Having worked as a store detective for a number of years, I can assure you that if you offer payment in cash and they refuse to accept the payment, you can leave the store with the goods and no court can find you guilty of theft. One of the main principles of larceny that you have to prove is that at no time was payment offered. Happy shopping 😀. In fact, if you were stopped outside by any security you can sue them for false arrest and false imprisonment. You could also sue for defamation if anybody witnessed you being stopped by security which would be highly likely. Ching Ching

~Ben Gilroy

Good way to pump the numbers. Pay people to be tested. 🤦‍♂️

"The Victorian Government is providing a $300 Coronavirus (COVID-19) Test Isolation Payment to support Victorian workers, including parents and guardians, who are required to self-isolate while you wait for the results of your coronavirus (COVID-19) test. "

https://www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/financial-support-coronavirus-covid-19#300-coronavirus-covid-19-test-isolation-payment

BOMBSHELL: Dr Anthony Fauci has known for at least 15 years that Hydroxychloroquine #HCQ is a wonder drug treatment and preventative for #Coronavirus

#Covid19

The Gestapo also relied on such civilian loyalists to be their eyes and ears.

The forth reich is nigh.

Phase 4 Ireland extended postponed : Pubs will not reopen until at least August 31, number of countries removed from Green List

PUBS, nightclubs and casinos will remain closed for at least another three weeks, the Michéal Martin has stated.

Face coverings will also be mandatory in shops and shopping centres from August 10 and five countries have been taken off the green list.

Pubs will not reopen until at least August 31 There will also be an 11pm 'curfew' on restaurants and pubs that serve food.

Michéal Martin said he realised this news would come as a blow to publicans but lets face it he doesn't really care.

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“For those who don't quite understand. There is currently....

1. No regulation on who makes all these masks.
2. No regulation what they are made from.
3. No CE marking.
4 No British Standards.
5. No testing done to see if they are compliant.
6. No hygiene tests on the material or premises they are made in.
7. No checks to see if people are breathing in material fibres
8. No Instruction on cleaning or what washing fashion masks will do.
9. No warnings about single use masks being used over and over.
10. No tests to see what is breeding in the mask.

And to top it off there are people putting them on their children and babies ☹️😢

I feel sorry for workers in physical jobs being forced to wear them in the middle of summer. 0 health and safety! They are only guidelines! Employers should be liable for any health implications that follow.” FH

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 June 1, 2020

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curated by Marilyn M. Singleton, M.D., J.D.

Transmission of SARS-CoV-2

Note: A COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) particle is 0.125 micrometers (μm); influenza virus size is 0.08 – 0.12 μm; a human hair is about 150 μm.

*1 nm = 0.001 micron; 1000 nm = 1 micron; Micrometer (μm) is the preferred name for micron (an older term)

1 meter is = 1,000,000,000 nm or 1,000,000 microns

Droplets

Virus is transmitted through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs, sneezes or talks. Larger respiratory droplets (>5 μm) remain in the air for only a short time and travel only short distances, generally <1 meter. They fall to the ground quickly. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30245-9/fulltext

This idea guides the CDC’s advice to maintain at least a 6-foot distance.

Virus-laden small (<5 μm) aerosolized droplets can remain in the air for at least 3 hours and travel long distances. https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMc2004973?articleTools=true

Air currents

In air conditioned environment these large droplets may travel farther.

However, ventilation — even the opening of an entrance door and a small window can dilute the number of small droplets to one half after 30 seconds. (This study looked at droplets from uninfected persons). This is clinically relevant because poorly ventilated and populated spaces, like public transport and nursing homes, have high SARS-CoV-2 disease transmission despite physical distancing. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30245-9/fulltext

Objects and surfaces

Person to person touching

The CDC’s most recent statement regarding contracting COVID-19 from touching surfaces: “Based on data from lab studies on Covid-19 and what we know about similar respiratory diseases, it may be possible that a person can get Covid-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose or possibly their eyes,” the agency wrote. “But this isn’t thought to be the main way the virus spreads. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/s0522-cdc-updates-covid-transmission.html. 

Chinese study with data taken from swabs on surfaces around the hospital
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0885_article?deliveryName=USCDC_333-DM25707

The surfaces where tested with the PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test, which greatly amplifies the viral genetic material if it is present. That material is detectable when a person is actively infected. This is thought to be the most reliable test.

