Coronavirus prep

earlnabby · March 2020

try2again wrote: »

earlnabby wrote: »

Someone helping out the hourly workers who won't have work to do. For those of you not in the US, Giannis is the star of the Milwaukee Bucks NBA team and the reigning MVP.

ETA: the team just announced it will match any players donations.

I love this one, too:

https://news.yahoo.com/zion-pledges-cover-arena-employees-220901799.html

Good for him.

I don't believe anyone who makes a ton of money has an obligation to give it away BUT I love it when they feel a sense of community and do what they can to help out. Sports rely heavily on hourly or seasonal workers who take tickets, serve food and beverages, act as security, and clean up during and after these events. If the events get cancelled, there goes a big chunk of their income. Basketball games would not be the same without all of these workers and I am happy to see players understand that.

JRsLateInLifeMom · March 2020

Italy 🇮🇹- Singing y playing instruments y stereos from windows to balconies for each other. Strong together in a time of need

https://youtu.be/Q734VN0N7hw

Nony_Mouse · March 2020

We have our 6th case in New Zealand now, a man in his 60s recently returned from the US. And the remembrance event for the Christchurch mosque attacks, scheduled for tomorrow, has been cancelled. It would have been a large gathering, with people from all over New Zealand, and from overseas, in attendance.

And apparently further border restrictions are to be announced over the weekend. I suspect the hatches will be battened down as much as possible.

slimgirljo15 · March 2020

lleinphx1 wrote: »

I had to cancel two bucket list trips today. Hello stress eating (like 2,000 calories of stress eating). Anyone else stress eating? I’d been doing so well. 🤬

I’m higher risk because I have asthma and cancer, so I’m pretty much housebound for the duration. As of Monday, my store was stocked - not sure what will be there tomorrow. I’m fairly stocked except for fresh produce, but fortunately I have access to home delivery.

I’d really love to know when the bulk of this crisis will be over. I’m on borrowed time here. I haven’t seen any estimates. Maybe June?

I'm truly sorry you have so much on your plate.. and to add this on top. 😔
Take care 🤗

juliemouse83 · March 2020

I’m beyond exhausted. Worked late all week, then came the news that my county now has one presumptive positive patient, home quarantined. I’m pretty sure I will be getting texts from my team this weekend. 😷

Nony_Mouse · March 2020

Nony_Mouse wrote: »

We have our 6th case in New Zealand now, a man in his 60s recently returned from the US. And the remembrance event for the Christchurch mosque attacks, scheduled for tomorrow, has been cancelled. It would have been a large gathering, with people from all over New Zealand, and from overseas, in attendance.

And apparently further border restrictions are to be announced over the weekend. I suspect the hatches will be battened down as much as possible.

Update: borders not closed, but everyone entering New Zealand is required to self-isolate for 14 days, beginning midnight tomorrow. @nutmegoreo, that gives you just under 31 hours.

ladyreva78 · March 2020

Switzerland currently has 1100+ confirmed infections and 11 reported deaths. Testing is currently limited to symptomatic patients. Mild cases aren't being tested due to lack of testing capacity. So the case number is most certainly higher.

The federal government decided yesterday that:
- all gatherings with 100+ people are canceled.
- Restaurants may have a maximum of 50 guests at a time
- Schools from Kindergarden to University are closed. Universities move to distance learning
- it is suggested to limit all non-necessary travel and to avoid public transportation during peak hours
- the 5th hospital bataillon is being activated. Not sure yet if they'll be putting one of the emergency hospitals with a capacity of 200 patients into use or if they'll be supporting the worst hit areas with personnel (nursing staff and such)
- Hospitals and nursing homes have entrance check-points. Visitors are encouraged to not visit. Patients are allowed 2 visitors per day. Children are no longer allowed into nursing homes. Special rules and regulation are in effect for hospitalized children.
- All non-essential surgeries are being reschedules
- If possible, patient consultations at doctor's offices are being moved to phone consultations.
- People are being encouraged to home office where possible
- People with mild symptoms are encouraged to self-quarantine until 24hours after the symptoms disappear.

I'm sure I forgot a few measures....

