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[Dirty Hippy]

Addicted to series Detective Anna, watching these on Amazon. I think I like them because they are historical and the main character is female. I don't normally like detective series.

[Hopalong]

Glad you mentioned this, Boat!
Sounds like a detective series I'd enjoy too.

Are you getting outside much these days?
Spring has SPRANG here; it's astonishing every time.

Hugs
Hops

[Dirty Hippy]

Spring has indeed sprung in this past week suddenly frogs are sirening, cherry trees or plum trees are flowering etc.

I'm mainly working and stuffing my face and currently watching lots of internet TV.

Shrug. I could walk around here, it's boring housing developments though. There isn't much I want to go see. I spend so much on rent I want to look at my walls.   

[lighter]

Well, I hope you can open windows, let the breeze and birdsong into your space.

Coffee in a sunny spot by the window, snuggled into a favorite blanket, with the breeze almost making you chilly.  Coffee's sometimes better that way, IME.

Lighter

[Dirty Hippy]

https://blogs.psychcentral.com/nlp/2015/01/5-signs-that-you-are-depriving-yourself-of-happiness/          ??? wonders

[Dirty Hippy]

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/09/adhd-or-childhood-narcissism/279660/     ... hum and it's said that older girls with adhd end up getting substance abuse, depression and eating disorders

[Dirty Hippy]

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/slightly-blighty/201603/is-there-link-between-anorexia-and-narcissism.      ........ reading down far enough it's interesting about the term vulnerable narcissism

[Dirty Hippy]

Tired as I've been trying to calmly stand up to my mother having a verbal alcoholic rampage or narcissist screaming fit. Everybody has their problems. Just needed to put it down. She also gave me a bottle of laxative for Christmas...and said: "well it's a sad Christmas for you". I tell her no gift is fine. Anyway writing it out gives me some relief I think. I go for walks. I try to watch uplifting videos. I need to go meet up with friends soon. Going to sleep, listening to someone recite adult children of alcoholics steps.

[Hopalong]

I'm so sorry, Boat.
Have only moments on a hotspot here.
But I have been thinking of you, often.

I'm glad this xmas is behind you and
KUDOS on tapping into ACOA.

Bravo, and here's to a better NY.

Hugs
Hops

[Twoapenny]

Tired as I've been trying to calmly stand up to my mother having a verbal alcoholic rampage or narcissist screaming fit. Everybody has their problems. Just needed to put it down. She also gave me a bottle of laxative for Christmas...and said: "well it's a sad Christmas for you". I tell her no gift is fine. Anyway writing it out gives me some relief I think. I go for walks. I try to watch uplifting videos. I need to go meet up with friends soon. Going to sleep, listening to someone recite adult children of alcoholics steps.

Good to see you back, G, and I'm sorry your mum is being such a pain the a.  Hope you can check in more regularly again   Did you get all your college stuff sorted out? xx

[Dirty Hippy]

A bit sleepy. Haven't been writing on the board too much because I don't have private internet network and sometimes it doesn't feel right to be writing my true thoughts uncensored. Haven't been reading all the posts either so I can't contribute too much to other's stories.

News about the Corona virus is alarming, I'm compelled to scan the internet for tidbits of reality both good and bad. I wish that our government here would make a statement about it, not to be political but I was surprised that it wasn't at all mentioned during the state of the union address. I've been riveted on the topic because I've always figured we would have an uncontrollable outbreak at some point. I can't reconcile why would two cruise ships be quarantined, cities being shut down with huge economic impacts if this is a low risk virus people like to compare to the flu. I found a news report that in Japan a government guard tasked at working at a quarantine center was found dead at his job apparently from suicide. Is this a product of hysteria or (?) question mark. I'm a bit of a fear mongering person I will admit, its because I think people don't take things seriously enough. It's not clear to me what is really going on because China is opaque. I think with MERS, SARS, Ebola they were distant or when they arrived on home soil it was very isolated. This current virus doesn't seem like it will be stopped.   I think the Canadian CBC news has broadcasted more details than in the U.S. There are also still daily flights coming out of Hong Kong to L.A., New York, Seattle, London etc. I felt compelled to go to the websites for Chinese airports to look down the lists of departures. Those people presumably are not going to be quarantined and some of them no doubt will have Coronavirus. Out of the people who are infected how many actually require hospitalization, this number isn't clear to me. I probably shouldn't post this but I figure I will.

[sKePTiKal]

Hey G, I'm right there with you on trying to figure out  WHAT  to believe out of all that's available and being said about nCoV. I've distilled it down to this (for me), maybe it will help -

The symptoms are initially identical to flu symptoms; MOST people will recover in about the same time as they would from flu; so fever reducer, hydration, and good food/rest are all the treatment they need. It is problematic that (from everything I'm seeing) that people can shed the virus without appearing symptomatic -- and you can get this more than once. Just like the cold or flu.

