There was a breaking news article stating the COVID-19 virus is airborne. I am trying to find a second source.

I didn't find a second alert. I guess we will have to wait for Dr. Anthony Fauci (click here).

I am not going to explain the difference between airborne and droplet until the issue presents itself as a real problem.

There is a reason why Trump seeks to remain inflammatory and distracting the public to fear of a virus, it is because his administration is horrible and he likes having a national emergency to carry out assaults against the American people.

Trump will whine and cry about the economy and how this is part of a stimulus to that failing economy. It is nonsense. 

March 30, 2020

Washington - President Donald Trump (click here) is expected to relax ambitious Obama-era vehicle mileage standards and raise the ceiling on damaging fossil fuel emissions for years to come, gutting one of the United States’ single-biggest efforts against climate change.

The Trump administration is expected to release a final rule Tuesday on mileage standards through 2026. The change — making good on the rollback after two years of Trump threatening and fighting states and a faction of automakers that opposed the move — waters down a tough Obama mileage standard that would have encouraged automakers to ramp up production of electric vehicles and more fuel-efficient gas and diesel vehicles.

“When finalized, the rule will benefit our economy, will improve the U.S. fleet’s fuel economy, will make vehicles more affordable, and will save lives by increasing the safety of new vehicles,” EPA spokeswoman Corry Schiermeyer said Monday, ahead of the expected release....

My sincerest sympathies for her loss. 

March 30, 2020
By Hannah Yasharoff

Maria Mercader (click here)

CBS News is mourning Maria Mercader, (click here) a longtime journalist with the news outlet who died in a New York hospital at 54 after battling coronavirus.

In a news release shared Sunday afternoon, CBS remembered Mercader as a "network veteran who covered breaking news for nearly three decades and, most recently, helped shape strategy for the network's correspondents and reporters."

Mercader battled cancer and "related illnesses" for more than 20 years and had been on medical leave "for an unrelated matter" since the end of February, CBS added....

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Hospitals are canceling clinic visits to keep people away from the possible exposure of COVID-19. The people being seen at health clinics are in need of medical attention and not an annual physical exam.

The population of ill citizens in the USA is going up, not coming down. I do not recommend anyone to go to the hospitals unless they are ill. The hospitals are busy.

I suppose their CEOs can be found in a phone call and ask tough questions that way, but, to gregariously go to hospitals looking for clues of wrongdoing is not a good idea.

My take on crime within this paradigm is a "wait and see," perspective. There is the issue of people taking advantage of the money flowing within that paradigm, but, fraud and wrongdoing will be caught.

The crime I am concerned about is COMPROMISE for profit. The medical STRUCTURE that protects people as well as takes care of them cannot be compromised by profiteers. I do not believe the sterilization system introduced by Mike DeWine was ever designed for N95 masks. Unless there are specifications released by the FDA and peer-reviewed those masks can only be used for surgical practices. The process is not proven to be used for N-95 masks. That type of application takes testing to ensure the intact capacity of the N-95 mask. The stakes for taking Trump's word for it are ill doctors and nurses.

This mask sterilization was only introduced by DeWine two days ago. Rushing to judgment about "an answer" rather than THE ANSWER is going to make things worse.

It is not going magically go away any time soon. The lives we are losing are very precious lives.

March 29, 2020
By Stephen L. Betts

Joe Diffie, (click here) a consistent country-music hitmaker throughout the Nineties, died Sunday due to complications related to COVID-19. His publicist confirmed the death to Rolling Stone. Diffie was 61.

With a traditional-leaning voice that drew comparisons to George Jones, Diffie populated his records with honky-tonk ballads and lighthearted novelty tunes, earning the Oklahoma native five Number One singles in the first half of the Nineties. These began with his debut release, the deeply moving “Home,” followed by “If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets),” “Third Rock From the Sun,” “Pickup Man,” and “Bigger Than the Beatles.” In all, Diffie charted 18 Top 10 singles, with the majority reaching the Top Five, including the 1993 radio staples “Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die)” and “John Deere Green.”

