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Coronavirus is extremely airborne and they have said this from the beginning. They say 6 to 10 feet normally and that it can linger in the air a decent time. In fact with fans and air systems in buildings or transit it can travel further and be airborne longer. Doctors and nurses in close contact with coronavirus patients have to have N95 masks at minimum as part of their uniform. Any mask will stop most transmission but only N95 will stop almost all spores from getting to the throat where they infect. I have 2 N95s I reuse every other day and would never go to the grocery without.

UK projected to have 2nd most deaths after US by August. Final numbers forecast: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/07/how-can-coronavirus-models-get-it-so-wrong?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Email By August the UK is projected to have recorded more Covid-19 deaths than Italy, Spain, France and Germany combined Thousands US 81,766 UK 66,314 Italy 20,300 Spain 19,209 France 15,058 Germany 8,802

Speaking of #'s. Jack Dorsey of Twitter just gave 1/3 of his wealth to coronavirus work: [MEDIA=twitter]1247622798555611138[/MEDIA]

Amazing charts. Predicted peak death date in each state. Most are in coming days. U.S. Coronavirus Outbreak: State-by-State Death Toll https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-coronavirus-where-is-the-us-on-the-curve/

What they tell those of us with sleep apnea is that the rear of the tongue becomes larger with extra weight and/or nerves and muscles in the rear of the tongue diminish ability to contract to open the throat during sleep. Sleeping on your stomach or even side lets gravity move the tongue and jaw forward to open the throat. I was able to defer using a CPAP for many years by flipping to stomach and side. Of course the virus fills parts of the lungs too. Everyone should have a thermometer and a oximeter for the virus check, They're about $30 on ebay and Amazon.

That $20 takeout Family Meal at Panda Express is terrific but...

If everyone had to wear some sort of simple mask in public, non-surface transmission would be cut to almost zero. The N95s are what medicals need in hospitals. (also what victims need). There's a whole lot of those coming to the US. They used to be 85 cents and are meant to be disposable. amazon sells them to registered medicals for 85 cents even now. A civilian having a couple to reuse is not a big deal. Personally I like the Chinese version, the KN95 much better and on eBay or Amazon they are readily available. Here's 2 for $12 shipped in 3 days: https://www.ebay.com/itm/KN-95-Protective-Cover-2-Covers-Per-Package-Disposable/392750034306?hash=item5b71b9ed82:g:11UAAOSw-9leiJwO They're often much cheaper on Amazon in 10 packs. The simple surgical masks are dirt cheap. Yesterday I posted Amazon had them 50 for $5. Bicycle shops have charcoal masks for $5 and every other person seems to making cloth ones. Some sort of mask is no big burden. Germany and many other countries already require them. And in China women's undies are the cool masks:

And I say that unless you know you do not have the virus, this one is deadly enough to where out of consideration for others you should always wear some sort of simple mask in public for a while. To do otherwise is endangering others' lives, no matter what your slim risks are. Everyone wearing a mask for a while would cut transmission down drastically. For your own sake I would always wear an N95 or KN95 into grocery stores or other enclosed places like transit.

