The Coronavirus

[Eric the Green]

(04-30-2020, 12:25 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(04-30-2020, 12:05 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(04-30-2020, 11:58 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(04-29-2020, 05:16 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Most nations and US states have shut down non-essential businesses and issued shelter-in-place orders.

At least you understand that those two things are different things, unlike Bob.  You are, however, incorrect about the fact.  South Korea had no blanket shut downs of businesses before their outbreak had already subsided.  Masks and perhaps better attention to hygiene are the only obvious candidates for why Pacific Rim nations did better, though South Korea also benefited from an annual school shutdown that happened at a good time.

I have surgical style masks that I ordered a month ago.  I have another pack of 50 on order for a month from now, as well as a few KN-95 masks.  These were all through Amazon.

If you don't want to sew for yourself, you can get cloth masks on Etsy with much shorter shipping times.

Are you serious? South Korea got on the job starting day one, and kept the problem from getting started in the first place. That's no longer an option for us. If we had been testing, contact tracing and isolating back when the Donald was saying things would take care of themselves, we might have been able to do it here too.

Good luck getting him to acknowledge facts.

Hope springs eternal in the hearts of idealists and new agers like me