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Post by foreign object on Nov 25, 2020 6:56:00 GMT -5
My condolences to you Torgo.
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Post by mylungswereaching on Dec 3, 2020 16:23:23 GMT -5
All of the hospitals are filled in my state. They are taking the overflow to two temporary field hospitals. One of them is run by a local hospital and the other one is run by the state in the convention center. Currently patients recovering from Covid are going to the field hospitals. They have 800 beds there but no where near enough medical staff to run them properly with anywhere near that many patients in them.
There are places in the U.S. where ambulance services are getting overwhelmed now. Within days, if you call for an ambulance in these areas, you will either get a busy signal or be told to take the person to the hospital yourself. There just isn't enough ambulances to handle the demand. People expect help to come quickly when they call 911. But pretty soon, there just won't be anyone there to help.
And the President is still planning parties at the White House with no masks and few precautions. I wonder what fantasies people will come up with when one of their family members dies from something treatable because there was no ambulances available to take them to hospitals which weren't accepting patients anyway?
This whole problem can be fixed if people in the U.S. would just grow up and wear masks and stay home unless they absolutely had to go out.
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Post by crowschmo on Dec 11, 2020 16:38:39 GMT -5
They keep re-opening, then re-closing the schools in my town. At the moment, just one school is closed because of someone testing positive.
My sister's next door neighbors both tested positive. The wife is home, but the husband is in the hospital having trouble breathing. I hope he recovers. Nice couple. When we would go to my sister's on Christmas, they would usually stop by to gab for a while and have some cake or something.
It's amazing how such a little thing that isn't even a life form as we define it (I guess it's somewhat alive, viruses are just weird) can disrupt the entire globe.
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Post by crowschmo on Dec 13, 2020 16:14:58 GMT -5
^^^ The husband didn't have to be on a ventilator and is now home, thank God.
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Post by crowschmo on Dec 17, 2020 15:59:35 GMT -5
The mayor of Dodge City, Kansas, has resigned because she says she doesn't feel safe after receiving death threats because of trying to implement a mask wearing mandate. Yeah, sorry I'm just trying to keep everyone safe, folks. It's much more important your precious freedoms (more a slight inconvenience, but whatevs) are intact rather then trying to keep you alive. She's a republican, by the way. Grrr. I was reading other people's thoughts on another site as they are trying to figure out the mentality of some extremists. They were mentioning the Schrodinger effect. How some people in the same breath say the virus is a hoax, and yet it was also concocted in a Chinese lab to destroy everything. (So, it's both, is it?) How Trump is a hero because his Warp Speed initiative brought about the vaccine so quickly, yet the vaccine is also a conspiracy by Bill Gates to take over the world ( ?) to "track" everyone on the planet (how that would help him, I don't know). How Trump is brave for poo-pooing the whole mask wearing thing, yet was heroic that one time he did. (HUH?) How "leftists" are so stupid, and yet they can concoct the biggest hoax in election history without a trace of evidence (yet there's piles of it). How those on the left are snowflake creampuffs who run and hide at the drop of a hat, yet are the ones to fear because they are so violent and dangerous. Yeah, I don't get it, either. I know there are people on both sides that do it (I don't even want to call it "sides" because most people who are disruptive and want to say "my side this, your side that" are never really "with" anyone and are usually inconsistent, but anyway..."), it just seems those who claim to be on the right really don't make a lick of sense. And to keep with this, I'm sure there are people on the right will say "right back at ya". Ya see, we're more alike than we think. Edit: Oh, and another thing I wanted to bring up: There are nurses who say that there are actual people who are DYING OF COVID and still don't believe they have it. Now that's sticking to your guns in the extreme, eh?
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Post by crowschmo on Dec 31, 2020 11:42:13 GMT -5
A nurse in California tested positive for COVID after he received the vaccine. Eesh. That doesn't sound good. Of course, they say it takes a while for the anti-bodies to build up. (And I think the vaccine is in two stages {doses} is it? I don't know). This was a week or so ago, I haven't read any more on what happened to him.
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Post by mylungswereaching on Dec 31, 2020 15:43:17 GMT -5
A couple of points. It can take days for a person to test positive after they are infected and days after that before they show symptoms. Also the vaccine is 95% effective. So it doesn't work on 5% of people.
That's why you really need everyone to take it. If someone catches it and everyone around them is vaccinated, they probably will not be near someone who is not protected. And if they do transmit it, then that person probably won't be around people they can infect. The virus slowly dies out because there just aren't enough people catching it. There will always be a few but you end up with a few thousand sick instead of a few million and a few hundred die instead of a few hundred thousand.
