anything about it, and, therefore, they have no reason to make apologies as to the fact that they are paying someone else to do it. I used to have a sewing business for home dec. I used feel the dismissiveness from some of my female customers as they wrote me off as the "sewing lady" and they viewed it as a lowly labor, although they could not do for themselves. I always dealt with the "lady of the house". My ability to sew something special for them was not a skill set that they had a real acknowledgement of. This was especially true of those who had more recently come from cultures where sewing is viewed as common labor. In some cultures there is someone who sews, just as there is someone who bakes the bread or does the laundry. Many cultures out source these labors to those in the community that provide those services, rather than doing them in their own homes. Yes, I remember So fro fabrics. At that time there was still Hancocks. Now there is nothing as far as I concerned....See MoreDo you feel like your life is getting back to "normal”?
Comments (61)MN currently has the third highest Covid incidence in the US. According to Osterholm we've plateaued but cases are not dropping yet. His take on it is that we will continue to have waves of surging cases moving throughout the country as we have had in the past - just like the surging waves hit different countries at different times. So when the incidence of cases drops in your area, enjoy the lower risk while you can because it's just a matter of time before it goes up again. No one understands why it happens this way - it doesn't correlate with vaccination rates. What does correlate are hospitalizations and deaths though there are more and more serious breakthrough cases. It's encouraging to hear there are some new antiviral treatments working their way through the approval process. So last night we went to a fund raising dinner with about 400 people - no masks because of course you can't eat and drink with a mask on. I kind of freaked out wading into the sea of people in the reception area but we quickly moved through that and kept our distance until we were seated right next to other people. I guess in 10 days or so I'll know if this was a really dumb thing to do but for now I'm so glad I went and heard three remarkable speakers whose cause has captured my interest unlike any other....See MoreLindsey_CA
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