DIR Return Create A Forum - Home
---------------------------------------------------------
Renewable Revolution
HTML https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com
---------------------------------------------------------
*****************************************************
DIR Return to: Advances in Health Care
*****************************************************
#Post#: 15902--------------------------------------------------
Charles P. Pierce is spot on.
By: AGelbert Date: March 14, 2020, 11:38 am
---------------------------------------------------------
[quote author=Surly1 link=topic=328.msg15901#msg15901
date=1584195372]
[center]Camp Runamuck's Response to a Global Pandemic: Cover
🦀 Trump's Ass and Fudge the Numbers
HTML https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a31476101/trump-coronavirus-january-testing-kloss-facebook-doctors/[/center]
[center][img
width=640]
HTML https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/trumpo-1584117822.jpg?resize=980:*[/img][/center]
Oh, and give 🐍 Jared Kushner some Internet access to
sort it all out.
[center][img
width=640]
HTML https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/kush-1584117945.jpg?resize=768:*[/img][/center]
If that NPR story is accurate, then he has clearly violated his
oath of office and put the health and safety of the nation at
risk for [img
width=70]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-270117175421.png[/img]<br
/>his own private political purposes. Let 52 Republican senators
defend that with their votes. Let Susan Collins furrow her brow
over that as her poll numbers tank. The last time, it was the
integrity of our elections that was endangered. This time, it's
Grandma with her asthma. People can identify more with the
latter, I think, than with the ratfcking of the distant Volga
Bagmen.
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/advances-in-health-care/new-pandemic/msg15901/#msg15901[/quote]
Charles P. Pierce is spot on.
[quote author=Surly1 link=topic=328.msg15898#msg15898
date=1584176490]
Look at the spike in the number of cases reflected in the yellow
line on the chart in the lower right corner.
[center][img
width=990]
HTML http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/forum/MGalleryItem.php?id=4766[/img][/center]
[/quote]
[right]I see that.[img
width=50]
HTML http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-300714025456.bmp[/img]<br
/>
[/right]
The numbers are exploding. And that is just those that are
counted. In Trumpland, the deliberate undercounting is, as
Charles P. Pierce points out, worthy of Soviet era murderous CYA
mendacity modus operandi. [img
width=70]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/1/3-120818204150.gif[/img]
Click on image for interactive COVID-19 map.
[center][img
width=990]
HTML https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-140320122731.png[/img]
HTML https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6[/center]
#Post#: 15907--------------------------------------------------
Royal Caribbean Suspends U.S. Cruises, Joining Rivals
By: AGelbert Date: March 14, 2020, 5:20 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[img
width=150]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-170218174357.png[/img]
[center]Royal Caribbean Suspends U.S. Cruises, Joining
Rivals[/center]
[center]
[img
width=990]
HTML https://ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/j6sXJVbSPdDYjM8bxszSu_CckuxZKq7Ne80SYs82JQyOKAkoj1gaT6o_yaDMocgIbniwl7XZRG4aOJtLLqGIaRJKmxX1jZAqHlnhPmj-GPK1g-bmZzlF2hafbg0=s0-d-e1-ft#http://gcaptain.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/1478311470_-W9A1417-rt.jpg[/img][/center]
By Reuters on Mar 13, 2020 04:41 pm
March 13 (Reuters) – Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd said on Friday
it was suspending its cruises in the United States for 30 days,
an hour after Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd said it
suspended all its cruise voyages through April 11. Earlier
larger peer Carnival Corp’s Italy-based unit Costa Cruises
halted its trips until April […] Read full story...
HTML https://gcaptain.com/royal-caribbean-suspends-u-s-cruises-joining-rivals/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Gcaptain+%28gCaptain.com%29&goal=0_f50174ef03-46e39e76c6-169600093&mc_cid=46e39e76c6&mc_eid=1855a0727e<br
/>[img
width=60]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-130418200416.png[/img]<br
/>
#Post#: 15909--------------------------------------------------
The following dispatch was sent by a nurse who asked to remain a
nonymous (to keep her job)
By: AGelbert Date: March 14, 2020, 8:44 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
Agelbert NOTE: To that lowlife who just locked this thread,
don't waste your time. Either Surly or I will spot it and unlock
the topic thread within hours of your unauthorized thread topic
locking. Have a nice day, Mr. COWARD.
