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2020-03-21 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Coronavirus update: Hospital CEO says face mask supplier charging $7 for 58-cent masks amid coronavirus crisis

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Posted by Fred 2020-03-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Yeah, and Home Depot is sold out of dust masks.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-21 00:24|| 2020-03-21 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Sort of like those $18.00 aspirin and $22.00 band aids at the hospital. Pot, meet kettle.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-21 00:31|| 2020-03-21 00:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Irritating, isn't it?

Posted by gorb 2020-03-21 02:48|| 2020-03-21 02:48|| Front Page Top

#4 CEO going public might be the only price gouging disinfectant.

Posted by Woodrow 2020-03-21 07:48|| 2020-03-21 07:48|| Front Page Top

#5 18% were 45–54 years, and 20% were aged 20–44 years,” the report by the CDC said.

The Dallas Morning News headline on the front page a few days ago read 'Corona Virus Significantly Affects Young People.'

Later on, they clarified they meant "under 55".

Under 55: The New Young.

Posted by Bobby 2020-03-21 09:11|| 2020-03-21 09:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Brazil's health system will collapse by April: Health minister

Brazil: 210 million people, 977 cases, 11 deaths. I can see why their health system will 'collapse next month'. [sarc]

Posted by Bobby 2020-03-21 09:18|| 2020-03-21 09:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Same page Skid linked:

3M N95 Sanding Painted Surfaces Respirator Dust Masks ((20-Pack) (Case of 4))
Model# 8110PB1-A (64)
$79.88 /case Limit 10 per order

That's a buck each, if you buy 80. Now, I didn't actually try to order any...

Posted by Bobby 2020-03-21 09:22|| 2020-03-21 09:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Now, I didn't actually try to order any

Wanna bet they're out?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-21 09:27|| 2020-03-21 09:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Nope. Site updated:

Out of stock online
Not sold in stores

Posted by Bobby 2020-03-21 10:49|| 2020-03-21 10:49|| Front Page Top

#10 #9 Nope ????

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-21 10:53|| 2020-03-21 10:53|| Front Page Top

#11 This is how markets work. The alternatives are worse.

Posted by Iblis 2020-03-21 11:51|| 2020-03-21 11:51|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ Yes. Elizabeth Warren would have a trans child decide if you could have a mask.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-21 12:50|| 2020-03-21 12:50|| Front Page Top

#13 /\ In Communism there were "Party Member only stores" where the shelves were always full and the stores for normal people had long lines and empty shelves. Apparatchiks like Elizabeth Warren would always get hers first.

Posted by magpie 2020-03-21 13:14|| 2020-03-21 13:14|| Front Page Top

#14 It Pays to Be Rich During a Pandemic

Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-21 14:44|| 2020-03-21 14:44|| Front Page Top

#15 ^But the rest of the time it sucks!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-21 14:52|| 2020-03-21 14:52|| Front Page Top

#16 It Pays to Be Rich During a Pandemic in major population areas

1. if you insist in being in the middle of a man made Petri dish of millions of other human beings piled upon each other.

2. where most of your neighbors are not just as well armed as your body guards and likely to tolerate theft or appropriation of the commons.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-03-21 15:25|| 2020-03-21 15:25|| Front Page Top

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