We were lied to when we were told that face masks did not make us safer. It's now coming out that the reason people were told that face masks were not necessary was because there were not enough to go to health care providers and first responders. They didn't want citizens to take up all the masks that were needed by those at the pandemic's front lines. But now it's clear that we absolutely all should be using masks.

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We were lied to when we were told that face masks did not make us safer.

It's now coming out that the reason people were told that face masks were not necessary was because there were not enough to go to health care providers and first responders. They didn't want citizens to take up all the masks that were needed by those at the pandemic's front lines.

But now it's clear that we absolutely all should be using masks. In some places people are already being fined for not wearing them.

So wear them. And order them or make your own.

You can get them on Amazon, but they come from China, so they take three weeks or more, or even longer, unless you pay a rush fee of $20, which will get them to you in a week to two weeks. I ordered 50 last week and paid the extra $20 and they're supposed to arrive tomorrow, a week after I ordered them. Checking Amazon, it looks like the best you can do, is, paying a stiff shipping charge, get masks in a week or two. Regular shipping puts delivery into May or even June.

Meanwhile, I've taken a ski mask, which includes a nose hole and breathing holes, and I've stapled a portion of a vacuum cleaner bag to filter where the holes are. Having a shaved head, I'm also wearing a hat. And I wear my glasses, not my contact lenses when I go out. My ER doctor friend says they will double or triple up on wearing masks. I'll probably do that when my supply comes in.

I've found disposable gloves at reasonable prices at restaurant supply stores and dollar stores. The best deal was 30 for a dollar at a dollar store.

I still can't find any isopropyl alcohol. The stores where I've asked have said that either none has come in or that very small amounts come in and then fly out the door. Alcohol is not usually on the list of things the MSM talk about but it's not to be found. The reason I want it is I want to make my own hand sanitizer, that I can also use to clean up stuff when I come home and attempt to decontaminate.

So, please, please, wear the masks, wear gloves and stay safe.

If you do go to a store beware the employees. I give them all the credit in the world for showing up, though they probably don't have a choice. But I've found that workers at stores are the absolutely worse at maintaining that six foot separation.

The best place I've been so far was Lowes. They put up plastic screens from above the head to just below chest level, to protect employees and customers at the checkout counter. Most stores are not even providing masks or gloves.

Some stores are providing disinfectant wipes at their doors so you can wipe the carts. Some are bringing carts in and wiping them for you. Others are still ignoring all these considerations. I'm either using gloves or I grab a handful of the produce bags that are available in grocery story produce departments. I am trying not to touch anything.

This shouldn't be this way. Some companies are still shipping these supplies to other countries. There should be federal orders stopping all of those sales, and the president should be using the Stafford act to order companies to start producing a lot more of all of these, as much as possible. Unfortunately, with globalization, some production of these goods has totally and permanently left the United States. We can only get them from other countries, particularly China. Thank Democrats and Republicans for their loving embrace of global trade deals-- particularly Clinton, Obama and Biden.

How about you. How are you handling these days and your safety?

Authors Bio:

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.

Check out his platform at RobKall.com

He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity

He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com

more detailed bio:

Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.

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