[font=times new roman]The
Intercept_[/font]
Ryan Grim
March 14 2020, 4:05 p.m.
[move]The following dispatch was sent by a nurse who asked to
remain anonymous in order to protect their job.[/move]
SNIPPET:
It was becoming alarming that leadership in my hospital —
leadership that includes physicians — were not understanding the
potential severity of an outbreak.
Next update was March 11. These other e-mails were from
lower-level people in administration. Secretaries sending out a
quick note from their bosses. This e-mail was the first that we
got from our Top Physician Administrator. We are thanked for our
hard work and are assured that we are fully prepared to handle
patients with Covid-19. We are told that they are following the
CDC recommendations and that the risk according to the CDC is
low. A few brief statements about how we need to practice good
hygiene, isolation precautions, and that they are working with
the local health department. The bulk of this e-mail is
regarding privacy. I quote:
[quote]In cases where patients have tested positive for
coronavirus, the name of the facility treating the patient is
not publicly disclosed. We respect and honor that decision. As
we receive these patients, their information and diagnosis will
remain confidential; we will not be making any public statement
about COVID-19 to protect patient privacy.[/quote]
This is NOT about patient privacy. This is about keeping the
doors open for routine business and not hoping that this silly,
inconvenient virus doesn’t impact their bottom line too much. I
keep reading about how bad things are in Italy, how hardly
anyone in the U.S. is getting tested, and I’m really starting to
worry that we are going to be overwhelmed. We aren’t slowing
down elective procedures, we aren’t trying to empty our ICUs to
be prepared, we aren’t designating an area where suspected
patients will be placed to limit exposure, we aren’t limiting
the number of visitors allowed. We did put up a larger version
of the original sign, so that should keep the virus out…
Full article: :o
[center]Dispatch From an American Nurse on the Frontlines of the
Effort to Contain Coronavirus
HTML https://theintercept.com/2020/03/14/dispatch-from-an-american-nurse-on-the-frontlines-of-the-effort-to-contain-coronavirus/[/center]
#Post#: 15912--------------------------------------------------
Re: New Pandemic?
By: Surly1 Date: March 15, 2020, 6:19 am
---------------------------------------------------------
[img
width=990]
HTML http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/forum/MGalleryItem.php?id=4767[/img]
Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for Systems
Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University for March
15. Note that number of new cases worldwide has overtaken the
number of recoveries for the first time.
HTML https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
#Post#: 15913--------------------------------------------------
Hospital workers across the U.S. present sharply different pictu
res of their preparedness for the co
By: Surly1 Date: March 15, 2020, 6:28 am
---------------------------------------------------------
Hospital workers across the U.S. present sharply different
pictures of their preparedness for the coronavirus
HTML https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/14/coronavirus-hospital-workers-present-sharply-different-pictures-of-preparedness/
[img
width=640]
HTML https://www.statnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/GettyImages-1206847094-1600x900.jpg[/img]
Medical workers at the Kaiser Permanente French Campus test a
patient for the novel coronavirus at a drive-through testing
facility in San Francisco on Thursday. JOSH EDELSON/AFP via
Getty Images
Meghana Keshavan
U.S. hospitals are bracing for an onslaught of patients sickened
by the new coronavirus, shoring up supplies, refining crisis
plans, and putting on a brave face. But there’s another
narrative at play: Many health workers feel left in the lurch.
STAT heard in recent days from dozens of frontline hospital
employees, and depending on where they worked, they presented
sharply different pictures of preparedness. There are those who
believe their health systems are equipped to weather the coming
storm. Others are less sure.
“For the hospitals, it depends on who is in charge — what camp
your leadership is in,” an anesthesiologist on the East Coast,
speaking on the condition of anonymity, told STAT. “There’s been
the ‘just the flu’ contingent, and everyone else.” but
Terry Adirim, a trained pediatric emergency physician who helps
lead clinical care at Florida Atlantic University College of
Medicine, agreed that there is “variability in preparedness”
that has to do with hospital leadership. But the former senior
Department of Defense and Homeland Security official added, “I
think that comes because federal guidances haven’t been as
strong as they could be.”
