Thank you unk-p .. just brilliant young musician on this, and those outta this world celestial instruments!
Here's one for you.... (tho I couldn't insert the link as I am "tech-challenged" heh).....
YouTube : * Alexandre Desplat/The Meadow*
Peace ✨?
New info is coming out that blood oxygen levels drop before any serious symptoms are noticed in covid patients.
It wouldnt be a bad idea to buy a pulse oximeter and check you O2 levels as you would your temperature. This could give you notice of an infection days before you actually feel it and will save lives. It will make you aware of a serious condition before you otherwise would know, and it would give legitimate reason for a covid test or hospitalization long before you would meet the criteria needed now. They're cheap(like 30 dollars) right now but I expect prices to shoot up as shortages happen.
I think this post should go under the "Turning...Unraveling" thread because it has to do with life in general, not just CV, and deserves a longer-standing thread.
Elizabeth Warren just lost a brother due to Covid-19. ?
Just stopping by to drop a poem off.
Questionnaire
by Wendell Berry
- How much poison are you willing
to eat for the success of the free
market and global trade? Please
name your preferred poisons. - For the sake of goodness, how much
evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks
with the names of your favorite
evils and acts of hatred. - What sacrifices are you prepared
to make for culture and civilization?
Please list the monuments, shrines,
and works of art you would
most willingly destroy. - In the name of patriotism and
the flag, how much of our beloved
land are you willing to desecrate?
List in the following spaces
the mountains, rivers, towns, farms
you could most readily do without. - State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes,
the energy sources, the kinds of security,
for which you would kill a child.
Name, please, the children whom
you would be willing to kill.
Made me think of you @coyote.
New York just published a random 3000 person sampling of people that were tested for covid at grocery stores. 14% came back positive. That is 10x the number of confirmed cases. Couple that with the 800 person sampling in L.A. that returned 22-50x tested for antibodies than the known confirmed cases and we have a lot worse spread than we ever thought.
Some of those who tested positive in NY will get sick and havent yet but many would never have known. 14% isnt enough to gather herd immunity but it is enough estimate that by mid summer, half of the population could have been infected. That's the bad news. The good news is that if we have approx 2.7 million active cases in New York(expanding the sample over the entire state population) and only 250k were urgent enough to get testing and only 15k have died, we have a lot weaker virus than previously thought. Add that to the recent reports that the virus has mutated at least 30 times, and this wont go on THAT much longer. When viruses mutate, they almost always weaken(unlike in the movies). The Spanish flu is still around today as one of the seasonal flus we dont give much thought to. The quick mutation doesnt leave us with any great options for vaccines being a miracle cure, although the early strains are by far the deadliest and we can still wipe them out.
I'm not an epidemiologist or virologist, but do have a BS in microbiology, so I have some idea of what I'm talking about here. My guess is that since the worst strains are killing people relatively quickly, the weaker strains will become the prevalent ones because the stronger strains will be more quarantined. I think a lot more people will get sick but with every passing week, those that get covid will be less and less sick until it works it's way into the run of the mill flu category by winter 2021.
This might matter; you'll know: I feel strongly compelled to tell you that the COVID19 pneumonia is not conducive to walking. I've read reports that the patient feels steamrolled. So maybe the message is in another part of the song, which I remember as being about frustration and confinement: I wanna holler but the joint's too small. I might be projecting, as I am living while distancing, feeling the normal emotional responses to our global condition.
At any rate, I was guided to ask you to open your experience to other meanings, in other parts of the song, now that your guides have your attention with a good beat and bouncy phrasing. I don't believe, for what it's worth, that you and your family will fall ill.
This is good news:
South Korea health agency says virus may not live in people who were re-diagnosed
The Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that in 25 randomly selected patients, all had developed antibodies that had defensive power.
Those 25 patients in South Korea were hospitalized with symptoms at the time of the antibody testing and have now fully recovered, according to the agency.
Initially, there was concern about the effectiveness of the antibody in killing the virus because 12 of the 25 had both the virus and the antibodies. However, after attempts were made to grow the virus, it did not replicate, suggesting that the virus detected in the body may have not been live or was just viral remnants and therefore did not have the ability to infect others, according to KCDC.
In a separate study of 207 people who had been re-diagnosed with the virus, the agency confirmed that the virus had not grown in their bodies either. KCDC said it had attempted to grow the virus twice.
Great news. I know in my heart that this and/or more treatments will appear very soon. It will change the trajectory of everything.
I have a friend who is a USDA meat inspector in the Midwest. For the past few weeks she has posted about conditions in the plants she inspects at as well articles written about plants across the country during this pandemic.
She is meticulous. Many inspectors across the nation are now sick with the disease and she is now covering more and more plants as inspectors are getting sick. Some of her regular plants are finally closing down with hundreds of Covid cases. She is seldom notified about cases at plants but assumes everywhere is infected now. While she seems to have access to masks, not all inspectors do.
Please keep our inspectors in your prayers as they are truly front line workers during this pandemic. Also all or our meat packing workers who hold a very difficult job under the best of circumstances.