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27 minutes ago, N.E. Brigand said:

Suppose a year ago that you had been asked to make a contribution to a new national fund meant to make sure that all hospitals had more than enough equipment in the event of a pandemic.  Would you have made that contribution?

 

7 minutes ago, HockeyDad said:

Nobody would. Why should they have?  A year ago, what was the perceived risk among the masses?  The masses, not the handful of experts. 

 

2 minutes ago, HockeyDad said:

  If you sweat through your scrubs and gown, change them. Little things you can personally take responsibility for that can make a big difference. 

Most of us have donated for decades through our federal taxes.  This virus is probably like a "100 year rain/snow event".  For now, this virus, I believe, is transmitted only by what comes out of our mouths or what our hands have transmitted to other surfaces.  Sweat does not transmit this virus. (But, someone may contradict this with better info.)

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8 minutes ago, N.E. Brigand said:

I agree with you.

How do we solve that problem going forward.

How can the public be made to appreciate risk of this nature, that requires an initial outlay of expense now to prevent great harm later?

An outlay that will seem to many like a waste of time even if it works, ESPECIALLY if it works, because if it works, there's no pandemic.

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And by the way, this time it's a pandemic.

Ten or twenty years from now, it could be something else.

Are we spending enough on near-Earth asteroid detection?

Are we spending enough to be prepared for a Carrington event?

You and I have disagreed sharply recently, but in this I’m with you 100 percent. I continue to pin my hopes on American can-do spirit. Hoping the testing and test analysis dam breaks loose very very soon. 

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53 minutes ago, N.E. Brigand said:

"Cambridge scientists tested 0.02 micron Bacteriophage MS2 particles (which are five times smaller than the coronavirus), and compared homemade masks made of different materials to surgical masks.

Surgical masks block 89%. Vacuum cleaning bags block 85%. Dish towels block 73%. T-shirts block 70%."

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And in Washington state, hospitals have tasked their administrative staff with making masks because they're going to run out of the real thing.

What if I breath through a shop vac filter?  That HAS to be better than a vacuum cleaner bag.

What if I just wore a whole shop vac on my head, would people stay six feet away?

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Ghost said:

 

 

Most of us have donated for decades through our federal taxes.  This virus is probably like a "100 year rain/snow event".  For now, this virus, I believe, is transmitted only by what comes out of our mouths or what our hands have transmitted to other surfaces.  Sweat does not transmit this virus. (But, someone may contradict this with better info.)

I work around radioactivity and radioactive contamination. Sweat does not transmit the virus. True. But that was not my point. My point is, if you sweat through your protective clothing, that clothing becomes less protective. A droplet from an infected person that gets onto your wet clothing now can wick through it onto your skin, which of course you could unwittingly get onto your face etc. That was my point. 

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1 minute ago, garfield said:

 

What if I just wore a whole shop vac on my head, would people stay six feet away?

 

 

I recommend you implement this strategy IMMEDIATELY 

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46 minutes ago, N.E. Brigand said:

Suppose a year ago that you had been asked to make a contribution to a new national fund meant to make sure that all hospitals had more than enough equipment in the event of a pandemic.

Would you have made that contribution?

Not until they lower they're billing costs to patients.

How's about they use some of their billions in "non-profits" to build up a national Strategic Mask Reserve, and then we can fight about using and replacing it according to global demand/supply shocks.

Better yet, let's stop socializing everything, give people their tax money back, charge them with building their own mask stockpile, and then hold them responsible instead of the government when they blow their reserve on Big Macs, porn, and spring break.

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4 hours ago, Terri Schehr said:

I heard a kid on tv calling Covid 19 the “Boomer Remover”.  That made me feel warm and fuzzy all over.

If I could talk to that kid, I might say to them "Got any grandparents? You might wanna think about your 'boomer remover' statement"

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While touring may be out of the question, this does give the corps the opportunity to do local shows where the could bus out and back. Just a thought!

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3 minutes ago, Rocketman said:

While touring may be out of the question, this does give the corps the opportunity to do local shows where the could bus out and back. Just a thought!

I like the way you think. Troopers should assemble in a gym, find one judge, play through a show, get a 40. But since it was the only show adjudicated in 2020, declare themselves champions!!!!

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3 minutes ago, N.E. Brigand said:

OK. Since there are no famous barbers, as far as I can think of, let me go with: actor.

If a famous actor says, (flamebait snipped)

If a famous politician says, (flamebait snipped)

Even though the famous person's quote is the same in both cases; even though Jeff's response is the same in both cases.

Nice game you have going with the hypothetical quotes.  Can we all play?

If a famous actor said "Read my lips - no new taxes"...

If a famous actor said "If you like your doctor/plan, you can keep your doctor/plan"...

I mean, these are hypothetical (and in my case, bipartisan), so no harm no foul, right?

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