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.



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The only good news about the left winning in November is that the economy will magically open again. 
It doesn't matter, no one will have any jobs to go back to anyway.
This is a sick country where a pandemic involving a proven highly contagious Virus that has already killed record numbers of people and physically impacted many more is still discussed as a political not a public health issue. Facts are inconvenient to some.
Right. The main thing we have learned from the virus is just how far they are willing to go to stop Trump from taking government back to the people. For that reason and that reason alone the whole world is shut down for a virus no worse than a normal flu season. 

It will not however go away if Trump loses. Democrats will keep stoking the fear, because that is how they're able to shut everything down. The story will simply shift from Trump saying we're winning to democrats using it to control people. Just like now, riots and BLM looting is okay, but we must regulate churches, bars and gun ranges the virus is woke and that's where it spreads. Just like now. Liberal logic: not liberal, not logical either.
OK devilboy, I'm not sure how you can make the claim of using logic and common sense. The pandemic has not been apocalyptic because of steps that were taken by many governors and mayors. Now we are seeing a surge because some governors are afraid of offending a certain person and reopened too soon against the advice of science. Even the Texas governor has admitted he made a mistake and has mandated or is considering mandating the wearing of masks. The Florida governor took a victory lap because there was no surge for two weeks after he opened. Have you looked at Florida's numbers lately? Apocalyptic implies to me some sort of existential event. I never heard anyone say the pandemic would lead to total disaster. More than 130,000 Americans have died so far and that's with the actions that many people took seriously at the beginning. Now the American frontier, individualistic attitude that nobody can tell us we have to wear masks is creating huge problems in the surge we are seeing. It seems people were willing to make sacrifices to a point and now they're tired of not being able to go to bars, restaurants, and the beach, so they're acting like the virus doesn't exist. Or they're young and have heard that they won't be affected like older people. That is an incredibly selfish attitude but if you don't see the immediate results of your actions, it's easy to pretend you didn't cause them. I'm not sure what you mean by making the virus disappear by moving the election to next year. Is that similar to the way the dreaded caravan that was bringing Leprosy and rapists and murderers across the border, suddenly became a non-issue after the elections? Explain please. I might have misunderstood you on that one. By the way, I don't hate you.