Machinist

I went with 3M 6900 (Large) as it is what I have experience with and before I saw your message Amazon was low stock and MSC was really high. Most of my mask use has been in industrial process and only for short periods.

I will absolutely look into the Scott AV-3000. I only got a couple pair of the full face.

Will do. You have machinery and tooling questions lemme know.

Sounds like your risk assessment is similar to ours on bird flu.

As for prepping, I think it comes down to being realistic about actual threats. I'm a lot more worried about Lyme disease and other tick carried disease than I am being bit by a water moccasin so I treat my clothing with permethrin. I'm a lot more worried about a house fire than a home invasion so I have CO and smoke detectors. Just added an emergency fire ladder to our second floor. Real life isn't a Mad Max movie.

My girl keeps a well stocked pantry and deep freezers. She's experienced food insecurity before, and she manages our food. We stock up on things we already eat when they go on sale. She's read some alarming things about the coffee harvest this year so we now have a year supply of coffee. It will all get used and we are insulated from a big price hike.

Longer term, we hope to raise or hunt all our own meat. Our "prepping" isn't really anything we wouldn't do anyhow. We love venison, rabbit, and now have land to raise a couple of steers.

We have soaps and sanitizers. Keep a good supply on hand, super long shelf life.

With COVID, I got us all half face respirators. I spoke with my girl, I think I'm going to look at getting a couple of full face. Our house is old and has a lot of asbestos in the walls and shingles, so I use the respirator when cutting into a wall along with a HEPA shop vac. Also use my respirator when dealing with moldy hay or bad allergans. So, it's not like I'm wasting money. Thanks for getting me thinking about it. P100 is great for peace of mind.

As far as guns and such, you can't eat ammo or rifles. We have farm and hunting firearms. Thinking a bunch of weapons will be what makes a difference if things got really bad is foolish.

Mostly, we just try and pay attention and anticipate big price changes. We are slowly working towards having less dependance on supply chain disruption. True supply chain independence is a pipe dream and would be a brutal existence.

What does your gut say on the likelihood of it jumping and, if so, when? What would the timeline look like for spread after the jump? Likely CFR?

Sorry to blast you with questions. My level of concern is rising.

It's also potentially relevant because, y'know, what if these gay couples molest kids at elevated rates..?

Pretty sure they don't. No source, but I'm pretty sure that homosexual couples don't engage in pedophilia at rates higher than gen pop.

IIRC, pedophiles generally have a preferred victim gender, but some will go against that preference given opportunity. Also, IIRC, the majority of pedophilic acts are perpetrated by male family members of female victims.

I don't have a source, but I've been hearing for a while now that there is a lot of pseudo science in matching barrels to bullets.

Polygraphs ended up being pretty much complete bullshit and roadside drug tests are real bad about false positives.

IDK, it's basically a tool mark. I've looked at those under microscopes. They vary a whole lot when things are running well. I would think you could only really match something if there was a distinctive abnormal feature.

Nah. Callous disregard for masking and basic safety precautions in the face of a relatively well understood virus.

Chump and him being too vain to wear a mask. The corporations that fell right in line with relaxed masking. All the fuckers that got angry with me for wearing a mask in public. I'm talking red in the face, pissed off at me. Willfull ignorance is the greatest sin and I hope they all suffer profoundly before they die shitting their kidneys out of their eyes.

I'm hoping we get a vaccine that confers really good immunity to bird flu and its 50% mortality rate.

A good vaccine means the whole thing will just sort itself out.

These fuckers tried to kill my immunocompromised family member with COVID. Fuck em.

When it comes to videos showing electrical work, roofing, or other trades; I look for tattoos and such.

If the guy in the video is hard to understand, has a bunch of tats, is filming it poorly in his backyard with wind in his mic, has a cigarette hanging out of his mouth; you're probably getting good advice because he does this shit for a living.

The guy in a neatly ironed polo shirt with a corporate logo, slick video with animations, nice background: that guy has no fucking clue what he's talking about.

I seem to remember a string of copycat attacks where lighter fluid or gas was sprayed inside a kiosk that contained a cashier or person taking tickets. Think there were several deaths.

Expect that an accelerant like gas or lighter fluid was used in this case. Doesn't take much.

Monstrous thing to do.

I'm drinking my coffee, about to get ready and take the kid to a museum. I'll look at it later.

WTF does Israel have to do with it?

I apologize, I hadn't followed the news on Syria. Didn't realize it was that bad.

Is anyone here from Syria? How are you?