Sure, the days are running together but today is actually Monday. I hope if you can you are a) still working and b) able to do so from a safe place. Big thanks to those of you who have to be out and about keeping people fed and healthy. Everyone else, do your part and stay home.
I am working from home, and Mr. McGee is as well so it’s a bit…much.
Hang in there ya’ll. Got any good coping strategies? Drop them below. Endless screaming doesn’t count, we’re already doing that.
Limbo anyone?
“Senate falls far short of votes needed to advance coronavirus bill as clash between Republicans and Democrats intensifies”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/03/22/vast-coronavirus-stimulus-bill-limbo-crunch-times-arrives-capitol-hill/
Don’t forget, WaPo will send you all your coronavirus news for free:
https://subscribe.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/#/bundle/health?method=SURL&location=ART&initiative=FREE
I would like to get off this ride.
“Stock futures drop more than 4%, briefly hit ‘limit down’ as investors await a stimulus agreement”
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/22/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html
My mom always said if you can’t say something nice, better to say nothing at all.
“Rand Paul becomes first senator known to test positive for coronavirus”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rand-paul-becomes-first-known-senator-test-positive-coronavirus-n1166111
Listen to the Italian mayors!!!
“You are not Will Smith in I Am Legend. Go home.”
The dog is my coping strategy.
Taking odds the Democrats roll over and let the Republicans send out 500 billion dollars to Trump Inc and associated friends.
If I weren’t allergic to every fur face out there I would definitely be thinking about taking in a pet rn.
I think the Dems will put up a fuss but eventually roll over. As usual. Before all their own investments go to pot.
You think Mitch likes the Stones?
From my sister, a pediatric nurse in Charlotte:
“Logically went to work to help and ended up admitting my units first COVID workup on a 2 yr old. No results yet. Great good fine ok we knew this coming. Same symptoms presented three days prior they refused swabbing for anything even flu and sent him home absolutely ridiculous. Discovered this has happened at least 4-5 times with kids between my floor and another. They are straight up delaying testing. It’s nuts”
“It’s truly all fine and I am happy this is my profession and I get to help but the delay in testing and my manager and docs trying to tell us they think it’s negative when they don’t know shit about what’s going to happen is what worries me “
The CDC guidelines are so stupid.
My sister is an ER nurse in NYC – she says to do everything you can to not get it right now while the hospitals are overwhelmed and still figuring out protocols. Also, if you come in just because you have symptoms – you can spread it to people who are in there for other issues – like heart attacks, falls, etc. The best thing to do is work on boosting your immune system. Her hospital is running out of money because they’ve cancelled all elective surgeries and that’s where they make the money to operate.
She also said it’s really weird walking home at night and there is only like one other person on the street with you.
And, there’s a doctor answering people’s questions on my local Nextdoor site – he’s been calling it SARS 2.
Best of luck to her!
Yeah my sister’s unit sent most of the kids home last week. She is very concerned about some of them not getting treatment they need. My grandmother is scheduled for a lumpectomy at MD Anderson (cancer specific hospital in Houston) in a couple weeks. I hope she can still get it.
Yeah, my sister’s main concern is for people dealing with cancer. Sending good luck thoughts to your grandmother.
We are lucky she is not doing radiation or chemo or anything, at least. Just hoping she can get this quick procedure and get the fuck home.
Good luck, and a Thsnk You, to your sister!
Regarding this, “there’s a doctor answering people’s questions on my local Nextdoor site – he’s been calling it SARS 2.” It DOES kinda make sense, since SARS was *also* a corona virus…
The official name for SARS was “SARS-CoV” which stood for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-CoronaVirus
https://www.who.int/ith/diseases/sars/en/
https://www.cdc.gov/sars/index.html
With COVID-19, the WHO called it COVID-19, because it was the Corona Viris Identified in 2019.
But the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) classified it as SARS-CoV-2; “’severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)’… on 11 February 2020. This name was chosen because the virus is genetically related to the coronavirus responsible for the SARS outbreak of 2003. While related, the two viruses are different.”
(Above quote from here:
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance/naming-the-coronavirus-disease-(covid-2019)-and-the-virus-that-causes-it )
I only knew about these, because I’m an NPR/MPR junkie, and on… ATC, during one of my commutes, they had an epidemiologist, or maybe it was a virologist? talking about the fact that *both* SARS & COVID were types of corona viruses. That expert told the program’s host that when the Chinese epidemiologists started looking into COVID, they realized that there were plenty of folks in the region of a particular bunch of caves used for parties in the summertime (because they’re nice & cool), who’d HAD different Corona viruses, without EVER knowing they’d been infected.
I found the story!;
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/20/807742861/new-research-bats-harbor-hundreds-of-coronaviruses-and-spillovers-arent-rare
Went for a run and a hike on Saturday, went for a mountain bike ride on Sunday. All in sunshine and temps in the 50s-60s. Pretty awesome for a quarantine.
My wife works at a hospital, so we are being particularly stringent with the social distancing. So getting out on my own this weekend for exercise was a much-needed sanity-saver.
I’ve been doing zoom yoga which has been kind of fun. I want to support the studio so it’s still in business later.