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> Also, you should definitely be wearing protective equipment when outside the home. Here in Austria, you can't even get masks or single-use hand gloves anymor

> Also, you should definitely be wearing protective equipment when outside the home. Here in Austria, you can't even get masks or single-use hand gloves anymore. And I hear the same is happening in Germany. Moreover, we are advised _not_ to buy protective gear for individual use because that is needed for workers with much exposition to other people (like cashiers in supermarkets, helpers and medial staff). We have a lockdown, so everyone should stay at home and only go outside if necessary.

zozbot234 7y ago
> Moreover, we are advised _not_ to buy protective gear for individual use because that is needed for workers with much exposition to other people There's no real reason for this - not for low-grade ("surgical" or even "dust-proof") masks at least, and these are most critical in order to protect others in case you're sick and asymptomatic. Chinese suppliers are shipping those out as fast as they can make them, and many factories that normally make e.g. textiles and the like could retool and start making them if it came to that.