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Thanks to you all for continuing to bring in new and different angles on the COVID issues, we appreciate it! Have been seeing more and more evidence presented that masking the population when out and about would be another way to speed progress to successfully unlocking the USA going forward. The last one I read thru was linked to here on Monday’s blog, stemming from a paper issued April 21,  some time before US went over to recommending  masking, article is still available at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.13553.pdf. (Tried to copy the charts, but cannot paste them here. They are toward the end of the report.) It included a couple charts showing clearly the advantage of what they call “Universal Masking” in several other countries. So my question is where is the Public Relations campaign that would let those outside academia, i.e. most of us, know how this could be so helpful? I see little if anything in the media about WHY it makes sense to mask: “I wear my mask to protect you from me, and you wear your mask to protect me from you”  Simple idea, I have yet to see it stated that way much in any of the media. Using that as a guideline would clear up 90% of the BS about how “you can’t make me wear a mask, this is America after all” and instead flip us over to the positive “I CAN really do something to help end this disaster sooner”

Reply to: COVID-19: key developments for Monday, May 4, 2020 Posted May 4, 2020

Thanks to finding this site back in early March, we have stocked up on a bunch of things we need for the interim, including items (now almost completely unavailable) such as a Pulse Oximeter and reliable forehead thermometer, camera/mic combo for virtual meetups, a water filtration system and quite a bit of hand sanitizer, disinfectant wipes, cleaning supplies and hand soap. Due to late start we only have a few masks and gloves, but since we stay at home as much as possible(we are in our 70’s), that is not an issue yet. Thankfully the medicines we take seem to be not on the endangered list yet. What I am wondering is what will be the next essential things that may come up in short supply as we move into the next few months of the pandemic. Any clues what we should be ordering in before they disappear from the market like so many other things have?

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Reply to: COVID-19: key developments for Friday, March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020

You have been doing a great job keeping us up to date. I checked in here 40 days ago or so, and have been checking in most every day ever since. So thank you. I decided to make a comment today, and it is that I am a little frustrated to find that you don’t cover some of the points in today’s national COVID19 Team news conference from 5-~6:30 tonight (March 27). Maybe it was after your deadline for this, if so I apologize. Maybe you don’t have time to watch them, I’m retired and so can do it most days(if I can find it). Here is the real problem. I know if I don’t watch the conference completely myself, and rely on the media to cover what was laid out — guess what?  On checking various media the issues reported are only ones that support the press’s agenda. Lots of important stuff is lost. Left, center(a myth lately) or right…they all have an agenda, and I don’t believe their agenda includes telling both sides of the issue at hand anymore. Maybe it did in Walter Cronkite’s or Paul Harvey’s time, but not now. Another problem is very few are actually showing the whole conference, all the major media this week cut out after 30-40 minutes. That means that the true medical experts on the team, who go on after the politicians,  are cut off.  So we have media bites instead of full explanations.  This a darned complicated situation and bites don’t cover it. That’s why I come here to read you summaries daily, after all…. I also have been able to find some feeds of the entire conference to watch on the internet, thank goodness. Thanks for listening to me, and also again Thanks for your contributions to this site. Bob

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Reply to: COVID-19: key developments for Tuesday, May 12, 2020 Posted May 13, 2020

Thanks to you all for continuing to bring in new and different angles on the COVID issues, we appreciate it! Have been seeing more and more evidence presented that masking the population when out and about would be another way to speed progress to successfully unlocking the USA going forward. The last one I read thru was linked to here on Monday’s blog, stemming from a paper issued April 21,  some time before US went over to recommending  masking, article is still available at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.13553.pdf. (Tried to copy the charts, but cannot paste them here. They are toward the end of the report.) It included a couple charts showing clearly the advantage of what they call “Universal Masking” in several other countries. So my question is where is the Public Relations campaign that would let those outside academia, i.e. most of us, know how this could be so helpful? I see little if anything in the media about WHY it makes sense to mask: “I wear my mask to protect you from me, and you wear your mask to protect me from you”  Simple idea, I have yet to see it stated that way much in any of the media. Using that as a guideline would clear up 90% of the BS about how “you can’t make me wear a mask, this is America after all” and instead flip us over to the positive “I CAN really do something to help end this disaster sooner”

Reply to: COVID-19: key developments for Monday, May 4, 2020 Posted May 4, 2020

Thanks to finding this site back in early March, we have stocked up on a bunch of things we need for the interim, including items (now almost completely unavailable) such as a Pulse Oximeter and reliable forehead thermometer, camera/mic combo for virtual meetups, a water filtration system and quite a bit of hand sanitizer, disinfectant wipes, cleaning supplies and hand soap. Due to late start we only have a few masks and gloves, but since we stay at home as much as possible(we are in our 70’s), that is not an issue yet. Thankfully the medicines we take seem to be not on the endangered list yet. What I am wondering is what will be the next essential things that may come up in short supply as we move into the next few months of the pandemic. Any clues what we should be ordering in before they disappear from the market like so many other things have?

Reply to: Prescription drug storages are here, but it’s hard to know how bad it’ll get Posted April 28, 2020
Reply to: COVID-19: key developments for Tuesday, March 31, 2020 Posted March 31, 2020
Reply to: COVID-19: key developments for Friday, March 27, 2020 Posted March 29, 2020
Reply to: COVID-19: key developments for Friday, March 27, 2020 Posted March 28, 2020
Reply to: COVID-19: key developments for Friday, March 27, 2020 Posted March 28, 2020
Reply to: COVID-19: key developments for Friday, March 27, 2020 Posted March 27, 2020

You have been doing a great job keeping us up to date. I checked in here 40 days ago or so, and have been checking in most every day ever since. So thank you. I decided to make a comment today, and it is that I am a little frustrated to find that you don’t cover some of the points in today’s national COVID19 Team news conference from 5-~6:30 tonight (March 27). Maybe it was after your deadline for this, if so I apologize. Maybe you don’t have time to watch them, I’m retired and so can do it most days(if I can find it). Here is the real problem. I know if I don’t watch the conference completely myself, and rely on the media to cover what was laid out — guess what?  On checking various media the issues reported are only ones that support the press’s agenda. Lots of important stuff is lost. Left, center(a myth lately) or right…they all have an agenda, and I don’t believe their agenda includes telling both sides of the issue at hand anymore. Maybe it did in Walter Cronkite’s or Paul Harvey’s time, but not now. Another problem is very few are actually showing the whole conference, all the major media this week cut out after 30-40 minutes. That means that the true medical experts on the team, who go on after the politicians,  are cut off.  So we have media bites instead of full explanations.  This a darned complicated situation and bites don’t cover it. That’s why I come here to read you summaries daily, after all…. I also have been able to find some feeds of the entire conference to watch on the internet, thank goodness. Thanks for listening to me, and also again Thanks for your contributions to this site. Bob