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
" 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.
Getting awfully snarky in here, folks. 
My 2 cents:
pay attention to the health care professionals,
not the political hacks and talking heads.
Stay safe.
There are piles of bodies telling us that this is not just the flu.
" There are piles of bodies telling us that this is not just the flu. "
  You seriously need to do some research into how they change the calculation of Wuhan to fit the need. For instance in Virginia where the Gov wants as much damage to the economy as he can get for election time they have changed the way they count wuhan cases. Now if 24 hours or more has passed the same person can be tested and each time be a "new" case. This nice Gov has also said things will not open back up until the new case rate goes down but he made it so that will not happen.

  Then please go to the CDC site and carefully look at the  flu stats from 2010 until now. In particular when you do so remember that they did not change the way flu was calculated but they have done so with Wuhan Red Death so it has been purely political from the word go.

  2017-8 flu season 62,000 died and 25,000,000 were hospitalized. Now one of the results of flu in elderly is of course pneumonia and when they die of pneumonia that is how it was listed. With this wuhan crap they take anything even remotely exacerbated by wuhan and claim it to be a wuhan death. Never do they say it is from people with other serious life ending on their own problems in combination with wuhan with an average age of 75. 

  Biggest bunch of fear mongering and blatant attempts at overthrowing the constitution this nation has ever seen.
Conspiracy paranoia is rampant in the U.S.A.. Is it in other countries as well? Attributing motive to those you disagree with is risky business. How many here have been tested, even once? Everyone in The White House gets tested every single day. If the threat/risk is overstated, why? Many carriers never knew they were infected, yet could have passed the virus on to others.
My 20 year old son told me that "WHO" now stands for Wuhan Health Organisation. 

On both side of the aisle we are seeing the inevitable attempt to benefit from the latest crisis.