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Post by Bruce Tackett on Apr 1, 2020 16:07:20 GMT
I just found out there have been two cases of CV-19 here in Pratt, Kansas. I'd been checking each day to see if there were any cases here and each day the result has been negative. Now I find out that the reason they aren't listed as being in Pratt is because both patients were sent up to Hutchinson for treatment. So, no sense in checking that every day. Lord knows how many they infected. They shopped at the same grocery store everyone else in Pratt goes to.
Just two months ago life was as it always has been. Now I go through each day with a feeling of foreboding hanging over me. I feel like I'm living in a Stephen King novel.
Well, all I can do is to adhere to the safety guidelines - stay home, and go out only when necessary. Keep my distance from people, use a paper towel when touching things every one else has touched, keep a bottle of hand sanitizer on my belt, and frequently wash my hands. We're taking plenty of Vitamin C and D.
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Post by mr potatohead on Apr 1, 2020 16:18:14 GMT
What happened to the person mentioned HERE on March 8?
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Post by Michael on Apr 1, 2020 16:48:10 GMT
Stay safe Bruce. Hopefully this will get back to normal eventually.
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Apr 1, 2020 17:56:19 GMT
What happened to the person mentioned HERE on March 8? That wasn't here in Pratt. That was in Johnson County. Cases started escalating after that. I don't know what happened to the first person. I know that the first person to die in Kansas was a fifty year old woman, but I don't know where she stood in the line up.
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Apr 1, 2020 17:57:10 GMT
Stay safe Bruce. Hopefully this will get back to normal eventually. Hopefully so. You all stay safe, too!
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Post by macky on Apr 1, 2020 20:20:31 GMT
Thanks Bruce, we're all trying our best. I was listening to the National radio last night where people from around the world were being interviewed re the virus (it was a BBC program). One from Kenya said that the majority of the people she was working with over there believe that black people couldn't catch the virus, another from one of the United States who was trying to impress on her hometown residents the seriouslness of the situation was continuously frustrated with the prevailing attitude that it was all media hype and exageration. As an aside, isn't it a sad day when the news media is no longer trusted by so many ? One thing is for certain. Whatever happens with this Thing that has befallen each and every one of us, whether we are actually infected or not. The world is never going to be the same again.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2020 20:24:01 GMT
It is surreal I agree. Who'd have thought going to the supermarket at the wrong time could end up killing you because someone coughs at the wrong moment.
Although the odds are good, we all see the cases of healthy young people who have died -- and that is very unnerving.
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Post by fredhutch on Apr 1, 2020 20:55:02 GMT
You're all acting like in "On The Beach", waiting for the cloud of death to come your way.
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Post by Silverlooks on Apr 1, 2020 21:00:46 GMT
I just found out there have been two cases of CV-19 here in Pratt, Kansas. I'd been checking each day to see if there were any cases here and each day the result has been negative. Now I find out that the reason they aren't listed as being in Pratt is because both patients were sent up to Hutchinson for treatment. So, no sense in checking that every day. Lord knows how many they infected. They shopped at the same grocery store everyone else in Pratt goes to. Just two months ago life was as it always has been. Now I go through each day with a feeling of foreboding hanging over me. I feel like I'm living in a Stephen King novel. Well, all I can do is to adhere to the safety guidelines - stay home, and go out only when necessary. Keep my distance from people, use a paper towel when touching things every one else has touched, keep a bottle of hand sanitizer on my belt, and frequently wash my hands. We're taking plenty of Vitamin C and D. I witnessed a patient being taken by an ambulance from the building right next to mine. What saddened me is the "guilty" look he had on his face and the look of blame some people had towards him.
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Post by macky on Apr 1, 2020 21:31:18 GMT
You're all acting like in "On The Beach", waiting for the cloud of death to come your way. I can't quite see that as the same thing as this corona virus flap, Fred. The people in "On The Beach" were waiting for the inevitable, unable to escape, and which was enveloping the whole world without exception. There was nothing that could be done to stop it.
