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This will be a funny one to explain to grandkids one day (startrek.website)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Can’t believe they didn’t ask us to make homemade masks… some would’ve still made a run on store-bought masks, but we could’ve been a little better protected. (Protected better by how much much still seems to be hard to determine exactly?)

[–] Kase 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes I forget how fucking weird 2020 was. I joined a group of people at my local church who were sewing masks. I didn't know how to sew, but I could cut fabric. I'd bike across town (too young to drive.. wait a second, 2020 was four years ago, holy fuck) to pick up a bag of fabric with instructions included, then drop off the cut pieces at another house. The weirdest part is that I never met anyone in the group, save for the one person I talked to over facebook messenger.

They were strange times. ¯⁠\⁠(⁠°⁠_⁠o⁠)⁠/⁠¯

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Love that emoticon, first time I've seen it.

[–] TootSweet 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah. I certainly made my own homenade masks when bought ones were scarce.

[–] Agent641 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

They did! There was a a video by the US surgeon general showing how to make a mask out of a t-shirt and rubber bands. That was an unexpectedly spooky video.

https://youtu.be/PI1GxNjAjlw?si=nEKQbzqis8XQnKGq

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I remember that!

I should’ve been clear that I was referring to only the earliest days of the pandemic. Wikipedia's summary jives with my memory:

Federal officials initially discouraged the general public from wearing masks for protecting themselves from COVID-19. In early April, federal officials reversed their guidance, saying that the general public should wear masks to lessen transmission by themselves, particularly from asymptomatic carriers.