Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #32

[drama_farmer]

How long before Covid is a popular baby name?

Given the two choices, I think the name "Corona" will be more popular than Covid, but I think that would be cruel to the child. It's bad enough having a trendy or edgy name, but to be associated with a Pandemic. . . yikes. IMO

 

[cody22]

You may have to wean yourself off hugging if you can't go cold turkey. Depending on how bad this gets and how long it sticks around, hugging may be considered assault with a deadly weapon in the (near) future. IMO. LOL

If I run into Angelina Jolie in the Grocery Store, and she wants to give me a real nice friendly hug, then I am gonna..........................................moo

 

[10ofRods]

I’m kinda frustrated with my friend. We’re both in our 30’s and work at a doctor’s office, so we’re exposed to germs every weekday. I’m a homebody by nature, so sheltering in place on weekends is easy for me. I have wine and books and Websleuths at home. But my friend is very social and hates being alone. Today she went to the salon to get her hair colored, and then drove an hour and a half each way to visit her parents. She told me that casually and I wanted to scream.

See - this makes you realize that the coworker (who you have to encounter) is completely undoing your own ability to stay quarantined. Speak to the doctor about increasing disinfection and maybe a UV sterilizer - but really, people should be staggering their work and cleaning in between.

We're not there yet, in most workplaces. But simply cutting the number of workers per day is a big help. It's really best if people can each do every other day - and get rest/basic functions done.

The most altruistic people are going to be the ones most harmed by all of this, I know it's hard to get yourself and your doctor to think that you too need to be safe.

 

[musicaljoke]

Whitmer - Executive Order 2020-11 (COVID-19)

EXECUTIVE ORDER 2020-11 (COVID-19)

Acting under the Michigan Constitution of 1963 and Michigan law, I order the following:


Beginning on March 17, 2020 at 9:00 am, and continuing through April 5, 2020 at 5:00 pm, all assemblages of more than 50 people in a single indoor shared space and all events of more than 50 people are prohibited in this state. A single indoor shared space includes but is not limited to a room, hall, cafeteria, auditorium, theater, or gallery. The prohibition on assemblages set forth in this section does not apply to:

health care facilities;

workplaces or portions thereof not open to the public;

the state legislature; and

assemblages for the purpose of mass transit, the purchase of groceries or consumer goods, or the performance of agricultural or construction work.

 

[otto]

“Hong Kong closed schools; Singapore did not, and there was hardly any difference in the rate of transmission.”
Perhaps because Singapore PH are SARS-CoV-2 ninjas who doggedly tracked down and tested people.
I know the US, and the US is no Singapore. https://t.co/FvKppM0qeW

Dr Kevin Purcell on Twitter

Maybe parents are letting their children spend time with other children while they are out of school, which would reduce the effectiveness of cancelling school. I know my daughter is doing that with 2 friends - children back and forth between homes as usual.

 

[Kensie]

@drama_farmer I think the same thing, all of us must, lol.
Obviously we all need things, at one point. I detest shopping so my goal is and has always been to race in & out as fast as I can, without causing bodily injury to myself or anyone else. I have friends that can spend hours in the grocery section. On a good day I can hit the car wash, Lowe’s, gas station & WMT & be home in under two hours, with the rest of the day to do as I please.

I am a zip in/zip out type of person. A grocery store has never been a place that I want to hang. I grab and go. Where I live, at Walmart there are entourages of people. It is a family outing mom, dad, kids, aunts , cousins all from the same family slowing walking down and aisle and clogging it. To each their own.

 

[Henry2326]

ITALY

BREAKING: Italy reports 6,557 new cases of coronavirus and 793 new deaths, raising total to 53,578 cases and 4,825 dead Tracking coronavirus: Map, data and timeline
BNO Newsroom on Twitter

 

[Curiousobserver]

NY and Cali better brace for the math to hit them hard.

It takes an average of 20 days for someone to die from COVID-19 and infections doubles every 5 days. That means deaths today were infected 20 days ago. Because the fatality rate is ~1% that means ~100X that many were infected 20 days ago. 30 deaths in NYS today means at least 3,000 infections 20 days ago! These have been doubling every 5 days since then. Keep doubling and that means ~10,000 dead by May 1. and maybe 100,000 by May 31!!!

For those of you wondering if you should limit contact for the next few weeks, wondering why the government is panicking, why the stock market is tanking- they can do the math...

