Coronavirus

Covid-19 presents specific challenges for the workplace. In general, indoor areas with lots of people and no air flow are very high-risk areas for the spread of the virus. Here are some general guidelines for working in an age of airbone coronavirus:

1) Try to work from home, if possible. There are lots of ways to work on the computer, with the telephone, and there are lots of free and low cost video-conferencing solutions like Conference-Rooms.US that allow groups meetings, presentations and more with interactive whiteboards, and meeting recording, etc.

2) If you have to work from an office, try to work outside! If you must work inside at a desk, make sure that all the windows are open and use fans to increase air flow indoors. Best yet is to use fans to direct air so that air is sucked up to the ceiling and then blown outside, if possible. This is what airplanes try to do - to direct air vertically - and it can be done in offices.

3) Wear masks or respirators if possible, (we reciommend 3M N95 original and genuine respirators) and practice social distancing at the workplace. Try to touch things as little as possible, and make sure to wash your hands thoroughly often, after touching anything. Do NOT touch your face, mouth, eyes or nose, and do not touch your mask or respirator. If you wear a mask or respirator, leave it on until you are done with it for the day. The outside of your mask could be a particularly dangerous thing to touch as it could harbor the virus.

4) Don't share  cups, glasses, plates or utensils. Don't use office gyms or fitness classes - exercise outside! Take the stairs rather than the elevator, unless the climb is too strenuous. Move desks around to maximise the space between them. Stay positive and get enough sleep and exercise. Be healthy and stay alert and safe.

Mid-July 2020: 

We are seeing more and more US states loosening restrictions so the economy can get going once again, and we are witnessing many young people who are going back to life as it was before the virus - with no social distancing, not wearing masks, getting together with hundreds of other young people in bars, at parties, etc. This is horribly risky behavior - both for themselves and for the more vulnerable people in society - the elderly, the obese, those with underlying kidney or respiratory problems, that could catch the Coronavirus from these young people and need hospitalization or even die from it.

You youths need to be aware that this is not a little flu, rather covid-19 has some very serious long-term disasterously negative effects on one's health for many, many survivors. You think that because you are young and strong that it won't hurt you. Well, you are wrong. It will hospitalize some of you and it will even kill some of you. Furthermore, it will probably or possibly cause long-term damage to your lungs and kidneys as well as your memory and ability to think. Seriously. We don't know how long-term this damage will be, but we know that it is a part of the problem. Many, many covid-19 "survivors" of all sexes and ages never fully recover! Don't play games and take risks with your long-term health. It's not worth it.

The World Health Organization keeps claiming that the Covid-19 virus, known as Coronavirus or SARS-CoV-2 is not being transmitted by aerosol transmission - that is by people who are infected breathing out microscopic particles of Covid-19 that remain in the air for minutes or hours, which can then infect un-infected people who breath those particles in unknowingly. We say the WHO is dead wrong about this. That is why we recommend against going to an indoor gym or fitness center, a movie theatre - especially a small one - or any large indoor gatherings at this time. 

Coronavirus particles can remain infectious in the air for more than an hour, possibly three or four hours, remaining suspended in the air and travelling some distance away from the person who'd breathed them out, with laboratory studies showing it could remain infectious in the air for more than an hour. Replenishing the air in a room was important to avoid spreading the virus, rather than recirculating the air like some air conditioning systems do.

Because of these recent studies, we must assume that it CAN be transmitted this way and modify our behavior accordingly.

The Chinese are the kings of crappy low-quality goods and merchandise. They are taking huge risks working with highly infectious and transmissible viruses like the coronavirus, and other biological agents and chemical agents including those agents used in warfare.

Perhaps the Wuhan virus escaped from the laboratory, above, in Wuhan, that is a bio lab, where they work with bats and bat viruses. Perhaps a Chinese employee of that laboratory decided to make a little extra money by, instead of incinerating infected bats that they were workign on in the lab, took those bats down to the "wet market" to sell, thereby causing the whole novel coronavirus wuhan virus. It's sound plausable to us. That is exactly how something like this could have happened. Of course this whole thing might also have been a test of a new way to start a war - to use one's own people to transmit a highly infectious deadly disease to foreign shores, destroying the enemy's population, economy, and readiness to fight and defend itself?

Communism is Evil. It is a dictatorship by one or more people over all aspects of individuals' lives. Communism censors and censorship is always evil. Therefore no-one should do business with a communist country, and no-one should do business with China. Shame on you freedom-loving people in the West for buying cheap Communist Chinese made products just because they cost a few dollars less. By buying Chinese goods and services, you are contributing to the military build-up of China, and therefore to the death of Western military personnel in the next big war, which will surely pit expansionist China aginst its neighbors and the West. Stop helping the Chinese to build-up their military - stop buying Chinese goods and services. It's as simple as that. Spend a few dommars more for higher quality goods and services, and help your own people - people who are good global citizens, unlike the bad Chinese.