Posted on 03/29/2020 10:36:56 PM PDT by rintintin
A detailed timeline would be good here.
Along with testing. Both serum and breathing passages.
As a choir director, I am saddened and angered by this. Some things are more important than our entertainment.
A key aspect of this is that the infected singer, belting out vocals, likely ejected massive amounts of contaminated droplets and aerosol into the room’s air. The other singers, mouths open, were inhaling it all. Perfect storm.
In 1977, an Alaska Airlines flight returned to Homer, Alaska, after experiencing engine trouble and sat on the tarmac there for four hours with the ventilation system off.
Of the 49 passengers on board, 35 developed flu symptoms and five were hospitalized. Researchers ultimately traced the outbreak to a woman who felt fine when she boarded but later became ill.
The case jolted epidemiologists into the realization that influenza could spread through the air.
Research has already shown that the coronavirus is nearly twice as contagious as influenza and far more deadly.
After seeing the video of how many particles came out of peoples mouths when they were just talking, I can’t imagine how many come out when they are singing.
That’s heavy innoculum spewing into the air. Hope other choirs hear about this and take the cue.
“The prudent see danger coming and seek refuge. The simple continue and pay the price.” Prov 22:3
Yes...and it hit the oldest hardest....two women in their 80s died.
Most of the 45 are sneezing up to twenty times a day.
Twelve say that they have "The Blahs."
Six have actually called in sick.
Three (all in their eighties) have been hospitalized. (Incidentally, it's the fourth time in the past six months that they have been hospitalized... for one health problem or another.)
Two are dead. (Poor Mrs. Bucholz, the wife of the town founder and the great-great-grandmother of 22 adorable great-great-grandchildren; and Mr. Henning, who is said to have personally known and worked with Thomas Alva Edison.)
Regards,
And it’s geezer choir. Totally crazy...
More fear hype from the MSM who want fear and shutdown forever.
The choir that I sing in hasn’t had a practice in three weeks. Tomorrow, we’ll try a practice using the ‘Zoom’ app. It should be interesting.
What usually gets folks is the unintended rote motions. Like walking out a door and pushing the handle or touching a pew as you walk by.
The article mentions folding chairs. Sitting in chairs used by others and setting them up.
It’s almost always incidental contact that fails people.
What age does one become a geezer?
It’s 1348 all over again.
How can you blame them then? Everything in their area was normal.
Yes, those who are the least healthy and the oldest among us are at most risk, but this virus absolutely, unequivocally, kills young people - and it does it in a horrible way. I spent part of the day today looking at the labs and radiological data of a patient who is barely over 30, with NO preconditions, who is dying of Covid. First of all, when you first present, your chest X-ray and lab data can all be absolutely normal. The progression, however, is horrible. Pretty much my whole adult life to this point has been focused professionally on medicine, and I’ve seen a lot of things over the years. This virus is not the end of the world, but it most definitely has the capacity to cause widespread suffering and death.
“Most of the 45 are sneezing up to twenty times a day.”
Sneezing is not a Wuhan Flu symptom.
Got news for ya. 90% of choirs are ‘geezer’ choirs. At 59, I am one of the ‘kids’ in the choir that I belong to. Most churches have gone for ‘worship teams’ and ‘praise songs’. Other than ‘geezer’ choirs, about all you see otherwise is the odd HS or university choir. Choir music is dying.
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