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Der Meister posted:can anyone find hand sanitizer, gloves or disposable masks yet. These masks aren't too pricey (~$3/each) and come sealed in a pack of 5, but I haven't been disposing of mine, just letting them bake in the car dashboard UV Rays and labeling them for each day to only rewear one per week. Not like it matters at all since they're mainly just to help prevent spread if you have it and literally nobody in this stupid city is wearing them because "muh freedums"
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COVID-420 posted:it's only half the story the only thing testing has been useful for is scaring people into staying home, it does nothing else especially since there's no mandatory quarantines for infected people anyways its hilarious chicago is announcing a ton of jobs for contact tracers that are gonna start around labor day, which is completely useless (hint, the spread is happening in schools and on trains!!) but great if you want to do some patronage the plus side of no disinfecting wipes left is that they apparently don't seem to matter since this poo poo is just in the air in enclosed spaces. I really just need to splurge on a gas mask aka painters full face respirator to wear when i'm forced to go back into an office. honestly all you waiters should be wearing them and just refuse to take them off and get unemployment that way mastershakeman has issued a correction as of 18:08 on May 28, 2020 |
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Broken Box posted:I work end of life care in Nashville and work quite closely with Vanderbilt ICU folks, they're seeing a surge of covid patients in ICU from outside of Davidson County I suspect the same thing is occurring in Memphis since more than a few of West Tennessee and eastern Arkansas’s rural hospitals closed in the last twenty years. I know that at one of the remaining rural hospitals with an ICU in West TN there are two COVID patients from Memphis who left the city and went to their lake house, only to fall ill and end up in the rural hospital’s ICU.
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Der Meister posted:can anyone find hand sanitizer, gloves or disposable masks yet. They’re selling masks and gloves at every convenience store in Portland these days. Right at the counter with the impulse buy products
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mastershakeman posted:the only thing testing has been useful for is scaring people into staying home, it does nothing else especially since there's no mandatory quarantines for infected people anyways are you suggesting that we should not test people for covid-19 
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May 28, 2020 18:09
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With the news that there's something like a 25-40k spike in all-cause mortality I'm gonna go ahead and believe my May guess of ~139k cum deaths is the stealth winner, even if BIG GOVERNMENT won't acknowledge my correctness.
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man, how about this pneumonia going around   it's worse than COVID lol
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etalian posted:It's loving hilarious how the top 4 countries all have strong man wanna be leaders who downplayed the threat of the pandemic. makes me wonder about Belarus's real numbers
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Der Meister posted:can anyone find hand sanitizer, gloves or disposable masks yet. Amazon has masks and disposable gloves. For hand sanatizer see if there is a local distillery selling it.
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Burn Zone posted:Walmart (or Sam’s Club) usually has hand sanitizer, just order online and pick it up in the store to guarantee you get it. No need to walk through a Walmart only to find they’re sold out. I don’t know about Walmart, but my local Sam’s Club has shitloads of disposable masks. I originally ordered some masks from Amazon but they weren’t that good, the metal nose piece was pretty flimsy. However, the ones I bought from Sam’s Club are better quality. Funny story, back in early April when masks weren’t available in the States, a friend in China sent hundreds of dollars worth masks for me to give to his family here. We thought they were seized by Chinese customs or someone snagged the package when they figured out it was masks, but after weeks of no movement the tracking number shows they’re scheduled to arrive next week, two months late lmao. a massive amount of air freight from China is done by filling extra cargo space in passenger jets. prices have more than quadrupled at this point
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May 28, 2020 18:11
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Der Meister posted:hmm yes flu like symptoms but no test very smart kaine in the membrane
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Flesh Forge posted:man, how about this pneumonia going around almost, you have to subtract the union though, the cases reported as both pneumonia and covid
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May 28, 2020 18:12
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We're just getting masks we ordered back in March, right when they're in giant bins at our local grocery store. But I've gotten used to wearing a bandana as a mask and feeling like a bandit. It just isn't the same 
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theflyingexecutive posted:almost, you have to subtract the union though, the cases reported as both pneumonia and covid a bunch of states have big disparities there, I know Florida was just talked about last page but they're just the most blatant. e: tbh not even the most blatant, maybe the most shameless and inept about concealing it I guess 
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Flesh Forge posted:man, how about this pneumonia going around I'm not sure I'm parsing this correctly but if I am, um, ... wow, holy poo poo.
