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

[sdm111]

The cross section of a lung is a triangle with the largest side to the rear of the body.
Lying on your back (supine), the fluid (pneumonia) fills a large surface area. If you are placed 'prone' the fluid moves to the front and more space is free to exchange air. These patients are usually ventilated and heavily sedated.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769872
They're usually on a 20h prone / 4h supine schedule.
It is also encouraged for non ventilated patients with breathing difficulties.

Exactly what I thought
Just kidding thanks

 

[sdm111]

The cross section of a lung is a triangle with the largest side to the rear of the body.
Lying on your back (supine), the fluid (pneumonia) fills a large surface area. If you are placed 'prone' the fluid moves to the front and more space is free to exchange air. These patients are usually ventilated and heavily sedated.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2769872
They're usually on a 20h prone / 4h supine schedule.
It is also encouraged for non ventilated patients with breathing difficulties.

So that means more people are having complications like pneumonia from covid I suppose.

 

[Hayden Goseek]

So that means more people are having complications like pneumonia from covid I suppose.

I haven't been to the hospital in a couple months so I'm not sure. I expect to be back up there next week.
If you were in the ICU, those are the worst cases from the region, so it always looks like a flood of people. It's kind of a 'confirmation bias'.
I would expect the overall numbers are lower than a year or two before. There are a number of people who wind up with ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome) even when there is no flu around. It's a side effect of the ventilator. The stretching of the lung tissue makes it nonpliable (leathery). The proneing lowers the need for high pressures. We were fighting this 20 years ago when I started in the ICU. Now remember, at this stage the patient would have almost certainly died without vent support.
(Sorry, probably too much information again.)

 

[curlycropchics]

oh i will jump on this. We have finally been caught, my daughter came in close contact at school on last friday and her brother had cold like symptoms yesterday so I in home tested and it was positive, then on to the PCR. POSITIVE. Here is to quarantine.

I have been tired but I am thinking more from just trying to do my normal chores of the house and animals and then MY HEATHENS...who mind you and thankfully are not super sick at all.
My kids take up my whole damn day and then i just go and die. Between the homework that has been brought home to the fighting between them, I think I am just going to go and hide in the chick brooder. Nice and cozy and surrouded by the innocent fluffbutts.

 

[h2oratt]

Say Hayden what's the reasoning on placing a lot of covid patients on their stomach instead of back?

Better lung capacity

 

[bruceha2000]

I got the free tests today.

Haven't seen hide nor hair of my test kits and I ordered them the day before the website officially opened.

Your tax dollars at work

Just in case you are aren't aware, USPS gets NO money from the government. But they are controlled by Congress which is why they have to fund retirement now for employees who aren't even born yet.

Tried doing it online years ago. It was still easier to do it on paper.

Probably depends on how complicated ones taxes are.

I really hate the push to do everything online. Its so easy to steal someones information that way. I can shred paper

That is why I pay for TurboTax ... that and my taxes are a lot more complicated now than they were 40 years ago.

I'm hoping a large regional bank would serve me better.

Or as was mentioned, a credit union.

 

[Beer can]

Those 'friends' of mine that are unvaccinated and endangering my Addison's disease friend,

It's common knowledge now that vaccinated double triple boosted, get covid and spread it.
Common knowledge now, the 'science' (evolving) has admitted the vaccine doesn't stop anyone from getting or dying from covid, but it does make your chances better to survive based on statistics and data. That's it, nuff said.

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

Haven't seen hide nor hair of my test kits and I ordered them the day before the website officially opened.


Just in case you are aren't aware, USPS gets NO money from the government. But they are controlled by Congress which is why they have to fund retirement now for employees who aren't even born yet..

Exactly controlled by Congress so your tax dollars at work.
In 1971, Congress replaced the Department with the United States Postal Service, an independent entity within the executive branch. USPS is operated by a 11-person Board of Governors (which resembles the board of directors of a public corporation)—the Postmaster General, his deputy (currently vacant), and nine governors appointed by the President and approved by the Senate for seven-year terms. All six of the current independent governors were appointed by President Trump; three slots are empty. The Board appoints the Postmaster General, who acts as the CEO.

 

[h2oratt]

It's common knowledge now that vaccinated double triple boosted, get covid and spread it.
Common knowledge now, the 'science' (evolving) has admitted the vaccine doesn't stop anyone from getting or dying from covid, but it does make your chances better to survive based on statistics and data. That's it, nuff said.

Yeah funny how anyone that said that a few months ago was ridiculed, banned and censured.

 

[Hayden Goseek]

Just in case you are aren't aware, USPS gets NO money from the government. But they are controlled by Congress which is why they have to fund retirement now for employees who aren't even born yet.

Partially true. They run a deficit each year and have to be bailed out in the billions.
(What, do they think they're a bank.)