Till now my work only supplied cloth masks
Very thankful to capitalism for providing us with efficient production and distribution so that workers like me can stay safe :comfy:
Till now my work only supplied cloth masks
Very thankful to capitalism for providing us with efficient production and distribution so that workers like me can stay safe :comfy:
Yeah I bought a pack of n95 masks for cheap during February last year before the pandemic went worldwide. I knew what was going to happen and tried to prepare as best as my broke ass could. People laughed at me for thinking that Covid 19 would spread worldwide, and laughed at me for wearing a mask back in February 2020 before my country even knew we had covid cases present. Well unfortunately my doomer brain and predictions were right and I fucking hate it.
I got so lucky that I have allergies - I bought a 10 pack a year before the pandemic to clean out my basement. I realized I still had them, and that they were n95 all along. I'm still reusing the same 6 that I didn't give to friends.
Yeah same. If they're getting a bit icky and you can't afford a replacement, you can sterilise them in a convection oven like in this YouTube video. Or even place them under your cars windshield if it's sunny outside. Also to make the n95s last longer (and look nicer too, if you're fashion conscious) you can wear a large fabric mask over it. These things have probably been life savers for me so far.
I had masks, 70% iso, and gloves when the pandemic started just because I grow mushrooms and need those regularly, so I always have a lot of them. That's a hobby that may have saved me from COVID.
What was the transitional moment from "Damn looks like there's a virus over in China, hopefully it gets stamped out like SARS/Bird Flu/whatever" to "oh this is probably already here, and they definitely aren't going to stop it at this rate" for you? I had a moment of my own, but it was after there were already U.S. cases (so it was after March 1st). I had a friend mention it to me on the night of Bernie's Nevada win, and idk how you folks were so observant.
The moment for me was when the situation in Italy started getting out of control and lockdowns were being implemented there around early-mid Feb. It then clicked that if it was happening there, the same situation would happen in almost any country and I tried to prepare as best as possible. I remember seeing an article on new years day about a mysterious new virus from China and didn't think much of it. But after it hit Italy like that in the beginning, it set in for me that it's probably spread to most countries in the world by now.
Ah I was too busy tracking the Democratic primary like a :LIB: to notice what was happening in Italy. Like so many things it seems obvious now.
Yeah after reports came out at the same time that Italy and Spain estimated they had community spread since late December I went into full panic mode. Also due to a lack of data early on it seemed like the infection fatality rate was much higher than it actually is (it's still insanely high for such a transmissible disease) which didn't help at all.
But it felt like watching a train wreck or car crash in super slow motion and and not being able to do anything about it. The airports at my country did the whole "covid theatre" at the time with thermal imaging cameras which was useless because Covid was probably already spreading in the country at the time, and due to asymptomatic transmission. We needed to lock down and plan like Vietnam did but didn't.
I definitely had the "stereotypical zombie movie" experience of background news reports and a general aura/mood of something going down in the background until everything went kinda wild. As soon as I was fully onboard with "this is real" (a bit behind you, but a bit ahead of the average American) the absolute tripping and stumbling and failure to make even the minimum amount of moves until it was a week late was total "slow motion car crash" mood.
in mid/early february of 2020 when the WHO was making a big fuss about NOT labeling covid a pandemic yet because it was too early
I was like, oh okay, this is gonna be fucking BAD huh?