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

[HenOnAJuneBug]

People aren't just appearing to die. They really are dying.

How is that different from normal? People are always dying of something.

 

[FortCluck]

How is that different from normal? People are always dying of something.

Not at this rate though. I get that flu has losses too every year, but it doesn't saturate the hospitals like this new virus. It's more gradual, but the flu did do this when it first started here.

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

Not at this rate though. I get that flu has losses too every year, but it doesn't saturate the hospitals like this new virus. It's more gradual, but the flu did do this when it first started here.

It entirely depends on the outbreak severity and countries' hospital capacities. Italy's ICUs are overbuburdened, but their ICUs collapsed in the severe 2017-2018 flu outbreak; their ICUs are 85-90% full every winter; so they normally have a capacity problem if the situation deviates from normal. Germany is not having a problem, for one thing because they have good capacity.

 

[Beer can]

Not at this rate though. I get that flu has losses too every year, but it doesn't saturate the hospitals like this new virus. It's more gradual, but the flu did do this when it first started here.

That and, yeah some are getting no or little symptoms, some are finding out they have it and gone in a couple days. I know flu deaths are a lot more than I ever thought possible but I don't think the deaths happen so fast. One thing they keep saying is it's mostly old, or people with underlying health conditions, but they would still be alive if they didn't get coronavirus.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Something to be thankful for! We no longer have a vegetable garden, it has become the chicken's run. But there are many bulb flowers planted in it, mostly lilies and also daffodils like these. The chickens love to shelter under them from the summer sun, and cultivate and fertilize them. The plants are toxic to chickens but chickens are not stupid. They love the bugs that live among their roots. This is the happy result!

 

[SnapdragonQ]

I picked up my feed this morning and you'd never know anything different was going on in my area except for a little less traffic. Got there right at opening and had to go inside TSC to sign for my order. Typical amount of morning shoppers and not being careful in any way.
The manager and I are friends and we chatted for a few minutes... at a distance because I was the one keeping my distance.... he said he's scared like many are and that he'd been talking to other managers not too far away and pop up delivery businesses are picking up people's feed and supplies for them and then delivering and stacking the feed/supplies.

There were chicks in the store, I looked, but nothing I needed. Some sex links, RIR, meaties, and a few ducklings. The manager and an employee brought out my order and loaded it for me, which was very nice, and we were on our way.
As I passed some other stores there were plenty of cars in the parking lots and things looked very typical here. It was strange not seeing any school buses out so early though...that's something very different.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Yesterday I counted at least nine different varieties of daffodils on our property.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Those kinds of models are usually wrong. This thing will probably peak in about 2 weeks. Mortality will probably be the same as, or a little above, yearly normal. Way over-hyped.

Tell that to the hospitals around the country that have run out of room for patients, and the supplies needed to keep the staff safe and alive.

Only In the end, once all the data is collected and analyzed, will we (collective we) truly know the outcomes.

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

Tell that to the hospitals around the country that have run out of room for patients, and the supplies needed to keep the staff safe and alive.

Only In the end, once all the data is collected and analyzed, will we (collective we) truly know the outcomes.

What hospitals in the US have run out of space and supplies?

 

[cmom]

I have been staying home but I still worry that someone may bring the virus to me with the sale of my eggs. I do have to handle money and I have no idea who has handled it. I do keep disinfecting wipes next to the change jar. I have to keep eggs out to sell. I can't stockpile them.