Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #105

[ilovewings]

There are still people insisting that children don’t get sick with COVID


Breaking News: 2:30 PM

Indiana National Guard to help at Riley Hospital, beleaguered with COVID patients
Riley Hospital for Children has admitted about four times as many children for COVID-19 treatment in recent weeks as in any previous wave during the pandemic. “There are more of them, and they are sicker,” said Dr. Elaine Cox, the hospital’s chief medical officer.

Indiana National Guard to help at Riley Hospital, beleaguered with COVID patients - Indianapolis Business Journal

I dont understand how anyone who is facing reality cannot
see that children are contracting Covid in significant numbers--
Right from the beginning of the pandemic so-called experts
got on TV stating children were not getting covid and if they got
it, they were not spreading it. That has been proven false.

 

[CrimeAway]

There are reports from frontline professionals on the medicine r***** of some mild cases in children, but also croup, sickle cell exacerbations, new-onset seizures, intubations and death in children currently hospitalized with Covid.

 

[MimosaMornings]

Entering our third year, with vaccines and it's worse that ever. For some it must feel permanent.

For some it feels like your wonderful life before Covid is just a memory - never to return.

It does feel permanent. I don’t like it, but that’s how it is right now.

 

[IceIce9]

This is barbaric! I feel so bad for the Chinese people being treated this way. And to think how upset some people here get just to be asked to isolate when infected or to wear a mask............

Unfortunately China has a very poor human rights record…..

MOO

 

[MrX]

I'm sure most realize by now it's permanent. Like measles. HIV. Flu. And dozens of other viruses that plague humanity. Nothing is going to change that.

Some will choose to adapt and overcome. Others will kick and scream and long for the good ole days until the end of time. Change is hard for humans and that's a lot of what we're seeing now. Humans attempting en masse to deal with change, some more successfully than others. jmo

I hadn't thought of it that way, but you are correct. Unfortunately there are still two groups, each feeling that they have adapted and accuse the other group of throwing a tantrum.

 

[Satchie]

Entering our third year, with vaccines and it's worse that ever. For some it must feel permanent.

I disagree we're entering our third year, from my point of view, April 2022 is months away.

And it's not worse than ever, people who are vaxxed are not dying in numbers like they were.

When AIDs spread, most people were capable of modifying their behaviour by ceasing to have unprotected, promiscuous sex, despite the major downer it meant for their lifestyle. I guess that took a long time, though, and millions still are infected every year.

It may turn out that, despite modern medicine and education, we're not able to shorten pandemics, which have in the past ranged from 2 years for the Spanish flu, to 7 years for the Bubonic plague (and 40 years so far for AIDS).

But I don't fault modern medicine and governments for trying to limit the severe social, personal, political consequences of an airborne disease that kills large numbers of people. And, having taken a look at those protesters in Europe and elsewhere, I'm very glad they're not the ones in charge of running things.

JMO

 

[Bravo]

Nurse Daughter just texted me. Surgical floor has just been declared a Covid Unit. Surgery's cancelled that are elective. Our ICU is full. Prior all covid cases where just on Medicine A and B. Testing shortages here as well. All restaurants closed, theatres etc. School gone remote for 2 weeks. SW Ontario Canada. Stay safe everyone

 

[SouthAussie]

There are reports from frontline professionals on the medicine r***** of some mild cases in children, but also croup, sickle cell exacerbations, new-onset seizures, intubations and death in children currently hospitalized with Covid.

The young child (under 2 years old) who died with covid here last week has now been identified as a 13 month old toddler - a twin - who died in her sleep just hours after going to bed.

Adelaide baby youngest to die with Covid

 

[ilovewings]

The young child (under 2 years old) who died with covid here last week has now been identified as a 13 month old toddler - a twin - who died in her sleep just hours after going to bed.

Adelaide baby youngest to die with Covid

That is so sad

 

[Bravo]

I cant believe the Olympics will go ahead. Then again it is China......

 

[Satchie]

Unfortunately China has a very poor human rights record…..

MOO

Well now, that's an understatement!

 

[Cool Cats]

I don't see two groups here...?

Tricia created this forum specifically for people who are concerned about covid and take it seriously. You might be talking about other social media, but here we are one group. jmo

The poster is talking about society, the vaxxed and the unvaxxed.

 

[WichitaFalls]

I hadn't thought of it that way, but you are correct. Unfortunately there are still two groups, each feeling that they have adapted and accuse the other group of throwing a tantrum.

Serious question . . . is this just a game to you?

 

[Satchie]

For some it feels like your wonderful life before Covid is just a memory - never to return.

It does feel permanent. I don’t like it, but that’s how it is right now.

I promise you, nothing is permanent.

 

[SouthAussie]

I suspect many more places would look like China, if not for the folks that risked arrest to fight for a different approach.

I suspect that is incorrect. It is not easy for a country to ask their people to all stay home, to essentially shut down the economy for a while.

Unless a person has lived in an area with genuine lockdowns, they don't really know what it involves, how it is done, how it is tolerated, how it helps.

The ignorant people who protest for "their freedom" are not liked by the great majority. We all wish they would just shut up and get on with it. They cause the police to get infected when they protest maskless on the streets, hit police officers, punch police horses.

And the lockdown will be over as soon as possible ... because the economy has to run.

imo

 

[wendybtn]

I wish physicians would tell us which Omicron variant symptoms are causing people to require hospitalization. Or is it leftover Delta variant cases? The numbers from daily positive tests really don't tell us anything.

 

[MrX]

The poster is talking about society, the vaxxed and the unvaxxed.

And, to a larger extent, the way people have adapted (or not.) @CharlestonGal raised an excellent point that behaviors none of us could have foreseen, two years ago, may become the norm.

 

[CharlestonGal]

414,279 so far today with 15 states still left to report.

United States COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer

 

[CSIDreamer]

okay, this is downright scary...my friend just called me and told me her grandaughter's boyfriend has Covid. Now, this grandaughter is in her 20's and lives with said bf. In a tiny apartment w/one bathroom with thier less than 1 year old child...oh did I mention the bf is vaxxed but the grandaughter refused to get vaxxed due to worrying about her future "fertility" (ooffta) The plan is to keep bf in a seperate room, okayyyy....but what about eating? well, he will use the kitchen then she will after him or vice versa...what about the bathroom? well, he will clean it after using it (nevermind that they don't realize its airborne)...I wonder how this will all work out.
BTW, this is the "friend" who said I was over reacting the other day...

p.s. he is a manager at a large grocery chain. She is a stay at home mom.

Really not much they can do. Is your state offering motel rooms during contact tracing?

 

[Satchie]

I wish physicians would tell us which Omicron variant symptoms are causing people to require hospitalization. Or is it leftover Delta variant cases? The numbers from daily positive tests really don't tell us anything.

It's true, they're not saying. I would assume it's like the regular flu or cold, they'll tell you to go home and rest even if you feel like death warmed over, the key is if your oxygen levels have dropped too low: then the risk is quickly developing pneumonia or causing serious damage to other organs if you have health issues.

ETA, most people don't get the virus in their lungs, it's when it invades the lungs that the symptoms are life threatening.

Studies Suggest Why Omicron Is Less Severe: It Spares the Lungs

JMO