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Anonymous Fri Apr 3 03:38:09 2020 No.11528373 [Reply] [Original]

Are there any /sci/ approved methods for making masks at home that offer reasonable protection from coronavirus?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 3 03:38:59 2020 No.11528375 You’re a fucking idiot

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 3 03:39:21 2020 No.11528377 >>11528375 Care to elaborate?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 3 03:40:18 2020 No.11528381 >>11528373 No because they don't offer protection from viruses, retard.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 3 03:40:50 2020 No.11528382 >>11528373 These mask protect others from your germs. That's what they are made for. You need the rarer and more expensive FFP2 / FFP3 which has filters. You will also waste them if you don't have training.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 3 03:41:53 2020 No.11528386 >>11528382 spastic

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 3 03:42:56 2020 No.11528388 File: 97 KB, 1500x1236, 71Jj2Mlm0bL._AC_SL1500_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Surgical mask were made so that doctors don't spread their germs to patients, not the other way around. For true protection, you need respirators with filters.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 3 03:44:04 2020 No.11528393 >>11528373 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lG1w_U7kss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg4Xg7_u3sE