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Kentucky worshipers met with nails in road as they defy coronavirus lockdown
A Kentucky church defied coronavirus lockdown orders to hold a packed Easter Sunday service — despite a heavy police presence and even nails blocking the parking lots, according to a report.
Maryville Baptist Church appeared to have a near-full house for its Sunday service despite orders to avoid in-person services — and the heightened risk of catching COVID-19, the Louisville Courier Journal said.
Worshipers arrived even after police warned that they would record their license plates to force them into 14-day quarantines.
Many — including the defiant pastor, the Rev. Jack Roberts — arrived with their plates covered, with officers instead recording their VIN numbers, the paper said.
Even more desperate measures appeared to have been taken to keep the faithful away — with “piles of nails” blocking each entrance, according to photos shared by the Courier Journal.
It was not clear who had left the nails, which were eventually cleared by church volunteers in time for the main arrivals, the paper said.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/12/kentucky-worshippers-met-with-nails-in-road-as-they-defy-lockdown/
Real Life Lion King
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A Man From Switzerland Gives Up a Promising Career and Leaves for South Africa to Save Wild Animals From Poachers
Statistics say we have already lost 43% of African lions and are on our way losing all the elephants within our lifetime because of poaching and loss of habitat. Luckily enough, there are people who love animals so much, that they just can’t stay away from the poaching crisis. In 2017 Dean Schneider, a successful young man from Switzerland, quit his job, sold everything he had, and moved to Africa with a mission to help animals in need.
Here at Bright Side we’ve learned more about Dean’s life changing decision and the remarkable rescue work he’s done so far.
Dean Schneider, from Zurich, Switzerland, fell in love with animals and wildlife at a very young age, and supporting various animal protection projects has always meant a lot to him. Following his passion for wildlife, he made a decision to give up his career as a financial planner and sold all his belongings to start his own project in South Africa.
Dean says that his family and friends did not support him at first, but once they realized how important it was for him, and how serious he was about it, they finally accepted his new way of life.
In South Africa Dean started a project called Hakuna Mipaka which, in Swahili, means “no limits.” Hakuna Mipaka is a large sanctuary that has become home for many abused animals: from captive bred animals, to wild rescues, to wild roaming animals. Many of them were rescued from private zoos where people who bred them kept the poor animals in dreadful conditions.
People often ask Dean why he doesn’t put some of these animals back into the wild, and his explanation is simple: captive bred animals can’t hunt, and they simply cannot survive without human help.
Many more pictures at link.
Email from Amy McGrath, Senate candidate for KY
Some not-so-good news first: Mitch just announced that he had his best fundraising quarter ever (as in, since the 1980s!)—a sign he and his allies are taking this fight very, very seriously.
Now, some great news: This grassroots team did even better. We outraised Mitch by over $5 million—for a total of $12.8 million in the first quarter of 2020. The most impressive part? Our average donation is just $37.
These numbers show, beyond a doubt, that voters are fed up with Mitch McConnell continually putting corporate handouts ahead of working people. People are outraged that he delayed COVID-19 relief funding for 48 hours so that his buddies in Big Pharma could price gouge us on vaccines.
And keep this in mind: This team outraised Mitch while also stepping up to support those most threatened by the current crisis, both through volunteering and supporting our food bank relief efforts. (If you want to make a donation to support the Commonwealth, Common Health Food Bank Relief Fund, you can chip in here.)
It’s safe to say that Mitch has never faced a challenger like Amy before—this grassroots team truly has him in the fight of his political life.
What you all are doing, in the face of unprecedented obstacles, is nothing short of extraordinary. There’s not a doubt in our minds that, if this team can come through at the moments that count most, we can win this. You’re showing we have what it takes.
More soon—but for now, we appreciate you beyond words.
Good illustration--Face masks are reducing COVID-19 infection risk
The primary way of person-to-person corona virus transmission is via aerosols or small droplets created by breathing, sneezing or coughing. The reach of exhaled air can be effectively reduced using a face mask as shown in our video. A simple Schlieren imaging technique is applied to visualize the air flow caused by a person breathing and coughing. Using a face mask the exhaled air flow is blocked reducing effectively the risk of infection. Also nicely shown is the heat transfer from the body to the cooler ambient air. More information about the Schlieren imaging technique is given here.
You can't use ventilators without sedatives. Now the US is running out of those, too.
“It’s like having a car without gas.”
......To save a Covid-19 patient’s life with a ventilator, you also need an ample supply of medications, both to be able to use the machine and to prevent agonizing pain. Experts say there’s a worrisome shortage of those, too — one that’s only expected to grow worse.
“The minute you talk about ventilators you need to talk about medications,” says Esther Choo, an associate professor of emergency medicine at Oregon Health & Science University. Choo says hospitals are already running out of medications like fentanyl, versed, propofol, and even neuromuscular blockades, what she calls “everyday bread and butter medications,” the drugs needed to induce and maintain sedation while on a ventilator. “Ventilators can’t really be used without these medications.”
In severe cases of Covid-19, the patient's’ own immune system can cause their lungs to fill with fluid. At this point, ventilators are a critical tool for keeping people alive. Medical staff insert a tube deep into the lungs in a process called intubation, in order to deliver more oxygen from a ventilator than the patient can inhale on their own.
“You can imagine if I tried to shove a plastic tube down your throat, it’s a very human reflex not to let someone do that,” Choo says. “So we place people in deep sedation.” After the tube is placed in the trachea, patients have to stay sedated — in the case of some Covid-19 patients, that can last for several weeks. Without the right medications, “that experience can be agonizing,” Choo says.
https://www-vox-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2020/4/6/21209589/coronavirus-medicine-ventilators-drug-shortage-sedatives-covid-19
As if we didn't have enough to worry about already. Is tRump preparing for this in any way?
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Dyson designs new ventilator, will produce 15,000 to fight coronavirus
Dyson, the company behind high-tech vacuums and hand dryers, says it has received an emergency order from the United Kingdom for 10,000 ventilators, and it has already designed a new machine.
James Dyson, the billionaire founder, wrote in a letter to employees later obtained by CNN that he received a call from U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson regarding the short supply of ventilators.
Just 10 days later, Dyson wrote that the company has designed and built a new ventilator called the “CoVent.”
"This new device can be manufactured quickly, efficiently and at volume," according to Dyson. It has been designed to "address the specific needs" of coronavirus patients.
In addition to the 10,000 ordered by the U.K.’s National Health Service, Dyson will be donating an additional 5,000 units.
A spokesperson for the company told CNN the CoVents will be ready by early April.
"The core challenge was how to design and deliver a new, sophisticated medical product in volume and in an extremely short space of time," Dyson wrote. "The race is now on to get it into production."
There has been nearly 10,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United Kingdom as of Thursday, according to a database from Johns Hopkins University.
Ventilators are in short supply in the U.S. and all around the world as the coronavirus pandemic rages on. Since the coronavirus attacks the lungs, the machines are crucial to help patients experiencing serious illness.
Companies around the world including Ford, GM and Tesla have been given the green light to begin producing the vital machines.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Monday announced that the electric car company had bought hundreds of ventilators from China and shipped them to the U.S.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/technology/489680-dyson-designs-new-ventilator-will-produce-15000-to-fight
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