Delays in rolling out coronavirus tests mean it’s impossible to
know how many people are infected, and how bad the epidemic will
get. Knowing what to be ready for is difficult in these
circumstances, and the level of preparedness appears to vary
from state to state, city to city, hospital to hospital — and
from individual to individual.
Some hospitals have engineered new protocols to triage ill
patients — turning to tools like hotlines and telemedicine to
advise those with mild illness on how to manage their symptoms.
They have devised backup plans should intensive care units
become overrun, including stopping elective surgeries and
preparing to expand critical care into operating rooms.
But others are lagging.
Despite assurances from their hospitals’ leadership, many
frontline workers are worried about emergency departments
overrun, and too few life-support devices to go around. They’re
afraid of protective supplies running low and of contracting the
virus themselves — and passing it along to their loved ones. In
China, 3,300 health workers were sickened by the virus, and 13
died.
Reports from the Seattle area, the epicenter of the U.S.
outbreak, indicate that some of the city’s hospitals are nearly
overwhelmed. One hospital’s note to staff, shared with New York
Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, says the “local COVID-19
trajectory is likely to be similar to that of Northern Italy.”
The hospital is down to a four-day supply of gloves.
“Our health care staff has been taking our N95 masks, because
people are scared for their families,” said a resident physician
in Philadelphia, one of the dozens of people who responded to
STAT’s callout for health workers’ stories. “I’m worried about
my parents, too.”
Hospital employees have uniformly been kept abreast of Covid-19
preparations through emails and web-based training modules. But
there has been little in the way of in-person training on
protocols for dealing with a virulent contagion. Although many
first responders have been schooled in dealing with highly
infectious diseases, other hospital employees are left wondering
if they’ll be safe.
“This is unlike any other outbreak I’ve been involved with,”
said Rainee Sinroll, a nurse in Missouri who worked through the
H1N1 epidemic and has spoken extensively with other health
workers in her region. “There’s absolutely no training and
information to the staff that will be involved. And no message
to the community that would lower cases, thereby allowing better
care in our facilities.”
A surgical tech in New Mexico is expecting to see Covid-19
patients coming into her hospital, since the first cases were
discovered in the state just a few days ago. But she’s deeply
unhappy with the guidance from her hospital to date.
“Some of my colleagues and I feel let down,” said Alyssa
Estrada, an instrument sterilization technician who says her
hospital is already short-staffed. “If something happens, how
are we going to keep our department running if we don’t have the
manpower?”
There may be enough masks and gowns at her hospital, she said,
but she’s already having difficulty getting sterilization
equipment. Sanitation wipes, and sprays that get rid of biofilms
— that is, slimy amalgamations of pathogens that reside on
equipment — are in short supply.
“It’s kind of strange, because I feel like the city has been
warning us more than the actual hospital has,” she said. “In the
end, we’re all going to have to work together if this gets
serious — and I feel like we all need to be more up-to-date on
the information.”
Patients hospitalized with Covid-19 typically have pneumonia and
difficulty breathing, which would require treatment with oxygen
or, in severe cases, intubation and being hooked up to a
ventilator. Physicians see these cases on a regular basis, but
treating them in droves could overwhelm a hospital’s capacity.
“I’m concerned we won’t have enough epinephrine or albuterol —
these are the bread and butter meds we use every day for
pneumonias,” a pediatric ICU doctor in Chicago said.
The news reports from China, Iran, and Italy in particular has
been sobering. Health workers in some places in Italy have had
to choose which patient gets ventilator care, and which patient
will not, according to reports from physicians there.
Many hospitals in the U.S. are already operating at high
capacity. There are 45,000 ICU hospital beds and 160,000
ventilators nationwide — but, in the event of a moderate
outbreak, about 200,000 Americans would need such intensive
care. And that leaves out all the patients who might need
lifesaving procedures, equipment, and medications for reasons
other than coronavirus.
