A note about Corona.

[Maggot]

So Does your leader but that's another argument.

nice stuff

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump campaign has been donating meals to hospitals across the country to feed doctors, nurses and first responders on the front lines of the coronavirus battle, Fox News has learned.
 
Since last Thursday, President Trump’s reelection campaign has been calling up local restaurants and ordering large amounts of food to be delivered to more than a dozen hospitals in New York, New Jersey, Washington state and Michigan. The campaign has been placing these orders anonymously, but Fox News learned about the effort — and sources confirmed it.
 
One source told Fox News that the campaign was looking to not only express gratitude for first responders treating patients with COVID-19, [b]but to support local restaurants.[/b]

[Maggot]

The anonymity is required so that the TDS victims do not get excited and have heart trouble in these hard times.

[Duchess]

"One source told FOX News"  

[MirahM]

I've been looking up diy masks one can make at home. One is made from a bandana and hair tyes, I did that one tonight and it is really difficult to breath out of.
Here is a mask made from a vacuum bag.

(I doubt I have any of these supplies, but some of you might)

[MirahM]

And now a video on how to make a mask from leggings. Specifically-Lula Roe Leggings.  Hilarious! (But fashionable!) Everyone will be dead, but at least  they will look good. (Just kidding) 

[MirahM]

Another informative one

[Duchess]

I need a mask. There are too many to choose from and I have no real way of knowing if any of them offer sufficient protection. I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M LOOKING FOR A PROTECTIVE MASK TO GUARD AGAINST A DEADLY VIRUS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THE YEAR 2020! I don't want to go out if I need a mask in order to be safe. Fuckity fuck.

[MirahM]

I don't want to wear one either. I am even considering one to go down the hall to the laundry room.

[cannongal]

I need a mask. There are too many to choose from and I have no real way of knowing if any of them offer sufficient protection. I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M LOOKING FOR A PROTECTIVE MASK TO GUARD AGAINST A DEADLY VIRUS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THE YEAR 2020! I don't want to go out if I need a mask in order to be safe. Fuckity fuck.

The only ones that offer protection against covid 19 is either the N95 (which boasts a 95% protection rate) or one made from the Heppa vaccum cleaner bags (which is supposedly 100 %, but I haven't heard of one being tested yet).

After that comes the hospital surgical mask,  which rates at about 80%

The single use paper mask is supposedly 50% protective rate 
Lastly the hand sewn mask,  which gives maybe a 20 % protection 

Also,  if you end up buying a fabric mask,  make sure it 100% cotton,  and bleach it after each use. 

I forget whether it's the CDC or the WHO that published the numbers,   I'll have to see if I can find the article.

[sally]

I need a mask. There are too many to choose from and I have no real way of knowing if any of them offer sufficient protection. I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M LOOKING FOR A PROTECTIVE MASK TO GUARD AGAINST A DEADLY VIRUS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THE YEAR 2020! I don't want to go out if I need a mask in order to be safe. Fuckity fuck.

The only ones that offer protection against covid 19 is either the N95 (which boasts a 95% protection rate) or one made from the Heppa vaccum cleaner bags (which is supposedly 100 %, but I haven't heard of one being tested yet).

After that comes the hospital surgical mask,  which rates at about 80%

The single use paper mask is supposedly 50% protective rate 
Lastly the hand sewn mask,  which gives maybe a 20 % protection 

Also,  if you end up buying a fabric mask,  make sure it 100% cotton,  and bleach it after each use. 

I forget whether it's the CDC or the WHO that published the numbers,   I'll have to see if I can find the article.

[sally]

I have the N95, but I refuse to wear that fucking thing out in public. I'm not even going out, everything I need can be delivered. Roy is on his way with my beer right now.

[Maggot]

Nobody wears one around here, I have 150 of them and will give away another 50 Monday. I don't see the fashion statement and the fish don't care. My biggest problem right now is low tide is like 2 AM  and it wont be until the middle of the month when it gets low at 9AM again. How the hell is a person supposed to dig clams that early? I know a guy that lives on clamshell road. That's right they use clamshells instead of tar.

Lobsters are 5.99 a pound off the boat now, I got some today.

[sally]

I was thinking about taking up pheasant hunting with Mia since shes a bird dog, but you have to get up really early and sit in a tree out in the woods for hours. It really doesn't sound like that much fun.

[BigMark]

especially with a mask on

[MirahM]

Well shit, this doctor is saying the Vacuum cleaner bag Heppa face mask is a no go

[Maggot]

I was thinking about taking up pheasant hunting with Mia since shes a bird dog, but you have to get up really early and sit in a tree out in the woods for hours. It really doesn't sound like that much fun.

Plus you have to train your dogs year round because they get stupid and forget how to retrieve without mashing up the bird.

[sally]

That and I'd also have to learn how to shoot a gun. I used to be a little Annie Oakley with my BB gun as a kid so it couldnt be that hard. I once aimed and shot a kid right in the ass all the way down at the end of my road. Little fucker called me a frizzy headed bitch so I ran and got my BB gun.

[BigMark]

Yeah, you ain't no frizzy head.

