Home remediation companies would have the most....

meaning those that do remediation from fire, water and mold damage.

Painting and drywall companies use them to but maybe not N95 grade.

Feel free to pass it on because I don't use social media.

I would guess many of these companies have many dozens of these masks if not hundreds in stores warehouses. They keep a lot around for regular maintenance and scheduled outages.

Same with Tyvek protective suits. They buy them by multiple case lots and in two or three sizes.

Chemical plants would have lots of rubber gloves.

These are a few of the types of plant that would have this stuff in quantities:

* Power plants.

* Paper mills.

* Cement plants.

* Steel and aluminum mills.

* Grain and food production plants where grains and flour are handled.

* Glass plants.

* Chemical plants of all sorts.

* Refineries.

* Mines and ore refining plants and rock crusher plants.

Other:

* Industrial construction companies.

* Industrial service companies.

* Industrial vacuum truck and hazardous waste companies.

If you call such companies, ask for their plant manager, assistant manager or the chief safety officer.

I know these things because I worked in those industries for many years and used those items.

IMPORTANT: Here's a potential source for filter masks.

There's probably a lot of N95s stored away in industry that may can be freed up.

Any plant or construction company might have mask warehoused for industrial use but someone would need to request them.

They are used by the thousands in plants like power plants, paper mills, cement plants and others where dust is involved during routine or maintenance work. They are kept in plant store rooms, maintenance shops and safety offices. I used quite a lot of these during my service work jobs, along with half-face and full-face respirators.

Another potential source would be construction firms that do work in the plants mentioned above and they keep many of them either in a company warehouse or in their construction trailers.

Many of these plants will be slowed or shut down and I really think plant managers would be willing to donate.

I have no idea how a logical connection could be made between medical people and these sources, but government seems the rational path.

Yes but vaguely. I was in grade school.

The things that stuck in mind my are: The adults were absolutely scared to death because some kids had died in our area and I vaguely remember getting the vaccine. Not sure but I'm thinking it was given to us on sugar cubes and maybe more than once.

No one in my family or close friends had the disease but I do recall seeing some kids with the leg braces.

Raised in a small country farm town with grade school and high school on one campus. Don't have good recall from those times even though I had a great childhood.

Many essential oils and some seed oils are powerful anti-virals.

For example, Tea Tree oil is known to be a very powerful killer of many bacteria and viruses from the past. Others of note are ravensara, clove, thyme, camphor, eucalyptus, fenugreek, lime, peppermint, oregano and pine oils.

The problem is, just like many powerful home chemical products, few if any have been tested on this specific virus.

I suggest studying these two papers, two of many available on-line from credibly institutions around the globe that outline some of the current research to date:

Interim guidance for environmental cleaning in non-healthcare facilities exposed to SARS-CoV-2
ECDC TECHNICAL REPORT
18February2020

Link: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/coronavirus-SARS-CoV-2-guidance-environmental-cleaning-non-healthcare-facilities.pdf

and.......

Virucidal Activity of World Health Organization–Recommended Formulations Against Enveloped Viruses, Including Zika, Ebola, and Emerging Coronaviruses

Link: https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/215/6/902/2965582

I would not make specific recommendations to anyone regarding any product - natural or synthetic - with this virus because it is a novel virus which means it's brand-new to science. So, our choices are our own and we make them at our own risk.

KY........

One word: psychopathy.

From an evolutionary viewpoint, my amateur theory is that we all have a touch of psychopath in us from our primitive ancestors, many of which had to be brutal assholes to survive.

Some of us have far more of that genetic trait than others. The ones plagued with a moderate degree of it in the general population are mostly Republicans (or Tories in the UK) and those with a high degree of it are either in prison or are corporate officers.

However, those of us with much lesser effects of that genetic trait are Democrats.

Read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy

KY......

This is guaranteed to touch your heart.

Boris Johnson's libertarian views behind hesitancy to lock down Britain

Restaurants are getting desperate and innovative.

In the last few days, I've gotten emails from several local restaurants offer things like curbside pickup and even delivery from places I never dreamed of....Cracker Barrel and Texas Roadhouse.

Sadly, that does not guarantee what's inside the bag is safe.

Many others have sent emails to assure customers their practices are safe......as best they know.

I told my son who I'm isolated with if we get carry out, it must be something we can reheat to a point known to neutralize this virus but we have not yet got brave enough to try anything.

I'm thinking pizza or pulled-pork BBQ........