Posted on 04/14/2020 12:21:48 PM PDT by Red6
Watch for symptoms
Reported illnesses have ranged from mild symptoms to severe illness and death for confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases.
These symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure (based on the incubation period of MERS-CoV viruses). •Fever •Cough •Shortness of breath
(Excerpt) Read more at cdc.gov ...
The Corona virus, or Covid-19 is the culmination of a long series of viral scares made possible by medical advancement and information technology, nothing more. Zika, SARS, Bird flu, swine flu...
At least since the advent of modern mass cheap air travel and offshoring in the 1960s have such diseases been spreading rapidly, but likely even before.
What has changed is not that we have more deadly viruses spreading, but that today we are able to isolate/identify, devise a test and mass produce it cheaply in weeks what in the 1980s took years. Use HIV/AIDs for example. What took years just to figure out today we accomplish in matter of a few weeks.
Here's the point, anyone older than say 40, when they were a child and had contracted such a virus (and there is an endless list of viruses), this would have been called a "flu" (in general, all illnesses that carry these similar symptoms). Today, we give it a scary name and shut the entire country down, because there is no common sense, measured response where costs are weighed against benefits...
Any policy maker thinks in terms of "zero risk." Politicians will use this to grand stand, see Andrew Cuomo as an example. Between opposition politics, government agencies looking in how they can fit it and be part of the fray (benefit from this), the media sensationalizing, some businesses making a lot while many smaller and family owned sadly go broke...
Don't get me wrong, many even most of the changes I agree with. When was it ever cool to crowd people? It wasn't. This is the first time I go to a grocery store and the bathrooms are clean! Can you imagine that? The bathrooms are clean in a store that sells food, and that's a first. Now we have plexiglass between a salesperson and the 400 shoppers that are sneezing all over that salesperson. I have actually seen stores wipe down door and shopping cart handles. Four months ago, most managers would have given it no second thought when a sick employee is at work smearing his germs all over the work space, but today they would freak out! So I am not at all concerned and upset at any of this.
Here's the problem I have with the big corona virus scare, like everything government does, their first reaction is an over reaction, everything government does is political and about feelings and opinions, perceptions, how it will make someone look. We have killed a lot of people with the mere fear of this virus. While we count every congestive heart failure death that tests positive for corona virus as a corona virus death, we are causing for delays in people with cancer getting chemo. There are people that had delays in getting dialysis. People in old folks homes needing care and dependent on others not getting the care they need. Thousands of small businesses that are broke because of an unmeasured over reaction to where they cannot allow anyone to dine in, but of course the giant corporations with their teams of lawyers, lobbyists, and PR teams stay open may that be Walmart, McDonalds, etc.
Not everything done is bad. 170 years after Pasteur came up with the germ theory which is taught in 9th grade PhD's, MBA's running big business and government policy makers are finally incorporating idea's that acknowledge what their children learn by 9th grade, and that's progress may you be a liberal or conservative. However, the knee jerk and over reaction by state and federal government all in the name of "security" (that allows government to over ride anything and society is generally agreeable) has caused for a lot of damage also. Since this is caused by science finally telling us what has been occurring all along, this will happen again and again. Hopefully, next time around we will take the prudent measures we should, but not self destruct the way we did this time.
Thank you for your voice of reason.
TV commercial for pizza assures me that due to the virus,
they do not touch my pizza after it comes out of the oven...
I shout at the TV:
“What the hell were you doing before all this;
touching my pizza just for the hell of it?”
The most frustrating part is no real effort has been made to find ways to keep businesses open. Half of the businesses that are closed could be open if it was a priority there are ways to make it safe but the goal isn’t even on the table.
As a personal note, I haven't seen any of that. If someone shows up at my dialysis center with COVID-19, they will be re-directed to a designated center that has been set up for treatment of infected patients. I don't have any idea of what more that center could do to handle an infected patient as we all are already wearing masks ALL the time. No eating or drinking allowed which would lift the masks. As to delays in cancer treatments, I haven't seen that either, but things may change as I'm scheduled to be switched to a different infusion.
The oven would have killed whatever cooties they might have had. 8>)
AFTER it comes out of the oven...
Strange things - strange times.
Does anyone have an explanation for all the commercials for car warranties that have never been on TV before?
And scads of more attorney ads...
Trying to outpace the ones for prescriptions?
Glad you’re not experiencing a delay.
Just Google “covid-19 chemotherapy patient delay” and you can pick your article.
As to my situation, my wife had an infected and broken tooth and it took 3 days and 5 different dentists before I could find one that was willing and able to help. Yes, things are stupid and the hype is causing problems for people not just economic, but no one is really concerned about that since the public’s interest this moment is in bloated death statistics, toilet paper shortages that the MSM created (did production fall off or are people crapping more?), an expert that is getting his 15 minutes of fame, and some personal account by a survivor that preferably is photogenic and will tell about their struggle with symptoms that sound like the flu.
When this is all over and the real economic damage becomes apparent, when the dust settles and we hear about some of the real people that got hurt by some of the over reactions... I believe perceptions will change. But that will happen in a few months.
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