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Thanks for that information, @CluckNDoodle. I'm sure they are telling us everything they know. But, people are so off balance that if they say anything definitive and it changes slightly, they will be crucified. So, they are telling us everything, but they are talking in terms that wont pin them down until they actually know something for sure. It makes sense to me.

Very excited about the Hydroxychloroquine possibilities.
 
ValerieJ said:
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.
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Great idea! She loves dried cranberries. the rest will drink it with their water.
 
CluckNDoodle said:
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.
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Andrea, thank you for sharing the easy to grasp facts from the RN.
 
Thanks could use one just now .. baked bread and some rolls. The horrible 5 in the silky coop..
So here are peeps
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loaf of bread fresh lot's of butter
 
CluckNDoodle said:
That's exciting progress!
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I know! I'm trying not to get too excited, because I know these things always take more time than we anticipate. And now that we're not supposed to be running to town for every little thing, I suppose it will take even longer.
 

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