“It’s frightening, because for me as a doctor, I realize there
is going to be a certain point where we’ll be forced to make
decisions we’re not comfortable making,” the resident physician
in Philadelphia said.
Though she’s received plenty of training in how to treat
patients sickened by severe pneumonia, she said her medical
education hasn’t involved making these heart-wrenching triage
decisions.
“We’ve been so blessed by an excess of resources that we’ve
never had to withdraw care from someone’s loved one because we
need their ventilator for someone else,” she said. “But I’m
scared of that happening.”
Many health systems say they are confident in their ability to
tackle a surge of novel coronavirus cases.
Stanford University’s health system, for instance, has
“redefined its triage process,” according to Sam Shen, a
clinical associate professor of emergency medicine. It has set
up a drive-through clinic for ill patients, in operation since
Monday, that’s meant to test for coronavirus once tests are
readily available. Severely ill patients will be directed
immediately to negative-pressure rooms.
The university is also setting up tents in front of the
emergency department entrance, to create an isolation space so
patients with possible Covid-19 infections don’t need to enter
the ER.
Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City has kicked off a
telemedicine program, as have several other hospitals around the
country. Like Stanford, the Manhattan health system has detailed
triage plans — with tools to divert milder cases and bring the
critical patients in for intensive care.
“I think we’re prepared,” said Jolion McGreevy, medical director
of the Mount Sinai Hospital emergency department. “We have the
resources, and it’s all being coordinated by a system command
center that has high leadership.”
Large hospitals in many cities compete for patients, but the
three major health systems in the Cleveland area — University
Hospitals, Cleveland Clinic, and MetroHealth are absorbing the
lessons taught by hard-hit cities like Wuhan in China and
Bergamo in Italy.
“We have a trifecta approach in the city of Cleveland to
mobilize joint resources for ambulatory care, mirroring what
we’re seeing in other cities abroad,” said Robert Hughes,
associate medical director of the department of emergency
medicine at University Hospitals. “I’ve found that the
collaborative spirit between the health systems in our city has
been better for the community we serve.”
The fallout from the national dearth of Covid-19 testing kits
looms, as well. Health workers who have fallen ill worry whether
they have a cold, the flu, or the novel coronavirus — and most
have no way of knowing the truth.
An East Coast emergency room physician who wished to remain
anonymous has been ill for several weeks — with symptoms that
appear, in her professional opinion, to be consistent with
Covid-19. Although confirmed negative for the flu and other
respiratory viral illnesses, the physician was denied
coronavirus testing because there was no confirmed exposure to
another patient ill with the disease.
“I’ve missed several weeks of work, unpaid, to avoid putting
patients at risk,” the physician said. “I’m frustrated that I
still can’t get tested to ensure I am safe to return to work.”
A certified nurse assistant in Alabama said that she, too, has
been recently ill with a virus — and hasn’t had access to
testing, despite working with a vulnerable population. The
situation has been “very confusing, arbitrary, chaotic!” she
said.
“No one among the CNA staff is talking about this in any
meaningful way,” she said. “If the nurses are, I don’t know
about it.”
In her hospital in Florida, Adirim has seen a disconnect in the
attitudes of health workers glued to the news and others who
have adopted a wait-and-watch outlook.
“I still hear other doctors in the hallways, saying this is just
like the flu,” the East Coast anesthesiologist said. “Not
everyone has been taking this as seriously as they should.”
Last month, she used her own money to buy goggles for herself
and her husband — to protect against the virus, should it go
airborne when patients are put on ventilators.
“If we hadn’t bought those goggles, we wouldn’t have anything,”
she said.
In China and Italy, as health workers fell ill with Covid-19,
health professionals from other specialties were trained to
replace them. That very well might happen in the U.S., Adirim
said.
When working with the Department of Homeland Security on prior
epidemics, such as H1N1, Adirim’s team considered the
possibility of health worker burnout or attrition — whether,
under the threat of exhaustion or illness, employees would stop
showing up at work.
But that hasn’t happened in Italy, or in China, nor during prior
epidemics. The jury’s still out on the U.S. response, Adirim
said, but she thinks that health workers will rise to the
occasion and work tirelessly to combat the pandemic.
