What was your COVID news for the day?

[Ready]

There are now over 4,000 cases in Florida, and 54 deaths.

And now we have a border checkpoint to keep people from Louisiana out of Florida. And we have the Rhode Island people trying to keep New York people out.

If you had made a movie about this people would laugh it off as sci-fi nonsense. It could never happen in America.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/trav...points-vacation-rentals-suspended/2934407001/

 

[W2R]

And now we have a border checkpoint to keep people from Louisiana out of Florida.

Yeah I know! Also I read something about how the same is true for us in parts of Texas. We have become the Lepers of the South, apparently. "Unclean! Unclean!" as they used to cry out if lepers were seen out on the streets, in antiquity.

 

[gayl]

No Shelter in Place (also known as: Stay in Home) yet? We can only go outside our homes for essential purposes: 'essential jobs', food, meds, hospital, hiking / walking / biking our own neighborhoods. Personal medical appointments are via Skype. So there's no traveling outside our towns .... let alone outside our counties

 

[audreyh1]

Mardi Gras parades were over, done, finis on February 25th and most of the parades were within the week before the 25th. We got our first case of coronavirus on March 9th and that was a developmentally disabled man living in a facility for such people out in Kenner (a suburb).

I think given your outbreak, and given the number of people that got sick in other areas after returning from Mardi Gras, you’ve had cases before the March 9 man was identified. That was just the first identified case. Many areas in the US have had community spread for a while before cases were identified such as in Kirkland WA.

 

[audreyh1]

Rome, Georgia is a relatively small town in the northwest part of the state and they are one of the epicenters for all of Georgia. Someone with the virus attended a funeral, with lots of hand-shaking greetings and hugging, and from there many people have been found to have the virus.

Albany GA also has a terrible outbreak that is linked to two funerals, the first one of which was Feb 29. Their hospital is now overwhelmed.

 

[audreyh1]

I have discovered this week that I actually am living in a “Stepford”-esque community. I live in The Villages but haven’t drunk the kool-aid. In the last two days I’ve been removed from two different forums for posting graphics and data from the World Health Organization.

Reason for removal given was “no negative posts allowed”. I was in shock.

Folks here are continuing to play golf, shop, go to the Squares and play cards with friends. I have group of friends who made fun of DH and I for staying home for the last two weeks.

I pray that the worst case scenario doesn’t happen. We will lose a lot of friends if it does.

Wow, that’s bad.

 

[Fermion]

Albany GA also has a terrible outbreak that is linked to two funerals, the first one of which was Feb 29. Their hospital is now overwhelmed.

Yep, my mom lives in the country not far from Albany and was telling me about this a couple of days ago. She had been under the impression that kids were immune and was babysitting my great nephews but she is stopping that now.

I don't know how she got the impression that kids are immune...kids carry more germs than a subway station.

 

[Rianne]

Skype with relatives in Northern Italy this morning. Said in some hospitals they are sending robots with meds and needed supplies into hospital rooms. The robots have interactive screens where Drs can talk to the patients without all the protective gear. Can spend more time and see facial expression which is calming.

 

[Moemg]

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Folks here are continuing to play golf, shop, go to the Squares and play cards with friends. I have group of friends who made fun of DH and I for staying home for the last two weeks.

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We have friends that are doing they same thing . They are continuing to socialize . They invite us for drinks but we decline . They just don't get it .

 

[REWahoo]

They just don't get it .

Sadly it sounds like they may.

 

[JoeWras]

Skype with relatives in Northern Italy this morning. Said in some hospitals they are sending robots with meds and needed supplies into hospital rooms. The robots have interactive screens where Drs can talk to the patients without all the protective gear. Can spend more time and see facial expression which is calming.

That's a really good idea.

My back operation was almost 4 years ago. One of the doctors did his rounds working from home via robot. The thing would go from room to room, driven by the doctor. As I was walking the halls, I could greet him and say "hi." Basically, it was a cart with a screen on top with his face, live.