Westworld killed this possibility for me forever

This is probably the best extremely concise piece I've seen. This political correctness of changing facts on masks and age needs to stop as does other PC lies. Pleasant or not, truth and facts are absolutely necessary. Let's make a deal with the youth: free college for so many pints of their antibody hemoglobin to treat boomers: The noble lie about masks and coronavirus should never have been told Matthew Walther The WeekApril 4, 2020, 6:40 AM EDT Those of you of a certain age will doubtless remember a time when it was universally acknowledged that wearing masks would not protect you or anyone else from the coronavirus pandemic. By "certain age" here I mean all living Americans born on or before April 1, 2020, which according to my notes is when it became possible to express a contrary position in polite society. This was always nonsense. The White House is now suggesting that all of us should wear masks whenever we leave our houses. We are even stealing vast stockpiles of them from the Germans, who have been wearing them in public for around a month on the rather more numerous occasions when their leaders exempt them from house arrest. People who can't get proper masks (apparently the kind people wear when they spray for bugs) are being encouraged to make their own. If nothing else, this has given tedious DIY addicts something else to be self satisfied about. No one cares how quaint and interesting you think the piece of cloth meant to protect you from a disease is, okay? Whether the journalists and other apparent experts who enthusiastically spread this apparent lie about masks knew it was false is very much an open question. Some of us found it odd that the same people were also saying that masks should be reserved for use by medical professionals. If masks don't do anything, why do doctors and nurses need them? Are they an ornamental part of a dress uniform? The mind reels. Regardless of the personal honesty of those involved in it, this propaganda campaign should never have been conducted in the first place. It is one thing to debate what should be empirical questions, such as the efficacy of wearing protective equipment in an attempt to forestall the spread of viral infections; it is another for people to bang on about whatever the latest current corona wisdom is with the same tedious certainty that not long ago made us a nation of Logan Act scholars and experts on the non-existent criminal law implications of the emoluments clause. These manias do roughly as much for public health as those kids — there was at least one in every first-grade class — who relentlessly ssshh everyone else in line do to improve schoolyard behavior. The 180-degree shift in acceptable public opinion about masks is in line with how the rest of this crisis has unfolded. Masks won't help. Everyone needs a mask. It's not worth shutting down travel to and from China over the virus, and Trump is just being a xenophobe here. Trump should have done more to prevent the virus from coming to these shores. It's less dangerous than the flu; calling it less dangerous than the flu is a right-wing meme, perhaps even (one shudders) "misinformation." Human beings can't even transmit the virus directly to one another; it originated with animals in Chinese open-air "wet" food markets. Talking about the wet markets is racist, except when Dr. Fauci does it. Can we please stop talking this way? As I write this our paper of record is all but publicly rooting for the failure of anti-malarial drugs that appear to have been successful in treating some coronavirus patients. It is not against "science," whatever that may be, for the president or anyone else to observe that certain medicines or treatments have worked. It is not for science, either. It's just a fact that may or may not have limited application depending upon what happens over the next few months. A bit more epistemic humility would be welcome all around. As would more of what I will bluntly call adult behavior. We must put an end to the idea that the best way to get through this crisis is to say things we know are not true in the hope of getting people to behave a certain way. This means not saying masks are useless when what you really mean is, "Masks are in short supply, please consider before you start hoarding them whether you really need them at present and if so how many." Ditto the painfully relentless attempts to give young people the impression that they are horribly likely to die from the new virus. Even in Italy, the country with the worst measured fatality rate so far, around 86 percent of all the deceased have been aged 70 or older, and 50 percent were at least 80. We do not need to zero in on statistical anomalies or otherwise engage in scaremongering. It should be enough to say, "Even though you are very unlikely to die from coronavirus, remember that you could contract the disease and spread it to more vulnerable people without even experiencing symptoms, so please don't revel with 5000 strangers at the beach and then run home to give Grandma a hug." This is how grown-ups talk to one another. https://www.yahoo.com/news/noble-lie-masks-coronavirus-never-104001181.html And in fact requiring everyone in public to wear a mask, as Germany and several countries do, would stop most transmission of the virus from unknowing carriers.

DC hit 1000 cases today with it's 670,000 population. But it was a warm day and all the 20-somethings were parading in shorts and sandals with virtually no masks. Once the antibody test comes and tells many they are immune, there's going to be a revolt of the young. Hell hath no fury like young entitled yuppies in DC.

I've doubled up times for my housekeeper because she disinfects heavily, changes sheets, etc. I leave her alone in the house and when she leaves I spray disinfectant. On balance she's more of a sanitary plus.

I often have that problem in Android but almost never in Windows.

