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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,803 Member
    oooh, that's a good one @JustSomeEm
  • snowflake954
    snowflake954 Posts: 8,399 Member
    I sew and have made my own, but this looks good, especially for jogging. Thanks EM.
  • Unicorn_Bacon
    Unicorn_Bacon Posts: 491 Member
    Theoldguy1 wrote: »
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    KrissCanDoThis wrote: »
    Speaking of reasons..

    The other day I went to the grocery store to pick up a few things, I didnt have many bags, unlike my last trip where it took me 7 trips back and forth to get everything inside...

    So I'm waiting for my cab, he shows up, and immediately walks right over to my cart right behind me pretty much shoulder to shoulder to grab some of my bags.

    I said "it's okay, I got them" but he took them anyway.

    So I get in the car and I see no disinfecting wipes or sanitizer, no masks no gloves.. nothing.

    We get to my place and after I pay him, I get out and go around to get the bags and again he gets out and comes right up beside me and grabs some bags

    Again I said "it's okay I can take them" and he said no no, I will carry them to your place, and I said no, it's fine, i can handle them.

    I basically had to pry my bags from his hands.

    I honestly wouldnt think.. at this point that i would have to be blunt and state the obvious about social distancing... as it's been everywhere you go for weeks. So it surprised me that twice he gave no thought to himself or me..

    In trying to be a gentleman he removed my ability twice to maintain my own 6 feet of space.

    I dont know if he just didnt get it? Or if he just didnt care. But it's people like that, that would make it hard to reopen parts of the city or county without them just coming into that space.

    I was pretty mad.. last thing I need is to catch this just before I return to work because someone else just didnt care or doesnt take it seriously enough.

    All i could think was... what if he had done this for all his passengers? Then by being that close to me, shared it with me cause he picked it up from someone else.... what if I was unlucky enough to bring something home from the store and by him grabbing my bags, hes got it and now sharing it with new passengers.

    I actually wrote a tiny rant about it on my main profile as a vent, and someone that is no longer a friend cause they deleted themselves, condescendingly told me that they Hope I find happiness in my life so I dont blame others.

    So besides the cab driver, here is another person who seems to think violation of space and potential infection from someone else should be invited with love and acceptance.

    I dont blame those who ended up with it, it spread so quickly, and it's been hard to control, but I will get mad at those who dont do their own part to work together to protect those who haven't yet. Its gonna spread enough as it is, just trying to maintain some essential services to live and work, why make it harder?

    Keep your distance. Wash your hands. And those red arrows on the floor at the grocery store indicating which direction the flow of the aisle is.. follow it, dont just barge down the wrong way because you're only getting 1 thing and you dont wanna walk down another aisle just to go in the right direction. It's not hard..

    Lol... so frustrating when I see things like this

    Perhaps a call to the cab company as a gentle reminder, since this has happened more than once.

    One cab company in our community advertises that their drivers don't stink (obviously implying drivers for the other companies do). When that is the bar one is working with a call would most likely be a waste of breathe.

    Omg... hahahaha

    To be honest, I have had to call a few times about things, like a cab driver who paid me back in tokens from something and the coins looked like loonies at quick glance.

    I had to call when a driver taking me to work refused to turn around when he started taking me long way to work, usually its $20.. I told him I wasnt paying more then 20 and when we arrived, insisted I pay the $30 on the meter, I got out of the car refusing and he followed me in demanding I pay and that he has Bill's to pay and, after only taking $20 he told me I owe him money for ripping me off.

    I had to call again when a cab driver was again taking me to work and a small chunk of ice flew off the roof of his car. He stopped on the highway and then proceeded to back up!! I'm like "what the hell are you doing?" And he wouldnt answer me. After 5 min of backing up he decided to give up trying to find the ice I guess and continue on. He charged me more for the fare for distance he had already traveled and charged me for.

    I honestly dont think they really care, even tho they're considered city employees, in a sense.
  • L1zardQueen
    L1zardQueen Posts: 8,753 Member
    KrissCanDoThis wrote: »
    Theoldguy1 wrote: »
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    KrissCanDoThis wrote: »
    Speaking of reasons..

    The other day I went to the grocery store to pick up a few things, I didnt have many bags, unlike my last trip where it took me 7 trips back and forth to get everything inside...

    So I'm waiting for my cab, he shows up, and immediately walks right over to my cart right behind me pretty much shoulder to shoulder to grab some of my bags.

    I said "it's okay, I got them" but he took them anyway.

    So I get in the car and I see no disinfecting wipes or sanitizer, no masks no gloves.. nothing.

