Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #52

[Deleted member 117884]

"California will reportedly close all beaches and state parks beginning Friday after swells of beachgoers fled to the shore last weekend in defiance of social distancing rules."

https://nypost.com/2020/04/30/ca-to-close-beaches-after-crowds-ignore-social-distancing-rules/

How hard is it to social distance at a beach!?!? One of the easiest places to spread out, yet people didn't. Come on, let's cooperate on something so easy - it's hardly a sacrifice to move your beach towel apart from others.

jmo

 

[CSIDreamer]

I am not sure that you can post about real meat on here anymore........LOL !.....moo

I know lol. Jmo

 

[Deleted member 158085]

I am not sure that you can post about real meat on here anymore........LOL !.....moo

Come, now. People are simply reminding others who are worried about a meat shortage that we have lots of alternatives.

 

[tresir2012]

I wouldn't count on kids not spreading it.

Hence the screens just in case.
BTW does your user name refer to chicken wings?

 

[Deleted member 117884]

To me, masks are a way to "love your neighbor."

"I protect you, you protect me."

 

[dixiegirl1035]

I wouldn't count on kids not spreading it.

The WHO spoke to such yesterday as they had seen that report. I cannot seem to cut/paste... so here are two screenshots of the discussion/answer re the report of the Switzerland edict two days ago re hugging kids. (for those that cannot read it, more studies needed, and they point to if kids are asymptomatic, the don't cough as much, is disease "dose related" etc... so don't perhaps spread as much)

https://www.who.int/docs/default-so...ss-conference-29apr2020.pdf?sfvrsn=aaa81d24_2

 

[girlhasnoname]

Swiss researchers see sewage as early warning sign for COVID flares

(Reuters) - Researchers in Switzerland have been able to detect the new coronavirus at even low concentrations in wastewater, offering a potential early warning system for flareups in infections as countries emerge from emergency lockdowns.

(...)

"Wastewater doesn't lie, and it reflects what is excreted by the public within a few hours," team leader Christoph Ort from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology said in a statement.

Swiss researchers see sewage as early warning sign for COVID flares

Leave it to the Swiss! I did an international assignment for two years in Schaffhausen and it was the most beautiful, clean and safest area I've lived in. Too bad it costs an arm and a leg.

 

[tresir2012]

A couple of links to help regarding possible food shortages.

A World War Two Christmas - Historic UK

And this is the modern day equivalent I think.

Rear a Pig Scheme

 

[Deleted member 117884]

Yes, it has been indeed eye opening as to where folks are on the spectrum of empathy for others that have nothing to do with ourselves (the difference between animals and humans MOO), notwithstanding direct affect one can have on another and discounting due to more value being put on individual freedoms perhaps. Indeed, we all have different value systems and I'm sure many have found that their close friends have different value systems than their own.

Yes. True.

imo

 

[Sundog]

Thanks. Here is a screenshot of his card from his BFF Elizabeth. I love how the Queen signs as merely Elizabeth...

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Great card from the Queen. Her signature is "Elizabeth R" and the "R" stands for "Regina" which is Latin for Queen. If a king, the "R" in signature would stand for "Rex."

 

[Deleted member 117884]

Are you guys turning into CV hyperchondriacs? I have decided my tale of woe starting last night and ending this morning is most likely a gift from those beef and bean burritos I ate for dinner. Whew. Jmo

I am not particularly worried about food shortages, even if they happen. I can "make do" with what would be available, even if boring and not my choice of foods. Mainly, I don't think any food shortages would be long-lasting, and we can get through a brief period of not having as much as we're used to - and Americans are used to living with abundance.

What concerns me more is the potential of hoarding. TP was not in shortage until people started grabbing and hoarding it. That selfishness bothers me way more than having to eat oatmeal for dinner.

It's one thing to responsibly build up your personal pantry and it's another to grab so that others are without.

jmo

 

[tresir2012]

Leave it to the Swiss! I did an international assignment for two years in Schaffhausen and it was the most beautiful, clean and safest area I've lived in. Too bad it costs an arm and a leg.

I can see that as it has been said there can be fecal transfer of the virus. It's worrying.

ETA Hopefully this will finally put the kybosh on spreading it on crops, which I have seen done in UK.

Link
Sustainable Food Trust

 

[girlhasnoname]

Captain Tom celebrates 100th birthday

A little food for the soul here

I have a little crush on Captain Tom

 

[Deleted member 158085]

The study predicts that, if the state had only relied on voluntary social distancing and hadn't taken steps to restrict in-person activities, Kentucky would have had 44,482 confirmed cases of the virus by April 25 and more than 2,000 additional people would have died.

University of Kentucky research: Beshear's Healthy At Home orders saved thousands of lives

 

[Deleted member 158085]

A couple of links to help regarding possible food shortages.

A World War Two Christmas - Historic UK

And this is the modern day equivalent I think.

Rear a Pig Scheme

It was encouraged to have laying hens. Now, people have to fight city hall in even small rural communities in the US to get permission to have even a limited number.

 

[Deleted member 117884]

It was encouraged to have laying hens. Now, people have to fight city hall in even small rural communities in the US to get permission to have even a limited number.

Might be easier to get permission starting....now.
jmo

 

[tresir2012]

The study predicts that, if the state had only relied on voluntary social distancing and hadn't taken steps to restrict in-person activities, Kentucky would have had 44,482 confirmed cases of the virus by April 25 and more than 2,000 additional people would have died.

University of Kentucky research: Beshear's Healthy At Home orders saved thousands of lives

"would have had 44,482 confirmed cases of the virus by April 25 and more than 2,000 additional people would have died.

Kentucky, as of April 28, has 4,375 confirmed cases and 225 deaths. "

Referring this to the 21.9% in worldometers that I posted up thread 225 deaths out of 4375 is only about 5% so I am wondering now about this low 5% rate. This obviously depends on the ages of those who have caught it I guess. The younger the ones who have caught the virus then the lower the death probability. So the safer at home policy for the over 70's or those with health problems really is a life saver.

 

[CSIDreamer]

It was encouraged to have laying hens. Now, people have to fight city hall in even small rural communities in the US to get permission to have even a limited number.

The thing about rural communities is you can always move outside the city limits. Jmo

 

[tresir2012]

Might be easier to get permission starting....now.
jmo

Maybe you can buy hens that other people keep and you pay them and receive the eggs. That would work. Like the buying part of a cow for the raw milk scheme.

 

[justbeachy]

At the moment I'm at home with confirmed Covid-19, my symptoms are mild with a fever of above 38,0 Centigrades (100 F) if I don't take paracetamol, a headache that won't go away, tiredness, and very mild cold symptoms. No breathing difficulties, cough, aches or anything else. I most likely caught it at work (emergency department), as we have had more and more patients with suspected corona during last week, and one of my colleagues have also got it. Now I have to stay at home until all symptoms are gone + two more days. I got a call from one of the doctors at the Department of Infectious Diseases, as well as from a nurse at the Disease control unit at the hospital, giving me advice and what symptoms to be observant of.

The number confirmed cases here in my part of Sweden is still low, 73 cases, and 2 deaths. The laboratory capacity have been increase and now all hospital staff, and personnel taking care of elders, are tested if they have any symptoms that could be coronarelated.

Feel better soon, @FrostOwl! So sorry you are dealing with this, but glad your symptoms are mild. Please keep us updated.