Easy way to use bandana as face mask

[anonymouse1]

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-hfysOnPZB/

[NewtonMP2100]

....band(ana).........of brothers......???

[Sam3]

Folded over so many times I can't believe that the breathability would be any good.

[Robert M]

Anonymous,

Tried it. Size-wise, the end result is suitable for a child, not an adult. Bandit-style, with the bottom of the bandanna tucked in your shirt works better (for me).

Robert

[Thrift Store Scott]

Sam3 wrote:
Folded over so many times I can't believe that the breathability would be any good.

Yeah, that's freakin' insane... One step away from strapping a pillow to your face and smothering yourself.

Here in the real world, I went out yesterday wearing a bandana "cowboy style"- folded in half corner-to-corner and tied once in the back, the way cowboys wore them to keep trail dust out of their mouths and noses when driving cattle.

Not all bandanas are created equal and the one I wore yesterday was a relatively thick one with a fairly tight weave (Some cheap bandanas are almost gauze-like). I could definitely feel the restriction in my air intake when I breathed in with it on and under no circumstances would I want to try to run a marathon while wearing one. It didn't take long to find out that breathing in through my mouth and out through my nose was the most effective way to do it.

A good ol' bandana may not be not THE most effective protection overall, but it's a damn sight more effective than the official masks when they either have huge gaps beside the nose or on either side near the ears or if they're worn over the mouth but not the nose meaning people are breathing around those masks and not through them, thus rendering the masks completely useless.

[Grateful11]

What about along the sides of the nose? Every dust musk I've worn over the years has a metal bar to pinch and close it up around the nose.

BTW: I see lots of people on TV that do not pinch the nose bar on their mask, saw it during 9/11 in NY also. We had to go through a training and fitting session when I worked as a Machinist on the railroad, gotta a beard might as well forget it, no mask or respirator is going to seal. Many won't even seal with heavy stubble.

[PeterB]

Thrift Store Scott wrote:
[quote=Sam3]
Folded over so many times I can't believe that the breathability would be any good.

Yeah, that's freakin' insane... One step away from strapping a pillow to your face and smothering yourself.

Here in the real world, I went out yesterday wearing a bandana "cowboy style"- folded in half corner-to-corner and tied once in the back, the way cowboys wore them to keep trail dust out of their mouths and noses when driving cattle.

Not all bandanas are created equal and the one I wore yesterday was a relatively thick one with a fairly tight weave (Some cheap bandanas are almost gauze-like). I could definitely feel the restriction in my air intake when I breathed in with it on and under no circumstances would I want to try to run a marathon while wearing one. It didn't take long to find out that breathing in through my mouth and out through my nose was the most effective way to do it.

A good ol' bandana may not be not THE most effective protection overall, but it's a damn sight more effective than the official masks when they either have huge gaps beside the nose or on either side near the ears or if they're worn over the mouth but not the nose meaning people are breathing around those masks and not through them, thus rendering the masks completely useless.
That is precisely the conclusion these folks drew: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspect...sound-data

The problem is that for cloth to reach any sort of effectiveness, it's likely it'd be so thick that you can't easily breathe through it.

[deckeda]

Missing the point.

No mask, unless possibly N95, can prevent exposure to Covid-19.

The REASON for stealing surgical masks, Home Depot paint masks, or bandanas is so that You Do Not Touch Your Face.

That’s honestly at least half the battle.

[modelamac]

Dust filters and bandanas also lower the virus content getting exhaled. My mask is helping keep you safe, and it's reciprocal. Distance the fewer droplets travel is cut down.

[PeterB]

deckeda wrote:
Missing the point.

No mask, unless possibly N95, can prevent exposure to Covid-19.

The REASON for stealing surgical masks, Home Depot paint masks, or bandanas is so that You Do Not Touch Your Face.

That’s honestly at least half the battle.

I see no problem with using masks to prevent you from touching your face, but I do see a BIG problem with the masks giving a false sense of security... and you don't need a mask to not touch your face.

modelamac, there's no data to support that. I've said it before, I'll say it again... cloth masks did not prevent Enza from flying in through the window.