Voicelessness and Emotional Survival > Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board
Coronavirus
lighter:
My friend is on antibiotics for double pneumonia, but holding her own. She's not been hospitalized. Her 2 sons haven't been dx'd with COVID, but the doc said they're likely asymptomatic and infected. No one seems to care. No one is tracing contacts. No one is enforcing quarantine. No one is following up. The oldest son left yesterday.... he's likely spreading the virus. The doc said it's unlikely people can be in that close proximity, in a household like that, and not get COVID.
I was relieved to hear she's recovering. Unhappy to see what a miserable job the US is doing with controlling COVID.
My sister and niece were required to qaurantine in Canada for 2 weeks under penalty of fines and prison time. People are doing pop in visits to check and enforce quarantine for people traveling to and from the USA. I wonder how they're handling those dx'd with COVID. Better than we are, it's assumed.
Hops, if my Georgia friend were to pass away, I believe her children would want to know her wishes, if she's not already made them known. She was planning to visit the monks and purchase her site, but she had to move first.
Maybe she wrote it down, like you said, Tupp. I haven't brought it up, bc I don't think she's frightened right now. I don't want her to be frightened. She knows she has many of the problems associated with poor outcomes for COVID patients.
Lighter
Meh:
Its sad but yes people are just letting it run it's course but still if people have it they should be diagnosed so they can stay home. So many people just don't care.
The situation is past the containment option and yet it's no reason to be careless.
sKePTiKal:
I don't think this can be contained - anymore than the common cold virus can be. Too many doctors & nurses observing the strictest protocols are getting ill. So many of the tests are coming up false positive or false negative... asymptomatic as a descriptor may not even be accurate. Drives me a bit nutz. But even the docs I know are hard pressed to nail down a diagnosis - with thorough testing. And there are - from the same docs - lots of head-scratching questions about why some of their elderly patients with underlying conditions are recovering, while heathy younger people are quickly succumbing.
Makes me think this virus is mostly harmless - UNTIL there is certain genetic feature that is the switch for the virus to turn deadly. But no; no one knows yet if there is such a thing (the researchers ARE looking; genetic research takes awhile).
The only thing I know for sure, is that our location/lifestyle has been preventative. Exactly what variable it is - number of people in a smaller geographical area or what - that makes the probabiity for getting sick go up, I've not no ideas. And I DO think about it a lot. Masks don't seem to be a guaranteed preventative; but I still wear mine in certain places. After working for years in a large campus building with lots of students/faculty in and out of it - and also open to the public, I've suspected HVAC systems of spreading germs for a long time... but no, there's no proof of that either. Maybe it's just a higher percentage of oxygen exchange in our rural location that's helping my state keep our numbers so low.
Twoapenny:
I think more rural areas are doing better, Skep, certainly here the towns and cities are much worse than the coastal and rural areas. I think just more space and I wonder if people in more rural areas tend to stick to their own 'groups' more than city dwellers are able to (in the sense that they're probably not sharing public transport and public toilets in the same way that city fold would be). It is a head scratcher.
There was a paper out here just recently that one group of researchers think some people have better T cell immunity - built up through the common cold and 'normal' flu - which apparently Covid is a part of. They think that might be why some higher risk people are getting better while some fit and healthy ones aren't. Not proven at this point, though - I'm not sure anything is at the moment.
We have just been in to town on the bus for the first time in four months and I'm really not keen to repeat it too often. They've done a good job of arranging the library to make it safer but most shops just don't have the room. The pubs and cafes are all packed, there's loads of holiday traffic on the roads (vehicles overflowing with camping stuff and loads of caravans) and it just isn't possible to always keep away from people, however careful you are. We didn't go near the shops so I don't know if people are wearing masks much or not but it's not possible to wear a mask when you eat and drink so whether wearing it in a shop is going to help with so many in pubs like that I just don't know. I'm very, very glad that I don't have to work somewhere like that and equally glad that we just don't have to go out very much. It was nice to go to the library though, son got a book about coping during a Virus Outbreak! It's a fiction one and kind of like a puzzle in a book; different scenarios are described and you have to pick an option. That takes you to a different chapter and you work through it like that.
Lighter how is your friend getting on, is she starting to feel better now? xx
lighter:
Oh, what a delight, Tupp. To have your new box set, a nice visit to the library... sounds like they figured out how to stay safe, and son really enjoying himself.... doing well..... flowing: )
My friend has good and bad days. It's all over the board, but she sounds pretty good.
Lighter
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version