RANT & RAVE & MAYBE MORE

I can buy the disposable masks here as well, in Southeast Florida , at a local medical supply shop.

Whats more surprising, a friend of mine texted me a short while ago, he called the same medical supply shop this morning, and they had N95 masks available, he bought 3.

Pratoman said...

Whats more surprising, a friend of mine texted me a short while ago, he called the same medical supply shop this morning, and they had N95 masks available, he bought 3.

Prato, maybe they are real N95 but more likely KN95, i.e. the Chinese version. A lot of them are being sold nationwide and many of them are NOT medical grade.

Jim

Thanks, Jim -- we're covered. My wife sews our masks, so I have a few of different fabrics and prints. Today's mask is a "tacos and peppers" print. The previous one was the red, white and blue stars and stripes. It just seems strange that in a large city, there are still no masks available in retail channels.

Minnesota cases up 155% since reopening, Nebraska 47%.

I ordered a 50 pack of paper masks from Amazon a month ago, they may arrive sometime before June 1st (likely from China). In the interim, I downloaded a pattern from the net, hauled out my 1919 Singer portable and sewed up a cloth mask from an old white cotton shirt. It is street legal for today's trip to the grocery store.

I got some K95 masks from China a week ago, took them a month to get here, after ordering.

Ok Buddy you went over the line!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you checked your facts!!!@!!! you would see that these numbers come from the increased testing that is taking place in MInnesota!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I live in this great state of Minnesota along with some other gentlemen here on the this forum! For you to call us idiots is unexcusable and I for one demand that the Mods remove you from this forum we don't need the likes of guys like you on here!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I normally have you on ignore but one of the guys emailed me and said look at what Buddy said about our state so I took you off from ignore and read the garbage you posted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Buddy

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

I will defend your right to speak at any time but you should consider that no one will be listening pretty soon. Since you disagree with the Governor and his advisors consulting with the Mayo Clinic and University of Minnesota and the businesses of the State of Minnesota (including 3M that makes the masks), maybe you should find their forums and advise them with your extensive internet knowledge.

Sky - You got trolled....

"Minnesota hit a new single-day record for COVID-19 deaths with 30 new fatalities reported Wednesday as the overall case count soared over 8,000."

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/05/07/latest-on-covid19-in-mn

You guys were saying?

Mumbo said...
Buddy

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

I will defend your right to speak at any time but you should consider that no one will be listening pretty soon. Since you disagree with the Governor and his advisors consulting with the Mayo Clinic and University of Minnesota and the businesses of the State of Minnesota (including 3M that makes the masks), maybe you should find their forums and advise them with your extensive internet knowledge.

Sky - You got trolled....

If they're the ones advising him to reopen they're fools. You can tell them I said so.

75,000 dead and counting.

A quick update in our political area, a 4 phase opening will start although things at the end of the 4th phase will not mean that it is business as usual pre covid.Our parks open for daily use May 15th and campsites open June 1st. Many are very pleased about having other areas to recreate in. We are lucky in the fact that my wife and I get out most days for long times in the fresh air and sunlight to MTB, road ride, hike and trail run. Haven't started to paddle yet but it will happen soon.

Just had a great 3 hour MTB ride yesterday up a climb trail into the snow before getting the long, steep, rough downhill run back to the truck. Great to keep those fuel lines open.

Some interesting stats from our chief medical officer as of May 6th. I have used 60 years old and over as most of our HW PC members are in this range.

total covid= 2251
cases hospitalized= 462
cases in ICU=169
covid deaths=124
total population= 5,110,523

deaths/% of pop.over 60= 98%
ICU cases/% of pop. over 60= 68%
hospitalization/% of pop. over 60= 66%
total covid/% of pop. over 60= 35%

In our local health care zone, Population= 750,000
covid cases=179
covid deaths= 2

Another stat that was taken from a study of covid patients hospitalized( not our area) was that only 6% of those admitted had no pre- existing medical conditions no matter the age.

So, going by the numbers, if you have a number of pre-existing medical conditions and are over 60, please stay at home in your bubble. Because if you catch covid, the chance of you cheating the guy in the hoody, with a BMI of 0 and a big scyth over his shoulder looks "Grim".

Are we all going to get covid or it's mutated cousin over time? Who knows. But if we do, my wife and I would like to have no pre-existing medical issues(slow growing PC maybe), so the chances we will clog up the ICU will be less.

Dave

Post Edited (slapshot) : 5/7/2020 11:13:56 AM (GMT-6)

So here is an informative article from a local newspaper in my neck of the woods accurately describing whats going on in my county (Burlington County NJ)

https://www.burlingtoncountytimes.com/news/20200505/south-jersey-nursing-home-testing-reveals-widespread-coronavirus-infections

local newspapers are a joy to read. Just the facts ma'am!

Basically whats happening here is the folks in the nursing homes are taking it on the chin and the state seems to have finally wised up to that.

Some tidbits
"But testing revealed a dire reality: 24% of the long-term care residents had been infected with the deadly pathogen — and most showed no symptoms."

"Burlington County facilities alone have seen 1,153 cases and 125 deaths, state data shows."

If you read the article you will see they are really ramping up the resources being assigned to nursing homes. I am happy to see really proactive steps being taken to protect that population. You can see a massive amount of new testing happening. I presume they will have to do that continuously until antibody tests become readily available.

As an FYI....there have been 177 covid fatalities in my county out of a population of about 450K. So 125/177 about 70% of the fatalities have been associated with nursing homes. It took two months to realize that, or act upon it, but we are on the trail now.

(177-125)/450,000 or 0.0115% of the outside population has died from Covid.

Also I saw alot of arguing with Buddy Blank. My advice is just accept the fact that Buddy is against death generally, smile inwardly, and then move on.