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

[casportpony]

Central Valley

I'm SF Bay Area

 

[IamRainey]

I'm in SoCal.

I think we've got this huge state covered.

How's the virus in the Central Valley? We're maxed out here in LA and a friend in Oakland tells me they're at capacity too.

 

[MROO]

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I'm havin' a moment here. XD

(Ya'll missed a wild post.)

I'm thinkin' I should be grateful to be late to that particular party! ...

 

[ChocolateMouse]

I'm thinkin' I should be grateful to be late to that particular party! ...

Lets just say it read like this book we have (for laughing at) about how lizard people rule the earth. XD

 

[MROO]

Just a little bit of insight into the recent visitors to this thread.

They breed beautiful and ancient breeds of chickens that have had thousands of years of selection for disease resistance. The selection happened because this type of chickens had repeated physical contact with each other to entertain anyone from ancient Sumerians to Abraham Lincoln.

Modern egg layers and broilers have a much smaller genetic pool than either jungle fowl or game fowl. Heritage breeds and mixes have a broader genetic pool, but only a few hundred years of selection toward disease resistance.

Yes, it is possible to raise a few hundred gamefowl with zero medicines and no vaccines. The breed has existed for thousands of years and has been already selected for disease resistance.

The human intervention with gamefowl usually needed involves building materials and fencing to keep the adult roosters from tearing each other up.

You could probably do a similar thing with Fayoumi and African village chickens. These are also ancient breeds or landraces that have been selected over time for disese resistance in a warm climate where pathogens occur year-round.

You could have 1000 Fayoumi running wild all over a farm and they probably don’t need any medical interventions whatsoever. Can’t guarantee that they won’t roost in trees....

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2019.00376/full

It might be possible to do something similar with heritage Mediterranean breeds like Leghorns and Anconas. This depends on the strain and its history, but the breeds are several hundred years old.

When you’re dealing with heritage American or South American chickens, some breeders vaccinate but others don’t. Small producers and backyard flocks rarely vaccinate, but an acquaintance who raises a few thousand chicks per year does.

I would definitely not recommend to not vaccinate a lot of 1000 or 10000 broilers. Modern hybrids probably don’t carry a lot of the disease-resistant genetics from anciant chicken breeds or even Mediterranean ones.

And, I would vaccinate humans. If you lose a chicken to disease, it’s a monetary or property loss. When you lose a person, it’s a tragedy.

Yes, it is better to select chickens over hundreds of generations for disease resistance. The luxury of that time availability isn’t available with a new virus like the ‘rona.

William Shakespeare just had his vaccination!

It might take a while to get past patient 2B or Not 2 B from the 1560s to early 1600s... but let this winter of my discontent end ....

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-...are-receives-a-covid-19-vaccine-idUKKBN28I109

The Taming of the FLU? SERIOUSLY? ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!

Y'all have been in QUARANTINE too long!

 

[Folly's place]

Fortunately I've skipped all that. sounds like I made the right choice.
Mary

 

[MROO]

I am officially welcomed into the corona country club! I tested positive today. I don't really feel to bad, It's basically a head cold with a sore throat. I've had it for a few days but didn't think anything of it until this morning when I couldn't smell anything and I mean anything! Not even an extremely strong onion. Other then that I feel fine. Had I not tested positive I would have been still at work. Plus side all my co-workers tested negative. The worst part is I have no clue where I got it from. I very rarely go anywhere and when I do I wear my mask and sanitize the hell out of my hands. I'm just praying my husband doesn't get it. He has severe COPD. This will not be good for him.

Prayers, Prayers and MORE Prayers are all heading your way! If you've got a second bathroom, restrict yourself to one and have any/everyone else use the other. That should help Hubby stay clear a little better.

 

[MROO]

My best wishes to you and your family, @MROO .

Thanks, we're hanging n there. It doesn't seem real. We haven't gathered and grieved, so it's not registering fully. In my family, when someone passes, we all gather. We cry. We laugh. We eat. We do it all over again. Without that support, I just can't wrap my head around the fact that my Dad is gone. I keep wanting to call him with a question. .I still have his voice on my answering machine. If anyone had any suggestions on how to preserve it forever, I'm listening!

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Thanks, we're hanging n there. It doesn't seem real. We haven't gathered and grieved, so it's not registering fully. In my family, when someone passes, we all gather. We cry. We laugh. We eat. We do it all over again. Without that support, I just can't wrap my head around the fact that my Dad is gone. I keep wanting to call him with a question. .I still have his voice on my answering machine. If anyone had any suggestions on how to preserve it forever, I'm listening!

Digitize it. A good mic in a quiet room will do wonders for sound quality. Digital duplication from there is pretty much lossless. You can back it up to a cloud, to your email, to a flash drive, in as many places and ways you want to without losing sound quality. You can burn it to a CD - which will eventually degrade, but then you can burn it all over again because you have the master cut.

 

[MROO]

I don't know if this is helpful but here is the treatment protocol from the Eastern Virginia Medical School. They seem to keep up on the latest research and adjust their protocols accordingly. We are following their prophylaxis protocol very closely.

https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_pub...cine/EVMS_Critical_Care_COVID-19_Protocol.pdf

Holy Cow, that was a LOT to decipher, but I'm glad I went through it. I'm glad I didn't know some of that when I was sick! Based on all the "late pulmonary phase" info there, it looks like I dodged the proverbial bullet. The steroids saved my lungs ... and most likely the rest of me along with them! I'm still not clear, still using the bute inhaler, but I'm breathing and progressing. I'll take it!