Thank you all for any help you can give! Really appreciate it!

Oh...! Any UK or European companies that do any kind of trial packs of different brands or types, would be especially welcome finds!

Pls don't recc US imports without a reasonable UK source to buy - they've been selling for several pounds a mask over here from what I can see! 🤯 😡

Bonus points for the company doing different colours or patterns, that make the whole thing cheerier.

Oh. I have major autism related sensory issues too!

For anyone who doesn't know me, I'm an immunosuppressed, housebound, care reciever. Getting covid isn't an option in my state of health. Colour me terrified by this sudden turn of events!

Absolutely urgent UK based request re face masks. Pls help share?

My mask co. is going insolvent (🤯) & they make the only ffp2/n95 mask I have so far been able to find that doesn't spark hellish nerve pain for me.

I need soft material, fishbowl shape, no pointy edges, certified safety. Ear loops preferred but some head bands *might* be OK? The material the loops/bands are made from *really* matters, though. They've gotta be soft! Prefer UK/Europe made, for cost.

#Disability #NEISvoid
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@mywildlens

Right? It's one of my more frustrating disabilities!

Side note that will haunt me for all time....

Mask companies are going insolvent IN AN ONGOING Pandemic..?! 😭

First couple yrs of the pandemic I couldn't even SOURCE good masks due to price gouging & ableds stocking up.

Now ableds won't wear masks, so companies are going insolvent! 😭

Either way, people like me pay the price with our health or with our lives.

I can't deal with this world.

There are no words to sum up how tired I am of this fight. 💔

#Disability #NEISvoid #CovidIsNotOver

@mywildlens

Ooh no, I haven't... But I'm fascinated that they have reuseables in the fishbowl shape!!! Thanks for pointing me in their direction!

God, I wish I had a brain for proper research here, sigh!

@Pampa
These are such abhorrent people, I just cannot. We really need a world where those least suited for power, simply aren't the ones who can get it!

I just..... Words cannot...!

Dismay as Rishi Sunak vows to ‘max out’ #UK fossil fuel reserves
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@JorgeStolfi ah yeah, sadly that type wouldn't be soft enoguh for me either, tho probably way better than what Google was showing me!

Thanks anyway!

@JorgeStolfi are these the kinda, plasticky, solid mask kind, from a quick google? I'm afraid that sort of thing is a no go. Thanks though!

@evel

I'll maybe just message the company to confirm, since it's SO much stuff to read through, and I am a kitten of little brain hehe.

@evel oh so these are kn95's? If so, sold, I'll try one!

@rybson thank you!

@evel

Oh perfect thanks!

I might get myself one of these just to try. 🤔

Do you have any idea how much protection they offer comparatively to an ffp2/n95? 🤔

@evel that's amazing to know, thank you!

How is the material on them? 🤔

When I had to resort to cloth masks due to proper masks being unavailable to buy for so long in the uk, the only ones I found that weren't agony were kind of a super soft jersey material....tho I've probably built SOME tolerance from the ffp2's lol!

@evel thank you so very much!

@evel hmm those look more worth looking in to, if they give legit protection. 🤔

Thanks!

It's so frustrating not to be able to use most of the serious level protection masks because of sensory and pain issues sigh.

@evel oh and thank you! I'm in such a fluster I'm not being very good at communication today! 🧡 🧡 🧡

@evel hehe yep that would track! It's so hard to find materials that work, never mind designs, right?!

Thanks... Yeah, if I found one that works I'd definitely need to get more than one, but I only really need them for care call times for the most part, so it's not like I'm in it all day long.

Which are the vogmasks? 🤔

@rybson haven't heard of them, but it couldn't hurt, presuming they're exactly what they sound like... Zero covid group?? 🤔