The Lyrics in Hamilton really run true to me now. "I'm laughin' in the face of casualties and sorrow. For the first time, I'm thinkin' past tomorrow.... We're gonna rise up (time to take a shot)
We need to handle our financial situation Are we a nation of states what's the state of our nation? I'm past patiently waitin' I'm passionately mashin' every expectation Every action's an act of creation I'm laughin' in the face of casualties and sorrow For the first time, I'm thinkin' past tomorrow And I am not throwin' away my shot I am not throwin' away my shot Hey yo, I'm just like my country I'm young, scrappy and hungry And I'm not throwin' away my shot We're gonna rise up (time to take a shot)
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Jan 14, 2021 5:34:28 GMT -5
Welp, this close to the vaccine becoming available, my dad and I are both under the influence of something, and another guy at the place we both work has officially tested positive for it.
It's technically possible that what we've got is something else, or that we're asymptomatic/mild-symptom people, but I don't want to take that kind of a chance. I've just gotta wait for test results now, bunker down, and pray. I'm worried because while I've got a good amount of risk factors, my dad has a *huge* amount of them.
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Post by mylungswereaching on Jan 15, 2021 17:02:00 GMT -5
Good luck. I got it and my mom got it. I've got all sorts of medical issues and my mom's pushing 90 and neither of us had any symptoms. The people she lives with are all young and healthy and they were in bed for a week. It's luck of the draw sometimes.
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Jan 25, 2021 5:14:43 GMT -5
Good luck. I got it and my mom got it. I've got all sorts of medical issues and my mom's pushing 90 and neither of us had any symptoms. The people she lives with are all young and healthy and they were in bed for a week. It's luck of the draw sometimes. Thanks. And yeah, that's part of what makes this thing so scary. It's like someone hooked the flu up to a slot machine than randomizes location of symptoms, type of symptoms, and severity of symptoms, and how often it gets to reroll. My dad's got a lotta risk factors for it, but he seems to be recovering pretty well. My sister and I don't have *quite* as many, but we've still got more than our fair share, and while I've been managing pretty well with just a cough and stuff, my sister had to go to the hospital for pneumonia triggered by it and to get some breathing assistance. She just came back today a whole lot better. (It was an ordeal convincing ourselves that we had to take her initially, too. Thanks to the unhealthy American work ethic that prioritizes working through inconveniences, it was a challenge to get to the point of saying "Yeah, this isn't the right amount of breathing to be safe...". Once she was there, though, it was pretty immediately clear that it was the best decision, and now she's back and in the "recovering with mild symptoms" boat with me. Fortunately we've got a lotta folks praying for us, which is comforting. Even a few people who I don't generally think of as people who pray, so either I've been mistaken about 'em or they're at least sendin' good vibes in their own way, which is also super nice.) UPDATE 2-9-2021: For the record, we're both basically back to being healthy, and transitioning back into work. Geeze, this was an ordeal... even with some supremely mild symptoms, it was crazy. Sure hope we as a nation (and we as a world, for those nations doing better than the USA) can keep this under control.
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Post by timmy on Feb 15, 2021 16:43:45 GMT -5
in "honor" of Covid-19
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Post by crowschmo on Feb 24, 2021 1:12:24 GMT -5
A woman died after receiving lung transplants because the lungs were infected with COVID. That's another thing the medical field will have to look out for. Organs may not be viable because the person who donated them may have had the virus and the person getting the transplant may be endangered.
Just more to add to the pile.
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Post by crowschmo on Jun 21, 2021 8:50:11 GMT -5
I got my vaccine (both doses) but I'm still going to wear a mask in close quarters with people and indoors like stores and such for a while. I'll wait to see if there is an uptick with so many not wearing masks now. There is that Delta variant to worry about and who knows what other variants are on the horizon. So I don't really trust in masklessness quite yet.
Those poor people in India. They're really having a horrible time of it over there.
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Post by mylungswereaching on Jun 22, 2021 7:21:14 GMT -5
I got my vaccine (both doses) but I'm still going to wear a mask in close quarters with people and indoors like stores and such for a while. I'll wait to see if there is an uptick with so many not wearing masks now. There is that Delta variant to worry about and who knows what other variants are on the horizon. So I don't really trust in masklessness quite yet. Those poor people in India. They're really having a horrible time of it over there. I think Japan has had it right for years. They wear masks during the flu season if they have symptoms. I'm planning to keep wearing the mask even after covid-19 in some situations, especially in the flu season. The flu vaccine only stops a handful of strains. I've got medical issues. If somethings going around, I'm wearing a mask in public from now on.
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Post by crowschmo on Dec 13, 2021 9:06:07 GMT -5
My sister is in the hospital with COVID. She has low oxygen levels.
She's been sick since Thanksgiving. She had a cough and just felt really ill. She took at-home tests and they were negative. She went to the doctor's and was told she had bronchitis. Then my brother-in-law tested positive and they were both sick and quarantining at home. He has asthma and went to the hospital for treatments for his breathing and is now back home. My sister just stayed sick and then she tested positive.
She wasn't eating or drinking anything, really, and felt like she was going to pass out, so my BIL called an ambulance for her and she was admitted last night. She was able to call my mom and talk to her, so she was still able to do that. My mom found out this morning about her oxygen levels being low, so we are all worried sick about her.
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