Coronavirus - COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #28

[Trudie]

While Beashear outlined specific business types that should be included in the new order, he said that any business that causes people to congregate should close. The specific businesses mentioned included hair salons, nail salons, spas, concert venues and sporting facilities. Community and recreation centers were also included.

Read more here: https://www.kentucky.com/news/coronavirus/article241259861.html#storylink=cpy



https://www.kentucky.com/news/coronavirus/article241259861.html

What on earth will we look like if this ever ends?

 

[MyBelle]

I wonder if anyone will apply for Census jobs? I know some will be able to do it online, but not all. Why is our gov’t planning to send people door to door?

We got our census form in today's mail. I doubt much will be done door to door after this pandemic peaks.

JMO

 

[Henry2326]

SOUTH KOREA

Yonhap: Daegu city govt reports that ~60 coronavirus cases have been reported at a nursing home
Vincent Lee on Twitter

Yonhap now says 52 cases reported in a nursing home in Daegu, unclear what the discrepancy is (there hasn't been an explanation yet from their reporting)
Vincent Lee on Twitter

 

[Henry2326]

Saudi Arabia closes mosques, calls G20 leaders to meet over coronavirus Saudi Arabia suspends prayers at mosques over coronavirus Reuters on Twitter

 

[10ofRods]

Coronavirus Test Developed, And Available, At Evanston Hospital, With Results In Just Hours – CBS Chicago

"As the United States desperately scrambles to find enough tests for COVID-19, a hospital in Evanston has developed one that can provide results in just a few hours.

The test, created in the Molecular Lab at North Shore University Health System, Evanston Hospital, was first used last Thursday. The lab has conducted 400 tests to day, with 10 percent testing positive for COVID 19. The hospital aims to be able to test 1,000 by next week. It has been used mostly for their hospital patients, but it has been made available for some patients at other hospitals as well."

Presumably they're testing people in their hospital setting (so not an index to the rate of infection in the general population).

The next wave of this crisis will involve more and more healthcare professionals going out for quarantine.

 

[MsMarple]

Ugh, the world is going to hell in a hand basket.

Our gaming friend, the one who's a recovering addict, had his teeth pulled today. I'm glad because he has major meth mouth and IMO it will be a positive in his life once he has a mouth full of normal teeth. But right now he's in pain and of course he can't take any strong painkillers. I feel terrible for him, he's working so hard to get his life straight and now he has his daughter back so he's motivated to stay clean. But he's in pain.

On top of it, my friend in the health department told me she had a big meltdown today in the office. She said tempers are flaring and they're arguing with the commissioners. And she's got her house on the market and has buyers who suddenly are trying to nickel and dime her over ridiculous stuff even though she invested a ton of money repairing things and having deep cleaning.

And like me she's worried about her investments, almost to the point where she thinks maybe just capitulating to get her house sale done is the best thing for her right now emotionally.

This pandemic is affecting so many people in so many ways. I really, really hope we can get it under control soon! We're all in this together and working on a common cause IMO is the smartest thing we can do to keep us sane!

 

[Trudie]

How to avoid a census worker coming to your door during coronavirus crisis
Updated 10:58 AM; Today 10:51 AM

Census 2020 forms can be filled out online, by phone or returned by mail.


By Rich Exner, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio - The easiest way to avoid a door-to-door visit from a census 2020 worker during the coronavirus crisis or later is to fill out your census form promptly online, by phone or through the mail.

Otherwise, you may eventually get an in-person visit from a census worker.
How to avoid a census worker coming to your door during coronavirus crisis

 

[katydid23]

Hypothetical question. If you have a mild, stay-at-home version of CV, and so does someone you know, and you both live alone, is it ok to spend time together?

My hubby and I have been discussing this. We came to the conclusion that we would roll with this together.

We live in a small cottage. Almost impossible to be totally separated. At this point, if one of us has been infected, so has the other.

So far, neither of us has any symptoms. But I did fly out of town, in and out of LAX. ...In one more week, if I am still w/out symptoms, I will be relieved.

And my husband did go to the DMV about a week ago...Tried to talk him out of it too....

 

[LadyL]

Saudi Arabia closes mosques, calls G20 leaders to meet over coronavirus Saudi Arabia suspends prayers at mosques over coronavirus Reuters on Twitter

that's huge

 

[10ofRods]

This is like doctors practicing euthanasia. I'm in a high risk group.

Opinion | How the Coronavirus May Force Doctors to Decide Who Can Live and Who Dies

It's crazy. The lack of planning (especially in a first world nation like the US) is mind-boggling. Medical professionals have been underfunded and discouraged from research. Even now, there are no direct sources of funding to allow localities to develop and use their own testing.

I'm so sorry to hear you're in a high risk group. I'm sure you're doing all the right things, but it's still really scary. Is your primary care doctor still seeing patients? If you do get symptoms, going to the ER at a major hospital would be what I would advise. If you live near one.

 

[Midgie2]

1st death from covid-19 in my state (Illinois). Woman in her 60s. Was diagnosed earlier in the month.

 

[Bbgiraffe]

It is good they are trying to clean things better and restock as much as possible. I just find it difficult to believe it needs to be 1/2 of a day. 11 hour downtime is practically 1/2 of a 24 hour day. Surely they could accomplish what they need to in a shorter time than that since they have each day to do more of it.