“I think those of us who go into health care fields understand
that risk,” Adirim said.
#Post#: 15914--------------------------------------------------
The Hand Sanitizer You Can't Find Is In This Putz's Garage
By: Surly1 Date: March 15, 2020, 6:33 am
---------------------------------------------------------
The Hand Sanitizer You Can't Find Is In This Putz's Garage
HTML https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/03/the-hand-sanitizer-you-cant-find-is-in-this-putzs-garage#intcid=recommendations_default-popular_47b714d0-b965-47fc-97b7-d5d922736df9_popular4-1
Online retailers have stopped gouging. Now what?
[img
width=640]
HTML https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/5e6cf30eb021120008f25ced/master/w_2560%2Cc_limit/hand-sanitizer.jpg[/img]
By Jordan HoffmanMarch 14, 2020
During troubling times it is psychologically helpful to know
where to vent your anger. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, we
had the face of Osama bin Laden. With the Coronavirus, there
really isn’t anyone specific to blame, and it’s hard to make a
dartboard out of a blown-up photo of an infected cytoplasm. The
current pandemic isn’t one specific person’s fault, but there
are individuals who have found in this global panic a route to
becoming a real jerk.
Chief among them is Tennessee’s Matt Colvin who, with the aid of
his brother Noah, was inspired by news of the potential for over
1 million American deaths to turn a handsome profit.
The retired Air Force technical sergeant is the new face of
price gouging, thanks to a profile in Saturday’s New York Times.
Beginning March 1st, Colvin, whose primary income is reselling
collected goods on sites like Amazon, hit the road and bought as
much hand sanitizer as he could find. For a while, the money was
rolling in. But when his prices soared, Amazon, eBay and other
marketplaces rightly shut him and his fellow panic profiteers
down. He estimates he now has 17,700 bottles of the
virus-killing ooze, as well as hand wipes and all the other
highly sought after materials you can’t find in a store right
now. The cleaning products are collecting dust.
The Times suggests that Colvin is just one of thousands of
resellers that gobbled up prevention goods with an eye toward
making a small fortune. (But he’s the one they photographed in a
t-shirt that says “Family Man Family Business” in front of
shelves of Purel and Clorox wipes he can not sell.) Chris
Anderson of Central Pennsylvania estimates he made about $25,000
on masks, similar to the ones that hospitals are now rationing.
An Ohio-based online seller by the name of Eric says he has made
between $35,000 and $40,000 on masks. He declined to give his
last name, not out of shame, but fearing “a retaliation from
Amazon.”
On the one hand, you wonder if you can really blame these men?
Buying low and selling high is an American tradition with roots
as deep as the buttonwood tree where a group of traders created
the New York Stock Exchange in 1792. Then you read Matt Colvin,
hoarder of hand sanitizer, suggesting that price-gouging laws
“are not built for today’s day and age. They’re built for Billy
Bob’s gas station doubling the amount he charges for gas during
a hurricane.” As if Coronavirus isn’t the world’s biggest
hurricane.
As it happens, making your own hand sanitizer isn’t impossible.
My wife cooked up a huge batch made of aloe vera gel, rubbing
alcohol and some essential oils. (And I am proud to report we
are not selling it online at inflated prices.) Additionally, all
signs point to soap and water being an effective, if not the
most effective, weapon against viruses.
#Post#: 15915--------------------------------------------------
"The truth is that profiting off public investment is also
business as usual for the pharmaceutical
By: AGelbert Date: March 15, 2020, 11:47 am
---------------------------------------------------------
[quote]The final aid package not only omitted language that
would have limited drug makers’ intellectual property rights, it
specifically prohibited the federal government from taking any
action if it has concerns that the treatments or vaccines
developed with public funds are priced too high. [img
width=100]
HTML http://media.tumblr.com/c6492e4b47cfdbd50e74d285fde3c53e/tumblr_inline_mm3g4yCaZc1qz4rgp.gif[/img]<br
/>[img
width=50]
HTML http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-300115234833.gif[/img][/quote]
[font=times new roman]The
Intercept_[/font]
By Sharon Lerner
March 13 2020, 2:46 p.m.