    We get to my place and after I pay him, I get out and go around to get the bags and again he gets out and comes right up beside me and grabs some bags

    Again I said "it's okay I can take them" and he said no no, I will carry them to your place, and I said no, it's fine, i can handle them.

    I basically had to pry my bags from his hands.

    I honestly wouldnt think.. at this point that i would have to be blunt and state the obvious about social distancing... as it's been everywhere you go for weeks. So it surprised me that twice he gave no thought to himself or me..

    In trying to be a gentleman he removed my ability twice to maintain my own 6 feet of space.

    I dont know if he just didnt get it? Or if he just didnt care. But it's people like that, that would make it hard to reopen parts of the city or county without them just coming into that space.

    I was pretty mad.. last thing I need is to catch this just before I return to work because someone else just didnt care or doesnt take it seriously enough.

    All i could think was... what if he had done this for all his passengers? Then by being that close to me, shared it with me cause he picked it up from someone else.... what if I was unlucky enough to bring something home from the store and by him grabbing my bags, hes got it and now sharing it with new passengers.

    I actually wrote a tiny rant about it on my main profile as a vent, and someone that is no longer a friend cause they deleted themselves, condescendingly told me that they Hope I find happiness in my life so I dont blame others.

    So besides the cab driver, here is another person who seems to think violation of space and potential infection from someone else should be invited with love and acceptance.

    I dont blame those who ended up with it, it spread so quickly, and it's been hard to control, but I will get mad at those who dont do their own part to work together to protect those who haven't yet. Its gonna spread enough as it is, just trying to maintain some essential services to live and work, why make it harder?

    Keep your distance. Wash your hands. And those red arrows on the floor at the grocery store indicating which direction the flow of the aisle is.. follow it, dont just barge down the wrong way because you're only getting 1 thing and you dont wanna walk down another aisle just to go in the right direction. It's not hard..

    Lol... so frustrating when I see things like this

    Perhaps a call to the cab company as a gentle reminder, since this has happened more than once.

    One cab company in our community advertises that their drivers don't stink (obviously implying drivers for the other companies do). When that is the bar one is working with a call would most likely be a waste of breathe.

    Omg... hahahaha

    To be honest, I have had to call a few times about things, like a cab driver who paid me back in tokens from something and the coins looked like loonies at quick glance.

    I had to call when a driver taking me to work refused to turn around when he started taking me long way to work, usually its $20.. I told him I wasnt paying more then 20 and when we arrived, insisted I pay the $30 on the meter, I got out of the car refusing and he followed me in demanding I pay and that he has Bill's to pay and, after only taking $20 he told me I owe him money for ripping me off.

    I had to call again when a cab driver was again taking me to work and a small chunk of ice flew off the roof of his car. He stopped on the highway and then proceeded to back up!! I'm like "what the hell are you doing?" And he wouldnt answer me. After 5 min of backing up he decided to give up trying to find the ice I guess and continue on. He charged me more for the fare for distance he had already traveled and charged me for.

    I honestly dont think they really care, even tho they're considered city employees, in a sense.

    Do you have Uber or Lyft in your area?
  • Unicorn_Bacon
    Unicorn_Bacon Posts: 491 Member
    No. The cab companies here have been really fighting against it. We have 2 different companies here and they are both essentially the same lol.. the fares are the same etc.
  • L1zardQueen
    L1zardQueen Posts: 8,753 Member
    KrissCanDoThis wrote: »
    No. The cab companies here have been really fighting against it. We have 2 different companies here and they are both essentially the same lol.. the fares are the same etc.

    Hopefully you will get them soon. Your local cab companies need a reality check.
  • Unicorn_Bacon
    Unicorn_Bacon Posts: 491 Member
    Lol... yeah it's annoying when certain companies dont have any competition so that they have to care more.

    It's the same with power here, only one company exists, nova scotia power, so no matter what they do, you have no choice but to stay with them, pay their rates, etc
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,887 Member
    KrissCanDoThis wrote: »
    No. The cab companies here have been really fighting against it. We have 2 different companies here and they are both essentially the same lol.. the fares are the same etc.

    Cab fares are usually set by the city, IME.
  • Unicorn_Bacon
    Unicorn_Bacon Posts: 491 Member
    Yeah. I honestly dont know how different having uber here would be
  • whoami67
    whoami67 Posts: 297 Member
    JustSomeEm wrote: »

    Anyway, today is the first day of mandatory face masks in my area. I don't (voluntarily) sew, so for anyone else who also doesn't sew (and can't find face masks) I found some no-sew face masks from t-shirts: https://jennifermaker.com/no-sew-face-mask-tshirt/

    That's a great link. I'm so happy there are creative and talented people in the world (I am not one of them) and the internet to share their talents.

