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

[JaeG]

A week into full lockdown in New Zealand we have a total of 14 clusters of Covid-19, with 7 of them appearing overnight. 5 of the previous clusters continue to grow with the largest being at a school. The number of infected continues to rise steadily. Hopefully in the next week that will start to taper off, but a new study has found that even after recovering some patients are still shedding the virus.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/nati...s-disappear-study/ar-BB11WD4o?ocid=spartanntp
The most dire prediction if we didn't lockdown was that the infections would peak late July with around 75% of the population falling ill. That in itself would have a huge impact on the economy, not to mention overwhelm our health system which was short staffed to begin with.

 

[seminolewind]

Cap, I read a good article today talking about the three potential endings for the virus. The most likely one is we don't stay in full lockdown for the whole time. The more likely scenario is that specific areas with serious outbreaks will get locked down during the duration of that outbreak and the rest of life will be normal after about the end of june.

I am a homebody so it doesn't affect me too much. I truly think they need to work on a preventative immunization. I do think that what will end this is a vaccine like for influenza,measles, mumps, chicken pox.

They say the virus isn't killing us but what your antibody overload is doing to you body

 

[BDutch]

It escalated quickly!!!

Yes, so did al the chit-chat in this thread.

Time for some new facts on Corona ( from a reliable source NOS.nl)

• 65 - 80% of the ICU patients are obese. Many have diabetes type2. The reason that obese need ICU more often: because of the weight of the chest. This makes it more difficult to breath.
• About 60% of the Corona sick is male. This is also the case with influenza. Maybe it has to do with the X vs Y chromosome. A different life style probably plays a part in this too.
• Lock down has it’s first effect in needed hospital care after 2 weeks. But the need of ICU’s beds still grows after 2 weeks. Doctor’s expect a growing curve for ICU beds for another 2 weeks. The hospitals here scale up from 1000 now to 2000 next week.
• The health care as usual has stopped partially. All emergency operations and urgent treatments will continue. But a lot of hospital care for people in pain and not urgent care in hospitals stopped.
• All kind of therapists give online instructions now to avoid coNtact.

 

[BDutch]

Finally getting my raised put together. My 3 yards of "garden mix" soil should come tomorrow.

When I plant squash, how do you deal with the long vines?
I want to grow lots of eggplant. The small ones so I can make some Turkish food. Yum!

There is another thread to discuss hobby’s during this crisis.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...-to-do-with-chickens-during-covid-19.1353744/

I am a homebody so it doesn't affect me too much. I truly think they need to work on a preventative immunization. I do think that what will end this is a vaccine like for influenza,measles, mumps, chicken pox.

They say the virus isn't killing us but what your antibody overload is doing to you body

This is not making any sense to me. Except for needing a new vaccin. Developing a new vaccin for a new disease , normally takes over a year. But I hope they speed it up bypassing the usual testing restrictions.

 

[igorsMistress]

Who said they had covid?
I don't remember seeing anyone say they tested positive.

Anyone remember who?

I meant this one but cant insert quote into an edit so bumped it. LOL

Yeah, it was the IgorsMistress (edit, sorry, not AuntAngus) one that I remember. I'm only on page 476 of this thread, trying to get caught up ...

Clearly I didn't say either of us tested positive. Another instructor where my husband works has, in addition to a student. My husband was directly exposed to both. We were advised by the state's hotline that unless we develop symptoms we don't have to quarantine.

Anything else you'd care to ask?

 

[Kabootar]

Yes, so did al the chit-chat in this thread.

Time for some new facts on Corona ( from a reliable source NOS.nl)

• 65 - 80% of the ICU patients are obese. Many have diabetes type2. The reason that obese need ICU more often: because of the weight of the chest. This makes it more difficult to breath.
• About 60% of the Corona sick is male. This is also the case with influenza. Maybe it has to do with the X vs Y chromosome. A different life style probably plays a part in this too.
• Lock down has it’s first effect in needed hospital care after 2 weeks. But the need of ICU’s beds still grows after 2 weeks. Doctor’s expect a growing curve for ICU beds for another 2 weeks. The hospitals here scale up from 1000 now to 2000 next week.
• The health care as usual has stopped partially. All emergency operations and urgent treatments will continue. But a lot of hospital care for people in pain and not urgent care in hospitals stopped.
• All kind of therapists give online instructions now to avoid coNtact.

