Coronavirus Covid-19 Is it Affecting You and How?

[CntryBoy777]

Oh, yeah, definitely, nobody gets out of this alive. But even if you take the attitude of "when it's my time to go, it's my time, and nothing is going to change that," I'll bet you look both ways when you cross the street, don't you? And that's what this is about - taking reasonable precautions. Frankly, having watched my mother die in a manner similar to how COVID 19 casualties are going - I'd prefer the speeding bus.

Sorry to hear about your mother....
Mine died with lung cancer and I was the "caregiver".....I don't mean to sound "callused"....but, I've faced death several times in my life starfing at the age of 4 and have an "arm's length of issues" to deal with on a daily basis....I'm considered in the "high risk" catagory....but, certainly not scared, running, or hiding....will not go to the hospital again and unless it is mandated by law will not take a vaccine....some may equate that to not "looking both ways", but that is their perogative and freedom to do so.....

 

[rachels.haven]

I like @CntryBoy777 way of looking at it. I like my large personal space.
Last year alone I got strep throat 8 times. EIGHT. I don't think I've had strep throat eight times in my life before coming here. I haven't had so much as a cold since quarantine started. As long as I'm here in germy Mass, please give me my six feet and I may stay masked in public.

 

[Ridgetop]

Our Los Angeles mayor - Eric Garcetti - has now decreed that we will be quarantined for another 3 months! That is until Labor Day!!! Then he retreated and "explained" we would be doing a "phased" opening over the next 3 months. Everyone also has to wear a mask when outside their homes!

Here is the problem with this. Yes, there will probably be a large-medium number of case popping up this winter again. BECAUSE with everyone hidden away no one is building any immunity to the disease. People who would not have caught it, or who would have gotten a light case, or had no symptoms, will have been shielded from it and will now catch it. Or not, since many people already had it or have an immunity and don't know it because of this quarantine. This wearing of masks, so-called "social distancing", and staying home not being able to feed your family is not doing us any good in building immunity.

Do we stay home to avoid colds? Did we stay home during Hong Kong flu or Swine flu? Did everyone die? No, but a lot of people did and there was no outcry about it. No CDC warning us to wear masks and stay home. At least with this Covid they have some effective ways to treat it.

Keeping us home until fall when a different strain of flu, in addition to Covid, appears is ridiculous. Sweden did nothing to control it, and they have finished with it - no new cases in a month. Granted fewer people, but everything is relative. We have a huge number of cases, but we have a huge population. You can't compare our number of infections to other countries when we are testing a million people and other countries are testing a couple thousand. Our death rate is tiny compared to the size of our population compared to some other countries.

We need to be sensible abut this. Dr. Faucci is getting impressed with himself and the way these doctors, governors, and mayors keep control of us is by scaring us with projected umbers that don't happen. We need to take back our freedom.

AND STOCK UP ON TOILET PAPER!

 

[Jesusfreak101]

I third it the kids and I went to heb unmasked we are such rebels we did not catch covid oh no but we caught the horrid stomach bug from he// . Pardon my language but yeah still sick with it some. We had it for.a week ds2 our 2 year old caught it First, then dh and ds1 and me following pretty much the next day. By some miracle both girls didn't catch it probably because dh and I get out food or drinks stolen by both boys that it's not possible for us to avoid. It one of the worst one i have had. Sever stomach cramps, one day and only one day of body aches, low grade fever 100.5 barely registers as a fever body chills then a head ache and that all goes but then stomach problem is still hanging on. There are plenty of germs out there and you cant keep every one of them away and yes they all have the potential to be the end. But can't and won't living my life watching to the end of the ride i prefer to enjoy it. So stomach bug or not(and for those who do know i am stomach bug wimp i hate them granted I hate being sick all together) life goes on kids need to be feed, animals need to be tend garden needs to be weeded, and watered. For those without such things life contiunes people need to make a living they need to work life goes on. It's not just about those who are (sorry if sounds cruel) weak with immunity issues or other health issues, most people need to buy groceries pay bills provide for their children. I know some who the virus is the least of their problems but them being broke out of work and having kids to feed a bigger issue because they arent essential according to the government they don't have to work but then the government doesn't have to watch their kid be hungry or the mother and fathers be so stressed but now way to relieve that stress. I know more people that have been affected by the governments ignorant policy then the virus. Sorry but i can make my own choice about my life and others can do the same. There been alot of extra liberties that have been taken by those in power then what is not only reasonably but things they have no right to touch.

 

[Jesusfreak101]

Ridge we be drinking the same koolade lol okay to funny i love the toilet paper part. Lol.

 

[Bunnylady]

Sweden did nothing to control it, and they have finished with it - no new cases in a month

Weird - Sweden has continued to report new cases to the WHO every day; yesterday they reported 637 new cases, and 147 deaths. I realize there are all kinds of ways of reporting, but if you compare Sweden's 3460 confirmed deaths to their 27,909 confirmed cases, you get a ghastly number for a death rate - one of the highest in the world. And while they didn't institute a mandatory quarantine, they have done other things like restrict nursing home visits, put a 50-person cap on gatherings, encourage high schools and colleges to go to "distance learning," and they have been asking their citizens to take responsibility for their own health, and that of others, and voluntarily adopt other social distancing practices. In a country with a reputation for trusting authority figures and adherence to the rules, that is a far cry from doing nothing.

 

[CntryBoy777]

@Ridgetop we are heading into "hurricane season" here, so ya have to have a "supply" of stuff on hand to avoid the "stampede and panic" with every twitch of the "projected" path and cone of "uncertainty"....many wait til the day before and shelves are empty.... .....the stores are keeping some on the shelves now, so at least we can have some on hand.....doesn't pay to have too much tho cause ya may have to walk a ways to get it back if the wind and water "totes" it off.....

 

[Simpleterrier]

There are 12000 people in my county. 180 cases total that is from when it began. 140 of the cases have been in nursing homes. So that leaves only 40 people out and about who have had it. To me not very scary the next county over has 10 cases. Stores are well stocked just a limit mask are optional. Churches are opening up with spaced out seating. I still ask everyone I see and I have a few friends who have started to now also, if they know of anyone directly who has had it. I have asked tons of people and only one has said yes they know 3 people. And they couldn't confirm if those had been tested or if they just thought they had it.

So I'll ask all of you do u personally know of anyone who has it and has been tested?

And that is not my cousins wife's brothers bosses cowerkers dog has it. But actual my wife had it or son or best friend.

Our governor has cut the school budget and is talking of 2 days of school next year a week with the other days learning from home. I told my wife 2 yrs ago before my son started kindergarten that our kids would probably graduate from online school.

This whole thing is a joke.
It's all political.
The worst for me is what people are doing and asking doesn't make sense.
I'm embarrassed to say we all got douped. And the government is trying to gain from it now or cover their butts from over reacting.

I don't need people to try and explain what the gov was doing. I understand it. There just isn't any proof in my area that it is even real.

My church is 450 people I asked the pastor if anyone from church had it or if he knew of anyone ( he knows a lot of people and is part of many boards ) he said he knew of no one that had it.

 

[Mike CHS]

We are very rural and I don't know of anyone who knows anyone who has had the virus. We live on a county line and the county north of us has 3 cases and the county south of us has zero.

 

[Jesusfreak101]

No one i know personally however my aunt is an nurse practioninor and has her own clinic and they seen five that i know of that were positive. But that was a while ago.