COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread

[RoadKingLarry]

After however many months it's been that the essential personnel at my company have been working with no kung flu outbreaks amongst us management has decided that starting today we must all wear masks when away from our desks. They are also instituting temperature checks and all employees must now enter through the main entrance.
I'll be out for 12.weeks after my shoulder surgery Monday. I'm hoping either the stupidity wears off or I get the rumored buy out offer and can retire and never have to go back except to sign my papers.

[Ben]

Black trans lives matter (Note: BTLM, not BLM) protest in Brooklyn. I still have to wear a mask at Costco and can't sit at the bar to have a burger and beer in a near empty restaurant here.

[dogmush]

Wouldn't it be better if you'd already had it and never knew it? ? ? ? 

The swab only checks for active infections.  It doesn't say weather or not RKL (or anyone getting tested) had it before.  For that you need an antibody test (which involves a blood draw) and there's some question of the efficaccy of those tests currently anyway.  (i.e. patients that are known to have had COVID test antibody negative)

[makattak]

Black trans lives matter (Note: BTLM, not BLM) protest in Brooklyn. I still have to wear a mask at Costco and can't sit at the bar to have a burger and beer in a near empty restaurant here.

I'm required to wear a mask anytime I go inside of a "public" building here in Virginia.

When I do go into buildings not my home¹, I notice there is, at best, a 50% compliance rate, and it's only that high because the workers are forced to wear them to keep their jobs.

People, thankfully, aren't sheep and can see that the mask directive is pointless.


1: In buildings that are my home, they compliance rate is 0% unless the children decide to use the masks their grandmother made for them for ninja costumes.

[MillCreek]

I dare you not to sing this.

[Ben]

NYC "test and trace" being told not to ask infected people if they attended demonstrations. So much for "trace". Unless it's a church or restaurant or playground or something. Party of science.

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2020/06/15/as-anti-science-as-it-gets-nyc-mayor-tells-covid-19-test-and-trace-team-at-what-point-they-should-stop-tracing-just-guess/

[K Frame]

Getting back to the prepping portion of this thread, I ordered two of these shelving units from Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0727YYPR2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

They'll go in the basement, without the wheels, for storage of canned and dry goods to extend what I can store in my pantry.

I figure between those two shelves I can get close to 4 months of canned and dry foods laid by. And yes, I am going to devote a shelf to some extra toilet paper. 

I've also started working on filling the freezer. I was at my local market over the weekend and come on a manager's special on 3 lb packs of their Nature's Promise (supposedly no antibiotics, etc., and generally expensive as hell) for $1.67 a pound because it was hitting its sell by date the next day. I picked up two, I should have picked up the other two but I wasn't sure how many freezer bags I had left.

I now have 6 1-lb packages of ground turkey in the deep freeze along with about 6 pounds of pork.

I've also started laying in multiple cans of tomatoes (I use a TON of canned tomatoes) and will start adding other veggies as well.


Back when I first heard about this coming out of China in late January I had a weird feeling that this one was going to have some legs and potential for disruption, so I started laying in extra food supplies at that time, but didn't get nearly what I wanted when things started shutting down and people started to freak out.

I was fine, ultimately, for a variety of different reasons, but if the Kung Flu comes roaring back as my gut tells me it's going to, I'm going to be a lot more prepared.

[Fly320s]

Make sure you stock up on snow shovels and warm clothing.  We are entering a solar minimum period.

http://myweb.wwu.edu/dbunny/pdfs/Evid_Based_Climate_Sci/Ev_Based_Climate_Sci_Chap11.pdf

[K Frame]

So, solar flu?

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[Perd Hapley]

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53061281

A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus.

The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say.

The drug is part of the world's biggest trial testing existing treatments to see if they also work for coronavirus.

It cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. For those on oxygen, it cut deaths by a fifth.

[WLJ]

Trump killed Omar's father.
Actually wouldn't surprise if she does try to spin it that way at some point

Rep. Ilhan Omar announces death of father from COVID-19 complications
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-ilhan-omar-announces-death-of-father-from-covid-19-complications

[RoadKingLarry]

So, solar flu?

