Heroes will rise.
As you know, intimately, the BeachGrit community is the most benevolent on earth or at least a very close second to Mother Teresa’s Sisters of Charity. Oh we seem all crusty and irredeemable, hideous on the outside but inside it is squishy, soft, lovable goo.
Thoughtful and kind.
And on that note, I received a thoughtful message, kind from a surfer, yes, but also an emergency room doctor part American part Kiwi. A fine mix if there ever was one. In any case he wrote:
I’m wondering if you could put the word out there for me and my hospital colleagues, that if folks have masks laying around (that they don’t need imminently-board shapers might have a healthy of N95), could they be so kind as to drop them at a local hospital. We are re using gear which was never intended to be used in that fashion. We need help until/if help arrives.
Fantastic, no?
Surfboard shapers?
You have always been our heroes but the opportunity to save the entire world and have statues built in your honor.
Have any extra masks?
Take them to your local hospital and feel the swell of gratitude!
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going to copy your quote here as a blanket response to every situation. I will of course give full attribute in every instance
I don’t watch CNN.
A real President would not stand there saying “We’re doomed” but be a calm, level-headed presence who would listen to genuine experts; scientists, tacticians etc, and help coordinate a policy to assist everyone who was in need.
I’m afraid Mr. Trump is anything but that. He is exactly the person we don’t need in any official capacity wielding any power at all.His list of flaws is far too long for me to go into now. I haven’t seen a single thing he has done for this country which has benefited anyone except himself, his family and business lobbyists who are purely out for short-term profit over the good of the people and environment. Not to mention a slew of people who have managed to commandeer his ear for their odd beliefs about anyone other than what seems to amount to racists, neo-fascists and Armageddon-keen Christians. And that is being kind.
I am not against capitalism as such, but it should be balance out with a socialist granularity to ensure a better life for all. How this works exactly I’m not sure I can enunciate coherently and succinctly here, especially as I am neither an economist, nor a political scientist. I merely see other models in the world that seem to be ‘fairer’ than the USA in it’s current legal configuration. The profit of business should not outweigh the basic rights of people to be treated as more than numbers or grist in the mill for billionaires. Perhaps this is magical thinking on my part.
The religious right-wing also concerns me greatly as I personally do not understand how any belief system like these (name any religion) has a place in deciding the living fate of millions of other people. Again, not being trained in comparative religion or philosophy means I cannot succinctly put any critique or solution here within the confines of the comments box. I will say though: there is no such thing as magic. There is sleight of hand, poetry, emotion and a number of other things that influence human thought outside of direct logic, and thank goodness for that.
To be totally honest I find people who are ardently religious, even just profess deep religious views for social cover, incredibly creepy. It gives me shivers down my spine like a horror movie.
I am not a purely partisan being. I would like both sides to work together to create a better society. The childish, sulky division across the aisle which has become fixed into various governments is horrific, shameful, and humanity at large is suffering.
Anyway. Shit. It’s (edit) 8:50 pm and I’m back at my desk and supposed to be working.
I’m going to have to leave this screed alone now, and hope that I expressed myself in non-insulting terms. I worry for people like yourself who (I hope) will eventually see the error of following someone Trump. The worry is that you might not be able to forgive yourselves.
Sorry LGR but I also question his genuine humanitarian sincerity.
The masks will hopefully help, but he strikes me as a person wouldn’t be doing it if there weren’t a large payout at the other end in sight. IE good publicity etc. And to use the a White House press event like he and Trump just did, I find utterly, utterly repugnant.
Gosh!
No what I mean is pillowman is a jackass piece of garbage just like trump Sorry if I was unclear
who is he? what else has he done? is he a felon or something? I cant find any info on the google search.
The pillow guy is a wig wearing right wing ayn rand psycho.
Swear I was watching some hipster shaping video recently where no masks were worn. Yes!! Rob Machado and his shaper in that film about a bunch of surfers on the same calendar day. Didn’t seem wise. But Machado sure looked cool
You do know that if you put the right selection of crystals in alignment in the shaping booth, no harm can ever befall you? Of course you knew that.
Some loveable goo music for anyone who likes A: Radiohead and B: Pianos
The guy’s got a shed-load of covers of stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/pla…
Edit: also in Spotify.
Mother Teresa was allegedly not particularly nice.
she was a proven cunt.
What? You mean telling poor people that suffering is godly and then when you get crook, jetting off to 1st world health care is not good for the optics?
Come on mate
Who’s your humanitarian hero?
Stalin?
Heroes are a dangerous commodity, my friend.
Unlikely to be you mate
Where’s the love bill?
Wrapping a shirt or some cloth around your face would have to be better than masks with holes all around the sides. We wouldn’t want to think outside the box though.
The “95” in N95 refers to the filter efficiency. There are three levels of filter efficiencies – 95% (N95), 99% (N99), and 99.97% (N100 or HEPA filter) tested against aerosol droplets 0.3 microns in diameter. A “t-shirt or some cloth” doesn’t filter shit. Imagine if you had a t-shirt wrapped around your face and I sprayed it with Lysol. You think you wouldn’t inhale a bunch of Lysol? But yeah, go ahead and think outside the box.
Fuck yea.
here in hawaii every local walks around with a mask, lots of them are homemade of regular cotton with american football team logos or cartoons for kids, they are sewed at home and made with the cheapest maybe even used cloth they can put their hands on, they are being sold trough out the many facebook buy and sell communities that i am a part of, they go from 5 to 20 dollars a piece. The key for this business is relying on the ignorance of the people that live here, if you ask them they really believe that they are totally protected.
as above dust only maybe – no droplets may as well wear t -shirt
And majority N95s are not droplet or fluid resistant that is kicker – if you look at all the masks being advertised they will only say potentially dust- not going to stop shit!!!
….and the surgical masks that they are giving us as PPE here where I work (I work in, whats that place called that has sick people? sometimes people that get shot and shit like that? oh yeah think its called ’emergency department or something) anyway surgical masks are not designed for, and will not filter the air you are breathing IN. surgical masks are ONLY designed and intended to filter the air you breathe OUT.
Surfers are selfish cunts
We say that but don’t mean it…
Totally unrelated but I just heard Bell Bottom Blues and pictured you sitting in the Hezbo cell bummin on your bell bottoms
When it comes to the pursuit and riding of waves, this is true. However, many of us are also capable of performing selfless acts of kindness.
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