[Wowfunhappy]

I live in New York City. I haven't left my building in weeks, but I can see people on the sidewalk outside of my window, and I see other residents of my building in the lobby when I go (briefly!) to pick up laundry and mail.

Many of them are wearing surgical masks. Not N95 masks, true, but not home-made masks either. I don't know where they're getting the masks, but clearly they have some.

Every time I see this, I honestly kind of want to scream at them.

If you want to wrap a piece of fabric around your nose and mouth, by all means, it certainly can't hurt. But if you have a supply of real masks somewhere, you should donate them.

[SAI_Peregrinus]

I keep a box of surgical masks, since I'm one of the weirdos who wears one when sick even in the US! I've got 3. The box is years old, they're expired, they're not sterile any more, and I'll keep re-using them until they fail (the elastic stretches). As desperate as hospitals are these still aren't donatable.