Certainly the virus is enveloping the whole world (or has a good chance to do so) but it is still not inevitable that everyone will catch it. And there have been quite a few who have recovered after a bout of this hideous affliction. Whether they are still vulnerable to re-infection is uncertain. Some Wuhan 'recovered' sufferers have once again been tested positive after they were first cleared.
There may be those who never get ill but remain perpetual carriers for all we know. They will infect many by their presence, but until tested, nobody will know.
The one country that has kept the numbers down after starting out so severly is Korea. And that is because they have tested and tested and tested. That was what the WHO said to do, and they did it. Everybody should be tested, whether they feel crook or not. Whether that is possible or not, it should be made so.
While there are carriers that are unknown, there will always be the virus waiting to infect people. Every last single person on the planet should be tested whether they want to or not. This is not a time for individual freedom rights. It's a time for the common good of all.
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Post by Deuce Gunner on Apr 1, 2020 22:24:26 GMT
You're all acting like in "On The Beach", waiting for the cloud of death to come your way. Every last single person on the planet should be tested whether they want to or not. This is not a time for individual freedom rights. It's a time for the common good of all.
I'll count to 10 on that statement macky, simply cuz I like ya.
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Apr 1, 2020 22:30:36 GMT
Well, that's it. Pratt has now been listed as having an infected person. Maybe Pratt finally got its hospital set up.
It's impossible to keep yourself 100% protected. I went to the grocery store today and was heading towards the bananas. Some woman walked in front of me and started picking up bunches, one after the other, looking them over, and then putting them back. *oi!*
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Apr 1, 2020 22:36:38 GMT
"The WHO says that Everybody should be tested."
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Post by macky on Apr 1, 2020 23:03:15 GMT
Well, that's it. Pratt has now been listed as having an infected person. Maybe Pratt finally got its hospital set up. It's impossible to keep yourself 100% protected. I went to the grocery store today and was heading towards the bananas. Some woman walked in front of me and started picking up bunches, one after the other, looking them over, and then putting them back. *oi!*You're not wrong, Bruce. I've only been out once shopping since the shutters came down last Thursday. Here in NZ, any "corner" dairy/grocery that's open MUST only have one customer at a time inside the premises. Larger super markets have around a hundred at a time lined up at the doors but they are only allowed a certain number (I don't know what it is) inside at one time.
So I drove up the road to said dairy to get some milk, swerving to avoid the little co-blighters floating around in the air and after rolling the car a couple of times but landing back up on the wheels, waited until the single allowed customer departed, then with my mask on got my stuff and cleared off. The two staff were wearing masks. Everything fine.
So as careful as I've been, reasonably, yesterday morning I was popping the two wheelie bins of recyclables and rubbish out at the roadside for collection, and some idiot who I didn't hear behind me ran past on his morning run, nearly touching me as I turned around. He wasn't even wearing a mask, so what the hell ?
I've seen people waiting outside another dairy (I drove around Manurewa seeing which shops were open and not) and they were not wearing any masks, standing next to each other and happily chatting away as though everything is normal.
Look if I cop it, too bad. I've had a good round and can't complain. I'm sure many of us here have been on death's door for one reason or another, and I'm no exception. But the thought of infecting an innocent person, maybe a child, appals me. If I have any fear, it's that.
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Post by mr potatohead on Apr 1, 2020 23:42:30 GMT
If one would read the latest reports in the medical journals (search for infectious disease severity of coronavirus), one would know that the data from Wuhan is showing that NO PERSON over there that is 9 years old or younger has died of SARS-CoV-2. Zero. So, rest easy, macky. The curve starts up gently with the steep rise beginning around 50 and up. Latest news I've seen that evaluates is that it appears to be more severe in those with exhausted immune systems. From my own experience and knowledge on immune system health, it would be people who eat shit diets of processed food - the SAD. The less of the crap fake-food one has been eating, the better their chance of surviving this flu.
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