Many if not most NJ districts are doing the same - at least for the time being. Problem is that we have no idea how long this will be ongoing.
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Many if not most NJ districts are doing the same - at least for the time being. Problem is that we have no idea how long this will be ongoing.
Bless my Canna's little heart, I took her to the coop, and as sick as she is, she still went to sit on an egg that another hen had left therein. And ate some feed from my hand as well. Good girl!.Wow, for a sick Ameraucana, this bird sure is stubborn! She won't open her beak for the dropper I'm using to feed them.
Yes, the hospital coop.
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Ah, I'm so sorry to hear that.
This is definitely an unusual reaction to a pandemic. You would think we had never dealt with one before. I am conflicted about it too. There seems to be more financial damage being done than actually people getting sick. We are definitely isolating and all, but I had to go to the doctor's office. I'm waiting to hear what the next steps are. It was very strange there. No one is going in to see the doctor. I wasn't going to but they insisted. Strange times.
Strange times indeed - modify your behavior, but don't stop living. I have great concerns for those working/living from paycheck to paycheck who no longer have jobs. My family is fine, but I feel concerned for others.
I have brewed a pot of coffee, also decaf, also hot chocolate, also hot water for any who want tea. Have a cup, set a bit, take a deep breath and relax.
I have brewed a pot of coffee, also decaf, also hot chocolate, also hot water for any who want tea. Have a cup, set a bit, take a deep breath and relax.
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Great job on that quilt! So pretty!
I think they get even more stubborn when they are sick. Queen Victoria didn't want me to give her anything. I resorted to putting her meds inside raspberries.Wow, for a sick Ameraucana, this bird sure is stubborn! She won't open her beak for the dropper I'm using to feed them.
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Thanks for the coffee. It tastes great right now!Strange times indeed - modify your behavior, but don't stop living. I have great concerns for those working/living from paycheck to paycheck who no longer have jobs. My family is fine, but I feel concerned for others.
I have brewed a pot of coffee, also decaf, also hot chocolate, also hot water for any who want tea. Have a cup, set a bit, take a deep breath and relax.
We are all having to deal with this pandemic panic in our own ways. We might not be impacted greatly in a financial sense, but DH has congestive heart failure, so we are fairly quarantined to err on the side of caution.
And get this, for all their talk about the masks will not protect us, the first thing they do when you walk in the doctor's office is offer us a mask.
Ah, I'm so sorry to hear that.
We are definitely isolating and all, but I had to go to the doctor's office. I'm waiting to hear what the next steps are. It was very strange there. No one is going in to see the doctor. I wasn't going to but they insisted. Strange times.
It's feeling pretty real here now...there is curfew being enforced a couple hours from here. Someone I know has been exposed to the virus now, it's not just hearing it through the grapevine anymore. It's so weird that this is happening at all. I know I've lived a very spoiled and comfortable life and we'll be ok, but it's very unsettling just the same...
My RN friend shared this message this morning. I put it as a spoiler in case some don't want to read it.
THIS IS NOT LIKE THE SEASONAL FLU
Feeling confused as to why Coronavirus is a bigger deal than Seasonal flu? Here it is in a nutshell. I hope this helps. Feel free to share this to others who don’t understand...
It has to do with RNA sequencing.... I.e. genetics.
Seasonal flu is an “all human virus”. The DNA/RNA chains that make up the virus are recognized by the human immune system. This means that your body has some immunity to it before it comes around each year... you get immunity two ways...through exposure to a virus, or by getting a flu shot.
Novel viruses, come from animals.... the WHO tracks novel viruses in animals, (sometimes for years watching for mutations). Usually these viruses only transfer from animal to animal (pigs in the case of H1N1) (birds in the case of the Spanish flu). But once, one of these animal viruses mutates, and starts to transfer from animals to humans... then it’s a problem, Why? Because we have no natural or acquired immunity.. the RNA sequencing of the genes inside the virus isn’t human, and the human immune system doesn’t recognize it so, we can’t fight it off.
Now.... sometimes, the mutation only allows transfer from animal to human, for years it’s only transmission is from an infected animal to a human before it finally mutates so that it can now transfer human to human... once that happens..we have a new contagion phase. And depending on the fashion of this new mutation, thats what decides how contagious, or how deadly it’s gonna be..
H1N1 was deadly....but it did not mutate in a way that was as deadly as the Spanish flu. It’s RNA was slower to mutate and it attacked its host differently, too.
Fast forward.
