So sorry about your sister, Ebbie.

Our town (pop. about 50,000 or so) hasn't had a case of plague since April. Over the past couple of weeks we have noticed more people masking up, probably helped by the fact that the two major supermarket chains are 'encouraging' staff and shoppers to wear them. When we last shopped on Monday only a few staff members were masked; not many customers were, but those customers were elderly.

We have bought a few masks. I am not using up any of my (somewhat extensive) fabric stash making them.