Coronavirus - COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #25

[MyBelle]

WASHINGTON D.C.

Mark Segraves on Twitter
Restaurant group defying @MayorBowser #coronavirus order for restaurants to drastically reduce seating. Owner of Hill Restaurant Group which owns 7 Capitol Hill eateries tells @nbcwashington“let her shut us down”

6:23 PM · Mar 15, 2020

I wonder how long it will be before the Health Dept. is conducting intensive examinations of their "practices."

 

[LadyL]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/grap...x_qKwXm0Su0chnI14RHNSE94ScSq2FUhxkNSmaaT6N6lU

 

[Sundog]

My best friend buried her husband today. The funeral home did not allow receiving of friends inside so it was held at the gravesite just prior to the graveside service. (Cold and windy too).

Deepest sympathy for your loss.

 

[Trudie]

I'd gladly share if there was a way.

@zecats regarding your post about viruses needing a host, this is one time we all must not be good hosts!

 

[MyBelle]

My niece is supposed to get married that weekend too, on Good Friday. About 200 people invited and most RSVP'ed yes. Before all this anyway.

How the heck do you handle something like this? Would the venue even want to be open for any event now? It's sad...it's my brother's youngest daughter and the last of his 5 kids to get married. Reckon the 50 person gathering limit will make the decision for her.

I'm sure the guests will understand. 50 people is still a nice-sized gathering of friends and family and that's all that really matters.

JMO

 

[dixiegirl1035]

What is the point of getting tested? If I have the flu, why should I go get tested? Stay home, hunker down, drink OJ.

Just asking.

In Las Vegas, almost every show has gone dark. The occupancy rate at the MGM is, 3%.

Stores can't keep things on the shelves, as soon as a flat comes out to stock up the shelves, people grab stuff off of the flat. Empty shelves all over the store.

mickey2942 -For your first question - you've read for over a month here on this thread, so cannot give you more than I've read here also to answer that you've commented/asked before.

Also, on the second one, I think you may have a typo, yet didn't do a link to check it. I think you left off a 0? Link please?

"Convention cancellations and scaling back of leisure travel have thrown resort occupancy into a tailspin. Sources say that MGM Resorts’ MGM Grand and Park MGM are at around 10–20% and Wynn is hovering around 30%. Normal numbers at this time of year are 80–100%."

Las Vegas Starts Concert Cancellations, Pool Club Employee Coronavirus Being Investigated

 

[LaborDayRN]

I wish I could "like" this a thousand times!

<modsnip: quoted post and reference to it have been removed> It's true that some businesses might not survive -- but we must fight the virus, and the virus' priority is not the maintenance of human culture.

This may not be a popular statement, but I think it needs to be said: We as a culture have gotten so used to our comforts and to the idea of our life we have created in our little bubble of indoor shelter with electricity and a zillion appliances, internet, screen entertainment, lots of food, and our invented world of finance, occupations and vocations, cultural rituals, sports, etc -- we've had so few disruptions to that world in recent decades that we've forgotten that, to put it bluntly, "nature bats last".

The world is full of species that struggle constantly with checks and balances to their population -- diseases, predators, famines, climate shifts, and more. As much as we'd like to think so, humans are not exempt from that, nor should we be. (if we never had checks and balances to our population, we would overpopulate compared to our capacity, which some of us think is already happening)

Anyway what I'm trying to say is not that the virus should prevail (it won't; we will) but that we should realize that these are the kinds of trials that humans have always had to deal with and will always have to deal with. Yes, it's scary, and it's been so many years since we've had a similar challenge that we don't have recent historical lore to lean upon -- time to harken back to the 1918 flu as well as to the great depression in the 1930s. But it's not unexpected, historically speaking. And it's certainly not going to be vanquished if we try to maintain our comfort zones when they are the very activities allowing the virus to spread!

A saying that captures it well for me is "It's not that hard times are coming -- it's that soft times are going."

Yes, exactly! Just imagine, if it were somehow possible for every single person who has this virus, whether they know it or not, to simply isolate themselves until they are well, the virus would *poof* be gone!

