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New Testing on Best material for a mask...bandana only filters 1.6% of 0.3 micron particles  :o https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/best-diy-coronavirus-homemade-face-mask-material-covid/

Costco Tustin (El Camino) at 11:30AM:  TP and PT out.  Everyone with masks on and no one is really talking.  Most are avoiding eye contact and of course trying to stay away from each other.  Oh, and while you are waiting in line outside, guided by the stacks of crates that separate the lines...

This looks like a video from Mexico.  Guy testing a few types of masks with some type of an aerosol spray can:https://twitter.com/Alademosk/status/1246604891197505536 Here's another one, but this time with 3 layers of fabric:https://twitter.com/SIENACobertores/status/1248734372468932609

"The rates of all infection outcomes were highest in the cloth mask arm, ... compared with the medical mask arm. ...Penetration of cloth masks by particles was almost 97% and medical masks 44%." https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577 At least the cloth mask will help prevent you from...

"Demonstration (in Spanish) of masks that don?t work and work. The last two are a surgical mask and an N95." https://twitter.com/AdolfoEdgar1980/status/1246219864945156096

What Are The Best Materials for Making DIY Masks? https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/best-materials-make-diy-face-mask-virus/

A zoom video conf by NY Weill Cornell Hospital Dr. David Price to friends and family re: covid  (he works directly with covid patients and decides who is intubated, etc.): https://vimeo.com/399733860

Kroger adds Plexiglass at cash registers, allows employees to wear masks and gloveshttps://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2020/03/24/kroger-adds-plexiglass-at-cash-registers-allows.html How one man spread coronavirus to NINE other people on his bus in China: "None of the people who wore a...

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Next to be stockpiled:  Vitamin C? ?Early and sufficiently large doses of intravenous vitamin C are critical. Vitamin C is not only a prototypical antioxidant, but also involved in virus killing and prevention of viral replication. The significance of large dose intravenous vitamin C is not...

Me lately:

TV:  Happy Valley, The Fall, Fearless, etc. (really enjoy the British crime dramas with good character dev.).

"The IUSD Board of Education and Superintendent Walker have extended the closure of IUSD schools through Friday, May 1." https://iusd.org/covid-19-resource-page

I understand that we need to prevent a surge at hospitals so I agree with what we have to do now, but I am not looking forward to the economic pain that will result.  This was exactly the issue that the panel on the Event 201 (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation coronavirus simulation back in fall...

I see that we need to "flatten the curve" for lack of beds/ventilators, but the crush on our economy will bring an economic depression.  The mental health toll as well as physical toll of major financial stress will bring about more illness (mental/physical) as well as suicides, domestic...

Also from the Investor's Business Daily (paper, sorry no link): Expecting between 1.5 million to 2 million in jobless claim this coming Thursday.  Ohio's numbers are 139,468 from Sun-Thu contrasted to the week before which was 4,815. The highest jobless claim number was in 1982 with approx...

Nation's jobless claim can exceed 2 million for this week:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-20/u-s-weekly-jobless-claims-could-exceed-2-million-goldman-says Contrast this to the number a year ago:  211,000 jobless claims for 3/2019.

This model predicts the last day each state can act before the point of no return:  (It also shows potential results from different mitigation methods.) https://covidactnow.org/ You can de-select some of the mitigation methods by clicking on the corresponding color circles below the chart.

Totally agree.

This is from an "alternative" site so take it for what it is, however, I thought their scenario was interesting and somewhat plausible based on the panic buying happening now and the already increasing tension among shoppers.  BREAKING: Federal government to control and oversee grocery...