Computer mouse (ICU 6/8, 75%; General ward (GW) 1/5, 20%)

Trash cans (ICU 3/5, 60%; GW 0/8)

Sickbed handrails (ICU 6/14, 42.9%; GW 0/12)

Doorknobs (GW 1/12, 8.3%)

81.3% of the miscellaneous personal items were positive:

Exercise equipment

Medical equipment (spirometer, pulse oximeter, nasal cannula)

PC and iPads

Reading glasses

Cellular phones (83.3% positive for viral RNA)

Remote controls for in-room TVs (64.7% percent positive)

Toilets (81.0% positive)

Room surfaces (80.4% of all sampled)

Bedside tables and bed rails (75.0%)

Window ledges (81.8%)

Plastic: up to 2-3 days

Stainless Steel: up to 2-3 days

Cardboard: up to 1 day

Copper: up to 4 hours

Floor – gravity causes droplets to fall to the floor. Half of ICU workers all had virus on the bottoms of their shoes

Filter Efficiency and Fit

*Data from a University of Illinois at Chicago review

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/commentary-masks-all-covid-19-not-based-sound-data

HEPA (high efficiency particulate air) filters – 99.97 – 100% efficient. HEPA filters are tested with particles that are 0.125 μm.

Masks and respirators work by collecting particles through several physical mechanisms, including diffusion (small particles) and interception and impaction (large particles)

N95 filt

ering facepiece respirators (FFRs) are constructed from electret (a dielectric material that has a quasi-permanent electric charge. An electret generates internal and external electric fields so the filter material has electrostatic attraction for additional collection of all particle sizes. As flow increases, particles will be collected less efficiently.

N95 – A properly fitted N95 will block 95% of tiny air particles down to 0.3 μm from reaching the wearer’s face. https://www.honeywell.com/en-us/newsroom/news/2020/03/n95-masks-explained.

But even these have problems: many have exhalation valve for easier breathing and less moisture inside the mask.

Surgical masks are designed to protect patients from a surgeon’s respiratory droplets, aren’t effective at blocking particles smaller than 100 μm. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:VLXWeZBll7YJ:https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/957730O/respirators-and-surgical-masks-contrast-technical-bulletin.pdf+&cd=13&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Filter efficiency was measured across a wide range of small particle sizes (0.02 to 1 µm) at 33 and 99 L/min.

N95 respirators had efficiencies greater than 95% (as expected).

T-shirts had 10% efficiency,

Scarves 10% to 20%,

Cloth masks 10% to 30%,

Sweatshirts 20% to 40%, and

Towels 40%.

All of the cloth masks and materials had near zero efficiency at 0.3 µm, a particle size that easily penetrates into the lungs.

Another study evaluated 44 masks, respirators, and other materials with similar methods and small aerosols (0.08 and 0.22 µm).

N95 FFR filter efficiency was greater than 95%.

Medical masks – 55% efficiency

General masks – 38% and

Handkerchiefs – 2% (one layer) to 13% (four layers) efficiency.

Conclusion: Wearing masks will not reduce SARS-CoV-2.

N95 masks protect health care workers, but are not recommended for source control transmission.

Surgical masks are better than cloth but not very efficient at preventing emissions from infected patients.

Cloth masks will be ineffective at preventing SARS-CoV-2 transmission, whether worn as source control or as personal protective equipment (PPE).

“Masks may confuse that message and give people a false sense of security. If masks had been the solution in Asia, shouldn’t they have stopped the pandemic before it spread elsewhere?”

*The first randomized controlled trial of cloth masks. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577

Penetration of cloth masks by particles was 97% and medical masks 44%, 3M Vflex 9105 N95 (0.1%), 3M 9320 N95 (<0.01%).

Moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks and poor filtration may result in increased risk of infection.

The virus may survive on the surface of the face- masks

Self-contamination through repeated use and improper doffing is possible. A contaminated cloth mask may transfer pathogen from the mask to the bare hands of the wearer.

Cloth masks should not be recommended for health care workers, particularly in high-risk situations, and guidelines need to be updated.

*A study of 4 patients in South Korea

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1342

Known patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 wore masks and coughed into a Petrie dish. “Both surgical and cotton masks seem to be ineffective in preventing the dissemination of SARS–CoV-2 from the coughs of patients with COVID-19 to the environment and external mask surface.”

*Singapore Study – Few people used mask correctly

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/publichealth/86601

Overall, data were collected from 714 men and women. About half the sample were women and all adult ages were represented. Only 90 participants (12.6%, 95% CI 10.3%-15.3%) passed the visual mask fit test. About three-quarters performed strap placement incorrectly, 61% left a “visible gap between the mask and skin,” and about 60% didn’t tighten the nose-clip.

*A 2011 randomized Australian clinical trial of standard medical/surgical masks

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1750-2659.2011.00198.x?fbclid=IwAR3kRYVYDKb0aR-su9_me9_vY6a8KVR4HZ17J2A_80f_fXUABRQdhQlc8Wo

Medical mask