CAN WE AUDIOPHILES DO OUR PART?


So we're all tired of hearing about nothing but Covid-19 (or, as I term it, the C-Plague). What can we do, as audiophiles, to help with all this.
I was amazed, and delighted, when I went to the Cardas website to see that they are doing their part. Go to their website and you'll see their director, Angela Cardas, wearing a mask. If you click on the Cardas Nautilus logo in the upper left corner, you'll see pictures of people there in the factory making masks with sewing machines. I called the company to congratulate them, and spoke with a woman named Darla, who said it was their way, during this economic slump, to keep their employees working and also their way of trying to "do our part."
I'm not writing all this to advertise Cardas products. They are a very good company, but trust your ears, not anything I write, when it comes to buying their products. They do get credit, however, for helping me come to a realization that pushed me in the right direction. I called a woman I am friends with, who is 85 years old and is a good seamstress, to suggest she start making masks. She already was--and is. By phone she has organized several other women to do the same, and right now they are needing more material and elastic. I managed to gather about 50 pounds of material and am starting to gather elastic while also getting more material. But I don't sew. I can't help out with that. Any ideas as to what we--all of us who are good with our ears and focused with our budgets--can do to help out in other ways?

I realize this is an odd topic to bring to an audio forum, but it was a very socially responsible audio company that got me to thinking about it, and frankly I believe I should be socially responsible enough to do what I can to get other people to thinking about it. While also being open to other people's ideas about ways someone like me who is "just an audiophile" can help.

Thank you, in advance, for any and all ideas on this.



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The "C" (along with other events), is being weaponized and over inflated by a certain side for a positive result in the fall.

Wake up sheeple. 

This was all used as a dry run to see how compliant we would be and we've failed miserably. Today its masks. Tomorrow, mandatory vaccines, chips, whatever.

Make our forefathers proud and stand up to tyranny.
@glupson  if people only listen to the mainstream narrative than EVERYTHING else seems like disconnected words.

Strains of the cold have been around for how long?
Strains of the flu have been around for how long?
Strains of coronavirus have been around for how long?

If anyone thinks for a second that all of a sudden they can conjure up some miracle vaccine for the NOVEL coronavirus, they are living in la-la land. 

As an American I hate to say this but a certain side is wringing their hands at the opportunity that the "C" has given them.
"Never let a good crisis go to waste".

My advice:  listen to some Chopin, some Schubert and some Chet Baker and hope for the best.
The "C" will stay with us forever... Unlike this thread... Lol.

If you don’t want to get it, then stay home. Listen to music and relax.. during which, allowing your immune system to become weakened from prolonged seclusion from other people. Believe what the mainstream says and continue giving them what they want... compliance by being obedient little sheeple.
And by the way, you two (and you know who you are), sound more bluepilled with every post you make.
@stereo5  Six (6), billion... With a "b" dollars of stimulus checks were mailed to...wait for it...DEAD PEOPLE.  
How are we supposed to trust mail-in votes when the government sent six billion dollars of stimulus money to dead people?


@stereo5  cases are "rising" in the US because it's an election year.
Use your head.
That comes out to 5.6 million people, btw.
That’s enough to sway an election, but who’s counting...
@thecarpathian  let's give the government the benefit of the doubt for a moment and assume that since they started handing out the stimulus checks, that's when people started dying of natural causes. Everyday around 7,000 Americans die. Not from coronavirus, just die in general.

That equates to 420,000 deaths in the two months of stimulus checks.
If each of those people (not all of them were eligible mind you, but just for the sake of this argument let's pretend they were), received an average of $1,000, that would equate to 420 million dollars.

So where is the other 5.6 billion or so dollars?

Bottom line is you can't trust the powers that be to be accurate or honest.


Seeing that this thread won't survive another 12 hours, lol,  it was enjoyable having a discussion with you guys even though we disagree.
No hard feelings.
@cal91  
Oops! Sorry. Yes, I meant Chet.
I was swiping on my phone.
Lol.

I hope you enjoy!  He reminds me of a time when I first got into jazz 25 years ago. Brings back great memories.
@mahgister wow. Very poetic.

I was the one who mentioned the Chopin and Schubert. I’ll have to check out Moravec. I’m intrigued.

To Cal91 (I think)...Cherry Baker was a jazz trumpeter and on occasion, sang.
Check out his album "Chet". It’s beautiful.
@cal91  yes, the story of Chet Baker is a sad and tragic one. But what a gift he was!

@mahgister  Chopin is my favorite composer. I love Beethoven and others but what Chopin wrote for solo piano moves me like nothing else I've ever heard in my life. You had a great statement that you begin to understand Chopin with Moravec....
Wow. I REALLY need to listen.
@glupson  not sure if you are familiar with Chopin's Nocturnes. If not, PLEASE give them a listen. They are the works that made me fall in love with Chopin.
BLM?
 I do not support racists or domestic terrorists in any way, shape or form. 
In short, the left is weaponizing coronavirus and BLM for their own political gain. Whoever doesn't notice that is living in la-la land and I feel sorry for you.
The left wrings their hands anytime trigger events occur. Like I said, never let a good crisis go to waste, right?

The number of cases and the number of deaths have been greatly exaggerated. We showed just how obedient and compliant we are in a crisis situation.
This, IMO, will have very, very serious consequences for the public if socialists get in charge.
Say bye-bye to your freedoms. Say bye-bye to the first amendment. Say bye-bye to the second amendment.
The virus is real. The apocalyptic pandemic was not.
With all due respect to au_lait, there is something he/she isn't telling us.

My heart breaks for anyone who lost a loved one or a friend to the virus. I know three people who contracted the virus and thankfully all are okay today.

I'm trying to word this as respectfully as possible but using some common sense, either he knows A LOT of people or there are some underlying conditions we don't know about. 

And somebody's going to say it so it might as well be me considering I'm probably the most hated person on this thread because I use some logic and common sense, but here it goes:

The fastest way to make the virus disappear is to move the election to next year.

  Again, I believe the virus is real but the people at risk are not the huge demographic the mainstream media fools you into believing. 


The only good news about the left winning in November is that the economy will magically open again. 
It doesn't matter, no one will have any jobs to go back to anyway.
@stereo5 

Wow.

Last year nine (9), unarmed blacks were killed by police officers.
In the same year, nineteen (19), unarmed whites were killed by police officers.

For the past 4 years, in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, each year twice as many whites were shot by police officers then were blacks.

Target??? Seriously? 

BLM is silent in cities across the country when black on black murders happen. If BLM really cared about black lives you would hear Al sharpton in Chicago, in New York, in Atlanta, in Los Angeles, in Detroit.

As difficult as it may be for people to hear, Black Lives Matter only cares about black lives when they are killed by white cops.

Stereo5... You really need to wake up.

And with that folks, this thread is history!
But just by me mentioning facts and statistics, you know things that can actually be proven to be real, makes me a racist. After all, the truth is hate speech in 2020.
@cal91 
I knew you would mention that.

You have to go by INTERACTIONS with police officers, not number of people in the country.
It's based on percentage of interactions with police officers.

Yes blacks make up around 13% of the population but account for almost 50% of the crime.