Masks

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I neither need nor want the N95 masks that all the fuss in the news services and health care facilities has been made about since this started. I would like to get a batch of those "regular" "surgical" masks that I've been able to buy at places like Rexall or Shoppers Drug Mart. I want them partly to help other people feel safer around me when I do step outside, and partly because I'm expecting lawn-mowing season to start soon. Where I live, I often find myself doing that chore, and the backyard has the added complication of the lawnmower kicking up dust in several parts of the lawn. I have allergy issues, and the chance of my allergy issues' symptoms being mistaken for more dangerous things is high enough that I don't want to have to deal with such mistakes and their consequences.

(For shopping errands, I've been improvising with a scarf irregularly, and one of my co-residents is planning to make cloth masks to supplant that. We have enough "raw" material to get that done in-house.)