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.