Fullcircle.com is the name of place I use. I don’t know if it’s just local to my area though.
I like this NYT headline on masks:
Like, I’m starting to think that maybe the magic market ancap bros didn’t have the whole “offshore all of your industries to slave wage countries” thing completely worked out.
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bros like the folks in power who actually did that? Like Bill Clinton and George Bush and the rest of the neoliberals?
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People who are interested should search for CSA or community supported agriculture. Basically, you buy a subscription to the farm at the start of the season and you get your share of the produce in regular installments. Obviously, this model has a limited range, but they are increasingly popular.
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Yes most of the masks out on the streets of Asia are plain old disposable surgical masks. You can get a box of them at the 100-yen shop (or could before this all happened).
IMO we need to get N95 into the hands of medical professionals and basic disposable masks into the hands of everyone else ASAP.
Then aggressive marketing campaign to promote use and remove the stigma of wearing them.
For folk who know someone who can sew (like my mum), these tutorials seem pretty good:
Anyone know what the best insert would be? Pantyliners? Coffee filters? Kleenex?
Feck, I know nothing.
Where is FL are you?
guillotine.jpg
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Out of nowhere felt feverish and achy last night. Still a little bit this morning. No serious cough or breathing issues. It may just be a cold or something brought on by all the stress of the week, but I wish I was an NBA player, so I could just get tested and see what this is.
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fuck
my coronabux got the covid
I remember this album from when I was a kid.
The gullotine sound effect (very first sound on there) was achieved by sliding a metal bar down a coat rack and editing this to the sound of a cabbage being chopped into a basket containing straw.
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That’s how exponential curves catch people off guard. Your instincts are linear so the exponential curve keeps surprising you.
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Oh, the Lord most definitely has it covered.
mm that’s good foley
I haven’t had a chance to go back and verify, but it seems like Washington isn’t going up as fast as expected at this stage. We’ve been testing more than most, and had some of the earliest social isolation policies. Hopefully things are starting to slow down here which would be a good sign for other states who have taken action shuttering businesses.
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Didn’t break the 900 mark yesterday. Broke it this morning instead.
As a matter of fact, there was a 40% decrease yesterday compared to the day before. Seems that the 200 new cases was an outlier since the other days have been far less.
925 cases, 4 recoveries, 0 deaths
Bad news is that I suspect that the Czech government has reached their current peak testing capacity at around 2000 tests a day. Wish we could get the 15000 tests a day that Ireland is promising.
So, the recoveries number. I think that number is basically worthless, right? At this point in countries with tens of thousands of cases like the US they can’t possibly be tracking when people “recover” from the mild cases that never resulted in hospitalization, right?
It’s possible that they’re just referring to people who were in the hospital and then recovered. After all, the first 3 were reported as recovered after exactly 2 weeks in the hospital. So, they might be excluding the ill ones in quarantine who test negative for coronavirus after 2 weeks or so.