No, I didn't know that! Very cool! *goes to look*Quote:
Originally Posted by Karen
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No, I didn't know that! Very cool! *goes to look*Quote:
Originally Posted by Karen
The Corona crisis does indeed bring out the best, and sometimes the worst in people. Some of the worst things was that people started hoarding the very same evenig our Prime Minister announced the lock-down from the next day, but that soon stopped and there has no shortage of food - or toilet paper.
Some children drew some colourful paintings in the street, saying “ It will all be good again” My upstairs neighbours put two banner on they balcony, urging people to show solidarity with the less fortunate, and my friend in London came out one morning where someone had put three baskets of food and greens in front of her door. :)
Our Queen, who has her 80th Birthday today made a speech to the nation a while ago, I think made an impact. Here it is with English subtitles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDRgDsa2jDU
Companies and certain politicians are pressing hard to open more up, but I think it’s a bit too early.
Looked at them again today, the other two are, "You are allowed to scream, you are allowed too cry, just never give up!"Quote:
Originally Posted by Karen
And "Hope is stronger than fear" - I am afraid that one is not always true,, but it would be nice if it were.
It was strange what things were out of stock in the grocery store - no unscented deodorant in any of the "gender neutral" brands, but I was able to get an "unscented" deodorant "for men"
I like that! There are calls around here for the governor to let businesses open up again, but so far he is still holding off. That seems prudent to me. He did extend the closure of schools through the end of the academic year - I think that's late May or early June for most districts. I'm sorry for the kids who will miss the end of year dances, proms, trips and other events. Will have to wait and hope for the best.Quote:
Originally Posted by Karen
The good thing is, businesses get to decide - once their state decide it is safe, whether or not to open, and under what restrictions.
It was strange seeing people enter the grocery store today with no mask or even scarf over their nose and mouth, but at least they were in the minority. and others were good about the whole social distancing thing. There are social gatherings - like church, and ceramics open studio, that I miss, but staying away for the sake of everyone's safety is a minor price to pay.
Two of my high school classmates have lost parents to Covid-19 this week.
A friend here, an older woman who emigrated to America many years ago from Germany, heard from her sister back in Germany that the sister has pancreatic cancer. She is only 62. My friend is hoping she can hang on long enough for a visit to be possible, but fears with the uncertainty of Covid, she may not get to see her before she dies.
And it is sad to see people so divided over whether or not to wear a mask - I wear two whenever I am out of the house, as given my job at the Post Office, I am exposed to a lot more potential pathogens than most people, and am in "touch" - not literally, we take precautions - with many elderly people in the community, people with young children, and everyone in between.
Things are opening up in Indiana and Wisconsin but so far our governor is still holding off. Our case numbers don't seem to be falling off yet. He does have a formal plan for how the state can reopen in stages. The Chicago area has the highest case numbers of the entire state - which I think is to be expected.Quote:
Originally Posted by cassiesmom
It's also nice out today, sunny and breezy, so that helps too. I can open the windows and I will try to get outside for awhile.
Covid-19-safe season Farmer's Market was yesterday. It was strange and sparsely populated, and not without stress.
I got everything set up, got all the Golden Cakes into "safe" ziplock bags, same for the tea cookies, and all the ceramic pieces out on display. There were ropes set up and all the "booths" had a booth worth of space between them. Then they put up another string 6 feet in front of my table, no one was allowed to touch anything, etc. But people - all masked and careful, touched things anyway (getting scolded by the market manager), and I sent two dragons onto their happy homes, as well as selling some golden cakes. But there were very few people, and folks were only supposed to walk in one direction around the rope-created loop. All the picnic tables were roped off as well, because we were not allowed to encourage people to linger.
Things keep changing, so hopefully it will go smoother next week.
From Sunday:
MemorialDay 2020 in one photo;
Respect, Sacrifice, Care and Mask. My niece and my Dad's marker
Also Paul
A few of my observations?
I worked in a hospital for a long time - around the ER and the OR for most of it.
