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

[MROO]

There isn't a person alive who has experienced anything like what they are about to witness.
Perhaps those who were victims of the holocaust but there have been massive pandemics that none of us remember.
The plague of Justinian when global population was less than 200 million killed 30-50 million.
The bubonic plague of 1350 when global population was 360 million killed 200 million.
Smallpox in 1520 killed 52 million when the population was 450 million.
The third plague of 1855 only killed 12 million when the population was 1.5 billion.
Spanish flu of 1918 (which didn't come from Spain) killed close to 50 million.
HIV/AIDS has killed 35 million.
There have been lots more pandemics in between those and earlier in history.

Mother Nature is a great equalizer, so it seems. This may be our just desserts for messing her up so badly ... but I hope not!

 

[MROO]

Last night my husband helped me finish the puzzle because it said it was driving him crazy that I didn't touch it yesterday we spent 2 hours doing it together...

Now we are going to do a 500-piece puzzle and the pieces are mini compared to this one

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Pretty!

 

[Rooapalooza]

Mother Nature is a great equalizer, so it seems. This may be our just desserts for messing her up so badly ... but I hope not!

I've heard that the water in Venice is clear again, when it's usually brown. The air quality in a lot of places is better than it's been in years, if not decades. Maybe during this crisis we can rearrange our priorities a little bit and when we restart the world, restart it better than it was before? That's what my grandmother taught me. She used to say, "Always leave things a little better than how you found them."

 

[sourland]

LOL!!!
You must know my hubs, Those are literally the same words he uses. He is often all doom and gloom and I am an eternal optimist, or as he says, naive
He will stress himself out over what the weather will be like next winter, (he plows), but I think we should get thru this winter first.

The Princess does claim that I project too much. Your husband sounds like a very sensible person.

Take that, Covid19. Christmas lights now festoon my front porch. @Kiki I haven't put up Santa Claus ---------------- YET!

 

[MROO]

Does that also infer that we could pass it ,Covid-19 ,to our chickens??

I don't think so. The article says that they're taking a vaccine developed for an avian coronavirus (different from Covid 19) and adapting it for use against this one. Fingers crossed!

 

[MROO]

I've heard that the water in Venice is clear again, when it's usually brown. The air quality in a lot of places is better than it's been in years, if not decades. Maybe during this crisis we can rearrange our priorities a little bit and when we restart the world, restart it better than it was before? That's what my grandmother taught me. She used to say, "Always leave things a little better than how you found them."

That's a hoax. The picture with the swans was taken in another city in Italy. According to the myth-busters, Venice is still a mess ... much quieter, but still a mess!

 

[IamRainey]

What happens in Europe is no guarantee it will transpire the same way here. Past the coasts, we are not as condensed population wise, and we have began curtailing things sooner. As with all things related to this, it is a case of wait and see.

That attitude IS the problem.

Yes. It WILL happen where you are. It's only a matter of time. The virus is in every state in the country and in tiny Guam out in the middle of the Pacific ocean.

Los Angeles had zero case 3 weeks ago. Then it got 1. Now our largest hospital is at capacity and its operations are breaking down. The staff are running out of the personal protective equipment that keeps them sterile as they go from patient to patient and sterile as they go between themselves and home to their families. Lower paid employees who clean and provide technical services are refusing to go into patient rooms.

My daughter, an ICU nurse, can't have her son at home with her because she's scared for her own health now and for his and her husband's.

Everyone who treats this virus and the LIKELIHOOD that they will become a carrier is like a gun to the head of those people who are working double and triple their caseloads and hours that bring them to exhaustion further risking their own immune systems.

Don't be a jackass! Take this and your reponsibility to others seriously and start doing it NOW!

 

[MROO]

Old enough to know that "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is." The Princess calls me a pessimist. I prefer to be labeled a realist.

I think I'll be a realist ... with my fingers crossed on this one!

 

[Kiki]

The Princess does claim that I project too much. Your husband sounds like a very sensible person.

Take that, Covid19. Christmas lights now festoon my front porch. @Kiki I haven't put up Santa Claus ---------------- YET!

Christmas lights are okay.
Fake Santas in March are not.

 

[Rooapalooza]

That's a hoax. The picture with the swans was taken in another city in Italy. According to the myth-busters, Venice is still a mess ... much quieter, but still a mess!

Lol I didn't see a picture with a swan, I just saw one with water. I don't think it was fake. Either way, it's honestly a tiny example of what I'm talking about. I just used it because it's non-controversial.

Another example would be governors and local governments finally finding shelters for their homeless populations, which IMO should have happened long ago. If we can now come up with a solution that works, maybe when we come out of this crisis we will have less people living on the streets.

What I really was talking about before was other pollution, carbon emissions and climate change, but shhhhh I don't want to start anything.