[MirahM]

Is there truth to this? Some things to consider:

Reposting this article from a friend.

For those of you complaining about Trump being blamed for the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic:

I thought I would post a little history lesson for everyone on both sides of the political divide. I think it’s important that we understand the truth, especially come November when it’s time to vote. Forgive the length, but hey, we all have time on our hands to read, correct?
In December 2013, an 18-month-old boy in Guinea was bitten by a bat and died a brutal death a day later. After that, there were five more fatal cases. When Ebola spread out of the Guinea borders into neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone in July 2014, President Obama activated the Emergency Operations Center at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. The CDC immediately deployed CDC personnel to West Africa to coordinate a response that included vector tracing, testing, education, logistics, and communication.
Altogether, the CDC, under President Obama, trained 24,655 medical workers in West Africa, educating them on how to prevent and control the disease before a single case left Africa or reached the U.S.

Working with the U.N. and the World Health Organization President Obama ordered the re-routing of travelers heading to the U.S. through certain specific airports equipped to handle mass testing.
Back home in America, more than 6,500 people were trained through mock outbreaks and practice scenarios. That was done before a single case hit America.

Three months after President Obama activated this unprecedented response, on September 30, 2014, we detected our first case in the U.S.A. A man had traveled from West Africa to Dallas and somehow slipped through the testing protocol. He was immediately detected and isolated. He died a week later. Two nurses who tended to him contracted Ebola but later recovered. All the protocols had worked. It was contained.

The Ebola epidemic could have easily become a pandemic, but thanks to the actions of our government under President Obama, it never did. Those THREE EBOLA CONFIRMED CASES were the ONLY cases of Ebola in the U.S.A. because Obama did what needed to be done THREE MONTHS PRIOR TO THE FIRST CASE.

Ebola is even more contagious than COVID-19. Had Obama not acted swiftly, millions of Americans would have died horrible, painful, deaths like something out of a horror movie (if you’ve never seen how Ebola kills, it’s horrific).

It is ironic because since President Obama acted decisively we forget about his actions since the disease never reached our shores.
Now the story of COVID-19 and Trump’s response that we know about thus far:

Before anyone even knew about the disease (even in China) Trump disbanded the pandemic response team that Obama had put in place. He cut funding to the CDC, and he cut our contribution to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Trump fired Rear Admiral Timothy Ziemer, the person on the National Security Council in charge of stopping the spread of infectious diseases before they reach our country - a position created by the Obama administration.

When the outbreak started in China, Trump assumed it was China’s problem and sent no research, supplies or help of any kind. We were in a trade war, why should he help them?

In January he received a briefing from our intelligence organizations that the outbreak was much worse than China was admitting and that it would definitely hit our country if something wasn’t done to prevent it. He ignored the report, not trusting our own intelligence.
When the disease spread to Europe, the World Health Organization offered a plethora of tests to the United States. Trump turned them down, saying private companies here would make the tests “better” if we needed them. However, he never ordered U.S. companies to make tests and they had no profit motive to do so on their own.
According to scientists at Yale and several public university medical schools, when they asked for permission to start working on our own testing protocol and potential treatments or vaccines, they were denied by Trump’s FDA.

When Trump knew about the first case in the United States he did nothing. It was just one case and the patient was isolated. When doctors and scientists started screaming in the media that this was a mistake, Trump claimed it was a “liberal hoax” conjured up to try to make him “look bad after impeachment failed.”

The next time Trump spoke of COVID-19, we had SIXTY-FOUR CONFIRMED CASES but Trump went before microphones and told the American public that we only had FIFTEEN cases “and pretty soon that number will be close to zero.” All while the disease was spreading, he took no action to get more tests.

What Trump did was to stop flights from China from coming here. This was too late and accomplished nothing according to scientists and doctors. By then the disease was worldwide and was already spreading exponentially in the U.S. by Americans, not Chinese people as Trump would like you to believe.

As of the moment I am posting this, the evening of April 7, 2020, we have 368,449 COVID-19 CONFIRMED CASES and 10,992 COVID-19 DEATHS in the U.S.A. The actual number is undoubtedly more than triple that amount.

SH update - as of today, the morning of April 13, 2020, we have 561,103 COVID-19 CONFIRMED CASES and 22,106 COVID-19 DEATHS. That's an increase of 192,654 confirmed cases and 11, 114 deaths in 5 ¹⁄₂ days.

As if you needed one more reason to vote, here it is. I did not write this but was researching Ebola when I came across it. So I’m reposting it.

Evan Lobel

[ZEROSPHERES]

Only a very desperate or physiologically deprived individual would eat a freaking Bat. Call me crazy if you will.

The Pemba flying fox bat is one of the largest bat species in the world, with a wingspan stretching 5.5 feet (1.6 meters) across. Since the 1990s, conservationists have worked feverishly to preserve the dwindling population. The flying fox bat used to be a routine dish on Pemba dinner tables, and people hunted so aggressively that the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classified the bat as endangered in 1992.S

Some people are fond of bats and treat them like family. Eating one would be like eating Grandpa.