CAN WE AUDIOPHILES DO OUR PART?


So we're all tired of hearing about nothing but Covid-19 (or, as I term it, the C-Plague). What can we do, as audiophiles, to help with all this.
I was amazed, and delighted, when I went to the Cardas website to see that they are doing their part. Go to their website and you'll see their director, Angela Cardas, wearing a mask. If you click on the Cardas Nautilus logo in the upper left corner, you'll see pictures of people there in the factory making masks with sewing machines. I called the company to congratulate them, and spoke with a woman named Darla, who said it was their way, during this economic slump, to keep their employees working and also their way of trying to "do our part."
I'm not writing all this to advertise Cardas products. They are a very good company, but trust your ears, not anything I write, when it comes to buying their products. They do get credit, however, for helping me come to a realization that pushed me in the right direction. I called a woman I am friends with, who is 85 years old and is a good seamstress, to suggest she start making masks. She already was--and is. By phone she has organized several other women to do the same, and right now they are needing more material and elastic. I managed to gather about 50 pounds of material and am starting to gather elastic while also getting more material. But I don't sew. I can't help out with that. Any ideas as to what we--all of us who are good with our ears and focused with our budgets--can do to help out in other ways?

I realize this is an odd topic to bring to an audio forum, but it was a very socially responsible audio company that got me to thinking about it, and frankly I believe I should be socially responsible enough to do what I can to get other people to thinking about it. While also being open to other people's ideas about ways someone like me who is "just an audiophile" can help.

Thank you, in advance, for any and all ideas on this.



baumli
Please stop humping my leg, it’s getting chaffed and bloody. Go play in the street little boy.
Do viruses now respect inter-county borders?

The fact that your experience has been different is THE main issue. The response to the pandemic was general and central. THAT was the mistake. Counties in northern California with ZERO cases never needed the same measures as New York City.

@geoffkait Thanks for those mortality rates. That clears up everything. Well, at least it clears up why so many people don't seem to have a clue about this pandemic.

A simple thing that you can do is to sign an online petition to help independent music venues that are struggling because of this pandemic.

The National Independent Venues Association consists of 1300+ music venues from all 50 states. Their website is:

www.nivassoc.org

It will take you less than 1 minute to sign the petition; and, they are NOT asking for any donations.
" If you want to do your part, go out and protest the unconstitutional lockdown and closing of businesses. " DAMN RIGHT this is all political BS to destroy this nation. I can't believe how many can't see the tyrant right in front of them reaching out to take the constitution of the USA away. No face mask and I go where I want and screw these Wuhan Red Death fraud merchants of doom. A death rate lower than flu and pnuemonia and then add into it all the bogus ways they count people to claim they died of Wuhan Red Death. This is the most monstrous and cynical attempt to destroy freedom in my lifetime.