Also the test for Corona is horrible. They essentially stick a swab into the bottom of your eye through your nose. It feels like it’s touching the bottom of your eye and the people don’t know what they’re doing so they just keep trying to shove it in farther. I think that’s why so many people are getting false negatives because of how ridiculous the test is.
I seriously have my doubts Trump would go through something like this and not feel the need to blabber about it incessantly.
I’m mid 30’s, but I had cancer in my late 20’s so my immunity system is pretty F’d from the chemo and the damage the cancer did to me. Health wise I’m fine though. Yoga/cardio everyday, weights 3x/week. Eat “clean”, no sugar and rarely fried foods.
I wasn’t considered in serious enough condition at first to be on a ventilator (even when I told them about the cancer) or to even get a hospital bed by the people who saw me, but then when it got really bad I had no power to go outside and get to the hospital. I’m single w/no family and didn’t want to bother any friends to be like hey can you drive me to the hospital I’m dying and will probably infect you. I was thinking about taking an uber because the uber drivers here are horrible and never know where they’re going or try to scam you somehow, but I didn’t think that would be fair to the person who got stuck with me.
One funny thing was around the peak of the pain / struggling to breath I was lying in bed thinking well I had a good life, no regrats. Then my phone starts vibrating a bunch and I’m like guess I’ll check that maybe some interaction will get my mind off dying. Grab my phone and it’s a text message from MountainView hospital - your insurance didn’t cover $72, click here to pay your bill by April 20th. Then every couple minutes a new text came in, your insurance didn’t cover X, click here to pay your bill.
I feel like the absurdity of the situation brought some levity and gave me the power to live.
I’m fortunate enough to be financial fine and this won’t ruin my life. Couldn’t imagine if I was paycheck to paycheck since I’ve been basically useless for 3 weeks and probably will take a couple weeks to fully recover.
(California’s higher CFR makes sense because they had a large number of cases several days sooner than PA, TX, or FL.)
Washington clearly bucks this trend, although it’s kind of an outlier in general since it was the first place with a major outbreak.
Not sure exactly what this means, but it certainly seems to indicate that we should be looking at positive% very closely as an indicator of the extent of the outbreak.
So while my brother is recovering from the virus, turns out my sister is probably sick. She’s a nurse in NJ at a cardiologist office. Doesn’t even deal with patients. They take their temperature and if they have a fever, they go to the hospital. Half of my sister’s office has tested positive in the past 2 weeks. She’s been home since Sunday. Got tested Monday. Should find out by Friday. (I suspect tomorrow because she didn’t tell anyone til tonight.)
This fucking virus man. I will never forgive Trump supporters for this.
I’d like to see this with share of people leaving their homes and going out, period. A lot of the people not going out “as usual” are still stuck going out daily for work, etc…
One thing about Florida is a lot of the people there who likely caught it, such as the spring breakers, would have left and tested positive elsewhere and “imported” their case to their own state. That may be part of the reason we haven’t seen the huge spike there that we were expecting.
Really sorry to hear your family is getting hit so hard by this, I hope they all pull through and get mild versions of it, or in your sisters case a negative test. Hang in there.
I was going to just say congrats on the free money, but is it for the WHO announcing it as publicly available or as passing testing? Either way you’re either printing free money or getting waaaaay the best of it.