Won't wear it outside though for fear of causing heart attacks and/or making peoples' hair spontaneously combust.
Posted on 03/28/2020 12:59:13 PM PDT by rintintin
The media is full of stories of mask rationing and shortages. Health care professionals are reusing masks, slathering them with sanitizer, or substituting scarves in place of surgical masks. Democrats demand that President Trump make more masks immediately using the Wartime Production Act.
But why aren’t there any masks?
Surgical masks, like anything in the medical field, are tightly regulated. You can’t just make a mask. Some masks have to be certified by the FDA and others by the CDC. Some are certified by both the FDA and the CDC.
Until recently, the public had no problem buying N95 respirators for use in construction. These masks are certified by the CDC. Why is the CDC in the business of certifying industrial masks, you may wonder? Because, as discussed previously, the CDC does every possible thing except what people think it does. The component of the CDC that does this is the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
NIOSH is not to be confused with OSHA, even though they were created at the same time, through the same law, and serve a very similar function: making this another skein in the infinitely tangled web of the federal bureaucracy.
The Open PPE Project launched an effort to quickly create N95 masks only to be told by NIOSH that approving a new mask production facility would take between 45 and 90 days.
Meanwhile there are reports of large stockpiles of masks sitting around waiting for an FDA inspector.
The United States government has a stockpile of 12 million NIOSH approved masks and 5 million that are expired, and are therefore not approved by NIOSH. Except it may approve some conditionally for use.
The FDA and CDC bureaucracy are not up to speed with the current crisis.
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They were lost in Kenya!!!!!
Right it is just the flu only not as bad. Reg flu deaths this season approaching 32,000 and infections at about 35,000,000.
China virus deaths barely breaking 1000 and with the ramped up testing discovering more positive results the death rate has plummeted and will continue to do so. It is now at or just under 1% and will more than likely drop to the level of the common flu or maybe below.
The UK revised their flawed model from showing 500,000 deaths all the way down to 20,000.
The models used to project the outcome on this virus are all badly flawed and it may be deliberate.
In situations like this I understand the appeal of a dictatorship. Nothing like a gun to the back of a head to get things done.
On a news broadcast a doctor said they had to reuse masks and eventually the elastic strap broke off so he re attached it with staples.
Elastic straps can be replaced.
Won't wear it outside though for fear of causing heart attacks and/or making peoples' hair spontaneously combust.
Don’t hospitals keep a stockpile of masks?
This is an embarrassment. We are like a third world nation.
The death rate in the US is approximately 15 times that of the flu. It has been going up in the last few days in spite of the increased testing.
You are a wealth of disinformation.
N95s are effective for 4-5 hours as antiviral masks. Beyond that, I suggest infusing (the mask and yourself) with antivirals. Betadine is readily available, while some people I know are using liquid with nano metals (copper, zinc, even silver).
Don’t breathe or drink the betadine. Iodine is essential in tiny quantities, poison in larger amounts. So do the research and do the math. Betadine, hydrogen peroxide, etc. are also useful for cleaning things after a trip outside.
at a sketchers outlet store, the salesperson said that the Chinese come in and buy tons of shoes and then they send them back to China for resale...
China lies in every statistic that can be independently verified. In some towns in Lombardy, death rates are triple last year’s year-to-date.
“Union Locates 39 Million N95 Masks To Deliver To Healthcare Workers Treating COVID-19 Patients”
Not delivering....Selling...for $5 each!
But of course the union said, “no financial interest in the transaction.”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/seiu-uhw-masks-coronavirus-ppe
How much perfectly useful equipment has been trashed because of an arbitrary expiration date demanded by dubious regulations.
Someone needs to get your story to Tucker or Hannity...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUKTTt9U0AEiOxi?format=jpg&name=small
Something like 20% of deaths are among medical and first responder staffs...
Show me your stats regarding deaths caused by China virus ONLY and not deaths “associated” with the virus.
The increase in both number of cases detected AND deaths “associated” were expected to increase this last week and again next week. It is not possible to even come close to knowing the death rate until many millions are tested. Like I said it will be as low or lower than reg flu and better than 95% will be the elderly with serious underlying health issues.
No matter where you look it is always the same folks dying. Older with great majority 70’s into 80’s and 90’s with two or more underlying medical conditions.
Common sense says lock down older and health challenged people and let the rest go back to work.
In any case the medications Trump mentioned will work, in fact they already have. This whole over hyped nonsense is over for the most part in 3-4 weeks
Have any data to back that up? receipts, shipping manifest, photos...?
Are they making masks from Skecher shoes?
The masks used in ceramic work have to be that good and certified. Silica getting into your lungs is like breathing broken glass.
That’s OK. But trump has been around for 3 1/2 years. He doesn’t get off without some responsibility.
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