I'll pay you a bit extra if you can buy some at a local store and ship some over to me.
I need it because I've got an at-risk person staying with me for a while.
edit: Addendum. Well, that was fast. The situation was resolved via another vendor. diadem fucked around with this message on 03-11-2020 at 06:55 PM.
Hand sanitizer won't help those people who don't wash their hands in the first place.
The virus doesn't make you poop. Why the desperate need for TP???
JUST WASH YOUR DAMN HANDS PEOPLE.
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I don't understand the morons who are buying up sanitizer and TP.Hand sanitizer won't help those people who don't wash their hands in the first place.
The virus doesn't make you poop. Why the desperate need for TP???
JUST WASH YOUR DAMN HANDS PEOPLE.
More than handwashing is needed, I'm afraid.
https://www.foxnews.com/health/coronavirus-live-plastic-stainless-steel-for-up-to-3-days
tldr;
- The virus can last on plastic/cardboard/metal for days
- The virus can stay in the air for 3 hours
I can't speak to the TP hoarding specifically when there's a general supply chain issue based on an over-dependence on Just In Time delivery, but I get the need to get hand sanitizer when out and about (before everyone started staying at home and the city became a ghost town overnight). diadem fucked around with this message on 03-12-2020 at 11:54 AM.
I don't get it either.
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- The virus can last on plastic/cardboard/metal for days
- The virus can stay in the air for 3 hours.
And hand sanitizer helps with that how exactly?
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In Germany people are really craving noodles and toilet paper.I don't get it either.
I know people in an impacted area who were home-bound for months under strict quarantines. The individuals had problems getting foodstuffs.
Things like pasta, dried beans, optimum nutrition powder, and rice are high calories per dollar and last a year each or more. They rely on water, which can be boiled. Therefore, preppers who want to be ready for that coming to their area focus on whatever staple diets they have that last long and grab those.
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And hand sanitizer helps with that how exactly?
Keep track of how often you put your hand to your face. You do it a lot more than you think. Hand sanitizer isn't nearly as good as washing your hands... but if you go into an area that's infected and open a door to a metro station, your hands will be infected. Even if you wash at that point, you'll likely put your hand somewhere that you'll touch again first, which will reinfect. Or worse, move your hand in way that will infect you directly like scratching your lips. By immediately cleaning your hands you mitigate the chances of doing something stupid and infecting yourself.
Some people also use sprays/wipes to disinfect their shoes before entering places (and take them off indoors) to be safe as well.
Note that the hand sanitizers are generally 70% alcohol, which is important.
edit: the air part is also bad, as if correct, it shows that believing washing can make things ok will give a false sense of security diadem fucked around with this message on 03-12-2020 at 12:05 PM.
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My dad is almost 70 and has COPD, so I'm being very careful in letting him know who he should be avoiding and what places he should try to keep away from (no large social gatherings). Corona plus old age and COPD could easily be fatal. I'm worried he isn't taking it seriously, but he's never been what I would describe as a good patient. So I'm being one for him.
You are a good son and did the right thing.
By the way, were you able to find any UV-C sanitizing wands? That's the one bit of critical stuff I can't find.
Also, if your dad wants to go out, have him wear this with these.
Actually, seeing what happened in WW1, that advice goes for Sage and his men, too... assuming he hasn't gone full pogue/desk jockey.
edit: I broke down and bought a UV-C wand off e-bay diadem fucked around with this message on 03-14-2020 at 09:48 AM.
Blame Supernatural.
Though I saw an article recently about toilet paper being tainted with coronavirus (didn't fact check it at the time), so I guess that makes sense.
If TP becomes an issue, I'll just have to learn how to use a bidet. Bajah fucked around with this message on 03-14-2020 at 06:24 PM.
3 parts EtOH or Isopropyl alcohol to 1 part aloe vera gel, or alternatively the WHO recipe: https://t.co/dxZUdACOd7
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I've been going through hand sanitizer like crazy, I've stopped greeting people as they get off. They clean the cabin more often but there's no way it's enough. The flight decks are, as they always have been, a disgusting cesspit. We get wipes, but no one can agree if they're even effective.
Airlines are in crisis mode and mass layoffs are likely. There are rumblings of a domestic flight freeze... it doesn't seem to make sense to tell people to stay home and then have us flying all over the place, in the last 4 days I've been in 8 different cities in the US and Canada, But stopping domestic flying means financial disaster. It's already been far worse than 9/11, I havent heard any good news in over a week.
I miss last month's problems.
Water wipes are especially hard to come by.
edit: Complained about this on facebook and was immediately flooded by responses from friends and strangers offering to help. Getting everything the kid needs. diadem fucked around with this message on 03-21-2020 at 07:10 PM.
