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3D KF94s are my preferred masks by far, but all my favorites (Bluna, BOTN, Korea-Mask) seem to be out of stock. Thankfully, I go through them very slowly so my small stash should last a while.
I've been having the same issue lately with the brands we like being out of stock. I don't know if it's because they're just more in demand here lately or if there's been less coming over from Korea.
With two kids in school plus me using them, we go through a lot (which is expensive ). Luckily I have a pretty good stash because I figured the kids would be wearing them though most/all of the school year, but I'm always on the look out for more.
Said something similar in our back and forth yesterday, which could be a good or bad thing I suppose LOL.
Enough of the goal posts moving. Set a baseline for what our lives, from a public health perspective, look like in this new world and let’s get on with it.
So going back to the testing expenses that I brought up earlier. I don't know how legit this site is, but lets just assume it is semi-accurate for the sake of argument:
So according to that, the federal goverment has spent about 24 billion dollars on testing, with an allowance of about 52 billion.
Lets assume that we continue to get lower-severity variants similar to Omicron, but people decide they're not going to get vaccinated every 5 months and vaccination rates go down. Because of this, we start seeing even more hospitalizations.
What would be wrong with halting testing on anything but symptomatic people (ie you go to your doctor when you need to get tested, like with any other virus), and redirect that money toward building and staffing additional hospital capacity that we are inevitably going to need going forward? Also use that money to supplement salaries of those working directly with Covid patients, in order to provide incentive to keep those positions staffed?
I realize this is likely way-oversimplified, the amount we're spending on testing is absolutely crazy, and at this point really what is the point? We're not doing any sort of contract tracing anymore because it's impossible, and usually by the time someone has tested positive, the damage has already been done. Testing at this point should be for determining plan of care, that's it. Just like when you get tested for strep, flu, etc, etc, etc.
Also read today that the feds are thinking about providing free N95's to everyone. Great idea in theory, but expensive as hell, and way too late. The boat has long sailed on that. Should have been done two years ago.
While I will never not acknowledge just how perfectly savage the name of that sub is, that story….
Woof.
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). Luckily I have a pretty good stash because I figured the kids would be wearing them though most/all of the school year, but I'm always on the look out for more.
