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'We are in dire need': Toronto nurse sends public video plea for supplies from inside a COVID-19 unit
As a former national bikini champion, Alex Cane's social media following gives her a large platform, reaching beyond the usual medical circles
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Folks, if you can spare anything to help these people now is the time.
My fiance and i have donated over 400 masks to various hospitals in the last week.
For those in the North/East End;
First Choice Supermarket at 7866 Kennedy (just south of 407) sells very basic type masks but even those would be a help at this point. $45 per box of 50. you can find them at the customer service counter just to the left as you enter.
Can’t they autoclave some of these things? Also, there’s something fishy going on if you can purchase the masks in a store still but the province can’t source them?
There could be a bigger issue soon if Fauci and other scientists advocate wider public wearing of masks (they are deliberating on this right now).
I have 4 out of the packet, years old (ie no use for healthcare) drywalling disposable masks at home. If either of us has a cough they get put on but I can’t believe these things are sold out everywhere. Where the heck did they go?
There could be a bigger issue soon if Fauci and other scientists advocate wider public wearing of masks (they are deliberating on this right now).
I have 4 out of the packet, years old (ie no use for healthcare) drywalling disposable masks at home. If either of us has a cough they get put on but I can’t believe these things are sold out everywhere. Where the heck did they go?
I found a couple of organic vapour masks in my paint supplies and dusted them off. Decades old. Like the home made versions I suspect they don't filter the right way but at least you don't inhale other people's boogers
What is the magic ingredient on an N95 mask that makes it work? I can understand stopping droplets but stopping the actual nano little sponge bobs with cloth would be like protecting yourself from mosquitos with a snow fence.
I hate to be the Debbie Downer but I don't know how the U.S. gets through the year without at least 1.5 million deaths. If 50% get infected with a 1% mortality rate that equates to 1.5 million deaths.
Add in a lack of medical resources like ventilators, people getting inadequate or late care due to their haphazard medical system of public and private and that they are not doing nearly enough to slow the spread.
Gah... I hope I'm wrong. Was heartwrenching to watch Chris Cuomo tonight and then Don Lemon afterwards openly crying out of worry for his dear friend and colleague.
These are crazy times. My Dad is in his mid 70s as is my Mon with severe C.O.P.D. I have cautioned him so much to stop with the daily excurions to the grocery store to help his neighbors. If Mom gets it she's toast. Specialists have told her that. Yet, my own father can't stay in the damn house for one day!
In my own home I worry about my wife because she has Multiple Sclerosis and Covid 19 would not be kind to her. I drive a transit bus so I have likely been exposed before my company finally followed everyone else and did rear door boarding only. Sadly, they only got to putting the signs on the bus today. You do not want to know how many times this week already someone has crossed the new yellow line and gotten into my space to ask some stupid question about why the bus Wifi is slow or some other unnecessary question. Meanwhile 90% of my passengers currently are either homeless or bored teenagers. Neither group is making an effort at social distancing.
Ford needs to shut it all down. For at least 3 weeks. The open a bit and shut down again. Unless or until we get really widespread testing we are playing Russian Roulette with our health and healthcare system.
All of this talk of no groups beyond 5 but where I work we have hundreds of buses running around violating these directives and spreading this. Windsor got it right. Shut it down.
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I really do like Fauci. I'm old enough to remember SARS and he actually reminds me a lot of Donald Low... plain speaking, open, pragmatic, doesn't get baited by the media.
We have been in complete lock down for 2 weeks now. San Francisco is a ghost town. There is absolutely no-one on the streets. Only Police and Grocery Trucks. If it's gong to have an impact on the rate of infection I would expect to see it flattening over the next week. The experts have said — cautiously — that social distancing efforts appear to be making a difference so fingers crossed.
Testing is also in full swing. Some of those testing stations are doing 20000 tests a day and they are even going into the tent cities for the homeless and illegals. No point testing the rest of us if its spreading like wildfire across that population.
