covid-19

CASSIEME1

Marcieb thisis not about politics. this is about whats going on in our lives. it was never intended to be. I am dealing with these issues right now. I have a 3 month old grandbaby that was born at 26 weeks . I am trying to be extremely careful. my daughter was already freaking out at having her early. than all of this. she is still on the monitor and oxygen at home. with all my issues this is more stress I can't react because they need me, yet its taking a toll on my body. I just needed opinions from others that care. I don't give a rats tail about anybody political stances.

PaulineJ

So sad!
I have no words to express how sorry I am on you all going all going through this.

CASSIEME1

thanks paulinej, just trying to hold on I know a change is coming.we had areally bad scare 2 weeks ago. she failed her hearing screen test twice. we knew that prior to them bottle feeding her she could hear because she responded to our voices when we would enter the room and talk to her ,read to her and sang to her. ended up she had fluid in her ears.

fiddler

wow. I'm the only one who thinks we've been hoodwinked. https://www.quora.com/Is-COVID-19-really-as-bad-as-the-media-and-some-people-make-it-seem?share=1

Carool

fiddler, please come to my city, NYC, and tell me we’ve been hoodwinked about this virus.

MarcieB, yes, this IS the place to say exactly what we feel about Covid-19 and how its handling by Trump and Fox News and other Republicans caused many more deaths and severe illness than would’ve been the case had a compassionate and COMPETENT leader been in charge (again, thank you, Dr. Fauci) and had not decimated agencies created to forewarn us of pandemics. As others said, you don’t have to read anything you don’t like. You can also block people if you want to.

I see here no name-calling of any WhatNexter, only of Trump and Republicans (those in office).

We are all either dealing with cancers and treatments or their aftermaths. Now we’re also dealing with an ineptly-handled — to put it very mildly — sometimes deadly virus. I think this topic is very relevant to WhatNext.

Btw, I, too, am a painter (and Photoshop printmaker), and I, too, turn to doing those things and listening to music. I can’t afford to turn off reliable info on the destruction happening since 2016 (actually, for many years prior to 2016). My life and those of my loved ones depends on knowing what’s going on.

Bengal

Yikes! Everybody take a deep breath. When I posted my last post I was by no means suggesting censure, just civility. What Next is a "support" group. I see what is beginning to happen here as the same thing that is tearing our country apart. There are other web forums where we can rant about our political opinions. I personally have no use for the person now occupying the White House but I can say that without resorting to name calling and vitriol. PLEASE, my friends, let's remember the purpose of WhatNext; helping and supporting one another and leave politics out of it.

BoiseB

I just finished watching the Governor Inslee's press conference. He said that in no way are we ready to release the "stay at home order now. He had charts showing what would happen if we did unlock the lockdown. The lockdown is up for reevaluation May 4. Governor Inslee said showed that even then it would not be optimal. Also it would not be a complete unlocking of the lockdown. We don't have enough testing capability as yet
@Carool Talk about taking sides, I have had conversations about who is the smartest governor, Governor Inslee or Governor Cuomo, of course it's Governor Inslee

Dawsonsmom

fiddler, you may not have reached 2% in your area, but many have, and beyond. (Ask people in NYC, Chicago and Detroit). In NC we currently have 5000+ cases and 100 deaths....that’s 2%. So, yes, pandemic. I sincerely hope it does not get this bad where you are. If this wasn’t such an important issue, there would not be so many responses to this question.

Carool

BoiseB, I agree that Governor Inslee is smarter and better all around. Governor Cuomo was less proactive than Governor Inslee, and over the years, Cuomo has done some things I don’t like (I’ve always voted for him, however). So no argument there!

meyati

I'll list Governor Lujan Grisham as one of the smartest and empathetic. In March she worked her magic with the Air Force to get a military hospital and staff in the Western part of NM. Then somebody mentioned it on the news for NY, and the White House stopped for all states. We are finally getting the hospital placed in a large high school gym, and the military medical staff.

Why west NM on 1-40? this would help care for any traveler/trucker that gets sick far from their home and friends. More importantly, this would help people in several Pueblos and the Navajo Nation in NM and AZ.. They have few resources as it is, and should help keep some bureaucrat from reducing medical care/supplies they need.

