I will keep your daughter and husband in my prayers. You as well as you worry about them. Please keep us updated.
I realized something else about the Covid 19.
Because I have dedicated this last year to protecting my health, by taking drastic measures and changing my life almost completely, and because I put my continuing recovery from a back injury first, and did not sing in my choir this concert, I have cut my risk down considerably. There are close to 100 people in my choir now. I didn't go out for any shows either, rarely socialized, (except for some outings with the new beau), cut back on work, and am now working online only. I'm kind of a hermit generally. And right now, I am grateful for that.
I have got a lucky situation in that I am already tutoring cyberschool students who I have always had the option to work online with. Which is good because I have respiratory issues and have had pneumonia multiple times. Hopefully I've built up antibodies by now.
Today has been very hard with the continued horror of developing news stories. I talked at length with my highly logical older sib. I see my life through such an emotional filter, it is helpful to talk with her. I have a friend or two who share that type of nature. With all the break neck changes this feels like an onslaught, so I have had to watch old shows from the 70's to detach for a while.
Although I am decidedly heartened by the response from local legislatures. We do have good people in charge who are grabbing the reins. Thank G-d!
I thought this little bit of humor might make you laugh. This actually just happened.
I needed to get something at Walgreens today. The cashier whom I am very friendly with told me that an older lady came in and bought sanitary pads. She planned on taping them over her nose and mouth to form a mask she could where out in public.
I kid you not.
For every person who is self quarantining out of an abundance of caution, there is an idiot running around with a sanitary pad on their face to protect themselves from the virus.
Beware the id(iots) of March!
I just saw one of those photos of an empty NYC subway train that's been circulating around on Twitter. Some people may be heartened by how the public is beginning to take social distancing seriously. I'm not. When I saw that photo, the phrase, "calm before the storm," popped into my head.
This is it, everyone. This is one of those roiling global crises we've been talking about here for the past three years. In the long run, it will transform things for the better. But right now, it's going to get really tough. Stay strong.
Thank you I will... They live in Maryland - outside of DC . Because she inherited auto-immune issues from me ( she has RA and takes biologics and more to control) she is at a higher risk because her meds suppress her immune system making her more susceptible to infections like URI and UTI etc. Her husband is recently out of chemo for cancer treatment by about 6 months..so his immune system is vulnerable too. After 6 cases here our public schools finally decided to close until March 30th and students will take studies online and food insecure families will have foodstuffs delivered to them. This came after Governor..turned over the decision making to the individual school systems. So this again supports our thoughts that people will start depending on local community decisions for things affecting our daily lives.
I am sorry... I am rotflmao at the thought of anyone going out in public with sanitary pads with their self stick stuck on faces...... seriously...if you are that concerned... stay home!!!! Please!!!! Don't want to see/hear of anyone winning Darwin awards.
-CDC Director Robert Redfield says "Yes" to funding coronavirus testing after intense and lengthy questioning by Rep. Katie Porter.
Read it or watch the video to get an awareness of how dodgy he was.
Pretty amazing and speaks to our discussion last night of something doesn't feel right about the CDC's responses.
Much less to the avoidance of talking about the lack of testing materials or responses to needing more as it stands now.
@michele-b. He said, "Yes," but he knows that people are not going to get the tests.
It is an old health insurance trick -- if they don't want to pay for something, they make it scarce. They cut back the list of eligible doctors, eligible clinics, eligible hospitals, and they don't provide tests.
In America it is nearly impossible to get a covid-19 test. You have to be a VIP, like an NBA player. The NBA players of those two teams got those tests really fast.
I had thought the real reason the hacks who run the CDC weren't providing the tests was so the stock market wouldn't crash. Now I see there were two reasons: (1) so the people wouldn't know how many infected people there were so the airlines, and hotel industry and the stock markets wouldn't crash and (2) to save health insurance companies and Medicaid and Medicare money on testing and treatment.
When this debacle is over, the GOP is done. Donald Trump is done. Businessmen and entertainers as politicians are done.
I understand how NYC and and any big urban city ( Like those in China) with tall apartment buildings can be quarantined.
How does one quarantine a place like Los Angeles or most suburbs. Too much land to do that.
