COVID - How to protect ourselves

[Kurt]

I'm a solutions orientated person...so here's what I would do.

First, I'm sick of hearing that health care people need n95 masks so the rest of us shouldn't have them. Yes they do need them and they should be an extreme priority. However, everyone else needs them too. I've done the math. There's a big difference when talking about exponential numbers between no protection and 95% protections. Get everyone some damn n95 masks and make us wear them in public for a little while.

Testing and tracking is essential. Make some damn tests like our lives depended on them, because they do.

Social distancing. Distance isn't just about height, length and width. Time is the 4th dimension. Have essential businesses open 24 hours and schedule people to pick up their goods according to some criteria like last number of their social security number. Goods should be delivered curb side whenver possible. Store employees shouldn't be at risk any more than they have to and there's no need to stock shelves. Just fill orders. By spreading out the time we all shop we are greatly increasing our social distancing and if we're not going to work the next morning we can set the alarm for 1 am and go back to bed after we pick up our food.

Put all possible goods outside. The sunlight and warmer weather may help and this will help social distancing too. We shop for as much as we can outdoors and only go inside for the frozen and refrigerated goods, at least during the spring and summer months.

Make some damn disposable gloves and place then in areas of need like going in to stores and at gas pumps.

Have wash stations inside and/or outside of stores.

Educate people how to put on and remove gloves and masks properly.


Make some damn spray bottles of hydrogen peroxide. Hydrogen peroxide has been proven to be very effective at killing COVID. It's H2O2, which is water with an extra oxygen molecule so when it breaks down it becomes water and oxygen, harmless to the environment. Turn everyone into a disinfecting army spraying things like door knobs and gas pump handles in public places. I carry a small spray bottle with me and spray things before and after I use them. It isn't a big deal.

Create a "shoe wash" outside of every store. I've read that the bottom of our shoes could be a means of transmission. Give people the option of standing in a little bleach water (just enough to cover the soles) for a minute when entering and leaving a store...or spray have someone spray them with H2O2 using something like a garden sprayer.

• n95 masks were about $1 each retail, when they were available. I'm sure the manufacturing costs are a lot less.
  
• Disposable gloves are cheap.
  
• Hydrogen peroxide is cheap. You just need a dark bottle because light breaks it down.
  

For a couple of billion dollars we could supply every American with these things (other than the tests). The problem is, we need to actually make them. Or...we can keep spending trillions and losing lives. And when I say "make", I mean make stuff like we did during WWII and the Marshall Plan as if our lives and livelyhood and freedom depend on it, because they do.

Watch this video to see how to take off gloves and masks the correct way:
https://www.facebook.com/LeonBriePersona...336083171/