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I have a small cough and mild flulike symptoms. The only thing that’s really hurting me is the exhaustion.
Now this is where I’ll get a lot of hate: I’m asking this question. Does quarantining really help? Or are we just reducing exposure and losing immunity ? Are we doomed to continue these spikes through lockdowns every 6 months ? Or should we go about our lives like normal. if the world was significantly getting wiped out...I wouldn’t ask that question.
Viral > resp infection > pneumonia > death. that pathway isn’t exclusive of covid19, many viruses / diseases / ailments / bacteria (whatever you want to pick) get you to that same point.
I don’t know what the answer is. Neither does anyone else. I’ve never tested positive. I’ve never tested for antibodies because I don’t care. It’s not going to change anything. Could I have had it ? Sure maybe. I’ve had a lot of same symptoms people report when I was in massachussetts. But tested negative after the mission. How did I take care of a flurry of covid+ (to the tune of 180+ For 8 hours a day 5 days a week with 2 rest days and never get it ? Not sure! )
I get a lot of hate for not caring about people that are high risk. It’s not that I don’t care it’s that I’ve got 15,000+ hours in intensive care experience and I’ve seen the healthiest of the healthy die and the sickest of the sick hang on and survive of MANY MANY diseases/complications. There’s no easy answer. It’s about trends and reducing your personal risk best you can. And we are all human. Humans die. Some young, some old. Some in the womb, some at 100 years old. We die.
I'm definitely feeling like garbage today. We did buy the oxygen test thing that goes on the finger. My wife is at 99-100%. I'm at 96% currently.
I woke up to take care of my newborn at one point in the middle of the night and I was lucky my wife got up too. I had to pass the baby off to her because I was about to pass out and I was drenched in sweat
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Meanwhile I'm about to go on another covid travel adventure. This time for 13 weeks. Woof!
I have gone out shopping several times. Including Black Friday. So maybe I got it then.... just can’t be sure.
My kids have had very mild symptoms and they have been different symptoms. Really nothing you would have said oh maybe they have Covid.
I’m doing my best to stay quarantined from the family but yeah that’s pretty much impossible.
Places people aren’t getting it:
Hospitals
Walmart
Air planes
Places people are getting it:
Churches
Family gatherings
Gyms
Pit Row
The fire department I work at was severely crippled with personnel sick. One guy got covid and had a stroke and now he can not swallow food. Another guy had covid then suffered a heart attach and now has dementia. Another guy has permanent heart damage and another had permanent lung damage and they are both younger than 40 they are quitting because of it. We have 10 stations thank god no paramedics or firefighters died but I know some nurses and doctors did die in our area.
She has been working the Covid floor non critical, 100 or so patients the majority are elderly or with comorbidities. She feels staffing is playing a roll the patients outcome, some are laying in bed for days which is affecting the recovery process or lack of recovery. Before Covid hospital staffing was at questionable levels now it has went nuclear.
This is a modern day gold rush for these health care systems with this covid and all the government reimbursement. If this was something they wanted to get a handle on they would be calling in the natl guard putting up community tent hospitals like in March to handle the over load. They have since figured out the system now instead they are jamming them into every available space." never waist a good crisis" HRC
I'm a believer this is real, elderly and people with comorbidities and those random unlucky soles are going to struggle with recovery and may die the truth is we all are going to at some point cant pick the path.
Daughter is mid 20's - cough, sore throat, fever, slight aches and pains, no taste/smell
Wife and I are mid-upper 40's - cough, sore throat, fever(100-102), aches and pains, no taste/smell
We made a game of trying to smell stinking stuff. I absolutely despise the smell of vinegar. I had to put my nose in the bottle to even get a hint of the smell.
Management if the system burned nurses out before and now during a pandemic with people quitting and fed up with it, management just say well pandemic. Sorry. 6 to 1 nurse ratio in the icu. (What do you think happens then? The nurses quit, turnover remains high.)
This is a multifaceted problem. But for years If the icu wasnt 85% full they weren’t making money. These units are still staffing to grids pre pandemic. Not the smartest thing to do if you’re truly worried about being overrun.
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