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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 14 2020, @04:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the riveting-drama dept.

Original 'Rosie the Riveter' makes masks to fight COVID-19:

At age 94, Mae Krier is back on the front lines — hard at work, helping her country.

One of the nation's original "Rosie the Riveters" employed by Boeing in Seattle during World War II, she built B-17 and B-29 bombers to help support the war effort decades ago.

Now she's fighting a different war, as her still nimble fingers turn out face masks to prevent spread of the deadly coronavirus.

"People say to me, "You helped win WWII and now you are helping our country win this battle over this virus. These are nice things to hear," Krier said.

She makes the mask like the red polka dot bandanas she also makes to remind people of the Rosies, those women who toiled in manufacturing plants with their heads wrapped in bandanas so their hair wouldn't get tangled in the machinery they used to make supplies for the military serving overseas.

They were depicted by a World War II era poster of "Rosie the Riveter" created by J. Howard Miller in 1943.


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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday July 14 2020, @10:48PM (9 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 14 2020, @10:48PM (#1021529) Journal

    They impeached the president, didn't they?

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  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday July 14 2020, @11:51PM (8 children)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday July 14 2020, @11:51PM (#1021555)

    Seriously? Why not just admit you're wrong?

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday July 14 2020, @11:55PM (7 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 14 2020, @11:55PM (#1021559) Journal

      Because I'm not wrong. The Dems control the House. If they didn't have their heads up their asses, they could do a whole bunch of shit. Instead of getting things done, they've done little more than impeach the president. This is called Trump Disorder Syndrome. They have sacrificed damned near everything that WAS possible, just to TRY to make Trump look worse than he is. And, when anyone says, "Hillary would have been worse", that makes them a Trump supporter.

      How about Dems get down to the business of politics, and stop the divisive character assasination? Stop with the identity politics? They HAVE POWER that they aren't even trying to use. TDS.

      • (Score: 4, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday July 15 2020, @12:50AM (6 children)

        by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Wednesday July 15 2020, @12:50AM (#1021587)

        Of course you're wrong.

        The House sends literally hundreds of bills to the Senate, and they just get ignored, because the Republicans don't want to do anything with them.

        But even though the Republicans hold two of the three parts of your government, it's somehow the Democrats fault. Yeah, ok then.

        • (Score: 2, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday July 15 2020, @02:42AM (5 children)

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday July 15 2020, @02:42AM (#1021667) Journal

          He's a complete piece of shit isn't he? Someone should shove him up Mitch "turtlehead" McConnell's ass so he can suffocate amid the 400+ bills the guy stuffed up there to suffer the same fate.

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          I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
          • (Score: 2, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday July 15 2020, @03:35AM (4 children)

            by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Wednesday July 15 2020, @03:35AM (#1021697)

            To be fair, Fox News spends 24 hours a day, every day turning some Americans into enemies of other Americans.

            Some people, it seems, have just absorbed too much of the propaganda to see it for what it really is.

            • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @06:55AM (3 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @06:55AM (#1021755)

              It’s like this administration has been carefully planning to do the exact worst thing at the exact worst time to produce the exact worst possible outcome. Hanlon’s Razor has lost its edge; this level of incompetence is itself malicious.

              I don’t know what I was expecting for 2020, but it wasn’t this. I’m a pharmacy technician and will likely be indirectly responsible for infecting and killing many elderly customers, as I will likely get the virus and recover quickly, but have to work because 1) there is no plan for closure and 2) like all poor Americans, I very literally cannot afford not to work.

              When this all clears out, I hope like hell the US will realize that we need universal healthcare as a matter of cost savings and national security. And I hope every single Republican politician and every single nigger dies of the virus and wakes up in Hell to the sensation of a double lungful of exudate boiling off…

              • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday July 16 2020, @01:21AM (2 children)

                by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday July 16 2020, @01:21AM (#1022200) Journal

                Why are you quoting my old posts and adding "nigger" into them? That's bizarre. You're not even using the blockquote tag or attempting to attribute them or anything.

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                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2020, @08:53AM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2020, @08:53AM (#1022333)

                  Because this place is infiltrated by assholes and supported by a couple of vocal assholes and apathetic editors.

                • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Friday July 17 2020, @12:48AM

                  by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Friday July 17 2020, @12:48AM (#1022675)

                  Wear it as a badge of honour Azuma, your comments are so insightful that our resident flat-earth A/C feels the need to try to use them against you.

                  He is a very weird dude, and is just pushing buttons trying to figure out what he can get away with.