Future's 'Mask Off' Has 'Easily' Provided More Than 100,000 Masks During The Coronavirus Pandemic

Forget taking the mask off, as Future mentioned on his 2017 hit "Mask Off." He wants you to put it on.


In the front of the global coronavirus pandemic, his charitable business, the FreeWishes Foundation, has been making protective masks for health care workers, patients, and minority communities who don't have access to them conveniently. In a new interview with Complex, members of the company have set the collection of masks made by the business — founded by his sister and mother, with a team of more than 500 — at more than 100,000. Easily.


In March, Future and the FreeWishes Foundation reported the "Mask On" campaign after realizing that so several people were without the generic protective tool that could save their life — especially the people on the front line facing the infection every day.


“We began seeing stories about doctors saying they had to reuse their masks, and some were getting infected because they didn’t have the genuine tools Abesi Manyando, FreeWishes's Communications and Brand Strategist told Complex. "At first, we were thinking, could we group masks from somewhere? Yet there were absolutely no masks available—not the specific ones that the healthcare workers needed.”


The business set out to create a difference and allocate those masks, and so they believe that they've conveniently reached more than 100,000 people. “Some orders that we have, we supplied 5,000 masks and then 3,000 here, another 500 there," Manyando mentioned. "We’ve definitely reached hundreds of thousands of people.”


With backing from Future, T.I., New York Knicks player Reggie Bullock and more, the FreeWishes Foundation is set to continue its journey and distribute to not just medical personalized and infected patients, yet critical workers also. "We're going to give all of the bus drivers from MARTA, which are the Atlanta bus drivers, masks so that they can be protected and then they're not getting infected and exposing people who ride the bus," Manyando said.


MTV News recently spoke to Dr. Darien Sutton-Ramsey, an emergency physician in New York, about why it's so critical to wear a mask now, which the Centers for Infection Control propose now. "We're really only testing people who we basically know have it," Sutton-Ramsey mentioned. Nevertheless we also know this coronavirus is moving around the community in asymptomatic carriers who are transmitting it to those who are weak, who are then getting sick and then placing stress on the health care system. So the intent of wearing the mask is to prevent the transmission of these asymptomatic infections."


For the whole story about Future's FreeWishes Foundation, check out the Complex interview link up above.