I was there for ALL the big diseases. Legionnaires, HIV/AIDs, Hanta, Lyme and some others. I learned enough to fill a book and remember enough to fill a thimble. After a while I learned NOT to panic and to be aware of what I was doing.
When i heard about the CV and the experts talking about it, I laughed.
Not because of the illness itself, but of the dire predictions.
They were selling the story with predictions that it was as bad as the storyline in books like The Andromeda Strain, The Stand or The Hot Zone.
Namely that people were going to drop dead in the streets in minutes after being exposed? (I think we know now that take at least two weeks for it to show up after exposure?)
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For the record?
A virus needs a warm or moist medium/area to thrive in/on. You can relate this to the 'fire triangle' they teach in a safety class. you need oxygen/fuel and heat to start a fire - except that the fuel is a moist environment for this disease to live on. If the chain is broken, the disease dies.
Not to say people should not be careful -its just that most of the time wiping stuff down is not really needed. its good to be careful, but not to panic or go crazy when thinking about it.
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I have a suspicion that this disease was here in the states as early as October of last year.
Why?
I was sick for all of nov/dec with something that I was told was 'nothing' (I think people thought I was losing my mind!)
I stopped eating (Not a great way to lose weight) I was down to a Cup-of-Noodles every two-three days, violent stomach upsets, a fever, labored breathing and lethargy.
I spent days in bed only getting up to go to the bathroom, getting a bite to eat and doing simple stuff around the house. I had to sleep sitting up because i could not catch my breath and something simple like taking out the trash and going to pick up the newspaper required me to think about if for a half hour beforehand, do it and spend 15 trying to get my wind back. one flight of stairs would almost make me pass out. Another weird effect was that I was seriously thinking that death was probably better than feeling the way I did.
That had me freaked out a little...more on that later?
I toughed it out and by the first of the year I was feeling a lot better.
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When the media picked up the story -this is where I laughed - they sold it like a walking dead episode. people dead in the streets and zombies strutting about asking for brains to eat.
Again, i was not laughing at the loss of life or the illnesses, it was the dire predictions of the eminent extinction of all man kind - the toilet paper shortage amused me.
The world would end and every one dying with a clean butt hole.....dark humor amuses me?
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After a few weeks of the news reports i began to suspect that I was indeed sick with something kinda unusual, but it really hit home when a talking head on tv reported that 'his head was not right' while he was sick.
When Doris walked into the man cave and said "I think you had the CV" I felt kind of vindicated - Her and I had some moments because she would ask me what I wanted for dinner, she would cook it and I just did want to eat. Another by product of this illness was I just had to sit up in bed and that would make wretch -this was 5-15 minutes of wanting to throw up with nothing in me stomach.
One benefit? I got to work out my abs every time!
Do I know for sure?
No, but here is an interesting tidbit? I had scheduled a colonoscopy and got in the day before the hospitals closed down. I went in, got it done and awaited the results.
I got a phone call two weeks later and was told I was exposed to a worker who tested positive.
they gave the info to the health dept and I was to take the necessary precautions. I was irritated for about a minute and then called my doc who told me that I didn't need to be tested (this was when the testing was barely getting started).
And then?
nothing....no problems at all.
I am NOT saying to ignore what is happening outside your front door, common sense and keeping your wits about you will get everyone thru this.
Oh, and always buy you toilet paper in bulk......we had to buy the cheap stuff and it was like wiping yourself with wax paper.....
Good to "see" you again, Richard!
I'm so glad you made it through whatever-you-had there.
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Thanks, it's been a while!Quote:
Originally Posted by phesina
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hahaha,
I have a huge laundry list of some of the stupidity that I have heard in the media.
Like comparing this to the Spanish flu/pandemic of 1918.
I took some infectious disease classes and learned that numbers do not lie.
But........the numbers/figures this time around are very misleading in some ways.
For example?
Compare health care today against the HC in 1918.
Most diseases like measles, whooping cough - go down the list? - were not treatable at that time. Isolation was the rule of thumb. These days most diseases have been tamed or wiped out.
