No rating is specified on these masks so best use for placebo effect.
Disposable Non-woven Three-layer Mask Blue Hang Ear Style Protective Mask 1pcs $1.41 with code MASK01
Disposable Non-woven 3-layer Respirator Breathable Dustproof Health Care Mask 1pcs $1.41 with code MASK02
Remember to choose to pay in AUD, or else it will be US$0.99 each (~ AU$1.52).
Are you for real?
At least they are honest to admit.
Why not just eBay?
$4.96 for one. Please compare like-for-like.
@superforever: I am not ignoring anything, I am comparing the two offers on an equal footing: the delivered price of 1 piece only.
If you only want to compare prices regardless of quantity or other conditions, then why don't you reference the price from HK charitable manufacturers? AU $0.20-$0.40 each.
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/artic…
his two machines would produce 220,000 masks a day that he planned to sell at HK$1 each
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producing at least 880,000 masks a day. Each would be sold for HK$1 to HK$2.
@alvian: You just want to argue how can you buy it from the manufacturers directly but my eBay links you can buy now and receive it in a week.
my eBay links you can buy now and receive it in a week
Yes, of course. That will be $4.96, thank you. I am in agreement with you and with the advertised price.
If you want to find the cheapest price, on the other hand, I don't think you can beat the equivalent of A$0.20 retail.
@superforever: Is it compulsory to buy 50? I want to compare prices for one mask because I only want one mask.
@alvian: I just read through your conversation with superforever and I have to say that it is one of the stupidest that I've seen on Ozbargain. I don't think he/she knows the difference between buying a quantity of 1 versus a quantity of 50. He/she has been a member since 2009 and yet conducts a conversation is such a baffling manner. I applaud your patience because I wouldn't have been so kind.
That one is for kids
@MojoMiwo: Sorry wrong one this one just sold out today but just did a simple search there are still a lot available for around the same price.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/50X-Disposable-Face-Masks-Surgic…
How's the quality on these anyone bought them? Heard many fake masks out there right now
Received email today. Seller got account cancelled.
Likely selling fake masks…. Or being dodgy
We're writing to let you know that we've removed an item you recently won due to concerns with the seller's account:
392710185158 - 200 Disposable Face Mask Surgical Medical kid child face mask Earloop
Not a bargain, or even useful in preventing the spread of coronavirus. As soon as these masks get wet - 5 minutes of breathing in them will do it, they no longer provide a barrier. Might as well wear that stockpiled toilet paper as a mask…
They're good for people who have it, to help limit the droplets spreading to others
But your right its useless as a preventative. In fact it's worse, because as you say it gets wet (and warm), which just creates an ideal breading ground for bacteria & viruses.
The purpose of these masks to prevent yourself touch your face. For that reason its still worth buying.
Unless you can point out where to get N95 masks on eBay for the same price.
Cannot agree more.
Dealt with them. Item did not go with the description.
Customer service was terrible.
The only good thing was that I only wasted around 10 bucks.
I was watching people wearing P2 masks in Sydney. Most would not worn correctly and 2 guys wore them on their beards. Seems these are just as effective for most.
These are not medical surgical masks.
wouldn't toilet rolls be more effective? ;)
If people still taking it as a joke, we will like Italy in a few weeks.
Chinavasion
I would've called 'em chazzwazzers Chinvasion.
$1.4 for each mask? Comeon
Just buying in to the hysteria
If people don't take it seriously we will be like Italy very soon.
Do you know why HongKonger still survive? Because they take precautions and didn't listen to their government and everybody wear mask.
Non-respirator masks only help to reduce the spread from someone who's already sick by catching their cough. Wearing the mask if you're not sick does nothing as the airborne virus can be breathed in from around the mask.
Using a sealed respirator capable of filtering out the virus is the only sound protection.
Wearing the mask if you're not sick does nothing as the airborne virus can be breathed in from around the mask.
Not 100% true with this CoronaVirus because it can start spreading before you have symptom.
this CoronaVirus because it can start spreading before you have symptom.
This is confirmed by a lot of country unlike SARS only start spreading after you have symptom.
@superforever: You're right its possible; but most recent results suggest its very rare.
You need to be an asymptomatic carrier for it to be true; sars wasnt like that, because it was severe enough that asymptomatic was pretty much unheard of.
If everyone wears masks, they are all protecting others though, correct? it is not just to stop yourself, but if you are unknowingly a carrier it prevents you getting others sick. At least in Thailand 70% or so of people wear masks, in Australia I see none really, other than a few Asian people. At a shopping center I went to today multiple people were just coughing into the air, not even covering their mouth.
@Elision: It's an airborne virus, the mask will catch projectile mucous/spit from coughs, but the air you're breathing in and out is not filtered through the mask. If you're breathing in the air that someone with the virus has expelled then a simple surgical mask (designed so that surgeons don't contaminate wounds) won't do anything.
It's an airborne virus
This is not really a real airborne virus, if it is a real airborne virus it will be a lot faster.
Face mask is to prevent unknown infected person to spread it, unless you have a very close face to face contact with infected person otherwise face mask may not very useful, wash hand after you touch something from public area.
@superforever: https://youtu.be/E3URhJx0NSw?t=7m52s
I'll take advice from an infectious disease expert with decades of experience, thanks though.
Reporting your comment as the misinformation is risk to public health.
Reporting your comment as the misinformation is risk to public health.
Which part misinform? not real airborne?
I agreed it is still some kind of airborne virus.
Using a sealed respirator capable of filtering out the virus is the only sound protection.
