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Manufacturers have stop shipping Masks and other protective gear to retail. Everything is going to the the Healthcare Industry. HomeDepot will not get resuppli
by hourislate 7y ago
Manufacturers have stop shipping Masks and other protective gear to retail. Everything is going to the the Healthcare Industry.
HomeDepot will not get resupplied, Hospital down the street will get everything.
- Aeolun 7y agoSo we’re not containing the spread, we’re just fighting symptoms. Joe can get sick, as long as the doctor treating him doesn’t?
- ggm 7y agoDo you even understand risk planning and management? Triage? If the masks help people in direct contact maintain health and deliver health services more people survive, than if random people consume masks without contact or assessed risk. Masks are in short supply? What's the rationale to NOT direct masks to higher efficiency outcomes. We don't all consume naltrexone in case heroin accidentally falls in our mouth. Prophylactic use of antibiotics ruined antibiotics because of emerged resistance. If you know you need a mask you can get one. If you want a mask at the cost of a health professional doing their job, shame on you. Joe doesn't know he's sick. Joe won't avoid getting sick wearing a P2 mask. A health worker in P2 mask and gloves can avoid cross infection risks and help reduce transmission working in an environment of higher risk exposure. if Joe is infected and knows he is infected he will either be hospitalized or isolated. If Joe is prodromal the likelihood the knows and uses a mask to good effect is lower than the likelihood nobody knows and he isn't sick and the mask is wasted. Do the maths.
- ianai 7y agoActually masks aren’t meant to help keep a person from getting sick. For that, wash your hands frequently and wear gloves. Masks are for people infected. Contain the contagion at the source with a mask. Doesn’t do anybody good for the paranoid to have all the masks.
- mantap 7y agoMasks don't but respirators do. You can safely read "mask" as "respirator" in this thread.
- kps 7y ago‘Particulate Filtering Facepiece Respirator’ is the NIOSH term.
- ggm 7y agoI repeat: Joe doesn't know he's sick. His mask is worth wearing if he knows he's sick. If he just suspects he's sick then a low grade hospital mask will contain sneezes and sniffles enough to reduce his fomite impact, although gloves might do more. Most Joes are wearing masks and wasting masks in a false belief they confer protection.
- monksy 7y agoThis is really bad for the construction industry. Spraying oil based paints, environments with asbestos, dealing with lead paint, spraying insulation, and other really chemical heavy operations require protective gear.
- CriticalCathed 7y agocan you say for certain that home depot supplies the construction industry to such an extreme degree that it will be really bad? maybe for small businesses, but the bigger ones have independent suppliers that aren't home depot for their shit.
- sizzle 7y agoGearing up hospitals to protect before a possible full blown outbreak ranks higher than private industry specific needs. If those construction employers care, they can pay the premium supply vs demand price increase not their employees.
- blhack 7y agoWhere are you reading this? I have friends in the medical industry telling me that their surgical mask suppliers have started restricting orders.
- hourislate 7y agoThe article was behind a paywall, I have posted an outline link in support of my previous post. Article: With masks for coronavirus in demand, Fort Worth-area company selling only to hospitals | Fort Worth Star-Telegram https://outline.com/XF3nwJ https://outline.com/XF3nwJ