N-TV brought up the topic of the FFP-2 masks, and how Germans are continually re-using them....over and over.
In the minds of the virus experts....this is not a good practice.
So a University (Munster) went out and did a study.
If you were one of those people (I will admit, I'm one).....then you ought to 'clean' your mask regularly....if you were going to keep re-using them.
Methods? Well...you can stuff your FFP-2 mask in a baggy, and boil it (safely) in hot water. You can also heat up the oven (not super-hot) and just lightly 'toast' it (I tend to question this as being safe). Finally, you could use a hair-dryer and simply blow hot air over it.
How many people re-use FFP-2 masks? No idea, and no one is polling the public. I think the results would be about one-third of the public using a mask for three months or more. The current mask I have (I keep in a jacket pocket)? I'm up to about day 110. I'll wear it five minutes while fueling up and paying the gas station guy. I'll wear it twenty minutes while at a drink shop. I'll wear it thirty minutes in some German grocery. I'll wear it thirty minutes while riding the bus. In a whole week, it might add up to two hours of use.
Will anyone react to this 'worry'? I doubt it.
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