I know many strippers who have made good money for years but were always unsuited for any other work. Unlike others, they were considered "independent contractors" (falsely) and like most escorts have no unemployment coverage. Being covered under Social Security and unemployment seems like a tax burden until it's needed. And then non-coverage becomes a disaster.

Amazon surprisingly has TP sometimes now. Also Walmart.com Of course it might be risky letting it sit on your front porch. Ask for delivery notification.

and alternatively, a ten-buck hunting mask that will both protect from most inhalants and guarantee you 10 feet of social distancing: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082ND2ZDN/ref=sspa_dk_detail_3?psc=1&pd_rd_i=B082ND2ZDN&pd_rd_w=20jNi&pf_rd_p=48d372c1-f7e1-4b8b-9d02-4bd86f5158c5&pd_rd_wg=At9Hv&pf_rd_r=GA9749M8K8YADS63ZZY2&pd_rd_r=f996dbc9-b067-482e-989a-8d977771d195&smid=A2J93BZ3LV569U&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExNDhKVzZaS0dUNTMzJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwNjczNjEyNlhMS0RGMFA3R1dFJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTA0OTMyMTYzVDJMM005TFFFRzNRJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfZGV0YWlsJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==

I find Germany amazing. With a huge number of cases it's staying well below 1% deaths while Italy, Spain, France, the UK, Netherlands, etc all stay around 10%. Granted, it's median age patient is younger but hats off to a great national healthcare system. California is also doing exceptionally well for almost 40 million people. The economy is surprising. Even with the new 10 million unemployment claims in the past 2 weeks the official rate is still only 4.4%.https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf The new law pretty much reimburses employers for keeping workers on salary instead of firing them. And it also gives every unemployed person an additional $600/week on top of their unemployment check, which in DC is usually about 80% of your former take-home pay. So the official unemployed on benefits will be very fine. Good estimate of true unemployment: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/upshot/coronavirus-jobless-rate-great-depression.html

Thanks for being our guy on the front line. I'm wondering why lying on your stomach is preferred. I know for those of us with sleep apnea it's good for moving the tongue and jaw forward to open the throat for breathing. Which also makes me wonder if there are any CPAP machines being used yet as a step down from a full ventilator. Is there a certain level of blood oxygen on an oximeter that warrants ICU or ventilator? Many of us are getting cheap $30 oximeters to tell early if there's trouble. My panic point to get help would be temp over 101, oximeter well under normal 95 and inability to hold breath for 10 secs. (But i'm taking my CPAP with me !).

I'm in an urban area so when I go outside I'm now using a cheap surgical mask or a cheap cloth one. But absolutely I do not go into a grocery or any other store without my N95 on, even though it's uncomfortable. It's not as uncomfortable as dying of the virus. And it makes it hard to small talk with workers there I know, but while pleasant, their conversations are not to die for. I'm afraid my grocery store attire will soon be adding goggle-type glasses. There are $10 washable cooling-material neck gaiters/wraps that can be pulled up over the mouth and nose. have high-filtration, and can be wet to cool in the summer.:

those of us who are used to complex relationships know that Alexa can quickly be renamed to "Computer" or "Amazon" or "Echo".

That "Best Sellers" Healthcare category keeps updating with great deals on masks, thermometers, oximeters, etc.

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If you go to Top Sellers on Amazon you can drop to Health Supplies where the top mask deals are every day. 50 for 5 bucks shipped right now: https://www.amazon.com/Disposable-Personal-Protection-Dust-Proof-Spittle/dp/B085Y4HYKR/ref=zg_bs_hpc_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=4QRGH8ZTVMA2851ET54Y Update: I got an email from Amazon these shipped 30 minutes after purchase.

In predicting the estimate for DC today, it came out there are 2 main models for predicting cases, peak time, and deaths, the CHIME and the IMHE. https://wtop.com/coronavirus/2020/04/coronavirus-update-dc-maryland-virginia-april-3/