I now have a home-made cloth mask. How to make it most effective?

[Roderick_Femm]

@VOW

Best way to use? Stay home!
~VOW

@RioRico

Exactly my advice. The best place for a homemade mask, maybe sprinkled with a little blood-red coloring, is hanging in a front window with a sign, GO AWAY!

I guess my husband’s efforts were a fucking stupid waste of time then.

@susan

It’s been said already, but I think it’s worth reiterating: If you’re asymptomatic, you may still be a carrier. The perspective shift from “I’m healthy” to “I could unintentionally kill people” ought to be an incentive to wear a mask outside the home.

Here’s the New York Times article, which also suggests that wearing a mask provides a non-zero boost to protection for healthy individuals:

Or maybe not.