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04/14/2020 01:58:15 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by Lydia:
Originally posted by JulietNN:
Option 4:
Single mother, stuck at home with 3 teenagers, 4th teenager that has left home and you have to buy them grocery's and gas and pay their rent, as they think you are the stooge and you end up being the sucker that does this, even when you know they have money in their accounts and using up the money in mothers retirement fund to support them as father is a dead beat. , teenagers who refuse to do online school work, or assignments, who think this is a vacation, who do not get up till 3-5 pm every day, go to sleep at 3-5 am every day. Think that 1 chore a day of emptying dishwasher or trash is a huge inconvenience to them, Back talks, throw insults, and believes the world resolves around them, even though you are older, with underlying health conditions, and have to go to the store to keep them alive.
I really wish right now, that I had any of your jobs. |
Oh my word, Juliet!
Who raised these people? |
A wolf obviously in a barn lol =P, actually, it is just hormones and teenage angst with them right now and they are all stuck in it together. I think I just needed to vent quickly and get it out of my system last night. |
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04/19/2020 12:17:52 AM · #27 |
| Thanks for getting the poll in place Robert. Interesting to see the status of fellow DPCr's. |
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04/19/2020 01:21:53 AM · #28 |
Interesting results. I always thought that 80% of DPCers are retired but in this poll it is just about 20% (although I fitted into 2 categories and selected the other). It is good to see that only 17% of active DPCers are unable to work, sorry about that to those in this situation.
PS I am horrified to see protests against confinement, I fear that many more lives might be lost in result :(
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04/19/2020 01:40:37 AM · #29 |
Originally posted by marnet:
PS I am horrified to see protests against confinement, I fear that many more lives might be lost in result :( |
If their idiocy only affected them, I'd be cool with it. Unfortunately it's indiscriminate about who it infects. |
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04/19/2020 07:07:51 AM · #30 |
Originally posted by marnet:
PS I am horrified to see protests against confinement, I fear that many more lives might be lost in result :( |
Unfortunately, here in the US, those are the loud-mouth, low IQ, conspiracy-theorist, nutbag base people of POTUS who are also the kind of people who feel that they need two sidearms and an AR-15 to go to the Wal-Mart.
So they're the most vocal, clueless, and dangerous to the rest of us.
ETA: A photojouirnalist for the Columbus, Ohio Dispatch shot this image of protesters pressed against the windows of the atrium of the Statehouse chanting.
It has gone viral because of its eerie resemblance to a still from a zombie movie.
This is not reasonable, sensible behavior and activity in the face of a pandemic for which there is no vaccine, no cure, and the entire medical profession scrambling with all they've got trying to fight it and contain it.
It scares the Hell out of me as someone who's likely to die if he gets it, and infuriates me as someone who has to be that much more careful that one of these stupid inconsiderate bastards may be the one whose accidental exposure kills me.
Message edited by author 2020-04-19 07:27:02.
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04/19/2020 08:54:31 AM · #31 |
I understand people wondering if we're going too far. It's not like the 1918 flu pandemic with extremely high mortality rates. And people's livelihoods are at risk.
HOWEVER!
I'm currently sitting in my chair not moving or talking. I was out of breath just getting to my desk computer to submit an overdue original. I'm short of breath whenever I move and have bad coughing jags. I'm on two inhalers and cough syrup with codeine.
I don't have the fever, or the aches and pains, and am ok if I'm not talking or moving.
I don't know if I have it or not. They're only testing the most vulnerable. But our county was the second major outbreak in the state, and our area is second highest in the state in number of cases.
But the numbers aren't real. They're way lower that the real numbers, because the testing isn't available. We have a good friend who's a doctor and he's extremely frustrated with timing and availability of tests.
I know three people (not people I've been in contact with) that have the full set of everything. High fever for 10 days, difficulty breathing, horrible aches and pains. One has recovered, the other two are still suffering. And these are ones that are young or fit.
People may think that it's normal to have diseases go through and the people most likely to succumb are the ones who are sick already. But this is a truly horrid death.
New York is approaching a quarter of a million cases.