    Sadly, I cleaned out my dresser and closet yesterday and threw out a bunch of old t-shirts that probably would have made really nice masks.

  • Unicorn_Bacon
    Unicorn_Bacon Posts: 491 Member
    Hmm..

    We do have uber eats here however I cannot use it as every email and phone number I've had is already made into an account that I didnt make. Lol

    Since I cant use it, I dont know if it's any good but I do know that skip the dishes here is pretty awful and after an hour, and I live in the main city of halifax, they still couldnt find a driver to pick up my food and expected it to be another hour lol... so it's almost like either there is no demand for it or people here arent interested in working at such a job.

    Now.. I know people have said that there is a demand for more cabs here, but I wonder, how many people would decide to become an uber driver.. or would it end up being like skip the dishes lol
  • Unicorn_Bacon
    Unicorn_Bacon Posts: 491 Member
    singingflutelady wrote: »
    KrissCanDoThis wrote: »
    4th person just died here, all 4 people have been from long term care nursing homes. I fear for the nursing home downtown, owned by the company I work for, they are up to 51 residents infected now and 33 staff members and its growing every day.

    They just announced 3 died yesterday at Northwood <3 hugs

    ☹ seriously? 3 at once.. my god, how heart breaking. Those poor families... I can only imagine how the staff are feeling..

    I know that if it ever got into my facility, even if it wasnt me being the one to bring it, everything I touched or people i gave help to.. I'd be terrified.

    What a shame 🥺
  • Unicorn_Bacon
    Unicorn_Bacon Posts: 491 Member
    Also I dont know why someone clicked like on the death of three people..
  • Unicorn_Bacon
    Unicorn_Bacon Posts: 491 Member
    I suppose so.. at least I hope that's what it is.. downside to emotion buttons, they dont come across the right way sometimes
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,064 Member
    There've been a bunch of no-sew masks posted (from cut-down t-shirts or socks, or the ones with folded scarves or socks with stretchy hair ties or rubber bands to go over the ears). While I admit that I haven't tried these, the things I have tried, plus a reasonable number of decades' experience as a sewing/fabrics person, make me think that many of these designs will stretch or loosen during wear, creating spaces around the mask that might degrade their protectiveness (for oneself or others).

    I haven't seen this design posted much - apologies if I missed it on this thread - but the link below is one I've seen that looks like it could be both non-stretch/less-loosening, and no-sew, FWIW.

    https://www.maskbuilders.com/make

    If I person wanted, they could incorporate other features from sewn masks, like pleats (horizontal folds) for better fit over the nose, and just staple or pin those at right/left edges, too. Ribbons, shoelaces, or something like paracord would work for ties, too, and might be sturdier in washing. Ties that tend to ravel, but are made of polyester-type fabrics (such as paracord), can be melted (carefully) with a match or lighter, to prevent raveling out with wear/washing. Don't touch the melted bit until it cools! (Paracord is a synthetic material cord with a synthetic fabric covering that kids often use for knotted jewelry or other crafts.)

    Another thing I'd point out, for non-sewing people who may not know, is that fabric glue is a thing that exists. I'm doubtful that it would be strong enough to attach ties to mask, but probably would work to create a top casing (folded-over tube) for the nose-piece, if one used a flat piece of fabric rather than a sheet as in the example linked above.
  • T1DCarnivoreRunner
    T1DCarnivoreRunner Posts: 11,502 Member
    KrissCanDoThis wrote: »
    Lol... yeah it's annoying when certain companies dont have any competition so that they have to care more.

    It's the same with power here, only one company exists, nova scotia power, so no matter what they do, you have no choice but to stay with them, pay their rates, etc

    Utilities are a "natural monopoly" because of how they work. It would not be efficient to have lots and lots of companies generating power and sending it out over many lines. Instead of 1 electrical line running down each street, it would be a dozen or more and the prices would need to be higher to pay for 1 house in every 10 buying electricity off of that line instead of all of them. Same goes for water and natural gas. Because they are natural monopolies, they are normally heavily regulated.
  • Unicorn_Bacon
    Unicorn_Bacon Posts: 491 Member
    I guess that makes sense.