My dad is diabetic, I am so worried that I can't tell you. There are not enough testings in my country, the government is definitely under reporting the number of cases. Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of migrant labourers are marching towards villages from New Delhi and other hotspots of virus. Riots and stone pelting between police and people are becoming more and more common. The government is trying to severely restrict the movement of people by cancelling trains, flights and busses, but people are intent on returning to their homes in the countryside. They are walking for hundreds of kilometres from the Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata to UP and Bihar.

India's experience with pandemics is pretty bad. India lost 10% of it's population during the third plague pandemic in mid nineteenth century. During the Spanish flu pandemic 20 million Indians died. The 1921 census recorded a decline in population.

 

[Kabootar]

To be honest I have studied a lot about the pandemics of the past. The journals of Ibn Batuta, the legendary traveler from Morocco visited India and China and other places just after the second plague pandemic is part of our curriculum. His depiction of Middle East, Turkey, Russia, Persia, India and China is starkly different from the depiction of these very same places found in the journals of the Venetian traveler Marco Polo who visited these places before the second plague pandemic.

I have also read many articles on past pandemics and watched many documentaries on television and YouTube, but after all this I never thought I will have to live through such a catastrophic pandemic.

 

[Shadrach]

My dad is diabetic, I am so worried that I can't tell you. There are not enough testings in my country, the government is definitely under reporting the number of cases. Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of migrant labourers are marching towards villages from New Delhi and other hotspots of virus. Riots and stone pelting between police and people are becoming more and more common. The government is trying to severely restrict the movement of people by cancelling trains, flights and busses, but people are intent on returning to their homes in the countryside. They are walking for hundreds of kilometres from the Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata to UP and Bihar.

India's experience with pandemics is pretty bad. India lost 10% of it's population during the third plague pandemic in mid nineteenth century. During the Spanish flu pandemic 20 million Indians died. The 1921 census recorded a decline in population.

I've been watching events unfold in India and what little I can find about Pakistan and the Punjab. Modi made a terrible miscalculation imo hoping that the country people who comprise such a large proportion of the cities work force would stay. The exodus was inevitable. The figures that are causing the hysteria here in the West are insignificant compared to the deaths in your country caused both by the spread of the virus and the results of the measures taken most of which will never even be reported. My heart goes out to you.

 

[Kabootar]

I've been watching events unfold in India and what little I can find about Pakistan and the Punjab. Modi made a terrible miscalculation imo hoping that the country people who comprise such a large proportion of the cities work force would stay. The exodus was inevitable. The figures that are causing the hysteria here in the West are insignificant compared to the deaths in your country caused both by the spread of the virus and the results of the measures taken most of which will never even be reported. My heart goes out to you.

Thank you so much for your kind words. Most of us are prepared for the inevitable. We know what has happened in past. The stories of personal tragedies are passed from one generation to the next. We have also studied about them in books.

I am particularly worried about my father, my two grandmothers and my great-grandmother. They are all in "high risk category". My great-grandmother has been through many natural calamities. She has lived through earthquake of Bihar, second world war, famine of 1943, famine of 1966 and recent 2015 earthquake of Nepal and so many floods that sweep North Bihar almost every monsoon. She tells me a lot of stories about the past.

 

[Kabootar]

I've been watching events unfold in India and what little I can find about Pakistan and the Punjab. Modi made a terrible miscalculation imo hoping that the country people who comprise such a large proportion of the cities work force would stay. The exodus was inevitable. The figures that are causing the hysteria here in the West are insignificant compared to the deaths in your country caused both by the spread of the virus and the results of the measures taken most of which will never even be reported. My heart goes out to you.

I also pray for your good health and safety.