No question antibody testing will be a huge boost if we can get it going. Has to be fairly easy, hopefully fast and pretty accurate.
Trump thinks denial is the best strategy for any problem. There's no convincing him that testing is in the best interests of the country (to put that more accurately, that pressing for testing is in HIS best interest!). He is pretty twisted. Yes, I blame him. He could have appointed a covid-19 czar. Dr. Larry Brilliant in his Wired Magazine interview said first thing that Trump should have done was to have appointed the same czar that Obama appointed to deal with Ebola. That guy would have been pedal to the medal on testing. Instead, officially we have who? Pence! And even Pence (who's utterly unqualified to deal with this) has a back seat to you know who ... because, as always, he's just way to full of himself to get out of the way even though it's all way over his head.This story is kinda scary:
Half of people with coronavirus have no symptoms, data shows
Experts say the discovery has critical implications and shows that even more widespread testing may be needed to identify all carriers.www.foxnews.com
It kinda makes you wonder if you already have the virus yourself, and have been unwittingly spreading it around. It also serves as a reminder about how screwed the US is right now because of our lack of widespread testing.
The US has already confirmed almost a third of a million, and supposedly only 1 in 4 tests comes back positive. While some officially confirmed cases are likely clinical diagnoses, these numbers indicate that we have tested over a million. Testing was slow at first but it's ramping up and, IMO, has been moving at an acceptable pace for a while now.
And they'll get away with it. They hold the keys to nearly all the mass production to the world at this point. Want medical supplies? Guess who makes it? The world is dependent on these asshats now and they know it.
so brainhulk already showed you the link of how to clean the masks, i place above boiling water for 10 mins then put in the oven for 30 mins at 158F. i have 15 masks and just ordered some kf94 for 2$ each off ebay will see how well those work, i have a seal test i can do when they arrive. been wearing double masks (n95 with surgical over it) for almost 3 weeks now, you get used to it after a week, i wear them for about 14 hours a day and take it off for my lunch breaks when i go home. also wearing goggles xs3 pyrmix sealed but its super annoying and find myself taking them off when im not around anyone else.
well they do make these things called thermometers? but yes i do own a electric digital oven. however im sure any oven will work with a little diligence
If you ordered KF94 masks from eBay, it's almost 99% guaranteed to be fake and made in China instead of South Korea. Chinese companies are counterfeiting Korean KF94 masks and are selling it on Amazon and eBay. The masks are not the same. The Chinese copies are made of thinner and inferior materials and not effective masks. Chinese copied the outer packaging but the included mask instructions have incorrect and wrong Korean letters and words. South Korea is not allowing sale of the KF94 masks outside of the country. The only way you can get real KF94 mask right now is to have someone in South Korea purchase the mask in person and ship it to you. And you can only send it to another family member. And there's limit of 8 masks that can be sent via mail to another family member in foreign country. Which is why I'm getting 8 masks from my SK contact.
www.pbs.org
There's this pregnant lady here in Portugal that found out she and her husband were infected TWO DAYS before the was scheduled to give birth.This story is kinda scary:
Half of people with coronavirus have no symptoms, data shows
Experts say the discovery has critical implications and shows that even more widespread testing may be needed to identify all carriers.
It kinda makes you wonder if you already have the virus yourself, and have been unwittingly spreading it around. It also serves as a reminder about how screwed the US is right now because of our lack of widespread testing.
Oh, I have a thermometer in my oven. But that isn't connected to the thermostat, which is a sort of thermometer that DOES control the burner. But it's a very primitive system. This range was bought for $25 by one of the people who lived here before I did, so used, it's an O'Keefe and Merritt and probably from the 1950s or 1960s. I have fiddled with it a fair amount. In fact I turned up the pilots on the burners a couple days. Trying to get 158F out of it would probably mean a range from 140-190F.
money.yahoo.com
This story is kinda scary:
Half of people with coronavirus have no symptoms, data shows
Experts say the discovery has critical implications and shows that even more widespread testing may be needed to identify all carriers.
It kinda makes you wonder if you already have the virus yourself, and have been unwittingly spreading it around. It also serves as a reminder about how screwed the US is right now because of our lack of widespread testing.
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