is the compulsion to post vanities a symptom of Coronavirus?
Joe? Joe Biden is that you?
B. Is what mostly what S. Korea is doing...
*sigh* there are DIFFERENT kinds of masks
The ones you typically see at the hardware store WONT DO ANYTHING against a virus but make you “feel” safer.
The special masks they are talking about are the ones that are needed and are in short supply.
We’re f*cked no matter what we do. The DEMs will blockade relief as much as possible, taking the stock markets and US economy along the way. Not one of these bastards will be taken out. Everyone is predicting long shutdown times. 6 weeks to 3 months. We won’t survive that long of a shutdown, and it may be by design. I just hope all gun owners who claimed they would start a civil war should the DEMs destroy the country are up to that talk. Otherwise, we’re done.
You have lost you’re mind.
There’s a huge difference between the exposure in my day and health care workers don’t you think!
The wearing of masks in Asia is a common occurrence. A great many wear masks as a matter of routine. Especially, in the less developed countries and their very overcrowded major cities.
Those cities air is heavy with pollution and the masks are used as filters to minimize larger particulates from entering their lungs.
Because the wearing of masks in Asian countries is a common daily thing masks are in abundant supply.
Even in the more developed Asian countries, the wearing of masks during the cold and flu season is a very common thing.
This is not the case in most countries outside of Asia so, mask supplies are geared towards the medical community and even within that community only a subset routinely wear masks so, the supply of them is geared towards that level of use.
If suddenly, there is an unplanned need desire by many, many millions of people wishing to wear masks (which are not reusable) there is no way this unplanned demand can be met in a short period of time.
Even in countries where mask-wearing is far more common a sudden panic like this can overwhelm the system which is why the Chinese stopped shipping masks out of China two weeks ago. And, of course, they are the main suppliers of these masks to the world.
Government is not the answer for every situation.
Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of Facemasks [Make your own face mask.]
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3826324/posts
Wow, you got badly flamed! Four pointless insults and two irrelevant responses. I don’t totally agree with you, but you make a good point.
I’ve been perplexed at how the medical community says “masks do not help, but we need masks.”
Average people who are not used to wearing a mask with touch their face more. This makes it more likely they will get the virus on their hands and then fiddle with the mask and get the virus on their face near their eyes, nose, and mouth. People who wear them as part of their job know how to fit them and then not touch them. There are also different kinds of masks out there. Some are true respirators and some have virtually no protection to something as small as a virus.
As someone with a compromised immune system, I say Option B all the way. It's patently ridiculous to crash the economy and cause everyone so much pain when the risk of catching it and something bad happening is real for so few of us.
I can stay in my home and have deliveries to my house, minimizing my risk. I can work from home. I can have my medical appointments via tele-medicine and the world can go on until this passes.
Why our Government insists on crashing the economy when so few of us are really impacted just escapes me. This insanity needs to stop.
B should have been the option from the get go.
I said this a week ago and everyone called me a moron...
Yeah, I’ll let him know in the morning.
ah, so your solution is to shut seniors in their homes, and let the youth keep infecting and reinfecting each other into nonexistence.
ooo kay. How about we shut everyone under 60 up, until they test negative three times at the end of 40 days?