People with stressed immune systems, are more vulnerable to some of the nastier aspects of the viral DNA. Those people develop viral pneumonia; some go on to bacterial pneumonia - and this creates a storm in the immune system that overwhelms their ability to recover - IN SOME CASES. Obviously, our medical system has the resources to treat the more severe case successfully - but some people's bodies just aren't strong enough, even with adequate treatment to recover. (Many people die of flu each year but for some reason, we hardly pay attention to that.)

So wash your hands well, and often. And do all the preventative stuff you normally do during flu season. That should be all you need to worry about.

That said - there are a LOT of questionable things in the data that's being "officially" released. Even before we look at what's shared on social media (which is going to be really hard to verify or confirm). So, the only way I can deal with something like this is keep my focus on what I actually KNOW about it... and not go down the rabbitholes of speculation or questioning overmuch.

It is reassuring that of the confirmed cases outside of China - a) it doesn't seem as contagious and b) there have been only a handful of people die from it.

Hope that helps G.

[Hopalong]

It might help to watch Patton Oswald on Colbert describe his recent flight where he tried to wear a "fancier" mask and looked like a pudgy Ninja.... He's neurotic and hilarious.

I do think it's a pandemic and also that Amber's right about prevention hygiene and care-if-one-gets-it.

Nature's gonna get us one way or another but living in fear is faster. Gives you headaches, heart trouble, strokes...it's another form of stress.

The news doesn't help much these days. It's like a bad stew and I know when I marinate in it, my life is worse. But good things are happening too. Sometimes you gotta dig. (I've been watching Piano for Elephants videos on YouTube.)

Hugs
Hops

[lighter]

G:

It helped me to know I might have something worse than regular old flu IF day 4 is worse than day 3. 

IF fever is over 104.

IF there's no gentle slide back into health... but things remain bad.

It seems healthy younger people dying is connected to their robust immune systems once pneumonia sets in.  Their immune systems sometimes go into overdrive, producing too many white blood cells, which fill up the lungs so they can't do what they do, and things go downhill from there.... even when they're in hospital at times.

When I had swine flu.... it was really bad.... this would have been 2009, I believe? When my girls had it they received Tamiflu and didn't have it nearly so bad. The white's of our eyes were bloodshot red... looked terrible, felt terrible.  I know the girls had it bc I had them tested.  I thought I was having a bad reaction to a cleanse so didn't seek help. 

If you get the flu and feel positive about Tamiflu.... I invite you to consider taking it.  I've seen it average $50.00. 

Remember to close the toilet lid when you flush.  Remember to keep your hands off your face and keep them clean.

Lighter

[Dirty Hippy]

Bleh software I need for school is giving me trouble so giving up on perfection at the moment. Maybe that's what I get for not being prepared.

-- rest below is "fear mongering" ----

This just came out in the news and published in JAMA. I've been searching for something that has rate of intensive care and a death rate. I guess it's still difficult to know what this means in a large general sense but it is not good and I worry the news attempts to downplay things because they simply are not prepared to deal with people in all out panic mode. I'm feeling bad for healthcare workers on the front lines man. I'm sure by some people's standards I am over reacting but I HATE getting sick, illness is looking at your own weakness and knowing that life is fragile. It is highly infectious. It's difficult for people to get into care centers in China so who knows about the sample being reflective of general society. Still I don't like it one bit. My state has one quarantine center that hasn't been used at now they are talking about building up a second one already.

Excerpt:

"Findings  In this single-center case series involving 138 patients with NCIP, 26% of patients required admission to the intensive care unit and 4.3% died. Presumed human-to-human hospital-associated transmission of 2019-nCoV was suspected in 41% of patients."

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2761044

By the way Hiya SKEP, LIGHTER, HOPS!, CB123 and TWO.

Lighter I am a hand washer but not a toilet bowl cover closer, never thought of that, it's a good idea really because SPRAY!.Swine flu sounds miserable I think I did avoid it by not touching door knobs. Thanks for the tip about Tamiflu, I never tried it. UP to this point I felt I was pretty good at not getting sick because I wash my hands before I eat and the first thing I do after being out in public is wash my hands at home (not 50 times).

Agreed Hops it had the earmarks of a pandemic from the start. I will stress out it's just my thing even if I have to live in a shed on the far side of the moon I'm trying to mentally figure out what this is all about. I just don't want to drown in my own lung puss. Yuck its a bad way to go.