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Post by PJ on Apr 5, 2020 17:15:58 GMT -5
I live in PA and I'd rather wear a MOPP suit. I was at Wal-Mart earlier today and the majority of people weren’t wearing masks. I don’t even trust the CDC in regards to mask usage. First they said they don’t help, now all of a sudden it’s recommended everyone wear them. BTW, masks only prevent the spread if you’re already sick, a random healthy person wearing one doesn’t protect that person. I was fine with all the measures being taken up until the mask recommendation, that the first step of going overboard. No but that “random healthy person” could actually be asymptomatic and spreading it to the elderly and those with weak immune system.
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Post by Nick the Quick on Apr 5, 2020 17:43:33 GMT -5
I was at Wal-Mart earlier today and the majority of people weren’t wearing masks. I don’t even trust the CDC in regards to mask usage. First they said they don’t help, now all of a sudden it’s recommended everyone wear them. BTW, masks only prevent the spread if you’re already sick, a random healthy person wearing one doesn’t protect that person. I was fine with all the measures being taken up until the mask recommendation, that the first step of going overboard. No but that “random healthy person” could actually be asymptomatic and spreading it to the elderly and those with weak immune system. Unfortunately that’s possible, it’s also unfortunate that only symptomatic people can be tested in most areas, testing should be for everyone. It’s not fair to assume everyone is a carrier, nor is it fair to assume everyone is safe to be around, again, another catch-22.
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Post by vampiroporvida on Apr 6, 2020 11:37:33 GMT -5
I have to admit, vegans are smarter than me. Preppers too. I feel behind the curve on these things, yet I know I would never exactly be either to a full extent.
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Post by Jack Specific on Apr 6, 2020 11:41:08 GMT -5
I cannot find masks anywhere. I am an Asthmatic, you'd think there would be at least some prioritized for people with existing lung ailments but of course not. I was at the grocery store Saturday and so many had masks. I asked to different random people where they got them. One works in a hospital as a nurse so she gets them from there and the other one gets them from a family member who... you guessed it right, works in a hospital as a nurse. They are taking them from hospitals to use for themselves and their friends/family. F' me though.
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Post by ℍ𝕒𝕣𝕕 𝕋𝕠 𝕂𝕚𝕝𝕝 on Apr 6, 2020 12:21:25 GMT -5
I cannot find masks anywhere. I am an Asthmatic, you'd think there would be at least some prioritized for people with existing lung ailments but of course not. I was at the grocery store Saturday and so many had masks. I asked to different random people where they got them. One works in a hospital as a nurse so she gets them from there and the other one gets them from a family member who... you guessed it right, works in a hospital as a nurse. They are taking them from hospitals to use for themselves and their friends/family. F' me though. I have a family friend who just made my entire workplace masks. You might need to reach out to a community organization, or a neighborhood Facebook page, and find someone who is making them. I think the U.S. is far beyond buying any masks in stores at the moment.
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Post by shanieomaniac on Apr 6, 2020 13:20:41 GMT -5
My mom tried to make my family masks, but her sewing machine is too old to stitch them properly. The machine can't sew through the fabric used to make them.
She managed to make two by hand for her and my dad, but apparently nobody bothered to tell them you are supposed to wash them every time you wear them, and they've just been wearing them over and over and throwing them on a table when not worn.
I dare say that cable news needs to get off it's collective behind and start reporting on this pandemic from something other than a political point of view. Some people aren't intelligent enough to realize that you need to watch more than one station of television 24 hours a day...
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Apr 6, 2020 13:32:44 GMT -5
I cannot find masks anywhere. I am an Asthmatic, you'd think there would be at least some prioritized for people with existing lung ailments but of course not. I was at the grocery store Saturday and so many had masks. I asked to different random people where they got them. One works in a hospital as a nurse so she gets them from there and the other one gets them from a family member who... you guessed it right, works in a hospital as a nurse. They are taking them from hospitals to use for themselves and their friends/family. F' me though. From what I understand, you can use a bandana (like an old time bank robber). As long as you use 2 or 3 layers.
