Posted on 03/06/2020 12:19:11 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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No. But if you'd been actually *reading* these threads instead of just trying to annoy people, you'd have known that.
You could even try DuckDuckGo on you own, you know.
Why don’t you just start your own thread?
A woman who grew up in Kansas City and her husband recently tested positive for coronavirus after taking a cruise last month.
Shelly and Charles Conlon were among the Americans on-board the Diamond Princess cruise ship that was quarantined for two weeks in Japan in February when a passenger tested positive for the virus.
In total, 700 of the 3,700 people on the ship became infected.
“We had a balcony stateroom, so it really wasn’t that bad,” Shelly said. “It was more of an inconvenience, but for the people that inside staterooms with no windows, it became a problem because they couldn’t get out of their rooms.”
The Americans on the ship were brought back to the United States on Feb. 16 and were sent to Air Force bases in Texas and California.
“When you had so many people who were exposed to it in that environment, I didn’t understand why they did not test everybody” Shelly said about the CDC’s handling of the situation. “I asked the question and never got an answer.”
She and her husband volunteered to be tested last Wednesday, and they tested positive for the virus.
“You have two swabs, a nasal swab and a throat swab,” she explained. “Our throat swabs keep coming back negative every time, but it’s the nasal swab that keeps coming back positive.”
The retired couple is now in isolation at the Texas Center for Infectious Diseases in San Antonio. Shelly said their pressurized room is 10-by-15-foot, and they’re only allowed to go outside, in a confined space, for 20 minutes a day.
Shelly said it’s painful being in isolation.
“You have no freedoms, and when you lose your freedoms, that’s it,” she said. “For those of us like my husband and I who exercise a lot, we’re struggling because we’re used to walking 5-6 miles a day.”
The couple, both in their 60s, said their asymptomatic, meaning they haven’t had symptoms associated with the virus since being on the ship.
They feel the quarantine they’re under is extreme for their situation.
“To me, this is a situation for people who are really sick. They need help,” Shelly said. “They need to be isolated from other people. I get that. But there needs almost like a modified isolation when we’re asymptomatic.”
Shelly said if she had to find a silver lining it would be the doctors and nurses taking care of them.
“They are true heroes because these people volunteer,” she said. “They’re the kindest, most supportive, positive people you could have. They make this acceptable.”
The Conlons won’t be released until they have two consecutive negative results on both swabs. Until then, they will remain in isolation.
While Shelly is a Kansas City native, she and her husband now call Phoenix, Arizona home. However, they still have relatives in the metro and visit regularly.
https://fox4kc.com/news/couple-with-kc-metro-ties-test-positive-for-coronavirus-share-what-its-like-to-be-quarantined/amp/
Can we admit it’s long past time to start prosecuting anyone who ever worked on the CDC guidelines. to include mandatory community service in Wuhan or Qom?
Suggestion:
Buy enough seed of the cheap stuff for your neighbors to plant gardens too.
When things start ‘making’, let enough go to seed for you and the neighbors. Lots of pages on the net on how to save seed from this or that.
When your tomatoes start making the little suckers, pinch them off and pot them up and give them to neighbors/friends so they can have tomato starts too.
Get a 6 or 8 sweet potatoes from the grocery store. Plant them in containers under a cpl inches of dirt. Water them regularly and put them in full sun. When they start sending up slips you’ll have enough for you and the neighbors too. You can train them up a fence (do NOT let them root along the ground as they grow, you won’t get any if they do that) and they look like an ornamental vine or screen.
If things get really dodgy, the last thing you want is to be well fed in a neighborhood of skeletons.
I save buncho seeds every year, just in case. They don’t take up any room and each year when I get more I feed the old ones to my chickens.
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
Put #Grand Princess for search on Twitter - there is rage over the administration’s handling of this crisis. In particular what the president said yesterday about wanting to ‘keep our numbers low’ ..
Someone in the White House needs to get a handle on this entire situation and STAT. Perception is everything.
This cruise ship mess will get out of hand very quickly in terms of virus transmission AND public perception.
Excellent post—Prep Basics—you and your neighbors must be on the same team.
I definitely support bribery to get them there. ;-)
You may not want 91. I havent read the article on it but it is problematic. Its been posted here a few times. Seems 70 is better.
Also, get a pound bag of several kinds of dry beans. A bag of the mixed soup beans is good too but you’ll have to separate them.
Take 10-15 of the beans, put them on a damp paper towel in a small ziploc bag and put them somewhere ‘bright’ but not in direct sun. If they sprout you’ll know that bag can be used for garden seed. MOST beans you buy in the store are bush beans (harvest is easier for those). Ditto chickpeas, lentils, limas, etc.
I’ve used this as a cheap source of bean seeds for years.
YMMV.
He likely infected fellow doctors, nurses, and other personnel in those hospitals and the patients. Then he went out of the place infecting more persons. I do agree that the hospitals needed to cleaned and everyone screened.
Yes. The CDC is useless.
looks like they are now “caving”
CDC
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Prepare for the possibility of a #COVID19 outbreak in your community & learn ways to support older adults in your family and your community. See: https://bit.ly/38ofRQc.
PERU
Minsa raised six cases of coronavirus in Peru
The first case infected four other people. In addition, another independent case was detected in Arequipa
Bean sprouts are good themselves!
Tasty fresh greens in a week.
SC
Richland County hospital confirms presumptive COVID-19 patient
According to Primsa Health Richland, she is in a ‘special isolation room’ that keeps team members and community members safe
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Prisma Health Richland has confirmed they are caring for a Kershaw County patient with presumptive positive novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
The patient, a woman from Kershaw County that is in her 80s,has been transferred to Prisma Health Richland Hospital in Columbia.
FRANCE
A second member of France’s National Assembly has been taken to hospital after contracting coronavirus and five other lawmakers are being tested for the illness, the lower house’s presidency said in a statement on Saturday.
I’m actually working on what i will do tomorrow,Ill leave here.sorry.
That picture needs wide distribution.
It’s a sobering thought to realize the heath of our country lies in the hands of the CDC. I remember them as bad, but it’s beginning to look worse than merely bad.
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