I’m sure that grocery workers have easy access to bandanas, hair loops, and coffee filters to make their own.
I don’t understand how there can be a shortage of something each individual can make for themselves. If everyone can make one, with few exceptions- maybe some are homeless and literally cannot find a scrap of material anywhere- but several people are making and giving away cloth masks, where’s the shortage?
The issue is the shortage of N95 masks; it’s even highlighted in the article you just posted.
Og help me, I thought that was “bananas” at first!
Yes plenty of cloth masks are available. So why did Broomstick have a cow?Because it was suggested that N95 masks be reserved for healthcare workers first. But apparently homemade face masks are good enough for grocery workers, the OP is sewing them up for herself and others to wear at work. 
I have no bandanas (or sewing skills)(or bananas), but y’know what I do have? A t-shirt and a pair of socks.
I’m feeling so crafty just because I cut and folded up a bitchin’ skate shop t-shirt. Yeah, it’s black. I feel badass.
So the fictional “cloth mask shortage!” is just a bully trying to “win” an argument with strangers at any cost.
How many times must a man jump the shark, before he is put on Ignore?
How many times will you read his dumb shit, before you show him the door?
OK, so I am unworthy of an answer? But you have one, if somebody else asked the question? OK. Got it.
<checks thread post count>
…and elucidator stands at 41. Soon, very soon…
Damned if I know what’s happened to you, but the answer to both is Yes. But I’ll give you an answer anyway:
There are YouTube videos out there showing how to create your own cloth mask from an old T-shirt and a couple of rubber bands. You don’t even need a scissors.
There is no shortage of old t-shirts, or rubber bands either.
No, “bananas” always follows elucidator.
The suggestion was that grocery workers aren’t even have those, as long as there were medical workers who did not have what they needed. So give up your homemade cloth masks, take them to the hospital!
Even as absurdly as you twist it, the answer is still “yes”. Prioritizing is going to happen, is happening! And the question is who decides? Dr. Fauci or Jared Kushner?
Not a question of who deserves, we all deserve. None of us have the pay grade for deciding “deserve”. I prefer an expanding circle that starts with health care providers, and out from there. Cops next, bus drivers? Dunno, haven’t got that far. I won’t be making that decision. But somebody will.
Let me know when you get done playing dodgeball.
For the record, I don’t think elucidator intended the post he was pitted over to be taken seriously. I think he was shooting for gallows humor, tripped over two left feet, and fell into a 40-foot well.
Also for the record, I think that once it was explained to him that no matter what his intentions were, his post had caused serious emotional harm to someone else, he should have apologized without trying to explain himself.
Then started digging.
All of the ones I’ve seen already have masks, you disingenuous dolt.
That’s exactly it, to me. He tries to be clever, and the failure mode of clever is asshole. If your cleverness fails, you apologize. Instead he has, what, quintupled down?
Actually, what I was going for was the Evil Guy monologue cliche, like something out of Insect Fear. A caricature, like, sure, this is who I am, some guy who sits around hoping that grocery workers catch terrible diseases. Naturally, I preceded that by pointing out that I spent two years working in a grocery store. I doubt I could have been more blatantly sarcastic.
And, Hell, what about my emotional distress? Texans are widely known for being sensitive and vulnerable. Someone screams they hate you fifty times, kinda wears on you. Or maybe that’s just me.
If this is true, you were lacking something. 
Hey, I* need* my kitchen sink!