Someone berated me for asking why they are making "Scrubs bags" for the NHS

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I signed up to help this person, however all they seem to be making are pillow cases for doctors and nurses to take their scrubs home.
I thought this was really unhygienic as they are going to be made of cotton.

I told her they would have to be lined with some sort of plastic to stop infection and then she called me for everything.
She has people on her page saying "My (dad, mother,son,uncle,gran.....) died I would like the sheets she died in to be made into a nice bag for the NHS workers to know how much they meant to her"
I find this a bit weird, disgusting and a total spread of corona virus.
I may be totally wrong but I would not want to touch a dead persons sheets made into a scrub bag

We've always used dissolvable bags that go in washing machines with the soiled garments. We've used them for years.
As the name suggests, they dissolve in the washing machine.
Why aren't they using them?
My staff change their clothes at the end of their shift, put their clothes into one of those and take them home to wash.
I sent some to one of my daughters who is a front line nurse to use. Her colleagues don't understand why their managers aren't purchasing them.

Colourmydreams because some people find the dissolvable bags clog domestic machines. They are intended for industrial use I believe, and because people are changing every shift and generating more washing and more bags.

I thought you weren’t meant to wash the clothes inside the bag/pillow case as they don’t get a proper wash? Or are people emptying them into the machine then popping the bag in as well?

we don't take our home. we put them in hospital laundry and just grab a clean pair from a cupboard at dart of shift. I'm surprised anyone is actually taking scrubs home now.
we also have a shower blo k in the carpark at the hospital to ensure we are safe to go home .

Not everyone who is using scrubs works in a hospital

Home sewers shpuldn't be making scrubs out of anything. They probably won't have the correct fabric!
Sheffield Hospitals are specifically asking home sewers to make scrubs. There are recommended fabric shops selling the correct fabric.

Yes. One of the main suppliers of the right fabric is close to them.

Our local dressmaker may well be buying her bolts from them! She did say they were round there somewhere.

We just use cotton pillow cases.
Tbh I can’t get worked up about this right now.

I work in a care home, I just use a pillow case and put my clothes in there. They go straight in the wash when I get home.

Obviously some people like them as some places are asking for them so if people want to make them and some receive them what's the odds to anyone else
If your a healthcare worker and don't want one you don't take one
I've just donated to a lady making some who's also putting in some hand cream and some smellies etc
It makes people feel useful if they can do something that might help
If the hospitals don't want certain things then they should say
Round here places are donating meals , food , bags and all sorts and our hospital seems to be accepting them willingly
If someone wants to do something naive I really don't see a problem
( sheets someone has died in though - just weird )

Thanks everyone for your feedback. Stay home stay safe xx

@CuriousaboutSamphire I was talking bout my GP surgery, we will bite your hand off for anything really. There are no “regulations” for our work clothes other than bare below the elbow, as I said before covid I wore my own “office” clothes but they are part dry clean only and can’t be laundered at high temp every day. So for me any short sleeved modest clothing made in a fabric that can be washed frequently at high temperature is fine. My local trust has said that non Uniformed staff may wear any easily washed t-shirt and trousers to work as this is best under ppe if you don’t have a uniform. Like a lot of people I don’t actually have many able to be washed at 60 degrees modest and reasonably professional looking t shirts and trousers and I don’t really want to work in on gym leggings and an old band t shirt (80s Bon Jovi is the best. Trying to buy clothing online right now is a disaster zone.

There not used as “scrubs” so to speak - as in clothes worn to operate in theatre (to scrub in in) - but as an easily washable work outfit. I assume scrubs for theatre have stringent regulations ( and it would be a waste of resources for me to be wearing them in a GP surgery)

Of course ask the people that you are planning to make they for if they want them before but many normally non uniformed community healthcare workers and carers my well be very grateful. My husband (works in a mental health hospital and able to still wear own clothes and his shorts can be hot washed (blame the patriarchy) has been using old cotton shopping bags but was very happy to be gifted a drawstring bag by his ward manager today and it’s currently going around the washing machine

And thank you to everyone supporting the nhs