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Post by Jack Specific on Apr 6, 2020 14:17:44 GMT -5
My wife made one out of an old T-shirt. She referred to one of the youtube "how to" videos. The only thing is we do not have a sewing machine so it was very time consuming and difficult because she has varying carpal tunnel in her wrists. She did another one this morning out of a bandana & 2 hair tie bands which didn't even require sewing. It's just not the best way for protection but better than nothing.
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Post by rowdy1971 on Apr 6, 2020 14:28:38 GMT -5
There is a Wal-Mart near Chicago where two workers died of the virus, now most of the stores and Target and some food stores are limiting the amount of people allowed in. They have people waiting in lines almost on top of each other forcing people to go through one door. Are other Wal-Marts in different states doing this now?
And if you are looking for masks. Go to the parking lots. Everyone take them off and just leave them laying in the middle of the lot along with gloves. Disgusting pigs.
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Post by rkmo: The FOCUS Method on Apr 6, 2020 14:32:24 GMT -5
There is a Wal-Mart near Chicago where two workers died of the virus, now most of the stores and Target and some food stores are limiting the amount of people allowed in. They have people waiting in lines almost on top of each other forcing people to go through one door. Are other Wal-Marts in different states doing this now? And if you are looking for masks. Go to the parking lots. Everyone take them off and just leave them laying in the middle of the lot along with gloves. Disgusting pigs. I read a story over the weekend about Walmarts limiting capacity and enforcing "one-way" flow shopping but haven't checked it out locally. Closing at 8:30 is such a pain already, can't imagine shopping there under those policies too.
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Post by vampiroporvida on Apr 6, 2020 14:37:39 GMT -5
There is a Wal-Mart near Chicago where two workers died of the virus, now most of the stores and Target and some food stores are limiting the amount of people allowed in. They have people waiting in lines almost on top of each other forcing people to go through one door. Are other Wal-Marts in different states doing this now? And if you are looking for masks. Go to the parking lots. Everyone take them off and just leave them laying in the middle of the lot along with gloves. Disgusting pigs. Mine are, but waiting in line is more dangerous than being in together....I go to a different store now
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Post by GBGav on Apr 6, 2020 15:07:10 GMT -5
There is a Wal-Mart near Chicago where two workers died of the virus, now most of the stores and Target and some food stores are limiting the amount of people allowed in. They have people waiting in lines almost on top of each other forcing people to go through one door. Are other Wal-Marts in different states doing this now? And if you are looking for masks. Go to the parking lots. Everyone take them off and just leave them laying in the middle of the lot along with gloves. Disgusting pigs. We've been doing this in the UK for almost two weeks now. Long queue outside stretching around the car park before you're allowed into the supermarket. Had to do it the other day and it took almost half an hour to get inside. Maybe 200 people in the queue. It seems to be working though because there's hardly any empty shelves now and I'm finding what I need. I think before the restrictions on numbers allowed inside people would go from store to store to store and buying more than they needed. But personally I don't want to stand in a long queue at every store so I'll just go to one.
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Post by rowdy1971 on Apr 6, 2020 15:26:08 GMT -5
There is a Wal-Mart near Chicago where two workers died of the virus, now most of the stores and Target and some food stores are limiting the amount of people allowed in. They have people waiting in lines almost on top of each other forcing people to go through one door. Are other Wal-Marts in different states doing this now? And if you are looking for masks. Go to the parking lots. Everyone take them off and just leave them laying in the middle of the lot along with gloves. Disgusting pigs. Mine are, but waiting in line is more dangerous than being in together....I go to a different store now I totally agree. There is only grocery store near me that hasn't done this yet. I'm waiting to hear about the fighting and whatnot that will happen with this.
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Post by The Brain on Apr 6, 2020 15:53:03 GMT -5
There is a Wal-Mart near Chicago where two workers died of the virus, now most of the stores and Target and some food stores are limiting the amount of people allowed in. They have people waiting in lines almost on top of each other forcing people to go through one door. Are other Wal-Marts in different states doing this now? One of the workers of Wawa here in Philly tested positive not long ago so now they are only allowing 6 customers go in at a time.
