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Hopalong:
Lighter,
Makes perfect sense that you'd study the actual biological info, as much as we have available. Reliable sources, too. You have a very rational approach to how the brain reacts to and processes trauma, for example in your understandings of why EMDR has been so powerful. Good for you for using your innate curiosity and research drive to find out more about this damnable virus!
I'm tapped out on my appetite for more bio-detail at this point, and have decided that whatever the government, country or different groups do or don't do, my own strategy is pretty simple (and easy for me as a privileged person with food, shelter, and some social interaction covered). It's just one: AVOID.
Read a good article by an immunologist who said not to forget the reality of airborne transmission, especially when forced to be indoors with others. So that makes me feel more serious about mask-wearing. Not when friends come over and sit eight feet away, or in my car. But maybe I will start wearing it full-time on walks. Most of the time on my street close encounters are easy to avoid, but the occasional runner can mess that up. I'm not downtown or on crowded streets, though, so I have it easy. It's a broad street with yards easy to step into if needed.
It seems that the basic cloth masks don't protect US much, but do protect others from our own moist breath, much less coughs or sneezes. To avoid inhaling damp runner-breath, for example, it'd have to be the kind of respiratory mask (N95?) health professionals wear, and I'd rather walk in circles in my yard than try that. I also have an indoor exercise bike I have used mostly to hold damp laundry. !!!
I am just extremely grateful that everything I need can be safely delivered to my door, and easily disinfected once inside. It's been critical to ask myself firm questions about the difference between my WANTS and my NEEDS. So far, there's nothing except a prescription (drive-up, no-contact window) or getting gas that forces me to go anywhere so far (except for my knee x-ray but they managed distancing seriously there). Even my potting soil was safe drive-up pickup. But I don't buy food outside any more, or anything else. Haircut? Forget it. I can think of rationalizations for excursions, but unless they are absolutely no-contact safe pickup (I did that for free plants)...I'm skipping it all and hunkering down.
Probably until I'm 100. Might as well accept it, and look for happies in other ways.
Hugs
Hops
lighter:
I gather information so I can do everything I can..... then put COVID 19 back down again for a while.
I don't want to be running around like a chicken with her head cut off if someone I know gets it. I don't want to think it's this when it's really that.
Hops: It's comforting to picture you safe and content in your little neighborhood.... crossing the street when you see joggers and bikers coming at you. Keeping your safe distance in the yard with guests. I can't wait to read about veggies served to guests from the garden.
CB:
I'm going to spend some time on the links you provided, then put this down for a while. Thanks for all the good information. It helps to do all I can, then go back to what I was doing before.
Lighter
Hopalong:
On the insanity side, this felt so true I didn't know whether to cry or laugh:
Shops: No Shoes, No Shirt, No Service
People: OK! No Problem.
Traffic Laws: Wear a seat belt in your car or get a ticket.
People: OK! No Problem.
OSHA: While working in certain places, you must wear safety goggles and safety gear.
People: OK! No Problem.
Airlines: You must be seated and wear a seatbelt, with your tray table up when taking off.
People: OK! No Problem.
TSA: Before getting on this plane, you need to remove your shoes, your belt, anything from your pockets, and go through this X-Ray machine.
People: OK! No Problem.
Local Government: You need a permit to open carry a weapon.
People: OK! No Problem.
Grocery Stores and Other Businesses: Please wear a mask while you are shopping to help reduce the risk of infecting others with a potentially deadly virus.
G☭P: HOW DARE YOU TAKE AWAY MY PERSONAL LIBERTIES AND RIGHTS
lighter:
They are interesting, CB. Thank you so much!
OK.... I watched some Laura Ingram on Fox this evening.
She was very upset about the "left's" desire for her to wear a mask until the end of time.
The end of time. Hype much?
We're in the first chapter of a pandemic. The US is sucking wind, not doing well globally with it and we're being asked BY OUR PRESIDENT to wear masks to protect others right NOW. Maybe we can gain some protection ourselves as well. All the better. My mask has a splash guard that isn't particularly clear at this point, but it makes me FEEl safer.
I don't get the crazy jump she's making to "the end of time." It's inflammatory and untrue, assuming we have a vaccine at some point, and I believe we will.
Assuming we have herd immunity at some point, and I believe we will.
It'll be interesting to see how Sweden comes out of this in a year, vs those Countries who shut down and closed up.
Lighter
Meh:
--- Quote from: CB123 on May 27, 2020, 11:18:25 PM ---
We are wearing masks because we care about the people around us. And it's no greater burden than all these other reasons.
CB
--- End quote ---
Yep no big deal. Easier than donating blood or money.
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