Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #36

[Trident]

Maybe some of you have seen this, maybe not. At any rate, it paints a picture of what might happen, something I didn't quite grasp, something I'm still not able to quite grasp.

 

[Sarahlou]

Italian nurse, 34, kills herself after testing positive for coronavirus and worrying she had infected others

Daniela Trezzi, 34, was working on the front line of the coronavirus crisis at a hospital in Lombardy, the worst-affected region of Italy.

Italian nurse, 34, kills herself after testing positive for coronavirus | Daily Mail Online

This terrible news is very tragic.

Intensive care nurse in her 20s 'kills herself' at King's College Hospital in London where eight coronavirus patients have died

Female nurse in her 20s 'kills herself at Kings College Hospital London' amid coronavirus crisis | Daily Mail Online

This is more terrible news. It is a big worry the number of health care workers, people who have been made unemployed, victims of domestic violence etc who are being pushed to breaking point from this crisis and are suicidal.

Heartbreaking. Rest in peace to these ladies. This is all so tragic.

 

[musicaljoke]

When the relief checks arrive, hopefully the majority of people use mobile banking to deposit their checks so that banks don't get inundated with a large number of people coming in. Or use ATM after sanitizing them thoroughly.

Why would paper cheques be issued instead of direct deposit? Is that the normal way people receive gov't issued cheques?

 

[katydid23]

Why would paper cheques be issued instead of direct deposit? Is that the normal way people receive gov't issued cheques?

Our social security checks are direct deposited. But some people have their checks mailed to them. I guess it is up to preference?

 

[Tigerlily75]

Why would paper cheques be issued instead of direct deposit? Is that the normal way people receive gov't issued cheques?

I was just wondering the same, I haven’t seen a literal cheque (check) in years. Any money from the government/ employers / anyone goes straight into your bank account here.

 

[Lilibet]

The days are starting to run together, so I don’t know if this article was already posted and I finally got around to reading it or discovered it on my own. No matter...It is a beautifully written account by a woman caring for her husband with COVID-19 along with her teenaged daughter. She makes you feel very present with them...

My husband, a tall, robust 56-year-old who regularly goes — who regularly went — on five-hour bike rides from our Brooklyn neighborhood to Jamaica Bay in Queens and back, has been lying on his back, staring at the ceiling, or curled on his side, wearing the same pajama bottoms for days because it is too hard to change out of them, too hard to stay that long on his feet, too cold outside the sheets and blankets he huddles beneath. It has been 12 days since T woke up in the middle of the night on March 12 with chills. The next day, just as reports were growing more urgent about the coronavirus spreading in the United States, he thought he felt better, but then the chills came back, along with aches and a fever of 100.4.

What I Learned When My Husband Got Sick With Coronavirus

 

[CeeCeeCat]

Now that I am all caught up - good morning everyone.
First of all @cody22 thank you for your post ‘I have enough food and TP for today and tomorrow. I have enough money to pay the bills today and tomorrow’. This is my new mantra for the times I feel utterly swamped by panic.
On the subject of food - I have most grocery and pet supplies delivered to me as I have so many rescue cats with specialised diets and oh my goodness the amount of cat litter - but anyway. Three weeks ago today, I placed what was then a regular order for all the usuals - all those things I took for granted. You know, fruit and veggies, tinned beans, rice, almond milk and cat food and - highly important - cat treats.
Today at 6.30am, it was delivered. Every last bit of it. It felt like Christmas! I am so, so grateful to everyone in the supply chain working to fulfil these orders. And so relieved - as are the cats - that everyone will have full tummies. My rambling point was, just three weeks ago everything still felt relatively normal. Reflecting on just how much has changed and just how fast the world has tilted.

On my gratitude list today - aside from that grocery delivery.
Coffee in the garden with the boys at 5.30am. All was peaceful and still, sun coming up, cold and crispy air - just perfect.
Also - I rescued my oregano plant. It’s a tiny thing, but I’m so pleased it wasn’t dying, it just needed a drink.

Stay safe today, Sleuthers

 

[margarita25]

NYC paramedic hospitalized with coronavirus sedated, breathing with ventilator as condition worsens, family says

 

[margarita25]

Toilet paper 'ninja' in Colorado Springs makes surprise deliveries - KRDO

 

[gregjrichards]

PRINCE CHARLES HAS CORONAVIRUS, ONLY MILD SYMPTOMS, CAMILLA DOES NOT HAVE IT - SKY NEWS U.K

Prince Charles tests positive for coronavirus

Prince Charles has tested positive for coronavirus and is displaying mild symptoms “but otherwise remains in good health”, Clarence House has said.

