Hello Lex. You might be wondering why what I'm wearing on my face. I'm not

wondering. No. No it's coronavirus time. Everybody out there is wearing a mask so

I'm assuming that's where you're wearing on your face.

Yeah, so this is a homemade mask takes 30 seconds to make.

30 seconds, did you time yourself? I don't know.

If you have a bra, can you like cut a cup and like a strap tie it on that would work right but there's no yes probably but it probably there as far as I'm aware there's no scientific study of how effective bras are at filtering.

How effective is that thing?

So there, it's, I'm glad you asked you.

So I'm a part of this, and I'll take this off in a few minutes,

I just want to

One I want to talk about some of the science and two I want to remove some of the stigma that's around masks

So I'm part of this group of scientists that have put together a survey paper showing that

masks work.

And it started as a movement called Masks for All,

hashtag in the Czech Republic that essentially one of the critical components of stopping the spread of coronavirus is everybody has to wear masks and the science is twofold so I mean I need to break this apart but you're going to take the

mask off eventually right yeah so let's just take it off now so I can hear you

because you there's an audio is you can't hear that so much better. Oh yeah nice so it's like taking a condom off

The before and after so you probably shouldn't be wearing a mask when you're doing podcasts. Definitely not.

But everywhere else, yes.

So when you're going out to the grocery store, you should wear a mask everywhere.

Everywhere.

And that's, okay, so some questions, do homemade masks work? there's a currently a shortage of

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