Get Your Tapaboca On

May 04, 2009 06:28

Swine Flu Starts a Trend in Mexico: Face Masks (LA Times)

Newspapers here have carried graphics showing how to turn a piece of scrap cloth into a mask. Some people have tried to add a splash of personality by painting their masks with skeleton faces or colorful butterflies...The tapaboca phenomenon in Mexico has yielded some incongruous images: the ( Read more... )

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kaitou1412 May 4 2009, 12:10:59 UTC
Personally I need to get some pink yarn so I can make one of these...
http://blog.splendorknitting.com/2009/05/because-every-pandemic-needs-some.html

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pgtremblay May 4 2009, 13:18:50 UTC
In my chizine story from last year (blog at the end of the world) I had a bit about people decorating their masks. I like it much better in fiction than in reality.

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markteppo May 4 2009, 20:41:54 UTC
Suddenly that No Drama bit from PSoP doesn't seem so far-fetched any more.

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