The hardest hit area is on the border to Italy. They're talking about closing borders. Currently, non-essential travel is no longer permitted across the border. But, and that's a huge problem in all border regions of Switzerland, nearly 4000 hospital staff working in the canton of Ticino live on the Italian side of the border. We close the border and we'll have a shortage of staff that will make the situation even worse.

snowflake954 · March 2020

JRsLateInLifeMom wrote: »

Italy 🇮🇹- Singing y playing instruments y stereos from windows to balconies for each other. Strong together in a time of need

https://youtu.be/Q734VN0N7hw

These clips always make me cry.

snowflake954 · March 2020

I'm glad so many other countries and states are starting to get serious. We're seeing Italy pulling together as never before. Our politicians were always bickering and trying to pull each other down. That has all stopped for now and, frankly, it's a relief. I hope this goes better for all of you.

cmriverside · March 2020

Doctor provides a much-welcomed positive outlook on coronavirus

Much of news regarding coronavirus is all doom and gloom, but much progress is being made with the virus. Dr. Gordon Cohen, a general surgery specialist in Tacoma, recently joined Seattle’s Morning News to discuss the other side that he and his colleagues are witnessing.

“One of the intensive care unit doctors that I worked with made a comment that sort of struck me, which is: ‘Where all the patients?’ What we’re seeing on the television and the media is creating this widespread panic and fear, but here we are in the hospitals and the intensive care units are not filling up with patients,” he said.

Dr. Cohen provided us with a short list of things that are not terrible about this virus outbreak so far. None of this is meant to suggest that you shouldn’t wash your hands thoroughly or use hand sanitizer disinfecting wipes, or that you should ease up on your social distancing. All of that should still be taken seriously. But Dr. Cohen wanted to suggest that not everything about this virus is pointing towards the end of the world. We have, for example, the numbers in China.

“It appears that the situation is improving in China. The strong control isolation measures imposed by the Chinese government are actually starting to pay off,” he said. “For several weeks now the number of cases diagnosed every day is decreasing. It really looks like it’s plateaued for the most part.”

We also have a virus that can be killed, which is not always the case, and we attacked the coronavirus rather quickly.

“We can actually wipe the virus clean. A lot of times we can’t do that. But this virus could be effectively inactivated from surfaces with either alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, or 0.1% bleach in just one minute,” he said.

“If we compare, for example, to the first cases of AIDS, which were described in 1981, it took nearly two years to actually identify the virus HIV, which caused that disease. Whereas with COVID-19, the first cases of severe pneumonia were reported in China on December 31 2019, and by January 7 in just one week the virus had been identified and the actual genome of that virus was available on Day 10.”

Along with quick identification, there has been, for the most part, global cooperation across the board.

“The scientific community worldwide has jumped all over this. There’s tremendous international science cooperation. And after just one month, there’s about 164 peer-reviewed articles that can be accessed by scientists around the world. That’s huge,” he said. “Whereas with SARS in 2003 it took more than a year to reach less than half that number of articles. So the science community is really acting very, very rapidly.”

Dr. Cohen says that it also should be reassuring that we have a low number of severe cases.

“The disease really causes no symptoms or is mild in 81% of cases, and of course that means in 14% it can cause severe pneumonia, and in 5% it can become critical or even fatal. It’s still unclear what the death rate may be, but I think it’s likely it’s going to be much lower than what the estimates are so far.”

“People are recovering. Much of the reported data relates to the increase in the number of confirmed cases and the number of deaths. But most infected people are actually cured, and there’s 13 times more cured cases than deaths, and that proportion is increasing because we’re making more and more and more diagnoses.”

cmhubbard92 · March 2020

Our CT cases jumped from 6 to 12. I am sure there are more. They opened a drive through testing area, but I have not seen much information about it.

We had to go to Walmart this morning(6am, not too many people in the store), and areas that I didn't think would be empty definitely were. I figured I would pick up another box of supplies for my TOM, and was lucky to grab one of the last three boxes of tampons, but no pads(they did have adult diapers!!). We ordered bulk dog food(we should do this regularly because our 2 dogs go through a lot of food each month) but the aisle was completely empty. No laundry soap, kitty litter, milk, chips, meat(except for chicken breast and thighs-I brought three family packs and now have about 3 weeks meat in our freezer just in case), and they only had 2 packs of my flavor yogurt. Shockingly, they did have 4 packs of napkins and I grabbed one.

Here is a couple pictures of what we saw

bearly63 · March 2020

I saw this in a private group and thought it was a great idea. Will work for any of your favorite service providers that are getting slammed!

