Coronavirus

warp daddy wrote

Yep GOT my CV 19 heat exchanger mask with copper filter and hazmat suit 😉  

I’m ready - just got my new outfit.

So got back from Utah, went to the store to pick up food for the week.
Got the last cabbage, the last cauliflower, the last bag of potatoes, the shelves were bare on a lot of staples - even tofu. Spoke to a stocker and he said that not only were people hoarding but the trucks were not coming - double whammy. The zombie apocalypse can’t be far away. We bought what we need for the week and we can live off what’s in the freezer and the pantry for a month but I hope it starts to normalize by next weekend. I don’t think it was this bad when the last big hurricane scare came through.

Oh - I did wipe the handle off the cart before and after using it...

First confirmed case in Tompkins County.  With Cornell, we are a very international community, so I'm not surprised.  There's a part of me that wonders if the Cornell higher ups knew about this, and this is what's behind cancelling classes until they go online on April 6, and getting as many people set up to work at home as possible.

WP

I generally do my grocery shopping 2-3 times a week, on the way home from the gym late at night. Our store has been pretty torn up this week but there were always tons of boxes in the aisles and clerks restocking the shelves- including the TP. The tractor trailers will continue to arrive every night. By next week, the shelves will be full again.

I went to get some face masks today - can’t just wear any...

Good presser by the Prez and his team IMO.

Harvey wrote

Good presser by the Prez and his team IMO.

I think both sides have acted more responsibly over the last 24 hours.

This Some1 on social media who wanted what going on with her health to be shared

"Well, there's really nothing like being the first on your block with the bubonic plague.... but life comes at you fast, as they say.  SO, let me tell you about my Covid-19 experience over the last couple of days.  This is a letter I sent to our local (town and county) representatives this evening (I live in Port Washington, NY in Nassau County):  

Thank you both for your interest and assistance with this urgent matter.  Despite my intense efforts to avoid this novel Coronavirus I seem to have indeed contracted it.  After having what I thought was a mild head cold over the last few days I woke up on Friday morning to aches and chills.  By noon I had a fever of around 102.  I went to the Northwell GoHealth Urgent Care Center on Shore Road in Port Washington after calling and ensuring that they did indeed have tests at their facility.  I arrived there at 4:45pm and announced upon entering the facility that I suspected I had Covid-19.  They took their time in intaking me (I had to ask for a mask) and even suggested that I first make an appointment on their touchscreen monitor.  I explained that that was a terrible idea and perhaps they had somewhere else I could wait other than the waiting room.  When I was seen I reported my symptoms (fever, headache, cough, aches etc) and was tested for the regular flu.  I tested negative.  I asked to be tested for Covid-19 once the regular flu had been ruled out.  I have not traveled out of the country since December and I have not KNOWINGLY had close and prolonged contact for at least ten minutes with an individual who has tested positive for Covid-19.  On that basis, I was denied the test.  The doctor did not listen to my lungs or give me advice or any other kind.  I begged him to give me the test but he told me the orders from the DOH and I had failed the impossible criteria that had been set up.  If no one can get tested, how can I possibly prove that I have been knowingly exposed?  It is a Catch-22 that keeps almost everyone from getting tested and will lead to people dying.  I spent the entirety of today in bed calling every hotline / resource I could identify; I got the same answer from everyone.  So, we know that Nassau County has the tests but apparently are unwilling to use them despite North Hempstead being declared in a State of Emergency.  This is a public health disaster in the making… only days away.  Call me the canary in the coalmine, but at this point I don’t care whether I test positive (I mean, I do, but I’ve given up on trying to get tested – it’s been an exhausting process and I’m better off watching reruns and resting).  I am, however, acting as if I have tested positive and have self-isolated for the foreseeable future.  The problem is that the lack of testing is what is keeping schools open, not allowing our hospitals to prepare for what is about to hit them (as the respiratory failure phase of this lovely disease seems to enter during week 2 and the first line of defense at that point is the ER and a respirator).  This is a false deflation of numbers going on that is out of sync with the kind of testing going on in New Rochelle, let alone other hotspots.  We are losing ground by the hour.   I urge you both to bring this matter to those who can intervene and create testing and reporting protocols that make sense.  Time is closing in on our opportunity to rectify this unmitigated disaster; please act quickly on behalf of our community.  I beg you.

To my neighbors: please stay safe and take #socialdistancing seriously.   Please feel free to share this.  And if you, as many of my friends are, involved in government, public health, media, etc PLEASE share this story and, if you can, act on it!!!  
Extra credit if someone can teach me how to create a thread on Twitter to post this.

PeeTex wrote

Harvey wrote

Good presser by the Prez and his team IMO.

I think both sides have acted more responsibly over the last 24 hours.

We were talking about this yesterday. This isn't in anyway something that should be political, or the we vs them mentality.

