Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #33

[Reasonable & Just]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appealed directly to kids hunkering down in their homes Sunday, thanking them for changing their daily routines and adding that more direct messaging specifically for children is on its way.

"All of a sudden you've heard you can't go on playdates or have sleepovers. Your playgrounds and schools have closed and your March Break was certainly different than what you had hoped for," Trudeau said during his daily coronavirus

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ju...s-to-follow-social-distancing-rules-1.5506113

Classy and kind and acknowledging the children living in this crisis. Refreshing. I wonder how the Missus is doing - I hope she is recovering smoothly.

 

[Charlot123]

I wonder if there is a common denominator amongst the people who are asymptomatic.

From what I have read, the virus attaches to ACE2 receptors in the lungs. Elderly, males, smokers. Asians, people with hypertension express more of them. So maybe, people outside of these groups could be asymptomatic? Not having enough “heli-pads” in their lungs?

 

[Reasonable & Just]

"How am I supposed to live?" Coronavirus leaves Colorado's working class anxious and afraid

Yes. It is sounding messy up on the Hill right now. Just do your jobs, DC folks. Just look out for the little guys and gals, please. Just do what is right.

 

[Henry2326]

UK.....he's come a long way in a couple of weeks

UK could face Italy-style lockdown, warns Boris Johnson UK could face Italy-style lockdown, warns Boris Johnson

Guardian news on Twitter

 

[Really?]

I bought baklavas, they are going to be my mask, albeit it's totally unclear if they work at all.

Hehe......baklava is a pastry, right?

 

[CeeCeeCat]

Thanks. It would be difficult but not impossible for our IT guy to set up - Its a one man operator -long term insurance co and its mostly liaising with clients and head office telephonically, now. Will see what he decides tomorrow.

Good luck! Definitely not impossible - our office fields constant calls and IT is just diverting these calls to people’s mobile phones. I really hope you’ll be able to work from home - just knowing I can do so lifts (some of) the stress of a nightmare situation.

 

[Gardenista]

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[Picklebot]

Hehe......baklava is a pastry, right?

A delicious, gooey pastry!

I wonder if I can get a delivery of just baklava from the local Greek restaurant?

 

[katydid23]

When i read what Singapore did to retrace patients' steps often testing/informing people before they had a clue that they might have had the virus. And the FEMA stands up on the news this morning as says "don't take the test unless you really truly feel symptoms--yikes. I think this going to backfire.

Singapore has a population of about 6 million people. The US has 330million+ people....so we will not be able to do the same things as Singapore could do.

Local authorities might be able to follow Singapores protocol in their cities, if they have enough tests.

But FEMA, who is in charge of 330million citizens has no hope of doing that same procedure, of following each infected patient and backtracking. We have way too many people for that.

 

[mickey2942]

Crazy, filing for unemployment weekly filing in Nevada, they still want a work search. Umm, everything is closed but Walmart and grocery stores.

Could they deny someone weekly benefits for "Not being able and available for work", because they have kids, and there is no school or daycare available?

Why didn't they change the parameters for weekly filing?

 

[Ray_of_hope]

Current Florida stats.
Florida reports 830 COVID-19 cases, 13th death

 

[Gardenista]

The Vice President and Mrs. Pence.

Why don't you want the VP to get the best possible care?

 

[Charlot123]

Here's some funnies for some laughter among all this madness!

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and here are some stores in America that have senior hours:
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In Latvia we only have 124 cases, no deaths & 1 person recovered. That's per that map someone posted oh so many posts ago....

Have you closed the borders? Maybe you’ll be fine then.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Hehe......baklava is a pastry, right?

Honey, nuts, phyllo dough. Dee-lish

 

[margarita25]

Tri-State Sees 138 COVID-19 Deaths; Cuomo, Murphy Call for Federal Govt. Help
March 22, 2020• Updated 3 seconds ago

“At his own press conference Sunday morning, Gov. Andrew Cuomo called on the federal government to invoke the Defense Production Act to get factories to manufacture masks, ventilators and other medical equipment as the number of positive novel coronavirus tests in the state rose to 15,168 on Sunday.

