Vogmask have been out of stock for months and came back in stock this morning, and sold out within minutes, again, cause of all the healthy and able people bodied panic buying them, even though vogmasks will do exactly zero to protect them from coronavirus.
Meanwhile, I’m not going to be able to go outside at all without one. I’m going to be trapped in my own home, unable to breathe the air outside as soon as the pollen hits. Which from the look of the rapidly melting snow outside, is going to be pretty fucking soon.
So just in case I’ve not made this clear in multiple posts by now: Stop 👏 Panic 👏 Buying 👏 The 👏 Equipment 👏 Chronically ill 👏 And 👏 Disabled 👏 People 👏 Need 👏 To 👏 Live
These two replies punched me in the face, I’ve never thought about it from this perspective. Imagine how many lives our government endangers just cause they hate poor people
I still feel awful about the time I had to go work making food with what was either a VERY bad cold or a mild case of flu.
But if I had not come in I would have been fired on the spot.
If I had been fired I would have been evicted at the end of the month, as would my husband.
So, what the heck was I supposed to do? If it had just been me I might have risked it and hoped I could get another job straight away; except I was only working that job because there were no effing jobs.
This isn’t limited to food service jobs, either. When I worked at a fortune 500 company, I got chewed out for calling in with the Flu, and told that because it caused such an inconvenience (one of my other co-workers ALSO had the flu), in the future, I would have to give 24 hours notice.
(The boss in question was a prick and got shitcanned shortly thereafter for other shady shit, but the point stands)
It’s absolutely not, but food service and retail are larger public health problems. A food service worker at a busy fast food outlet can infect a lot of people.
I’ve worked at job like that years ago and yes, the absolutely expect you to come in sick. We were told we’d get fired for calling out sick. Our manager flat out told us that if we went to the doctors and he said we’d need to go to the hospital we were to refuse and come in to work.
I currently work in a library within a college with a health allotment of sick days and have for the last 15 years, working for 3 different colleges. Let me tell you, while technically we have the time, the culture of each of the three places I’ve worked for really discourages taking time off for sick days.
The first place just flat out expected me not to be out. It was okay if I came in late (when other people were on) but the shift I worked solo? Nope, I definitely needed to be there for that. The second place was cool if I was out…as long as I was not missing any of my “commitments” like teaching (yes librarians teach) or attending meetings. Please note that both of those examples involve meeting with lots of people. At this place HR called me in to talk to me about how they want me to stop taking time off to take care of my kids when they’re sick. So that was encouraging.
In my case, my job involves interacting with lots of people on a college campus (not to mention townies) so while I don’t think it’s as bad as when I worked directly with food, I’m still working directly with a lot of people a lot of the day. And those people? Largely college students that often feel like they can’t take time out from classes because they’re sick.
On another note, my son’s school has been sending a lot of emails out this year along the lines of: “Well of course we wouldn’t want you to send your kid in sick but even missing a couple days can have a huge impact on their academic career and you wouldn’t want that right?”
It’s just…this is culture we have in America. If we’re not productive in each and every second, we’re bad, lazy, value-less. Idleness is a sin. And this is the culture that this coronavirus is going to hit.
“Idle hands are the devil’s playthings.” This leftover Puritanical bullshit is going to kill even more people than it already does. Goody.
Yup.
Note that this is international. Absolutely the same way in Canada.
Also, and I’m going to say this as a person who works every single day wearing PPE, masks will not protect you.
Number one, you have other exposed mucus membranes like your eyeballs, so unless you’re ALSO wearing completely sealed/fitted safety goggles, your mask is completely fucking useless.
Number two, most face masks that might actually be effective against keeping out viral agents (which, spoiler, almost all OTC masks you have access to aren’t capable of doing this effectively anyway because they’re made to keep out much larger particulates than viruses, like paint or pollen) don’t actually work unless you’ve been fitted for them. At work we have to schedule a fit test and they perform various sets of tests to figure out which mask fits us effectively, and then we’re only allowed to wear that type; and facial hair is NEVER allowed if you’ve got to wear a respirator mask because it completely nullifies the effectiveness of the mask.
Number three, if you’re healthy and you’re wearing a mask over your mouth and nose, you’re actually creating a perfect hot, moist environment for microorganisms to thrive in. You’re actually making it worse for yourself on top of depriving folks who use the masks for actually effective things.
I’m immunocompromised and so is my wife and we’ve been wanting paper masks to deter us from touching our faces to reduce our chances of getting sick, hand sanitizer bc it dries our hands out less than soap, vogmasks bc cold air sets off my asthma and pollen is coming for both of us soon.
Paper masks are never in stock. Hand sanitizer is never in stock. They are obscene prices online rn. I was hoping with the restock I’d have a chance to at LEAST get the vogmasks for us to help with respiratory stuff so we have as little risk as possible for it getting really serious should we get covid or the flu.
I logged in as soon as I could andthey were already out of stock for the same reason I can’t get basic supplies at the drugstore.
STOP HOARDING THE FUCKING SUPPLIES THAT SOME OF US NEED FOR REASONS OTHER THAN IRRATIONAL PANIC OVER A VIRUS THAT WON’T EVEN IMPACT MOST OF YOU VERY BADLY IF AT ALL!!!!
Vogmask have been out of stock for months and came back in stock this morning, and sold out within minutes, again, cause of all the healthy and able people bodied panic buying them, even though vogmasks will do exactly zero to protect them from coronavirus.
Meanwhile, I’m not going to be able to go outside at all without one. I’m going to be trapped in my own home, unable to breathe the air outside as soon as the pollen hits. Which from the look of the rapidly melting snow outside, is going to be pretty fucking soon.
So just in case I’ve not made this clear in multiple posts by now: Stop 👏 Panic 👏 Buying 👏 The 👏 Equipment 👏 Chronically ill 👏 And 👏 Disabled 👏 People 👏 Need 👏 To 👏 Live
handwashing can dramatically lower the risk of contracting coronavirus because it’s an enveloped virus, it’s specifically surrounded in a lipid (fat) and the majority of soaps are designed to break up grease and fat bonds which means if you break up that outer layer? the virus dies! it’s not super hardy without that outer layer, so washing your hands beyond just physically removing the virus, kills it as well if you use soap.
hey friends who need respirator protection for work
they’re selling out everywhere. I had to do some digging to find some replacement organic vapor cartridges that didn’t look like they were from a shady source and went ahead and bought the last two they had
dust masks are near impossible to find in stock, as well as surgical masks, which is kinda sad because they won’t even work for the virus, you need at least an n95
fear is going to keep spreading here in the US so if you’re like me and you rely on these sorts of safety measures for work, maybe stock up now
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