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Pipsqueak1965 wrote: »My work (london financial company) has got us splitting our teams and doing two weeks in office and two weeks working from home, to reduce any spread and allow for deep cleaning of desk areas. Our useless government is doing nothing. My son is having to come home from his travels around SE Asia as no countries will let europeans in any more.
@Pipsqueak1965 what's this business about the UK government is pushing herd immunity? they're taking a huge gamble and more people will die. My husband is from the UK and is extremely angry at the news from there.6 -
Managers are going around our office and telling everyone to pack up, go home and telework immediately.10
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@MikePfirrman Understood and appreciated. Everything we do right now affects the concentric circles around us.
We need to work together to flatten the curve and slow the spread. While it may be difficult to plan ahead we need to think fast on our feet on a day-by-day basis. This is not the uzhe (usual) flu and it's not business as normal. Sticking our heads in the sand won't fix anything. We need to adapt to the daily changes.4 -
I'm upset at how people in my metro area aren't taking this seriously. I saw a photo of a bar downtown on Saturday just as packed as it always is, with a line going down the block. It's only a matter of time until our city closes down like NYC did, right? I wish our leaders would just pull the trigger and close stuff down so we can move our way through this. Our metropolitan area is less dense so it will take longer to spread but I'm sure it will eventually especially with everyone not taking it seriously and going on with their lives as usual. People at work don't seem to think it's a big deal either although our two IT guys are working on getting things figured out as far as working at home. I am a good candidate to WFH because I'm an accountant and don't require a lot of paperwork and things. I have young kids so when the schools and daycares close I will have no choice, anyway. (everyone else in my office is either older or they don't have kids, so I'm the only one here that has to worry about schools and daycares)6
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Managers are going around our office and telling everyone to pack up, go home and telework immediately.
I'm jealous. There are no leaders in my office taking any sort of initiative and making decisions. Or maybe they are and they're just not communicating with us. It's so frustrating.8 -
MikePfirrman wrote: »snowflake954 wrote: »MikePfirrman wrote: »Potential great news but it's too early to tell if this will work. I'm hearing of rapid potential treatments, not vaccines. One is the one Snowflake mentioned around a week ago -- the RA drug which slows the progression in the lungs. This other one, which slows the replication of the virus, might show a lot more promise. It was developed for Ebola.
https://www.biopharmadive.com/news/coronavirus-remdesivir-gilead-antiviral-drug-covid-19/573261/
There's also another strategy I've heard of as well. They take the antibodies from those that have had it and recovered and administer them to people that haven't had it yet. That would be a longer term play, though.
It's not they won't find a vaccine, I think they will, but these are strategies meant to minimize deaths until we find a vaccine. World wide, pharmaceutical companies are working hard to find solutions.
Thanks Mike, that's what I'm hearing too in TV interviews with the researchers. Italy is going to be testing these treatments, and I'll update when they report how they're working. Thanks for posting. I wish we had others in this camp that could tell us more---any one out there?
I'm mostly staying off the threads about it because those that don't believe it never will until it impacts them either directly or the government forces them to shelter in place. This week, I have a girl (in her 20s) that my daughter is driving from Austin to San Diego to stay with her parents with a pit stop here. Her immune system is compromised, she has severe lung function compromised and she's scared to death as everyone around her isn't taking it serious. My two kids are coming home this week - one was selling solar in San Diego door to door, making great money. They are all now out of work. My daughter is telecommuting in cyber security (very busy for her right now).
What aggravates me the most currently are the terms "fear mongering" and "media driven". The Sect of Health in Ohio put it well (and I've read letters from Epidemiologists all week begging people to take it serious). She said something like, "I know I'll sound a bit like Chicken Little at the front end, but at the back end you'll say that you didn't do enough.". One Epidemiologist said that every one person now we can stop being infected will stop it from spreading to 500 in a month. That's the kind of stuff we're talking about. She wanted to dispell this whole linear thing. It's not linear at all. It's an exponential graph, doubling every 2 to 3 days.
