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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Right. Since it cost a few $ to buy a box of masks, at minimum I would also want a donation receipt.<br></div><div><br></div>
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On Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 1:59:51 AM PDT, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div>I wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Stanford Hospital, one of the leading medical facilities on the West<br clear="none">> Coast, is now pleading to the public: They are out of N95 masks, and<br clear="none">> are pleading with members of the public, if you set them aside for the<br clear="none">> prior-years' wildfires or out of coronavirus concern, or for any other<br clear="none">> reason, to please make them available to front-line workers at the<br clear="none">> hospital who desperately need them.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Please e-mail Ariel Seidman <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:aseidman@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">aseidman@gmail.com</a>>, if you can provide any.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I forgot to add an important bit: Naturally when the aim is to deliver<br clear="none">N95 masks to Stanford Hospital, the only reasonable delivery arrangement<br clear="none">will involve handing your spare masks to an on-duty employee of Stanford<br clear="none">Hospital at a reasonable place _at_ Stanford Hospital. Otherwise, there<br clear="none">is no way to distinguish between an honest offer (to fill a real need<br clear="none">and deliver them as promised) and a scam.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">So, if I were donating, I would politely insist on exactly that, and not<br clear="none">be swayed by 'Just take it to person X's house' -- which a CABAL member<br clear="none">says is what Mr. Ariel Seidman, via a person to whom he refers people,<br clear="none">expects donors to do.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">(To be clear, I'm _not_ calling this a scam, just saying it<br clear="none">unfortunately would be indistinguishable from one with the 'drop it off<br clear="none">at someone's house' arrangement.)<div class="ydp7cacc9e6yqt3694001601" id="ydp7cacc9e6yqtfd11605"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">conspire mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br clear="none"></div></div>
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