{"id":8081,"date":"2020-04-08T21:13:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T04:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=8081"},"modified":"2020-04-08T21:13:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T04:13:29","slug":"adventures-in-mask-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2020\/04\/adventures-in-mask-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in mask making"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As of April 2, the San Mateo County Board of Health recommends that everyone wear a mask when they’re in public places. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been doubtful about the efficacy of masks, since my understanding is that wearing a mask won’t do much to protect you from being infected by others. But I’ve come to understand that masks might protect others from being infected by you, if you happen to have COVID-19 but are still asymptomatic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So today I decided to be a good citizen and sew a couple of masks, one for Carol and one for me. I am very slow at sewing, partly because I don’t know how to use a sewing machine, and partly because I don’t know what I’m doing. But I found a good online video<\/a> showing how to make one of the 2-layer pleated masks that are supposed to be the most effective handmade masks. I didn’t have the elastic bands called for in the video, but I had some 1\/4 inch polyester cord to use for the ties. Carol has a big bolt of unbleached cotton muslin, and I sacrificed an old t-shirt. Sewing the pleats by hand was kind of a pain at first, but I quickly figured it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After two or three hours, I had a mask for Carol and a mask for me. We went to the grocery store, and three quarters of the people there were also wearing masks. Mask wearing peer pressure has begun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Me wearing my mask<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As soon as we got home, I washed both masks in hot water, as you’re supposed to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next step: make another mask for Carol using a high fashion fabric for the outer layer….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As of April 2, the San Mateo County Board of Health recommends that everyone wear a mask when they’re in public places. I’ve been doubtful about the efficacy of masks, since my understanding is that wearing a mask won’t do much to protect you from being infected by others. But I’ve come to understand that … Continue reading “Adventures in mask making”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[739,129],"class_list":["post-8081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","tag-covid-19","tag-diy-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8083,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081\/revisions\/8083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}