Old Salt wrote on Apr 21^st, 2020 at 9:05pm:

One of the criteria that should matter is having enough N95 masks to restock the stores that used to have them. That would give John Q Public and you and me a chance to protect themselves against possible infections. I have a handful of leftovers from my last drywall project. I will need many more to be protected against viruses. I know that cloth masks are being promoted, but they offer no virus protection. I worked in Mayo Clinic hospitals for many years and had all the training and experience with PPE. I think that the initial advice that N95 was ineffective was a calculated lie to buy time to get them to the hospitals. As someone who exceeds 65, and has most of the risk factors, I’m willing to wear a mask in public, but I want it to protect me from infections. Yes, there’s a right way to wear them. It could be shown in a short YouTube video and maybe it is. Anyway, I hope that more focus can be given to N95 production so that we can hopefully dodge this disease and not burden the healthcare system.

   My brother is in the same boat. I asked what he was going to do? He sent me this link. He has some masks which he plans to rotate and disinfect each use using the 3rd method in this article. He has an old Toaster Oven in his workshop he can dedicate to doing it. It won't last forever but hopefully, the masks will get back into the public domain with the production being ramped up to 10's of millions of units.

Dr Tsai is the designer of the N95 mask so he should know what he's talking about.

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