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Re: YC Companies Responding to Covid-19

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Confirmed by the German defence ministry, first reported by Speigel who seems to have a copy from the internal report on it (they are citing passages from it in their German article). But I agree, it is highly dubious. Not having been involved, my only theory right now is that the supplier sold them to someone els. if he ran delivery himself, it is easy to route it through Kenia. Then the shipment get's lost. If he w…

Yes, but the Kenyans say there was no such thing.[1] Basically the only reason we trust the Germans over the Kenyans is because of reputation, keep in mind that there is no proof for that statement, we basically take their word for it. But in Germany even recently a stash of 100000 masks was stolen from a local hospital and everyone pretends there is no supply shortage. So I don't know whether the Kenyans are lying,…

Talking about mixed signaling, so. Local practices are asking households and carpenters for masks and protective suites. At the same time German authorities are basically refusing external help. "We have our own processes" was the most usefull answer I heard this week from officials.

Luckily, I found a doctor who's heading a regional association today. and at least he was very happy to hear that someone was willing, and able, to help. I almost gave up today, would have been a quite a waste of available air freight and distribution capacities to get these thing from China.

As a side note, based on my experience with the german government in term of procurement and such things, this whole Kenia story is at least in realm of being possibly true. Still, a very strange story... I'm curious to see how it ends.

Re: YC Companies Responding to Covid-19

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> Really happy to see the extra "Who is Hiring" post the other day. For any one interested, here's that thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22665398

Terrific idea. See also the "Who wants to be hired" post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22665396 Edit: A couple more resources: List of Remote Jobs or Gigs Platforms (google doc -- not mine, just something I know about) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JfNAbUX_lN9K3MCNHO15... r/GigWorks (I'm the mod)

I saw that Google Doc the other day, and have already forwarded the link to several people looking for work. Good resource!

Re: YC Companies Responding to Covid-19

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Especially the logistics oriented companies are incredibly important. Flexport, Medina's, Osh. If wonder why, the German government (procurement was handled by the military procurement agency and a department of German customs) "lost" a suppliers shipment of 6 million FFP2 masks (or 3 million, numbers are not really reliable so far) in Kenia. For everyone wondering why they have been shipped througj Africa, welcome t…

That Kenya facemask story looks highly dubious and likely to be fake. The main source seems to be rt.com. Do you have a credible source? The stories I've seen claim to be quoting der spiegel but I don't see the story on der speigel itself. For example, nothing is showing up on https://www.spiegel.de/suche/?suchbegriff=mask+kenya&seite=1

Search for german "Schutzmaske Kenia"

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/coronavirus-in-de...

Re: YC Companies Responding to Covid-19

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When you recover from a virus, antibodies are in your body. These can be detected, Once you're recovered, you can no longer spread the disease. Problem is, people with mild symptoms believe they don't have it, or have recovered. I'm one of the many, many people who has been ill for a while during the past weeks, and would like to know if I had it. If I can know for sure that I had it, and no longer have it, then I ca…

> Once you're recovered, you can no longer spread the disease. This is a super dangerous statement and absent proof you should probably retract it. There are plenty of viruses that you still shed even after recovery, there is some evidence already that COVID-19 is still contagious after recovery with an unknown for the duration, it could be hours, days or even weeks, without a very good test regime it is very hard to…

WHO recommends 14 days, RIVM 1 day. With no symptoms.
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