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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?)
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)/¯
Love that emoticon, first time I've seen it.
Yeah. I certainly made my own homenade masks when bought ones were scarce.
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
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: