The Covid19 thread

[Annoyed]

but no one would make any money off of that like they are with disposable paper masks--OH WAIT that would too cynical a thing to say

It is not possible to be too cynical. About anything.

PS: when posting images around here, be sure you uncheck the "Retrieve remote file and reference locally" checkbox on the image selection dialog box. If you don't, you'll find yourself out of your storage allotment fairly soon.

[magi877]

It is not possible to be too cynical. About anything.

PS: when posting images around here, be sure you uncheck the "Retrieve remote file and reference locally" checkbox on the image selection dialog box. If you don't, you'll find yourself out of your storage allotment fairly soon.

OK...break it down for me like i am in kindergarten

where is that at exactly?
thanks

[magi877]

It is not possible to be too cynical. About anything.

PS: when posting images around here, be sure you uncheck the "Retrieve remote file and reference locally" checkbox on the image selection dialog box. If you don't, you'll find yourself out of your storage allotment fairly soon.

if this were xenforo, that wouldn't happen.... just saying

[Annoyed]

if this were xenforo, that wouldn't happen.... just saying

Oh, I agree, the board software is not ideal for its purpose, but 'eh, it's a free site and it's not too hard to figure out workarounds for it's shortcomings.

[Annoyed]

OK...break it down for me like i am in kindergarten

where is that at exactly?
thanks

If you open the insert image dialog in a posting box, and choose the "from URL" tab, there's a checkbox there, that if you leave it checked, the board software will d/l the image and store it locally, rather than loading from the source URL. This eats into your quota.

[magi877]

Oh, I agree, the board software is not ideal for its purpose, but 'eh, it's a free site and it's not too hard to figure out workarounds for it's shortcomings.

free for us or free for the site admin? both?

[magi877]

If you open the insert image dialog in a posting box, and choose the "from URL" tab, there's a checkbox there, that if you leave it checked, the board software will d/l the image and store it locally, rather than loading from the source URL. This eats into your quota.

ok thanks, i saw it

i posted the pic from my PC.. does that effect quota? i see no box to uncheck

[Annoyed]

ok thanks, i saw it

i posted the pic from my PC.. does that effect quota? i see no box to uncheck

If you look at the post I quoted, you'll see the text below in it. Open it up by reply with quote, you see..

Your post has [ATTACH=CONFIG]43085[/ATTACH]

That's the bbcodde to tell the server that that attachment is stored locally. So wherever you got the image from, it is stored on GW's server and counts as your quota use.

If it's something that you're getting off the internet, just add the raw URL of the image into the insert image / from URL tab. And uncheck that little box. That way when the image is needed, you get it from the original server it came from, not GW's.

If it is a picture that is on your camera/whatever, and you can't get it off the 'net, you have to upload, and it will count.

[VampyreWraith]

You can check how much space your using in "my controls" under "attachments".

[Skydiver]

i was responding the OP on UV light and talk of mask sanitizing and their having to wait on an order? not tanning

and if that was the question-sanitization by UV- then could other UV ligth sources be used--such as a SADD lamp or water purifier lamp?

I think one of the issues with UV sterilization is will it break down the mask material? UV light is what ‘kills’ plastics, etc,

I did hear that there is a mask sterilization protocol that someone came up with. Aerosolized something that can be set up in a shipping container and clean thousands of masks at a time.

[magi877]

You can check how much space your using in "my controls" under "attachments".

thanks!

[magi877]

I think one of the issues with UV sterilization is will it break down the mask material? UV light is what ‘kills’ plastics, etc,

I did hear that there is a mask sterilization protocol that someone came up with. Aerosolized something that can be set up in a shipping container and clean thousands of masks at a time.

interesting. i am sure there are lots of ideas/inventions/patents in the works

was it S Galisa who was talking about UV in the first place?
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the best way for medical workers assigned to patients with covid or other highly infectious issues, is to use a hard mask

like the ones in the pic i posted or to use military "gas masks"

as i said, and which i know from using them and attending additional duty training on being a unit cbr defense specialist, these are fitted with filters that are rated to protect from exposure to not only persistent chemical agents but also biological agents that have been weaponized

modern filters were designed with countering Soviet use of weaponized versions of these biologics:

Bacillus anthracis (anthrax)
Yersinia pestis (plague)
Francisella tularensis (tularemia)
Burkholderia mallei (glanders)
Brucella spp (brucellosis)
Coxiella burnetii (Q-fever)
Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEE)
Botulinum toxin (botulism)
Staphylococcal enterotoxin B
Smallpox
Marburg virus

so, pretty sure they could handle corona-viruses

there are literally millions of the current model mask as well as millions more surplus versions with the same filters

but yeah, no money to be made by using them, so, there's that

[Annoyed]

I think one of the issues with UV sterilization is will it break down the mask material? UV light is what ‘kills’ plastics, etc,

I did hear that there is a mask sterilization protocol that someone came up with. Aerosolized something that can be set up in a shipping container and clean thousands of masks at a time.

I don't know about the idea of sterilizing and reusing masks by people other than the original owners. There are more things than coronavirus that can be spread.

As far as my own mask situation, I have to reuse. So I keep a little spray bottle near the hook I hand the mask on. When I get home, I spritz the mask with iso. alcohol, which kills just about everything.

[Falcon Horus]

Once they are responsible then I may consider using in app payments. But as long as the app developers get away Scott free (beyond maybe a little bad press) they have no real motivation to take security seriously. One thing I learned a long time ago is to get something fixed you quite often have to make it someone else’s problem. If a data breach is their fault then they will be motivated to take security seriously when it is very literally costing them more money than they saved by using cheap security.

Right now they save more money than any bad PR will cost them so they have no motivation to do better.

Kinda like Zoom and their security issues -- not a problem because very few people were using it before everbody started working from home, but then came the "boom" and they are exposed for not actually having that security they claim they do.

and if that was the question-sanitization by UV- then could other UV ligth sources be used--such as a SADD lamp or water purifier lamp?

Found you an article that might help clear that up: Ultraviolet LEDs prove effective in eliminating coronavirus from surfaces and, potentially, air and water

Date: April 14, 2020
Source: University of California - Santa Barbara
Summary: Researchers are developing ultraviolet LEDs that have the ability to decontaminate surfaces -- and potentially air and water -- that have come in contact with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Any healthcare systems that are using this kind of "hard" mask is going to have superior protection and ability to be decontaminated over and over

Many, and I think it's safe to say, most of the healthcare personnel are wearing plastic facemasks on top of everything else.
The plastic bands to hold them are 3D-printed (David Hewlett has been doing some printing).

I did hear that there is a mask sterilization protocol that someone came up with. Aerosolized something that can be set up in a shipping container and clean thousands of masks at a time.

I know of a hospital in Belgium who found a way to sterilize PPE's by exposing it to dry air and the cold through the use of containers, but I don't seem to be able to find the article again -- it was in Dutch only so it wouldn't have been of much use anyway.

Bacillus anthracis (anthrax)
Yersinia pestis (plague)
Francisella tularensis (tularemia)
Burkholderia mallei (glanders)
Brucella spp (brucellosis)
Coxiella burnetii (Q-fever)
Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEE)
Botulinum toxin (botulism)
Staphylococcal enterotoxin B
Smallpox
Marburg virus

That's one hell of a list.

[Annoyed]

Kinda like Zoom and their security issues -- not a problem because very few people were using it before everbody started working from home, but then came the "boom" and they are exposed for not actually having that security they claim they do.

This whole zoom/etc. thing could have been easily avoided. I was a work at home since 2012. The company provided the hardware, which included VPN software. You logged onto the VPN in the morning, and for all practical intents your computer is on the corporate network at work. Think of it as your connection to the corp. network going through an encrypted "tunnel" through your home internet conn. So there was no need whatsoever to even risk using open communication software to have meetings and such. Problem solved. Actually, problem never arises.

That's one hell of a list.

But as he pointed out, no one makes $, so.... About time someone around here shows something close to proper cynicism.