Corona Virus #5

Corona Virus Diary #5

Not much is new enough to mention here. I see that CIC supporters are pretending to protest the health and safety related quarantines. From what I read, these are more Trump Rallies than a legitimate posing of potential legal or social issues that may require changes. Everybody wants the economy to get back to full swing. Most of us do not want that at the expense of innumerable deaths and the costs of medical treatment.

At least on the surface, one could argue that the POTUS and his minions do not care much about the health of the society. Since it is the weakest (physically as well as economically) that are more apt to die from this that maybe stripping all quarantine will rid society of those less worthy. I have not yet read an argument against that notion. Where is Jonathon Swift when we need him?

One particular issue that is in high gear is that of wearing masks. Since the common surgical or industrial masks are a rare commodity we all have seen instructions of how to make our own mask. Here are my instructions for making a mask:

1.      Purchase a strip of velcro many years ago

2.      Try to remember why you bought it and why you have saved a 6 inch remnant of that original role

3.      Go to the towel drawer in the kitchen that includes a large handkerchief type of cloth (plaid preferred)

4.      Wonder how you came to possess this cloth-from whence did it find its way into the drawer

5.      Fold the cloth in half

6.      Fold it again in half but rather than have the two ends meet in the middle, leave about an inch between the two ends

7.      Cut the strip of Velcro roughly in half

8.      Lay one part of the Velcro at the end of one of the ends of the folded cloth

9.      Since you have no thread or a needle to sew the strip of Velcro onto get your stapler out and staple the strip to the end of the cloth with at least two staples

10.  Take the second strip of Velcro-the opposite knap of the first and adhere it to the first strip

11.  Stretch it over the one inch gap and across to the other end of the folded cloth

12.  Staple it to the cloth so that you end up with a connecting tie between the two ends of folded cloth

13.  Peel the two pieces of Velcro from each other and wrap the cloth across your face including your nose and re-adhere the two pieces of Velcro

14.  When you where it the first time, cloth fibers perhaps, induce you to a sneezing fit among other costumers at the local grocery store

When you are complete of this project, you will look as I did below  

I probably should have worn a hat