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
The only thing I have learned from this thread are there are a lot of members in these forums who are very racist, believe in white privilege, believe only white lives matter, believe in fake news vs the real news, love Russia and dictators, think their rights are more important than wearing a mask to protect others. They are also people who lack any kind of empathy, believe the government is coming after their so precious guns ( I do not own one and never will) and believe in every conspiracy story known to man. Unfortunately, my son is like you in his beliefs and that hurts me greatly as it makes me feel I failed him as his father.


I also have learned that none of you would ever be welcome in my home and that I will no longer read any of your responses in any thread. You are part of the problem in this country. Perhaps when DT cuts Medicaid and SSI, people who are disabled or can’t work due to health reasons and depend on that source of income will see the light. You are a sorry group of people. Hillary said it best, you truly are deplorables. May God help us all.
People dont have education nor the freedom to choose the best for themselves...

The education is most of the time annihilated by technology and easy playings games....Even "news" are bits for small brain gamers...

The more easy road is believing what most around you of the same age believes in any society....

There is no easy road and free travel to knowledge....Even for a pharaoh....Painful dedication and search for truth are not replaceable by pills or chips in the brain except for the deluded....

Books cannot be replaced by computers....

Living trees and books are more precious than money.....We can recreate civilization with trees and books not with money only....Money buy nothing except perhaps the daily bread if there is some to buy, nothing more ,except deceptions and illusions....

« Ptolemy I, king of Egypt, asked Euclid "if there was in geometry any shorter way than that of the Elements, and he answered that there was no royal road to geometry.» -from the net....
Do you really want to help?

1) Wear a damn mask when you go out!
A very minor inconvenience, for the collective health benefit of all.

2) STOP spouting idiotic foolishness that it’s all somehow a hoax and conspiracy.
You’re making yourselves look like ignorant fools.

3) Avoid crowds and maskless gatherings. These people are confirmed selfish, ignorant fools.

It’s not hard, it’s common sense. If which some of you seem to completely lack.