Holy shit, this is a great idea. 

Bill Nye is so great at making experiments that are easy to reproduce. Not only should you wear a mask, you can also check how effective your mask is!!

Walking in on dad trading stocks

Rich people are always telling the rest of us that if we are short of money, we should stop eating out or going out to movies or clubs or concerts. And now that we have, the economy is collapsing and they want us to eat out and spend on diversions again as soon as possible.

day one of quarantine. i’ve gathered my most glamorous friends with the most shocking secrets to my secluded mansion. but there’s been a mysterious murder…….

irresponsible gathering. im calling the police

there was also a murder

Update

Further update after reading the article:

NEW YORK IS LOOKING AT HOW THEY CAN PROSECUTE BEZOS.

Firing people for organizing a union is Very Very Illegal. 

How to make a washable cloth mask out of a bandana that is slightly better than just using a bandana.

(With hand sewing)

(And no rulers or measuring tape because I couldn’t find any in my house)

You will need:

To wear the mask rest the top on the bridge of your nose and make sure the bottom is under your chin. Tie the strips closed tightly enough that the mask doesn’t slip down when you move your head.

Wash the mask after wearing it out, use water over 165 Fahrenheit to sanitize it before you wear it again.

Wash your hands, avoid going out if you can, and this mask is not intended to be perfect protection, just something better than wrapping a scarf around your face for folks who can’t get masks and don’t have easy access to sewing machines or a lot of fabric.

Stay safe.

yay, pattern for someone who doesn’t have a sewing machine or any sewing ability!

ok, question:

what’s best practice for washing if you don’t have a washing machine? like can you use a microwave instead of boiling water on the stove?

submitted by someone who is not used to washing fabric by hand, and who doesn’t have onsite access for laundry or an outside place to hang dry

Do you have an oven? If you have an oven set the temp to 165 Fahrenheit and heat the masks in the oven for 20 minutes.

Or, yes, microwaved boiled water is just as good as stove boiled water. Put a bowl on the counter, put the mask in the bowl, microwave water in a mug (most home microwaves will get close to boiling 12oz of water with 2 minutes on the quick cook/one touch options) pour over the mask until the mask is covered, let stand until cool enough to touch.

Once the mask is sanitized you can hand wash it with the rest of your clothes. Wring out as much water as you can, re-shape the pleats, and lay flat to dry to preserve the pleats (which, aside from expanding the size of the mask also help to block droplets so keeping the pleat is pretty important!). If you have an iron you can hang the masks to dry in your shower and iron the pleats back into place after the mask is dry.

@rly-rad-val​ said:

Guess what county I live in.

when people say “useless”, they’re talking from the perspective of medical hospital guidelines, even if they don’t realize it.

Will it protect you 100%? No. Fancy Schmancy N95 masks only protect you 95% (thats what the number means), and only if you use them right. But even if its vaguely in front of your mouth hole, and even if it’s cheap bandana material, it will, just as a completely random unscientific number pulled from my ass, protect you 25%. If you’re a doctor, and you see sick patient after sick patient, that 25% gets multiplied each time - ie 25% of 25% of 25% of…. => 0%

BUT, if you’re not a medical professional, that 25% (again, random number, don’t put too much on that) will give you more than 0% protection as you run to the store & run home. If you’re considered an “essential employee” however, then your situation is closer to the medical professional one, and you should try & get that % up as high as possible (which again creates a detrimental market force - you have a deteriorating commodity which you must continually resupply & fight against everyone else resupplying).

Reminds me of some old adage - if you take a shot of liquor with every bartender you meet, you’ll be buzzed but you’ll pass out & feel better in the morning.

If the bartender takes a shot with every patron he meets, he dies.

Anyway, Stay Home Kids :)

people: it may be a quarantine but at least content creators have more time to work on a lot of new stuff which we can enjoy now!

content creators with depression: 

we rlly went from 20gayteen to 20biteen to 20quarantine

fun fact: the word quarantine comes from quarantena, meaning “forty days”, used in 14th-15th-century Venetian language (the period that all ships were required to be isolated before passengers and crew could go ashore during the Black Death plague)

so 2020, or 20 + 20 = quarantine

dammit, we should’ve seen this coming

well you know what they say about hindsight

Quarantine in Spain. 3rd day

Uptown Theater in Minneapolis

with both covid-19 + the primaries going on I’ve heard ppl say some truly awful stuff about “boomers” as if all old people are rich conservative white men who deserve to be wiped out, so I drew up this graphic feat. stories of some of the elders I’ve met through work and activism.

“boomer” is not a coherent class. now more than ever it is imperative that the working class stands together, while celebrities sing silly songs in their mansions we must organize to meet community needs, regardless of age we are all comrades in the same fight!