Posted on 03/10/2020 5:22:41 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
re: #2 why have some states done zero tests?
I’d say, it was a what, me worry? attitude. No need to test until the first case showed up. Test patient. Confirm. Go back to what, me worry - China’s too far away
Yes, some of the stuff being posted is over the top.
Quarantining “healthy people” and closing down schools is no longer just talk. Half or more of the 2500 passengers from the MS Grand Princess are probably healthy and not infected, yet they are quarantined. K-12 schools are closing when ordered, and hundreds of Colleges and Universities are going to remote lessons for the spring semester and possibly beyond. If public health officials determine someone needs to be quarantined, or a business closed, they will probably not have much say in the matter. That is just reality.
I have yet to see anyone on this thread advocate quarantining healthy people. Where did you see that?
It has been confirmed by several countries now that children are silent spreaders. They won’t get sick but they will carry it to vulnerable populations, and not just elderly. Obesity is another high risk as well as many other common conditions, and now you are talking about half if America.
These measures are not to stop the spread, but to SLOW the spread. Left unchecked, this virus will deplete our healthcare system within weeks. Then you have collateral damage because people with other health conditions cannot get hospital care.
I am not advocating giving up our rights but at the same time, I believe our rights do stop where another’s begins. We cannot go around endangering others because “muh rights”. Here is an article you really need to read to understand the scope of what we are facing here without mitigation:
What does the coronavirus mean for the U.S. health care system? Some simple math offers alarming answers
https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/10/simple-math-alarming-answers-covid-19/
Did you run out of letters? Not being sarcastic, I keep losing my place on the threads so figured that was how you were keeping track.
Here on FR, we used to say that about the younger generation and liberals. Now it's us.
Yes. I honestly don’t know when we became so Max Max, but I do know that if things get as bad as some predict, we’d better learn to work in some semblance of community, even if it’s a little band of neighbors.
See post 965 from a recent group of doctors:
12. Health Departments (CDPH and OCHD) state the Airborne Infection Isolation Room (AIIR) is the least important of all the suggested measures to reduce exposure. Contact and droplet isolation in a regular room is likely to be just as effective. One heavily affected hospital in San Jose area is placing all “undifferentiated pneumonia” patients not meeting criteria for COVID testing in contact+droplet isolation for 2-3 days while seeing how they respond to empiric treatment and awaiting additional results.
BKMK
“ I’m not so sure we haven’t become too selfish a country to be able to overcome this virus.”
I 100% agree with this.
I think there are several BP drugs that you can get with or without the diuretic added. Lisinopril is one of them that comes with or without.
If I were quarantined, and I had a choice between a windowless 10x20 room and a trailer in a state park with windows and trees and birds and sounds, I’d take the state park any day.
You know the guy now at Omaha who’s 27 days into testing positive...he made me sad today...said he just wanted to go out and walk in the rain and couldn’t do it, can’t go out. Now that sucks. No visual stimulation can drive a person batty.
we are not ‘old people’ we are not ‘elderly’ we are Seniors.
I take a calcium channel blocker Amalodapine.
Lisinopril is not HCTZ, but they are often combined in one pill.
You can check your prescription bottle, if in doubt.
Those poor folks from the Diamond Princess are now 35 days into this quarantine and 364 of them are STILL listed as infected. 32 are still critical. That’s gotta be tough.
Yes, I’ve learned from 3 other freepers. But, I don’t take it. Was just curious as my mother did.
Unfortunately, I do.
Well, I’d like to think of my self as young at heart. But, my body isn’t cooperating.
young at heart, sure. That’s why I prefer ‘seniors’. It indicates a position in society of respect. Whereas old people or elderly brings the image of great-grandma rocking on the front porch of the ‘old folks’ home, or covers up to the chin in bed dreading the big bad wolf while little Red Riding Hood is out at the rodeo.
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