I have used one so far. It is on the passenger seat of my car. It has gotten a little damp a few times as when you breathe it fogs up your glasses if you wear them and you tend to sweat a lot. It must be doing the job is what I think. It is a 3M N95 Cool Flow it is called.

I know it seems extreme but, to hell w/them!

No one is going to cover my ass if I go down and I know it as I've almost died a few time and wow, what a lonely ass experience that one never forgets.

Take care and if you have a mask and you are fearful, then use it!

Of course I'm concerned. So, yes. I'll put it on and force the hubby to do the same.

My husband is old and it seems that many in his age group are to a point in life where they don't give a damn any more.

However, he will use a mask. I'll tell him he must!

He is very stubborn and very set in his ways.

Take care!!!

It should be ok. I am not sure for how long etc. my doc gave me one but he was not sure how to sterilize it. I ordered a cloth version that can be sterilized so I will use that when it gets here. I will not be going out now except for food and emergencies.

is symptomatic. We are told by the CDC we can reuse the masks if they are not wet as long as we put them in a paper bag. They had us bring in all the masks we have so they can give us each a few that we can use little by little. They might be giving more to our care centers where some patients stay temporarily for symptom management.

I am hoping next week they will tell us we can do telemedicine visits for stable patients. Actually a lot of families are cancelling visits because of fear of Covid 19.

while it dries. Then reuse it.. A thought..YMMV
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Depends whether the chlorine dissipates completely and doesn't leave a residue that you can breathe in, or that can reactivate with moisture to irritate your eyes.

Another thought can you put another filter over the mask.. LIke putting a coffee filter over the face mask. You could then remove the coffee filter and replace it with new.
A hot glue guy or a stapler would do quick work of it. Maybe one on the outside and one on the inside? A thought.. .YMMV
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I’m doing something like this for the nurses in the small visiting nurse office where I work part-time. I saw a news story about a hospital that’s using surgical sheets to make little covers to wear on the outside of N95 masks to protect them for reuse. We only have one N95 per nurse but they are in and out of multiple patients’ houses per day. No way our little office will be able to get more.

Not having access to surgical sheets, I bought a waterproof mattress cover and I’m using it to make a handful of little “booties” our nurses can replace when they go into each house. The covers will go into a lingerie bag and one of us will machine wash the whole bag daily. I’m hand-sewing them with heavy nylon thread for durability in repeated washings, and will finish first batch before work tomorrow. I’m getting faster at making them, and have plenty of fabric just from one twin-sized sheet to make as many as we need to replace ones that have elastic strap fail or may fall apart after repeated washings.

Why are you using coffee filters?