Im sorry to be critical of them but it gets frustrating when we see certain decisions that may make matters worse, and this will put a dent in people being able to get supplies when closing a grocery store down 1/2 of the time they usually are open. That seems a little on the extensive side. Maybe a 4 hour window would be enough each day for them to catch up. I hope they will adjust their hours if they find they dont need to stay closed for 11 hours each day.

Been lurking here but since i work as a grocery stocker at a major national chain (not walmart) i figured i would weigh in.

A lot of stores are using this time to sanitize empty shelves and surfaces in the store. I appreciate this, because ultimately i get paid slightly more than minimum wage but am considered as a grocery store employee an essential employee. Because grocery stores are "essential" businesses.

While i think this is kind of silly, because healthcare workers are actually i FEEL IMO, don't come for me, the only "essential" employees in a time like this i understand people need to buy food and personal products even in a crisis, i just think it is insane that we are basically spending 8 hours a day in a petri dish of people from everywhere, touching everything in the store. Yes, we can wear masks if we buy our own. We can wear the gloves they use in deli for food service, or buy our own gloves.

Doctors and nurses don't have to buy their own PPE and they also don't make basically minimum wage to work in close proximity with people from every sector of society, many of which practice VERY poor personal hygiene.

 

[Henry2326]

NEVADA

Gov. @GovSisolak announces order for non-essential businesses across Nevada to close for 30 days due to #Coronavirus. Only essential services and businesses will be allowed to stay open. They include grocery, drug and convenience stores, banks and gas stations. #COVID19 #Vegas Clark County Nevada on Twitter

This order goes into effect as of noon tomorrow. Every casino in the state must turn off their machines by midnight tonight. "Stay Home For Nevada" is the message that was on display @GovSisolak announcement.
Picture from @8NewsNow Clark County Nevada on Twitter

 

[zecats]

While Beashear outlined specific business types that should be included in the new order, he said that any business that causes people to congregate should close. The specific businesses mentioned included hair salons, nail salons, spas, concert venues and sporting facilities. Community and recreation centers were also included.

Read more here: https://www.kentucky.com/news/coronavirus/article241259861.html#storylink=cpy



https://www.kentucky.com/news/coronavirus/article241259861.html

What on earth will we look like if this ever ends?

A break for humor. Ladies?? Men too, I suppose.

 

[Trudie]

In one more week, if I am still w/out symptoms, I will be relieved.

Have you been quarantined for a week?
I stayed in for 12 days, other than a quick run to the grocery. But I feel no safer because one trip out or contact with anyone or anything puts me right back in the midst of it. Moo

 

[10ofRods]

My hubby and I have been discussing this. We came to the conclusion that we would roll with this together.

We live in a small cottage. Almost impossible to be totally separated. At this point, if one of us has been infected, so has the other.

So far, neither of us has any symptoms. But I did fly out of town, in and out of LAX. ...In one more week, if I am still w/out symptoms, I will be relieved.

And my husband did go to the DMV about a week ago...Tried to talk him out of it too....

I'll be curious to know you fare. We're in the same situation (except that we see our granddaughter once a week - she's home quarantined too, neither of her parents is in a very social work setting). I'm 4 days out from last contact with randoms and husband is 5 days out. I have a cough. We shall see.

His work just announced no classes until summer semester (and maybe not then, maybe no real world classes until September). My workplace will probably end up following suit. It's so strange.

 

[Henry2326]

SOUTH CAROLINA

South Carolina’s biggest cluster of coronavirus cases would have gone undetected under early federal testing guidelines if doctors had not insisted their patient be tested anyway.

The doctors’ demands yielded a startling result: The new coronavirus had reached Camden, a town of about 7,000 in the center of the state. It had infected people who hadn’t been traveling, at a moment when authorities were limiting the U.S.’s scarce tests to sick patients who’d been to areas where the virus was prevalent.

It had spread in South Carolina without detection.

The experience in Camden highlights the importance of testing for the coronavirus and COVID-19, the disease it causes. And it shows how early shortfalls in testing let it travel here unabated.
SC’s first coronavirus cluster highlights the importance of tests, but they’re hard to get

 

[Trudie]

A break for humor. Ladies?? Men too, I suppose.

Lol! Good one @zecats next the hair color will be on back order. My gal will come to my house, so I’m set. Lol. If she can’t/won’t, her partner will.
Me: hi, I’d like for you to come over for dinner, it’ll just be the two of us.
Her: I’d love to get out.
Me: bring a cape & scissors.

 

[JDG]

This is like doctors practicing euthanasia. I'm in a high risk group.

Opinion | How the Coronavirus May Force Doctors to Decide Who Can Live and Who Dies

Practicing euthanasia is an 'active' action. Deciding to forego medical care for a patient is a 'passive' non action.

Doctors make these decisions every day, to stop life support or to not revive someone. Not the same.

And, in a crisis of this proportion they just do not have the resources to try to save everyone. Sad but true.

The heart attacks, strokes and other 'regular' medical stuff has not stopped, its just added to the workload.

Please be kind as they do save many, many lives and are working flat out during this time.

 

[MsArk]

Ugh...I have chest pain anxiety. I know we are in for the long haul and I must figure out a way to handle this better. It is just so isolating.