[RomanSoldier19]

This is what panic looks like

“Surgical face masks started selling out in pharmacies in Seattle hours after the first case of the new form of coronavirus in the U.S. was identified there last Tuesday, according to BBC News. The news website also reported the face covers have been unavailable in Washington since the weekend, with people making “runs on pharmacies” in New York, and stockpiling the items in Los Angeles.”

[laplata]

There is no excuse for this. There should be stockpiles of things like this.

And it’s criminal that we rely on China and India for so much of our medicine.

[dp0622]

How come everyone here lives and dies by what Trump says except when he says this is under control and the stock market is looking mighty cheap?

Make up your minds :)

BTW, I agree with him

[null and void]

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[rfp1234]

In order to fund critical HHS expenses, immediately cut all funding to:

NPR / CPB
National Endowment for Arts
Planned Abortionhood
‘Climate’ ‘research’ across several agencies
Transsexual surgery for federal inmates
The Congressional Sex Cover-up Settlement Hush Fund

Etc.

[cgbg]

I want to see a Democratic debate with all of the candidates wearing face-masks.

That would definitely improve the content of their word salads!

[PghBaldy]

They should have had them stockpiled since at least Obama. We knew this day would come, as it does every now and then.

[gandalftb]

Enough supplies? ........... Yesterday I was at FedEx dropping off. There was a lady shipping off 25 double-box cases of 1,000 “Procedure masks”, that is, medical face masks. ........... Curious, I asked where they were going. She said “Back to China.” She explained that she was collecting face masks from “all over town” and shipping them back to China. ............ I asked what our hospitals would be doing for face masks. She said that the hospitals and clinics in the area were “asked” to send back all their inventory except for a 6 months supply. ............ She said that she had already made 4 trips to FedEx that day and as I left FedEx after some time I saw her arrive with another load. The clerk at FedEx said their trucks were all busy making pick ups of masks. ............... Hmm...... Who “asked” our medical businesses to give up their supplies? With such urgency? ............ Is this happening all over the US? ............. If the bug spreads here, will our remaining “6 month” supply be enough? ........... I don’t trust the CDC statement.
1 posted on 2/22/2020, 10:05:58 AM by gandalftb

[bgill]

Yeah, uh huh, and did we have enough during obamy or Bush? If we did, then who stole them between times, huh? If we didn’t then who/who all the heck failed their duty?

Sure, this is on Trump’s watch but he can’t follow every gazillion government employee around making sure they’re doing their jobs. Though he might have noticed this if the demonrats hadn’t followed him around 24/7 yelling about Russia.

Someone on another thread said they’d received an email about their mask order stating the government had taken possession of all the company’s masks so the order couldn’t be filled. That’s good and well someone is maybe trying to rectify the shortage but that’s not helping the little people today.

[Sacajaweau]

My goodness...Buy a damn sheet and cut it up.

[Vermont Lt]

Paging Captain Obvious.

On January 5th I looked up masks on Amazon. Even with only a few hundred cases in China they were so out...you could only buy them in boxes of 1,000. I should have done it.

[blam]

Patty Murray is a POS freak.

[Sacajaweau]

http://www.acupuncturebrooklyn.com/how-tos/how-to-make-your-own-face-mask

[Truthoverpower]

Government propaganda alert! Government propaganda alert!

[Obadiah]

A FReeper reported days ago that a relative was asked by 3M to come back to work to help restart face mask production. I believe the government may be behind this either making a simple request to restart this in the US, or by suggesting that a large government contract is forthcoming.

[Black Agnes]

He should have been reading the FR coronavirus threads a month ago.

[DCBryan1]

Central AR report since I'm off today, I spent 3 hours running around town getting ready for a cub scout camp out next month. Anyways I went to Lowes, Home Depot, Drug Emporium, Walgreens, Walmart and Sams. Only Lowes had N95 mask (about 12 of them). It was quite depressing.

HOWEVER Paint stores and local mom and pop hardware stores did have a few...not much, but a few. All 3M brand.

HOme Depot and Lowes both had the P100 full face respirators for 30 or so dollars. Dunno if that is better than an N95 but they had them as well as the pink filters.

[sauropod]

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