“Please keep in touch.”
I’ll keep posting to this thread as I learn more. I have our local daily newspaper website open so I can pull it up easily and see what is new. They should get the latest news from health officials before any other source. Their article says all four who died are men. Don’t know the sex of the other four still in hospital and the newspaper said they are very ill.
I really was going to Kroger until I read this FR article. I knew about this yesterday since rightly_dividing put it on our gardening thread - that was a different article than this one. It was this one, “Mystery illness”, thread that hit me over the head. I think I was stuck in a normalcy bias situation because I didn’t think seriously about staying home yesterday; I did think of a quick in and out at the grocery store and wash my hands when I got back.
It was my engineer relative coming that made me want to go to the store in the first place. This is a lesson in survival - don’t be pushed into doing something that could kill you even if you can’t see the thing that would do the killing. I don’t know if this is a viral or a bacterial killer - I can’t see it, it’s not Hussein’s Homeland Security tank, guns, battle dressed men - this killer is invisible to me. What an idiot I was to think of leaving this house when I know for damn sure these people died from an unknown illness.
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You know, very often people make fun of these things, because very often they do turn out to be much ado about nothing. Not always, though. Being cautious and prepared is never foolish, and it could save your life, as well as the lives of your loved ones.
Nobody out sick at Brookshire Brothers or the associated Tobacco Barn.
They had heard of this though.
Thank you for your example.