Creating this simply because it is BAAACCCCCKKKKK, and we are going to be dealing with it.
Under good news: a new task force will have Kessler at the helm. One of the most brilliant and honest men in our world. The plan to to make PPE in our OWN COUNTRY. The vaccine may be on the way. Team Germany with Pfizer in the final lap of this race. We are better at treatment; fewer are dying.
Bad news: anyone who must be congregated with others is at risk. The elderly are at risk. And another bout of lockdown? I cannot imagine this for our elders. But it is going to happen.
I thought I would create this Dashboard so we can comment on anything Covid. Does your loved one have it? How are they doing? Did they beat it? How did that go? Are they on lockdown and you are frantic?
Just asking. How are you doing with the new uptick of our least favorite virus? What are your thoughts? Ideas? Have you had it? Have you lost a loved one? Have you survived it?
I am so very sorry for the loss of your sister. Also very sorry that your parents caught COVID from
the housekeeper.
It’s been a rough year, for sure.
Take care. Stay safe.
I am so sorry about your sister. What a horrible year for you all. Sending hugs and prayers for you tonight.
Colleen
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Absolutely too risky. My husband is in the middle of his cancer treatments.
I have asthma. No way am I going to church during this pandemic.
Call it what it really is, a PANDEMIC, it is not the ordinary flu.
I’m sorry about all the fighting. Big hugs to you.
Such a godly example your church is. Loving your neighbors! I’m glad for you guys!
I’m not attending church. Too risky! It makes me so sad.
Hooray for your church! They are being responsible, intelligent, loving and caring! They are behaving in a Godly manner.
Nice to hear of people doing things the right way and setting good examples.
I am so sorry that people aren’t following the mask protocols for your area.
Some people are very foolish. My niece is that way. She got Covid from not wearing a mask or social distancing.
Thank God, my niece is okay but it could have been a different story if she had serious issues with Covid. She could have died!
My niece recently texted me and says, “It’s no worse than the flu!”
I was shocked by her reaction. I texted her back and said, “Well, I am truly happy that you have a mild case.”
I desperately wanted to tell her about the number of people that are suffering horribly or that have died but I refrained because I didn’t want to upset her, cause fear for her or hear a stupid remark back about it not being so bad!
People are dying for crying out loud!
She is one who hasn’t looked at it as a medical issue.
She sees it as a political issue which is absurd!
Covid has nothing to do with a politics or religion!
Your church should be respectful of the congregation’s health needs.
I just want to scream, ‘WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE WHO DON’T TAKE COVID SERIOUSLY?’
I respect your feelings about wishing to attend religious services but honestly I wouldn’t go right now.
NPR recently had a doctor on saying that Covid spreads quickly through churches for various reasons, no masks worn, prayers recited, loud singing, and so on.
There is a church here in my state that the pastor was horribly defiant. He made national news!
Our governor issued regulations and this pastor completely ignored them.
The pastor went as far as sending buses to pick people up in the community to attend church, prayers with ‘laying on of hands’ without masks worn in services.
No social distancing! How foolish is that of this church? It’s ridiculous that the pastor of this particular non denominational church said that government was taking away the church’s right to pray! The governor had to arrest the pastor for ignoring stipulations in our area.
Churches that care about their congregation have online or televised services! People can participate from home!!! How is it Godly to spread a deadly disease?
So, I relate to your feelings about feeling betrayed by your church. The same goes for your hair salon!
Foolish, foolish people! Selfish people! Ignorant people! Defiant people!
I have numerous health issues, and always wear a mask outside my home.
I am so hurt by my church, whose pastor and others refuse to wear a mask. Covid has run rampant through the congregation.
Two weeks ago, at my hair salon, the owner refused to request that the mask mandate be followed. Even after my diabetic stylist requested that the owner do so.
Once again, I am forced to lose something/someone I care deeply for over someone else’s refusal to treat me as worthy of a simple gift. First, my church family. Now, my stylist.
I am sad and angry.
Colleen
I so loved Mary Ann. Well I loved them all, but I identified with Mary Ann the most. (And I wanted to marry the Professor).
I actually thought 'bat flu' might take off as the name for this but Covid it is. (My spellchecker still tries to correct Covod - I have typed it zillions of times how can it not know this word already??!!)
Some call it 'The Rona' here. What nicknames are around in other places?