If y'all have any to spare, please send them to one of those three hospitals. I may update this post later with their official supply chain contacts.
I know Cambridge Health Alliance is
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CHA Somerville, 33 Tower Street, Somerville, MA 02143 attn: Receiving Dept - Donations
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no donation is too small at this stage.
Please use common sense and only send over unused/sealed stuff
Edit: Here's a better list diadem fucked around with this message on 03-23-2020 at 08:56 AM.
Edit 2: The federal government is out0bidding life-saving equipment we need so our state can't afford to buy them for our hospitals. Our mayor complained about this and he was laughed at.
Edit 3: Since we do not have access to the equipment locally, we were able to plea to civilians from other nations who have access to the equipment. They were willing to ship some of it to Boston area hospitals free. Unfortunately, this equipment is being blocked by US customs and has not actually reached the hospitals that need it. Working on that. Will post what I can once I found how to handle customs if you are overseas and wish to help us out. It's still not enough though, soi f you have any to spare, our hospitals desperately need it. They are using diluted bleach solutions (and experimenting on UV-C) to see if they can re-use disposable protective gear.
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Those good ol' boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye, singin' this'll be the day that I diadem:The lack of gloves, hand sanitizer, masks, etc, is crippling the supply chain of local hospitals in Massachusetts. Especially Mt Auburn, Tufts, and MGH, where the metaphorical "front lines" are happening. We need this stuff so the doctors - the people who focus on saving lives - don't get sick and die themselves.
If y'all have any to spare, please send them to one of those three hospitals. I may update this post later with their official supply chain contacts.
The company I work for has a huge presence up there and is organizing stuff to donate, I'll be chipping in through that, though it's more monetary to help them acquire supplies TO donate, but yeah man, it's bad everywhere :/
For those of you from outside the US who have ready access to supplies, please donate. Our people are dying.
Some of these requests are for some pretty basic stuff that you may have in your households. diadem fucked around with this message on 03-26-2020 at 08:10 AM.
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Updated, centralized list for donating to hospitals: https://getusppe.org/For those of you from outside the US who have ready access to supplies, please donate. Our people are dying.
Some of these requests are for some pretty basic stuff that you may have in your households.
Thank you for the link, I'm going to spread it around as much as I can.
The most surreal moment so far has been filing for unemployment; 19 years running a preschool/childcare center and suddenly I'm being kept afloat by bumped-up unemployment checks. (In Illinois)
How is everyone spending their time in quarantine?
Oh, and also, we were about to do a kitchen remodel. Much happier to have that money in our savings account, in case one or both of us gets laid off.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
The state then called upon its international connections, sports teams and billionaires to help. The Robert Kraft ended up using the New England Patriots aircraft to fly to China to procure additional masks that have thus far not been intercepted.
Even with this, our hospitals are still critically low and many more people are dying at a rapidly accelerating rate. It seems crowdsourcing is the best option currently.
One of our state's universities (MIT) is also designing $100 ventilators which will be an international game-changer if effective.
edit: One of many sources of the above - https://www.wcvb.com/article/3-million-masks-ordered-by-massachusetts-were-confiscated-in-port-of-new-york/32021700 diadem fucked around with this message on 04-03-2020 at 07:13 PM.
My last trip we flew 6 legs, total passengers carried was 48, and 22 of those were non-revs and deadheads. Today I flew to oregon and back, took 2 people up there and brought 4 back. My FO commuted in from Hawaii on a 777 with 9 passengers on it.
Airports are empty, like ghost town empty. Last week I was at LAX around 2pm and they had a single controller working tower and ground for the whole field. I've been there at 2 in the morning and it isnt that dead.
I'm worried for my job but putting that aside, I can tell that the stay at home orders are working and people are definitely, for the most part, doing it. Many of the people we're carrying now are health care workers.
As far as supplies go, I was lucky to have been raised by hoarders. (Not a sentence I thought I would ever say, but there you go.) When the shortages started, I already had enough TP on hand to last us at least a few months, and enough of many other hard-to-find items to last us until supplies become available again. The Tylenol shortage was unfortunate, as I had just placed an order from Costco when it started, and the order never shipped. (Without it my headaches turn into full-on flu-symptoms-plus-blinded-minus-fever migraines. Before I learned to head them off, I would leave for work with a mild headache and drive the last half mile looking through a space the size of a pin head held at arm length, before sitting down in an unlit closet with a trash can waiting to puke so I would recover enough to drive home.) I've been taking slightly-expired pills in the interim. `Doc fucked around with this message on 04-14-2020 at 06:51 PM.
