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(7,888 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,611 posts)FM123
(10,053 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,818 posts)are the ones to be worshipped in our country.
Thank you all, our thoughts are focused on you as angles and our saviors.......
A friend tells me that the FAA is having such an illness absentee problem in NY air traffic control that the ones that show up are getting 25% extra pay.........
Stryst
(714 posts)I made $195/month, working ten hours a day, six days a week. Maybe if this attitude was more prevalent in the past might have meant that our health systems weren't currently critically undermanned.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)yes INDEED
Stryst
(714 posts)... we might get better pay and education benefits for those going into health care.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)but I guarantee you after a Democrat has had to clean up all this mess, people will go right back to voting for conservative assholes
Mr.Bill
(24,284 posts)I married one.
Celerity
(43,343 posts)nurse at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn. So far she is ok but her co-workers are dropping like flies.
Mr.Bill
(24,284 posts)but we both volunteer at the hospital. The hospital shut down volunteer operations two weeks ago so my wife has organized a group of ladies from her quilting club and they are making masks for the doctors and nurses. They are using virus grade furnace filter pieces for filters. Today we got a major donation of fabric (100% cotton is the best to use) and I drove over to the other side of the county to pick it up. Several hundred yards still wrapped in bolts.
Celerity
(43,343 posts)great leadership from Cuomo and de Blasio. If NY had a Trump-style prat in charge, the devastation would be insane. It still may well be, despite all the efforts.
stage left
(2,962 posts)Can you give me a bit of detail about the furnace filter pieces? I'm a quilter and I could make these, too, for hospitals here in S.C. We're about to have trouble here because Guvnah McMaster is a Trumper idiot. Plus we're filled with Trumpers who will not keep their butts at home. Thanks.
Mr.Bill
(24,284 posts)to contact hospitals in your area to see if they are accepting masks and if they are, chances are there is already a network of people working on them and they can put you in touch with them. This way there would be some uniformity in the masks. Just google Face Mask Patterns and you will find all the information you need.
We are using furnace filters with a MERV 13 rating. We take the filter apart, get rid of the cardboard and wire (this is a bit tedious) then take the corrugated material and iron it flat. You can get 50+ filters from one furnace filter. They slip into a pocket in the mask. Around here home improvement centers and hardware stores are classified as essential businesses and are still open.
I'll do that.
yonder
(9,664 posts)Which wouldn't have made any difference because she would absolutely answer the call if she were retired. We're both anxious about what she might bring home. Two weeks ago we decided to change our living arrangements by sleeping in separate rooms, use separate showers, etc., anything to avoid getting this thing.
However this pans out, I could not be more proud of her and every other health care provider on the front lines.
49 years ago and still going strong!
AllaN01Bear
(18,191 posts)MontanaMama
(23,313 posts)DemoTex
(25,396 posts)Queen for a Lifetime.
malaise
(268,976 posts)Rec
Celerity
(43,343 posts)hugz,
Cel <3
malaise
(268,976 posts)It was 26 with one death up to noon. We're almost completely locked down. They actually closed our walking venue. That hurts but whatever.
Celerity
(43,343 posts)Mountain View, Trenchtown, etc.
malaise
(268,976 posts)Most of downtown is ignoring the social distancing. It is shocking.
Celerity
(43,343 posts)stay safe!!!
malaise
(268,976 posts)but how do people who live on top of one another practice social distancing.
malaise
(268,976 posts)stage left
(2,962 posts)My sister's neighbor is a nurse.
Hav
(5,969 posts)about the high percentage of workers in the healthcare sector that got the virus. That was very alarming and tragic. And yet, there is no alternative for those who are healthy and afraid to get infected as well, they can't just do the job from home.
They are our final line of defense and I had to think how catastrophic it would be if that line would fall. At the very least, it is shameful that a wealthy country cannot even guarantee them the proper equipment so that they receive the best possible protection when doing their work.