If it wasn’t real for you yet

The Cen-Tex Smoker

Botch said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

It’s definitely gotten real for us. It appears janell’s sister has it- she is a hospice nurse working with the most compromised among us. She’s had one mask to use for the last
month that she had to Lysol between patients. 

I sure hope Lysol "gasses off" 100%, otherwise she's breathing in those fumes and that can't be good, either!  

It has been less than ideal but she’s been trying to provide the best care she could
under the circumstances. Her patients are all over town from home hospice to nursing homes she she did have some time to let it air out in most cases. 

The Cen-Tex Smoker

Foghorn said:

Legume said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

It’s definitely gotten real for us. It appears janell’s sister has it- she is a hospice nurse working with the most compromised among us. She’s had one mask to use for the last
month that she had to Lysol between patients. 

Symptoms are mild so far but she has them all 

Holy crap!  So sorry, that’s awful - I know there are going to be so many more of these stories, but it’s scary when it starts to burst that personal bubble.

Very sorry to hear about TFJ's sister.  Hopefully she stays in the "mild" category.  As long as she can breath and eat, she should stay home.  At the hospital there's oxygen, IV fluids, and (hopefully) ventilators - and a lot of other sick people that you don't want your friends and family to visit - so it's even more lonely than being quarantined in many ways. 

I am hopeful that here on the I-35 corridor in Austin and San Antonio we are flattening the curve, but we won't really know for another week or two.  Our university/hospital just developed its own test so we have increased testing capacity here in SAT.  I expect our number of known/proven cases to go up significantly over the next few days as a result.  I have not heard a lot out of Austin.

So far so good. Mild symptoms, cough, low grade fever and some body aches. She’s safe for now and we are all hoping she stays stable. 

That’s awesome news that you developed your own test. Kind of a shame that you had to but awesome ingenuity from your team! 

YukonRon

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

It’s definitely gotten real for us. It appears janell’s sister has it- she is a hospice nurse working with the most compromised among us. She’s had one mask to use for the last
month that she had to Lysol between patients. 

Symptoms are mild so far but she has them all 

I am so sorry to learn of this. We have family in Italy, and have had that scare a couple of times ourselves. 

We are hopeful the symptoms will remain mild and a full recovery follows the briefest of down time.

Stay strong.

Foghorn

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

Foghorn said:

Legume said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

It’s definitely gotten real for us. It appears janell’s sister has it- she is a hospice nurse working with the most compromised among us. She’s had one mask to use for the last
month that she had to Lysol between patients. 

Symptoms are mild so far but she has them all 

Holy crap!  So sorry, that’s awful - I know there are going to be so many more of these stories, but it’s scary when it starts to burst that personal bubble.

Very sorry to hear about TFJ's sister.  Hopefully she stays in the "mild" category.  As long as she can breath and eat, she should stay home.  At the hospital there's oxygen, IV fluids, and (hopefully) ventilators - and a lot of other sick people that you don't want your friends and family to visit - so it's even more lonely than being quarantined in many ways. 

I am hopeful that here on the I-35 corridor in Austin and San Antonio we are flattening the curve, but we won't really know for another week or two.  Our university/hospital just developed its own test so we have increased testing capacity here in SAT.  I expect our number of known/proven cases to go up significantly over the next few days as a result.  I have not heard a lot out of Austin.

So far so good. Mild symptoms, cough, low grade fever and some body aches. She’s safe for now and we are all hoping she stays stable. 

That’s awesome news that you developed your own test. Kind of a shame that you had to but awesome ingenuity from your team! 

Yeah, our Pathology folks are top notch.  Several other schools (Johns Hopkins, UC-Davis, and a few others to my knowledge) have done the same.

caliking

DoubleEgger said:

johnnyp said:

DoubleEgger said:

caliking said:

DoubleEgger said:

I’ve always been wary of the medical profession. This just fuels my fire. 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/states-doctors-stockpiling-trial-coronavirus-190038095.html

somewhat surprising, given the lack of evidence that hydroxychloroquine is effective as treatment.

But I'd hold off on getting one's knickers in a bundle. How different is it from doctors writing antibiotics prescriptions for family or self? Folks can often see their doctor, or walk into almost any urgent care type of place,  and leave with a prescription for antibiotics . For the right or wrong reasons. And by the way, MD's aren't the only ones writing prescriptions - NPs and PA do to. 