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That's probably either racist, sexist or homophobic.

[RoadKingLarry]

Trump killed Omar's father.
Actually wouldn't surprise if she does try to spin it that way at some point

Rep. Ilhan Omar announces death of father from COVID-19 complications
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-ilhan-omar-announces-death-of-father-from-covid-19-complications

Father or father in law? Never mind, same guy.

[WLJ]

That's probably either racist, sexist or homophobic.

Well the sun is a yellow dwarf so that would mean racist + discrimination against undersized persons

[JN01]

Don't forget anti-science.

[Hawkmoon]

Black trans lives matter (Note: BTLM, not BLM) protest in Brooklyn. I still have to wear a mask at Costco and can't sit at the bar to have a burger and beer in a near empty restaurant here.

I am supposed to wear a mask anytime I leave home and go somewhere that I "might" be within six feet of other people. And the lamestream media are pounding Trump for wanting to hold a rally, yet they don't seem to have any problem with demonstrations such as these.

[zxcvbob]

I've ordered some almost certainly fake KN95 respirator masks from Amazon.  It should be obvious whether they are made of some kind of filter cloth and whether they leak or not.  The places that I've found sell real CE certified KN95 and FFP2 masks only sell in very high quantities for about $4 apiece, and then sometimes only sell to existing customers.  Even counterfeit masks if they are well made will be better than a scarf or whatever nonsense.  For $16 for a box of ten I'll take a chance.

(KN95 and FFP2 are the Chinese and European equivalent specifications for USA N95 respirator masks.  There's also Japanese, Australian, Korean, etc specs with different designation, and they are all pretty much equivalent)

Perhaps I should search for P1 respirators.  Those only filter 80% instead of 95%, but that's a lot better than nothing.

[French G.]

You people need to come around on the sheeple mask stuff. I am wearing that red bandana as long as I can get away with it, this is a rare day we get to give such a giant middle finger to face recognition tech.

In other news all the Virginia health departments still aren't taking people in, so trying to get my daughter's 2nd HPV vaccine is on hold. So vaccinations, pregnancy services and nutritional programs are being held up by a bunch of people who effing love science.

I went looking for my annual internet fix to keep up with the Isle of Man TT and other Irish road racing. They cancelled the races this year due to the rona. A race that will almost certainly kill someone every year canx for a virus you most likely will survive.

Chicken wire is the new toilet paper, needed some, so did everyone else. My ducks now have a huge space all to themselves since they can't free range when no one is here, too many shenanigans involving other people's yards.

[MillCreek]

https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-toilet-flush-spread-covid-commode-20200616-l3xuvbvmkvg7xdihgnwc3azajm-story.html

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0013318

Close the toilet lid before flushing to reduce the risk of fecal aerosols carrying COVID.  Although there has been literature for many years about toilet flushing spreading germs throughout the bathroom.  One of the reasons that I always close the lid.

[K Frame]

That's probably either racist, sexist or homophobic.

I tried my best...

[WLJ]

https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-toilet-flush-spread-covid-commode-20200616-l3xuvbvmkvg7xdihgnwc3azajm-story.html

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0013318

Close the toilet lid before flushing to reduce the risk of fecal aerosols carrying COVID.  Although there has been literature for many years about toilet flushing spreading germs throughout the bathroom.  One of the reasons that I always close the lid.

You first got to get people to flush

[makattak]

You first got to get people to flush

And- as is the case of most public toilets I've seen- have a lid.

[MillCreek]

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/17/878946307/the-rich-have-stopped-spending-and-thats-tanked-the-economy?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=nprnews&utm_campaign=npr&fbclid=IwAR3PMHkn0fSvargFIqTCM2hj2uiip--dPZ5G3vXVeRi9uwFF07CIzT9junk

Everyone needs to get out there and start spending again. Get that money in circulation.

[WLJ]

And- as is the case of most public toilets I've seen- have a lid.

Urinal aiming should also be a required course for men

[MechAg94]

Urinal aiming should also be a required course for men

Just need bigger urinals.