Absolutely beautiful and perfect! Nothing better than digging your toes into the green grass with the lovely earth below--and toasty warm sand at an ocean beach is just as lovely!
And breathing is essential. So many of us are unconsciously holding our breaths waiting for the other shoe to drop--and not for removing them for relaxation! ?
To share with any fox watchers you may still know. Side by side supercut of fox hosts a week ago and now exposing their hypocracy. Help their watchers wake up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifKbwDf51bA
Oh my goodness that was superb! Now, if we could just share it and have "those who fail to see" really see and hear and understand that even Fox News reporters can change their minds as they begin to crack a bit and let the light shine in!
We talk about lockdown all over in the news, and how it is hard to be stuck, sometime alone, at home. And yes, it's hard. But what about homeless people ? Do you know what is done for them ?
I hope they are not forgotten
Is this how trump wins but doesn’t win the election- how he stays in power?
We have a huge amount of concern over our homeless population that has been seemingly unsolvable for a very, very long time. But now even more potential temporary care plans are attempting to be put into place in Oregon including hotel stay vouchers for food and housing.
Currently mobile showers, toilets and of course hand washing stations (in large mobile trailers) will hopefully be in place in key locations --providing of course that they are even available and if so as quickly as they can be procured. We only have a few here in Salem so far.
Unfortunately, a huge % of the homeless population are cognitively impaired due to alcoholism and drug use. We recently had a woman (who was part of sidewalk tent sleepers) give birth on a sidewalk.
Paramedics were immediately called and care set up by necessary medical and social systems to help her and provide a safe and secure environment for the baby. She was not seemingly aware of her situation. But at least others including shop owners and passerby acted quickly and appropriately.
Most of our single women with children have been and will continue to be Housed in special community supported housing.
The assumption for hotel housing is that hotels will have many rooms available because of cancellations in both business trips and travel of all kinds.
Many hotel owners were resistant due to health and safety concerns for others and not just the virus but other contagious conditions that might also be present or further created and have to be managed or dealt with later.
But it was essential now that separate temporary housing not otherwise available be immediately provided for both increased pandemic precautions and prevention to the populace.
If they can even provide this at all major cities with large homeless populations with a greatly reduced work force is a major problem.
Obviously many, many factors will all contribute to most countries in the world not being able to meet even basic needs much less ideal ones.
Thank you Michele. What is done in Oregon is wonderful.
I don't think we have those mobile showers here. Asking hostels is a good idea too.
Ugh. See my rant on the other thread and feel free to pile more on. I used to work in hospitals as an allied health professional. The problem right now is that healthcare workers tend to get punished for thinking and acting "outside the box", I know I did many times, and withstood humiliation for years before ditching that career altogether. So I imagine a nurse or PA may have had the thought - gee maybe we should test for COVID- but they were shot down before it went anywhere. As long as your husband is not near the sick people, he will probably be ok. Tell him to wear gloves - work or nitrile - ALL the time, this will help. Tell him also to strip down and kick off shoes as soon as he comes in your home door (put a hamper there, and maybe hang a robe nearby-or not ? ), and then go shower immediately. Spray the shoes with some Lysol.
?BREAKING: #China says a flu drug approved in #Japan was effective in a study of 340 #coronavirus patients.
Lung X-rays showed improvements in ~91% of patients treated with #favipiravir, compared to 62% of those not treated with drug.
@thespybrief
https://t.co/Ounni6NTsm
Yeah, he's been pretty good about coming in, undressing, and getting right in the shower. Actually we should have been doing that well before CV but there you go. Good idea on the Lysol, though -- that hadn't occurred to me. I'll do that tonight. Thanks!
oh, @laura-f -- this complements what you said in the Unraveling thread. The hospital in question is a catholic hospital. My husband reports that nearly every tv is turned to Fox News. (I can attest to this, as many of my doctors have offices there and I've been exposed to that crap many times.)
Anyway, according to my husband, most of them believe the media is exaggerating the CV threat and that it's no big deal. These are hospital workers!!!
Honestly, I have no words.
@leona
I agree with you about the anxiety. Yesterday was a real tough day for e personally. I am trying to support my husband who is trying to take care of people in need right now. I had also woken up with what I realized was the beginning of a UTI.
Bad time to have one of those and that totally increased my fear level. I have been taking some natural remedies which have actually been working so I am hopeful things will not progress and continue to go away. Today has been pretty good so far. ( if anyone has extra prayers, feel free to send them over this way because I really don't want to head to a a medical facility right now).