    Sure would love to be the CEO of that company tho, his bonuses at the end of the year are massive. Lol
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    There've been a bunch of no-sew masks posted (from cut-down t-shirts or socks, or the ones with folded scarves or socks with stretchy hair ties or rubber bands to go over the ears). While I admit that I haven't tried these, the things I have tried, plus a reasonable number of decades' experience as a sewing/fabrics person, make me think that many of these designs will stretch or loosen during wear, creating spaces around the mask that might degrade their protectiveness (for oneself or others).

    I haven't seen this design posted much - apologies if I missed it on this thread - but the link below is one I've seen that looks like it could be both non-stretch/less-loosening, and no-sew, FWIW.

    https://www.maskbuilders.com/make

    If I person wanted, they could incorporate other features from sewn masks, like pleats (horizontal folds) for better fit over the nose, and just staple or pin those at right/left edges, too. Ribbons, shoelaces, or something like paracord would work for ties, too, and might be sturdier in washing. Ties that tend to ravel, but are made of polyester-type fabrics (such as paracord), can be melted (carefully) with a match or lighter, to prevent raveling out with wear/washing. Don't touch the melted bit until it cools! (Paracord is a synthetic material cord with a synthetic fabric covering that kids often use for knotted jewelry or other crafts.)

    Another thing I'd point out, for non-sewing people who may not know, is that fabric glue is a thing that exists. I'm doubtful that it would be strong enough to attach ties to mask, but probably would work to create a top casing (folded-over tube) for the nose-piece, if one used a flat piece of fabric rather than a sheet as in the example linked above.

    It might be important to know that testing has found stretchy knit material is bad at filtering viruses. Tightly woven material is better. T-shirts or socks are not the ideal thing to make masks from, and neither are buffs.
  • Unicorn_Bacon
    Unicorn_Bacon Posts: 491 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    KrissCanDoThis wrote: »
    singingflutelady wrote: »
    KrissCanDoThis wrote: »
    4th person just died here, all 4 people have been from long term care nursing homes. I fear for the nursing home downtown, owned by the company I work for, they are up to 51 residents infected now and 33 staff members and its growing every day.

    They just announced 3 died yesterday at Northwood <3 hugs

    ☹ seriously? 3 at once.. my god, how heart breaking. Those poor families... I can only imagine how the staff are feeling..

    I know that if it ever got into my facility, even if it wasnt me being the one to bring it, everything I touched or people i gave help to.. I'd be terrified.

    What a shame 🥺

    There is a nursing home here in town that is now under state investigation and it sounds like they for the most part ignored public health orders. 12 people have died there in the last couple of weeks and 23 employees have tested positive.

    It is very sad...it hits home for me personally because my dad spent his life caring for his elders in nursing homes and retirement facilities, and once upon a time he was the facility administrator at this particular nursing home. Getting that job was actually the reason we moved from Nebraska to New Mexico, and he ran that facility with a great deal of pride and passion...sad what it has come to (even before this they have been under a lot of scrutiny the last few years). He passed on 5 years ago, and in a sense I am great-full that he doesn't have to see what the place that he loved so much has become.

    That's sad ☹

    Especially when someone puts their loved one in a home it's the hardest decision they have to make, not only that the residents have given up their homes and life to trying to fit what they can into a small room.

    So when a facility just doesnt do their job in running the place and protecting their residents, and ensuring quality of care, the impact it has not only on the families, but the residents who worked so hard all their lives for the things they have, and can't even have the basic human right of dignity and care... it just astounds me that a collective group of people being witness to that could all be okay with it.

    Before the strict rules currently being enforced were put in place, staff where I work knew they had to be on top of it, some even bought black lights to make sure their cleaning was as good as it could be, they asked questions and gained knowledge on how better to improve and took best measures they could. They insisted on stronger cleaning measures early on and better protection with screen and social distancing. To me, there could be no way, that everyone would collectively agree that it was fine without it. And it's extremely unlikely that if the administrator was choosing not to follow the guidelines and protocols that someone wouldnt go up the chain of command to make sure it was fixed.

    I'm glad someone is investigating that because something is definitely not right there.
  • snowflake954
    snowflake954 Posts: 8,399 Member
    Here in Italy, we also have many nursing homes infected all over the country. They are now controlling all nursing homes to see where the responsibility lies and what went wrong.
  • Unicorn_Bacon
    Unicorn_Bacon Posts: 491 Member
    I agree, and with a fine that large I hope that people start making choices not to use those nursing homes.
  • Unicorn_Bacon
    Unicorn_Bacon Posts: 491 Member
    That's true, no one does know what it's like to be in that position. Personally I dont know what ns power is like at all as a company, I pay $80 every 2 months for my power and that is the extent of my interaction with them

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