Pandemic: Life on the ground

[Jersey Girl]

Florida...bold mine

By The Associated Press

ORLANDO, Fla. — The mayor of Orlando asked residents on Friday to stop watering their lawns and washing their cars for a least a week, saying water usage needed to be cut back because of the recent surge of COVID-19 hospitalizations.

The Orlando Utility Commission treats the city’s water with liquid oxygen and supplies that ordinarily go toward water treatment have been diverted to hospitals for patients suffering from the virus, Mayor Buddy Dyer said.

The city-owned utility typically goes through 10 trucks of liquid oxygen a week but its supplier recently said that it would be cut back to five to seven trucks a week to accommodate hospitals, said Linda Ferrone, the utility commission's chief customer and marketing officer.

Ferrone said the move is unprecedented and that if things got worse the city might have to issue a boil water alert.

About 40% of the utility commission’s potable water is used for irrigation so any strains on the water supply will be greatly reduced if residents stop watering their lawns, washing their cars or using pressure washers, she said.

Since the 1990s, the utility has used liquid oxygen to remove the slight discoloration and rotten-egg smell that is found naturally in Florida’s water supply.

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news ... urge-drops

[canpakes]

Florida...bold mine



https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news ... urge-drops

LMFAO!

They are not making water because the oxygen is going to the ICU. And you damned believed this. Mmmmkay.

Reading is fundamental. You didn’t read.

No one is ‘making water’ in this story. Orlando uses oxygen to purify water for residential use.

Anyhow, here’s the actual notice from the Orlando Utilities Commisson:

https://www.ouc.com/water-information

A regional shortage of liquid oxygen linked to the surge of COVID-19 inpatient treatments is impacting OUC’s treated water supplies. To reduce demand for liquid oxygen, OUC is asking water customers to immediately limit irrigating their lawns and landscapes. If OUC’s liquid oxygen supplies continue to be depleted and water usage isn’t reduced, water quality may be impacted. But, we believe that will not happen if everyone does their part to conserve water.

Suspending lawn/landscaping irrigation, which accounts for 40% of water use in Central Florida, is the most critical way to reduce water consumption. A typical summer month in Orlando records more than 6 inches of rain, which is enough to meet the 1- to 1.5 inches per week of water a yard needs.

Of course, some folks will probably conclude that this is a conspiracy to punish anti-vaxxers by killing their lawn.
; )

[Jersey Girl]

Thanks for saving me the trouble, canpakes.

[canpakes]

Thanks for saving me the trouble, canpakes.

Happy to help.

Here’s a screen cap of the website, for our trolling non-believer -

[canpakes]

Thanks for saving me the trouble, canpakes.

Not sure what troubles you were having. Good to see you got some relief.

In the meantime, are we still pretending that liquid oxygen for water purification was diverted to the ICU where they use liquid medical oxgyen? Are we bad enough at math to think that hundreds of patients using oxygen in ICUs that have been operating at full capacity since the beginning of time are suddenly pumping so much oxygen into a few people that they can't make water for all the people? Do you really think that ICU's are the marginal consumer of oxygen? And you know this because....... it was in that article?

I can't help you Jersey. This BS is just damned silly. Covid is real, and this damned stupid ass crap does nothing more than erode credibility where it is needed. I mean come the “F” on. Don't take a shower because the ICU's are using the oxygen we need to purify/make water? Jesus damned Christ.

Yes, counties in Florida - home of Ron DeSantis, outspoken anti-mask advocate - are conjuring this story up just to screw with Cultellus and anti-vaxxers.

Sounds like someone has been spending too much time on the ‘Great Awakening’ message board, lol.

[canpakes]

Link to a good article about this issue, below -

https://qz.com/2000507/why-is-it-so-har ... -in-india/

How medical oxygen gets made

Medical oxygen indeed comes from the air we breathe, which gets separated into its component—the main ones nitrogen (78%), oxygen (21%)—in an air separation unit (ASU).

ASUs are plants that treat large volumes of gas, from a few hundred tons to 20,000 tons per day. The majority of gases isolated by ASUs are sold for industrial use—particularly in the iron and steel industry—and represent a global market of about $5 billion. Asia is the biggest market, hosting over 40% of the world’s ASUs.

ASUs use a process called fractional distillation, which separates the components of air after cooling it to a liquid state, then extracting liquid oxygen from it. The oxygen is then transported either directly through a pipeline connected to the production plant, if the end destination is close to it, or via special containers such as aluminum cylinders. For larger quantities, cryogenic containers, such as the ones Tata is importing, are used.

Hospitals usually either get bulk tanks that supply internal oxygen pipelines, or purchase refillable oxygen cylinders. Oxygen cylinders come in different sizes, and can be pretty heavy. The largest size is about 1.5 meters (60 inches) tall, weighs about 60 kg (150 lbs), and contains over 7,800 liters of liquid oxygen. A Covid-19 patient in a hospital can require up to 30 liters of oxygen a minute, so it would last about four hours.

[Jersey Girl]

Here's the link to the CDC travel notices regarding Covid. So you can see all the places you are not going to.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nc ... tices.html

[Jersey Girl]

This day last year:
U.S. new cases: 37,201


Today:
U.S. new cases: 81,928



My state last year:
New Cases: 59

My state this year:
New Cases: 1,719

[Res Ipsa]

This is what happens when COVID overturns your hospitals:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-us-h ... e-illness/

Veteran of two tours in Afghanistan dies of a treatable condition.

[Jersey Girl]

My dance teacher and his wife, who were fully vaccinated, just recovered from breakthrough Covid. I mean JUST. Now he's gotten a booster right on the heels of it. That doesn't seem necessary to me considering the fact that they both JUST got over Covid.

I do know they've both been teaching in dance halls in the area unmasked. I haven't seen much, if any, social distancing in their pics and I think they've spent time with unvaccinated family members.

Anyway, it's seems premature to have gotten the booster so quickly right on the heels of Covid recovery.

Thinking on the screen here...