Charles, the next in line to the throne, is 71 years old, making him a member of those at risk groups who have been encouraged by the government to completely self-isolate for 12 weeks.

A Clarence House spokesman said the Duchess of Cornwall had also been tested but does not have the virus.

In accordance with Government and medical advice, the Prince and the Duchess are now self-isolating at home in Scotland.

The tests were carried out by the NHS in Aberdeenshire where they met the criteria required for testing.

It is not possible to ascertain from whom the Prince caught the virus owing to the high number of engagements he carried out in his public role during recent weeks.

Coronavirus live news: EU leaders plan Europe-wide crisis management centre as India locks down

 

[gngr~snap]

PRINCE CHARLES HAS CORONAVIRUS - SKY NEWS U.K

I just heard that!
Whoa!
Moo

 

[cody22]

PRINCE CHARLES HAS CORONAVIRUS, ONLY MILD SYMPTOMS, CAMILLA DOES NOT HAVE IT - SKY NEWS U.K

Prince Charles tests positive for coronavirus

Prince Charles has tested positive for coronavirus and is displaying mild symptoms “but otherwise remains in good health”, Clarence House has said.

Charles, the next in line to the throne, is 71 years old, making him a member of those at risk groups who have been encouraged by the government to completely self-isolate for 12 weeks.

A Clarence House spokesman said the Duchess of Cornwall had also been tested but does not have the virus.

In accordance with Government and medical advice, the Prince and the Duchess are now self-isolating at home in Scotland.

The tests were carried out by the NHS in Aberdeenshire where they met the criteria required for testing.

It is not possible to ascertain from whom the Prince caught the virus owing to the high number of engagements he carried out in his public role during recent weeks.

Coronavirus live news: EU leaders plan Europe-wide crisis management centre as India locks down

Oh my goodness #16 on this thread !.....moo

 

[dixiegirl1035]

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BREAKING: Charles, Prince of Wales, tests positive for coronavirus and is displaying mild symptoms - Sky News

 

[PingTheRouter]

PRINCE CHARLES HAS CORONAVIRUS,

saw this on sky news uk and i was like whoa how?

 

[gregjrichards]

saw this on sky news uk and i was like whoa how?

He possibly caught it from Prince Albert of Monaco who he met recently. Prince Albert of Monaco also has a mild form of the virus but we wont know for sure.

Her Majesty The Queen is in good health according to Buckingham Palace.

 

[303gmf]

Doesn't everyone have access to employment insurance?

Not the self employed!

 

[cody22]

Not the self employed!

I know two older couples who do not ( and do not have to) file IRS tax returns because their only income is their Social Security checks .I think there are lots of other Seniors in this position.....This Stimulus will give them no money because they filed no IRS tax return in 2018( Which would have been a waste of time by both them and the IRS. H&R Block recommended doing this non-filing to one of the couples back in 2011).....There are lots of people being left out of this Stimulus money....I hope they all make it.......moo

 

[Henry2326]

Of course we are out pacing Italy, Spain and France, look at the population differences:

France = 66.81 Million
Italy = 60.80 Million
Spain = 46.42 Million

USA = 327.17 Million

What would concern me is if we pass China because they have 1.38 Billion people.

Something is very wrong with how we are handling this if we overtake China.

China (mainland) cases
Mar 25
Confirmed
81,218

United States cases
Mar 25
Confirmed
55,200

The issue is the trajectory. The direction of the line is no where near flattened for any location.

Get concerned, although you should have been concerned 2 months ago. We will pass China in 2 days time with a trajectory that is shooting to the skies.
This is not a NY problem. No one has tested enough to show prevalence which we know exists,

Something is very wrong and has been from the beginning....

 

[Rose in SC]

Doesn't everyone have access to employment insurance?

I work in a large church office (largest in our mostly rural county) and I don't have access to employment insurance.

 

[Henry2326]

I will never accept more people will die. As you can see in the memorial thread the death toll numbers are people - men, women and teenagers with families who loved them and they should not have died. We should not be prepared to sit back and let more and more people die. It is time everybody raised hell with their governments about how this has been handled. It has been an absolute disaster in the U.S and the U.K and in other countries. Nobody should believe the horse manure we are being told that this will be over by Easter in the U.S and better in three weeks in the U.K because it wont.

Your first sentence threw me. yes, doing nothing else or stop doing what we are doing, then more people will die. How irresponsible for our governments to accept that result.