The singer was famously name-checked, as were a number of his best-known songs, in Jason Aldean’s 2013 single “1994.” “There are plenty of singers in this town, but not many with a range like his,” Diffie’s fellow Opry star Vince Gill told People magazine in 1993....

Taco Tuesday

March 27, 2020
By Mark King

Since my letter to you on March 13, (click here) things have been changing on a daily basis for us all. But I’ve noticed that one thing hasn’t changed: people are still coming together to help one another and show that they care. At Taco Bell, I’m incredibly proud of how our franchisees and team members are continuing to feed people’s lives with unexpected good and wanted to share a few ways we’re working together to make a larger impact....

A supply of ventilators means ventilators in use, ventilators at the ready and ventilators in for cleaning.

This gets a little crazy because of hospitals' cleaning crews when working with sterilizing and cleaning equipment are finite. There is not an unlimited number of people or cleaning equipment or cleaning solutions at the ready on any given day.

The cleaning regime (click here)

The hospital administrators are facing upping their game to bring on the personnel to handle the cleaning of more ventilators. I alluded to this the other day when I listed jobs in hospitals on "Indeed." A large number of patients need professional staff to bring THERAPEUTICS to return and increase their wellness. But, BEHIND THE SCENES are skilled and unskilled labor that makes a hospital run.

When breathing becomes an issue, there needs to be a ventilator at the ready. These events with breathing are instantaneous and not predictable. A physician ordering the therapeutics might suspect a person may need a ventilator, but, cannot say for sure it is going to be necessary. So, the inventory of ventilators at the ready is vital to saving lives.

HOW DID ALL THIS HAPPEN?

COVID-19 is a NEW virus. People do not have immunity and it is a deadly virus. So, the idea behind "stay at home" and "social distancing" when needed to obtain groceries and medicines is to allow hospitals to be successful in treating all the people that present with the need for help in defeating this virus once a person has contracted it.

This is about the availability of care, not so much as a virus. It is going to be wonderful when there is a vaccine, but, we aren't there yet.

Long ago there was such a disease as "Smallpox" (click here). It no longer exists anymore because of a vaccine.

The First World has many reasons to have difficulty dealing with this reality called COVID-19. A higher quality of wellness, extremely vibrant research and manufacturing that provides curatives and treatments to all Americans. All of a sudden a new virus manifested that will kill people because they have no vaccine or cure of any kind, except seeing people through the course of a deadly virus. Much of what people are dealing with is DENIAL of the emergency. "These things simply don't happen to us." Well. Today, they do.

The research to understand the virus, manufacturing of all supplies to hospitals and the search for a vaccine must go on and will go on past the PEAK number of cases that have the hospitals at a disadvantage. 

It is a difficult time to deal with this PANDEMIC. But, in some ways the Third World is better prepared emotionally and psychologically than the First World to realize the emergency is deadly and people have to listen to those that can help and then modify their behavior. This time the First World will have to listen to those that can help and modify their behavior to end the hospital crisis.

Political lies are dangerous.

The United States of America will never be able to say the country has the lowest per capita rate of infection. 

NEVER.

The USA has already surpassed China with people infected with this virus and China has three times the people. I could go through the math but it is not required.

The reason that is the case is that conservative government is very, very slow to react to danger because their allegiance is to money and not people.

This may or may not be helpful IF the masks being sterilized are N95 masks. It is my understanding that this process is about surgical masks. They are not N95 masks.

March 30, 2020

Columbus - Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (click here) is urging the Food and Drug Administration to fully approve the sterilization of masks in Ohio for healthcare workers and first responders amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

DeWine held a press conference Sunday to appeal to the country after the FDA's decision to limit an Ohio company's capability of sterilizing up to 160,000 masks a day in Ohio....

