[Spridgets] News from England (no LBC)

Mon Mar 23 06:20:28 MDT 2020

Hey Ron,

Saw this in one of the Boston papers today.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/03/22/coronavirus-has-chelmsford-ventilator-company-ramping-up-production/
What a small world we have through the Spridget family.

Rick Neville

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 12:51 PM Ron Soave via Spridgets <
spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Even better - https://youtu.be/cD1-KGzaRv8
>
> Ron Soave
>
> On Mar 22, 2020, at 11:45 AM, Ron Soave <soavero at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Here’s a brief one. Our actuator is expanding/contracting the CPR
> compression strap. It has built in sensing to prevent patient damage.
>
> https://youtu.be/t3_bVBAcMBQ
>
> Ron Soave
>
> On Mar 22, 2020, at 10:19 AM, Linda Grunthaner <grunthaner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi Ron and Spridgiteers,
> Ron can you tell me where I can find that link of the actuator you make as
> I searched youtube for Zoll Autopulse and there are a lot of training
> videos for CPR training but I don't think that is the actuator you speak
> of. Ron keep up the good work.
>
> Also Ron is there anything that I can do in helping your company to get
> more of these actuator's produced? I just want to help.
>
> Lastly sorry I haven't been checking with the group list in such a long
> time, I've been pretty busy teaching (now virtually) and often use FaceBook
> as images help more with our Spridget work.
>
> Updates here in the NYC/NJ area: I just received good news from my good
> friend and teaching colleague that her  daughter is pregnant with the
> family's first grandchild. The not so good news is she is a nurse in the
> critical care pediatric unit in a Washington DC hospital, she is due in
> September and the mom-to-be is young (20-something). Our new single mom,
>  school nurse is also a part-time nurse in a local hospital, she said they
> are begging for part time nurses to add more hours and she is nervous as
> PPE is running very short.
>
> If you are like me you have loved ones across the globe, and many at
> different ages and health conditions, mine are in NYC. I love this group
> for the reality check as I always get great advice and above all happiness.
> Please check in every so often to know you are all safe and well and ask
> for help when needed. As for me I love tent/camping and I am gathering
> leaves for what we campers use for you-know-what...............wink! Yes
> I'll burry it when I'm done.
>
> Huge virtual hugs to all, be well,
> Linda
>
> 62 California Sprite "Pinky"
> 60 Bugeye Barn-find, Thank You Bill (Wm. Severin Thompson)
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 11:10 PM Ron Soave via Spridgets <
> spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
>
>> We’re getting by here in Roscoe, IL, still playing with Spridgets and TRs
>> and Spec Racers. Exponential growth is a dizzying thing, and I love our guy
>> Dr. Fauci. He doesn’t care about politics.
>>
>> Fortunately, our small business has a department of defense component,
>> and more importantly right now we are 35% medical  actuation, so we are
>> hoping to avoid a shutdown. We’ve been asked to ramp up production of an
>> actuator we make (YouTube search Zoll Autopulse; that’s our actuator in the
>> guts of the machine), and we are rapidly working to help with ventilator
>> demand. Conservative models show we will need 100,000 more than currently
>> exist. I now know a person who has it, a healthy 40-something Colorado ski
>> bum who air bnb’d her place to an Austrian who had it. She is just coming
>> off 5 days of 102F to 104F fevers.
>>
>> Stay safe, all.
>>
>> Ron Soave
>>
>> On Mar 19, 2020, at 9:07 PM, WFO Herb via Spridgets <
>> spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Ditto what Mike said; much the same here.
>>
>> As a single guy, I eat out (not much of a cook).  With all restaurants
>> closed, I may be shedding a few pounds.  Crazy!
>>
>> Here's the rub...Why is it we can't eat out or be in a group of more than
>> 10 people yet the grocery stores are packed with hundreds of people?  If
>> the mean old virus is anywhere that's where it would be, right.
>>
>> Look at the numbers, things don't add up.  The liberal and the left has
>> brought America to a standstill.
>>
>> Herb
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 11:43 AM Weslake1330 via Spridgets <
>> spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi List,
>>>
>>> Some (no LBC) news from England.
>>>
>>> As I told my kids (22 and 17) earlier I am 56 years old and I have never
>>> seen supermarket shelves empty like I did earlier this evening.  Thursday
>>> is one of my normal shopping days, the other is Monday.  Call me a snob but
>>> I shop in Sainsburys and the other shoppers looked like Asda shoppers!
>>>
>>> Ever since 9/11 I have kept a diverse supply of canned and dried food
>>> along with some water and a few cartons of UHT milk - it would keep the
>>> family going for about 3 weeks.  I have a note of the use by dates and
>>> routinely an old tin comes out of the cupboard to be used and a new tin
>>> goes in the cupboard to replace it. Of course we do always have other food
>>> in the 'regular' cupboard and we have a small freezer.  So, I'm constantly
>>> able to remind the rest of my family about this in case they need
>>> reassurance.  We have few elderly neighbours and we can share or shop for
>>> them if they need us to
>>>
>>> We call it toilet paper and I think you might mostly call it toilet
>>> tissue and not to put too fine a point on it it's what you wipe your arse
>>> with.  In normal times we have occasionally had a martial row when the
>>> person who was supposed to buy some let stocks expire.  Kitchen roll makes
>>> a poor substitute and can block your household plumbing/outside drain and
>>> sewer.  We have a reasonable stock at present but I'm old enough to know
>>> that know is a good time to hang onto a few more old newspapers than we do
>>> normally.  Of course I'm not sure we have any 'bulldog clips' but I think
>>> we could manage without if necessary.  I guess other folk must have softer
>>> backsides than I do or worry about seeing a reflection that includes
>>> newspaper print when they look in the mirror.
>>>
>>> The train I take to and from work each day is now almost empty.  Most of
>>> my office is working from home but I want to stay at work for as long as
>>> possible.  IT hasn't been great for everyone and here at home while I have
>>> broadband it runs on copper wire to the telephone pole outside my house and
>>> most likely to the green 'GPO' box at the end of my straight and maybe
>>> still copper to the exchange in the town centre.
>>>
>>> I don't have money worries but things can change fast and there are many
>>> workers over hear in the wrong kind of job which now amounts to no job.
>>>
>>> The virus doesn't actually seem to kill that many people and I expect to
>>> live but if I don't I'm insured.  I'm also 'saved' (from my sins) so don't
>>> have to worry about where I'm going to end up - Heaven, or no-where if I'm
>>> mistaken in my beliefs.
>>>
>>> So apart from what you can read at the BBC news site (which I think has
>>> some bias) things are unusual here. I almost forgot - motor racing has been
>>> cancelled and the churches have closed.
>>>
>>> So maybe by a little extra now and again before panic buying takes off
>>> in your part of the world and if 'Bird Flu Pandemic' (practically the same
>>> book as 'Corona Virus' isn't your sort of thing maybe give a helpful vote
>>> to the positive reviews or read 'Rich Girl' - more of a gear head story.
>>> 'Course even if I sell vast amounts of books and can actually afford to
>>> cross the pond for a meet or an o-shit - there might not be many planes
>>> flying.  And the winner in all this is - The Environment and the toilet
>>> paper manufacturers - mostly likely short term for both.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Daniel1312
>>>
>>>
>>>
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