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lighter:
If anyone is interested in giving blood, they're experiencing shortages, as you can imagine.
The Blood Connection was checking temps outside the door. Everyone had to have masks.. the tech said the entire County is supposed to be wearing masks, but I don't know about that. Oldest DD and I were the only donors, besides the guy who was finishing up as we entered, so the place was very empty.
Everyone is tested for COVID antibodies, unless they decline. I'll know the results in 10 days or so. My sister believes we likely had it in January also after passing through Fort Lauderdale airport.
The facility was large and would have been all but empty had we moved through the process more efficiently than we did.
I felt safe and will donate again.
Lighter
sKePTiKal:
Hops - that's what I've been saying; the conclusion I came to also: right now, NO ONE "KNOWS" that much about this virus. Been chatting with an ER doc in Iowa, who didn't have many positive tests until the last week - 10 days - and now, it's a lot more critical cases - including healthy younger people. There's a meat-packing plant in his county; this is a small rural hospital. I keep seeing a stat, that 42% of deaths are nursing home related - but who knows how they're tracking that data? MI isn't even reporting nursing home cases to CDC.
So, I'm working on the theory that close, continued contact with lots of people - increases the probability of spread. It's just common sense, right?
I already have the habit of staying away from groups of people. So that doesn't bother me at all. I am not in the habit of gallivanting around "just to find something to do". Even shopping, I've always maintained a force field of "personal space" around myself, that is bigger than most people's - and I tend to be overly patient/polite and wait my turn, rather than squeeze in to pick something off a shelf quick. Hol & S, tend to go hiking or swimming in isolated places... and while she does go over the mtn, more than I do - they're masked, and she only does what she HAS to do. So, she's been conscious about bringing something home. Since early on, as S was working event centers in DC.
Buck is probably more conscientious than I am - I will go do what I need to do and not exactly "linger", but then that's my style already - B's immune system is pretty strong in the first place, even with the hospital infection - but he's only now feeling normally healthy and capable after 3 years. Not taking any chances.
I think we can only wait & see - at this point - what actually happens and in the meantime, keep on doing what we do to keep ourselves healthy (which has been the same for every virus since the Spanish Flu; and should've been SOP in the general population).
Our hospitals here are doing regular care and surgeries again. There are distancing rules, of course... but people are coping.
Hopalong:
((((Lighter)))), I understand the anxiety. Share it. Happy you spend so much time outdoors and wish I would.
My main takeaway from the interview was that DISTANCING is more important than safety gear for regular folks.
Essential front-liners or those in health care situations have to depend first on gear. Non-medical-professionals should depend first on distancing.
My two cents,
Hops
Twoapenny:
Well you guys are all doing the right thing; unfortunately I've come to the conclusion that there are just too many stupid people in England. Although we are officially still in lockdown, the beaches are packed, buses and trains are full, one family was stopped doing a 440 mile round trip to go to the beach. Petrol stations and food shops were supposed to be open for essential supplies only but it's abundantly clear that many are ignoring that and just doing what they like. The number of recorded deaths today is lower than it has been, which is good, but the infection rate is up, hospital admissions are up, three hospitals have closed their doors to any other patients because they've no more capacity for any incident at all and we are at .9 where I live. If we get to 1 we are back to epidemic level again and if we go over 1 we are in to NHS being overwhelmed level. The number of ambulances going by is up; you can hear the sirens.
I understand, completely, loneliness, isolation, not being able to go to work, not having enough money, not being able to go out, see friends and family, all of those things, I truly do. I can understand the fear and worry of your business going under or of losing your job. I get that for a lot of people catching this will be no worse than flu and they'll be alright after a couple of weeks.
What I don't understand is no regard for the people who are having to work through this and exposing themselves to risk every day, no heed given to the 63,000 excess deaths recorded in the last three months, 10,000 people dying in care homes who didn't even have adequate pain relief, and absolutely no regard for the estimated 6 million people who are vulnerable and are looking at staying inside for the rest of this year and possibly longer. All because people want to sit on a beach.
Anyway, son and I are staying in. We won't be doing our daily walks for a while again now; I want to see how bad the infection rate gets again and what happens next. I have been stocking up on food, fortunately, and have a food order coming tomorrow and will put my order for the following week in straight after that. So frustrating when we've been in lockdown for so long anyway, a few more weeks could have really kicked this into place.
lighter:
Keep yourself and your son safe, Tupp. Do what you need to do.
Not everyone will agree on what the right thing to do is.
We're going to have to accept that. We're going to have to find a way to make peace with it.
We have a County mandate on masks here, but it won't be enforced.
The State isn't using the word mandate. They're just recommending we use them.
No consequences. No enforcement. I don't understand it either.
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