ExiledInIllinois

Did I post this already... Can't remember:

Good answer. Like the way you think! I think your subtle commentary! Really bringing your A-game!

Can I cut a hole in my mask so I can smoke? Actually saw a guy at work do that! What a badass! Not the guy at work... But close: This is a humor thread, right?

Supposedly... OSHA "fit requirement" is why we at work had to ditch our N100s last year for N95s. I am not management... Never looked into it, I probably shouldn't blindly trust. But, that's the story I got. What about beards???

LoL...

Can I post this Dr. here: He explains the mechanics of what happens... Not exactlty family hour, few swear words... But its down to earth. Informative... He shoots from the hip. If I needed bariatric surgery... I'd want this guy! LoL..

Relatively new... 2007. Zooey Deschanel. AnnaSophia Robb... Don't think I am going native. Soft. My wife is a librarian. These I remember...

Anybody say: That's as old as me... Dirt. 1968.

Fair enough. I it's still a guesstimate from a few hours to a day. SARs stays on latex for 8 hours... But, SARs ain't exactly COVID-19 of course! So much we don't know of the new strain. https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2020/03/25/coronavirus-survives-on-metal-plastic-cardboard-common-objects/2866340001/ No log in if Incognito: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/health/coronavirus-surfaces-aerosols.amp.html Cites: NEJM "...Health care workers might also collect those tiny droplets and larger ones on their protective gear when working with infected patients. They might resuspend these big and small droplets into the air when they take off this protective gear and become exposed to the virus then, Dr. Marr cautioned. A study that is being reviewed by experts bears out this fear. And another study, published March 4 in JAMA, also indicates that the virus is transported by air. That study, based in Singapore, found the virus on a ventilator in the hospital room of an infected patient, where it could only have reached via the air. ..." https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coronavirus-skin-hair-nails_l_5e73ce08c5b6eab77944be05 https://www.businessinsider.com/how-long-can-coronavirus-live-on-surfaces-how-to-disinfect-2020-3 https://www.kltv.com/2020/03/27/how-long-does-coronavirus-live-clothes-skin/ "...She explains, "So the best guess-timate we have, as far as these viruses are able to stay on skin, clothes, and fabrics of other types, is between several hours and up to one day. And it’s frustrating to have such a wide estimate but it’s because we still don’t know so much about this virus. ..."

Bio waste down the drain or taking up a landfill. Landfill... The "gift that keeps on giving?" And... I am not talking about protection... The PPE will protect. But in this case. Could you be spreading it. COVID-19 is more viable on plastic longer than hands. You can't change your gloves every three seconds. That's such an absurd analogy with the seatbelt. Nobody is claiming it doesn't protect. Just claiming that the virus may get somewhere else. A better analogy is: When launching a boat. You take your seatbelt off.

Son in pharmacy is still wearing a mask to protect others and himself!

I wonder if this is true... @Hapless Bills Fan Our son claims that wearing gloves, latex gloves could "spread" the virus around more. That normal, religious hand washing is better. Everything I have read points to: viable virus doesn't last long on hands. Of course don't go mining your nose, touching your face, etc... It kinda makes sense that an impermeable glove would "push it around"... Of course gloves are important as PPE with all kinds of other pathogens... But with COVID-19?? BUT, I feel the glove can be removed properly, inside out, hand to hand and "corral" any virus, right? What's your take? Myth or fact? We are at odds on this one! Oh... JUST like the raging debate: Nancy-Boy glove wearing Qbs vs. Non-glove wearing "tough guy" quarterbacks! ?

Mother inlaw sent this one SnailMail. Sorry for the crease. SOURCE: The Buffalo News

Nope. Like a decompression chamber. The door is closed!

Happy Freakin' Birthday Mike!!!

They gotta get through along with the fuel for your car. ?

Sent the over 60 crowd... LoL... Only one guy out of us 13, home. Free leave to May 11. Other over 60 was deployed in Afghanistan. He's sent back and in quarantine. Will get redeployed? So...we were playing with short bench to begin with 9/10 operators. 10 of the 13 staff 24/7/365...Sent the two management people home. Mechanic home. Picking up an extra 30 hours time in coming weeks. Business as usual operating.

I ain't a teetotaler but growing up with alcoholism and watching a society filled with functional alcoholics has turned me off. Is it really that great? I guess some need to self-medicate which I got no problem with as long as it doesn't go off the rails and they are able to go dry with no physical cravings. I drink, but it's not necessary....My last drink was a month ago. LoL... You forgot @Augie and me! That was rough, wasn't it!

@Hapless Bills Fan is it okay to post this? Please delete if it doesn't meet thread criteria. Please delete if source is not good enough: https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2020/03/25/coronavirus-survives-on-metal-plastic-cardboard-common-objects/2866340001/ "Aerosols are different," says Dr. Stanley Deresinski, clinical professor of medicine and infectious diseases at Stanford University. "Very small particles may be suspended in the air for a long time, sometimes for hours. They're suspended by air currents." Airborne droplets can stay suspended long enough for someone to walk through and inhale the virus. Outdoors, wind disperses the virus. A virus that doesn't reach the ground or floor can fall on shared surfaces – or be transferred there by those with the pathogen on their hands. Whatever the case, unsuspecting people can pick it up. How long a virus lives depends on the surface it's on..." [Good article, Exiled. It summarizes the findings of the NE Journal of Medicine article linked in one of the OPs, but in a nice, readable way with pictures. One comment is that they kind of imply that when someone coughs, or even breathes forcefully, they produce droplets that don't stay suspended. That's largely true. But it's my understanding that coughing has been studied to produce some aerosols as well, which is why there is still some risk for obsessive handwashers, going out and staying 6 feet away from everyone - especially in an enclosed space with relatively poor air exchange. Outside much less issue. It's for this reason that public health experts in several Asian countries push the wearing of masks in public - if you're sick, stuff should stay inside the mask (in theory, if you do things right)]

There will be a spike... But not boom The Millennials also called: Echo Boomers because they are children of Boomers are starting to reach middle age. Boomers are reaching elderly. It's the post-Millennials that will start having the kids... And they don't want to bring children (or really can't, shouldn't) into such a messed country and world.