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Hershey’s Mill Master Association
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NEW COVID-19 Government ORDER
Face Masks
Fellow Hershey’s Mill Residents,
(This has been sent to all HM residents registered on the HM email platform)
Update # (Alternatives at the end)
The PA Governor & PA Dept of Health have issued an ORDER for everyone to wear a Face Mask when entering a place of business. Customers without Face Masks will be denied entry*. This is an ORDER in addition to the instructions that “everyone should wear a Face Mask when leaving their home” issued by the CDC, US Surgeon General & PA Dept of Health previously. NEW ORDER effective Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 8:00PM.
Order to wear masks
This email contains:
1) Face Masks and HM Helping Hands
2) Options for obtaining a face mask
3) 45 Second Video from Dr. Jerome Adams, Surgeon General on How to Make A Quick Face Mask
4) Short Video on Why Face Masks are Important
5) a short note from Mitchell A. Fremlin, MD. a surgeon, about masks
6) More Information on Face Masks and making Face Masks
7) Ready Made Masks from things you may already have at home
1)********************HM HELPING HANDS****************
IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT FACE MASKS
Helping Hands has more requests for Face Masks than we can fill immediately.
Please be patient as we make masks.
Volunteers to make masks are urgently needed. We have materials for you to use. Please email helpinghandshmill@gmail.com with the word Volunteer in the Subject line.If you have requested and are waiting for a mask, please read the changes below:If you called and left a voice mail requesting a mask, and have NOT received a call back yet, please email helpinghandshmill@gmail.com as detailed below:
If you want to request a Face Mask, we are not able to respond to all the phone calls requesting face masks at this time. Please email as detailed below instead.
To request a Face Mask, please do the following:
EMAIL ONLY:
Name of each HM resident requesting a Face Mask
Address of each HM resident requesting a Face Mask
Number of HM residents needing a Face Mask
Phone number you may be reached on. (Answer your phone even if from an unknown phone number or area code, until you hear from us.)
Any explanation of emergency need
Orders will be filled on a first request, first filled basis
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2) Face Masks – we have located an alternate source for Face Masks. These face masks are $10.00 each.
These masks are made with 100% Cotton, pleated, triple layered, with elastic ear loops.
a. Orders must be placed by village, no individual orders.
b. Please organize or designate one person within your village to gather orders.
c. Payment is made directly to the seamstress at time of picking up the masks. One check per village; no individual checks. Cash is acceptable.
d. Masks will be picked up, each mask will be placed in a plastic bag and all will be delivered back to the village representative.
e. The first bulk order goes in Friday at 4 PM. First Order, First Receive.
3) Dr. Jerome Adams, US Surgeon General, 45 Seconds on making a Face Mask with NO SEWING.
Click here for a 45 second YouTube on how to make a face mask – no sewing
4) My Mask Protects You, Your Mask Protects Me. Scientist and Doctors, Worldwide are sharing critical and vital information with each other. Here is an important message about Masks:
5) How to Put on a Face Mask and How to Wear It Properly, Dr. Mitchell A. Fremlin
“You may have heard that surgical masks don’t work for preventing viral infections and may increase the risk of infection. Why is this? It is because people not accustomed to wearing masks can’t keep their hands off them. They constantly fiddle with them, adjust them, pull them down to talk and so on. Every time they do this, they are contaminating their mask with their hands, and if their hands have virus or bacteria on them, then they are risking infection.
As a surgeon, I am used to standing around for hours without touching my mask or my face, but it is very difficult for someone who is not used to this. So, if you decide to wear a mask for protection against viral or bacterial infection, here is what you need to do:
(1) Start with a clean mask. If you are reusing a mask, make sure that you keep it clean when you are not wearing it.
(2) Wash your hands well with soap and water, for a minimum of 20 seconds but preferably more.
(3) Place your mask and get it adjusted perfectly. It may help to do this in front of a mirror.
(4) Now wash your hands again. You are doing this to protect everyone else since you have contaminated your hands by touching your face.
(5) Do not ever touch the mask or any part of your face again unless you repeat steps 2 to 4.
That’s it. It may be hard to get in the habit, but if surgeons can do it, you can, too!”
Mitchell A. Fremlin
Westminster, Colo.
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6) More Face Mask Information:
****PA DOH: Wearing a mask DOES NOT mean that you can go visit friends or family in person or go back to work at a non-essential business. Stay home, PA!****
CDC on Home made Face coverings – No sewing and sewing
From the PA Dept of Health – How to Make a Face Mask Sewing
Life under Stay at Home orders for the majority of Hershey’s Mill residents means leaving your home for essentially four things, including trips for:
– food, including grocery stores or take out,
– pharmacy,
– doctor or vet for our pets, only after calling first as most ‘visits’ are telemedicine visits today. Medicare has recently approved telemedicine as covered.
– exercise
keeping a safe distance apart. For us here in HM, we can walk on our many walking trails and for this special period of time on the golf course until it reopens for play.
7) Ready Made Masks from things you may already have at home
– Please check on your neighbors regularly. A simple phone call checking in may make all the difference in someone’s day. We are all in this together – call a neighbor or two today. If you just moved here an don’t know any one, call one of your Village Council members.
-Please communicate this information to any neighbor that does not receive emails.
– Please check with your friends and neighbors to be sure they see the COVID-19 emails.
COMMUNITY UPDATES
1) Please tune into Hershey’s Mill Community TV (HMTC) Channel 1971 for updates via scrolling banners
2) Please log onto hersheysmill.org for updates on the HersheyMill website.
We thank you for your understanding and patience as we navigate these unprecedented times.
On behalf of the Technology Committee,
To your health and safety,
Wash your hands, stay healthy,
Bill and Sherry Kane
Co-Chairs, HM Technology Committee
Note: Emails sent out Community wide through the HM Email Platform are for internal HM use only and not for public distribution, posting on any type of website, with the exception of the hersheysmill.org website, or used in any other manner available to the general public or those residing outside Hershey’s Mill.
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