Now a doctor has the web at his finger tips and the ability to get info faster that the speed of light.
Imagine having to stop and got to the library with a list of symptoms in hand to make a diagnosis?
Look at the medical tech in use today?
When I worked they were still taking appendixes out by cutting slits into your belly and having you spend three days in the hospital, Now? It's done with a scope and you get to go home the next day.
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My biggest laugh is from the projection of a second wave this winter.
Back in 1918, to travel, you needed time and to get where you needed to be. These days you hop on a jet and get there the same day.
It does spread the disease faster, but it also removes all the people you would have to interact with on your trip.
These numbers and stats are being touted as 'truth' but they are based on a formula that only counts exponential growth - without looking at other factors. Like population density, food, previous health.... Look at the general health, longevity, well being of a person living in 1918 and compare it to today?
People are living longer, eat healthier and are not subjected to the type of planet we used to have..
Another example is the air quality and HVAC systems?
Most of us live in or visit buildings where the air is recycled in a system that filters and in some cases kills any pathogens in the air with UV light.
Going to the bank in 1918 could probably kill you it your cashier had a cold?
THese days the air inside a building is kept circulating and cleaned - as long as the electricity is going!
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My last complaint is about the numbers game the media plays with the public.
Every time i see a break down of the numbers involved? It really make me angry.
The true numbers won't be known for a while, but here is an example?
We know that X amount of tests are done, X people are positive and X died.
That is so misleading because without any other numbers you would think that getting the CV is going to kill you?
If you have a populated town that has 10,000 people in it and you test half? that is 5k tests.
Out of the 5k that are tested? 2000 are infected, of the 2k that are infected, 50 die.
Only recently they have started to add the number of recovered cases to the lists.
If you only test 100 cases and 50 die?
It makes the numbers sound way worse than they really are. When you look at the numbers that way it makes it look like 50% of all cases are terminal.
We do not have the numbers of people who have recovered or have been exposed and show no symptoms to make a real guess at the numbers. As those numbers come in, the morbidity rate will go down and we will have a better picture of what is going on.
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I am not saying to ditch your masks or go to a bar tonight, But I am saying that people are freaking out way to quickly and not using common sense when it comes down to being smart about this situation.
I hope that everyone stays safe - things are not as bad as the media says the are.
if they were? You'd be fighting zombies on your front porch right about now and you would not be able to get your mail....
Hang tough, folks!
Someone has to.
I am in Vermont now - welcome back, Richard, we have missed you. And people are being very careful, being good about social distancing, etc. No one around here I know has had it, but several friends from high school days have lost parents or friends to Covid down in Massachusetts.
The media hype everything, it's their job, and social media siloing is a real thing!
Cheers to you dear, thoughtful Richard. Lord love a duck.
What makes me angry is people being violent. It is unacceptable and revolting to me. Particularly when it's being doled out be peeps who have been granted authority. REALLY PISSES ME OFF!
P.s. Most human being realize we must sort the wheat from the chaff. Sorta goes without sayin, maybe a large percentage of what goes in one ear should go directly out the other. Clearly.
Covid is a real scary thing. Just like syphillis, leprosy and venereal warts. Try to avoid them all peeps.
I think much of the problem is today's media goes even more for what used to be termed "yellow journalism" - sensationalizing stories, reducing everything to opinion and soundbites. That and the siloing effect some social media platforms promulgate.
A young woman I know tangentially (I helped edit her mother's book) was just stabbed repeatedly in her hometown of Las Vegas, apparently just because of her race. The woman called her the n-word over and over, as she slashed and stabbed her seven or eight times.
This young woman is not only a sweet, beautiful person, but she is a NURSE for heaven's sake. But that person did not see her kindness or her job description, or her strength of character, just her skin color. Please keep Yasmine in your prayers, the wounds are all superficial, but of course she is traumatized, frightened, and will likely end up with scars on her pretty face.
