| The biggest challenge is to overcome the mental block of decades of onetime use masks that have to be disposed in incinerators and be produced by ISO 9001 certified medical factories. During world war 2 it was normal to use reusable cotton masks. They just need to be put into boiling water for a few minutes to kill sars-cov-2 at 100%. You should try to get into touch with C. Drosten from Charité hospital Berlin. He recently stated in an interview that self-made masks could have a certain value, so he is not totally averse to this concept and Spahn [1] will listen to him. China has been promoting it, now czech republic is doing it. If Germany also starts promoting it, that will help immensely. The same goes for the hand sanitizer, any +70% alcohol/ethanol will do. No need to be from a factory with medical certifications. I am in France, there is a total lock down here but police still wears no masks and so does nobody else. Super markets have no hand sanitizer at the entrance so the virus will continue to spread. Masks cost nothing compared to the economic damage of the shut down. [1] German minister of health Edit: For those downvoting me, I'd sincerely be interested to hear your arguments. |