Make Sure You Always Have a Clean Mask With This System
I live in New York, where I am pleased to report that the vast majority of people wear masks when they go out. This is likely to have something to do with why we were able to flatten the COVID-19 curve and keep it flat, dropping our daily infection rate from an alarming high of 71% in the early days of the pandemic to about 1% at the start of the pandemic. early June, and keep it there . The downside to this is that I started seeing a lot of discarded disposable masks littering our streets and beaches , which I find absolutely disgusting – and that says something, given the normal state of New York streets . I would like more people to choose reusable masks. Not only are they better for the environment , but also convenient if you have a system for managing a clean inventory of masks.
A few months ago, I explained how we redesigned the short hangers we originally bought to dry out cloth diaper covers for hanging face masks overnight. Since then – during this time we have gone out a lot more often and wears masks just as strictly – we have expanded our strategy by adding a system that ensures there is always an adequate supply of masks ready when we need to go out.
It’s very simple: we have two small baskets on a shelf in the foyer. One of them is for clean masks. The other is for dirty masks. Every time we go outside, we take a clean mask from our ex. Once we get back, we take off the masks and put them right in the last one. This holds out any germs they may harbor (although surface transmission seems like a less likely vector of infection, it’s still important to keep my hands clean ) until I can take them to the bathroom at the end of the day to wash them in the bathroom. submerge them in water and hang them to dry.
I understand that this is not really rocket science, but with four people in our family, we make at least 28 masks a week, provided that we only go outside once a day. Before we started using baskets, they were all over the place — children threw them on the floor, left them on the dining table, or mixed with laundry. Now I always know where they are all, and we will never be caught without a mask.