As the US Death Toll Threatens to Reach 200,000

This was done much better on YouTube by a nurse, but anyone with a paper towel, two rubber bands and two staples can make a mask that is better than nothing because:

1. it keeps you from spreading germs if you cough
2. it keeps you from touching your face and infecting yourself
3. MOST IMPORTANT–it frees up N95 masks to go to the front lines–like my daughter’s colleague at Mt Sinai, the first nurse to die in NYC, a supervisor who didn’t have enough masks on hand to wear one himself.