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Post by Jack Specific on Apr 6, 2020 15:56:22 GMT -5
And if you are looking for masks. Go to the parking lots. Everyone take them off and just leave them laying in the middle of the lot along with gloves. Disgusting pigs. I see used gloves all over the parking lots and in carts. I have a bag in the back of my car for my used gloves and I am not throwing them away. I plan on washing & lysoling them for re-use if need be and it looks like it will come to a point when I have to do that because I cannot find gloves anywhere now either. Sucks I need to run out. Perfect example, Amazon seems to be delaying my subscribed cat food delivery which I can understand. But my cat is running low on the food and I have to go to Petsmart now to get some. I did order it and I can have them put it in my car but still it means going out, putting gloves on to bring the bag in, lysoling the bag, washing hands, etc. It's such a pain in the ass. I know we all have to do our part and I am, I just cannot wait until things go back to normal. We take so many things for granted, even just the simple things.
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Post by Thunder Chunky on Apr 6, 2020 15:57:20 GMT -5
There is a Wal-Mart near Chicago where two workers died of the virus, now most of the stores and Target and some food stores are limiting the amount of people allowed in. They have people waiting in lines almost on top of each other forcing people to go through one door. Are other Wal-Marts in different states doing this now? And if you are looking for masks. Go to the parking lots. Everyone take them off and just leave them laying in the middle of the lot along with gloves. Disgusting pigs. I work at a WalMart in the Midwest, and the store has only the grocery side doors open. The "limit" they put on the amount of customers in the store is a joke. Its 5 customers per 1000 square feet of the store. That ends up being almost 1100 people at once. The formula they came up with includes the backroom, where customers aren't going to be. It's a joke and just a PR stunt.
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Post by Darkhawk on Apr 6, 2020 17:33:46 GMT -5
There is a Wal-Mart near Chicago where two workers died of the virus, now most of the stores and Target and some food stores are limiting the amount of people allowed in. They have people waiting in lines almost on top of each other forcing people to go through one door. Are other Wal-Marts in different states doing this now? And if you are looking for masks. Go to the parking lots. Everyone take them off and just leave them laying in the middle of the lot along with gloves. Disgusting pigs. I work at a WalMart in the Midwest, and the store has only the grocery side doors open. The "limit" they put on the amount of customers in the store is a joke. Its 5 customers per 1000 square feet of the store. That ends up being almost 1100 people at once. The formula they came up with includes the backroom, where customers aren't going to be. It's a joke and just a PR stunt. What's even worse is the customers that just come to browse in the store for 30-40 min, totally unacceptable. People need to just get what they need and go, stores should put a time limit on people.
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Post by Jackass Pacific on Apr 6, 2020 19:00:20 GMT -5
I work at a WalMart in the Midwest, and the store has only the grocery side doors open. The "limit" they put on the amount of customers in the store is a joke. Its 5 customers per 1000 square feet of the store. That ends up being almost 1100 people at once. The formula they came up with includes the backroom, where customers aren't going to be. It's a joke and just a PR stunt. What's even worse is the customers that just come to browse in the store for 30-40 min, totally unacceptable. People need to just get what they need and go, stores should put a time limit on people. would they assign an employee to each customer to make sure they don't exceed the time limit?
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Post by bWo on Apr 6, 2020 19:53:02 GMT -5
I don't know how they'd do it, but I'd like to see a pre-bagged/packaged system that doesn't allow people to shop. Bundles A through J containing varying "essentials should be what's sold." Toilet paper, bread, peanut butter, eggs, fruits/vegetables, milk, etc. etc. etc. People don't need to be wandering the aisles trying to decide what spices they want on their linguine at a time like this. Take your KD and go the f*ck home.
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Post by K5 on Apr 7, 2020 0:24:05 GMT -5
I don't know how they'd do it, but I'd like to see a pre-bagged/packaged system that doesn't allow people to shop. Bundles A through J containing varying "essentials should be what's sold." Toilet paper, bread, peanut butter, eggs, fruits/vegetables, milk, etc. etc. etc. People don't need to be wandering the aisles trying to decide what spices they want on their linguine at a time like this. Take your KD and go the f*ck home. well, something like a preordered bag and then grocery pickup should suffice? I wouldn’t be surprised if things move that way, along with increased delivery.
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