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

[Pennys Mama]

Right. So once it had an official name many places immediately switched to that. Other sources didn't. That's messed up.

Nope. Normal people. Every day men and women, usually in their 50s and 60s. Usually white, occasionally black or Hispanic. Sometimes younger.

When swine flu went around people also stopped buying pork and discriminating against pork farmers. Pork farms crashed massively and pork industry groups issued letters asking news groups to stop calling it swine flu. In so.e countries they literally killed every single pig in major swine farm in the whole nation.
Of course, the impact was less in the USA but very much still felt to the point that pig farmers were threatening lawsuits over the name. And it is challenging/impractical but theoretically you could stop being a pig farmer or say you don't work with pigs. You can never "stop" being asian or say you aren't asian.

So this is a pretty common thing. Very human nature (unfortunately). It happened in 1918 with the "Spanish flu" too. We have seen it happen many times before and have a lot of historical documentation about how names effect common perception and why choosing our words carefully matters so much.

Not to mention, we don't even think to colloquially name viruses after the usa. Swine flu started in the usa and nobody called it the "American Virus". It is largely minorities that are effected when diseases get associated with groups of people.

I hear ya, I don't know that there is a legal fix for some of the ignorance going around. Maybe some names just stick with people and take a bit of time to stop using. Hopefully as time progresses the use of its origin name will decrease and the use of the official much easier to enunciate name will catch on. I'm an optimist.

 

[sourland]

I hear ya, I don't know that there is a legal fix for some of the ignorance going around. Maybe some names just stick with people and take a bit of time to stop using. Hopefully as time progresses the use of its origin name will decrease and the use of the official much easier to enunciate name will catch on. I'm an optimist.

Maybe not so easy to enunciate for some. I heard it spelled during a press conference yesterday.

 

[Pennys Mama]

Maybe not so easy to enunciate for some. I heard it spelled during a press conference yesterday.

I saw that, and laughed out loud!

 

[hysop]

I think that study was geared to more of a natural disaster where people could be without power for quite sometime. In September 2017 we had hurricane Irma. We were without power for a week. Luckily my sister had not lost power and we borrowed her generator. The generator wasn't large enough to run everything so we had to time share it. I put blankets in the freezer to help keep stuff frozen when we had to move the power to run the well or other things. We survived. This is how I gave the chickens water. Luckily the coops are lower so I relied on gravity. All of the coops have auto waterers. It worked. When the well was on it would back fill this trashcan with water. It actually lasted quite awhile before we had to add water.
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Oh definitely. It was geared toward a power outage that would last weeks to months. But just the same people could have prepared. My city dealt with a power outage for about a week to a week and a half when Hurricane Michael hit, so at least the people in my city should have taken heed to that and all others who are within hurricane areas, but not everyone did.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Sadly some idiots think they can “catch” the virus from Asian people. And a lot of Asian businesses, even non Chinese ones, have seen a dramatic reduction in customers since this whole thing started.

But I wouldn’t say it’s just white people. There’s been incidents all over the world. Egypt, Africa, even other Asian countries like Japan and even parts of China have been weird about it. Like saying that Chinese people or people from Wuhan or the mainland weren’t welcome there. Signs out, checking IDs, etc. even read about someone getting kicked out of their Uber.

So it is happening all over the world sadly. People blame the Chinese for causing the virus and/or think they are going to catch it from them.

None of it makes any sense to me especially given that the virus is worldwide at this point. You could catch it from your brother too. :/

 

[IamRainey]

The trash bags were used as symbols for don't trash the hospital workers, nurses, doctors and others to show they need the vital equipment including the PPE.

They're also using the garbage bags to protect the PPE. I don't know about other places but here in LA where my daughter is an ICU nurse, they are issued one set of PPE per day. That makes their gear essentially ineffective. It may -- I live on this hope -- keep the medical personnel from getting infected -- IF they don't, say, have to go to the bathroom or take a drink -- but it doesn't protect others in the hospital from having the virus from one patient transferred to another.

The garbage bags are available and they can change them more often.

 

[BullChick]

+1,404 today. One more case in my county. Some areas have zero cases. I don’t believe that at all.

 

[Molpet]

+1,404 today. One more case in my county. Some areas have zero cases. I don’t believe that at all.

Unless they tested everyone every week, they don't really know how many cases... just the very ill

 

[sourland]

Unless they tested everyone every week, they don't really know how many cases... just the very ill

Here in NJ, due to the shortage of testing materials, only those with fevers or shortness of breath and medical personnel/police/support are being tested. The numbers reported are far below the actual number infected.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Got contacted by a friend last night. He's in nursing school, about 6mo out from finishing. All his courses got cancelled in their entirety. He's been in school a while cause he has to work too. He worked for uber, lyft and a restaurant and lost all his employment. He's also super high risk cause of his diabetes. He applied for unemployment but it's two weeks til it shows up and all his money was going towards his courses - courses they probably won't reimburse. Look like he's going to be participating in the corona rent strike whether he likes it or not.

We helped him out with some grocery money but my heart bleeds. He's trying to become a nurse. We obviously need more of those but there's no funding for it. He could have been a nurse years ago if he didn't have to work two jobs while going to school. Being poor sucks - it's awfully hard to find the time to become a contributing member of society when you have bills to pay. He's joining the upwards of 15% of the USA that's going to be unemployed by the end of the month. :T