Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #35

[JerseyGirl]

Governor Murphy of New Jersey added today:

Effective immediately, the following retail businesses are also considered essential and permitted to operate:

Mobile phone retail, repair shops
Bicycle shops, only for service and repair
Livestock feed stores
Nurseries, garden centers
Farming equipment stores

I continue to urge New Jerseyans to STAY HOME and only go out when absolutely necessary.

Governor Phil Murphy

 

[K.jill]

Thought I would share in this thread link with everyone. Have a feeling I’m gonna be spending some time there! https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/depression-encouragement-thru-the-abyss-thread-3.327578/

 

[Kensie]

DBM

Can someone explain stay at home and shelter in place???

I found an article that explains
What's the difference between a stay-at-home order and a shelter-in-place?

 

[perfectingpink]

Sedgwick County reports 7 coronavirus cases, 98 total in KS, including 3 deaths
[...]
New information from the state health department also details that children are testing positive for the virus. According to KDHE, patients range in age from 7 to 90 years old, with a median age of 52.
[...]

 

[Kensie]

Thought I would share in this thread link with everyone. Have a feeling I’m gonna be spending some time there! https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/depression-encouragement-thru-the-abyss-thread-3.327578/

this thread helped me a lot through bad times. A lot of good folks.

 

[Reasonable & Just]

Thought I would share in this thread link with everyone. Have a feeling I’m gonna be spending some time there! https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/depression-encouragement-thru-the-abyss-thread-3.327578/

Thank you.

 

[Reasonable & Just]

He could have told Trump to pound sand. ETA and he would have been the hero of the country.

Already is to many because of what he is doing now. And no, I doubt many would have lionized him for doing it sooner. Quite the opposite. I can only imagine the talking heads early on... but they don't matter, do they? I think he sought to minimize harm all around. Plus, the lack of tests...

 

[JerseyGirl]

People walking shoulder to shoulder on sidewalks, waiting in lobbies for elevators, ELEVATORS, shared kitchens in workplaces, eating out almost every night before long commutes on public transport, lots of contact across age groups, lots of elderly who still have to work/want to work. Did I mention high rises and ELEVATORS?

It will eventually be in every major city in the United States. No ban on people from NY or NJ can stop it now. We just started testing in NY and NJ. They haven’t even organized test sites in some of the populated areas in other states.

 

[NuttMegg]

Rachel Maddow has an interesting segment tonight about the "smart thermometer" which tracks above average body temps. App owners contribute the data in real time over their phones, and Kimsa Corp tracks, graphs the data. They are predicting virus breakout in FLA. It's about 2/3 thru her program. The point of the segment is to show how well Social isolation works, examples can be seem thru the heat map tracking of communities which have imposed these regs, how the above average temps (fevers) go down.

 

[10ofRods]

But wouldn't all those sick old people put a strain on the system? Maybe they can set up a more efficient way of getting them out of harm's way and sparing the economy... I think Vonnegut wrote a short story about it. Voluntary euthanasia spas, where you can go out in style. Imo

Naah. That's not what Glenn is thinking. He's in that group of people who are going to ban 60+ from hospital beds. Google it, it's already happening in Italy; worse than that in Spain. And some states here are talking in similar terms.

That's okay - that's not my issue here, exactly. Societies making hard decisions is quite different from asking people to risk their health and lives for some undefinable, unachievable ideal that exists in Glenn's mind. Also, people need to be able to seek health when their breathing starts to stop. It's not slow with the CoVid19. You don't just fail to wake up - you spend hours gasping for breath and in agony. Like dying of COPD, which is hard to watch and very hard for the person dying without some care.

Hospice care (Vonnegut style) is available many places and really helped ease my dad's passage (COPD and...old age, he was 99).

People who have never seen a sick bed in their life deserve a bed and a nurse at the end - they deserve compassionate euthanasia and an easy passage. Not a month of gasping for breath at home.

 

[Henry2326]

.@ABC - Senior medical students at NYU informed tonight if they have met all requirements & credits they will be granted early graduation - effort to add more doctors to medical field amid coronavirus crisis, according to source with direct knowledge - first by @brief_19
John Santucci on Twitter

 

[JerseyGirl]

DBM

Can someone explain stay at home and shelter in place???

I found an article that explains
What's the difference between a stay-at-home order and a shelter-in-place?

Cuomo said that they should have never used the term “shelter in place” as it was used during the war for people to go to an interior room and shelter.

The term now is “stay at home”.

 

[Henry2326]

Note that the big increases in #COVID19 in New York reflect more testing. There are other parts of the country that would be reporting similar increases if testing were widely available".
Bill Hanage on Twitter

 

[oviedo]

A lot of foods contain a good amount Vitamin C besides citrus fruits---broccoli, strawberries, kiwis, kale, parsley. People aren't going to be able to hoard foods that contain Vitamin C, like they've been doing with so many other things. (Don't get me started) I'm still baffled by the continued hoarding of toilet paper for a respiratory disease.

I guess I need to revisit my veggies - I don’t care for fruit unless I’m infusing it -LOL but I do love broccoli kale Brussels sprouts etc

 

[cody22]

I don't care whose fault this is..... The bills are paid for today and tomorrow. I got food and toilet paper for today and tomorrow. I got two vehicles with full tanks of gas. There ain't nobody shooting at me or trying to blow me up in years...... I am gonna go out doing my best to smile and set a good example for those around me........ It has been a good life and I'm gonna keep on enjoying it as long as I can.....I refuse to live in fear.......moo

 

[Kensie]

I don't care whose fault this is..... The bills are paid for today and tomorrow. I got food and toilet paper for today and tomorrow. I got two vehicles with full tanks of gas. There ain't nobody shooting at me or trying to blow me up in years...... I am gonna go out doing my best to smile and set a good example for those around me........ It has been a good life and I'm gonna keep on enjoying it as long as I can.....moo

I needed those words. Thanks.

 

[Tippy Lynn]

I don't care whose fault this is..... The bills are paid for today and tomorrow. I got food and toilet paper for today and tomorrow. I got two vehicles with full tanks of gas. There ain't nobody shooting at me or trying to blow me up in years...... I am gonna go out doing my best to smile and set a good example for those around me........ It has been a good life and I'm gonna keep on enjoying it as long as I can.....moo

^^^THIS

 

[zecats]

Cuomo said that they should have never used the term “shelter in place” as it was used during the war for people to go to an interior room and shelter.

The term now is “stay at home”.

Shelter in place is also used in schools now as one of the drills that have to be conducted twice monthly. It's a drill implying the danger is outside the building. It does have a bit of a negative stigma attached to it..

 

[oviedo]

I don't care whose fault this is..... The bills are paid for today and tomorrow. I got food and toilet paper for today and tomorrow. I got two vehicles with full tanks of gas. There ain't nobody shooting at me or trying to blow me up in years...... I am gonna go out doing my best to smile and set a good example for those around me........ It has been a good life and I'm gonna keep on enjoying it as long as I can.....I refuse to live in fear.......moo

Me too but I’d really like a few more rolls of TP (still not regretting the 12 pack I shared with dear friends last week- nurse and a deputy)
ETA I remember the days when sharing a 12 pack meant something cold - popping the tops and sitting beside each other not 6 feet away- I’m changing with the times ... sigh

 

[mickey2942]

Amazon Unlimited has an interesting book, "The Great Mortality" by John Kelly. This is about "The Black Death". But there are striking parallels between the Plague and the COVID19. Almost 600 years later, we are as helpless as the people then. So much for modernity and scientific advancement.