SNIPPET:
“Pharmaceutical companies view Covid-19 as a once-in-a-lifetime
business opportunity,” said 🦅 Gerald Posner, author of
“Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America.
HTML https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Pharma/Gerald-Posner/9781501151897”<br
/>The world needs pharmaceutical products, of course. For the ne
w
coronavirus outbreak, in particular, we need treatments and
vaccines and, in the U.S., tests. Dozens of companies are now
vying to make them.
“They’re [img
width=50]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-130418203402.gif[/img]<br
/>all in that race,” said Posner, who described the potential
payoffs for winning the race as huge. The global crisis “will
potentially be a blockbuster for the industry in terms of sales
and profits,” he said, adding that “the worse the pandemic gets,
the higher their eventual profit.”
The ability to make money off of pharmaceuticals is already
uniquely large in the U.S., which lacks the basic price controls
other countries have, giving drug companies more freedom over
setting prices for their products than anywhere else in the
world. During the current crisis, pharmaceutical makers may have
even more leeway than usual because of language industry
lobbyists inserted into an $8.3 billion coronavirus spending
package, passed last week, to maximize their profits from the
pandemic.
Initially, some lawmakers had tried to ensure that the federal
government would limit how much pharmaceutical companies could
reap from vaccines and treatments for the new coronavirus that
they developed with the use of public funding. In February,
🦅 Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., and other House members
wrote to 🦀 Trump pleading that he “ensure that any
vaccine or treatment developed with U.S. taxpayer dollars be
accessible, available and affordable,” a goal they said couldn’t
be met “if pharmaceutical corporations are given authority to
set prices and determine distribution, putting profit-making
interests ahead of health priorities.”
Full article: [img
width=40]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-250817134648.gif[/img]<br
/>
[center]
🐍 BIG PHARMA PREPARES TO [img
width=30]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-200419205214.png[/img]<br
/>PROFIT [img
width=50]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-130418193910.gif[/img]<br
/>FROM THE CORONAVIRUS
HTML https://theintercept.com/2020/03/13/big-pharma-drug-pricing-coronavirus-profits/[/center]
[center][img
width=640]
HTML https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2Ff0%2F8c%2F2c%2Ff08c2cc585897842957577489be19d98.jpg&f=1&nofb=1[/img][/center]
#Post#: 15916--------------------------------------------------
👨‍🔬 Affordable COVID-19 Skin Protection f
or Everyone 🌞
By: AGelbert Date: March 15, 2020, 12:55 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[quote author=Surly1 link=topic=328.msg15914#msg15914
date=1584272032]
[center]The Hand Sanitizer You Can't Find Is In This 😈
Putz's Garage
HTML https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/03/the-hand-sanitizer-you-cant-find-is-in-this-putzs-garage#intcid=recommendations_default-popular_47b714d0-b965-47fc-97b7-d5d922736df9_popular4-1[/center]
Online retailers have stopped gouging. Now what?
[center][img
width=640]
HTML https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/5e6cf30eb021120008f25ced/master/w_2560%2Cc_limit/hand-sanitizer.jpg[/img][/center]
By Jordan HoffmanMarch 14, 2020
During troubling times it is psychologically helpful to know
where to vent your anger. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, we
had the face of Osama bin Laden. With the Coronavirus, there
really isn’t anyone specific to blame, and it’s hard to make a
dartboard out of a blown-up photo of an infected cytoplasm. The
current pandemic isn’t one specific person’s fault, but there
are individuals who have found in this global panic a route to
becoming a real jerk.
Chief among them is Tennessee’s Matt Colvin who, with the aid of
his brother Noah, was inspired by news of the potential for over
1 million American deaths to turn a handsome profit.
The retired Air Force technical sergeant is the new face of
price gouging, thanks to a profile in Saturday’s New York Times.
