Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[HeSaves]

My cousin just posted this ...
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But what if you don't have NetFlix? I don't have cable ... zheesh ... we can't even watch TV - no reception. Our television is basically just a movie screen. I guess it's a good thing we have a big library of DVD's on hand ... and we don't mind reruns ...

You use an HDMI cable to set it up as a monitor and watch movies like The Greatest Story Never Told, Europa The Last Battle, In the Shadow of Hermes and everything they are about to take off the internet. Also A Call For An Uprising and The Two Preachers.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

I’m unable to find that symptom.

My local news has been having local DR's and Health Dept on the shows to answer questions and I've seen it on the large affilliates from their DRs as well. Sorry I don't have a handy link but I've seen it multiple times from credible DRs.

 

[Kiki]

I agree with you except..... not everyone who doesn't pay for medical care abuses it or is handed everything. My husband makes good money working construction, and he works very hard. I am on disability for intractable epilepsy (up to 70 seizures per day) and with us and our two kids, we qualify for free health care (I have medicare because of the disability). We also qualify for monetary help and food stamps - both of which we refuse because we live as tight as possible and on a budget and we really don't need it (and definitely don't want it). The health care is the ONLY thing we take because we truly can not afford it and our children and ourselves do truly need it.

I am fully aware of the type of people you are referring to, and they anger me as well, but your wording bugged me and I'm not good at keeping my mouth shut.

I'm glad you understood the type of people I was talking about.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

I’m unable to find that symptom.

Quick look found it on the WHO page.
Symptom tab (+) second line...
WHO

I know our local hospital systems have it somewhere in their literature, but I'm unable to find it because I'm not familiar with their pages (recent acquisition.)

 

[JaeG]

I too have read that some individuals infected with Covid-19 are experiencing vomiting and diarrhoea along with the other usual symptoms.

For every person who is infected with Covid-19, on average they will infect 2-3 others. By comparison the flu has an average transmission rate of 1.3.

 

[MROO]

When someone sneezes, everybody's like:

 

[Graidyn]

Agreed, Graidyn. I have serious mental illness and it's hard for me to work a "real" job worth any real amount of money and minimum wage doesn't provide enough to pay medical bills even with insurance. So I have the farm and my partners and we get by. But there's NO way I could afford a single doctors visit with what I make or what he makes but I need those visits not only to treat acute problems (like when I had pneumonia two years ago) but also to pay for my medication to prevent uterine fibroids so I don't need regular surgeries. Medicaid/HCAP also paid for my emergency appendectomy when I was 18 and working at a pet store, less than 6 months after moving out of my parents house. My parents were unemployed and couldn't pay for it. Obviously no way I could either.

My sister goes to school full time, works part time, used to do it in reverse, and at no point until she went on medicaid could she ever afford her medication. She has severe early onset RA. She has more healthcare now than she does working a "real" job and she hates it. She's very scared of when she finally has her degree and might not be able to afford to get a job and work.

My father was laid off during the recession despite working for a high end business for several years and having an electrical engineering degree from the best university in the state. For several years after that he was out of work. My parents worked hard to provide for us, cutting corners and even dumpster diving. But that's when my mom contracted cancer. The ACA didn't exist then so she just never went to see a doctor even though she KNEW she was sick. The money didn't exist. She just just lived with it until it got so bad she couldn't anymore. Literally. By the time she saw a doctor it was stage 4 and lethal within three months without treatment. We struggled for years to get her medical bills covered. The ACA passed during her treatment and it changed the funding for her treatment drastically and gave my father the time to learn to care for my mother better. More recently Medicaid covered his stroke.

The problem with healthcare that isn't well regulated is you will either pay everything you can to try to live or you will die. The market can't regulate it at all. :T That "free" healthcare literally has saved multiple lives in my family. It's sorely needed for an awful lot of people who work very hard. People shouldn't have to die just because they're born poor or live through hard times or even make a few bad choices and wealth is HARDLY a signifier of the worth or merit of an individual.

Exactly. I had kidney cancer in 2012 and if I hadn't had medicare/medicaid at the time - I 100% would not be here. There is no way I would have cost my kids and husband that much. I would have just taken it as long as I could and then hoped it would end quickly. I know how awful that sounds, but saving myself would have crushed them more than losing me would have. Of course, even with medicare things are just..... well.... people think you have it made with your insurance paid for, but I'm only 39 years old (was 27 and working 3 jobs when I had to go on disability after the seizures started) and medicare doesn't cover dental, birth control, hell, it didn't even cover an appointment with a surgeon about a hysterectomy which he approved, but I did NOT get because Medicare would cover very little of that medically necessary surgery and I simply can't afford it (because of income guidelines there were several years where I only had medicare and my husband had no insurance). I did, just this January, get approved for medicaid which will cover a lot of what medicare doesn't (and my husband was approved as well), but now with corona I guess I'm just going to continue to suffer for a while. We may have excellent healthcare here in the US, but that's only when you have access to it.

 

[blackandtan]

So I just saw on the news...national news...that here in Canada there are some folks selling FAKE covid test kits door to door. How despicable do you have to be to do this?!?

 

[hysop]

So I just saw on the news...national news...that here in Canada there are some folks selling FAKE covid test kits door to door. How despicable do you have to be to do this?!?

I really hope no one bought them. People will do anything for money!

 

[ChickyChickymamma]

Minnesota closed all schools in the state and all restaurants and bars are now closed except for drive thrus and what not. Trying to come up with stuff to do with the kids since we can't do anything outside of the home. I am just about 30 and I have a heart and lungs disease so I'm really not allowed off the property says my husband.