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No mask? 'Bra' will do.
(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Byline: Lullie A.Micabalo PDI Mindanao Bureau and Philip Tubeza
WITH Trade Secretary Manuel Roxas II himself admitting that drugstores have run out of N95-masks, Filipino ingenuity has come to the rescue.
In Pinan, Zamboanga del Norte, the personnel at a district hospital use the foam padding of bras as surgical masks. It's comfortable very affordable at only P10 and it really fits, they said.
In Manila, sidewalk vendors are making do-it-yourself masks and cashing in on the latest "craze." And they are reporting brisk sales although some of them know their wares do no offer protection against SARS.
"It's my belief that if it's your time, then you have to go, " said Norma Lao, 39, of San Sebastian St., Quiapo, Manila, who sells surgical and gas masks along Carriedo Street in Quiapo.
Lao who got the masks from a factory somewhere in Manila, sells them for P10 each. She herself was not wearing a mask-the better to call out to pedestrians to buy her masks.
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