Corona Virus Daily thread #17

March 15th, 2020

[Mariner]

Thread #16 is below and it ran for two days...

http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3824270/posts?page=2051

[HollyB]

Video of another experience at 1115

He was diabetic and became quite sick. His 02 dropped to 93 and they said if it got to 90 he would need a ventilator. He did not want to get on one. He began doing deep breathing exercises and in 2 days his 02 was 99.

[bgill]

I’ve noticed chap stick and lip gloss causes cat hair and dust particles to stick to your lips. Not a good thing for CV to also stick to your mouth. Women should rethink all their makeup. Men should also rethink chapstick and use it only at home.

Use hair conditioner and put up your hair so you aren’t wiping it off your face.

Wear low rated reading glasses so the virus has to work a wee bit harder to get into your eyes.

[HollyB]

Some random Ohio county traffic cameras

https://www.buckeyetraffic.org/reporting/WebCams/results.aspx

[bgill]

High five, Ted. His outside the box thinking is why we voted for him.

[HollyB]

EDC Las Vegas has been cancelled as well. That’s a pretty big deal for the young adults /EDM fans.

[HollyB]

It starts slow. But he discusses the stages he went Thru before getting deathly ill. For many days, perhaps over a week-2, they felt perfectly fine.

[bgill]

Bake those old blueberries into something today to use them up. I made preserves with too many frozen strawberries a couple years ago. There are two packages of some berries in the freezer that I keep shoving back so thanks for the reminder.

This is a good time to organize the freezer and pantry to eat the old stuff now so there’s room for new.

Same with the kitchen cabinets. During Ebola, I cleared out enough junk to have two cabinets for canned goods. Last night, I stuck some Command hangers to the inside of the pantry door to hang bagged goods like Splenda. I had previously tried various tapes but they never held so had to buy the hangers.

I organized the bathroom cabinets and found I already had everything we needed for CV so nothing to panic over.

[novemberslady]

They do think that once you’ve had it you will be immune for about a year, but as it mutates like the common cold, it will come back next year and you will not.

This is what I believe.

[Black Agnes]

I hadn’t thought about that one!

I make tea in there now.

If the sun comes out today, I’ll make sun tea. And save the use of all my appliances :)

[Black Agnes]

Very little traffic on our little country road yesterday. Usually it’s fairly busy from about 8:30am on with church goers a little lull from 11 or so till 12 and then busy again till about 2am as stragglers go home after eating out.

It’s been dead so far this morning. Not even the cheese wagon.

[BusterDog]

“Some random Ohio county traffic cameras”

Traffic is light across US, according to Google Traffic, but I do notice a lot of accidents causing some backups.

I’m expecting more crashes than usual, due to a few reasons:

1) Sick people driving
2) Angry people being more aggressive. It’s one of the stages that people go through as they come to acceptance of their situation.
3) Panicky, scared people
4) People just generally having less focus on what they are doing, there is a lot to think about right now. Can easily be overwhelming.

[Varsity Flight]

Thanks. Many of them are not updated.

[Black Agnes]

He’s right you know.

We’ve tried to support our local Ace, the local drugstore and the local grocery (IGA).

[novemberslady]

when I was sick this last time:

My throat was sore and felt dry- like not enough fluids. But fluids were not the issue.
I had a fever and chills
I had pain in my bones-not just my joints-it felt like they were breaking
There were other symptoms, but the one thing that was different was the very thick consistency of the mucous, and it came from lower in my lungs.

[Varsity Flight]

**** Ohio

Traffic has evened out, mainly vendor small freight and semis east to west. Bushnell can’t pick up north-south route too cloudy

[Black Agnes]

Can’t remember if you’ve mentioned having them, but my chickens LOVE blueberries. Any blueberries. Even freezer burned ones.

[BusterDog]

“This is what I believe.”

It’s what coronavirus’s do. I don’t know how many generations it will take for this virus to become like the common cold to us, but I believe it will.

I think the gov and MSM will pretty much downplay this, though, until we are through this initial phase. Later this summer.

They will have to develop a vaccine. I can’t imagine what it would be like without one.

The problem is, there has never been a vaccine developed for a coronavirus. But, then again, the world has never been so focused on a vaccine as they are and will be for this one, so I have a lot of hope in this regard.

[mad_as_he$$]

5) People that aren’t capable of driving unless they are tailgating another vehicle.

[novemberslady]

and the whole time I barely had a cough

[MayflowerMadam]

“The ‘experts’ can go shove it. Until they have a cure all for this, I aint listening.”

Sounds like a plan.

Like you, everyone I know is living their lives and laughing about this. (Except for elderly people at church who are being hyper aware.) But I STOP laughing when I think of how this mini-hoax is impacting real peoples’ daily lives.

My brother is self employed with a wife and three children. He’s a piano tech for a few small colleges in his area of western NY state. Because of the hysteria the colleges are closed for the remainder of the year and, as a result, he lost about 75% of his income just last week. He’s trying to figure out if/how he’s eligible to benefit from the “bailout” money.

I told him to check with his local US Rep’s office and they might be able to send him in the right direction.