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It's "Medtronic," not "Medtronics."

Also, the AARC recommended in 2006 and 2008 that HHS add 10k+ ventilators to the SNS, but they didn't. The SNS ventilators that were stored were mostly unmaintained and unusable thanks to the lack of maintenance funding.

https://www.aarc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/issue-paper-...

People who don't understand protective rules call them "red tape."

Safety rules are written in blood. - Anonymous

"Regulations" exist to prevent unreasonable, dangerous externalities from being socialized onto the people, like the 1976 swine flu vaccine that killed a number of people because clinical trials were skipped.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_swine_flu_outbreak

But did they get robocalls?

Partisanship is so 1990.

There is only one party, the Property party, with two wings: Democrat and Republican. - Gore Vidal

Tribal bikeshedding about flavors of lying, corrupt sociopaths and their particular brands of chicanery is the surest way to remain divided-and-conquered and ignore the 800 lbs. gorilla in the room: calcified, entrenched corruption that has ubiquitously surrounded and infiltrated the political, economic, judicial and mainstream media systems such that idealistic reforms from within are tilting at windmills while waiting for Godot. It doesn't matter which flavor of party does what, they serve the same masters; the only differences are the theatrical renditions of pseudo-democracy. Voting, petitions, "antiestablishment" candidates, and other ostensible but weak measures are futile to restore power and public administration to work for the people. It is imperative that any actual, successful revolution separate church and state and wealth corruption as a prime directive to prevent a painful relapse.

Day-to-day: When there's a vaccine, in about 18-36 months. If you look at the data, there will likely be multiple lockdowns in order to "reset the clock" on the pandemic curve, but it will probably be like Groundhog Day to lesser degrees over-and-over again with smaller pandemic curves until there's a vaccine. Overall, a million dead globally before a vaccine is deployed.

Economically: 10 years (a long time) because bouncing back isn't possible when ancillary businesses close and cause others to close. Right now, unemployment is going to around 35% whereas the Great Depression peaked at around 23-25%. This is, in essence, the Greater Depression. There were most recently structural problems and the global economy was overdue for a contraction, but not to the depths as being experienced without a pandemic; in essence, it is a forcing function that artificially-depresses economic activity in a lasting manner.

Overall: Not everything will be the same, but some things will. Don't let fear or magical wishful-thinking be guiding forces.

What's this "content" you speak of? My modem only connects to this BBS using Kermit.

[Insert @dang reply to follow HN guidelines.]

Here you go: https://beta.trimread.com/articles/9794

I'm not sure if flagging an April Fool's joke is ironic or humorless. Maybe both?

Edit: okay, it's humorless. Thanks downvoter! <3

That's an parroting FUD to arrogantly and dismissively rationalize removing means of protection from individuals.

There are people who can fit them properly. Use or misuse is a personal responsibility, like most things in life.

Treating the populace like the Radium Girls who were told it was "safe" and ended-up painting their nails, skin and teeth with a deadly substance and dying horrible deaths from it.

F-ing A. I haven't left the house in three weeks and have a year of basic food (3 months of most things). To me, people who continue at this time the European-style habits of shopping at markets every 1-2 days or even every 1-2 weeks like most Americans are dangerously stupid.

Also, after waiting on Instacart customer support for 6 hours today without anyone answering or resolution to missing, damaged goods, and wrong quantities in a single order, even though they're YC alum, I can't honestly use them again (sorry folks). I'd rather make a trip to the markets every 6 months in indirect vent/non-vented goggles and a solid N95 NIOSH mask than pay someone else $60 to buy terrible produce and throw bags onto the ground without any care.

PS: We're "autoclaving" the mail at 170 F for 30 minutes to denature any enveloped virus "guests" and letting packages rest in the garage for 4 days before handling them.

Here's the list for this year, first growing season after recovering from the Nov 2018 fire:

- Red, green & yellow bell peppers

- Jalapeños

- Okra

- Heirloom tomatos

- Cherry tomatos

- Yellow squash

- Zucchini

- Watermelon

- Sweet corn

- Sunflowers

Critters we have to deal with:

- Black bears

- Deer

- Crows

- Blue jays

- Turkeys

- Squirrels

- Snails

- Drug addicts who can't see me or the Glock I'm racking

Obligatory: Shut-up, Beavis.

I was looking at P-wave earthquake alarms after a viral video showed a group of cats simultaneously recognizing the sound/vibration of a P-wave. They're only about $50 USD. Anyone ever tried them and do they work?

That's about 130 miles as the crow flies.

US gas prices are down to $0.95 - $0.97 / gallon.

Seems like it could go lower, but maybe stations and refineries won't reduce prices to maintain profits.

BD no longer makes ventilators. Stryker never did, they make mostly O.R. and hospital kit, tools and accessories. No idea who S&N is.

These are the major global manufacturers:

- Philips Healthcare (Netherlands)

- Vyaire Medical (US) formerly Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD - US)

- Getinge (Sweden)

- Dräger (Germany)

- Smiths Group (UK)

- Hamilton Medical (Switzerland)

- GE Healthcare (US)

- Air Liquide (France)

- Zoll Medical (US)

- Allied Healthcare Products (US)

- Airon Mindray (China)

- Schiller (Switzerland)

- Löwenstein Medical (Germany)

- Medtronic (Ireland after corporate inversion from US)