My daughter is empathic and she is picking up on lots of stress right now. Additionally her boyfriend who lives in a different state was supposed to visit her beginning today for a few days and she really misses him. Canceling was not fun for them. But the whole world is canceling normal life so it is just part of the process really.
I slept well last night after many not so good nights.
Tell him also to strip down and kick off shoes as soon as he comes in your home door (put a hamper there, and maybe hang a robe nearby-or not ? ), and then go shower immediately. Spray the shoes with some Lysol.
I need to implement this too for my husband too who will be exposed on an off during this crisis too.
We talk about lockdown all over in the news, and how it is hard to be stuck, sometime alone, at home. And yes, it's hard. But what about homeless people ? Do you know what is done for them ?
I hope they are not forgotten
This is an excellent point. My daughter actually has some students she teaches who are homeless. She is very concerned about them as school is not simply a safety net, it is essential for providing food, a safe environment, interaction with people who care and some health services. It is a title one Schoo l and they also have a social worker on premises. The schools have closed and they are working of a way to feed all kids as they ALL receive free breakfast and lunch. In such times as we are now living, the state has said school buses can be used to deliver classwork and probably food to students homes ( No Internet for many). But what about the homeless students with no addresses?
Even trying to figure out what packets to send these kids home with is tricky. They often don't even have crayons or colored pencils or glue. She is a music teacher so it is even more difficult.
Germaphobe that I am, maybe have your husband put his clothes straight into the washing machine, wash his hands, door knobs and washing machine surfaces, and then shower and dress.
Excellent idea Bluebelle. Thank you. There is a shower by the laundry room too so that will make it easier.
Had to post this ProPublica story about how Trump's policy of getting rid of foreigners is working for us:
The Trump Administration Drove Him Back to China Where He Invented a Quick Coronavirus Test.
A federal crackdown on professors’ undisclosed outside activities is achieving what China has long struggled to do: spur Chinese scientists to return home. In this crisis, it’s costing the U.S. intellectual firepower.
I had another dream lately that I think is about the next few months, but I am not sure again about the interpretation. It gives me hope so I thought I should share it. In the dream I am climbing a wall that is straight up and down and made of some interesting ceramic brick material. Every few bricks over there is a knob that sticks out of the brick and that is how I am hanging on. I move to the left using the knobs to hold onto and it is slow going but I am ok. I am not near the top of the wall and I don't look up or down, only to the left to grab another knob and move left slowly. After a while the wall changes to another material which is more like cement bricks which are large and form a wall that is a little bit strange to describe, less straight up and down, more like a slightly sloped brick wall with ledges and curves all along it. I go from grabbing a knob to a ledge and can stand on a ledge below me and move along with the ledges which curve around the wall. It is easier than the wall of knobs but still a very hard material. The wall changes a third time as I move along and now it is like climbing large upholstered furniture lumps. I realize that now I am not alone and I am following my brother who is also moving along the "wall"--this wall is so much easier to climb sideways on and I am now near the top of the wall of upholstered lumps (because the wall is shorter?) and I am so relaxed I am carrying along a mug of tea or some hot drink to enjoy while I move slowly along. My brother and I chat as we move along, we seem relaxed. Every lump I come to I move my mug of tea over with me and set it on top of the lump. I think this means that things are difficult and hard for a period of time while we stay isolated (the knob wall) and then things get a little easier--yet still we are isolated (cement wall of ledges) but then things get much better...hence the soft wall of lumps (which seem so close to being similar to a pillow but are more like large ottomans). We will isolate ourselves for about time and then we will be able to see others again. Perhaps no physical touching yet but in the same physical space...with much less fear of virus exposure...I feel like saying two months until things get much much better...at least in the US where I live in Georgia. My brother lives in South Dakota so I think this may also apply to most of the country. I hope my interpretation is right. So much of intuition feels like guesswork sometimes... I think the fact that I don't look up or down is like a message to stay in the present moment and don't try to think too much just keep surviving as best you can in the now. Try not to find more and more things to upset you (don't look down!!) Stay focused on hanging on to whatever gets you through this with less stress--maybe do hobbies, read fiction that is fantasy-like or exciting or whatever helps you distract yourself...to a calm state where you hang on and keep moving to the better time period that is ahead of you! ?
Germaphobe that I am, maybe have your husband put his clothes straight into the washing machine, wash his hands, door knobs and washing machine surfaces, and then shower and dress.
I just had a vision of MY husband doing this and it wasn't pretty. Do I want a large, naked man sashaying through the house and out to my [unattached] garage to put his clothes in the laundry? Touching and "cleaning" things as he goes? Nope. I love him. But nope.