Make Your Own Respirator (LINK FIXED)

What you can't smell can kill you


Rather than no respirator, make one


Sircus is urging people to make respirators - now.

"Rather than go without any protection at all, the alert citizen can make gas masks for himself and his family from the increasing exposure in the Gulf region. The necessary materials can be found in almost any house."

There is a national-wide shortage of respirators for the citizenry, according to Nicolette Slagle who said, "It seems that BP is buying them."

Materials needed to make a respirator are listed below. Sircus and "Gulf Barefoot Doctors" will be facilitating a training program for people to learn to make these respirators. They are calling on goodwill of fellow Americans to immediately send materials or pre-made respirators:

Bathing cap,
Small tin can,
Transparent cover from a powder-puff box,
Bit of wire net (from fly swatters),
2 handkerchiefs,
Elastic ribbon,
Adhesive tape,
From the drugstore: a few ounces of activated coconut charcoal and soda lime.

"An even simpler mask is advocated by Dr. Kearney Sauer of the Los Angeles Citizens' Defense Corps: two twelve-inch squares of bed sheeting with a quarter-inch layer of baking soda between, held in even distribution by crisscross stitching," says Sircus.

"Dampened and held firmly over the face, this napkin will give temporary protection against any gas, according to Dr. Sauer but not the Army."


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