There is more indication Summer will slow it, but likely not in time for us at this point. I think by Fall we will have a better grip on it. If there's any good news, it's when it hit us. Summer might give us a small breather I pray.
Please, please stop saying it's the flu or a cold or it's overblown. The media is not your enemy. They are just reporting what is going on and why scientists are so concerned. There is not a conspiracy to tank the US stock market before the election. 400 in Italy didn't die in one day for our US election. It's so absurd it's not funny. It's pathetic actually.
Strangely after I wrote that last post to you the same science program that I first heard it from--the new treatments--was on again and was about both of them. Bear with me, I'm just a housewife. They will start testing the ebola one here, but are looking at 2 months for any data. The reumotoide treatment is already started up North and is promising, but way too soon to tell for sure. Please keep posting to us. I enjoy the sciencey end even if I don't understand it all. Thanks, and sadly, you're right. The naysayers will find out when it's knocking on their door. Economic gain is behind many things, but this is going to arrive like a train. Batten down the hatches.5 -
Just a reminder to all: Please be careful about where you're looking for information about COVID-19. Malicious actors are taking advantage of the current events to prey on people's desire for information. Drive-by downloads of malware on sites showing "live maps" for the virus spread (mimicking the JHU one) have been found as has a malicious app for Android devices.
Remember, only download apps from the official app stores for your smart phones. Never click on random links or attachments in emails, no matter how much you might want to know what it promises to tell you. Don't click on random website ads. Always take care what URLs you're visiting.
Be safe, all.29 -
corinasue1143 wrote: »If it is a nice day where you are can I encourage you all to get outside even if just to your yard or local park. I am not sure and the evidence is not in for covid-19 but Vitamin D in normal get some sun every day levels been shown to help immune system fight off other viruses. Also a bit of fresh air and exercise helps with anxiety, depression. So yeah get outside if at all possible at least 20 minutes a day.
I get all my vitamins online. I used to use iherb.com a lot, but since moved to Amazon and Emerson Ecologics (you have to be some sort of medical provider to use this site - I'm ordering via my aunt.)
If Amazon is out of stock, I'd recommend iherb.com.2 -
File this one away, but I thought it to be very helpful. Vacuum bags and tea towels are a potential simple solution for cheap for a DIY mask for the most at risk. This found a Tea Towel, double layer, protects as well as a mask.
https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/best-materials-make-diy-face-mask-virus/3 -
Just put my personal training on hold for a month and my trainer sent me "homework"15
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The kids old dance studio is closing it’s doors and doing online instruction, she’s also going above and beyond with extra activity ideas to do just for fun.
They had masks at harbor freight yesterday, didn’t buy any. Hubby said we should have, even to keep in the car for my daughter whose breathing is getting more and more sensitive. There have been two instances, not illness related, in the last two weeks where we could have used one for her.
What is the purpose of a disposable filter layer if you have multiple layers of tight weave fabric that can be washed? (Truly asking, trying to decide what pattern to use)2 -
One dilemma solved - REI just shut down all it's stores. Tomorrow we'll spend the day deep sanitizing and then just maintain basic hygiene and social distance, and hopefully ride this out.
ETA REI is paying it's employees during the closure.
This is really nice to hear. Lots of anxiety about this.
I'm hopeful, but not optimistic, that the government does something about getting people paid. The House bill includes provisions for some, but not all employers. No point really discussing until the Senate does its thing.
(I hope I succeeded at discussing government-centric points without getting political, as advised by a mod here https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/44828038/#Comment_44828038 )6 -
My daughter is an artist at a small gaming company in San Francisco and the owner had to shut down the office last week to keep them from coming in. He'd been strongly encouraging them to work from home but it's so ingrained in their work culture to gather around each other's work stations to play through the game together and work out issues that they kept coming in to "just work out this one thing".