So you suggest everybody to wear N95 or P2?
@superforever: Literally the entire post. If you breathe in the same air that someone infected has expelled, then you are at risk. This is why governments are banning large public gatherings. This is why the number of cases on the Diamond Princes cruise proliferated.
The mask DOES NOT filter the air expelled. The mask and washing your hands DOES help to ensure you are protected from other illnesses which may weaken your immune system.
Filtered masks are a simple mechanism to avoid infection, as is reducing your time with possibly infected people in public spaces.
Literally the entire post. If you breathe in the same air that someone infected has expelled, then you are at risk.
Still no expert can 100% sure it can spread by just air expelled, they just said virus carry by mucous and spit, that is why the distance is not too far. That is also the reason why I said if real spread by air expelled it should spread a lot faster than now.
The mask and washing your hands DOES help to ensure you are protected from other illnesses which may weaken your immune system.
Washing your hands DOES help from preventing this CoronaVirus because a lot of infection now was caused by indirect like touched something with mucous or split on it and they put those virus back onto their face or eye, ear.
@superforever: Wow this guy really is ignorant isn't he? You have no authority over the matter, all professionals (including the CDC) say that these masks only protect sick people from infecting others (and still, it's not a very good protection). These masks are just a hands free way of covering your mouth with your hand or elbow
say that these masks only protect sick people from infecting others (and still, it's not a very good protection)
Yeah but in some case in very crowded area with very close contact at least protect you from somebody cough and split directly to you. Also protect others if people are infected but without symptoms which happened with this virus.
CDC said washing hand more often is more important and not to touch your own face, eye, ear, nose etc. Because you don't know when you may have touched contaminated objects.
"Hygiene etiquette involves practices that prevent the spread of illness and disease. A critical time to practice good hygiene etiquette is when you are sick, especially when coughing or sneezing. Serious respiratory illnesses like influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), whooping cough, and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) are spread by:
Coughing or sneezing
Unclean hands
Touching your face after touching contaminated objects
Touching objects after contaminating your hands"
@Elision: Coughs are a violent eruption of air, mucous and spit that can all carry the virus. People that still aren't covering their coughs in these conditions are heathens you should isolate yourself from.
So your solution is to wear utterly ineffective masks? Got it, great option. Just because something is a "mask" doesn't make it an EFFECTIVE mask. Cheap though, so OzBargainers will defend it to the death (literally).
Agree with you and they have lower infected numbers than Aus. They have much higher density and population than her and STILL less confirmed cases
By the time they arrive it'll be too late
If they still can arrive, they don't have enough themselves.
I understand people want to be cautious, but facemasks generally only suit people who have lots of face to face contact, or people with the actual covid-19 virus (to prevent spreading it to others).
Really, why aren't people buying gloves…?
This would actually prevent yourself from contracting it, providing you don't touch your face (eyes, mouth) while wearing them. It's just as effective as hand sanitiser. And it sure beats soap and water in a public bathroom (as you still have to touch the door to get out).
Just dispose of them when in a known safe environment e.g. before you close the door after getting home from work. (and put them on after opening your front door, and setting the lock, and before you close the door on leaving).
https://youtu.be/E3URhJx0NSw
Infectious disease expert admitted that there's little evidence that the virus is transmitted through contact, it's largely airborne.
Still, proper hygiene goes a long way to maintain general health.
That video is over 1.5 hours long. Can you provide a time code for when Prof Michael Osterholm talked about methods of transmission?
@iMagoo: They got side tracked at 7m52s. This later conversation at 43m13s is much more informative. Thank you for spending the time to review the video.
I've just been investigating this (gloves). Apparently latex gloves tear easily, so they aren't that great.
Dishwashing gloves would work thou, though would look as weird as f'… lol!
Think I'll just have a spray bottle of antibacterial soapy water at hand :)
it's largely airborne
I agreed it is some kind of airborne but short distance from mucous and spit unless like one of the case from Hong Kong a group of people eating steamboat around a table and the heat spread the virus around.
I still think if real airborne by just expelled air it should spread a lot faster than now, otherwise how can Hong Kong still not spreading like Italy since everybody still need to go to work but wearing face mask everyday and washing hand very often.
I give up, you can watch the video and listen what an expert has to say or you can continue to live in blissful ignorance, bragging that Hong Kong hasn't yet had a proliferation of the disease due to a correlation with public hygiene.
I give up
You've made the right choice, epecially given what I (unfortunately) read between superforever and alvian in the earlier comments.
@iMagoo: Think about if real airborne like virus floating around in the air, everybody passing that area should have infected. Especially in a crowded country like Hong Kong but clearly that is not the case there, only people with very close contact infected.
bragging that Hong Kong hasn't yet had a proliferation of the disease due to a correlation with public hygiene.
Everybody did the right thing since the start of this virus already month and we just start. They have real experience with SARS and we don't and those comments are from doctors from there with experience from SARS. Of course as you said wear N95 type of mask would be better but not possible with supply.
read between superforever and alvian in the earlier comments.
XDD, I can't understand how can he compare the price for 1PC nobody will buy 1PC.
Hopefully these aren't the ones Cops busted .. a backyard factory in Thailand collecting, washing, ironing and reselling used Masks.
Wow, that is possibly the worst store name I've ever seen.
Are these pre-washed and pre-ironed and sent from Thailand?
thanks, bought a thousand for my relatives lol.
It's a bargain at this price, are you sure you don't want to stock up more? :)
Username checks out.
"best use for placebo effect"
Are you for real?