Sew much demand: Suddenly, homemade masks are a booming cottage industry

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With a massive shortage of personal protective equipment across Canada for health workers, many groups have organized to create masks at home

calling on people who can sew to help make 1,000 masks a week for discharged patients, visitors and vulnerable communities so that surgical masks can be reserved for health-care workers. Staff in some hospitals are putting handmade masks over their N95 respirators to help make them last longer.

In normal times, Ms. Moore-Thibert is a managing partner of the paralegal firm Cochrane Moore LLP in Oshawa. This week, she expanded her sewing network, opening chapters in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Quebec. British Columbia is next. With the help of her administration team in Durham, the group, now called Canada Sews, organized teams, material allocation and drop-off locations in partnership with individual UPS stores to reduce face-to-face contact.

On his 13 printers he is using designs that are being shared online among 3D printers. He said he has been able to make 150 masks and shields a day, and is working on increasing his count.

 

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People don’t understand that you can’t just make a mask from any material and expect it to protect you from COVID-19

Very cool-thank you for sharing this story!

williamdore Way to milk the moment.

Neon on my naked skin, passing silhouettes Of strange illuminated mannequins Shall I stay here at the zoo Or should I go and change my point of view For other ugly scenes You did what you did to me Now it's history I see Things will happen It's easy when you're big in Japan

Dumb

I am making my own masks at home.. I can't sew properly but I am doing it anyway because wearing a mask IS and WAS a good idea! But we were fooled by doctors and some scientists

Good grief. Make a phuqing fashion statement out of a necessity that could save someone’s life

I've made 10 today and I'm giving them away.

This one's my favorite.

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