The good thing about the Bay Area is that most of the accommodation is Single Family homes. I would imaging in New York, particularly in the 5 Boroughs where there is a lot of high rise, it must be very difficult to control. You have to go and get food and those common areas must be like a petri dish by now. Pressing the lobby button must be a real crap shoot.
My next door neighbour is a Pulmonologist. She has been pulling 12-16 hour shifts for the last 2 weeks. You really can't say enough about the front line workers putting their health on the line to help others, particularly public health that has basically kept the doors of the clinics open 7x24 for the last month
Even better, no excuse to try and force Florida to take the risks....Look at the flag on the back, sail there or one of their ports post haste.
While I agreed with that approach in the past, that time has passed. At this point it is a humanitarian crisis and the closest port should help them. Sort out the politics later (eg. no cruise ship flying a foreign flag is allowed in a US port in the future). Cut off their largest market and they will switch from the flag of convenience to one that costs them a bit more but also provides them with the help they obviously need occasionally.
sburns
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I think what you are doing is great!'We are in dire need': Toronto nurse sends public video plea for supplies from inside a COVID-19 unit
As a former national bikini champion, Alex Cane's social media following gives her a large platform, reaching beyond the usual medical circles
Folks, if you can spare anything to help these people now is the time.
My fiance and i have donated over 400 masks to various hospitals in the last week.
For those in the North/East End;
First Choice Supermarket at 7866 Kennedy (just south of 407) sells very basic type masks but even those would be a help at this point. $45 per box of 50. you can find them at the customer service counter just to the left as you enter.
Not to put spin on it but my skeptical mind is like
Hmm if the health care industry can't get enough masks supplies, how can these stores acquire them for this purpose of donations, why aren't they just donating them directly. And if they have a source, stop buyng them so healthcare can buy or get them directly.
Tic Toc. Posted by a friend in Ottawa. Again, inter-provincial arbitrary border is stupid. Infection rates are probably similar on both sides. This is just another step towards essential travel only.
"Ottawa and Gatineau police are installing additional cameras on the 5 bridges connecting Ottawa to Gatineau and will be doing vehicle checks asking why you are crossing the inter-provincial borders. Vehicles may be turned around if not deemed essential to prevent the spread of covid-19. Source: CBC News 24 Hour News Channel "
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Apparently this is a QC initiative. It started at noon today.
"Ottawa and Gatineau police are installing additional cameras on the 5 bridges connecting Ottawa to Gatineau and will be doing vehicle checks asking why you are crossing the inter-provincial borders. Vehicles may be turned around if not deemed essential to prevent the spread of covid-19. Source: CBC News 24 Hour News Channel "
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Apparently this is a QC initiative. It started at noon today.
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It's on the Pacific side and can't get through the canal. As far as it going to Florida in the event that Panama allows them through the canal, well, that's a case of having your cake and finding out you can't eat it. Find a Dutch port in the Caribbean.
The Vaandam and Rotterdam are both just north of cuba.
Last news I read the Zaandam was stuck on the west side. Dutch flag, find a Dutch port still stands.
So basically a day, maybe two days sail to the Sint Maarten Cruise Terminal...
even better...there are medical schools peppered over these islands (they offer MDs for students who don’t usually have the grades in their home countries....for a steep price).
bigpoppa
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I've seen students with top notch grades get rejected, maybe they just want to keep the club exclusive?
rejected from the Carib med schools?
Had a buddy on site leave due to feeling flu like symptoms, and he rented a car from BC to Calgary. Said the biggest issue is that none of the small towns along the route were allowing people to stop and had to keep going. Drive thru McD's, and maybe gas...that's it. So if you're crossing the country, finding accommodation for the route may be the hardest part.
Our site is effectively shutting down, with COVID as a reason, and they're keeping a bare bones team on site for 3 months with no return home unless absolutely necessary. Not sure what I'll say if they ask me to go af
More from Jason Kenney (closing essential services...):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Vb3Qwl7tQ&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Vb3Qwl7tQ&feature=youtu.be
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