Beginning March 1st, Colvin, whose primary income is reselling
collected goods on sites like Amazon, hit the road and bought as
much hand sanitizer as he could find. For a while, the money was
rolling in. But when his prices soared, Amazon, eBay and other
marketplaces rightly shut him and his fellow panic profiteers
down. He estimates he now has 17,700 bottles of the
virus-killing ooze, as well as hand wipes and all the other
highly sought after materials you can’t find in a store right
now. The cleaning products are collecting dust.
The Times suggests that Colvin is just one of thousands of
resellers that gobbled up prevention goods with an eye toward
making a small fortune. (But he’s the one they photographed in a
t-shirt that says “Family Man Family Business” in front of
shelves of Purel and Clorox wipes he can not sell.) Chris
Anderson of Central Pennsylvania estimates he made about $25,000
on masks, similar to the ones that hospitals are now rationing.
An Ohio-based online seller by the name of Eric says he has made
between $35,000 and $40,000 on masks. He declined to give his
last name, not out of shame, but fearing “a retaliation from
Amazon.”
On the one hand, you wonder if you can really blame these men?
Buying low and selling high is an American tradition with roots
as deep as the buttonwood tree where a group of traders created
the New York Stock Exchange in 1792. Then you read Matt Colvin,
hoarder of hand sanitizer, suggesting that price-gouging laws
“are not built for today’s day and age. They’re built for Billy
Bob’s gas station doubling the amount he charges for gas during
a hurricane.” As if Coronavirus isn’t the world’s biggest
hurricane.
As it happens, making your own hand sanitizer isn’t impossible.
My wife cooked up a huge batch made of aloe vera gel, rubbing
alcohol and some essential oils. (And I am proud to report we
are not selling it online at inflated prices.) Additionally, all
signs point to soap and water being an effective, if not the
most effective, weapon against viruses.
[/quote]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/1/3-020818221632-1610966.gif
Agelbert NOTE: Here's the deal with soap. Soap is a type solvent
for oily substances. In chemistry, the word "solvent" just means
the molecules of some substance are real good at surrounding the
moclecules of the substance they are in. For people that are
allergic to scientific terms, that means it mixes super well
with the other substance. SO WHAT, you ask?
Well, I'm glad you asked. Oils, fats, grease, etc. are easily
washed off your skin surface with soap for that reason. SO WHAT,
you ask? What does that have to do with COVID-19 virus critters?
Well, I'm glad you asked. The outer "corona" of the sphere
shaped COVID-19 virus, like all viruses, is mostly made up of
"polar" molecules. Those molecules are exactly the same kind
that make up oils, fat, grease, etc. (you get the idea). Soap
disorganizes the outer layer of the virus. IOW, it dissolves the
wall of the virus sphere into non-cohesive units that can no
longer stick together to protect the virus genetic material
inside. Large gaps form in the outer layer and the virus genetic
material leaks out. Once the virus genetic material leaks out,
it can not be transported into some cell in the molecular
neighborhood. IOW, it is no longer a threat. Since viruses are
really, really tiny, you need to make sure the soap and water
making life difficult for the COVID-19 virus critter is doing so
for at least 20 seconds in order for the solvent action on the
polar exterior of the virus to wreak successful havoc on
billions of said COVID-19 critters.
If you want to make sure you always have a powerful weapon
against COVID-19 critters on your skin around while you go about
your business, hang a soap on a rope around your neck. They
aren't going to run out of soap on a rope before global warming
does us in, so don't worry about availability of soap, whether
on a rope or not. Just go to a source of clean water, pull out
your soap on a rope and kill COVID-19 on your skin by washing
for 30 seconds or so. The particles of the virus that are
disorganized by the soap solvent action are NOT a health threat.
They go down the drain as disorganized genetic material with no
ability to function as a virus.
[center][img
width=640]
HTML https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-150320133833.png[/img][/center]
[center]Soap On A Rope
HTML https://intothegloss.com/2015/08/soap-on-a-rope/[/center]
For those who are confused by the term "polar" in regard to
molecular structure, I will be glad to bend your ear about the
bipolar nature of the water molecule, what one pole does and
what the other one does to make water such a great solvent. That
is why soap needs to partner with water to dissolve oily
substances (like virus outer layers). For most people, all that
polar stuff is boring. Everybody knows that water doesn't mix
with oil. Well, water DOES mix quite well with oil IF soap is
present. Alchohol, by the way, works like soap mixed with water
because it has polar sections and bipolar sections. Alchohol
kills bacteria AND viruses by a mechanism called denaturing.
