Posted on 07/21/2020 12:24:42 PM PDT by nesnah
Her’s what the gov’t should’ve told citizens when this started:
It’s a bad flu season. Corona is a virulent strain. Weak, older people may die from it, just like the regular flu.
Hospitals, gear up for more victims. We will help with supplies.
Sick people should quarantine themselves. Protect the elderly at nursing homes.
Take responsibility for personal health, study how to bolster the immune system. Exercise, healthy food, sunshine, fresh air. Avoid cramped dark crowded spaces.
Assess your own risk of going out into the public and be accountable for your own actions. We cannot regulate your activities.
And that’s it.
I’m like you, interacted with many people since this started, not a sniffle.
You nailed it, this whole lock down has been an attempt to get Trump.
I had something that lasted a few days on March 1. Not sure what it was.
But I’ve been working throughout at a facility w/alot of workers. We go through the obligatory stuff of masks and temp checks. Maybe it’s made a difference. Not sure. So far the facility I work in has only had a handful of cases. I’m like you as in I think it has been blown up deliberately, out of proportion. We didn’t need to ruin our economy for it.
I’m in your court. Have recently flown cross country plus I have to work at a place that physical labor is required. Not seeing it....
If you don't fall into any of those groups you're more likely to die in an earthquake than because of the Wuhan Flu.
Probably because only about 6-10% of the country has been infected, mostly in New York City, Los Angeles, and a few other major hotspots. It doesn’t just wash over the Earth uniformly like a wave. It has to spread from someone who is infected to someone who is vulnerable to infection. That’s how all viruses work. As for getting sick, about 35% will show no symptoms when they’re infected. About 45% will show mild to moderate symptoms they can treat at home and in some cases these might be confused with a cold or flu. Around 20% will develop symptoms severe enough that they wind up in the hospital. About 0.63% - 0.66% will eventually die.
This idea that because you personally haven’t experienced symptoms from it that it doesn’t exist is nonsense. I haven’t had polio, but I know it exists. I haven’t had smallpox, but I know it exists. I haven’t had ebola, but I know it exists. The media hypes the fear up beyond where it needs to be, but SARS-CoV-2 is a real virus which causes COVID-19, a real disease. It should be taken seriously and managed appropriately, but we should not all be hiding in a bunker over it. And when President Trump announces vaccine availability in October, it’ll all be over anyway.
“Likewise, the most at risk population next to seniors are the “homeless”. Horrible personal health practices. Drugs. Tobacco use. Obesity. Unprotected sex....
“Yet they are not dropping like flies from covid.”
And they never had any annual vaccinations for anything?
Don’t know if that is related. Just wild speculation. But maybe worth comparing with those who do get it.
Maybe you have and had no symptoms. 8>)
Did you ever get tested? Tested negative for antibodies? Those aren’t entirely reliable anyway, but testing is the nearest indicator we currently have. Many people wind up infected and show zero or minor symptoms; the vast majority, apparently. The fact that you work construction means you may also have a healthy enough immune system to fight it off.
I don’t have your entire medical history, but those are some of the factors that are at play. That and some people simply don’t get sick for whatever reason. Usually, it’s the luck of the genetic draw.
I, on the other hand, have to worry. A kidney transplant that is beginning to fail, still immune suppressed, and in need of a new heart valve (at 32)... I’m staying in and doing the whole thing when I go out, because that has been my daily routine every flu season since I started dialysis ten years ago.
My mom works with elder care, doing evaluations for those to receive home care or other assistance, and she has spoken to a huge number of people who have lost loved ones to COVID or had it while the interview was being conducted with a family member instead (the legal guardian/POA). I’m in the high risk group, which means I’d like to avoid death and the massive hospital bills that would come with infection should I live.
I don’t care what you do; you have every right to weigh your own choices and do as you please. I won’t knock you for it. Just know why I’m doing things the way that I’m doing them.
It is becoming clear that it is very hard to contract COVID-19 outdoors. The real danger is close contact indoors (with spittle flying) over several hours (for example, in packed bars with people talking loudly).
There is beginning to be some evidence that getting exposed very lightly may lead to a symptomless case, which may confer immunity.
The homeless live outside. SARS-CoV-2 doesn’t spread very well outdoors. One study showed it’s 19 times more transmissible indoors than outside. Another did contact tracing for several thousand cases and could only find one single instance of transmission taking place outside.
Newsom in California is spending millions putting homeless people into hotels so they won’t get sick. Funny enough, he’s probably made them vastly more vulnerable to it while burning taxpayer dollars.
Good point. The “homeless” don’t follow any of the CDC orders. And yet they are not dying from Covid. If they were, the media would be all over that.
It’s a hoax!!!
And drinking from the garden hose.
"We swam in raw sewage"...."my immune system has had a lot of practice".
But I disagree with him reagrding the brush and the four areas! :-)
You probably DID get it and didn’t know it.
I've been playing senior softball for the past two months which includes up to 200 players, and the only people I know who have contracted the Covid are my nephew who was sick for approx. two weeks while his live in fiance never got sick, and a player on my team whose two sons were sick last week but were fine a day or two later.............
You're right, it is all bullshit!
Do you get within 6 feet of another person during the course of your job? It’s worth noting that New York, the epicenter of the epidemic, only has a cumulative infection rate of 2.2%, yet that was enough to overwhelm NYC hospitals at the peak of the crisis.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Young people, and street people — who certainly have compromised immune systems— are not getting it.
In my state 60% of cases are among the 18-49 age group, mostly because that's the age group least likely to practice social distancing.
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/COVID-19-Cases-by-Age-Group.aspx
Is Jersey still a hot zone for China Flu Virus?
If one is 80, in poor health, with various organ problems, it is pretty easy to get sick. Most anything will do. If you catch the virus and let it run roughshod you will probably die of a heart attack. Likely you would have died in the same time frame without Covid but nevermind. You are now officially a statistic.
For my part I am 80 (in 2 months) bad heart, diabetes, overweight, and mobility impaired. I HAVE NO INTENTION OF PUTTING ON A MASK OR STAYING HOME.
I work every day, meet new people all day, have fun, and enjoy my life. Covid is not on my bucket list.
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