Coronavirus: The government asks to stop using artisanal masks -
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Between understanding and fed up, our Internet users are gradually adapting to the new recommendations, which are rather well understood.
Faced with the coronavirus, the government is now asking "to no longer use artisanal masks", but to favor the wearing of category 1 masks.
Among our readers, a number have made the decision to stop wearing their homemade models.
This is not the case for all.
Some diehards disagree.
“I keep my handmade mask.
Already we are forced to wear it everywhere in my village with its almost empty streets… ”, explains Claude, probably skeptical.
"We must follow the advice of scientists and stop doubting everything", defends Gilles, meanwhile rather convinced.
An opinion shared by Christian.
“I wore 'homemade' masks as advised during the first confinement.
I wore Category 1 disposable masks if necessary in places more exposed to a concentration of people.
The current situation leads us to have to reinforce the quality of barrier gestures via, among other things, the filtration quality of the masks.
I fully support this measure!
"
Big fed up
Other Internet users testify to have been a little taken aback.
This is the case of Emilie, mother of two children.
“I have invested a lot of money in homemade masks and now I have to buy UNS1 [category 1] for my children.
Since this is still an unforeseen budget, I will wait before investing for myself and continue to use craftsmen.
Catherine is in a similar situation.
Annoyed, she denounces "a lack of consistency, clarity and logic".
“I don't know what to think or what to do anymore.
Contradictory injunctions, changes over time ... I tell my daughter to wear categories 1, but I continue to wear those that I myself made during the first confinement.
(…) Spite, disgust and fed up!
», She finally sums up.
And it is far from being the only one in this case.
Annoyance sometimes takes precedence over understanding the new recommendations.
“For my part, I will continue with fabric masks, in which I have invested for the whole family, whether they are category 1 or not.
Ditto for my children, ”says Laeticia.
This mother of a family is definitely "fed up with all these changes in directives !!!"
And in some of the testimonies collected, the conspiracy theory is never very far away.
“Another huge hoax.
Now we are forced to buy masks to get a little more money into the state coffers, ”Jacky believes, for example.
Ecology and good common sense
Some Internet users, however, call for common sense.
They remind us that respect for barrier gestures and the way to wear the mask are essential.
“The most important thing is to put on your mask correctly (covering the nose and mouth) rather than so,” says Anne-Marie.
Other readers challenge us about the unecological nature of disposable masks.
As well as on the environment, while we find more and more abandoned on the ground.
For this reason, Hélène will continue to wear unapproved fabric, because according to her "surgical masks are a time bomb for the planet".
Follow instructions "
For her part, Marie specifies that she will "respect the instructions", even if she is not in favor of disposable.
Moreover, she has "already bought several category 1 masks, always in fabric".
“The homemade mask is not 'bad' because it is homemade, but because you cannot control its effectiveness,” she emphasizes.
She would like to have guidelines to be able to sew category 1 crafts herself (weft of the fabric to be used, compulsory lining, etc.).
“A little fed up with being let us understand that apart from frantic consumption and generation of waste, no salvation!
"
Finally, for Xavier, "it is not about a particular effort".
He decided to follow the recommendations.
“I always wear the mask and I am lucky to be supplied by my company,” he explains.
According to him, "we can no longer afford to do in half measures, a strict follow-up of the recommendations as soon as possible is inevitable".
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