Posted on 03/23/2020 9:51:15 AM PDT by Mariner
Yesterday's thread here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3827099/posts?page=1
She got great treatment. Because the ER was free of street vermin, she got great attention and she got the best possible surgeon. I have no complaints at all.
The point is important...there are still regular ole sick people.
LA - 1172 cases, 33 deaths
54 New Orleans firefighters have had contact with coronavirus, NOFD short on manpower
“If you get exposed while saving someone’s life, so be it.” a firefighters union rep said. “If it’s a heart attack or a stroke, we’re there.”
Author: Mike Perlstein / Eyewitness Investigator
Published: 6:25 PM CDT March 23, 2020
Updated: 6:33 PM CDT March 23, 2020
NEW ORLEANS — Already depleted from attrition, the New Orleans Fire Department is now struggling with another crisis: the Covid-19 pandemic.
NOFD union chief Aaron Mischler said he has received an unofficial count of 54 firefighters who have tested positive for the virus or received contact tracing notification that they were in contact with someone who has. The department has 480 firefighters on the force, a modern-day low.
Among those quarantined after testing positive: Mischler himself.
Huh!
Seems to me shippers should be desperate for business.
Oh well, ‘it always so’ in the real world.
Unripe fruit has more pectin in it than ripe fruit.
That’s good to know and that explains why she added some unripe fruit to the mix.
She probably just knew from experience that adding a little unripe fruit made a thicker jam without knowing why.
N KOREA
Three soldiers guarding the Sino-North Korean border in Chagang Province recently died after suffering from fevers and breathing problems, Daily NK has learned.
All of the soldiers were in their late teens and early twenties and were stationed at a sentry post near the Wiwon Dam in Chagang Province, according to a Daily NK source in the North Korean military.
They reportedly began suffering from fevers and severe breathing problems on the evening of Mar. 14, but had complained of fevers, coughing and headaches for three days. Despite their condition, they still continued to work and were told to take cold medicine and fever reducers.
https://www.dailynk.com/english/north-korean-soldiers-die-after-suffering-fevers-breathing-problems/
He certainly did not get the response he was looking for!
another poor death/new case ratio from south korea
9 deaths 76 new cases inches up the overall rate again
1.33% fatality rate (120/9037)
Not good news for the Bros (who worshipped it when it was 1/2 percent a couple of weeks ago)
I’m feeling the surrealness of this, too. Like being in slow motion while the world is in the fast lane. Even tho my days are busy puttering about the closets and spring-cleaning on steriods.
Our upright is in the basement so using your method would result in a very wet basement.
I usually defrost mine in the middle of winter.
I watch the forecast and when the temps are supposed to bottom out for a couple days, I take everything out and put it in old, beat up coolers I save for that purpose, and stick them outside.
Then I defrost using dishpans and cookie sheets to catch the ice and water.
I do hand dry it with old towels, too, and let it air out overnight. The next day the stuff goes back in.
This year was so mild that we didn’t have the temps to do it, but we are moving to NH this year and I have been slowly transporting the contents to the chest freezer there. When we make the final move, it’s all going and the freezer will defrost then.
I’m probably going to give it to my son at that point. He could use one and this is an older, more reliable model. Plus it will save him a bundle of money.
I don't have a clue because nobody saw THIS coming.
That's why it's so important to continue to pray for him.
And I also pray that what his enemies are planning against him would come back on him and blow up (so to speak) in their own faces.
The complete absence of commonality in CV statistical definitions among developed countries, sometimes if not often for domestic political reasons, means that statistical analysis is confined to each country individually for the duration of the pandemic.
From here on we're really on our own. We do now have an adequate purely American statistical base on CV to measure what's happening here and figure out why.
Louisiana has 1172 cases.
California still under 2000.
Something is wrong with that picture.
“The ability to think about what “could” happen, rather than focusing on what is happening right now, is the prepper mentality.”
...and there is a lot of ‘could’ starting to show up due to the loss of supply lines from China. Amazon, for example, is having no problem saying April 21 (4 weeks from now) for much of their non-food items. In other words, they’re waiting on containers from China (or elsewhere), containers that haven’t even been loaded yet. So, does anyone think that April 21 is real?
Wife missed it by less than 4 hours.
Here is a link to the Minnesota Department of Health CV-19 situation map:
https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/situation.html
You can see which counties are affected and which aren’t. You can also see by severity of the outbreak as well.
“Along those lines. Recommend eating through your frozen food and perishables before you get to the canned food. I anticipate power grid problems if things continue escalating.”
Correct, as things break and power companies realize that their suppliers are out (due to non-shipments from China), I’ll be happy with rolling blackouts giving me a few hours of power a day, so I don’t have to run my generator. But we’ll see...
China has a population of 1.4 billion people.
The virus will infect 60% of them (840 million) is a vaccine is not developed first.
Wuhan had a population of 11 million, 1.3% of China. Did Wuhan even have 6 million infected?
The story of China is just beginning—that is the big secret they are trying to hide.
If they want to ramp up their business they can do it, but their health care system will quickly collapse, and then the death toll will boggle the mind.
God bless both of you and I will be praying for you and her to get through this and to get her out of the hospital. Home is a wonderful place when you’ve had to leave it for a while.
A colostomy bag is a hassle, naturally, but it is entirely doable with the right attitude. My dad had one for many months and my brother in law has had it twice, both times after a major surgery.
Thanks for the update on what your a seeing in your hospital.
Hospitals are running out of N95 masks, some as soon as tomorrow (Oregon).
Ventilators are filling up in the New Orleans area. Those on ventilators are automatically DNR. They code, they die.
Obese folks (30-40% of Americans in some states) are having serious problems.
Some nurses are quitting. A travel nurse with ER experience was offered $4500 a week to go to Minnesota.
ER doctors are taking the two pills we’ve read about as an effect to avoid being infected or reduce the impact.
Covid19 lived up to 17 days on the cruise ship. 17 days on surfaces.
The Lt Gov of Texas suggested grandparents would be okay dying to preserve the economy for their grandkids. He didn’t say that exactly but pretty much what he meant.
We’ve just started this. We have months ahead of us.
Once the hospitals here look like those in Spain - people laid out in hallways - in a week or two here, people won’t complain about furthering shelter and place orders.
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