Posted on 04/03/2020 9:51:10 AM PDT by LilFarmer
Yesterday’s thread is here: http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3831016/posts
I must not have described it properly.
It was very clearly something decorative. Not tightly woven. The kind of think you might wear on New Year’s Eve.
Okay, that would not seem based on your description, to offer an effective barrier.
An aside - please note that there were *several* on these COVID-19 threads (including current regular posters) who claimed that masks were of limited value. They kept bringing up the "the virus is so small it will pass right through the mask!" garbage.
I'm glad that these posters and the CDC see the value of masks.
I actually have 3 commercially made masks. I bought them several years ago when I had significant problems with my allergies.
I have decided not to use the at the moment. I have been scrounging around my house to see what I have to make some cloth masks.
I have plenty of old linens, but the elastic is more of a problem. I just took apart and old dress and now have a stretchy drawstring. For more protection, I may add a layer of a vacuum cleaner bag (not Hepa, but supposedly has allergen filters.)
Today was probably the last time I will go to the grocery store without one. I am not in a hotspot and always go to the store at an off time. I think I was waiting until I saw more people wearing them
The scraping-by types become chumps if they don’t take it. Those working hard and watching nonworkers having it easy. So the “smart” ones take it. Then they become wards of the state.
Same deal in a sense in my town, which is generally among the top 10 communities nationwide for average net worth. Free breakfast and lunch for all school children. Since when have adults with children not seen it as their responsibility to feed their children?
IMO this sort of thing is a contributor to the drugs/alcoholism/suicide spiral of despair for lower-income adults who no longer have the prideful burden of supporting their families.
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Fake driver up test stations reported, to try to obtain private information.
(Question asked at Ohio press conference)
1099 program not even set up guidance from Federal govt - Ohio Lt. Gov
Note: humor and not intended to offend anyone ; ), And it probably helps if you imagine it being performed by Monty Python. And a bit of knowledge of medieval English history….
Professional the Shubber: Tis so called Black Death be not as bad as they would have ye believe.
Impimp the Pimp of Shropshire: Tis but a scratch I tell ye. The barons be inflatin’ the numbers to make King Edward III look bad. Besides twas Edward II that left this mess what with the shortage of medicinal newts in the royal stockpile and all not to mention his gayness.(1)
Edward III Girl No Cats: Of course, h’s being led ASTRAY!!! by those so called PLAGUE doctors. What do THEY know anyhow, what with THEIR face masks and ALL!!!!!!! I do tell ye, I ain’t be wearing one of THOSE!!!.
Professional the Shubber: Buboes or not, they aint to lock me up in no quarantine neither. (spit)(cough) Pox be upon them all!
Impimp the Pimp of Shropshire: I tell ye who is behind this attempted coup - Isabella of France and her lover Roger Mortimer.
Edward III Girl No Cats: The King’s own MOTHER???!!!!. I ‘erd she was banished back to France. And me THOUGHT Mortimer twas BEHEADED!!!!!?????
lodi90 of Sherwood: Ney. That’s what they Barons want ye to think. I heard it be told that the Sheriff of Q has the real story on all that, something about “Trust The Earl of Sessions” ‘ow ever ‘e is.
Professional the Shubber: I tell ye what else. We be shutting down the whole shire based on the numbers out of York. And ye know half of those in York be Viking scum anyway. I say let ‘m die. And France and Italy, sure they have a lot of deaths but they are smelly people anyway and eat weird food. And I ‘ear if someone be shot though the eye with an arrow or thrown off their horse, they be calling it ‘cause o the Black Death now just to get us all scared.
Impimp the Pimp of Shropshire: Eye. But I did hear of a possible cure. A doctor out o Canterbury sayest that if ye takest some onions and herbs also a chopped up snake and rub on the boils, it cures it in a minute. Or cut up a pigeon and doest the same if ye can’t find a snake (2). I heard King Edward III sayest tis true but these so called “plague doctors” like Sir Fauci of Normandy sayest it needs to be studied first. But if the simple and cheap onion and snake cure works that twould mean all this social distancing tis for naught. I sayest that we should all infect each other and then takest the onion and snake cure and get it over quickly. Then we can get back to our shrubbering and pimping or being serf.
lodi90 of Sherwood: And ye know what else? We should kill all the cats and dogs in the shire cause they bringeth the disease.
Edward III Girl No Cats: CATS AND DOGS!!!! Surely they be the CAUSE!!!. And without them, we’d ‘ave a LOT MORE!!!! rats and I did ‘ear that rats are LUCKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
And so in the Shire of PlaugeBros and Bras, by 1348, everyone was dead.
(1) Look up Edward II and Piers Gaveston (2) This was an actual plague “cure”.
I might agree with you if these were normal times.
Right now, I think it makes sense to provide for anyone without or concerned about going without.
I don’t like political principles that can’t be adjusted for unique features of the present.
Your argument is exactly why Great Britain allowed the Irish to starve in the 19th century.
I would have to be starving to go get in line for free meals in a hot spot.
Perhaps if it was some rural place I might think about it..but I doubt it.
Me too. Right now, I am preparing all,of my own food.
I go through periods of time where I buy a lot of prepared food, but I do know how to cook. Have been getting back into the habit, and that is probably a good thing.
Supposedly though, I might be getting a 24 pack of paper towels. No tp.
And he’s not the only one throwing their parents generation under the bus.
He’s a beautiful dog.
German Shepherds are my favorite anyways and the white ones are gorgeous.
check this one out, from jan 24 and onward, ongoing
BREAKING: Chinese officials privately saying that the novel #coronavirus #nCoV2019 (Which they’re now calling #SARI) apparently “10x worse than SARS..a person can go from infection 2 death & NOT RUN A FEVER.” This makes it hard to detect
Also harder to find infection sources!
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I would be interested to know how your grocery delivery went. I had to have a battery for my tractor today. Tractor supply offers curbside pickup for online orders now. So, I ordered one and call the store from the parking lot when I got there. It took them almost 30 mins to bring the battery out, but they loaded it in the back of my vehicle and I didn’t have to get out.
+1
Hahaha!
Very good!
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