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Have masks leftover from wildfires, or a home project? The Seattle Mask Brigade will pick them up

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Volunteers in Seattle are working to fill the wants of healthcare employees and others on the entrance traces of the pandemic, grappling with shortages of non-public protecting tools.

The Seattle Mask Brigade works like this.

Within the morning, volunteers like Daybreak Lum make pickups. Lum grabs containers of donated masks off doorsteps, and leaves a thanks word.

“It simply says ‘gratitude’ in gold foil,” she says of the thanks word. “And I simply write in there, ‘Thanks for donating your masks, Love Daybreak, from the Seattle Masks Brigade.'”

Lum felt she wanted to do one thing throughout this disaster. For work, she coordinates kidney analysis. Now on weekends and days off, she volunteers to drive from stop-to-stop in her white Prius.

Pickup drivers get an inventory by 9:30 p.m. the day earlier than. It reveals stops to select up masks on their route. She visits as much as 10 areas a day. Typically she will get one masks, typically greater than 2,000. It’s all price it.

“I assume the way in which I have a look at that’s, what if it was your sister, or brother, or mom who was a healthcare supplier who did not have that masks?” Lum stated. “Each one in all these well being care suppliers is a hero to me.”


caption: Dawn Lum, with the Seattle Mask Brigade, displays a gratitude card left on porches after donated masks are collected, on Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in Seattle.

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Throughout the state and nation, loads of people, firms, and authorities businesses are attempting get protecting tools to individuals who want it. Regionally, the Seattle Masks Brigade is filling one area of interest.

They acquire the small donations which are wanted, however not accepted by different, bigger donation drives. Then they distribute the products shortly to frontline employees, inside a day and even an hour or two.

Previously few weeks, the Seattle Masks Brigade has collected round 8,000 from over 450 donors with the work of round 100 volunteers.

“We’re not a long run resolution. We will not do excessive volumes. We will not present 100,000 masks,” stated Julianne Dalcanton, who began the native brigade. “We’re offering what individuals have accessible; what they occurred to purchase throughout smoke season a few years in the past or what they purchased for a house enchancment challenge.”

Like one field of N-95 masks. Possibly the proprietor took out a single masks and left the remainder. Some locations gained’t settle for these, however different teams don’t thoughts.

“It doesn’t matter what individuals donate, we have been discovering individuals who will take it,” Dalcanton stated.

Dalcanton really chairs the College of Washington Astronomy Division, however in mid-March she was speaking with some buddies over group chat.

They have been horrified that healthcare employees have been operating out of masks, so that they began brainstorming, and the brigade was born.

Now a community of volunteers function it remotely from their properties all through Seattle.


caption: The Greenwood drop-off location for the Seattle Mask Brigade.

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One logistics hub is in Greenwood on the residence of Leah Friberg, who retains a tarp-encased pop-up shelter in her entrance yard as a drop-off level.

Inside as sealed, repurposed totes from Friberg’s home – one nonetheless has an previous do-it-yourself label on the facet that claims “pillows.”

Within the morning, the drivers put their deliveries into the totes and Friberg retrieves, types, labels, and returns them for the afternoon drivers to select up.

Daily Friberg does some dizzying matchmaking utilizing consistently up to date, interlinked on-line kinds and spreadsheets.

She connects what’s been donated and delivered to what’s wanted the place – hopefully on the proper time.

“It is the balancing act of when do I’ve sufficient masks in and sufficient requests which are firmed up that I can then ping our drivers who’ve signed up for the day to say, ‘Okay, Sarah, I would such as you to go right here. Invoice, I would such as you to go there. Here is the place you could decide up the masks. Here is the place you could take them. Here is what number of…’”

All whereas Friberg takes care of two youngsters and works full-time from residence in advertising.

All this work has made the Seattle Masks Brigade a part of the native infrastructure of accumulating and distributing medical provides. The Metropolis of Seattle is even leaning on the brigade to select up smaller donations and opened containers of products. The Seattle Masks Brigade can be advising individuals in different cities throughout the U.S. tips on how to begin their very own assortment efforts.

Friberg thought that by now, extra nationwide manufacturing would have made the brigade out of date, she stated.

“Truthfully, we should not be having to do that. We shouldn’t be having to raid our pantries, once we’re what, one of many best manufacturing nations on earth,” Friberg stated.

Within the afternoon, volunteer drop-off driver Sarah Prepare dinner works a shift, carrying a big paper bag down the corridor of a medical constructing on First Hill. She walks as much as the reception counter at an ultrasound clinic, and drops off 100 surgical masks.

“Hello, these are masks from the masks brigade,” Prepare dinner says.

The brigade has donated to a variety of locations – from Swedish and Virginia Mason hospitals, to meals banks and social service businesses, corresponding to Neighborhood Home Psychological Well being Company, which homes individuals with psychological sickness.

No residents have gotten Covid-19, administrator Amanda Wager stated, however she wished to be ready so she requested the brigade for masks.

“I figured provides have been restricted and proper now we don’t want them, hopefully we gained’t want them however I’m simply being reasonable,” she stated. “I simply wished to get them for some employees and for residents after they begin getting the cough or one thing.”

Neighborhood Home is making an attempt to do as a lot social distancing and cleansing as attainable, Wager stated.


caption: Sarah Cook drops off a box of 80 N-95 masks at Harborview Medical Center.

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Simply after 1 p.m., Sarah Prepare dinner reaches her final cease of the day delivering provides for the brigade: the Harborview Emergency Division.

Exterior, Prepare dinner runs into her buddy, who’s a physician they usually chat for a second.

“Bye, thanks for what you’re doing, you’re superior,” her buddy says.

“Thanks for what YOU’RE doing!” Prepare dinner responds.

On the triage tent, Prepare dinner asks for instructions from a employee who’s so lined in protecting tools, you may solely see her eyes.

“Masks for donation? You go proper to the screening desk.”

Prepare dinner walks previous the loud, buzzing triage tent and thru the sliding glass doorways to the screening desk, a folding desk with indicators, employees and a safety guard.

“Hello, I’ve masks for donation.”

“Thanks!”

She drops off 80 N-95 masks and walks again towards her automobile. The recipients are at all times so appreciative, she stated.

“It’s a great feeling,” Prepare dinner stated. “It’s a great feeling to have the ability to assist and getting that response.”

Usually, Prepare dinner is a contract company occasion planner, however as of late, she has extra time on her arms.

Now, for the remainder of the day, Prepare dinner is shifting focus to her subsequent challenge: determining tips on how to assemble medical face shields by hand.

— to www.kuow.org

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