New Coronavirus - COVID-19

[Xist]

I will look into that after I see my clients. Did you see my post about DIY masks? We posted about the same time.

[freebeard]

Not until now. I posted at 11:16 and you edited at 12:11.

As I said I"d discussed this with my doctor. I phoned my son and told him that my ex-wife can make them for her new neighbors and be a hero. She just moved into a senior's high-rise in Seattle.

Not that I expect her to start talking to me.

Did you follow the youtu.be link and see Anton Petrov's green screen set-up?

edit:
When that video completed for me, Youtube recommended one with a young [Asian] woman with nice hands showing how to make a mask out of two paper towels. I bailed on that one, see if it is recommended to you.

For me for now, I have a stack of painters masks.

2nd edit:
The source for the background A. Petrov used:
http://pdb101.rcsb.org/sci-art/goods...ry/coronavirus.

[redpoint5]

I bet a bandana is 90% as effective. The point isn't to filter viruses, it's to keep you from touching your face or otherwise spewing droplets.

I also suspect throwing a used mask into a dryer for 5 minutes kills 99.9% of the viruses.

My work just sent an email asking where I want a UV disinfecting light to be shipped. Sounds like something fun to play with.

15 years ago I had an idea for a baseball cap that had a UV curtain that cast down from the brim. Of course, tilting your head down would then aim that curtain at your body, so if it was effective, it wouldn't be safe. Maybe it would be safe enough so long as you wore a long sleeved shirt.

[freebeard]

15 years ago I had an idea....

OMG! Me too!

Except mine was a geodesic dome that was studded with spikes that emit UV in 360° for overlapping fields of fire. Turns out they would be classified as coronas.

Is the light they are offering near or far UV?

[redpoint5]

I would expect UV-C, though I'll know when I get it. As I've said, I'm surprised hospitals didn't have UV disinfecting rooms 20 years ago. At least they've had no excuse since LEDs are so darn cheap.

Probably toilet seats should have 'em built in too.

[freebeard]

Off-topic but it's about microLEDs:

https://youtu.be/oXIjyD0-iPE This is the Screen of the Next Gen OCULUS AR HEADSET!


Brighter and more efficient, but I'm not sure it it scales.

I have to leave the fortress of solitude because they don't want me to drop cash in the utility company's drive-up box. Wish me luck.

[redpoint5]

I mean, if you had a bank and automatic billing payment, I wouldn't need to wish you luck. Seems there's more risk dealing with physical money than digital.

[freebeard]

The equation has changed hasn't it?

I had ear-marked some of the plague money for getting a smart phone, but I hear in Moscow if you don't have one they just give you one.

At the gas station I took advantage of Oregon State law and just slipped a $20 out the window.

edit: As it happens, I called the utility board and got an abeyance until April the Eighth. The customer service person I talked to has a club that sews pillows for [orphans?] and she will now see the Doctor's video I posted above.

[redpoint5]

At least 2 of us have offered a smart phone, free and clear. Offer stands... although something on my to-do list is to combine the better components of 2 phones into a single phone.

[Xist]

Time and again I proofread my post until I do not catch any errors, post, read it one last time, and find problems. Apparently it took me more than five minutes to fix it.

I planned on stopping at Walmart for a green sheet, but I forgot, and I am not going back now!

I stopped at Harbor Freight for another shop light or two, but they were out. I can order similar ones, although they will cost more.

The client of one mom said that she does not want teletherapy. She does not want in-person therapy, either. I wish that she would just drop me. I cannot drop her [again].

We never even went through "Take me back! It will be different this time!" She just told her support coordinator that she wanted to waste my time again and I was stuck. I told the office that we already dropped them once for excessive cancellations.

"I do not know about that."
Yes she does! I just told her!

The mom of two clients also canceled excessively, although not nearly as much, but they live way further away, down a terrible road on the reservation, and she canceled for the duration of the emergency. She did respond when I asked if she wanted teletherapy.

"How does that work?"
"We are still figuring out the details!"

When I found out that we were allowed to use Zoom I told her about it, but she did not respond. Today I asked her about it again and she asked what Zoom was, so I resent my last message.

I am sure that will help.