It has been mask protocol here. I even went under a procedure and two eye surgeries while wearing a mask. Hair cuts and styles, too, all mask on protocol.
People in 1819-1820 were refusing to wear masks. There were super spreader events, mainly war bond parades. Unfortunately antibiotics had not been developed, thus people were dying within 24 hours of getting sick. Masks were made of gauze, and noses were not covered at first. So many parallels to what is happening today. That pandemic lasted until 1821 with 675,000 deaths. The program said 1/3rd of the world's population had died from the virus.
The 1918 virus started in Kansas with military troops, apparently it was animal related flu that passed to humans. The reason it was called the Spanish Flu was because the King of Spain had died from the virus once the U.S. troops had landed in Europe and the virus had spread.
President Woodrow Wilson at the time, and he wouldn't wear a mask. Sure enough he came down with the virus. He recovered but people who knew him said he just wasn't himself, his thinking wasn't clearly as pre-pandemic. He didn't make good choices after that.
If you get a chance look for this show, it's with Anderson Cooper. It's a 2-hour special which probably will be repeated again. Check weekend listings.
GA,
We have to wear masks in our stores. If a person tries to enter some stores will hand out disposable masks.
My niece got Covid because she never wore a mask. She’s in Georgia. Thankfully she is improving.
None of my friends have gotten it. My niece, who was significantly exposed on the front lines, hasn't gotten it, nor has anyone in her family.
I don't know about my neighbors; one is a floor nurse but has had some exposure. The other is a young couple, neither of whom mask. Nor do their visitors. Nor do the young children. I stay away from them!
I think the worst exposure I've had is in stores when others won't mask. Last time I shopped a young woman with her apparent mother became aggressive, pushing to get through the checkout line, then pulling out in an apparent attempt to get ahead of me in the distance behind the shopper ahead of me.
Fortunately, her daughter had some sense and stopped her. But the mother couldn't seem to comprehend that the distancing was for a good reason. Maybe she thought I was standing back just so I could admire the plants in the little garden section next to the checkout line.
Later I wished I had just told the mother to back off, but I don't want to get into squabbles with people who refuse to socially distance.
I was able to control it, slightly, by wearing shop glasses over the itty bitty glasses, but they're old and the plastic wasn't clear, so neither was my vision.
I think another issue is that FF and I both have glasses that have blue light protection (and I have anti-glare protection) and that makes the glasses harder to clean. I don't know if that makes them more susceptible to fogging, but keeping them clean drives me crazy; just wiping them with a little bit of "steam" doesn't work.
And given the cost, I'm not sure it's worth it. I found buried in the small print a sort of disclaimer that the blue light only provides about 20% protection, which to me is kind of insulting. OTOH, more protection might make them so susceptible to fog that they're rendered useless.
There have been requests for individually wrapped snacks, like granola bars. Our community was happy to respond to this need.
It is such a small gesture, but shows support and love.
I am staying isolated thus as safe as possible. Case numbers are decreasing here due to the lock down Schools are supposed to open again Jan 11. Any increase due to Christmas and New Years celebrations should be mostly over by then - hopefully. If it were up to me, which it isn't, I would keep schools closed for another week.
California hospitals now have from 10% to 28% of hospital ICU beds, smaller numbers in certain areas where there are few ICU beds overall. More concerning right now is the lack of personnel as we have laws in California (ONLY State in the Union with them) regarding how many patients a nurse can take care of at one time. The Feds are therefore sending in the "Forces" with nursing staff to three hospitals in Central Valley and one in San Bernardino Country.
January is going to be bad. With surge on surge we knew that was the case. Still and all we are no where near what the 1918 flu did. The interesting thing about it was it did its WORST at the END of it, last several weeks, when people just got "tired" of the masking. In San Francisco particularly you heard in 1918 the exact SAME stuff you hear now about "civil rights" and so on.
For my own part, I am OK personally with keeping MYSELF safe, and letting those who choose to ignore safety measures get the virus. I am not going to be taking up an ICU bed at my age. Consider it an "easier" death than many I am familiar with. And on we go. Each will do as they choose; seems the American Way. I hope you all stay safe. I ask that you mask up. Hand wash. Stay isolated as you are able. But I can't force it. And just know that Jan. won't be easy.
I sincerely hope that the vaccine will help us in this trying situation.
Stay safe everyone.
And now a second positive, same small town.