I wonder how many might have gone to their cabin in the mountains to wait things out. ( I do not have a cabin but know many who do here in AZ to escape the summer heat) and as much as I would like to hunker down with my family at home , my eldest is still teaching and my youngest is still going to be having some in person classes as of now when her university begins again Monday, as most of her classes can not be online. My husband has a job where he interacts with people in need and I don't see that changing, yet.
So how do you close a sprawling city?
How is Seattle doing it?
I went to the food store at 9 this morning. Plenty of toilet paper, although the disinfecting wipes were gone. Otherwise, everything was totally normal.
At 2:30, realizing I had forgotten something, I returned to the store. It was chaos. The toilet paper--which had been well stocked this morning, was completely gone. Registers were 8 deep, including self-checkout. I turned around and left without getting anything at all.
Most elementary and secondary schools in my area are closed tomorrow. The announcement indicated hopefulness that schools will reopen on Monday, but I am not so hopeful.
I am just shocked at how bad things got in the period of a few hours, when previously no one seemed to be worrying about this at all.
To all of you who are concerned for yourselves and your loved ones, I will include you all in my meditation tonight and am holding you in the light.
For myself: I've been taking my blood pressure the past few days, and see that it's been elevated. Not sleeping well either. I guess that's not too surprising, but it's time for more self-care.
@jeanne-mayell and @michele-b, I was horrified and disgusted with how Redfield was hedging. Porter is always great at getting to the core of an issue, but I didn't believe Redfield for one second. He was cornered, and had so say something to shut her up.
@lovendures, thank you for the chuckle! I (and my blood pressure) really needed that.
Forgive me if someone has already mentioned this, but Lindsey Graham is now in quarantine and awaiting Coronavirus test results. He had dinner at Mar-A-Lago last weekend with the guy from Brazil who has Coronavirus (the guy was the spokesperson for the President of Brazil).
So, I believe that makes 7 Congresspeople/Senators in quarantine so far (6 Republicans and 1 Democrat)
Here's the link to Graham's announcement on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1238195289602904064
Asking for prayers for my daughter and her husband.. they are in the High Risk category and just received notice a coworker has presumptive case of Covid-19. They had just started working from home this morning.. but... Mon-Wed they were in the office with them.
Done. I'll be holding your daughter and her husband in my heart and prayers that all will be well for them.
The only thing that makes me more ill than reading your observant words is the fact that I now believe what you wrote is "spot on".
We have become the migrant population our country has been trying to keep out, only the inhumane treatment is being inflicted upon our own citizens from our own government this time. Neither should have ever happened.
We are only as good as our weakest link. Our weakest link is being held together by Duck tape right now.
However, if the will of the American people is indeed like duck tape, we can come on through to the other side of this pandemic.. Alas, everyone knows that duck tape can hold anything together. Even patch a hole in a rubber raft during a 13 day Grand Canyon Colorado river trip. I know, because I was on one such raft.
Hold tight. This is going to be a wet and wild ride so grab your duck tape.
I am in Long Island Cuomo had a press conference at around 2. Went to the supermarket around 5 and there was no more cleaning supplies, instant milk, toilet paper almost gone. Thank god I have that stuff stocked up at all times. People go instantly into mass hysteria.
@ deetoo
I can begin here and join with you in your.meditation immediately. 9 minutes to ground and center and enter my other world ?
Bless you for your prayers and positive thoughts ???
@lovendures I don't know if you can do it but the President is talking about closing the borders of California and Washington State - I read it quickly, it was referring to travel. And I don't know if he will do it.
This is the Amazon campus in Seattle at 10 a.m. this morning. It’s a ghost town. After an Amazon employee in one of the towers tested positive for Covid19, all Amazon buildings emptied within hours and everyone is working from home. Today it was announced that all the schools in the Seattle Tacoma metro area (3.5 million people) will be closed until late April.
i don’t know what’s going on at Boeing. You can’t build planes from home.
@lovendures those sx sound scary to me! I’m just getting over a bronchial infection and I have a lifelong history of those. I also had asthma as a child and not being able to breathe sounds really awful. Not mild!