March 31 (T), 2020
At this chaotic juncture, still, some people question, defy or bicker about the social distancing and the rest of relevant self-isolation, self-quarantine "gentle and nice" codes or "advice"!!! The right-wing conservative national talkshow mouthpieces, indeed, never lack the energy to contribute to life-n-death disarrays. Yesterday, a local golf course requested to open for golfers, because keeping 6-foot social distance wasn't an issue in the vast golf ground. I could understand that the anxiety of losing business and the desire for outdoor relaxation were important to return to the normalcy...
It is hard for me to see all these "apocalyptic" pandemoniums hitting the US now after my cautiously studying what happened from late January to the end of March in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and S. Korea.
It looks like rerunning the videos - heartlessly in saying so. More or less, now, New York is re-playing Wuhan at the end of January. New Orlean is acting out South Korea, and Michigan, Japan... The whole calamity directs toward what has happened in Italy and Spain! No one truly knows how stringent, Taiwan, the first whistle-blowing country, the very first one started on fighting the Pandemic since January 25.
I shared a post on Facebook how shocked I was on February 5, in reading the rendering of the first case happening in Wisconsin (the 12th of the US). The missing protocols (the health caregivers' PPE issues) in screening, testing, treating, self-quarantine, and tracking the contacted people and places frightened me tremendously.
I also shared an observation on facebook ( March 16 ) about a trip to a local hospital with a friend.
The frontline register associates faced a sick role's severe coughing droplets without any basic protection gears. I reluctantly took out of my facial-mask from my bag to distance this sick role. That precarious action truly scared several people in the hospital. For, in this still peaceful region (during Mid March), the facial mask looks like a monster, particularly, worn by a non-Caucasian!!
Before I left the hospital, I found a courageous RN to share my thoughts and suggestion: "Please provide those frontline register associates, at least, with facial masks, in addition to your hospital's protective measures."
During the last two weeks, I had a couple of shopping trips for groceries with my hat and shades on, plus, facial masks in my pocket. I still had not had enough courage to wear one which my sister mailed me from her friend in Taiwan. So I possess a couple of pieces of N95 - priceless!! Wearing a facial mask, a taboo, here, a small-town in Wisconsin!!!? Reluctantly, I had to use a piece of a handkerchief that looked less menacing, covering my nose and mouth. Awkwardly, I completed one of the most adventurous trips during the challenging times - shopping for food.
And now, people may gradually understand that hoarding toilet papers, mainly, was because the facial masks were unknown items, and most importantly, unavailable!
These "low-end" production lines almost don't exist in the US. (3M has been increasing different types of facial, surgical masks and respirators...etc. equipment after vice president Pence's visiting.) Surly, the unit price will be much more costly than that of MIC- made in China! (The governmental subsidy is needed.)
To prevent people from panickingly competing for the medical resources with the healthcare personnel, the facial mask was "mystified." None of the people on the west side of the Pacific rim don't understand how important the facial mask is. Taiwan even invented software in early February to calculate the production lines/capacity and the way to distribute to residents by households and ID card for the fair quota to everyone.
China does everything for We, The People... This low-end dependency may turn into a powerful security strategic weaponry...
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Today, I heard some regions that due to a small amount of penalty imposed on violating the social distancing rule, the infectious condition was slow down a little bit.At this chaotic juncture, still, some people question, defy or bicker about the social distancing and the rest of relevant self-isolation, self-quarantine "gentle and nice" codes or "advice"!!! The right-wing conservative national talkshow mouthpieces, indeed, never lack the energy to contribute to life-n-death disarrays. Yesterday, a local golf course requested to open for golfers, because keeping 6-foot social distance wasn't an issue in the vast golf ground. I could understand that the anxiety of losing business and the desire for outdoor relaxation were important to return to the normalcy...
It is hard for me to see all these "apocalyptic" pandemoniums hitting the US now after my cautiously studying what happened from late January to the end of March in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and S. Korea.
It looks like rerunning the videos - heartlessly in saying so. More or less, now, New York is re-playing Wuhan at the end of January. New Orlean is acting out South Korea, and Michigan, Japan... The whole calamity directs toward what has happened in Italy and Spain! No one truly knows how stringent, Taiwan, the first whistle-blowing country, the very first one started on fighting the Pandemic since January 25.
I shared a post on Facebook how shocked I was on February 5, in reading the rendering of the first case happening in Wisconsin (the 12th of the US). The missing protocols (the health caregivers' PPE issues) in screening, testing, treating, self-quarantine, and tracking the contacted people and places frightened me tremendously.
I also shared an observation on facebook ( March 16 ) about a trip to a local hospital with a friend.
The frontline register associates faced a sick role's severe coughing droplets without any basic protection gears. I reluctantly took out of my facial-mask from my bag to distance this sick role. That precarious action truly scared several people in the hospital. For, in this still peaceful region (during Mid March), the facial mask looks like a monster, particularly, worn by a non-Caucasian!!
Before I left the hospital, I found a courageous RN to share my thoughts and suggestion: "Please provide those frontline register associates, at least, with facial masks, in addition to your hospital's protective measures."
During the last two weeks, I had a couple of shopping trips for groceries with my hat and shades on, plus, facial masks in my pocket. I still had not had enough courage to wear one which my sister mailed me from her friend in Taiwan. So I possess a couple of pieces of N95 - priceless!! Wearing a facial mask, a taboo, here, a small-town in Wisconsin!!!? Reluctantly, I had to use a piece of a handkerchief that looked less menacing, covering my nose and mouth. Awkwardly, I completed one of the most adventurous trips during the challenging times - shopping for food.
And now, people may gradually understand that hoarding toilet papers, mainly, was because the facial masks were unknown items, and most importantly, unavailable!
These "low-end" production lines almost don't exist in the US. (3M has been increasing different types of facial, surgical masks and respirators...etc. equipment after vice president Pence's visiting.) Surly, the unit price will be much more costly than that of MIC- made in China! (The governmental subsidy is needed.)
To prevent people from panickingly competing for the medical resources with the healthcare personnel, the facial mask was "mystified." None of the people on the west side of the Pacific rim don't understand how important the facial mask is. Taiwan even invented software in early February to calculate the production lines/capacity and the way to distribute to residents by households and ID card for the fair quota to everyone.
China does everything for We, The People... This low-end dependency may turn into a powerful security strategic weaponry...
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