Do we Cancel Everything? You still Travelling??

[sightseer 895]

Everyone here wears masks at the grocery store but I dont know about anywhere else.

  I've been wearing masks that my mom picked up from Walgreens.  She was in and out of the hospital quite a lot for quite a while and I tried to keep masks around for both of us.

I'm leery of the ones at Amazon.  so many people say they just receive a pile of masks in a non descript plastic bag.

[HiFlyer 9,359]

15 minutes ago, sightseer said:

Everyone here wears masks at the grocery store but I dont know about anywhere else.

  I've been wearing masks that my mom picked up from Walgreens.  She was in and out of the hospital quite a lot for quite a while and I tried to keep masks around for both of us.

I'm leery of the ones at Amazon.  so many people say they just receive a pile of masks in a non descript plastic bag.

I just made a McDonalds run at the drive through, and noticed a sign saying they will not serve anyone without a mask.

[HiFlyer 9,359]

So.......

Yeah.

 

[Alan_A 1,650]

7 hours ago, sightseer said:

I'm leery of the ones at Amazon.  so many people say they just receive a pile of masks in a non descript plastic bag.

I'm not surprised.  Mine were from third-party sellers, which is probably a better way to go.  Depending on the seller, of course...

 

[birdguy 3,943]

Masks are unavailable here too.  I got one when I accompanied my brother to the cancer clinic.

A neighbor lady is making cloth masks that have a pouch for putting in paper towel filters.  She's been handing them out to everyone on the block. Jury rigged I guess, but better than nothing.

Most people here are not into wearing masks yet.  With just 27 reported cases that increases by one every one or two weeks there is no sense of urgency yet.

Noel

[HighBypass 2,339]

16 hours ago, HiFlyer said:

I just made a McDonalds run at the drive through, and noticed a sign saying they will not serve anyone without a mask.

I wish I still had a motorcycle so that I could go into a gas station or shop wearing my helmet.. Well highwaymen and bandits wear masks and it's allowed these days  Still cannot properly see a person's face when they're wearing a mask. The world turns full circle in these desperate times.

HiFlyer that video...   There are pranks, and there are pranks...

[HiFlyer 9,359]

7 minutes ago, HighBypass said:

HiFlyer that video...   There are pranks, and there are pranks...

Yeah..... Not very funny.....

Here is the story behind it, as far as I could find: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3907216

[Bob Scott 7,720]

20 hours ago, n4gix said:

I have to remember to go start my car at least once a week to keep the battery charged, even though it's only a month old.

I get about three weeks to the gallon on mine now.

 

[n4gix 4,947]

20 hours ago, HiFlyer said:

The KN95's apparently hail from china, and I was wary of them right from the start. Recent events have made me even more concerned. Governments worldwide have begun rejecting KN95's.

Oh I have long suspected that these KN95 aren't kosher with regards to medical use, but they are in fact perfectly fine for my intended use, which is to confine any coughing and sneezing to myself. They are in my use case intended to protect others, not necessarily myself.

38 minutes ago, w6kd said:

I get about three weeks to the gallon on mine now.

Yeah, myself also! The pity is that gas prices are the lowest I've seen in decades, and there's nowhere to go now...

...except possibly just to take a leisurely drive around the back roads here in Indiana and/or Illinois.

[Groovy_Kincaid 71]

All I can say, a benefit of this”lockdown” is that the pollution haze has lifted. My wife and I went to our vacation home today for the first time in months. No haze, the mountains are almost 4K in visual appearance.

[birdguy 3,943]

That's the way we are all the time.  Clear skies 300 days out of the year.  With relative humidity in the teens or even single digits at times there is little water vapor in the air so not much in the way of haze.  Even in normal times traffic isn't that bad.  And at an elevation of 3600 ft the air is quite clear.  We are 200 miles from the nearest interstate highway in any direction so 90% of our traffic is local.    I live close to the center of town so there is no place in the city I can't drive to in less than 15 minutes.  And we have no major polluting industries.  Mostly dairy farms and pecan orchards although there is mozzarella cheese processing plant just outside of town.

About the only time we get poor visibilities are a few times in the summer when the wind kicks up dust storms.

Normally we can see Sierra Blanca peak to the west 90 miles away.  It is over 12,000 feet high so we can see the top of it.  

I notice when I go back to South Carolina the sky isn't quite as blue as it is up here.  It's a paler shade.

Noel

Edited May 11, 2020 by birdguy

[SteveFx 258]

After  the discussions on antibody testing accuracy my household has been randomly selected as part of a UK government covid19 antibody research study. The invitation I received  cautions that the tests currently are not 100% accurate at the individual level

They will be sending us finger lancet tests  - but we are advised to ignore the results...

Edited May 11, 2020 by SteveFx

[HiFlyer 9,359]

Colombian company creates bed that can double as coffin

[HighBypass 2,339]

That cardboard bed is ingenious, darkly humorous and practical all at the same time. 

[Alan_A 1,650]

42 minutes ago, HiFlyer said:

Colombian company creates bed that can double as coffin

Something about the mother of invention comes to mind.

Yeesh.