If you are living in the UK then the likelihood is that sooner or later you’ll enter a shop or step onto public transport and be required to wear a face mask or face covering.
Depending which of the four UK countries you live in will depend what specification of face mask you will need – in some areas it’s a face covering which can be as simple as pulling a scarf across your face and in other areas it can be a three layer face mask (as specified by Mark Drakeford on public transport in Wales from the 27th of July). A three layer face mask is pretty much surgical quality and classed as PPE.
Face Mask Calculator
What no one has really figured out thus far, is what it’s going to cost you as a consumer to purchase face masks.
What’s more interesting is the potential sales opportunity for those selling face masks.
Now, Dominika Miszewska , a student at the Medical University of Warsaw along with Maria Kluziak have created a Face Mask Calculator that shows how long any particular mask lasts for, and how many you need over a given period of time. You can find out more about the project on their site.
The numbers add up fast – taking a typical pack of 10 disposable face masks on eBay costing £6.68, if you wear it for a daily commute of two hours, then at four hours a day over a three month period the Face Mask Calculator reveals a cost of £146.40.
Alternatively, if you were to purchase cloth face masks such as this one on eBay costing £3.95, over the same three month period your costs would shrink to just £19.75.
For those operating a business and needing to supply masks to your employees, the numbers revealed by the Face Mask Calculator are sobering. When you consider that disposable masks are recommended to be changed every 2 hours meaning four are required per person per shift, just for one employee over the next three months your costs will be in the region of £219.60. Multiple that by five employees and you are facing a bill for over a grand and that doesn’t include other precautions such as hand sanitiser, surface cleaner for an increased cleaning routine, and potential screens between work spaces.
Of course if you are buying for a business, you can probably negotiate better prices for larger quantity purchases, but all this adds up to a multi million pound opportunity for merchants selling face masks on marketplaces or their own websites.
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