The number of deaths in the state now stands at 114, Cuomo said.

In New York City, there have been 9,654 positive cases of COVID-19 and 63 deaths, a spokeswoman for Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday afternoon. Those positive cases include 2,715 in Queens, 2,072 in Manhattan, 2,857 in Brooklyn, 1,411 in the Bronx and 593 in Staten Island. As of 6 p.m. on Saturday, at least 1,450 people in New York City were hospitalized with the virus, at least 370 of whom were in ICUs.”

[...]


“New York State is competing with other states for crucial supplies, Cuomo said, adding that “that’s not the way it should be.”

“This is just an impossible situation to manage,” he said. “If we don’t get the equipment, we can lose lives that we could have otherwise saved if we had the right equipment.”

Cuomo said he has asked the Army Corps of Engineers to erect temporary hospitals at Stony Brook University, SUNY Old Westbury, the Jacob K. Javits Center and in Westchester County, and asked FEMA to erect four federal hospitals at the Javits Center.”

[...]

“Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday also asked the federal government to do more in response to the crisis, saying New York City is "about 10 days away now from seeing widespread shortages of really fundamental supplies."

Sixty people in New York City have died and more than 8,000 people have tested positive for COVID-19, de Blasio said during a CNN appearance.

"April is going to be a lot worse than March and I fear May could be worse than April," the mayor said. “If we don’t get more ventilators in the next 10 days, people will die who don’t have to die."

“We have seen next to nothing from the federal government at this point," he added. "We’ve made this plea publicly, privately, letters, phone calls, you name it. Very, very little has arrived."

By Monday evening, the entire tri-state will be asked to self-quarantine as orders from governors in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut take effect, closing all non-essential businesses. “

 

[Auntie Cipation]

Liam Hackett
@DiageoLiam

The World Health Organization has announced that dogs cannot contract Covid-19. Dogs previously held in quarantine can now be released. To be clear, WHO let the dogs out.

Liam Hackett on Twitter

I assume this is wordplay, not actual information. If it's actual information they should clarify. Until then consider it silly pun wordplay!

 

[katydid23]

This made me cry. Of all the things I miss- it is my grandchildren running in and out of my front door. Their silly, playful, and energetic love that always brings joy. The picture captures my grandkids, thank you.
Happy blessed Sunday all. Hang in there.

I miss that too. My son just sent me a little video of my grand daughter playing in their yard. I usually spend every Sunday afternoon there with her. ....but I am happy to see her playing so happily and it gives me inspiration and incentive to keep hubby and I quarantined and safe, so we can see her in the near future.

 

[Charlot123]

Yes. It is sounding messy up on the Hill right now. Just do your jobs, DC folks. Just look out for the little guys and gals, please. Just do what is right.

As my dad who was born in the USSR in the year of collectivization, survived Stalin’s purges, WWII, hunger and lots of other stuff, would say, “we’ll plant potatoes and live off them”.

it happened many times in history. Maybe we should stop buying toilet paper, stack up on real things, and think of surviving the hunger? The workers could do it.

 

[Henry2326]

Wow....just wow.....going for a swim with other people while I wait for my test results.....

Now confirming from 2 ppl familiar the @seungminkim report that Kansas Sen. @JerryMoran said at GOP lunch that he did see @RandPaul at the Senate gym this morning & that Paul was in the pool
Paul tested positive for #coronavirus this morning, and the news broke during the lunch
Lindsay Wise on Twitter

Multiple GOP senators at today's closed-door Republican lunch on the Hill indicated they had been in close contact w/Sen. Paul in the last 72 hours, according to a person familiar
Not clear how this might affect planned votes on the #coronavirus stimulus package...

Lindsay Wise on Twitter

 

[raja]

following from a distance..