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magiccarpet posted:im so happy i risked going to a citymd to get my antibody test to only be told a week later the tests were garbage. they are never going to get testing under control. nani? i got one of those too, what was wrong with them? aside from the disclaimer on the test results that said "this test does not confirm nor exclude the possibility of prior infection"
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Dr_0ctag0n posted:These masks aren't too pricey (~$3/each) and come sealed in a pack of 5, but I haven't been disposing of mine, just letting them bake in the car dashboard UV Rays and labeling them for each day to only rewear one per week. Not like it matters at all since they're mainly just to help prevent spread if you have it and literally nobody in this stupid city is wearing them because "muh freedums" That's not a good idea to do. Right now, like you said, nobody wants to wear a mask. But when cases start to spike and everyone starts to know somebody who is sick, masks are gonna go up in demand. You dont want to leave it right on the dashboard out in the open where anyone can see it and smash in to steal the masks.
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COVID-420 posted:nah most states are hiring contact tracers, chicago is hiring 600, san jose has hired 50, etc etc Green Bay in Wisconsin. Given how the numbers are rolling in I half expect to be out of a job again within a couple weeks .. but then I remember that the legislature stripped the governor of the power to declare a shutdown. Cool country!
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Luckyellow posted:That's not a good idea to do. Right now, like you said, nobody wants to wear a mask. But when cases start to spike and everyone starts to know somebody who is sick, masks are gonna go up in demand. You dont want to leave it right on the dashboard out in the open where anyone can see it and smash in to steal the masks. Best way I've heard to clean them is ziplock in a sous-vide if you're bourgeoisie enough to have one. UV breaks down the polypropylene fiber coating anyway, you're better off sealing it in a bag and just heating to around 140F for 30min-1hr
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empty whippet box posted:I'm not sure I'm parsing this correctly but if I am, um, ... wow, holy poo poo. *stares at map, eyes widening with each minute* oh god *finally puts map down* i'm in america 
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Flesh Forge posted:man, how about this pneumonia going around 
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SKULL.GIF posted:Green Bay in Wisconsin. Given how the numbers are rolling in I half expect to be out of a job again within a couple weeks .. but then I remember that the legislature stripped the governor of the power to declare a shutdown. Cool country! 50% of my friends and loved ones work in hospitality. the other 50% work in entertainment, where i work. we're all unemployed or on the absolute edge of it. i think both industries are loving toast and its gonna get even worse. i think we gotta find something else to do, the world has changed. i hope you keep getting that cash for as long as possible but i also hope you get a better job like immediately.
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SKULL.GIF posted:Green Bay in Wisconsin. Given how the numbers are rolling in I half expect to be out of a job again within a couple weeks .. but then I remember that the legislature stripped the governor of the power to declare a shutdown. Cool country! didn't their bullshit court case strip the state health department of ever being able to make quick actions in an emergency
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Grabnar posted:Best way I've heard to clean them is ziplock in a sous-vide if you're bourgeoisie enough to have one. I'll just spray them with Lysol or bleach and huff that all day maybe that'll make things more interesting.
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Dr_0ctag0n posted:These masks aren't too pricey (~$3/each) and come sealed in a pack of 5, but I haven't been disposing of mine, just letting them bake in the car dashboard UV Rays and labeling them for each day to only rewear one per week. Not like it matters at all since they're mainly just to help prevent spread if you have it and literally nobody in this stupid city is wearing them because "muh freedums" your car windshield glass blocks out 100% of UV rays.