This is not the best science being used by Governor DeWine and if implemented in isolation units where the COVID patients are being cared for, it will cause illness to occur in the staff. My understanding is that the isolation equipment of N95 masks are in shortage, not surgical masks. If the procedure used for surgical masks is applicable to N95 masks then it should be valuable. I am not sure that is the case though. This is the report that clearly states surgical mask. Surgical masks are not N95 masks.

March 30, 2020
By Kristen Spicker and Thomas Gnau


The FDA gave full approval (click here) to Battelle to utilize new surgical mask sterilization technology, which can decontaminate up to 80,000 masks a day per unit....

If a sterilization process is applied to N95 masks that have not proven to work it could alter the QUALITY of the N95 and expose the wearer to the virus. The virus is very, very, very small and the N95 masks are manufactured to prevent a tiny, microscopic virus from reaching the wearer. A sterilization process could damage the ability of an N95 mask from being effective against a virus by allowing spaces that permit the virus to pass through.

THE FDA IS CORRECT IN LIMITING THE TECHNOLOGY. It is new and could have a much different outcome "in practice." Additionally, I doubt any surgical mask supply that is sterilized will require more than 10,000 masks. There are not that many surgeries per day in any one hospital. Again, surgical masks are not N95 masks.

...DeWine said in a release Sunday that the FDA "made the decision to limit Battelle to sterilizing 10,000 masks a day when they have the capability of sterilizing up to 160,000 a day in Ohio alone."...

There is nothing wrong with New York City having warehouses in New Jersey if it indeed is not a lie. There is only a river between them not 3000 miles of highway.

March 30, 2020
By Eliza Mackintosh

"Nothing (click here) would be worse than declaring victory before the victory is won." President Donald Trump, who repeatedly suggested last week that a win was near, announced yesterday that nationwide social distancing measures would be extended for another month, days after floating the possibility of getting Americans back to work as early as Easter (which is when deaths are currently projected to peak).

Trump's remarks came as top US infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci offered up a stark new estimate: Between 100,000 and 200,000 Americans could die from the coronavirus, even if the US takes aggressive action. Fauci said that projection played a role in Trump's change of heart. The President acknowledged the gravity of the crisis in a somber press conference, referring to the virus' "viciousness" -- but not before rattling off several false claims and bragging about his TV ratings....

Tokyo Olympics is now July 23 - August 8, 2021.

Another report of a patient's experience where the eyes were involved.

...Bruns didn't consider herself to be at risk for COVID-19. (click here) She was working from home and only going out to get supplies for her family and her mother who is battling lung disease from asbestos exposure. She almost always wore a mask. (at home) Please don't panic the public. The six feet of social distancing is working.

"The only thing I can think of is I was exposed to it at a place where I was picking up supplies," Bruns said.

She started feeling bad Friday March 20. By Monday she went to her doctors office for a coronavirus test.

"I had some abdominal pains, got a bad migraine and started having pain in my eyes, behind my eyes," Bruns said.

She was exhausted. Sleeping 19 hours a day and then came the cough. By Wednesday, still awaiting results, her symptoms worsened. She went to the ER, where they took another test and admitted her for dehydration. She was on some oxygen. When her test came back Friday, she was released to full in home quarantine....

I think this information is important because if this TRACT is the first manifestation of symptoms it can provide a clue to people to self-quarantine, BUT, also it means there is a method to understand the initial method of replication of the virus. It is attaching itself to neural DNA initally. That could be a point of study to find a way to end it.

March 30, 2020
By Lea Skene

Eleven East Baton Rouge residents (click here) have now died from coronavirus after three more deaths were reported over the weekend, the parish coroner's office confirmed Monday morning.

The first was a woman aged 33 with multiple underlying medical conditions who was hospitalized Friday and died the following day, East Baton Rouge Coroner Dr. Beau Clark said in a news release.

Another woman, age 88, died Sunday after almost a week in the hospital. She also had underlying medical conditions that made her particularly vulnerable to the effects of COVID-19, Clark said....