I found it a bit strange for orthopedics, but it makes huge sense for contagious diseases.

 

[Rianne]

I have discovered this week that I actually am living in a “Stepford”-esque community. I live in The Villages but haven’t drunk the kool-aid. In the last two days I’ve been removed from two different forums for posting graphics and data from the World Health Organization.

Reason for removal given was “no negative posts allowed”. I was in shock.

Folks here are continuing to play golf, shop, go to the Squares and play cards with friends. I have group of friends who made fun of DH and I for staying home for the last two weeks.

I pray that the worst case scenario doesn’t happen. We will lose a lot of friends if it does.

That should be on the news! I thought the Villages just got massive testing. Talk about an incubator or petri dish. As bad as a cruise ship.

 

[NW-Bound]

^^^ But it has been on the news. People would just say "Nah, just more fear mongering".

Actually, I did not know (I do not watch TV) until I searched the Web to look for COVID-19 cases, and these stories popped up.

They have some confirmed cases, with some hospitalization. No death yet.

PS. No real massive testing, but they had "drive-by" testing, where the residents drove up in their golfcart to be swapped. Only a fraction of the 80,000 residents have been tested.

 

[austin944]

"FARGO — The first person who died in North Dakota from coronavirus was a Navy veteran and educator who declined to be put on a ventilator, possibly to save it for another patient, his niece said Saturday, March 28."

https://www.grandforksherald.com/li...-hopes-it-would-save-someone-else-family-says

 

[Calico]

If you had a SCUBA regulator, that's a completely analog device that does what the "Assist Control" mode does, kind of.

Doctors in Italy are so desperate to save their patients they are modifying snorkel masks to be used as ventilators. Article, video, and blueprints are shown in the link.

The ingenuity of the engineers and the dedication of the doctors are something to behold.

So if you guys are super bored while self-isolating, here's a project for you.

https://www.boredpanda.com/ventilator-scuba-masks-conversion-coronavirus/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

 

[Calico]

.....Rome, Georgia is a relatively small town in the northwest part of the state and they are one of the epicenters for all of Georgia. Someone with the virus attended a funeral, with lots of hand-shaking greetings and hugging, and from there many people have been found to have the virus.

On 3/13, as we were all literally packing up our computers and monitors and loading them in our cars to take them home from w#rk, the receptionist told us that she had attended a family funeral that morning, and she had hugged and comforted all her relatives; they were crying all over each other. I looked at her aghast (after moving 8 feet away from her) and asked her "why did you do that " She said "what am I gonna do, not comfort my aunt who is crying in front of me?"

The idea of skipping the huge funeral now and having a celebration of the person's life in a few months (when it is safe) seemingly never occurred.

 

[Fermion]

Already told my wife I am not flying across the country to attend any funeral. Funerals are pretty stupid anyway. The person is dead, can't experience any of the event, and the people closest to that person have the extra headache and expense of putting all of this together, providing food for everyone, paying the workers who help, and then writing thank you notes for all of the flowers and such which are as dead as the person in a few days.

Give me a cremation and a couple of words, then toss my ashes in with the weekly garbage.

 

[Nemo2]

Give me a cremation and a couple of words, then toss my ashes in with the weekly garbage.

As I've said here before - DW has instructions to double bag me and drag me to the curb on garbage pickup day.....(after I'm dead, that is.....don't want to give her ideas).

 

[MichaelB]

Already told my wife I am not flying across the country to attend any funeral. Funerals are pretty stupid anyway. The person is dead, can't experience any of the event, and the people closest to that person have the extra headache and expense of putting all of this together, providing food for everyone, paying the workers who help, and then writing thank you notes for all of the flowers and such which are as dead as the person in a few days.

Give me a cremation and a couple of words, then toss my ashes in with the weekly garbage.

Funerals aren't for the deceased, they're for the rest of us. alive and grieving. We remember the deceased and celebrate life.

 

[Fermion]

Funerals aren't for the deceased, they're for the rest of us. alive and grieving. We remember the deceased and celebrate life.

