Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

I will raise you.

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U.S.-based company 3M said Friday that it has been asked by the Trump administration not to supply N95 respirators to Canada amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.

https://globalnews.ca/news/6772979/coronavirus-3m-n95-respirators-trump-canada/

Revenge for that handshake

First five mask components finished. Five more nearly done and another five will be done by morning.

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Ugh. I'd forgotten about that cringeness.

Wait till they hear about bangface!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1245876816922972162

Imagine he was shocked they were supplying non-US contracts

Amazing.

Forum ride to Bangface 2021, celebrate surviving Covid in styleeeeee....

https://youtu.be/jVyK9cZ4BMY

Not exactly amazed Jimm's flatmate got sick tbh...

Little Big in the house!

Saw a girl in a Bangface Hard Crew jacket on my run the other day - gave her an extra wide berth based on this thread.

https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/hta-turns-its-3d-printers-to-producing-face-masks-for-nhs-staff/10046774.article - dunno if viewable without subscription but they're doing same as you:

A small HTA team, led by senior associate Richard Foxley, is using four printers, relocated from its Edinburgh and London offices to employees’ homes, to make the personal protective equipment (PPE). It hopes to make between 50 and 60 masks a day when fully up to speed.

HTA prints head pieces, which are then delivered by DHL to a central hub in Manchester to have plastic visors fitted. Once assembled, the masks are sterilised and packaged, and put into the NHS supply chain.

Worth keeping an eye on for local businesses still open and looking for trade: https://www.myvirtualneighbourhood.com/find-your-neighbourhood

Dear lord that makes me feel older than I even am.

Thanks. Looks like the same initiative. Makes me feel a bit better that it might actually be useful.

Interestingly they are using a different design

Yeah also says that the hygienising bit happens after they're assembled

I'm thinking of volunteering to fix bikes for people that need them to get to work. In my experience bike shops are very busy and buses are also reduced in Belfast.

We have lots of tools at home. Of course not unlimited parts, but things like piling, gear adjustment, cable replacement are all possible.

But, I don't want to take away from bike shop business. It would really be for workers only. Should I offer this?

Any further developments or news on this?

The US have also stolen 200.000 masks that were ordered for the Police in Berlin. Order
was placed with 3M, manufactured in China and stolen in transit in Bankgok.
German source:
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/corona-krise-usa-konfiszieren-200-000-fuer-berlin-bestimmte-schutzmasken-a-7e22b2d4-53b4-4675-8cce-1778b4333dd6

It seemed crazy at the time. The Liverpool v Atletico Madrid game at Anfield is also being blamed for a lot of spread of cases on Merseyside.

Jesus, I think I don't like MDMA anymore.

Has anyone else received Boris' £5.7 million letter yet?

Steady ... ! You’ll come round once this is all over .... !

America banned 3M from exporting masks to Canada.

3M buys in pulp from Canada.

I seriously hope Canada has some balls and bans the pulp required being exported.

steady on. let's not go too far here... throw the baby out with the bathwater so to speak.