*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

'Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday that the company’s factory in Buffalo, New York will open “as soon as humanly possible” to produce ventilators that are in short supply due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

His comments, which were made Wednesday via Twitter, follows previous statements by the CEO outlining plans to either donate ventilators or work to increase production of the critical piece of medical equipment needed for patients who are hospitalized with COVID-19, a respiratory disease caused by coronavirus."

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/25/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-new-york-gigafactory-will-reopen-for-ventilator-production/

Dyson has received an order from the UK government for 10,000 ventilators to support efforts by the country's National Health Service to treat coronavirus patients.

James Dyson, the company's billionaire founder, confirmed the order in a letter to employees shared with CNN on Wednesday.

'Desperate' shortage of ventilators for coronavirus patients puts manufacturers on wartime footing
"A ventilator supports a patient who is no longer able to maintain their own airways, but sadly there is currently a significant shortage, both in the UK and other countries around the world," Dyson wrote.

Dyson said the company had designed and built an entirely new ventilator, called the "CoVent," since he received a call 10 days ago from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/26/tech/dyson-ventilators-coronavirus/index.html

@IOcase I could also suggest you look at my blog post about choosing an instance, which has a number of descriptions of some I participate in and like.

https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/is-it-important-which-instance-you-are-in

@IOcase Hello, and welcome to Qoto.

Enjoy the network and all it has to offer. If you are new to using Mastodon, there's a good guide here: https://lifehacker.com/a-beginner-s-guide-to-mastodon-1828503235

We also have another new users guide, posted here : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/suggestions-and-guidelines-for-new-users-written-by-mastodon-art-administrator

@rinakra you can send a direct message to @freemo and make the request. He will ask you to confirm and eventually process the request.

#humour #linux #unix

"The global oil market has been hammered this month by an economic slowdown and a price war between major producers Saudi Arabia and Russia. Canada’s storage situation mirrors that across the continent. U.S. crude prices are down 60 per cent since the start of the year, and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) settled at US$24.49 a barrel on Wednesday. Western Canada Select heavy oil blend was priced at US$8.84 a barrel, according to NE2 Group.

With economic pain spreading, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday to “rise to the occasion” and bring stability back to oil and financial markets that are reeling because of the novel coronavirus and resulting pandemic."

It would certainly make sense to pressure the Saudis to stop dumping oil as they are, which is hurting badly producers here in North America and elsewhere. Excessive production, at a time when demand collapsed.

Soon many small players will be broke. Canadian heavy oil at 9 USD per barrel?? US fracking can't be economical at the current WTI level either.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canadas-oil-industry-facing-deep-production-cuts-as-demand-dwindles/

A liv epidemic model at the New York Times = you can see numerical estimated results of changing various parameters on the current pandemic situation. #QOTOJournal

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/25/opinion/coronavirus-trump-reopen-america.html

"The shock to the global economy from Covid-19 has been faster and more severe than the 2008 global financial crisisand even the Great Depression. In those two previous episodes, stock markets collapsed by 50% or more, credit markets froze up, massive bankruptcies followed, unemployment rates soared above 10% and GDP contracted at an annualised rate of 10% or more. But all of this took around three years to play out. In the current crisis, similarly dire macroeconomic and financial outcomes have materialised in three weeks."

Economic scenario outline by professor Noriel Roubini, who acurately forecasted the 2008 financial crisis (a year before it happened) is pretty bleak. I like reading his pieces, beware that this one is a bit bleak.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/25/coronavirus-pandemic-has-delivered-the-fastest-deepest-economic-shock-in-history

Might as well add a nice photo of Sao Pedro de Moel, which is a nice place to visit, and specially wonderful for touring cyclists. 😃

Video even? https://youtu.be/RFDEBHjmFyk

Found the correct location of the beach on the photo, it's not as I thought Sao Pedro de Moel, but the Praia do Carvoeiro, near Peniche, North of Lisbon in the portuguese coast.

"CARVOEIRO

Cabo Carvoeiro is located on the far western corner of the peninsular of Peniche, in a zone of great beauty due to the curious geological formations that have been sculpted by the sea over time, such as the Nau dos Corvos, a large boulder which resembles a giant, half-shipwrecked vessel.

This site offers spectacular views over the sea and the Berlenga islands, and is also an excellent spot for observing sea birds."

from : http://www.living-algarve.com/places-interest-algarve/

"Bacalhau a Lagareiro" is my favourite way of preparing Salted and dried Cod. This photo shows a nicely made portion on a plate.

A great recipe and nice photos is on Nelson Carvalheiro's website : https://nelsoncarvalheiro.com/bacalhau-recipe/

More recipes, videos, photos? https://www.bing.com/search?q=Bacalhau++a+lagareiro

Some beauty to cheer us all up.

I found this beautiful photo this morning, as a background image on a website. I think I have visited this location, and if I am right it would be Praia de Sao Pedro de Moel, in the center region of Portugal.

I stayed overnight in the nice campground, so a magnificent sunset into the Atlantic from the cliff top. Back in 2017, bicycle touring Portugal.

Some great photos of beaches in the Leiria region of Portugal in this page : https://countrytodiscover.wordpress.com/2018/04/02/beaches-in-leiria/

@zleap @schestowitz A good explanation on this site, I think: https://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-respirator-and-vs-ventilator/

@Sphinx We had a good social group going here in December, January, but some have drifted away for various reasons. Now it's less connected, there are some different user groups posting, some active in conversations with people in other mastodon servers, colleagues from Twitter now migrated here.

But it's nice to see our friends posting, and it makes one feel like posting more once again. 😉

From The Guardian - these REpublicans are unblievable.

Another "Very Stable Genius" kind of guy.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/24/older-people-would-rather-die-than-let-covid-19-lockdown-harm-us-economy-texas-official-dan-patrick

@Sphinx Hi, I am ok, reading a lot and trying to keep up with the ongoings of the pandemic and the economic downturn that possibly could be quite large.

But personally I am well, trying to stay home as much as possible, live in a smaller city, so that helps too. Hope all is well with you, Sphinx!

Here's the pdf file with the patterns for the mask -- three sizes, small, medium, large.

They are available on her website but need some digging around to find. Hope this helps. 😄

PDF file at OneDrive : https://1drv.ms/b/s!AkeSSy1Q30XMhoEXdvndbnQ8m6CHyg?e=EJr2he

A public service announcement -- a friend sent me an email with the info on this blog page. Pattern and instructions for home making your own masks, it looks likely that this will be a major issue very soon.

NY Times article I read mentioned that doctors in a Brooklyn, NY hospital were already being forced to re-use their disposable masks, due to lack of replacements.

Another NYT article quoted state procurement personnel saying that masks that usually sold for $0.85 each (85 cents USD) are not costing them about 7 dollars EACH. Profiteering is rearing its ugly head.

Consider making your own.

https://jennifermaker.com/face-mask-patterns-cricut/