EzraS wrote:
Misslizard wrote:
Lol running wild ?At my age?That takes too much energy.
You have mentioned getting out and about.Maybe you are in isolation now but you did mention being in a store in another thread.
You don’t represent the people here with crap medical care,I doubt there is even one ventilator in this county.You live in a city with excellent facilities.If you got it you would have better resources to survive.
I should have used a different word than hoax.
When I was in stores I had a heavy duty mask on. But now I am not going anywhere, except brief walks out in the woods with no one around which still equals isolation.
Considering 95% of the people who get it have mild symptoms, how many in your county do you think 5% equals? And how many of those people do you think have a chance of getting it if they isolate and take all the precautions?
I live in a county that has one of the highest rates in the nation. The first case in the US was here. I think the odds of me getting it, considering the personal precautions being taken, are literally a million to one, with everyone here doing everything they did before the lockdown of people and shutdown of businesses.
People have to get out and get groceries,medicine,animal feed, etc,,unless they have someone to do it.No fresh delivery of vegetables and most older folks don’t order stuff online.Some people will just have to venture out,if the store is out of what they they need, maybe several trips.
There's only one store, one nursing home,jail with inmates, and four low income apartment units full of elderly,disabled,and low income with kids.And TWO doctors, and one isn’t even full time.He is only here once a week.Basically only one of anything.It also takes an hour to get to the hospital,unless you use the helicopter, but there’s only one of them.It might get busy.Sometimes the ambulance is out on another call and you have to meet them on the road to hospital with the sick person.
So whoever catches it here would have to leave the county to be hospitalized.No hospital here, next county over and it serves multiple counties.So even 20 seriously ill from this county would be bad.It is in the counties next to me.Its just a matter of time.I hope that hot weather weakens it,who knows.
Our hospital got overloaded one flu season and people were piled up in the halls on cots.So if we couldn’t even handle that.....
I really hope it’s not going to be as bad as some predictions.
I’d love for people to be able to say “I told you it wasn’t going to be that bad.”
I really,really hope people get that chance.
If you are saying it is difficult for at risk people to isolate where you live, how is everybody isolating going to make it easier for them? I mean either way, the at risk people are still going to have to isolate themselves.
As far as handling the flu, last year there were 35 million cases of it in the US. The US is light years away from 35 million cases of the coronavirus.
27 Mar 2020, 8:17 am