"Fear of the Corona virus is keeping people away from restaurants, who usually operate on small margins. This emergency is having a direct effect on the business owners and the people that work there. So here's something you can do to help:

Go to your favorite restaurant and buy a gift certificate (or preferably, get it online if possible). Buy it directly from the restaurant, so they get the use of your money for a month or two. Then when things have settled down, treat your special people to an evening out and use your certificate!"

We can all do something on a small scale that may help on a larger scale.

DecadeDuchess · March 2020

I was just at CVS, I didn't purchase anything because it isn't affordable for me, at their regular prices but they did've some toilet paper, Lysol wipes & soup cans.

AnnPT77 · March 2020

bearly63 wrote: »

I saw this in a private group and thought it was a great idea. Will work for any of your favorite service providers that are getting slammed!

"Fear of the Corona virus is keeping people away from restaurants, who usually operate on small margins. This emergency is having a direct effect on the business owners and the people that work there. So here's something you can do to help:

Go to your favorite restaurant and buy a gift certificate (or preferably, get it online if possible). Buy it directly from the restaurant, so they get the use of your money for a month or two. Then when things have settled down, treat your special people to an evening out and use your certificate!"

We can all do something on a small scale that may help on a larger scale.

This would also be a great time for a donation to our local food banks, for those of us who are lucky enough to not be over-stressed financially by the current situation, so can afford a few bucks. Many accept online donations, so "social distancing" is possible, and even small amounts add up

Thinking about this thread right here, I posted the following on Facebook last night:

Whether you believe there's a "real" crisis or not: If you're feeling kinda OK for your own self, it's *always* a good time for a li'l donation to your local food bank - any one you like. (Money is good - so flexible, for them.) The next few weeks will be a big, unusual challenge for some families. Little bits can help.

Any of our local (name of city) groups will take your money, one of 'em here (at least they took mine).

. . . with a direct link to the secure donation page.

Few COVID -19 confirmed cases still, here . . . but many facilities closed, tipped service people's tips shrinking, unexpected day care costs happening. The need is already here. (A friend who volunteers at ours commented that yes, their inventories are low, and that their bulk buying power multiplies the value of money gifts.)

Also hoping messages like this might give social media a tiny bit of push toward the pro-social. A li'l ol' lady can dream, right?

JaxxieKat · March 2020

The county I live in here in Georgia currently has the highest number of confirmed cases in the state (which doubled overnight). I had to go to the grocery store yesterday morning. Given how packed it was, I'm hoping the speculation that it isn't spread through casual contact, rather prolonged exposure, is accurate.

juliemouse83 · March 2020

Our numbers in N.C. jumped from 17 the last time I checked last night to 23 this morning. Our county announced our first one yesterday afternoon. I’m having a time getting my head wrapped around how rapidly this seems to be accelerating, not just here, but all over.

Volatilepossum · March 2020

In Northern Ireland we now have 34 confirmed cases, the shelves in most shops are practically bare and the first minister has just announced that when schools close here it will be for 16 weeks! She hasn’t said when schools will close but there are only around that many weeks until the summer holidays.

amusedmonkey · March 2020

We don't have any confirmed local cases that we know of in the country right now, but the man who was cleared recently spent a few days in the country before he showed symptoms and self-reported (was in Italy). The government is taking preventative measures in case he did spread it to someone. All air traffic will stop. All schools and universities are closing, no gatherings of any kind (including religious - no church services or group prayers at mosques). They're also closing all bars, gyms, and cinemas. Tourist attractions are closing for a few days to be disinfected. I'm glad they're taking action early.

cmriverside · March 2020

amusedmonkey, you're in NZ?

Your border protection is probably the best in the world. I hope all goes well.

AnnPT77 · March 2020

juliemouse83 wrote: »

Our numbers in N.C. jumped from 17 the last time I checked last night to 23 this morning. Our county announced our first one yesterday afternoon. I’m having a time getting my head wrapped around how rapidly this seems to be accelerating, not just here, but all over.

I don't know whether this is reassuring (it shouldn't be, really), and I don't in any way mean to be saying "it's overblown" (it's not), but here in the US, the late roll-out of test kits, now being improved upon, is just statistically likely to give us very quick confirmed-case increases.

Sure, it's partly an effect of the disease contagion, but also an effect of the fact that increasing numbers of people who should be tested (and should've been tested before this) are finally starting to be tested now.

If you look at stories from some of the other countries with somewhat delayed testing, there's a similar effect. It settles out - still to a worrisome rate, but it becomes clear that the early days' reports had statistical distortions in them. We won't have a clear numerical picture, for a bit.

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