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Bigchick
#621 Posted : Saturday, March 28, 2020 11:18:48 AM
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tycho wrote:
Thanks, @Bigchick. I have experimented with shower caps and 1 shower cap can give 4 masks. Add elastic and a material for finishing the edges. But these shower caps too may be scarce.

I believe we can do well enough if we use jeans material. There's plenty of it to ensure every eligible Kenyan has at least 2 masks.

Please help in discovering other materials. If we run out of elastic we can convert shoe laces, use strings, or cut pieces of cloth.



Shower cap will suffocate us😐We need to breath.

Maybe material similar to the one making bio bags.
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Shak
#622 Posted : Saturday, March 28, 2020 11:20:25 AM
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aemathenge wrote:
tycho wrote:
Thanks, @Bigchick. I have experimented with shower caps and 1 shower cap can give 4 masks. Add elastic and a material for finishing the edges. But these shower caps too may be scarce.

I believe we can do well enough if we use jeans material. There's plenty of it to ensure every eligible Kenyan has at least 2 masks.

Please help in discovering other materials. If we run out of elastic we can convert shoe laces, use strings, or cut pieces of cloth.


Solutions.

With the many faces of @Tycho, this face I love.


The masks are not made from ordinary material. They have a special filter. A simple fabric mask will give zero protection.
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Angelica _ann
#623 Posted : Saturday, March 28, 2020 11:20:36 AM
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Bigchick wrote:
tycho wrote:
Thanks, @Bigchick. I have experimented with shower caps and 1 shower cap can give 4 masks. Add elastic and a material for finishing the edges. But these shower caps too may be scarce.

I believe we can do well enough if we use jeans material. There's plenty of it to ensure every eligible Kenyan has at least 2 masks.

Please help in discovering other materials. If we run out of elastic we can convert shoe laces, use strings, or cut pieces of cloth.



Shower cap will suffocate us😐We need to breath.

Maybe material similar to the one making bio bags.


Could some type of bra serve this mask purpose?
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tycho
#624 Posted : Saturday, March 28, 2020 11:22:16 AM
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aemathenge wrote:
tycho wrote:
Thanks, @Bigchick. I have experimented with shower caps and 1 shower cap can give 4 masks. Add elastic and a material for finishing the edges. But these shower caps too may be scarce.

I believe we can do well enough if we use jeans material. There's plenty of it to ensure every eligible Kenyan has at least 2 masks.

Please help in discovering other materials. If we run out of elastic we can convert shoe laces, use strings, or cut pieces of cloth.


Solutions.

With the many faces of @Tycho, this face I love.


It is my duty @mahegoat. At the moment I pray that all minds and hands work together, for we may fight SARS-CoV-2 for the next 3 years. We expect a vaccine in a year. But for Africa we may get it by the 2nd year. We'll then need a vaccination period of say 1 year. We should be able either to make one for ourselves or afford to buy it.
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tycho
#625 Posted : Saturday, March 28, 2020 11:26:05 AM
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@Shak, we don't need that special material. Why? Consider what we have as an alternative: your elbow - clothed or unclothed.

Jeans can hold the cough just like the cloth on your elbow.

@Bigchick, the shower caps I have used are okay. One can breath well enough. But the idea is to improvise.
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sqft
#626 Posted : Saturday, March 28, 2020 11:26:46 AM
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Curfew in full force.


Proverbs 13:11 Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.
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tycho
#627 Posted : Saturday, March 28, 2020 11:27:49 AM
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Angelica _ann wrote:
Bigchick wrote:
tycho wrote:
Thanks, @Bigchick. I have experimented with shower caps and 1 shower cap can give 4 masks. Add elastic and a material for finishing the edges. But these shower caps too may be scarce.

I believe we can do well enough if we use jeans material. There's plenty of it to ensure every eligible Kenyan has at least 2 masks.

Please help in discovering other materials. If we run out of elastic we can convert shoe laces, use strings, or cut pieces of cloth.



Shower cap will suffocate us😐We need to breath.

Maybe material similar to the one making bio bags.


Could some type of bra serve this mask purpose?


Maybe. Test!
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mpobiz
#628 Posted : Saturday, March 28, 2020 12:04:01 PM
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sqft wrote:
Curfew in full force.




Though i hope I am not caught up with this kind of situation all I would say is that watu wanyoroshwe.
Politics is just things to keep the people divided and foolish and put your trust in men and none of them can do nothing for you...
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kaka2za
#629 Posted : Saturday, March 28, 2020 1:03:11 PM
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The Matatu driver has to be home at 7 pm. This means he has to park the vehicle before 5 pm and find his way home otherwise he will be clobbered.
The last vehicle should, therefore, leave the city terminus at 3.30 pM which means employees must be released before 2 pm.

In summary, it is half-day work until further notice.
Truth forever on the scaffold
Wrong forever on the throne
(James Russell Rowell)
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kaka2za
#630 Posted : Saturday, March 28, 2020 1:04:45 PM
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mpobiz wrote:
sqft wrote:
Curfew in full force.




Though i hope I am not caught up with this kind of situation all I would say is that watu wanyoroshwe.


You have been supporting Tanga Tanga. Now you are for Twangwa Twangwa!
Truth forever on the scaffold
Wrong forever on the throne
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