Take my money!
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Strange.
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Unlike some places:
I had an appointment for last week (made well in advance, before any of this hit) and I am absolutely fine with this turn of events. My vanity is not worth someoneâs life.
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And in other successful terrorism news:
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Iâve been thinking about trying to crochet masks, with room inside for fabric as a filter⌠but Iâm not sure if such a thing would be safe enough. Even if the knit masks arenât safe, they are so cute!
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Date: 05/04/37833
Archeo-Report: Early Anthropocene Era, circa 2020 CE
Site 12A/5
Synopsis: Peoples of that time believed that wearing demonic images could ward off viral diseases.
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Thanks. I was wondering how close to home (Santa Clarita, CA) your Lowes experience occurred. Stay safe!
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Thatâs not what I meant. The infection rate isnât the point, but differences in infectiousness and susceptibility between kids and adults in different age groups are. You need higher numbers of people under real-world conditions. Right now, in many countries, infections of children only happen in families because schools are closed etc. Sweden is much closer to real-world conditions, so the age cohort below 20 years is quite likely more exposed to the virus as in other countries - while being comparable to other age cohorts under similar circumstances (of the Swedish version of social distancing).
That might actually give Swedish researchers the opportunity to address questions which others canât, because of different skews in their data. Which, in the end, might inform everyoneâs (future) policies.
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I checked on the price development on some of the pulse oximeters. The ones I checked, on the west central european internet market, I saw an increase in prices dating back to march.
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In contrast, I now love my local ACE hardware. The manager is going over-and-above to keep the environment there safe and controlled. She doesnât hesitate to kick out customers who refuse to follow social distancing and mask rules in the store. I was leaving the store with my purchase, which included very heavy items on a flatbed cart, and a dude with no mask was standing in line to enter and wouldnât budge from the only spot with a ramp down to parking lot level. I said, âexcuse me,â the employee controlling the entrance asked him to move, but it took the manager coming out and threatening to deny him entry before he would move out of the way so I could take my cart to my vehicle.
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Now THAT is a hardware store.
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Heck, Iâve had medical appointments canceled because of this, and completely understand why.
If it ainât essential, donât risk anyoneâs life. Pretty basic rule there.
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My local ACE Hardware is also awesome but, closed. (sigh)
Itâs a very tight space.
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from the mashable piece: The artist
suggests wearing a knit mask over a âreal dealâ face mask (since the knitted ones have holes and the whole point of a cloth mask is to protect others).
Sounds way too warm to me, though. Even just in the 70s Fahrenheit here lately, a plain cloth mask has felt hot to wear. Iâve been wondering if people will really slack off on wearing masks as we get more toward SummerâŚ
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Another sad story that happened here too. A woman was shot last week. Why did she have to die? The newspapers said that she was afraid of crazy people who would fight to refuse to wear masks.
The articles roughly say:
A 58-year-old man was injured and a 38-year-old woman died after an argument between the client and the security guard at a hypermarket in AraucĂĄria, in the greater Curitiba region, capital of the state of ParanĂĄ, southern Brazil.
The client would have refused to wear a protective mask to enter the establishment, mandatory by state decree, as a measure to contain the coronavirus.
The customer tried to enter the premises without a mask, which is mandatory to use.
The security guard offered a disposable mask free of charge, even so the client refused, assaulted the guard, engaged in a physical fight with him and tried to take the security guardâs gun, who retaliated by drawing the gun and firing the shots.
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Too much?
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Boy, windows in RussiaâŚ
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Some follow up about this
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