Change is hard, even in micro-environments. I'm afraid the only thing that will convince the general public to take precautions is when they start to fear for themselves. I've seen too many articles where people are ranting that people at risk should keep themselves isolated so everyone else can go about business as usual 😥7 -
Maryland closing bars and restaurants at 5 pm today (3/16).4
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If it is a nice day where you are can I encourage you all to get outside even if just to your yard or local park. I am not sure and the evidence is not in for covid-19 but Vitamin D in normal get some sun every day levels been shown to help immune system fight off other viruses. Also a bit of fresh air and exercise helps with anxiety, depression. So yeah get outside if at all possible at least 20 minutes a day.
I think there's a link to how gardening is good for the immune system somewhere in the gardening thread: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10708195/garden-thread
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rheddmobile wrote: »I heard from one of my high school friends today - we are planning on getting together online since we can’t meet up in person this year. He’s concerned about his mom who is in a nursing home which stopped accepting visitors to prevent exposure.
I made reassuring noises, but what bothers me about his mother’s situation is that I remember when my own dad was in a nursing home and the staff were completely untrustworthy. Once when I came for a visit I found my dad’s dinner tray sitting untouched on a table across the room from him - he wasn’t ambulatory and needed help with eating - they were just bringing in the tray and leaving it out of his reach, then taking it away again later so that he was actually starving. The “speech therapist” claimed she was “having great sessions” with him after he became completely non-verbal so I checked up on her, and her idea of a great session was sitting in silence reading a book to herself and then charging our insurance for a session. Since my dad had MRSA I asked for gloves to visit, and they didn’t know where the supply of gloves was. So yeah, it’s not like they were using them when changing IVs or fiddling with a picc line. Only by making sure someone visited every day at random times did he stay alive, and when I got a cold and couldn’t come for a week, not surprisingly he died. And the thing is, I talked to a friend who is an RN about what to do about the place, and did some research, and found - none of this was news, they were already under warnings for all kinds of violations - but they were the only place we could get my father into and we weren’t able to keep caring for him at home. And even if we had been able to pick a different home, pretty much every place else had a long list of the same kinds of violations, and according to my nurse friend it was standard practice to just sort of blow off care, since the staff felt that the residents were “circling the drain” anyway, why try?
So now, all across the US, these same staff members are in charge with no family members to keep tabs on them. They haven’t suddenly changed and become better people. They aren’t any better trained, or smarter, or more conscientious, they just know they don’t have to worry about what things look like when someone’s kid or spouse shows up. Some of them are the same staffs you have seen on the news in past years letting old people sit covered by filthy flood water after disasters, or not bothering to move them across the street to a hospital when their power went out and grandma’s ventilator stopped working. And now all across America they know no one is watching to make sure they do their jobs, plus, they are suddenly the front line who are supposed to be preventing the spread of deadly disease.
Yes, the staff in my OH's mother's nursing home weren't criminally neglectful like above, but I'm sure her experience was improved by his daily visits and interactions with the staff.2 -
My 71 year old mother with multiple health issues refuses to stay home. Even after I told her how serious this was to the point she was crying... still she will not stay at home.
Any advice?12 -
@ snowflake954 -- this might help you keep abreast of things going on. It's a recent shared resource for all the latest research going on for COVID-19
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/3 -
This is going to be a rather interesting experiment with my company, who only last year began introducing flexible work options. We'll see just how flexible they're willing to go. I can hear the supervisors in a meeting now in the conference room next to my office, and it sounds like they are discussing it.
I am glad that I work in a remote, small service center and not the company main headquarters. They canceled a group meeting planned for the week after next, which I hadn't planned on attending in person anyway because of obligations at home. I canceled my doctor's appointment in Morgantown that was set for the first of April; it was just a routine checkup anyway. that was the only other reason I had to need to travel north to the HQ. Other than kind of needing to make a trip to another service center to pick up some monitors, I don't need to go anywhere else.2 -
My 71 year old mother with multiple health issues refuses to stay home. Even after I told her how serious this was to the point she was crying... still she will not stay at home.
Any advice?
What are the things she is trying to do? It might help to address her Why more than the What.7
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