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

[MROO]

Unfortunately passing quickly also means overwhelmed hospitals. Better to flatten the curve and keep it low and slow. Chances are good a lot of people will catch this before it's over.

You're absolutely right, but that doesn't change my wish/dream/prayer - that it passes quickly because everyone who gets it has only the mild version that's treatable at home. I know it won't happen that way ... but that doesn't mean I can't wish it would, right?
{{{ ... sigh ... }}}

 

[BigBlueHen53]

My daughter is a high school senior, this year. She has worked so very, very hard to get where she is - all honors classes, Marching Band, Sports, the whole nine yards. The Class of 2020 is facing the likelihood of no prom, no senior trip, no hanging out with their friends for these last, few, precious weeks.
Spring Athletics are all but cancelled. There will be no calling out of Seniors' names at the last game of the season, no Pomp and Circumstance played by the band as they march across the stage to publicly receive that piece of paper they worked so hard to earn. No mass tossing of mortarboards into the air while the stadium erupts in applause. It absolutely breaks my heart. I can deal with getting sick now, if it means that this will pass quickly and my daughter gets to enjoy her last days of young freedom. She's worked hard. She's a great kid. She deserves all the bells and whistles. They all do.

You're right, she does deserve all the bells and whistles, and they all do. Everybody is having to make sacrifices right now, some more than others. People's lives are at stake. Our most vulnerable citizens are in everybody's hands. But America has met challenges like this before. We've sent our young men to war because it needed to be done. We've done difficult things that needed to be done, and this is what has made America great. We've built roads and railroads and bridges and skyscrapers and rebuilt the economy and gone to the moon, not because it was easy, but because it needed to be done. And we can do this. It will hurt for a while and we may hate it, but we can do it. Together we can. And thank your daughter for her sacrifice. We whose lives she is saving thank her and her classmates and her generation with all our hearts!

 

[Duckfarmer1]

My son is a pre-med student...4.0... his year is finishing on.line. He’s sooo mad because his classes neeeed to be hands on!! He feels he’s being cheated out of learn8ng. There are now 178 cases in my state. The schools are closed till April 23..college all on.line. No one can be in groups of more than ten, so many factories will shut down? Will they get paid? My husband says they will. There are a few cases in the next county over from us.

 

[IamRainey]

All my appts are cancelled. My Drs saw me a few weeks ago after I was discharged from icu. I have my Drs cell number so I can text any time if I need anything.

OMG! Don't go anywhere! Can you get your meals or groceries delivered?

I'm so glad you're well. Now stay well!

 

[ColoradoPip]

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There's an older country song called "Jesus, Take the Wheel." I'm sure feelin' it, tonight!

Is that like..."look ma, no hands!" Or another favorite..."hold my beer..."

In all seriousness, these are crazy times and I hope everyone and their fams come out of it ok.

My feed store says they don't see any issues yet. The news is reporting grocery stores are now receiving truckloads hourly, some entire 18 wheelers of TP. Things will catch back up quickly, in cities faster than the country.

Let's hope this unprecedented semi-lockdown works.

 

[Duckfarmer1]

@FortCluck ...can I ask why you were in the icu? Is it related? Please rest...lots of fluids and vitamins, and sleep!!

 

[IamRainey]

I want to get a weighted blanket for sleep. Ever since this has started I can't sleep. I guess it's my mind thinking too much. Heard weighted blankets help.

Actually, some months ago I was sleeping in a room we don't often use. The blankets that were piled on that bed had a cumulative weight that was considerable and, for whatever reason I didn't remove any. I slept with the windows wide open and all those heavy blankets on top of me and I slept like a baby. It was wonderful!

Later I heard about weighted blankets so I was already convinced when I did.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I keep hearing "the flu killed more people ...." and I just want to rebut that. The flu has been around for a hundred years. Of course it has killed more people than coronavirus, which has only been around a few weeks! The RATE at which coronavirus is killig people is MUCH more significant than the rate at which flu kills.

Another thing I keep hearing is that the media is hyping this up and freaking people out. Also not true. The media is reporting on events as they happen. A country goes on lockdown, that's news. A disease increases exponentially according to the CDC, that's news. The President speaks about the disease in a news conference, that's news. The media doesn't generate that news, they just report on it to keep the public informed. That's journalism. That's transparency. That's their job.

 

[IamRainey]

I'm just worried that my husband's work might shutdown for a bit and he won't get paid for the shutdown.

Some libraries loan board games. Call yours and see what they've got.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Roo, that's going to be intensely local. And it's very unclear. Locally I know that some emergency services for school age children are being put together by local grassroots organizations. I'm talking about small "cell" group style daycares, and highly sanitized lunch production facilities for low income students who rely on school for their meals. Our local food bank is going to be using "alternative distribution models". But otherwise I'm not aware of anything happening for homeless people, which is pretty typical frankly. Homeless shelters and low-infraction prisons are both going to become intensely unsafe places for physical health. A lot of even healthier younger people will end up in ERs from those demographics because their immune systems are deeply stressed already and they don't exactly have the ability to shelter in place to rest and get well...

Some people are being released from prison to reduce crowded conditions. That will affect the crime rate.