We expect our peak-surge in June. The West Coast geniuses that made a model for each state-They said NM would surge now, and we'd be in the death grip. Our news caster went to those people, and I know they are tired, etc. but those professors got mad at the news casters because NM was peaking very fast. They-the university people contacted the governor about her ruining their model. She talked them down, by saying their model helped her and the NM Department of health work on plans to slow this down and treat people in small-distant rural towns.

meyati

NM wasn't peaking fast---Colorado AZ, West TX, Oklahoma all have a much higher infection rate than what we do-

meyati

Another thing NM is probably doing differently- when a hospital needs a bed, we wrap it up- put it in a truck and drive the bed or beds there, so the patient won't be further stressed out. by being moved-

PaulineJ

fiddler You could not be more right.I agree .You have the best comment.No offense to anyone.I always believed this comment and thought I was by myself.Thanks fiddler for being couraged enough to post this.

meyati

Pauline-fiddler--How many more thousands of people have to get sick and die, before you think this is real? Do you know that America's main pork producer-Smithfield-shut down, because over 400 workers are infected at the South Dakota plant? What foods have to be missing before you think that there is a problem? They are plowing crops into the ground, because their isn't anybody to pick crops like green beans and tomatoes. If the crops got picked, there aren't drivers to haul the crops to a distributer or a farmer's market.

None of what I said is political--it's fact----

PaulineJ

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Dawsonsmom

Pauline, are you aware that deaths from covid 19 in US are now at 4%? If I gave you 100 m&m’s and told you only 4 were laced with arsenic, would you eat any of them? Have you heard that a minister in VAwho believed God would protect people from the virus in Church, recently died from covid 19? I know, fake news, right?

legaljen1969

I am not even going to be subtle about this. It is a shame that we can't focus on the FACTS of the situation without name calling. This is just disgusting. We have gotten to a place in this world where hate is the new norm, where different points of view are to be eliminated.

I am so sad that our world is like this now. I was so hopeful when I found out that my cancer journey was going to relatively short-lived compared to many. I felt like all my prayers had been answered. I stayed home and recuperated and took care of myself. Only to re-emerge from my isolation about the same time this mess started. There is not one day since I got my doctor's note that it was okay for me to go back to work, drive and move about the world that I have not cried a river at how disgusting this world has become. Finger pointing and name calling at unprecedented levels.

We need to take personal responsibility for our actions. We KNOW we need to sanitize things, wash ourselves, stay away from sick people, protect ourselves in every bit the same way we would do if this WERE a really bad flu season. I KNOW it's not the same, but the protection protocols we can handle personally are very much similar.

If you need the government to tell you when to sneeze, whether to sneeze, when and how to wash your hands and wipe your butts- then you have bigger problems than coronavirus or who started it or who didn't stop it. Come on people. Cowboy up and take some personal responsibility. Well let me tell you, this is the world we have settled for now. The government has complete control. They will be telling us when to wash our hands, how to wash our hands, the exact angle of the water and how many droplets of water must come out, what soap we must use, whether we can use bar soap or liquid soap, the exact speed at which we must depress the dispenser of the liquid soap, and what position our hands must be in to receive it. Do you think this sounds stupid? Yes, it does. But this is where we are headed.

When and if we have an election in November, please consider how you vote and vote carefully for the dictator you can live with for the rest of your natural life. Consider carefully who you vote for to help that dictator make his decisions. If we even get to vote in November, it will probably be the last time we get to vote. Our world has already changed that dramatically. Changes in power will be made by the government, not by the people. Under this crisis, we have become a nation who is no longer governed "by the people, for the people." If we insist that the government take this much control over our lives, understand that we are begging for a very different world than the one we have now. I suspect that the world to come in a world in which dying from cancer will be preferable to the life we will be living, which is really no life at all.

Bengal

Yikes! This thread has gotten out of control. I suggest we end it NOW. This is not the purpose of WhatNext. Just stop .

Dawsonsmom

Totally agree, Bengal. I’m outta here.