Corona Virus Daily Thread #24

[Mariner]

Daily thread #23 here:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3826809/posts?page=1

[RummyChick]

if you are going to go that far it should be signed and notarized with a pic of your ID on the page

[cgbg]

1,110 MORE cases in New York City, and 36 new deaths, since the afternoon update

In today’s 3 updates NYC has added a total of 4,551 cases

https://twitter.com/lookner/status/1241898196047138816

[amorphous]

TY Semantic!

[mrsmith]

Hate to see stories of nuyses without masks. Some aren’t real, but know personally that some nurses don’t have what they need.

Our hospitals have great resistance to being vectors- but this virus seems to have outwitted them.

[janetjanet998]

1,110 MORE cases in New York City, and 36 new deaths, since the afternoon update
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bars and everywhere packed last weekend

[blueplum]

“What if they already have utilities at their 2nd home?”

First thought: DL’s. Address of record. Papers please. Same as we restrict entry into fire-zones?

The link I posted has a short blurb of one town, whose hospital has (one) ventilator. Not a town to head to, I'd think.
Many rural places are food deserts as far as grocery stores. And a lot of poor driven out of the city by housing inflation. Urban folk thinking they can just get supplies here, are mistaken. One of my friends is headed to their houseboat on lake Havisu but they keep it stocked and it's self-contained - ready to pull out, drop anchor and defend from pirates, sea monsters and ETs.

[campaignPete R-CT]

IBTFH

in before the five hundred

[DEPcom]

Note: There are only 3000 ICU beds in the state of New York. I am getting word back via twitter, they are almost out of ICU beds in New York City.

[janetjanet998]

Note: There are only 3000 ICU beds in the state of New York

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Cuomo last week said only 600 or 800 free....

[mrsmith]

See tweets of individual hospitals accepting donations for PPE, etc for the virus.
Those with extra cash may consider donating.
Check with the hospital.

[grey_whiskers]

look for a glut in the shelters when this passes as malnourished dogs are dumped, no longer useful.

Look for a lot of fat Chinese people in New York.

Look at the 2nd video:

https://publish.twitter.com/?query=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FEdwinRi62427568%2Fstatus%2F1241323804971937792&widget=Tweet

[cgbg]

Congressman from #Utah,
@BenMcAdams
, a confirmed #COVID19 case, says he has been hospitalized for “severe shortness of breath” but is now off oxygen.

https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1241899556838600706

[DEPcom]

“Cuomo last week said only 600 or 800 free....”

That means the hospital system there will break in the next 24 hours. Some of 1400 other people hospitalize could get worst then be move to ICU any minute.

I guess we will see how bad Coronavirus will be in the next 24 hours. This will put to rest the arguments of this being just like a flu.

I really pray it is just a flu.

[blueplum]

Earthquake, fire, floods, you name it, rural folk in Calif are the first to step up to feed and shelter folks. It brings joy. But when disease is thrown in the works, the air changes and you can almost taste the tension. The internal and eternal struggle between wanting to help and the need for risk-aversion. Can you shame ‘resource’ hoarders the same as grocery hoarders? Could it be argued there a difference?

[DEPcom]

Just talk to new contact on twitter. She works at the Brooklyn Hospital. She will find out more tomorrow and report back on the ICU stats.

[Paul R.]

Thanks. Those are good ideas. My higher math is rusted to almost nothing (have forgotten at least 3/4 of most everything I learned in calculus, and Linear Analysis? “fogetaboutit”) — These days unless one is really into theory, one uses available models when designing stuff.

I’m still ok on Algebra (I help my 14 y/o daughter with hers, some, but she’s a top of class student - probably about to surpass me in some areas!!) Physics, yeah, good background (but with above math background noted), chemistry - was really good at it but have not used significantly for 40+ years. Am generally fairly good with kids, explaining stuff (when I can stay on focus!), LOVE history & talking about it.

I’d always planned on a sort of gradual retirement (from the consulting work - too much travel involved as I got older!) Unfortunately, that’s out now, but I do have an inventory of a LOT of small fishing gear items: Plan was to sell in small qty’s on eBay, build up an impressive seller rating, and then move on to other “bigger” opportunities as they could be found. I have some electronics stuff (some “vintage”) in inventory, too, but will be lucky to get much out of it in this environment...

This is a low population density area, but, there may still be some delivery possibilities, and, gotta get it fixed (new brake calipers, mainly, I think) but I have a good efficient vehicle for such - a semi-mothballed Toyota Matrix in overall fairly decent shape. Could commandeer wifey’s Subaru for “snow days”, but we get few of those here anyway, so might not be much of an advantage. And, she might have to learn to drive a stick shift @ age 50 - yikes!

I’m also a pretty decent plumber and electrician, but gettin’ too old for doing that stuff daily. (In my 20’s and 30’s I was a top notch crawlspace and attic “worm”.)

Tough to make much at most of this stuff, but, at least costs of living are reasonable here (rural “Mid-South”), and I’m hoping we are not devastated the way I fear the coasts & cities may be.

Anyway, thanks again. 1st thing is to try to get on a better sleep schedule anytime I’m not caring for Mom, so maybe I can recover a little “energy”. “Do NOT be posting on FR @ 3 a.m. if not at Mom’s!”

[Paul R.]

Yup. That’s me, as of today.

Working on alternatives, trying desperately to avoid putting Mom in a Medicaid funded nursing home.

[Paul R.]

Amazon is for the young, fit and smart.

Well, one out of 3, sort of. I'm not obese but I probably have 1/4 the energy of a 20 y/o.

[greeneyes]

I’ll tell you what I really want and would pay extra for—Milkman Delivery Service. I used to have this years ago—before we moved to this area—They had a check list that would hang on the doorknob—similar to the breakfast order lists that you can hang on the door in a hotel.

Available items that we ordered often—Milk, Cheese, Butter, Orange Juice, eggs, and yogurt. The bill was due once a month-during the first week of the month. So about once a week, we checked our list, hung it on the door, and the milkman would leave it in the insulated box—provided by the dairy.

We got paid on the last day of the month, and our grocery money at that time was always depleted by the end of the third week—so the last week was lots of dairy stuff. LOL.

Fresh milk is the only reason that we would go to the store these days, but we’ll be doing without for a few weeks, when what we have runs out.

We have a dairy about 40 miles away—I wish some enterprising person would arrange with them to have a delivery service—likely it would be very popular these days.

In fact I read an article a few months back, that milk deliveries were making a come-back in the cities—especially the organic stuff.

[Jane Long]

Unreal.

Lemme guess....idiot still has a job...while millions others DON’T??