No visitors allowed at the University of Utah hospital after today. Some exceptions but I don’t expect to see my friend who’s been there since November until he leaves there.
Many of the nurses and other staff I met there are really great people who display incredible empathy. One of the HCAs was Miss Utah in some recent pageant. Normally I’d avoid someone like that just on general principle because I’d expect them to be narcissistic insincere frauds but I saw her care for my friend with genuine compassion.
I worry about what will happen to these people over the next weeks and months.
Sort of. I’ve done all I can do for myself and my family, I’m 2.5 weeks into keeping my ass at home for my own safety and to do my part to slow the spread, and I spent weeks pouring over every last detail I could consume on COVID-19. For the last few days I’ve spent more time tracking the stimulus bill and the stock markets and locking in on online poker.
If we tip into a big recession, which seems likely, this could be the last couple weeks of good quality games I get as a poker pro for 1-1.5 years. Just as importantly, it’s just about the only thing I can do to free my mind from coronavirus despair.
I check up each night and skim this thread a couple times a day, that keeps me informed enough for now.
Not sure if this is an appropriate forum for this, but talked with boss from a lucrative second job today. Says we’ve been hit so hard they’re struggling to pay the 3k/month for the upkeep of the fish tanks in the office. So yeah I can go ahead and file unemployment but I should be thankful for the bailout, we wouldn’t survive without it.
There are several of us from NY I think, and from my little corner of the city, things seem quieter than usual. But in the one time I’ve been out in the last 2 weeks, life was pretty normal and if I didn’t know what was going on, I don’t think I would have noticed a difference in the density of cars or the behavior of the people moving around.
My gf works in one of the hospitals you want to go to if you happen to get sick, (but by some miracle happens to be on a scheduled leave so she’s not going in) and says all of the horror stories that we are hearing from the inside are largely true. But when they come from competent and capable professionals are even more terrifying.
I’ve been asking her to consider quitting when her leave is over.
I live in NY, but not the city. The grocery stores are now decimated of basically every staple item and OTC medication. You can’t even get homeopathic medicines anymore which is both funny and sad. The roads are nearly empty of traffic. Nobody is going outside.
Edit: And I’m still going into the office two days a week, so definitely going to get it.
Supposing he had attacked the hospital, would they have left the scene as is or liberated the vents of victims immediately for patients waiting in the hallway who have only superficial bullet wounds?
