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Health Insurer helped me get N95 masks today
Posted on 3/27/20 at 10:48 pm
Posted on 3/27/20 at 10:48 pm
Called my health insurer, Anthem Blue Cross / Blue Shield. Told the agent that I needed to get some supplies for my family, and "wouldn't it be in the insurer's interest, as well my own, to help me source some face masks before I went shopping?"
The guy agreed, put me on hold, and in five minutes he had a medical supplier five miles from my home on the line. He gave me his direct number to call.
I thanked the agent from the insurer, hung up, and called the supplier. He took my order over the phone. I drove over, called from my car and he brought the package out wearing gloves and a mask, setting it on the hood of my car, said thanks to me through the windshield and then walked back in to his building. I got out, and got my package.
Was really surprised how easy that was. Didn't have to call everywhere or wait for six weeks from now from Amazon.
The guy agreed, put me on hold, and in five minutes he had a medical supplier five miles from my home on the line. He gave me his direct number to call.
I thanked the agent from the insurer, hung up, and called the supplier. He took my order over the phone. I drove over, called from my car and he brought the package out wearing gloves and a mask, setting it on the hood of my car, said thanks to me through the windshield and then walked back in to his building. I got out, and got my package.
Was really surprised how easy that was. Didn't have to call everywhere or wait for six weeks from now from Amazon.
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Posted on 3/27/20 at 10:52 pm to HubbaBubba
Even if this was true, what makes you think this was smart to type out?
Posted on 3/27/20 at 10:53 pm to Apollyon
quote:How so? It's not like I purchased a pallet. I purchased 4 masks, one for each family member. I'm not allowed to protect my family to avoid being intubated myself?
We can't get enough of them at my hospital and I am intubating Covid+ patients. You are what is wrong with society
Posted on 3/27/20 at 10:57 pm to HubbaBubba
quote:
How so? It's not like I purchased a pallet. I purchased 4 masks, one for each family member. I'm not allowed to protect my family to avoid being intubated myself?
Because the masks do nothing to decrease your chances of getting COVID if you social distance.
Healthcare professionals MUST expose themselves to the virus in order to treat patients.
You get social distancing+ masks.
Healthcare only has the masks.
We all count on herd immunity and stopping the spread at the source is more important than anything.
A healthcare professional having a mask will stop the spread better than you wearing a mask for 1 hour a day shopping at the grocery store.
This post was edited on 3/27/20 at 10:59 pm
Posted on 3/28/20 at 12:00 am to tiggerthetooth
quote:
How so? It's not like I purchased a pallet. I purchased 4 masks, one for each family member.
You and 100 other people like you just took a hospital's supply of masks. My wife and her colleagues in the ER (or the ER personnel wherever you live) could have used those. Stay six feet away from people, wash your hands and don't touch your face.
quote:
I'm not allowed to protect my family to avoid being intubated myself?
Are you fit-testing these properly? If not, you're protecting other people from you, not protecting yourself from other people.
And if the guy was wearing gloves when he brought out the box, he was wasting them.
Posted on 3/28/20 at 12:23 am to HubbaBubba
Wouldn't it be nice if people actually thought of the folks on the frontline who are risking, and sometimes losing their lives, those brave souls who ACTUALLY NEED masks when they buy and hoard these critical supplies?
Critical things they have truly NO NEED for and donated them to help their fellow man?
Nah, that's way too selfless a gesture in the selfish, self-centered culture in which we reside.
You stay safe now when you venture out to the grocery with those medical grade masks that our nurses are begging for.
Critical things they have truly NO NEED for and donated them to help their fellow man?
Nah, that's way too selfless a gesture in the selfish, self-centered culture in which we reside.
You stay safe now when you venture out to the grocery with those medical grade masks that our nurses are begging for.
This post was edited on 3/28/20 at 12:27 am
Posted on 3/28/20 at 12:27 am to Toddy
Toddy, the good news is that a lot of companies have stepped forward to produce masks
Hopefully they start getting sent out soon.
Hopefully they start getting sent out soon.
Posted on 3/28/20 at 12:31 am to HubbaBubba
Wow cool story bro. But unless you plan on holding up in that hills with Joe Bob for say a few years. More than likely your family will get this, with or without the mask.
Posted on 3/28/20 at 12:32 am to TerryDawg03
Oh for frick’s sake. No one is taking anyone’s supplies. If a hospital is this far behind baw from tigerdroppings, they’ve got bigger problems.
Posted on 3/28/20 at 12:33 am to HubbaBubba
quote:
4 masks, one for each family member. I'm not allowed to protect my family to avoid being intubated myself?
First, don't take the whole family shopping you retard. Second, keep your distance and if that still worries you wrap a scarf around your nose and mouth. You really comparing the risk of shopping to treating infected people?
Posted on 3/28/20 at 12:35 am to HubbaBubba
What type of mask? The surgical masks won't protect you, they'll protect others from you if you're coughing.
Posted on 3/28/20 at 12:38 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:
Toddy, the good news is that a lot of companies have stepped forward to produce masks
Which makes my heart swell at the American Spirit. I hope If anything is learned from this catastrophe.... is that we realize that we cannot be beholden to other nations, especially those nasty frickers in the East.
And I will say, that I trust Donald Trump, more than anyone else by far, to save this country from this. Let's just hope he can accomplish what needs to be done.
Posted on 3/28/20 at 12:40 am to Toddy
quote:He'll be fighting against Democrats and many republicans to get it done. Tall order.
Let's just hope he can accomplish what needs to be done
Posted on 3/28/20 at 12:40 am to HubbaBubba
An N95 respirator would be useless after the first time you wear it, and were around a sick person.
Posted on 3/28/20 at 12:46 am to Toddy
We can be pretty nasty here too, though.
Didn’t Spanish flu actually start in some rural area of Kansas?
Didn’t Spanish flu actually start in some rural area of Kansas?
Posted on 3/28/20 at 12:58 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:
Didn’t Spanish flu actually start in some rural area of Kansas?
It did. What, a hundred or so years ago? We don't eat bats and all that other nasty crap though. Plus frick China.
Posted on 3/28/20 at 1:05 am to GeauxFightingTigers1
quote:Maybe. We have a very isolated lake house we can bug out to if needed.
Wow cool story bro. But unless you plan on holding up in that hills with Joe Bob for say a few years. More than likely your family will get this, with or without the mask
Have you noticed recently how few are infected/deceased in Japan, a very small country of 131 million people? There are very few cases of the Chinese virus there. Why? The population there regularly wears the surgical masks, so the correlation is obvious. Their rate of infection is only 11 cases per million people while in the U.S. it's 2900% higher.
But I shouldn't get a mask.
So if there's also an ammo shortage, and I run out and buy ammo when it's available to protect my family, I'm guessing this board is going to guilt me if the LE professionals are running low, too. "The police will save more lives with those bullets than you will."
Posted on 3/28/20 at 1:06 am to Apollyon
quote:
We can't get enough of them at my hospital and I am intubating Covid+ patients. You are what is wrong with society
Are you on airborne or droplet precautions?
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