Doing your part to help
 

Doing our part, I went through our supplies at the shop and came up with a nice pile of N95 masks, faceshields, and gloves that we are donating to Rhinebeck Fire and Rescue. If anyone has any of this stuff, donate it now, re-stock when this is all over, the folks on the front line need it a lot more than me with my head in a rusty Porsche.

---Adam
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Deez can't afford to give away his masks and face shields, since he needs them for frequent buttsnorkling expeditions! :eek:

This smacks of begging for praise.

That's the entire point of that account. Self-promotion. Stick around, he will post a photo of him delivering the supplies in his 993. Then he will post the photo of the car with the tree growing out of it. Then he will post the trailer photo and the autocross 356 photo.

Actually good for him!!! He’s doing the right thing. I’m a OB/Gyn in Florida, the hospital has provided only one mask. This morning after a c-section they took my mask and are sterilizing it so I can reuse it tomorrow. My office is running out of supplies. I have resorted to paying outrageous prices on eBay for gloves and masks. Pregnant patients have to be seen. Deliveries have to be attended. Do you have any idea how stressful it is going to a hospital knowing that’s where Covid-19 patients are kept? I’m not worried about me, but I don’t want to bring it home to my wife and children. Plus, if I get sick, my employees are out of work. Who will care and deliver these patients?

Instead of criticizing him...... ask what are YOU doing to help?

You guys are some dark souls, I posted it to encourage others to do the same. I posted the same thing on Facebook and several people scoured their shops for similar supplies, getting them into the right hands.

You guys really need to figure out how to be part of the solution.

---Adam

What exactly are you doing to help thy neighbor?

---Adam

I’ve donated about 10 x P100 masks. A customer that’s an ER doctor asked me if I could get him replacement cartridges and that conversation led to me discovering there’s quite a few doctors that would like to have a P100 mask so I’ve gotten all that I can so far. I gave my wife that’s an ER trauma nurse a handful of E95s and a P100 as well. I’m in a unique position to source these. If others of you are as well please donate them. If I can keep just one of those doctors from getting sick it was all worth it

His only care in the world is to continually increase his Pelican post account. Computer trolls are social distancers by nature, so there’s not much to worry about for him, as there’s very little actual social interaction other than through their own keyboard.

Good for you for doing your part Adam. Trolls will just keep trolling, as he did to you just now, and as he will do to me after posting this as well.

gloves
 

I had some boxes of gloves that were in my shop and passed them out to my neighbors who are all older than me two weeks ago.Kudos to Adam.

I gave a case of N95 to my local Marijuana dispensary gals..
They didnt have any masks at all :(

Well done Adam. 034 Motorsports in Fremont is doing the same thing and has a gofundme. They delivered over 30,000 masks to first responders this week.

Kartboy, who makes shifters, end links, and bushings, has 7 3D pointers running 24 hours making face shields for San Diego first responders.

Core Autosport is manufacturing masks and shields in their composite factory

My birthday was last Monday. I am running a gofundme for a mechanic friend who has it and is now too sick to work. I wasn’t going to post it here, but since there’s now a thread I’ll toss my link out there. He’s a shirt off his own back kind of guy and it pains me to see him suffer.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/ap2tz-matts-birthday?utm_medium=email&utm_source=product&utm_c ampaign=p_email%2Bhtml_trig_post_update_nd

I invited a neighbor lady, Yamamoto san to come up and pick some Sh-take mushrooms because we have a lot with the recent rains. She gave us a 5kg bag of rice they grew with fresh mountain water AND a bag of blue plastic gloves to give my wife. Funny though, no one has Convid 19 in this city so I wonder if she even had that in her mind. I doubt it. Still, Yeah! Why not give what you can to your neighbor or even a stranger!! She came back a couple days later with more -- fresh basket of greens from her veggie patch and a slab of tofu that was old cured from her friends. I invited her to pick more mushrooms and gave her a 6 pack of beer someone else in the village gave me for use of my wood splitter, which I had no use for anyway (beer). Small village here, yet the world now is a village that needs local attention. Live to give! You can't keep it all, and you'll die before you even have it all.

1) SW is a dope
2) 991GTS6 is a cruel dope

Way to go Adam! Good for you.

Kudos Adam! I have a few masks and gloves I use when diddling in the project.. I will gather them and do the same.

+1000

Good lord, imagine how depraved you have to be to dig up a reason to criticize others for helping. We're doomed as a society if this is how it's going to be.

Thanks to everyone who's helping. My wife and I are coming out of quarantine after getting the virus. It's been a *****ty couple of weeks, but we are extremely fortunate in so many ways.

The lack of testing kits and protective gear for health care workers is a monumental fail on our society's part. I've seen it first hand, and it's the saddest thing I've ever experienced.

thank you.

Still waiting to here about your contributions.

---Adam

Still waiting to here about your contributions.

---Adam

it will be a very long wait my man. let it go, we all know what the score is and you are waaaay ahead. ;)

As I’ve said before, the truth needs no defense. We know who you are, Adam.

Wow what a life. Cool

I am glad the personal attack of adam was quoted so the "clean up my mess" edit can not be used, again.

He would NEVER do that. :D

I just wonder why some folks don't have what my 5th grade teacher used to call "home training". They just can't act right.

