No, you cut a couple of rings from the opening to act as rubber bands/ear loops, and cut the rest of it open and fold it so it fits. Like all the do-it-yourself with a bandana and a couple of rubber band tutorials.
Here: I made a coronavirus mask for my 76-year-old mom out of a sock. Here's how
Glad to hear you have a loaner. If you wanted to be a dick, you could go out for hour-long solo drives.
I picked up take out pierogis last night and was impressed by the different masks I saw (from a reasonable distance), including one weirdo sporting an army surplus gas mask.
So I did a semi-successful shopping trip yesterday, as in, I managed to keep the improvised mask on, and get most of what I needed, but there’s still no lettuce to be had and, for no sensible reason, not a single bit of sliced ham to be had. (What, are people switched to piled up sliced ham for a substitute for Easter?)
The shoppers were pretty good: everyone I noticed was wearing a mask of some sort, and plenty of distancing. But those arrows on the floor indicating which way the aisle traffic should be? Might as well not have existed. And I saw at least a half dozen cases of couples debating over what to buy as they shopped, despite regularly repeated P.A. announcements about Please have only one person from your household in the store at a time.
As the loaner is their basic Impreza I’m really not feeling Siren call of a long luxurious groovy car ride. Though I have made it clear that I want my car washed, waxed, with a full tank of gas and delivered by a white gloved chauffeur in a tuxedo. Service manager sighed and said I’ll see what I can do.
Some of the stores here have those one-way arrows. It’s enough of a pain finding the stuff I need without dealing with one-way aisles. I often just ignore them, although I – and everyone else – is good about dealing with the social distancing rules in general.
My closest grocery store has the distance markers in a long line before the checkout lanes, and an employee directing customers to the next available free checkout so there is only one customer there at a time. I’m fine with that, and shoppers do tend to keep their distance. The one-way signs are kind of stupid and impractical, though I understand the theory behind them. I mean, if I’m looking for a can of vegetable broth, and it’s right there in front of me on an aisle with an arrow in the floor pointing in the opposite direction, I’m not going to trudge half a mile down the next aisle and up the same one again just to get the damn thing if there are no other shoppers around in the immediate area.
Masks are getting increasingly common but still very much in a minority here, except for store employees.
Either stores are not bothering to restock cleaning items or they’re not enforcing item limits. Less than an hour from store opening, shelves are bare.
Can’t figure out keeping my glasses from fogging up while wearing a mask, either.
Around me they’ve been bare for 3 or 4 weeks now: cleaning stuff, toilet paper, and most other paper products, save for an occasional box of tissues or roll of cheap paper towels. Last week I asked a store clerk if they’ve ever been restocked, and if so, how long before they sell out. I was told they do restock, but nowhere near enough to fill the shelves, and it sells out quickly.
I have to believe it’s still hoarders who already have plenty just continuing their behavior, like the ones who refuel their vehicles every time the level goes down a few gallons worth.
There are methods and strategies. Here are a few of them. And you can always google for more.
It’s probably not. Home use of toilet paper has gone way, way up, while commercial use (those huge 1-ply rolls) has gone way, way down. All of those times that you go to the bathroom at work or at a restaurant is now at home. The manufacturers for home use toilet paper are really struggling to fill demand, and they don’t have extra manufacturing lines for such a low-ticket item. So toilet paper ends up being scarce even if everyone is buying very responsibly.
Same thing with flour, yeast, milk, butter, etc… The packagers for retail use are slammed beyond capacity and the packagers for commercial use are sitting idle. They can’t just switch over - it takes months to re-tool a production line.
Come on, people! Safeway went to all the trouble of setting up one way aisles, the least you could do is, go down the aisles in the directions the arrows point!
Huh.
The manager texted me yesterday and offered to send the handyman over to work on the oven while I was at work (an offer I declined), so she said she’d reschedule for some time next week.
When I got home from work, I tried turning on the oven, and IT HEATED UP.
Dammit, it’s an intermittent problem.
I think I’ll let the request stand. If the handyman can find anything that might make the problem recur, I’ll still be wanting that fixed.
Meanwhile, Kayla wants to try the slut brownies again.
I am really getting fucking tired of the phrase “In these uncertain times.” About 4.21*10[sup]19[/sup] commercials and emails from random CEOs find it necessary to bring to my attention that these times are,apparently, uncertain. Find a damn thesaurus.
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I will now refer to These Times as vacillating. Seems to be the most appropriate synonym, no?
Be glad you’re not getting inundated with the Chinese expression, “This special situation”. I echo and reiterate your suggestion, even for the Chinese.
No! This is not a special time; it’s a damn disaster, a pandemic. Special would be graduating from university, falling in love, giving away your daughter at her wedding, or seeing your grandchild for the first time. This is not even close to any of those.
Nor is this time uncertain. We know what is happening and we know who is screwing up the response to it. If anything, this is now the most certain time in the history of humanity.
I think virtually any business that I have ever dealt with has sent me an email about how awesomely responsible their response has been to the pandemic. I had no idea so many businesses had my email address. Many of them, if not the majority, can be summarized as “We’re closed. Good luck.” The others are “We’re still open, because we care about you so darned much, but here are the hoops you have to jump through to get any products or services”. The latter is actually fairly reasonable except for the fatuous expression of deep caring, because most of the hoops are reasonable safety measures.
Maybe for variety a commercial could say something like…
“The whole world is going to shit but you can still enjoy a cold, refreshing Coca-Cola.”
In these uncertain times, Staples is there for me. When I learned that, I knew we were truly fucked.
Even my goddamn bank is now “there for me.” What were they before?
Picking your pocket, of course.