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SKULL.GIF posted:Judging from how much we're using them at work I think demand's likely to double or triple over the summer as the rest of the country reopens.
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COVID-420 posted:are you suggesting that we should not test people for covid-19 Its useful to know for historians I guess . At some point it'll be useful for the people with means to stop hiding but that's a long ways away. We're on a path to have it endemic if the expanded UI doesn't get continued and schools reopen, which both seem incredibly likely. At that point it doesn't matter if you test to see if you have it, just like no one bothers getting tested to see if they had the flu vs something else
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Chris James 2 posted:*stares at map, eyes widening with each minute* oh god *finally puts map down* i'm in america
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mastershakeman posted:just like no one bothers getting tested to see if they had the flu vs something else 
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Flesh Forge posted:man, how about this pneumonia going around so deaths are being undercounted by, I can't tell, 25% to 40%?
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cutting a hole in my mask for me to smoke through while sanitizing it by soaking it in kerosene to own the libs just toss it in a paper bag if you're using them once every 7 days, virus doesn't live that long on those surfaces
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Burn Zone posted:I suspect the same thing is occurring in Memphis since more than a few of West Tennessee and eastern Arkansas’s rural hospitals closed in the last twenty years. I know that at one of the remaining rural hospitals with an ICU in West TN there are two COVID patients from Memphis who left the city and went to their lake house, only to fall ill and end up in the rural hospital’s ICU. makes u think (kinda old now i guess, but relevant) 
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https://twitter.com/KHNews/status/1266054721514676226?s=20 https://twitter.com/AppleNews/status/1265780284932403202?s=20
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examples of how states can cook the books outside of death certificates: https://www.thegazette.com/subject/...Dg1cpZAr7YWk4Zo quote:As case counts and deaths from COVID-19 rise and the state reopens, Iowans are desperate for guidance. Iowa’s governor has stopped giving updates on death totals in her daily news conferences and the data on the state’s website is obscure and constantly in flux. At first, the state analyzed COVID-19 cases by region, with a scoring system. But that was tossed aside when one of the regions reached the highest point of the scoring system. County level data disappeared, then it reappeared. First, rates of infection were reported every 24 hours, now the state updates that in real time, which obscures the number of daily cases.
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Has anyone here ever been tested to see if they had the flu . Maybe it's more common than I think. Regardless , all but a few states are running testing and reporting for political purposes. Even if they didn't have control of tests and reports, they'd still be reopening because every single donor at the local level is screaming that their debt financing can't be serviced due to shutdowns. If no one can stay home because they're forced to work to not be evicted, testing doesn't really matter beyond morbid curiosity. Schools are gonna open up nationally in ten or twelve weeks, there's nothing that can be done since the people in charge don't care Edit notre Dame college is opening up 8/11 , they might be the first. That's 11 weeks from now mastershakeman has issued a correction as of 18:46 on May 28, 2020 |
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Flesh Forge posted:a bunch of states have big disparities there, I know Florida was just talked about last page but they're just the most blatant. 140k total deaths?
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is there a safe way to replace elastic on an N95? googling didn't help much. i have two masks where the strap broke at the little staple and i'd hate to lose them wondering if i could sew new straps on the outside. i don't want to interfere with the seal obviously; even with my cloth masks i have the elastic on the outside so the fabric can be tight against the face with minimal gap.
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COVID-420 posted:50% of my friends and loved ones work in hospitality. the other 50% work in entertainment, where i work. we're all unemployed or on the absolute edge of it. I'm in NY and one of the live theaters wants to reopen in September, but test every actor prior to every performance for COVID I'm in a small town where there's no understudies for shows, so selling 200 tickets and then hanging a sign on the door saying "SORRY WE GOT RONI'D" is probably a stupid loving idea One positive test means the entire run of that show (usually a month's worth) would need to be cancelled as every actor would need to go into isolation since they all had rehearsed with the infected cast member The actors union is opposed to the testing as well
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