Bored yet?
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/1/3-120818185036-1638694.gif<br
/>I thought so.
Alchohol does the job without water but is expensive. Soap is
cheap and every bit as effective as alchohol, as long as you
have water available.
Soap and water 🍀 is affordable COVID-19 skin protection
for everyone. End of story. 🌞
#Post#: 15918--------------------------------------------------
Former CDC Director 👨‍🔬 Dr. Tom Frieden: C
OULD CORONAVIRUS KILL A MILLION AMERICANS?
By: AGelbert Date: March 15, 2020, 3:37 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[center][img
width=640]
HTML https://ci5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/oztYq5AbpB26Ma6wSysP0TG81oB4JfFRUar2JRIZG865ap6Q4b5cyLf9iyb2wUDtIXTgjcgYmiFWfRQU4sgizDoj5REMoGoO9nNxdCAdl3rI2F9XvUKtLcrmm6GtPnS9AnQ3T6CRq9TFK4fRbFE3wAuCnYvZBQV2zmQ=s0-d-e1-ft#https://gallery.mailchimp.com/33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413/images/0bb0ece7-9ce7-4ab4-9a36-6f3ca6a7db37.png[/img][/center]
[center]
[img
width=200]
HTML https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/N3KaG5V_fPTifvSzcKD2brzNoizCSsqG6daOEOPVxoh4wBB-V3pCI13TBgmOmEV0sVcyGEAMwQ3fGoRoEHg_9Y_rJyLKRlQ4CVl0BqYhHO_UVd1OBfpDW5ySBGZPW_UaKZhf1BhrPU9nXfJPuR8fXl-imUfRFqdH4HnB-5GaU9msyJq-DM55kNMsvKt65fJW=s0-d-e1-ft#https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/tf-cov-us-3.10.20-kirkland-rts34wu7-three-four-150x150.jpg[/img]<br
/>Could Coronavirus Kill A Million Americans? [img
width=40]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-130418200018.png[/img][/center]
By Tom Frieden, Thinkglobalhealth.org
March 14, 2020 | EDUCATE!
Soon after I became director of the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) in June of 2009, I was asked to
brief President Barack Obama about the emerging pandemic of H1N1
influenza. It was the first time I had briefed the president,
there was a blizzard of information from CDC’s experts, and I
had a videocall with dozens of CDC professionals—most of whom
didn’t know I was about to brief the president... -more-
HTML https://popularresistance.org/could-coronavirus-kill-a-million-americans/
[center][img
width=640]
HTML https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/sites/default/files/2020-03/TF-CoV-US-3.10.20-Table-THREE-TWO_0.jpg[/img][/center]
#Post#: 15920--------------------------------------------------
German government tries to fight off aggressive takeover bid by
🦀 US, say reports
By: AGelbert Date: March 15, 2020, 6:36 pm
---------------------------------------------------------
[center]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/1/3-250718204530.gif[/center]
[font=times new roman]The Guardian[/font]
Philip Oltermann in Berlin @philipoltermann
Sun 15 Mar 2020 10.12 EDT
[move]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/1/3-120818185037-16401634.png<br
/>German government tries to fight off aggressive takeover bid b
y
🦀 US, say reports[/move]
[center][img
width=30]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/1/3-250718205137.gif[/img]<br
/>Trump 'offers large sums' for exclusive access [img
width=70]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-270117175421.png[/img]<br
/> to coronavirus vaccine
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/15/trump-offers-large-sums-for-exclusive-access-to-coronavirus-vaccine<br
/> [img
width=70]
HTML http://media.tumblr.com/c6492e4b47cfdbd50e74d285fde3c53e/tumblr_inline_mm3g4yCaZc1qz4rgp.gif[/img]<br
/>[img
width=100]
HTML http://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/2/3-190119153601.gif[/img][/center]
*****************************************************
DIR Previous Page
DIR Next Page