Social Distancing 2020

[Captainzing]

I’ve been trying to live a really healthy life style since last summer. Working out every day. I wouldn’t think as much of this if there were a shot. I’ve taken flu shots the past few years and I’ve not even had as much as a cold. I know, my environment plays a big part not being in the work force or having kids around.

How sad it is we are at this point in a civilized world supposedly

[matese]

It'a going to get worse. I saw on the news last night Smithfield and Tyson closed late April, I believe it was Smithfiled that had 600 cases of workers with Covid virus and reason for the closing. Trump has ordered them to reopen offering safety gear, masks etc. The news reported we could run out off food by the end of the year. I guess it's up to the workers if they want to return. It's to horrifying for me to even think about a food shortage.

[Captainzing]

This is going to be a long long time to ever get back to normal.

[matese]

Very, very true, life as we once knew it is going to change.

[yorkietalkjilly]

Originally Posted by Lisa and Pic

I am sure you have been reading about strokes that some people are having with Covid 19. Scary.

Also, is anyone from Georgia? Since they are moving quickly to open everything I am sure we will all be watching to see if the have a huge spike in cases.

Hope everyone is staying healthy and safe.

I think the stroke risk has long been there with flu-like illness. I've heard of that phenomena before. Don't know if it's the enforced bedrest or just a side-effect of having an inflammatory disease process taking over the body that somehow predisposes us to stroke.

https://www.google.com/search?q=peop...hrome&ie=UTF-8

[Lisa and Pic]

Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

I think the stroke risk has long been there with flu-like illness. I've heard of that phenomena before. Don't know if it's the enforced bedrest or just a side-effect of having an inflammatory disease process taking over the body that somehow predisposes us to stroke.

https://www.google.com/search?q=peop...hrome&ie=UTF-8

Thanks for the link. I did not know that. I thought it was only for Covid 19

[yorkietalkjilly]

Originally Posted by Lisa and Pic

Thanks for the link. I did not know that. I thought it was only for Covid 19

From the way the story has been reported, who could tell, always by eliminating further factors associated with stroke, tying it just to Covid 19. Like all of the deaths, even if that disease itself didn't kill but the case of invasive cancer did or a heart attack did, its published as a Covid 19 death. I've never heard, read any report that says that regular flu can also cause an increase risk of stroke. Seems like the media is out to make an even worse horror of Covid 19 than it already is. Why not, every TV program, news internet news service automatically draws more attention these days?

[Captainzing]

I just wish there was a rhyme or reason to it. How do some 100 year olds survive and 30 year olds die from it

[yorkietalkjilly]

Originally Posted by Captainzing

I just wish there was a rhyme or reason to it. How do some 100 year olds survive and 30 year olds die from it

No doubt it depends on each patient's DNA and whether they have the resident ability to even partially fight off the initial attacking virus as well as whatever you might lack in the ability to fight off secondary problems, such as circulatory problems, clotting problems. Then the viral load you first get - just how much of that speck of fluid was infected and how many initial loads of it you took in and whether your strain of it is as hardy as another patient's. Your state of health when you contract it, your early reactions and your medical provider's initial reactions, treatment, whether or not you were able to get further and secondarily infected by your own providers' ability to keep a wholly sterile, safe treatment facility, the providers' levels of adequate staffing, such as whether they accept only top-flight medical staff and nursing applicants, their levels of ability and on and on, What might seem like smart treatment on that patient might turn out to be what opened a larger pathway to their eventual death, together with other complicating conditions, such as older folks have compared to most younger adults and children.

Whatever medications you were taking - could the virus use that against you defenses or as a pathway into your cells or defeating certain immune responses more readily, such as are ace-inhibitors of blood pressure and other medication are suspected to be. Could be a contributing factor to many older patients' higher death rates or maybe anyone of whatever age taking them for HBP, increased circulation.

In 2 years we'll likely have a handle on it but until then, we have to be grateful for the fact that this version of novel coronavirus seems relatively tame compared to how awful it could have been.

[Captainzing]

Or still become if this first round isn’t all of it

[matese]

Second wave is expected to come in Oct.when our Flu season starts and will be twice as bad as what we now have. That is why Governors in many states do not want to reopen non·essential businesses. They feel it's to soon and the second wave will hit us when we don't have this one under control, nor all the supplies or facilities to put these ppl in that are sick now.

[Captainzing]

And there’s going to be some serious shortages on things like meat ��

[matese]

That's what I saw on my local news, they said we could run out of meat by the end of the year if Smithfield and Tyson doesn't open soon. It's really a pity ppl have to risk their lives so others can live, this is truly a tragedy. I also read ppl are buying chest freezers. I don't remember the name of the freezer company that makes them. I read this company makes about 150,000 a year, now they are on back order. This is getting really scary now.

[yorkietalkjilly]

I am taking so many precautions I just checked my front porch for any deliveries wearing a mask, without even thinking how needless that probably was. Am trying to stay as realistic but positive as possible. But until otherwise healthy, active young people start dying by the dozens, it really doesn't sound like this disease, however contagious it is, is as awful and deadly as the fear it is inducing among us. Every week we have more drive-in testing facilities opening up, more testing kits arrive daily and heard reports there are many more large companies testing privately, a few with home testing kits, so obviously there should be a spike in the number of positive cases reported in all ages, even as we re-open things. But it's the number of actual deaths strictly from Covid 19 leading to the heart stopping from just that disease process alone starting to balloon before we need to be so fearful.

Yes, it is terrible that so many are sick and there are bad side effects for some seemingly healthy people but for all we know in young, healthy, active adults dying, it comes down to pure genetics, leading an otherwise unhealthy lifestyle, dealing with a destructive habit no one knew, that hasn't been yet revealed privately or publicly or developing an underlying medical condition none of us know, even them. Right now, trying not to panic, project fear, living on less of everything we can, leading the safest, most active, healthiest lifestyle(including at dinner/snack time) and above all, staying positive will be our best tools. And staying positive is a true asset of most Americans - unless you work for the media(poster added dryly). Never have seen this story covered by our television or majority of print media yet and had to do a deliberate Google search for the information.

Found this on Google today, was just interested in knowing how many otherwise adults were actually dying from Covid 19, if there were any stats, etc.:

https://www.advisory.com/daily-brief...d-young-people

"According to an analysis of state data by the Washington Post, at least 759 people under the age of 50 in the United States had died from Covid-19 as of Wednesday. The Post identified at least 45 deaths among patients in their 20s, at least 190 deaths among patients in their 30s, and at least 413 deaths among patients in their 40s. The Post noted that the actual number of Covid-19 deaths among people younger than 50 is likely higher, as not all states report Covid-19 deaths by age.

CDC data on more than 1,400 hospitalizations related to Covid-19 shows people under the age of 50 accounted for about 25% of the hospitalizations. Most of those people had other underlying health conditions, but at least seven of them did not, CDC said".

[kjc]

Heard on the news that Pepcid interferes with the virus’ ability to invade and replicate in human cells. Italy reported people who had taken Pepcid had a remarkably quicker recovery that those who had not taken it.

Was also thinking about sunlight and UV rays killing the virus quickly. Bad that most all newer windows block UV rays. If we could let unfiltered sunlight into our homes it would naturally limit the virus, and be available to all who live in homes with windows, free. I’ve also been running my bathroom and kitchen exhaust fans for better air exchange.