If you're thinking this is just like the flu- think again- if that pattern isn't altered by social distancing you are looking at the potential for 100,000 deaths in NYC by the end of May. Nationwide that translates to about 1 Million deaths by sometime in June

It doesn't have to happen that way, you can change it-

Stay home, don't pass the virus to anybody.

Unless it is an absolute emergency, stay home for 2-4 weeks!!!

 

[squareandrabbet]

My birthday is Wednesday, too! We can celebrate being alive.

That's awesome!! Happy early b-day!

 

[drama_farmer]

If I run into Angelina Jolie in the Grocery Store, and she wants to give me a real nice friendly hug, then I am gonna..........................................moo

I think that's a reasonable decision. . . after all, we're only human, and can't be expected to allow such an opportunity to pass by! LOL IMO

 

[Kensie]

Maybe parents are letting their children spend time with other children while they are out of school, which would reduce the effectiveness of cancelling school. I know my daughter is doing that with 2 friends - children back and forth between homes as usual.

This brings back memories for me. When I was in high school (no computers, no cell phones, did not have cable tv), my friend Sarah and I would visit each day usually at my house. Sarah did not have a mom and she loved my mom (the mom that I hated at that time).
Even if we were fighting , we would still get together and sit in my bedroom for hours not talking to each other. We have been friends for many decades and she still is crazy about my mom as I am now.

 

[10ofRods]

He's completely wiped out, sleeping day and night. The phrase my son used was "never been so sick in my life." That was a 4 weeks ago, but he's still sick. Maybe he's recovered and has after effects, I don't know.

This must be very hard, Otto and you should see if he can be tested. Somehow. If he's 4 weeks out and had CoVid19 he's probably no longer contagious - but you want a professional opinion on that.

 

[Henry2326]

NASHVILLE, TN

Proud of Vanderbilt’s response to #COVIDー19 . Taking it seriously, ramping up operations and expanding capacity.
This is one of our parking garages, now a new hospital unit. Sterling Haring on Twitter
Sterling Haring on Twitter

 

[cody22]

NASHVILLE, TN

Proud of Vanderbilt’s response to #COVIDー19 . Taking it seriously, ramping up operations and expanding capacity.
This is one of our parking garages, now a new hospital unit. Sterling Haring on Twitter
Sterling Haring on Twitter

Now that is outstanding.....moo

 

[margarita25]

@otto checking in for the party. Did you get your wine delivery yet?

 

[drama_farmer]

NASHVILLE, TN

Proud of Vanderbilt’s response to #COVIDー19 . Taking it seriously, ramping up operations and expanding capacity.
This is one of our parking garages, now a new hospital unit. Sterling Haring on Twitter
Sterling Haring on Twitter

It's deja vu all over again.

 

[otto]

I FEEL NAUSEOUS TOO....

Doing analysis today on past 9 weeks of covid response and it makes me feel nauseous how little action was taken early on. Widespread complacency to take covid seriously, early denial by many government, & lack of compassion by govt & advisors on what this means for families.

Devi Sridhar on Twitter

I find it quite sad that politics and economics were prioritized while infected people travelled around the world, silently infecting populations who for no good reason thought they had it contained.

 

[Bravo]

I am a zip in/zip out type of person. A grocery store has never been a place that I want to hang. I grab and go. Where I live, at Walmart there are entourages of people. It is a family outing mom, dad, kids, aunts , cousins all from the same family slowing walking down and aisle and clogging it. To each their own.

Which is why I call it Hellmart. I avoid it at all cost. Parking plaza is a free for all. If I have to go I am in and out. Not a browser. There.

 

[Trudie]

Kentucky’s state lab has a limited capacity and at most has only been able to perform 37 tests in a single day, Beshear said. U of L Vice Dean for Research Dr. Jon Klein says that the university’s labs have more, enough to test more than 200 people per day.
In Ky. Testing For The Coronavirus Remains Limited

I think our state gov’t loves the inability to do an adequate number of tests.
Keeps fear at a lower level. But encourages people to think we don’t have it.

 

[Henry2326]

WASHINGTON

We’re working with @harborviewmc to repurpose the county's Harborview Hall building to serve as a 45-bed #COVID19 recovery site.
The location will allow people without a home to have a safe place to rest and recover with onsite clinical support.
@KingCountyTV King County, WA on Twitter
King County, WA on Twitter