Oh no! That is heartbreaking, I wish there was something we could do. I know there is, be more loving and kind to every person, every day. That is so freaking unbearably awful!!! Shit
Yasmine is in my prayers. 💕❤️
I will never understand how a persons skin color matters. If we were all blind, what the hell would we decide to hate one another for. Their smell. It's not like we decide if we are born Caucasian, Chinese, East Indian....one day we just realize we are here on earth and look in th mirror and deal. Right. There's like no choice, no right or wrong, it just is what it is!! Do you think people would really rather die than get a blood transfusion from someone who wasn't the right shade? Guess some folks are that ignorant, God bless 'em. Who really cares, I sure don't. It is FREAKING lunacy and I'm tired of it. Exhausted
P.s. I'm white. I have Cree blood, my dad was dark skinned, jet black hair. My mother was whiter than white, red hair and freckles. Indians know I'm Indian, Caucasians think I'm white. What a joke, who cares. Just sayin' , like really??
Thanks, Mon. so many people hurting in this world, too many, always.Quote:
Originally Posted by mon
Just got an email, my beloved neighbors at the end of the hall from Boston/Belmont. They are an older pair of retired teachers, look like a pair of Italian salt and pepper shakers. He emailed me, her identical twin sister has died of Covid. So sad.
I'm so sorry, Karen. How sad that is. My deepest sympathy to your dear friends and you and all who love her and grieve her and will miss her.
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How horrible. Yasmine is in my prayers. I'm sending hugs and good wishes and healing energies to her, that her healing, physical and emotional and spiritual, will go well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Karen
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Is there an update on how Yasmine is please? 🤞🏾❤️
She is healing physically, at least. It turns out her attacker was her upstairs neighbor in the apartment building. So sad, pointless violence and hatred.
Please, everyone, continue to stay safe and keep up the precautions. Seeing an uptick in cases in many places where they have been "reopening" things, and its two weeks since Memorial Day Weekend, when many people traveled and gathered for the first time in months.
June arrived after
A year-long, turned, broken May
A heart-worn world burns
Streets of broken glass
Shattered dreams, lives forever
Scarred, changed, burned, we cry
Yet somewhere a song
Ignites a shred of hope, of
Healing, moving on
Together even
As we keep distance, voices
Can rise, united
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Originally Posted by Karen
How's everybody doing? It's been a while since I logged in. With the current situation, wanted to know you all are safe and healthy too.
Wishing best of health to you all.
Sana! How are you? We are safe and healthy here, and have a new baby at the farm! Did you see Boo?Quote:
Originally Posted by sana
I will stay strong
Use all of my smarts
Won't cave and hate
Gonna eat me buttertarts
I will wash my hands
Wear a mask
I will listen to peeps
Not a hard task
Need to listen
That's what Ellen say
I'll try to listen
No need to learn the hard way
Hate is a hopeless road
Let's be kind
I'd surely kiss a toad
Clearly rappin'
Isn't my best thing
You haven't been tortured
'Till you've heard me sing 🕊🌈
I will stay strong
Use all of my smarts
Won't cave and hate
Gonna eat me buttertarts
I will wash my hands
Wear a mask
I will listen to peeps
Not a hard task
Need to listen
That's what Ellen say
I'll try to listen 👂🏽
No need to learn the hard way
Hate is a hopeless road
Let's be kind
I'd surely kiss a toad
Clearly rappin'
Isn't my best thing
You haven't been tortured
'Till you've heard me sing 🕊🌈
Ooooooops.
You know you can edit or delete the second post, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by mon
Kermit's friend Alfina is in the hospital on oxygen. Please keep her in your prayers. She is a mom with two tweenage children who need her, and a Paiute indian.
Sending prayers and good wishes and warm healing energies for Alfina..
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Because of poisonings, dangers of blindness etc., the FDA has created a list of hand Sanitizers to avoid:
https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safet...izers-methanol
Please check the list and check your cabinets!
Karen, being a resident in a nursing home, they take all of the precautions to keep us safe, but it's BORING! There are no visitors and our temps are taken often. But then it's great considering the alternative!! Everyone at pettalk and the u s a PLEASE be safe!