I'd probably get some for myself if I knew it was effective. I can't really work from home, and risk exposure daily. Caliqueen stopped just short of saying she wants to burn my clothes when I get home every day. 

Just hoping that whatever measures are being taken will make a difference. 

I can guarantee you that I can’t go to the doctor’s office and get them to prescribe antibiotics to me just in case I might get sick. I get chronic sinus infections and they’ve laughed at me when I suggested having a “precautionary” prescription to save the cost of a doctor’s visit. 

Prescribing medicine to people who don’t need it has jailed a lot of doctors. Think opioid  epidemic. 

Unfortunately he’s right. Maybe your primary care physician won’t, but there is a ton of Med express places that will do what ever you want. 

Last year, I had a sinus infection. Went to an urgent care so I wouldn’t have to wait a few days to see my dr. They saw me and, in addition to a course of antibiotics, prescribed by an additional round of antibiotics “just in case”, codeine “so I could could sleep with a cough” and a steroid “in case i got bronchitis”. 

I needed one prescription and dude wrote 4, including an opiate, all unprompted. They’re cowboys, man. 

Apparently I’ve been doing it all wrong going to reputable doctors. I try to stay away from the “doc in the box” places. 

That was one of the points I was trying to make. That your doctor may have been doing you a service by not writing prescriptions for antibiotics willy nilly.

But if you think you really need them, there are ways for you to get them.

Again, for right reasons or wrong. 

Botch

Would be a good thing if they all did this:
 

 

HeavyG

Funniest headline I've read so far this week...

frazzdaddy

cuz it worked so well for the whole Tiananmen Square thing

nolaegghead

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-neworleans/new-orleans-is-next-coronavirus-epicenter-catalyst-for-spread-in-south-experts-say-idUSKBN21C342

nolaegghead

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Canugghead

Botch said:

One thing that keeps nagging at me, based on Gov. Cuomo's  yesterday (he got 4,000 ventilators, and needed 30,000; "YOU come and choose who gets one!")
What happens when a medical staff has to choose who gets a ventilator, and a patient's spouse, or son, is screaming in the lobby and brandishing his AR-15?    And before you poo-poo this scenario, consider:
a) our actions, as a nation, regarding something as simple as TP, and
b) it's already sorta happened; a person in a Salt Lake City hospital, less than a week ago, threatened to blow the place up if they didn't give him a CV test.
This could get very, very ugly....  :

Scary indeed.  An excerpt from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52012049  ...
... As for the American exceptionalism on display, much of it has been of the negative kind that makes it hard not to put head in hands. The lines outside gun stores. The spike in online sales of firearms - Ammo.com has seen a 70% increase in sales. The panic buying of AR-15s...

Edit: Thanks for the flag(s) 

HendersonTRKing

HeavyG said:

Funniest headline I've read so far this week...

Want to rewrite it?  Use no more words, but make it far more likely to be true:

US Voters Say They Will Hold Their Leaders Responsible For Coronavirus Failings

nolaegghead

Argh.  I had to delete that post because the hospital has a policy where employees can not post anything about the hospital, status, policy, etc or that employee may be fired.

HeavyG

Well...sounds like some pretty crappy sausage the Senate made last night. Fvck Schumer.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-democrats-donald-trump-coronavirus-bill_n_5e7b77a6c5b62a1870d62d83

GrateEggspectations

nolaegghead said:

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nolaegghead said:

Argh.  I had to delete that post because the hospital has a policy where employees can not post anything about the hospital, status, policy, etc or that employee may be fired.

And here I thought it was yet another piece of prose regarding Little Rascal. 

nolaegghead

HeavyG said:

Well...sounds like some pretty crappy sausage the Senate made last night. Fvck Schumer.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-democrats-donald-trump-coronavirus-bill_n_5e7b77a6c5b62a1870d62d83

What could possibly go wrong?

JohnInCarolina

HeavyG said:

Well...sounds like some pretty crappy sausage the Senate made last night. Fvck Schumer.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-democrats-donald-trump-coronavirus-bill_n_5e7b77a6c5b62a1870d62d83

I didn't realize the Senate Democrats were the ones who wrote this bill.  

nolaegghead

GrateEggspectations said:

nolaegghead said:

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nolaegghead said:

Argh.  I had to delete that post because the hospital has a policy where employees can not post anything about the hospital, status, policy, etc or that employee may be fired.

