# Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2020 Breaking News **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [February 11, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758 "2020-02-11T01:16:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2356
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758/2356 "2020-04-13T23:20:03Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > It was not specified that the masks in question are not medical grade. For that matter, are we all assured that no medical workers would want or accept such masks if nothing else were available? Are we further assured that this is not the case? > > Given such assurances, my pearls would remain unclutched. Unless the source was unreliable. The other implied snark is deservedly ignored. You’re someone I’ve looked up to on the 'Dope, because you generally approach things with humor, humanity, and compassion. All I can think is that the world situation has temporarily disabled your reason, because this is not the \*\*elucidator \*\*I have come to know, even peripherally. I want you to [watch this interview](https://www.msnbc.com/stephanie-ruhle/watch/mother-speaks-out-about-losing-her-daughter-to-coronavirus-after-she-helped-the-elderly-81834053969). This is a mother mourning her daughter who kept going into work at a grocery store because her coworkers wouldn’t and because she knew people needed help. Her last paycheck was $20.64, and that’s what she died for. Then come back and tell us that you realize that yes, grocery store workers, and convenience store workers, and pharmacy employees, and garbage men, and postal workers, and people who deliver mail or packages, all of them, all the people who are considered essential to keep the rest of us fed and supplied with goods, whose jobs demand that they interact with the public who could infect them, as they infected that poor woman, all of them deserve PPE. Yes, the medical people are in dire need. But so are these others. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2020-breaking-news/847758)._