How is the corona virus affecting you?

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Yorky said:
Despite this I am not knocking the rules which have been ordered here, however silly they may seem. Up until to today, we have suffered only 55 deaths from the virus in a population of 70 million (according to government figures).
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Being a rather accomplished smarta$$, I have to give props to the employees at the Honeywell plant that got the presidential tour a few days ago. They had music playing pretty loud in the work area, and the song was the Guns and Roses cover of Live and Let Die, originally by Sir Paul McCartney. That took some big cajones. I can't believe they got away with it.

CD
 
Well, Ohio governor DeWine seems to have gone from cautious to reckless regarding reopening the state.

Last week, when he announced his phased opening approach, he gave every indication that restaurants and salons wouldn't even be considered until after phase 1 completed and was assessed.

Phase 1 ends 12 May and covered same-day doctor/hospital appointments, office reopenings (with restrictions), and retail reopenings (with restrictions).

Well, here it is 8 May, and he's already announced that outdoor dining can start again 15 May, and dine-in can start 21 May. Salons can open 15 May.

They've put out restrictions, but I can sum them all up as:

1. Make every effort to stay six feet apart, except when you can't.

2. Make every effort to wear a mask, except when you can't.

3. Don't go out or come to work if you're sick.

I hope I'm wrong, but I don't have a good feeling about this. 🥺
 
Well, since it looks like they're here to stay for a bit, I splurged on slightly more fashionable masks. These arrived today:

Masks!

Masks!


They're supposedly made from vintage kimonos, but that second one from the top looks suspiciously like a half a KMart bikini top. I'm ok with that. 😎

Seriously, the woman who makes these (I think it's just one person sewing and maybe one person doing the admin work) actually makes pretty panties/knickers that are meant to be worn out and proud. The name of her storefront is VPL, short for "Visible Panty Line," which I thought was rather clever. Every so much spent, and she makes a smock or some masks for medical professionals.

They're just cotton, but they're two-layer, and there's an opening on one side between the layers to allow for fitting a bit of paper towel or coffee filter for some added protection.
 
caseydog said:
Being a rather accomplished smarta$$, I have to give props to the employees at the Honeywell plant that got the presidential tour a few days ago. They had music playing pretty loud in the work area, and the song was the Guns and Roses cover of Live and Let Die, originally by Sir Paul McCartney. That took some big cajones. I can't believe they got away with it.

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I saw that on the news here, I thought how ironic.

Russ
 
Google sent me my activity report for April this morning. As you can see I've been having a ball whilst in lockdown.

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So far, I know personally two friends who ended up in ICU. One was an old friend from years ago when I was in college - she's now out of the hospital. She had a fair number of pre-existing conditions.

The other is the wife of a man who brought home the disease - he was an essential worker (in person social work with clients in poverty - ie the clients don't tend to have computers for electronic contact.) He didn't need to be hospitalized, but did get the test. His wife however caught it and ended up in ICU for over a week, on heavy oxygen (no ventilator, fortunately). She's been moved out of ICU on Wednesday into the COVID wing, and might be sent home tomorrow, with oxygen bottles.

Not something to mess with.

I've only ever known one person who ended up hospitalized with the flu, which had gone into pneumonia. She never ended up in ICU. And she didn't have a lengthy recuperation after leaving said hospital, either - as both women I mentioned above either had, or are facing.
 
The amounts of oxygen they are using on patients is just astounding. The first few times I ran across the high numbers, I thought docs made a mistake and had to double check. I'd never come across such high numbers in 35 plus years of doing my job. Now, it's become commonplace.
 
Yes, I am one of life's natural cynics. I am, though, finding the level of denial coming from our woeful government tiresome. So, Bozo, quite what is it about thirty thousand deaths that is such a huge success? And then, astoundingly, the one hundred thousand tests a day was miraculously reached on the final day of April. For how much longer do you take us for complete idiots?
 
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