And here I thought it was yet another piece of prose regarding Little Rascal. 

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HeavyG

JohnInCarolina said:

HeavyG said:

Well...sounds like some pretty crappy sausage the Senate made last night. Fvck Schumer.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-democrats-donald-trump-coronavirus-bill_n_5e7b77a6c5b62a1870d62d83

I didn't realize the Senate Democrats were the ones who wrote this bill.  

Three days ago Schumer was instrumental in blocking the McConnell bill. Good for him.

The changes then made to the bill that he is touting today as a good deal are bs in the scheme of the trillions preparing to be spent. Schumer rolled over too easily (quelle surorise!). Schumer is a lightweight in comparison to Moscow Mitch (who I loathe but also has my grudging respect).

JohnInCarolina

HeavyG said:

JohnInCarolina said:

HeavyG said:

Well...sounds like some pretty crappy sausage the Senate made last night. Fvck Schumer.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-democrats-donald-trump-coronavirus-bill_n_5e7b77a6c5b62a1870d62d83

I didn't realize the Senate Democrats were the ones who wrote this bill.  

Three days ago Schumer was instrumental in blocking the McConnell bill. Good for him.

The changes then made to the bill that he is touting today as a good deal are bs in the scheme of the trillions preparing to be spent. Schumer rolled over too easily (quelle surorise!). Schumer is a lightweight in comparison to Moscow Mitch (who I loathe but also has my grudging respect).

I’m no fan of Schumer by any stretch but directing the fire first and foremost at him on this one seems bizarre to me.

YukonRon

Moscow Mitch is the Keith Richards of the Senate.

lousubcap

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

It’s definitely gotten real for us. It appears janell’s sister has it- she is a hospice nurse working with the most compromised among us. She’s had one mask to use for the last
month that she had to Lysol between patients. 

Symptoms are mild so far but she has them all 

I am so sorry to hear that.  People in that line of work are truly unique and special.  Talk about dealing with the ultimate finish-line and all while comforting the family.  True saints in society.  She will beat this friggin pandemic.  Stay strong for all.  

HeavyG

JohnInCarolina said:

HeavyG said:

JohnInCarolina said:

HeavyG said:

Well...sounds like some pretty crappy sausage the Senate made last night. Fvck Schumer.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-democrats-donald-trump-coronavirus-bill_n_5e7b77a6c5b62a1870d62d83

I didn't realize the Senate Democrats were the ones who wrote this bill.  

Three days ago Schumer was instrumental in blocking the McConnell bill. Good for him.

The changes then made to the bill that he is touting today as a good deal are bs in the scheme of the trillions preparing to be spent. Schumer rolled over too easily (quelle surorise!). Schumer is a lightweight in comparison to Moscow Mitch (who I loathe but also has my grudging respect).

I’m no fan of Schumer by any stretch but directing the fire first and foremost at him on this one seems bizarre to me.

I only singled out Schumer cuz I'm too lazy to type out all the ahole GOP Senators (aka the usual suspects).

As Senate minority leader the Dems need someone stronger.

The funny thing is that while Chuck is having a victory lap  the  Senate bill is being held up by a few GOP Senators cuz they think the bill as it stands now is still too generous to poor people.So maybe I was a bit unfair to Chuck, maybe he did have a bit of spine yesterday.

Acn

DoubleEgger

Botch

Gov. Edwards of LA is being interviewed on PBS right now, and he just claimed he "didn't know" why Nawlins is suddenly looking like a major epicenter in the US.  
W. T. F.  
Granted, the first confirmed case in LA was after Mardi Gras (iirc) but the cops had to clear the streets four days before St Paddie's.  
Maybe we all deserve this.  

JohnInCarolina

Did the President really say that social distancing means we can no longer "hug and kiss in the office" ?   Uhmm... what?

GATraveller

JohnInCarolina said:

Did the President really say that social distancing means we can no longer "hug and kiss in the office" ?   Uhmm... what?

Does this include dry humping? 

GrateEggspectations

JohnInCarolina said:

Did the President really say that social distancing means we can no longer "hug and kiss in the office" ?   Uhmm... what?

Wonder how social distancing impacts one’s ability to  “grab ‘em by the p***y?”

nolaegghead

JohnInCarolina said:

Did the President really say that social distancing means we can no longer "hug and kiss in the office" ?   Uhmm... what?

And use one of these when you "grab them by the kitty"