Of course that is not possible. But we need to approach it as closely as we can. And since most of us cannot be 100% sure we haven't been exposed, that's why we ALL need to just stay home for a bit. Even if we can't make it go poof, we can hopefully cut it down to a much fewer number of cases that can then be treated by the medical system without overwhelming them.

All MOO of course

 

[Midgie2]

For anyone in the Metro Atlanta area that knows this Wellstar Kennestone Hospital ER.
The 3 tents and the dumpsters outside!
Very odd feeling!
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Jennifer Brett on Twitter

Very odd feeling indeed!

I’m being a little silly in the midst of all this, sorry. But it makes me think back to the show M.A.S.H.

 

[LaborDayRN]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/grap...x_qKwXm0Su0chnI14RHNSE94ScSq2FUhxkNSmaaT6N6lU

Such good information.

 

[drama_farmer]

I'm wondering if the the Red Cross will be getting involved in some way to help? They've always been such a comforting sight during other catastrophes. IMO

 

[momrids6]

And @momrids6 - are people who have high potassium levels affected more than others who don’t? Or are you asking bc of his kidney function?
My husband has severe liver damage from being an alcoholic for 35 years. And his kidneys aren’t great either. He’s on the verge of CKD level 3A (but his eGFR keeps him in level 2 this far).
And he is a smoker.

People with low potassium are sicker- according to that Medical article I posted.

 

[gngr~snap]

Very odd feeling indeed!

I’m being a little silly in the midst of all this, sorry. But it makes me think back to the show M.A.S.H.

Indeed, that ER is HUGE! 40 rooms maybe? Also a kids ER with about 12 rooms. Why 3 TENTS???
EEK!
Moo

 

[MyBelle]

<modsnip: quoted post was removed>

My grocery store doesn't have curb-side delivery but it hasn't been crowded. My husband picked up our prescriptions two weeks ago when this was first unfolding.

People don't get to decide what they think is important, the Health Department and our elected leaders get to decide. That's why they were elected. That's the way it has worked in this country for decades, if not centuries, and I don't anticipate it changing soon. It has already been announced that there will be low-interest small business loans available so that small businesses can stay afloat to weather this storm. No different than if the small business had been hit with a flood, hurricane or other natural disaster.

JMO

 

[LaborDayRN]

Indeed, that ER is HUGE! 40 rooms maybe? Also a kids ER with about 12 rooms. Why 3 TENTS???
EEK!
Moo

Maybe it's set up as a triage area. They may want to screen patients before bringing them into the ER. ???

 

[FlossyMay]

I've been making everyone take a daily vitamin. Something we had been slacking on before all this.

 

[gngr~snap]

Maybe it's set up as a triage area. They may want to screen patients before bringing them into the ER. ???

Definitely for screening. I forget how many people come through that ER.
Moo

 

[MJPeony]

And when they know what they must do, like STAY HOME, they refuse to put aside their selfishness and insist on going out to bars and restaurants.

The real reason you need widespread testing is to scare some sense into people and justify a strict quarantine.

100%. I have really struggled with my anger around the lack of testing over the past few weeks. When people, who don’t read or study to understand this, hear X amount of cases they tend to act accordingly. And when the numbers seem low- as they do when we don’t test many- they think it’s no big deal.

Such a shame. Proper testing 2 weeks ago would have made such a huge difference in the trajectory of the virus in the US. I can only hope that we will mitigate the damage and still flatten the curve.



MOO.

 

[drama_farmer]

Very odd feeling indeed!

I’m being a little silly in the midst of all this, sorry. But it makes me think back to the show M.A.S.H.

bbm
Oh great, now I've got the M*A*S*H theme song embedded in my head! Always thought the title of that song was odd: "Suicide is Painless." IMO

 

[Sillybilly]

Scroll and roll folks !!

If we have to remove posts due to bickering, thread bans may be issued, meaning that you can read but not post.

This thread is very fast moving and we don't have time for nonsense in here.

 

[pocketaccent]

Maybe it's set up as a triage area. They may want to screen patients before bringing them into the ER. ???

yes I think so, so anyone who may be infected doesn't contaminate the whole ER area.