More Experts Say Americans Should Wear Masks

[Mike]

Dats right! View attachment 61900

LOL, even though we use rank bars rather than user titles for staff acknowledgment, this still tricks quite a few.

 

[quillcom]

LOL, even though we use rank bars rather than user titles for staff acknowledgment, this still tricks quite a few.

Dats right! View attachment 61900

I probably would have caught that on my laptop but on the phone in real time.

 

[ironpony]

...another one! Its worse than rabbits.

 

[Fageol]

I think you don’t know what I am thinking.

I have faith in this country stepping up and getting things done.

And here's just the mask for lady truckers to stay safe. I got this from a gal I know from Legion Post 1 (Anchorage). My hottie libertarian (not libertine, boys) friend wants one.

 

[Fageol]

And here's just the mask for lady truckers to stay safe. I got this from a gal I know from Legion Post 1 (Anchorage). My hottie libertarian (not libertine, boys) friend wants one.

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Just realized that I forgot to post a pic of the gal who wants that mask and who has the "balls" (her word -- always thought that they were nuts, specifically chestnuts) to wear one. She just posted that she used a plasma cutter today. I might have to fire up one of those "go fund me" things for her so she can get one for herself. This gal ain't afraid to work -- she has a landscaping business.

 

[Injun]

Don't kid yourselves about this - it will be months before these guys crank out one of them.

This is from an article published on Apr. 6, regarding Xerox:
"They project making 40,000 ventilators this month alone."
...and this is just one company.

Xerox plans to produce disposable ventilators

The portable device wouldn't replace hospital-grade ventilators but could be a stopgap measure for some COVID-19 patients.

www.nbcnews.com

I think you underestimate the magnitude of the problem.

Here is Vox making excuses explaining how WHO and CDC got it so wrong, when the facts playing out are far from the Armageddon the Chicken Littles have been screaming about.

Why it’s so hard to see into the future of Covid-19

The most difficult thing for an epidemiological model to predict: human behavior.

www.vox.com

To begin with we wasted as much as eight weeks after the intelligence community and the Sec'y if Health began warning about the the virus appearing both dangerous and very likely to spread here. Imagine if we had begun this big push at the beginning of February. As Governor Cuomo said today, we've been behind the eightball since the beginning. That will cost American lives.

We have been. But that's because the information received as late as January 30 was there was "limited human-to-human transmission," according to WHO, which finally released a Public Health Emergency of International Concern at that time, even though they were still saying human-to-human transmission was not a huge concern. Our government immediately took steps to limit travel from affected countries, but the individual who pulled that trigger was derided as "racist" for doing it, with one national politician underscoring that accusation on Feb. 25th, when she pointedly conducted a publicity stunt from Chinatown in San Francisco.

You're only as good as the information you're getting. Here is a reminder of the timeline:

Archived: WHO Timeline - COVID-19

31 Dec 2019China reported a cluster of cases of in Wuhan, Hubei Province. A novel coronavirus was eventually identified.1 January 2020WHO had set up the IMST (Incident Management Support Team) across the three levels of the organization: headquarters, regional headquarters and country level...

www.who.int

You ain't got a female relative handy with a needle and thread?

Only women can sew? How incredibly sexist of you.
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Is there anything else you feel like being wrong about?

 

[BlackBart]

Yes
Staff member. Moving up.

 

[BlackBart]

This is from an article published on Apr. 6, regarding Xerox:
"They project making 40,000 ventilators this month alone."
...and this is just one company.

Xerox plans to produce disposable ventilators

The portable device wouldn't replace hospital-grade ventilators but could be a stopgap measure for some COVID-19 patients.

www.nbcnews.com

Here is Vox making excuses explaining how WHO and CDC got it so wrong, when the facts playing out are far from the Armageddon the Chicken Littles have been screaming about.

Why it’s so hard to see into the future of Covid-19

The most difficult thing for an epidemiological model to predict: human behavior.

www.vox.com

We have been. But that's because the information received as late as January 30 was there was "limited human-to-human transmission," according to WHO, which finally released a Public Health Emergency of International Concern at that time, even though they were still saying human-to-human transmission was not a huge concern. Our government immediately took steps to limit travel from affected countries, but the individual who pulled that trigger was derided as "racist" for doing it, with one national politician underscoring that accusation on Feb. 25th, when she pointedly conducted a publicity stunt from Chinatown in San Francisco.

You're only as good as the information you're getting. Here is a reminder of the timeline:

Archived: WHO Timeline - COVID-19

31 Dec 2019China reported a cluster of cases of in Wuhan, Hubei Province. A novel coronavirus was eventually identified.1 January 2020WHO had set up the IMST (Incident Management Support Team) across the three levels of the organization: headquarters, regional headquarters and country level...

www.who.int

Only women can sew? How incredibly sexist of you.
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Is there anything else you feel like being wrong about?

Men can do it... we just suck at it

 

[ironpony]

This is from an article published on Apr. 6, regarding Xerox:
"They project making 40,000 ventilators this month alone."
...and this is just one company.

The key word in your reference is "disposable." That requires a trained medical technician to manually operate it 24/7/365, and are only intended as a temporary aid to breathing. What is needed are the fully automatic machines. GM for one, indicates that they won't be able to produce a machine like that until late summer. Be aware that equipment like this is both delicate and complicated, and if it doesn't work properly can just as easily kill a patient as save them. Medical device manufacturing is as different from pretty much making anything else as you can possibly imagine.

We have been. But that's because the information received as late as January 30 was there was "limited human-to-human transmission," according to WHO, which finally released a Public Health Emergency of International Concern at that time, even though they were still saying human-to-human transmission was not a huge concern. Our government immediately took steps to limit travel from affected countries, but the individual who pulled that trigger was derided as "racist" for doing it, with one national politician underscoring that accusation on Feb. 25th, when she pointedly conducted a publicity stunt from Chinatown in San Francisco.

Our national intelligence resources were indicating this was a threat to us in November...

Report: US intelligence warned of coronavirus threat as early as November

ABC News says National Security Council and White House were briefed extensively on danger by January but failed to act to counter it

www.timesofisrael.com

Only women can sew?

The one individual I responded to indicated he was having problems. He's good with hammers, not needles and thread. How incredibly unkind of you to twist my words into a general comment - which it wasn't.

 

[Duck]

How incredibly unkind of you

 

[ironpony]

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