However, our area which is the second highest in the state is NOT a densely populated area. There is no big city. Yet we've been hit hard and the numbers don't even begin to show the real truth.
I'm putting down the laptop now, and going back to sitting and doing nothing so I can breathe without coughing. I'm even hoping to make a flower later today, but we'll see if that happens.
It may not seem real to you until it hits someone you know. Hearing the stories from my daughter (it's her boyfriend's brother and mom who have it bad) is terrible. The brother was by himself in another state when he got it and was incredibly sick. 10 day fever, real difficulty breathing. He finally went home 17 days after his last symptom was gone. 5 days later his mom got it. So either it's even more contagious than though, or she got sick from an asymptomatic person. Either way, it's a bad situation.
Take care everyone.
Message edited by author 2020-04-19 09:31:39. |
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04/19/2020 09:11:44 AM · #32 |
| I am really sorry to hear this, Wendy. Don't know what to say other than have a lot of rest. It is very frustrating when you can't even find out if you have it so that you can at least isolate. |
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04/19/2020 09:12:40 AM · #33 |
Originally posted by vawendy:
It's not like the 1918 flu pandemic with extremely high mortality rates. And people's livelihoods are at risk. |
Spanish Flu affected approximately 500 million people killing around 50 million. (10%)
Coronavirus as of today is 2.34 million with 161K deaths. (6.8%)
It's getting there. Just wait until those unprepared areas of the US get hit. |
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04/19/2020 09:21:31 AM · #34 |
Originally posted by Venser:
Originally posted by vawendy:
It's not like the 1918 flu pandemic with extremely high mortality rates. And people's livelihoods are at risk. |
Spanish Flu affected approximately 500 million people killing around 50 million. (10%)
Coronavirus as of today is 2.34 million with 161K deaths. (6.8%)
It's getting there. Just wait until those unprepared areas of the US get hit. |
I know. That's why things need to be done. When Trump said "liberate Virginia" it was horrible!! The numbers in my area have flattened out because they stopped testing! And the numbers in my daughter's area are still growing and doubling every week. |
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04/19/2020 10:17:42 AM · #35 |
Originally posted by Venser:
Originally posted by vawendy:
It's not like the 1918 flu pandemic with extremely high mortality rates. And people's livelihoods are at risk. |
Spanish Flu affected approximately 500 million people killing around 50 million. (10%)
Coronavirus as of today is 2.34 million with 161K deaths. (6.8%)
It's getting there. Just wait until those unprepared areas of the US get hit. |
Forget those numbers, they are not even close to correct. Those 2.34 million are only the ones that are positive for corona after being tested. And in most countries testing capacity is low. Probably the number of infected people is up to 50 times higher. As for the number of people that died, these are only the confirmed corona deaths, most of them died in hospital where testing was done. Figures in the Netherlands show that the number of people that die from corona related diseases are approximately twice the official number. Most of them die in care homes where no testing is done. In Belgium they count everyone who die and where corona might have caused death and also those numbers show that the majority dies in care homes. Shocking numbers altogether.
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04/19/2020 03:52:49 PM · #36 |
| Wendi, have you contacted a doctor? Maybe you CAN get a test. Listen to Chris Cuomo and how his and his wife's symptoms are completely different. You may want to know. |
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04/19/2020 04:09:18 PM · #37 |
Originally posted by PennyStreet:
Wendi, have you contacted a doctor? Maybe you CAN get a test. Listen to Chris Cuomo and how his and his wife's symptoms are completely different. You may want to know. |
Been in contact a number of times. I don't have a fever and I'm not over 60, so no test. My husband knows a grad student that has the fevers, pains, cough, and they won't test him. The tests are really scarce here. Probably because we're a small area. |
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04/19/2020 04:39:56 PM · #38 |
Originally posted by vawendy:
Been in contact a number of times. I don't have a fever and I'm not over 60, so no test. My husband knows a grad student that has the fevers, pains, cough, and they won't test him. The tests are really scarce here. Probably because we're a small area. |
Trump lied, say it ain't so.
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