Now, here comes this Coronavirus... it existed in animals only, for nobody knows how long...but one day, at an animal market, in Wuhan China, in December 2019, it mutated and made the jump from animal to people. At first, only animals could give it to a person... But here is the scary part.... in just TWO WEEKS it mutated again and gained the ability to jump from human to human. Scientists call this quick ability, “slippery”
This Coronavirus, not being in any form a “human” virus (whereas we would all have some natural or acquired immunity). Took off like a rocket. And this was because, Humans have no known immunity...doctors have no known medicines for it.
And it just so happens that this particular mutated animal virus, changed itself in such a way the way that it causes great damage to human lungs..
That’s why Coronavirus is different from seasonal flu, or H1N1 or any other type of influenza.... this one is slippery AF. And it’s a lung eater...And, it’s already mutated AGAIN, so that we now have two strains to deal with, strain s, and strain L....which makes it twice as hard to develop a vaccine.
We really have no tools in our shed, with this. History has shown that fast and immediate closings of public places has helped in the past pandemics. Philadelphia and Baltimore were reluctant to close events in 1918 and they were the hardest hit in the US during the Spanish Flu.
Factoid: Henry VIII stayed in his room and allowed no one near him, till the Black Plague passed...(honestly...I understand him so much better now). Just like us, he had no tools in his shed, except social isolation...
And let me end by saying....right now it’s hitting older folks harder... but this genome is so slippery...if it mutates again (and it will). Who is to say, what it will do next.
Be smart folks... acting like you’re unafraid is so not sexy right now.
#flattenthecurve. Stay home folks... and share this to those that just are not catching on.
Feeling confused as to why Coronavirus is a bigger deal than Seasonal flu? Here it is in a nutshell. I hope this helps. Feel free to share this to others who don’t understand...
It has to do with RNA sequencing.... I.e. genetics.
Seasonal flu is an “all human virus”. The DNA/RNA chains that make up the virus are recognized by the human immune system. This means that your body has some immunity to it before it comes around each year... you get immunity two ways...through exposure to a virus, or by getting a flu shot.
Novel viruses, come from animals.... the WHO tracks novel viruses in animals, (sometimes for years watching for mutations). Usually these viruses only transfer from animal to animal (pigs in the case of H1N1) (birds in the case of the Spanish flu). But once, one of these animal viruses mutates, and starts to transfer from animals to humans... then it’s a problem, Why? Because we have no natural or acquired immunity.. the RNA sequencing of the genes inside the virus isn’t human, and the human immune system doesn’t recognize it so, we can’t fight it off.
Now.... sometimes, the mutation only allows transfer from animal to human, for years it’s only transmission is from an infected animal to a human before it finally mutates so that it can now transfer human to human... once that happens..we have a new contagion phase. And depending on the fashion of this new mutation, thats what decides how contagious, or how deadly it’s gonna be..
H1N1 was deadly....but it did not mutate in a way that was as deadly as the Spanish flu. It’s RNA was slower to mutate and it attacked its host differently, too.
Fast forward.
Now, here comes this Coronavirus... it existed in animals only, for nobody knows how long...but one day, at an animal market, in Wuhan China, in December 2019, it mutated and made the jump from animal to people. At first, only animals could give it to a person... But here is the scary part.... in just TWO WEEKS it mutated again and gained the ability to jump from human to human. Scientists call this quick ability, “slippery”
This Coronavirus, not being in any form a “human” virus (whereas we would all have some natural or acquired immunity). Took off like a rocket. And this was because, Humans have no known immunity...doctors have no known medicines for it.
And it just so happens that this particular mutated animal virus, changed itself in such a way the way that it causes great damage to human lungs..
That’s why Coronavirus is different from seasonal flu, or H1N1 or any other type of influenza.... this one is slippery AF. And it’s a lung eater...And, it’s already mutated AGAIN, so that we now have two strains to deal with, strain s, and strain L....which makes it twice as hard to develop a vaccine.
We really have no tools in our shed, with this. History has shown that fast and immediate closings of public places has helped in the past pandemics. Philadelphia and Baltimore were reluctant to close events in 1918 and they were the hardest hit in the US during the Spanish Flu.
Factoid: Henry VIII stayed in his room and allowed no one near him, till the Black Plague passed...(honestly...I understand him so much better now). Just like us, he had no tools in his shed, except social isolation...
And let me end by saying....right now it’s hitting older folks harder... but this genome is so slippery...if it mutates again (and it will). Who is to say, what it will do next.
Be smart folks... acting like you’re unafraid is so not sexy right now.
#flattenthecurve. Stay home folks... and share this to those that just are not catching on.
@CluckNDoodle - thanks for the spoiler. Apparently it has mutated further and is now causing serious illness in young people. Information from France indicates this, and just today here in the states they are referring to this fact.
Yikes, it's scary and I'm sure there's a lot they aren't telling us too.
There is lots we don't know because of late and limited testing.
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