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Twoapenny:
--- Quote from: Hopalong on March 14, 2020, 10:30:27 PM ---Asymptomatic transmission may be driving the whole thing:
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And that's a huge problem, isn't it, a healthy person might not show signs straight away (of any condition) and a person with any other kind of illness or difficulty may catch it and be much more severely affected. I know people who have long term conditions and they have to be so careful all the time, simply because healthier people don't need to manage the risks to the same extent. I'm keeping son out of college for the next two weeks and then they're on Easter break anyway - at least if I'm with him I know exactly who he's been around and I can keep making him wash his hands. xx
sKePTiKal:
There are things that aren't adding up for me, lighter. I'm still pretty emotional (for the moment) about this mess -- but it's the OTHER things besides the virus, the various public reactions of some people, the machinations behind the scenes, the entrenched business models (JIT inventory for instance; meaning stores only have 3 days worth on hand - even when demand isn't excessive), and the geo-political-economic things (which I've made a study of the last 10 years).
Plus - not EVERY FEVER is going to actually be the virus. Buck pretty much runs at 100.9 or greater because of the infection - which they're not treating while they address "potential" cases of virus. They don't want him anywhere near an ER right now either.
Meanwhile, I swear we're all becoming hypochrondriacs and imagining symptoms... based on the theory of suggestive hysteria. I know my symptoms are allergy & sinus related. It was sunny and 70 here a few days ago and I woke up to snow this morning; it'll go up to 50 later on today. But I have a runny nose as a result. That is CONTRAindicated with coronavirus.
Take a country full of people. Upend their normal routines... leaving them with nothing to do but watch tv or other media all. day. long. Encourage people to self-isolate to avoid the contracting the virus. Some incredible % of the population takes an Rx for mood/emotional management... or self-medicates. What happens when they run out and the pharmacy doesn't have any - because the components of many of those drugs comes from China. There is already a disruption in the supply chain trickling down... and China's threat to with hold those exports in the future, since they are blaming the US for starting this. SIGH.
And this is why I'm throwing myself into work in my bathroom. It gives me that "flow" where I'm not exactly thinking; I'm just paying attention to what I'm doing; deciding my process; making it so. When I'm done with that - then it's on to seed starting - and there's ALWAYS house cleaning. Here and in the studio.
lighter:
I'm with you and Tupp, Amber.
House cleaning is a good thing right now. Our weather is glorious... I picked tons of weeds.
Our neighborhood message board is up and running with people offering help to neighbors.
One immune-compromised mother of 4 will be on the list of those needing help. The elderly who need meds, food, etc. I have to tell you... that was a huge component for my comfort level. To see those in need access available help and that help coming from all of us.
On my short street there are 4 homes with elderly people and 2 with younger people. One elderly couple just got back from Ohio Hospice that shut it's doors to visitors... leaving a very elderly father there. We still haven't had any identified cases in our part of the State. Ohio has identified cases and poor Charlotte was pumping gas there, eating in restaurants and in that hospice with visitors up till 2 days ago.
I'll drop food at doorsteps, and leave meds for neighbors. I can imagine everyone taking turns dropping food for people who need help, but I'm not feeling like visiting much. It calms me a good deal to
A neighbor... she's a pediatrician, walked through the yard yesterday with her husband. They just returned from Hawaii. She said the H airport was like Saigon... every one trying to leave at once. Getting on planes from California that were almost empty when they arrived. She's needed at work and had to get back, otherwise would have loved to stay in H for a month or two extra.
Sometimes I feel like everything's going to be OK. Sometimes I feel like things are going to get critical bc our leadership is deranged.
::shaking that out of my head right now::.
Everyone needs to help their neighbors get through this.
Lighter
Hopalong:
The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.
I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
--Wendell Berry
lighter:
I don't know why, but I'm feeling very anxious around my niece and her bf being stuck on the island... well.... it's bc my BIL wants his child home, in Toronto.... even though she has to fly through many Int'l aiports, which seems unlikely since niece fled regular airport the other day..... freaked out at the gate. What is it that he fears EXACTLY?
IF they can get her on a plane... if they can...if if if.... it's going around and around. Very upsetting, bc I don't see what BIL sees or feels. My gut told me niece would be safe on the island, where no cases have been identified.... and the boy can fish and gather food...... but then.... what if the island stops getting food deliveries?
What if if if if......
When they flew in yesterday.... niece to the island.... nobody said anything about a closing of the borders with no one in or out. The pilot or the people working the airports.... no one.
They went North shopping today and NO ONE SAID ANYTHING.
How in the world do the NOT give tourists a heads up, for Pete's sake? Renter said it's bc Nassau has it's first case, but I read another island had a case... 62 yo lady who hasn't traveled which means someone else gave it to her... I guess?
::reading Hop's poem::.
Beautiful but it made me weepy.
I'm hearing nothing about getting niece off island today or if there's truly a travel ban going into affect.
Lighter
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