'This week, it's going to get bad': SG
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Citydude
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Yep. All of them full recovery.
Citydude
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Your welcome!
Racenut
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Citydude, I'm glad your friend is recovered and yes I do wish we could hear more positive news. But I also think that positive news gets used as an excuse to say "see, it's not that bad". Your friend may be one of the lucky ones to have got it early on before our healthcare system gets overloaded. That is what we need to prevent. If that happens, things get ugly really fast. See, Italy. If we can slow this thing down enough that the healthcare system can stock up and add capacity and is able to deal with the extreme cases, then hopefully we all come away saying see, it wasn't that bad.
I'm really concerned with the effect of shutting down the economy, somewhere there needs to be some compromise as the total collapse of our economy will kill more people in different ways than a virus. I'm fortunate that I work for a food producer. My wife works in the food industry too. We want to think our jobs are safe. My daughter and her fiance have already been laid off, but as long as my wife and I stay employed, we can help them get by. We have been under shelter in place orders for over a week, I can work mostly from home. My wife must go to work, fortunately minimal exposure to others. Some restaurants are trying to stay open, some trying to reinvent... but they are doing a fraction of the business and they are dropping out one by one. My daughter's fiance works for a food delivery company, unfortunately, they deliver mostly to restaurants, caterers and events. They are shut down due to lack of orders.
Now I'm babbling... I'm scared.. really scared for America right now. I hope that people will take responsibility to do what they can to reduce the impact of the virus. I hope that as we figure out this new reality, we find some strange balance between health and economics. But I know it's all going to get worse before it gets better. Right now, there is no light at the end of the tunnel..
I'm really concerned with the effect of shutting down the economy, somewhere there needs to be some compromise as the total collapse of our economy will kill more people in different ways than a virus. I'm fortunate that I work for a food producer. My wife works in the food industry too. We want to think our jobs are safe. My daughter and her fiance have already been laid off, but as long as my wife and I stay employed, we can help them get by. We have been under shelter in place orders for over a week, I can work mostly from home. My wife must go to work, fortunately minimal exposure to others. Some restaurants are trying to stay open, some trying to reinvent... but they are doing a fraction of the business and they are dropping out one by one. My daughter's fiance works for a food delivery company, unfortunately, they deliver mostly to restaurants, caterers and events. They are shut down due to lack of orders.
Now I'm babbling... I'm scared.. really scared for America right now. I hope that people will take responsibility to do what they can to reduce the impact of the virus. I hope that as we figure out this new reality, we find some strange balance between health and economics. But I know it's all going to get worse before it gets better. Right now, there is no light at the end of the tunnel..
Citydude
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Thanks for thinking of my friend. Yes, it’s scary and having no answers drives that fear home at times.
But have faith. Have faith In our scientists. In the people such as yourself and your wife who still works in an ever important part of our lives. Have faith in our health system. They are taxed but resolved to see this through.
But I do see the “ it’s not so bad” side of this. There are lots of people who have this and are still with us. There are no stats on this. Think big, there are many. Why not?
Does worry, fear and apprehension ever solve something like this? I’m 67 and have medical issues. My time on earth is all I have . Spending it in fear for my life is not wisely spent.
Be well
dieselcrawler
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This virus is now starting to spread thru my state of West Virginia, they made a big deal about how we had no cases... never find any of you don't test for it. Now that we're testing, there's 30+ cases...
Citydude, thanks for sharing. Hearing the numbers for the sick-but-not-debilitated, those who get it and recover easily, but dont need serious medical attention. I'm sure there are many of these cases, with nearly no media attention given.
Personally, I'm scared... I have small children at home, my wife gets sick at the drop of a hat... we are fortunate enough that she can stay home with the kids, and school being canceled isn't that big a deal. However, the double edged sword here is my job, considered 'essential manufacturing', so I still have a job... but I still have to go to work and be around people. I keep my distance. I wash my hands very often and wear latex gloves that are changed frequently, a routine that I've had before all this, but more diligently now. But when you see co-workers standing shoulder to shoulder just BS-ing thru the workday... scary.
Hope we all make it thru this... some will be lost, I have no doubt... my father in law will be a goner, not the type to go to a doctor, ever... smokes 2 cartons of cigarettes a week... coughs and hacks all the time already... joking about it when he came to get cows loaded today.
Citydude
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Yes I did hear that about West Virginia. It is scary especially concerning your wife. One thing my nurse told me is when she comes home from work, she goes into the laundry room and throws her clothes in the washer and heads straight to the shower before her small kids can see her. You could maybe look into doing that?
DKCDKC
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A few of my great aunts and my wife's grandfather died young in the 1918 flu - along with almost 700,000 Americans and 40 to 50 million around the world. The United States came through that and WWI at the same time and sailed into the Roaring Twenties. I grew up hearing tales of the hardship during the flu, and it was rough. But it also tells me the nation will also come through this virus attack. Some businesses will suffer, a few will prosper, and there'll be some changes to our economy. But I think we'll come through and go on. It will probably take a year or more to put it behind us, but it will pass. My daughter was to visit us this week with her toddlers, two criminally cute little girls. It was a huge loss to us to not see these wee ones - probably for months - since they live 500 miles away. But my daughter has now come down with what appears to be the corona virus. Although it seems to be a very light case for her - no worse than a normal flu - it wold have been far worse for her 75 year old parents. We seem to have dodged a bullet.
My wife is a nurse and she now keeps a pair of shoes in her car. When she pulls into the driveway, she takes off the shoes she wears at work, puts the others on, then comes in and heads straight for the laundry room to wash the uniform she wore during the night. I think we've got a bottle of hand sanitizer in every room of the house.
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Agree my friend!! Watched him last night on Fox News.
Just looks a "brown noser" to me. He reminds me of a twerp we had at the R&D center I worked at decades ago. He would scurry around like a little mini-tornado dressed in a lab coat, carrying a clip board, and never accomplished much...just "looked busy".