COVID - How to protect ourselves

[Kurt]

Question on the masks (regular surgical type not the special ones). It's getting hot here and I wear one of these wherever I go (any little bit of protection is better than none). 

With the temperature rising, though, if I sweat it's kind of gross. Especially since masks purchases are still rationed here and we can't buy enough for 1x day. We can currently buy 9 every 14 days. They say that the limits will stop in a month or so since the government has enough to donate to other countries but that day isn't here yet.

Before the weather started warming up, I would use a mask every 3-4 days. I am self-limiting my outside trips so I may use it for 20-30 minutes total going to the store on a daily basis x 3-4 days. I know that's probably not the safest but due to them controlling buying there isn't much I can do.

I've seen things about steam cleaning the masks but I'm not sure if a sweaty mask is good, is gross, is safe, or what. 

Any input from the smarter folks here?

A combination of heat, chemicals, time and sunlight. They may not be "clean" but they'll be sanitary. I just don't know if heat and chemicals will weaken the ability of the masks to filter or not.

I'd lightly spray them with a mist of H2O2, at least 60% alcohol or bleach water and let them dry natually. These will all kill bacteria and COVID.

I'd also test one of your used masksin the oven at 250f for 45 minutes and see what happens. Any glue will probably melt.

Just letting some time pass will kill a lot of things so rotate your used ones. Sunlight may help a little and won't hurt.

But none of these will help get the mustard stain out of your mask because you tried to eat a hot dog and forgot about wearing the mask.