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

[BDutch]

UK: Boris Johnson and the minister of Health are both positively tested with Corona. Johnson has only mild symptoms.

 

[Kiki]

 

[Friendly_Lurker]

Check out Peter Hollens' The Handwashing Song (COVID19 Medley). I started laughing when the theme from Pen Pineapple Apple Pen started, again with Shake It Off, Uptown Funk, and Baby Shark.

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

5G cell signals

I have made a special hat for that, it looks simple but you need to crease the foil just right or it does not work.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

For Virginians (or anyone else) the Governor in today's statement -
Lack of testing materials and PPE. Calls for a federal testing site for VA, MD, and DC.

Richmond News

 

[Kiki]

 

[featherhead007]

OK everybody, I just got back from Walmart, so wash your keyboards, and your screens. Just in case.

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

Don't be naive.

Exactly, this thing is spreading faster than a hen on a june bug. Be safe

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

I don’t know Didn’t hear anything about an inhibitor (*?) But no smell or taste is something a doctor told in a interview I have been reading too.

edited: *ACE inhibitors are drugs that inhibit the action of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) in the tissues and blood plasma. They are prescribed for essential hypertension (high blood pressure), chronic heart failure (in combination with diuretics (water tablets) and, if necessary, digoxin and beta blocker), impaired left ventricular function (EF <40%) and in diabetic nephropathy with macroproteinuria in type I diabetes.

ACE inhibitors and ARBs are taken for diabetes, hypertension and some other heart ailments. They cause an increase in the ACE2 enzyme in the lungs, which is what the coronavirus attaches to to infect a cell. Both China and Italy found that hypertension and diabetes are high risk groups for severe illness and death. Many are concerned that ACE inhibitors and ARBs might be causing the increased risk rather than the conditions themselves. Dr. Fauci is among those.

 

[igorsMistress]

Afternoon all. We needed fresh veggies today and needed to fill our water jugs. There are tape strips on the floor at the market to indicate how far apart shoppers should stay from each other while in line and our checker was behind a plexiglass shield but wasn't wearing gloves. Interesting that. Hubs is off work for the next 10 days. When he goes back the company has ordered respirators for all the employees and they've asked him to help with testing if he's not sick by Thursday; most of the older staff has elected to stay home for the next couple of weeks. I called the hotline AZ set up to get verified info about what we can and can't do. Basically the guy said if we don't have symptoms we're not under any restrictions even with the exposure. The instructor who is sick seems to be faring ok so far, he said it feels like a bad flu. Stay healthy everyone.