They put a big burden on the "rest of us" especially during hard times like now. Even without the virus, when my dad died, my mom was frantic trying to arrange everything, pay everyone, make sure things went correctly. Maybe rich people have it easier.

 

[W2R]

Yesterday law enforcement had to break up a second line parade of nearly 100 people. It was a (customary) jazz funeral procession, according to those participating.

https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_9c9d7f6c-71cc-11ea-a0b7-8323eb5a0bcd.html

There is an arrest warrant out for the man who organized it and another for the band leader, and more on the way. They are getting serious about this stuff around here.

Most of the city is isolated in their homes, and most places are pretty much like a ghost town. But apparently a minority of people just ignore the lockdown and do what they want.

As of this morning, 3540 positive cases, 151 deaths, 1127 hospitalized in Louisiana. Still mainly in New Orleans but it is spreading throughout the state. In New Orleans we are running out of ventilators and looking at having patients share ventilators with other patients. That sounds crazy to me but I guess we are out of options.

 

[Chuckanut]

^^^ But it has been on the news. People would just say "Nah, just more fear mongering".

Actually, I did not know (I do not watch TV) until I searched the Web to look for COVID-19 cases, and these stories popped up.

If you did watch TV you would know the fear mongering, exaggerated bad news, alarmist presentations, and a general 'all heck is breaking out' attitude is extremely prevalent regardless of the source.

As the former host of Face The Nation said:

which is to say a lot of hysterical coverage about every little last thing that doesn’t warrant it, "Dickerson said.

Back to the topic, I am making up a list of things I need to get this week. I think I will hit Costco during the Senior Hour for as much as I can round up, then the local supermarket. After that I launder all the clothing I wear on the outings, shower, and then down a shot or two of Knob Creek to disinfect my mouth, tongue and throat.

 

[FIREd]

The mandatory confinement has been extended for 2 weeks in France (at least). The last 2 weeks of confinement went by surprisingly fast, I must say. I am really settling into this new routine. The region where I live is not seeing a big surge in hospitalizations so far (emergency services are actually receiving fewer calls than in previous weeks). Hopefully it stays that way. We were one of the first areas of France to be impacted by COVID and perhaps people started taking serious precautions earlier than in other areas. I know I did.

A few minutes ago, I was browsing Google Maps and looked at the satellite imagery of several international airports like Atlanta, NY Kennedy, San Francisco, and Paris Charles de Gaulle. Those images must have been updated recently because there was not a single airplane parked at gates anywhere.

 

[audreyh1]

Yep, my mom lives in the country not far from Albany and was telling me about this a couple of days ago. She had been under the impression that kids were immune and was babysitting my great nephews but she is stopping that now.

I don't know how she got the impression that kids are immune...kids carry more germs than a subway station.

Kids 14 and under generally don’t suffer any symptoms at all so they don’t get sick - I can understand how that might be interpreted as immunity. That doesn’t mean they can’t spread the virus - there has been no definitive answer one way or the other, although many medical experts indicate that they expect children can carry and spread the disease.

The Albany GA severe outbreak can be traced to two funerals held about a week apart in late Feb and early March https://www.walb.com/2020/03/17/watch-live-dougherty-co-address-latest-coronavirus/

 

[audreyh1]

The mandatory confinement has been extended for 2 weeks in France (at least). The last 2 weeks of confinement went by surprisingly fast, I must say. I am really settling into this new routine. The region where I live is not seeing a big surge in hospitalizations so far (emergency services are actually receiving fewer calls than in previous weeks). Hopefully it stays that way. We were one of the first areas of France to be impacted by COVID and perhaps people started taking serious precautions earlier than in other areas. I know I did.

A few minutes ago, I was browsing Google Maps and looked at the satellite imagery of several international airports like Atlanta, NY Kennedy, San Francisco, and Paris Charles de Gaulle. Those images must have been updated recently because there was not a single airplane parked at gates anywhere.

We just had social distancing guidelines extended out to April 30 for entire US. Trump just announced.