Because it is Austria, and not the US? The US isn't exactly known for a high standard of health care.

One thing is discourage people from buying and hoarding masks.

Another thing is discouraging individual from wearing masks that they legit bought in the amount of few
for very limited personal use and who in absence of those could wear anything really.. home made
ones or bandanas.. that was mistake not to encourage some personal protection. Sad mistake.

Who can say now if this could not prevent tis thing from spreading? Nobody. Even if one virus would
be stopped to getting into one person and saving them. ..

Our government spends trillions but we have ten-year olds at home sewing masks. Unbelievable.

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Anonymous wrote:I am so tired of hearing the CDC deny that masks work. Even if they don’t work very well to filter out viruses they work to keep people from spraying lots of droplets into the air when they cough, sneeze, or talk. If people can have the virus and spread it without knowing it we should all assume we are carriers and wear masks whenever we are in public. They should be required of everyone. Not everyone has a surgical mask but everyone has fabric at home. If they can’t sew their own mask they can at least improvise a bandana.

You could say this about every day living, after we are long past the Coronavirus outbreak. Will we be like Asian countries and all Americans are walking around with masks on?

Huh? This mask wearing is only necessary when there’s a deadly pandemic going on with lots of asymptomatic spreaders.

+1

Plus, yeah... if people are sick and coughing with a cold or flu or whatever after the pandemic is over, why wouldn’t I want them wearing masks in public?

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Anonymous wrote:I am so tired of hearing the CDC deny that masks work. Even if they don’t work very well to filter out viruses they work to keep people from spraying lots of droplets into the air when they cough, sneeze, or talk. If people can have the virus and spread it without knowing it we should all assume we are carriers and wear masks whenever we are in public. They should be required of everyone. Not everyone has a surgical mask but everyone has fabric at home. If they can’t sew their own mask they can at least improvise a bandana.

You could say this about every day living, after we are long past the Coronavirus outbreak. Will we be like Asian countries and all Americans are walking around with masks on?

Huh? This mask wearing is only necessary when there’s a deadly pandemic going on with lots of asymptomatic spreaders.

People who are not used to wearing masks tend to touch their face a lot and fiddle with the mask when wearing one.

That can also be problematic.

Anonymous wrote:I am so tired of hearing the CDC deny that masks work. Even if they don’t work very well to filter out viruses they work to keep people from spraying lots of droplets into the air when they cough, sneeze, or talk. If people can have the virus and spread it without knowing it we should all assume we are carriers and wear masks whenever we are in public. They should be required of everyone. Not everyone has a surgical mask but everyone has fabric at home. If they can’t sew their own mask they can at least improvise a bandana.

You could say this about every day living, after we are long past the Coronavirus outbreak. Will we be like Asian countries and all Americans are walking around with masks on?

Anonymous wrote:I bet driving deep into the exurbs to shop is safer than using a mask to shop in a hotspot.

And the people driving out of the hotspots and not wearing masks are going to spread it to the exurbs.

I bet driving deep into the exurbs to shop is safer than using a mask to shop in a hotspot.

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Anonymous wrote: I just went grocery shopping early today and I wore a mask that my mom made me. She used the Deaconess hospital pattern that is online.

I have made three following this pattern. The directions and video are very easy to follow.
I need more elastic which is out of stock everywhere.

You don’t need elastic. Some masks are just using bias tape or ribbon which you can tie in the back.

I am so tired of hearing the CDC deny that masks work. Even if they don’t work very well to filter out viruses they work to keep people from spraying lots of droplets into the air when they cough, sneeze, or talk. If people can have the virus and spread it without knowing it we should all assume we are carriers and wear masks whenever we are in public. They should be required of everyone. Not everyone has a surgical mask but everyone has fabric at home. If they can’t sew their own mask they can at least improvise a bandana.

My understanding is that regular masks won't protect you from getting sick. You need something like the N95 and you need to wear it correctly. However, at the start of all this, I think they were telling people who were sick to wear a mask when coming in to seek help (and I don't think it had to be N95).

Why don't they publish directions for a mask people could make at home and wear whenever they went out, not to protect themselves, but to protect everyone else. If we just assumed everyone might be sick (since it takes 2 weeks to show symptoms), wouldn't wearing masks reduce transmission?

Anonymous wrote: I just went grocery shopping early today and I wore a mask that my mom made me. She used the Deaconess hospital pattern that is online.

I have made three following this pattern. The directions and video are very easy to follow.
I need more elastic which is out of stock everywhere.

The story was probably killed because people were bashing them in the comments section about how they suddenly found 39 million masks to be sold at marked up prices.