ScottySkis1 wrote

This Some1 on social media who wanted what going on with her health to be shared

"Well, there's really nothing like being the first on your block with the bubonic plague.... but life comes at you fast, as they say.  SO, let me tell you about my Covid-19 experience over the last couple of days.  This is a letter I sent to our local (town and county) representatives this evening (I live in Port Washington, NY in Nassau County):  

. . .

To my neighbors: please stay safe and take #socialdistancing seriously.   Please feel free to share this.  And if you, as many of my friends are, involved in government, public health, media, etc PLEASE share this story and, if you can, act on it!!!  
Extra credit if someone can teach me how to create a thread on Twitter to post this.

Thanks for sharing.

#flattenthecurve
https://www.flattenthecurve.com

For a visual example of why "social distancing" works better than anything else to flatten the curve, run a full simulation available in the following article.  At the end, you'll get to see the graph of what can happen with and without preventive measures relative to the movement of people who are contagious without symptoms.

March 14, 2020, Washington Post
Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator

Copied from Facebook - I thought this was very good:

Good advice from a nurse - if you should get the virus: I know we’re all tired of hearing/talking about it, but one thing I HAVEN’T really seen going around is advice for what happens if you DO get coronavirus (many of us will), we're only seeing advice for how to try to AVOID it. So as your friendly neighborhood RN, a wee thread:

Things you should *actually* buy ahead of time (Erm, not sure what the obsession with toilet paper is?): Kleenex, Acetaminophen (Tylenol) in 325 mg tablets, Ibuprofen (Advil) in 200 mg tablets, Mucinex, Robitussin or DayQuil/NyQuil, whatever your cough medicine of choice is.

If you don’t have a humidifier, that would also be a good thing to get. (You can also just turn the shower on hot and sit in the bathroom breathing in the steam). Also a good time to make a big batch of your favorite soup to freeze and have on hand.
If you have a history of asthma and you have a prescription inhaler, make sure the one you have isn’t expired and refill it/get a new one if it is.

You basically just want to prepare as though you know you’re going to get a nasty respiratory bug like bronchitis or pneumonia. You just have the foresight to know it’s coming.

For symptom management, use the meds I mentioned. For a fever over 101, alternate Tylenol and Advil so you’re taking a dose of one or the other every 3 hours. Use both cough suppressants and expectorants (most cough meds have both). Drink a ton, hydrate hydrate. Rest lots.

If you're sick, you should not be leaving your house except to go to the doctor, and if you do, wear a mask (regular is fine, you don’t need an N95). You DO NOT NEED TO GO TO THE ER unless you are having trouble breathing or your fever is very high and unmanaged with meds.

90% of healthy adult cases thus far have been managed at home with basic rest/hydration/over-the-counter meds. We don’t want to clog the ERs unless you’re actually in distress. The hospital beds will be used for people who apamctively need oxygen/breathing treatments/IV fluids.

If you have a pre-existing lung condition (COPD, emphysema, lung cancer) or are on immunosuppressants, now is a great time to talk to your PCP or specialist about what they would like you to do if you get sick. They might have plans to get you admitted and bypass the ER entirely.

One major relief to you parents is that kids do VERY well with coronavirus— they usually bounce back in a few days, no one under 18 has died, and almost no kids have required hospitalization (unless they have a lung disease like CF).
Just use pediatric dosing of the same meds.

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Hey if u can't get a mask and all else fails' , this creative woman has  a solution 😉

I want to laugh at this. This is funny right?

https://nypost.com/2020/03/15/isis-tells-its-terrorists-not-to-travel-to-europe-for-jihad-because-coronavirus/

That is really odd.

warp daddy wrote

Hey if u can't get a mask and all else fails' , this creative woman has  a solution 😉

I think I know her

PeeTex wrote

Harvey wrote

Good presser by the Prez and his team IMO.

I think both sides have acted more responsibly over the last 24 hours.

Sides ? Why do you have to make it political ? You really can’t stop can you ?

By next Sunday, if testing actually ramps up, I predict there will be 20,000 confirmed cases in the US. We haven’t seen panic yet

billyymc wrote

By next Sunday, if testing actually ramps up, I predict there will be 20,000 confirmed cases in the US. We haven’t seen panic yet

That’s it?  Only 20,000 by next Sunday would be an encouraging number, judging by Italy’s experience.  A couple weeks in they were at 10,000...and we have more than 5x the population.

JTG4eva! wrote

That’s it?  Only 20,000 by next Sunday would be an encouraging number, judging by Italy’s experience.  A couple weeks in they were at 10,000...and we have more than n5x the population.

During the initial outbreaks, population size doesn’t matter that much. It’s only when you reach a point where you run out of people to infect and immunity is built up will it taper off if uncontrolled. 20K by next weekend would be about right unless the current measure have an effect.