Think of it like Alien or The Thing. You don’t know who’s got it inside them. So be very cautious. You might have inside you. Everybody should come under suspicion. People are carriers who don’t they have it. You might be a carrier yourself. One assumes there are millions of carriers waltzing around out there. There is no way of knowing. Keep your distance. 12 feet is better than 6 feet. It’s twice as good, actually. I spotted a whole bunch of people who acted like they had no idea what the heck was going on. It’s a good thing they didn’t come waltzing up on me.
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.
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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It appears the running average number of deaths per day in the US has ticked down to 1700 from 2000. We’ll have to wait and see how it goes. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ |
I guess, somewhere along the way we lost track of the original question ’What can we do to help?’ There were a few answers earlier in the thread, but they diluted after a while. Interestingly, there were a few "I am not helping" and a few more "help by asking to be exposed more". In case anyone is still interested in ideas, I am repeating my early post to add to jhills’ example... It will greatly depend on your location. Patronizing local business may be the step you are looking for. If your area is greatly affected, delivering meals for workers may earn you a smile or two. As the situation is changing, an iPad you never use donated to local hospital's pediatric department may entertain a sick and confined child for days. Before anything, take care of yourself. That is the most you can do for people out there. |
I guess, somewhere along the way we lost track of the original question 'What can we do to help?' When I can I make financial contributions to one of the larger food banks, that has a long track record of getting help to those in need. I should take a look at how I can do more. Not to be political, but is interesting that bailouts to the top1% came at the speed of light, while small business and little farmers are going under, struggling to even get a loan. When and as we can, is most important to support our local small businesses and local farmers....Jim |
"Chorus I managed to somehow survive this deadly, once in a lifetime menace. As I look squarely in the face of 66 years on this sphere I need to tell you something. People in Oregon are born socialists who would sell their kids into slavery if the gov't told them it needed doing. Yeah!!! " I too am an Oregonian and am stunned by our state's unnecessary restrictions on our citizens rights. I too have circled the planet 66 times working on my 67th. Total deaths in our state as of yesterday 137, 80% of those poor souls were over 60 and had serious medical conditions. If you folks want to help this situation tell your local governments to pull their heads out of their rumps and get the economies opened up again. Further watch the rhetoric in DC and put somebody new in there when election time rolls around. And yes of course this is a political thread. |
Hospitals are not only not overwhelmed, they are empty and laying people off.Funny, the hospitals in Detroit are trying to figure out how to replace the nurses and health care workers that are DYING from Covid-19. A far cry from "laying off". And "unconstitutional"? Please. Save the "unconstitutional" gibberish for the Prepper forums. Another idiotic opinion misinformed by the anti-science, anti-government, "it's all about me" crowd and state-run Faux Newz.*yawn* |
1976 movie: Network. Everyone threw their television sets out the window, chanting "I'm not going to take it anymore". I myself disconnected from TV in 2006, The internet is increasingly being sensored of real truths, which you will not find anywhere on the boob-tube networks. It is all in the Bible, guys. |
Then there’s Brazil 🇧🇷. Sound familiar, like you’ve heard this somewhere before maybe? https://apple.news/AQOpOr7Z-S8aPgxvarztSUA |
From what I can tell we are working really hard on a vaccine that should be ready very soon. Maybe by the summer. There’s a very good possibility. This is going to be great. Really great. The American people should be very happy, we’re all very excited. Everyone at NIH and FDA has been working hard, really hard, since January, no one even knew about it, when the virus was posted in the internet. We have 400 candidates for these vaccines, can you believe it’s that many? I can’t believe it. It’s going to be amazing! Really amazing! The wheels are in motion! Making arm movements indicating wheels going round and round. |
stereo5,
We learned from the best. First two pages contained insults from you to millercarbon, ozzy62, and audio_audition at least. Along with some whining about people and the situation from your past. Give us a rest already please. At least we keep it contained and, by the way, those were not really insults. More like some colorful pinching. |
@glupson , Y2K mainly affected legacy systems. That is, systems that were written on OS from the 60's, had been implemented in the 70's, elaborated in the 80's and fudged along in the 90's. It was all because memory was so scarce in 1960. Back then a mainframe ran on core memory - that is, magnetic beads, or cores, which were physically moved back and forth to indicate one bit. A mainframe computer the size of a truck might have 32K of core. Every bit was precious, literally. It takes 4 bits to indicate a digit, so the software was written to use 8 bits, not 16; that is '66' uses 8 bits, '1966' uses 16 bits. Anyhow 40 years is a long time in computing, and we'll all be retired by 2000, and "Use computers for air traffic control? Huh? What are you smokin'?" Net result, deep in most every big application was a date function which could only handle two numbers, and returned an error message when it saw a year beginning with a zero. That caused the program to crash and fail. The prospect was a return to no computing whatsoever for all the longest standing applications (hence most important) in society, and no paper backup. Overnight. Easy when you take the trouble to understand the issue. Thank goodness most of those responsible did. Sorry to digress. |
@snarbut , I’ve been hearing the same stuff about Y2K for 20 years now. "See, it was never a problem." Only because we fixed it beforehand. In my organization the Y2K committee began meeting in 1994. In 1995 serious resources were allocated. In 1996 patches were being tested. In 1999 we were running simulations at night. In 2000 "Hey, nothing happened, what was the big deal, some kinda con job?" Yeah, right, whatever. |
Sweden has one of the highest per 1 million inhabitants deaths. Only Belgium and a few others are worse (check countries with much tighter lock downs in eastern Europe, NZ etc) Once we get to 200K deaths in the US I will be curious if anyone's opinion changes - especially those who's family or close friends will be impacted. Hope none of yours. |
This just came across my desk, file under That’s the way it goes sometimes. The Food and Drug Administration is cautioning the public about the reliability of a widely used rapid test for the coronavirus. The test, made by Abbott Laboratories, has been linked with inaccurate results which could falsely reassure patients that they are not infected with the virus. The Trump Administration has promoted the test as a key factor in controlling the epidemic in the U.S. and is used for the daily testing that is going on at the White House. As first reported on NPR, as many as 15 to 20 out of every 100 tests may produce falsely negative results. A subsequent study released this week indicated that the test could be missing as many as 48% of infections. The FDA issued the alert on the Abbott test "in the spirit of transparency," and said in a press release, it's investigating whether the false-negative results could be connected to the type of swab used during the rapid test, or the material the samples are being stored in when they're transported. |
geoffkait,
That does not make you an expert. https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2020/han00432.asp?deliveryName=USCDC_511-DM28431 |
So totally lacking in self awareness. geoffkait21,745 posts05-14-2020 7:41pmSo gullible! 🤗 In the guise of being scientific. So funny! Perhaps you’ve heard of the continuing problems in Asia concerning COVID-19. |
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geoffkait, That was interesting. We are Yin and Yang of Coronavirus epidemics approach. I wear a mask and more almost all the time, except at home, in the car, or when on bicycle and there is nobody in sight. I wear goggles often. I do not practice even half the social distancing for myself, spend time in rooms with multiple people, touch whatever is there to be touched. I am fully aware that there is no certain protection and have no sense of false security. Quite the opposite. I rub my neck with a disinfectant multiple times a day. I sometimes do use a handheld UV light to quickly "clean" possible offenders. I would not enter the elevator or an empty hallway without a mask, though. |
@n80 Wait...there were predictive models early on that predicted a may or whatever peak...we locked down the country...and about 3 weeks after the lock downs we had a peak...instead of May...aaaaaand you're arguing there is no evidence the lockdowns had an effect? You're sticking with that...because some people on tv are speaking non-sense? Enjoy. |