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04-08-20, 02:46 PM | #2551 |
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^ true.. but think about the testing in Africa. I think it is much worse, it is just no one does real tests to create any statistics.
I also do not see China do anything about this situation despite them interfering and investing heavily there.
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04-08-20, 03:12 PM | #2552 | |
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Meanwhile Russian companies report like 100 fold increase in FFP2 mask production rates, backed by massive centralised state order and 1 percent interest loans, and many non specialised companies are now producing cloth facial masks and the like.
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04-08-20, 03:15 PM | #2553 |
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Did you know that praying will help as much.
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04-08-20, 03:47 PM | #2554 |
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As long as availability doesn't meet the demand this is an appropriate and justifiable prescription. It's really sad some anti-social egomaniacs just don't get it.
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I mean it is a very specific restriction so those people can wear N99 masks, full faces masks and so on.
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04-08-20, 04:53 PM | #2557 | |
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Clotch masks are beign done over here now, too, but they are more for public moral or propaganda.Their protection value is not convincing: niot by what we now know about the virus and behaviour of aerosols. Germany, I red an hour ago, has estalbished cklinf od an air lift to China and will get 40 million masks in the coming two weeks, one airlifter per day. Chinese mask manufacturers can dictate conditions and prices at will currently. And they do. 50% payment in advance, else negotiations are not even started. Quality varies widely, from clinical standard to totally useless. Some nations have complained to have gotten "clinical" masks made of underwear. FFP masks are the new gold for the time being.
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04-08-20, 04:58 PM | #2558 |
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I wonder if the virus knows about the SCOTUS.
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04-08-20, 05:01 PM | #2559 |
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I have only one wish when it comes to our politicians and our authorities in Denmark and Sweden, and it is
They have learned their lesson by this and will when this crisis is over build a massive emergency stockpile of those things the health-thing are working hard on to get, now when they really need it. I also hope they will create a huge fond. `cause this Corona from China will not be the last type of pandemic we have to face in the future. Markus |
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^Well, the authorities will write a "lessons learned" book, but the consequences are costly and memories will fade ever so slightly.
In Germany a few months ago a study was published by the Bertelsmann foundation (a neoliberal think tank) demanding reduction of the number of hospitals, the number of beds in each hospital, and the number of beds equipped for intensive care. Had this study been around two years earlier, we would see different figures in the national body count, that's for sure. Politics usually addresses short term memory and this won't change after Corona.
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04-08-20, 05:55 PM | #2561 |
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Buying everything from China just because it is cheaper has cost the USA and many other countries real lives in the general population and in the medical fields.
I hope we have learned our lessons well ... pay more get stocked up and wait for the next calamity to come our way. I've proposed before to let the illegal aliens we catch work on farms or even help build the wall, but the unions would put a stop to it for sure. Whatever we are short of now can be manufactured cheaper in Mexico and shipped across the border for free with no tariffs. Washington will alway be Washington no matter who is in charge
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04-08-20, 06:53 PM | #2562 | |
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The actual intent of the ordinance is to discourage people from buying up N95s when the greatest need is for those who are actually dealing with active Covid-19 case to have the masks. It is a response to those idiots who bought up large stocks merely to profit off the situation. For the rest of the population who are not medical and health professionals, first responders, or others engaged in essential activities, an N95 is not really all that necessary, so it doesn't seem to be a major inconvenience since there.are other alternatives. It should be noted the ordinance doesn't mean the average citizen who does have an N95 will be stopped and cited, just that those who are trying to exploit the situation for a profit are going to find their 'market' severely limited... Maybe those N95 'entrepreneurs' and hoarders might consider listening to their better angels and donate the masks to those who actually have an extreme need... Then again, those who would seek to profit from other's miseries probably don't have better angels... <O>
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04-08-20, 07:17 PM | #2563 |
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Something humorous to add to the pandemic. I know it's bending the rules but all sorts of rules are getting bent now.
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04-08-20, 07:27 PM | #2564 |
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Went through my masks and found 1 N95.
Gave it to my Wife as she works at a Dollar Tree Store. Other masks are simple dust masks and a P95. Which I gave to Nancy Lady also. Need to find the main part for my filtered mask. The one I wear when I'm working in moldy areas. It's a P100 I'll have to hit our warehouse and see what all stock we have there next. Last edited by Jeff-Groves; 04-08-20 at 07:43 PM. |
04-08-20, 08:10 PM | #2565 |
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... hmmm. Goverment: Neal, we will protect you from the virus. Neal: Um, ok. Government: We don't have any masks for you. Neal: 'S-ok, I planned for this 4 years ago, I have my own supply. Government: You cannot wear them. We forbid it, we will pass a law and we will arrest you if you wear your own masks that, in your foresight, which is obvious was greater than our own, you procured them well in advance of any emergency. Neal: Stick it up your .... |
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