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Can we compare notes on things that might be useful when getting quick/any help from a hospital or ambulance is not an option ?
I hope I'm just exaggerating but it seems possible that may be a (temporary) reality at some point.

My wife has severe astma and we live far away from any hospital so just buying some time for ourselves (or neighbours and friends in the area) may be important.
No medical training worth mentioning so I am counting on the internet to stay available and teach me things when I need it.

I bought a couple of manual resuscitators. I figure these things can buy some time when someone is developing breathing problems. I'll have to study on how to use it properly as they can be dangerous as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bag_valve_mask

We already had some pure oxygen bottles in stock (Single use). I know from experience they can buy time and are a relief for somebody (astmatic) grasping for air for an extended period of time. Example: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gox-Oxygen-Liters-Inhalation-Caps/dp/B001EHM5JC

Portable Oxygen Generator
https://www.ebay.nl/itm/1L-8L-Min-Remote-Control-Portable-Oxygen-Concentrator-93-Generator-Health-Care/264678656130

Note to self: Don't forget to use domain filters when buying Yahoo PPC traffic, and keep an eye on traffic sources in case new 'partners' are added.
From a Dutch campaign targeting the Netherlands, this were the numbers today after not looking for a while. Dutch is not spoken in any of the other countries except Belgium. I am sure they could filter the fraud if they wanted to

CountryDivision 630 IPs
341   Netherlands   54.1 %
114   Germany   18.1 %
64   United States   10.2 %
44   Sweden   7.0 %
21   Czech Republic   3.3 %
9   Russian Federation   1.4 %
5   United Kingdom   0.8 %
5   Belgium   0.8 %
4   Poland   0.6 %
4   France   0.6 %
3   Switzerland   0.5 %
2   Greece   0.3 %
2   Spain   0.3 %
2   Denmark   0.3 %
2   Singapore   0.3 %
2   Slovakia   0.3 %
2   Estonia   0.3 %
2   Canada   0.3 %
2   Italy   0.3 %

It's from 2006 but I found it last week.. a 20 min lecture about Statistics in the context of Global Development
A great talk about statistics and the software used to visualize data is impressive IMO.

"Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen"
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html

The subject is interesting as well I think. In the beginning of the video Hans Rosling talks about asking students and professors to answer 5 questions with two possible answers:  Which country has the highest child mortality ?
 
 Sri Lanka or Turkey
 Poland or South Korea
 Malaysia or Russia
 Pakistan or Vietnam
 Thailand or South Africa
 
In every question the child mortality rate is double the other.
 
The students had 1.8 correct answers on average
The Swedish professors (the people issueing the Nobel prize every year) had 2.4 correct answers on average
A bunch of chimpanzees could be expected to score 2.5

The experiment stuck in my head the past week... is the world really like that ? We are all sheeple repeating what the media feeds us ?
It just doesn't seem a very professional level after all those years of humanity evolving