The overall public ignorance about everything to do with this coronavirus is just amazing to me

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  • MarcieB
    MarcieB Member Posts: 528
    edited July 2020
    Oh wow, Molly 72, I thought you and I lived close to each other? I guess not because the population of my county is 367,601 with 2,217 reported cases and 116 deaths to date. Interesting. Maybe I got the wrong stats? I'm sure there is a lot of room for error in reporting, but even if there were 290 deaths, I don't think that is a big percentage of three hundred, sixty seven thousand, six hundred and one persons. Hey, I don't have a dog in this fight, fiddler just made me curious about the numbers.
  • Molly72
    Molly72 Member Posts: 227
    edited July 2020
    I got the stats from the NY Times, but didn't have the population of our county.
    Will recheck, but note that the 23,200 & 2700 deaths is the county next to ours.
  • Molly72
    Molly72 Member Posts: 227
    MarcieB-- Obviously the heat has gotten to me! Plus several medical tests & procedures last week (including the dreaded COVID test) has no doubt addled my brain.

    Still too many cases & deaths! And we have excellent hospitals in our area.

    Here is a cut & paste: Cases & deaths in our county only

    Washtenaw 2,276 619
  • MarcieB
    MarcieB Member Posts: 528
    edited July 2020
    Molly, you are so right - too many deaths for sure. We are so fortunate to be close to a major University Hospital, but it's still not fun to go for tests or procedures...ugh. I hope you are done with tests and have had some positive results. (!)
    And I hear you about the heat! I am taking an estrogen inhibitor and I am wondering if that is making it more difficult to tolerate the heat? I began taking it last August so it hasn't been a year, but I feel the heat a LOT more this summer.
  • legaljen1969
    legaljen1969 Member Posts: 763
    edited July 2020
    @MarcieB, I hear you about the heat and estrogen inhibitors! The heat definitely sends me straight into "overheat." I got my prescription for Arimidex on March 14th and our county and state really started shutting down on March 16th, so I have had a perfect storm of hot flashes, COVID panic and spring/summer coastal heat. I live with a thermometer nearby in case I start feeling really hot. Starting the hot flashes at the same time the world started COVID has been an experience for sure. I hadn't thought about the medicine making the heat seem even less tolerable.
  • fiddler
    fiddler Member Posts: 77
    edited July 2020
    BTW, this question, and thread, has NOTHING TO DO WITH BREAST CANCER!
  • Molly72
    Molly72 Member Posts: 227
    edited July 2020
    No it doesn't Fiddler, but it DOES have to do with our medical safety and our concerns about those people who ignore the scientific community, and common sense.
    You know, those who bar-hop & play beach bunny bingo with no masks & certainly no "social distancing"-- Those type who bring the Virus home to mom or grandmom who just maybe is just getting over breast cancer.

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