Washington National Cathedral Finds & Donates 5000 N95 Masks

[Anonymous]

Extraordinary find in storage in the Cathedral Crypt — 5000 N95 respirator masks found and donated to DC hospitals:

https://wtop.com/coronavirus/2020/03/basement-discovery-at-national-cathedral-leads-to-mask-donations-to-hospitals/

[Anonymous]

Wow!!

[Anonymous]

Interesting that they were bought in case the bird flu got bad. I wonder what forward thinking person made that purchase, and who the masks would have gone to in that case.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if these were truly a holdover from some elite person’s hoard. Someone who is/was affiliated with the cathedral.

I gotta get off the internet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if these were truly a holdover from some elite person’s hoard. Someone who is/was affiliated with the cathedral.

I gotta get off the internet.

Me, too! This is a very interesting theory.

[Anonymous]

LOL @ “find”. Yeah, sure...

[Anonymous]

Nice. So they’ve donated approximately a 24-hour supply of masks for a typical hospital, which would be going through 5,000 to 30,000 per day if they were available.

(Search your attics for masks. But we should be manufacturing 100 million per week like Taiwan if we wanted to actually meet the demand.)

[Anonymous]

The stone masons remembered seeing the boxes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:LOL @ “find”. Yeah, sure...

Whatever -- once they did "find" them they gave them away to hospitals. Unlike MD's writing prescriptions for a certain drug, they didn't try to sell them or hoard them for themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nice. So they’ve donated approximately a 24-hour supply of masks for a typical hospital, which would be going through 5,000 to 30,000 per day if they were available.

(Search your attics for masks. But we should be manufacturing 100 million per week like Taiwan if we wanted to actually meet the demand.)

My DC studied in China, summer '19, took about 150 masks and only used 50. The rest were forgotten until a couple of weeks ago when we found them in the pantry behind can goods (go figure how they got there). We gave 80 of them to our neighborhood hospital and held on to 20 for the family. Our basement is pure storage so will look down there to see if the builders of our house left anything behind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nice. So they’ve donated approximately a 24-hour supply of masks for a typical hospital, which would be going through 5,000 to 30,000 per day if they were available.

(Search your attics for masks. But we should be manufacturing 100 million per week like Taiwan if we wanted to actually meet the demand.)

Not sure if you're being sarcastic that they only donated a 24-hour supply of masks. I would think something is better than nothing in this dangerous time for health workers.

[Anonymous]

No good deed goes unpunished, right dcumland?

[Anonymous]

Bless them! My husband is a front-line healthcare provider at one of the hospitals they donated to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that they were bought in case the bird flu got bad. I wonder what forward thinking person made that purchase, and who the masks would have gone to in that case.

I believe they were for clergy, to make it possible for them to make pastoral care visits to people with the flu.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting that they were bought in case the bird flu got bad. I wonder what forward thinking person made that purchase, and who the masks would have gone to in that case.

I believe they were for clergy, to make it possible for them to make pastoral care visits to people with the flu.

Correct, and they were meant to be distributed throughout the diocese.