Now, the Hoarding Foundation of Alberta is, imnsho, great. 🙂

Prior to the beginning of the #covid19 #pandemic I had gone to their in-person support group and found some very useful strategies for dealing with what I recognised could become a significant problem. Back then, they weren't even a formal organisation yet and I'm pleased that they've come so far to provide much-needed expertise on this disorder.

Check them out here! 🙂

https://www.hdfa.ca

13/x

#hoarding
#materials
#objects
#accessibility
#Alberta
#yeg

Since those days, and the present ability to obtain #allergy-safe (for me) #silicone #ElastomericRespirators, the tool has sat unused among many items from those early desperate days.

As locals will recall, 2020 was when #Edmonton experienced the beginning of the #pandemic.

2021 was our first-ever #HeatDome.

2022 and thereafter to the present has seen long stretches of #ExtremeHeat and the switch from #SummerSeason to #WildfireSeason, adding frequently horrendous #AirQuality to the sustained heat.

#yeg
#ClimateChange
#wildfires

4/x

I bought the tool secondhand somewhere in #Edmonton, #Alberta sometime shortly after the beginning of the #covid19 #pandemic, as one of many quasi-random #tools and #materials I would end up testing and using to create my own masks that would be safe for me to wear for long periods and provide the best degree of homemade #PPE protection I could manage whilst also avoiding problems with #allergies (such as metal on nose-fittings).

3/x

#TrialAndError
#testing
#experimental
#experimentation
#safety
#health
#CovidIsNotOver