---Adam

Well, it is interesting at times Nathan. Couple of weeks back Yama****a san who lives a stones throw below us wanted to borrow my chainsaw because they had a bigger oak tree they couldn't cut with their smaller ones. Mind you he runs a tree trimming and a garden business, has loaned me his 2 ton trucks, excavators in the past, and I always give him a little grog for a favor.

So I brought down my 60cc XP Husky with the 20 inch bar. He opened up the garage and said -- load up a bag of rice (30kg bag of brown rice of about a dozen sitting there). He owns the whole mountain behind us, rice field below, and is the former owner of our house. 10 generations lived in our house according to him from 180 years ago, a Japanese Minka with the old post and beam, dirt walls and floor, straw roof etc. Outside is a 5 meter deep stone well. As an outsider for 7 years here I've tried to fit in. It takes time, yet it's part of what I mentioned above. I never try to take anything from these people. Live to give, and they be a watching too! One wouldn't be able to pull the wool over their eyes, nor would I want to. After 30 years in this country I'm still a guest. If they accept me as their own, I will be home indeed.

They don’t consider how it might come off, a complete lack of judgment to brag about yourself at this time...
Genuinely altruistic people go about their business anonymously, not flaunting their behavior for public recognition.
Would he have donated his stuff if he were not allowed to promote his "selfless" act on forums and Facebook?
Of course, this is a clinical narcissistic who expects to be considered a hero for flipping cars acquired from widows

Full Metal Jackets. Get Some....!!

I pity someone who lives their life thinking others are always working an angle. But as a wise teacher once said, everything is a reflection of self. We see in others what exists in us.

Or, the looking glass self concept, in Sociology i.e we see ourselves the way the most important people in our lives see us. Forgot who discovered that one. If Jesus loves you just the way you are sugarwood, and he were the most important person in your life, wouldn't the world turn? That's the reality that is open to you, me and all the ****s on this forum. Even M2!

Ouch. That Bernz ...

No proselytizing Bernz.

I couldn't proselytize y'all except to go Turbo like Ronnie and 911 (not like Adam). I don't go to church, I'm not religious. I do have a Bible in my car that I never read NIV. Got a BA degree in Biblical studies. It's like you said Nick, degrees mean little, experience is the best teacher, yours having owned a business with people to look after. Mine, just a journey I've been on since leaving my country, and before. It goes on ... still enjoying it and may never come home I fear.

Double downing on wrong and inflammatory things, I think this dunce has a future in American politics.

I'll ask again, have you done anything to help our your fellow man in this time of crisis, or in my case done that and encouraged others to do the same, which many have because of my call to arms.

---Adam

And to answer your second question if I would do a selfless act without any hope of recognition. Since you asked, 6 years ago I started going to my daughter's kindergarten class to do art day, 4-5 times a year, I've done it every year since and with my son when he started school. So that's 6 years of doing my own art program for hundreds of kids. I purchase all the art supplies myself and have even made machines to do it like a spin art machine. Do I get recognition, nope, I can't even take pics of me with the kids because of privacy. The only tiny bit of recognition is a few teachers call me Craft Dad when they see me in the halls, but that's about it. Oh, and don't forget, I work for myself so a whole day I spend at the school is a day I don't make any money, so it's a real sacrifice, not just a housewife re-arranging a tennis lesson. I hope this answers your question about my character which you so thoughtlessly questioned in a bizarre hope to get attention. Seriously, take your frustration and go help you fellow man, the world will be a better place.

---Adam

I appreciate when companies show acts of citizenship. It’s part of how I decided to spend my money with them. In addition to the automotive ones I’ve shared here, I’ve shared companies like REI (who is paying every employee while they are closed), Columbia Sportswear (whose CEO is not paying himself his $1M+ salary so it can go to their employees) and La Sportiva Footwear (who are using their factories to make PPE for Italians free of charge).

Actually, Bernie my man, I'm a little jealous. My opinion of this metro NY scene, and it some ways the entire country, has changed dramatically since we began traveling in earnest since 2007. Then again, living in Canada part time for 25 summers has done it as well.

The pure ignorance of the world of so many Americans, because they have never left this country for any reason whatsoever, is astounding. And I'm just a neophyte when it comes to travel when compared to my oldest son's experience, being in the Navy on Active duty, reserves thereafter and working for a company where he has to travel extensively. He can tell some stories, let me tell you.

We considered Italy, Greece, Portugal, France and Ireland for our winters instead of Florida, but decided it was too difficult picking a spot every year, moving stuff etc. America is great, but not everything people think it is.

As I've said, Japan is on my list. Not my wife's however. She has a very restrictive diet.

Sounds like you have a good life going there Bern. I've heard nothing but good things about Japan. Enjoy!

Thank you Nick! Remember you are always welcome. I believe we can find something here that will satisfy your wife's preferred taste in cuisine, even if we make it ourselves from scratch.

My wife is gluten, dairy, and soy free because she has Hashimoto’s, an autoimmune disease. Japan is her number 1 travel goal and she won’t let it stop her.

It’s not just that most Americans never leave America. Most Americans never visit more than 3 states their wholes lives. Kind of explains just how divided we have become as a nation. Someone in the Midwest or south really has no actual understanding of a Coastal person and vice versa, beyond what they see on their TV. We could use more of the good old fashioned road trip in this country.