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ly on the vulnerable and the seniors like nursing homes but allow everybody else to return. So the other option is you can go back to work unless you're clearly in these vulnerable and nursing homes or you're older or you have underlying conditions, I guess. A third plan would say Trump would lift the federal guidelines but let the governors work it out. So it's sort of they lift the guidelines,…
← Previous segment →at you're 85 with lung cancer, you know that's a hundred points and you just stay home. So imagine they're weighted answers but it's just a checklist. You say okay I'm under 40, I'm healthy, you know, et cetera, and you just say if you filled out this checklist and you got a score under five or whatever it is, you're cleared.
Now keep the checklist with you. If somebody comes into your place of business and says can I see your checklist, be prepared to show it to them. Might be police or health authorities, etc. Be prepared to show it. But it's not a license. You're not going to go to jail. You know everybody's making individual decisions. But I think your police and officials might want to flag you and say you know your checklist, you don't have a checklist, go home and get one, or you know we would encourage you not to do it, etc. But I think the federal government probably should only go so far as to categorize risk and then maybe let the governors decide which counties are appropriate, etc.
So I think it's going to be some kind of a hybrid where the federal government changes its guidelines but keeps them in place. There's guidelines in place and then the states get to choose a little bit from the guidelines. So I think it'll look something like that. But I think we need a little more gradation on the checklist. I don't think you can just say under 40, over 40. You need a little extra gradations there. We can get there.
Been a lot of discussions about what you can do to sterilize a mask if you had to reuse it. And the most current thing I saw is some actual testing was done of putting cleaning agents on the masks, etc. And apparently some of the cleaning agents, I'm no expert here, just giving you a high overview, some of the cleaning agents will break down the integrity of the mask. But I think it was isopropyl, maybe something else, maybe not as quickly. But you also don't know if they do over time. So the chemical treatments have a risk that has been identified that can break down the integrity of the mask, sometimes quickly, maybe over time, depends on the chemical.
But it is suggested that the one thing that has not be
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en debunked is heating it to a temperature that doesn't hurt the structure of the mask the same way the chemicals do but kills all the bugs. And the suggestion, I'm not a scientist, I'm not recommending it, don't try it at home, I'm just passing it along so you know what people are talking about. The heating an oven at 150 degrees for 30 minutes would remove any risk from the mask, except that I d…
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