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

[cooingdove]

wow cool thread! I know 2 who tested positive and 3 who may have had it.

 

[electrycmonk]

Reading through the last few pages here, I just had the strangest thought.
With the skyrocketing cases and deaths combined with the promise of likely at least 3 effective vaccines coming in the next year - I just thought how weird it would be if I or anyone would be the last person to die from Covid-19.
Ya'll know I'm not normal. So just ignore me.

Feeling a wee bit disconnected today? Or is distracted the better word choice here?

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

So sorry for your loss @Cynthia12. It's so sad to hear so many people are just not bothering to take the simple precautions of wearing a mask and limiting their socializing. It seems to me that many enjoy risk taking and living on the edge or simply have a death wish. The people who are fortunate to have maintained their employment seem to be taking this a bit more seriously, but it only takes one or two uncooperative people to spread the disease to others. With the lines growing at the covid testing sites being shown on the news, perhaps those unbelievers will get a clue before it's too late. The rates in our state have been averaging over 2000 new cases per day for the past 2 weeks. That's a bit disturbing since Massachusetts is such a small state.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Reading through the last few pages here, I just had the strangest thought.
With the skyrocketing cases and deaths combined with the promise of likely at least 3 effective vaccines coming in the next year - I just thought how weird it would be if I or anyone would be the last person to die from Covid-19.
Ya'll know I'm not normal. So just ignore me.

I mean, it's like the last person to have gotten polio. They exist. I watched a documentary about one of the last polio survivors a while back - the last person who had an iron lung in the USA. He's a lawyer of all things.
Nobody who experienced polio or saw it thought twice about getting a vaccine. It's a stark reminder of what diseases can do to us - and how effectively they can be stopped if we try hard enough.

 

[IamRainey]

Nobody who experienced polio or saw it thought twice about getting a vaccine. It's a stark reminder of what diseases can do to us - and how effectively they can be stopped if we try hard enough.

AMEN to that!

I think I've said here before that I was in the test group for the original Salk vaccine. They lined us up and injected all of us. I don't even have any idea what information our parents got in advance or if they were presented with an opportunity to decline. Polio was devastating and no one wanted anyone they knew to get it. Period. End of story. But that was a post-war America with a sense of community.

In Canada routine immunization is handled very much the same way. Parents are notified of the scheduled days. They do have an opportunity to decline but the notification serves more as a reminder that that's the day you don't want your kid to miss. Then the elementary school kids or middle school kids or high school kids -- depending on the optimum age or greatest vulnerability -- are lined up in school on the scheduled day and vaccinated en masse.

It's so easy. So effective. So part of their comprehensive public health mind set.

My son was vaccinated along with all the Canadian kids. They want to eliminate disease not do bookkeeping. They declined reimbursement.

I LOVE Canada.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Feeling a wee bit disconnected today? Or is distracted the better word choice here?

I don't have an excuse. Have had a busy day already. I took my friend with a hip replacement to the hospital so her surgeon could x-ray her hip. He gave her a clean bill of health to drive, walk and even run. But he told her the rest of her life, she had to get a course of antibiotics any time she would have any other surgery or even dental work.
I'm mucking out coops today, repairing some buildings and preparing to run electric to some outbuildings. Trying to stay isolated, forget the pandemic and get some work done before winter sets in.

AMEN to that!

I think I've said here before that I was in the test group for the original Salk vaccine. They lined us up and injected all of us. I don't even have any idea what information our parents got in advance or if they were presented with an opportunity to decline. Polio was devastating and no one wanted anyone they knew to get it. Period. End of story. But that was a post-war America with a sense of community.

In Canada routine immunization is handled very much the same way. Parents are notified of the scheduled days. They do have an opportunity to decline but the notification serves more as a reminder that that's the day you don't want your kid to miss. Then the elementary school kids or middle school kids or high school kids -- depending on the optimum age or greatest vulnerability -- are lined up in school on the scheduled day and vaccinated en masse.

It's so easy. So effective. So part of their comprehensive public health mind set.

My son was vaccinated along with all the Canadian kids. They want to eliminate disease not do bookkeeping. They declined reimbursement.

I LOVE Canada.

Lately, Canadians seem like 'normal' people to me. And, Canada seems like the way a country should function.

 

[CarpCharacin]

Reading through the last few pages here, I just had the strangest thought.
With the skyrocketing cases and deaths combined with the promise of likely at least 3 effective vaccines coming in the next year - I just thought how weird it would be if I or anyone would be the last person to die from Covid-19.
Ya'll know I'm not normal. So just ignore me.

If vaccination does manage to successfully curtail the pandemic, people will still unfortunately continue to die from the coronavirus (albeit in much lower numbers) and other viruses such as the flu, until an effective cell-replacement therapy for rejuvenating the immune system becomes mainstream. Hopefully that will occur eventually, but it's likely that even then, there would still be people without access to healthcare, sadly.

 

[IamRainey]

I certainly never expected to be immune from life and, inevitably, death. I told my husband early in the Covid era that if there were ever a question of putting me on a ventilator I'd rather just be allowed to die without endangering others and incurring medical expenses with diminishing return.

I doubt anyone here has an expectation of living forever.

For me, short of a lingering painful death, what I do die of just isn't of all that much interest to me. I just want to not feel menace breathing down on me in my day-to-day life and lurking at any potential turn. I'd like to be able enjoy the days I have left and to fill them with ordinary activities like freely being with my family and seeing my grandson be able to go to school and get an education to prepare himself for a life he can look forward to.

I'll live with Covid, it's the pandemic of it that's demoralizing.

 

[IamRainey]

Lately, Canadians seem like 'normal' people to me. And, Canada seems like the way a country should function.

It's an awesome place filled with awesome people. Even government is local and responsive. My husband once had a problem with a new federal employment policy that intended to stop exploitation of international workers. It was good policy but it shut down the labor flow that my husband's business required despite the fact that the imported workers were short term and well paid by any standard.

A meeting of federal labor representatives and my husband's industry was quickly summoned by the local PM and they worked the matter out equitably in a matter of a week or 10 days.

We always thought we'd retire to Vancouver but then the Olympics happened and real estate started to be gobbled up and the prices escalated and then became astronomical -- and even worse for non-Canadian buyers. The last time we were there homes were going for hundreds of thousands over the stiff original asking prices.

We had had earlier opportunities to buy. We kick ourselves for not taking advantage of them but I was the one who wanted my then young kids to be able to go home to their own school. ::sigh::

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Welp. It's officially hawk season. Boo. Almost lost a leghorn today while D and I were outside dealing with firewood. Heard it happening and ran over in time for it to get away with just a single small puncture on the wing joint.