Coronavirus

statewide shutdowns are happening.



Is it the end of the world? No. But take care of yourselves. Take it seriously. Keep your distance from people. Don't think that you're too young or somehow exempt. But stay calm. Don't take unnecessary risks to yourself or others.

Be safe.

Be safe brothers and sisters - stick to the regulations and try to still have fun!

Thought I'd share this with you. Was a bit surprised to find that an early sign might be Digestive issues.

Do the five:

1) keep distance between yourself and others (6ft recommended)
2) refrain from touching your face
3) wash your hands, often
4) cough/sneeze into your elbow
5) stay home as much as possible

OB1Shinobi wrote: Do the five:

1) keep distance between yourself and others (6ft recommended)
2) refrain from touching your face
3) wash your hands, often
4) cough/sneeze into your elbow
5) stay home as much as possible

We’re far beyond that at this time. Official measures here are:

Don't spend time inside with people you don’t live with. Work from home. The virus stays in the air for up to 3 hours and for up to 3 days on surfaces. Shop online if possible - generally avoid going to shops. Always carry hand disinfectant and use it often, especially before and after touching surfaces outside your home. Don’t go outside other than for sports and walking your dog, and only go alone. Avoid other people as much as possible.

The maximum number of people standing together in public here is 5 and the minimum distance is 2m. In Germany, this number was just reduced to two. There’ll be full isolation within a few days here.

Don’t do anything dangerous - the last thing hospitals need at the moment is people who injure themselves doing sports, in household accidents etc.

And above all: halt any and all contact with the elderly. Don’t go visit your parents and family. Keep your children inside unless you can make sure they won’t be in contact with other children. DO NOT have people over 50 take care of your children.

Contrary to popular belief, the virus infects and kills younger people too, primarily if they have pre-existing conditions. Conditions that can lead to very serious cases of Covid19:

Diabetes
Asthma
Recent colds or the flu
Smoking
Heart disease
Chronic respiratory disease
Auto immune disease
Allergies (hay fever etc)
Any kind of cancer

There’s an incredible number of younger people dying in Europe at the moment. This is scary shit.

Prepare yourself for it to get much, much worse before it gets better. You have no idea how shitty this will get (unless you live in Europe where shit has already hit the fan).

Help wherever you can - without getting into contact with people. E.g. online shop groceries for those who don’t know how. Deliver it to the doorstep. Donate facial masks if you still have some lying around since the swine flu scare etc

Don’t do anything stupid

Being that many of my friends are at home and on social media more than regular, a recent article came out from my Alma Mater's student pub that decried the US executive branch's usage of "Chinese virus" and "kung flu". One of my friends responded that CNN had referred to it as the Wuhan or Chinese virus in the past, and that the author's criticism wasn't consistent, but rather an opportunistic attack on a White House they dislike. My friend is a lawyer and not just an uninformed hack, so while I responded to it with my opinion a couple hours ago, I'm curious as to what your opinions are of this topic: do naming conventions matter? Is it acceptable for media or politicians to flout those standards?

Depends on the level of formality intended, and I guess if it's appropriate. Setting context tends to be the most dominant reason for adjusting formality IMO... using it to denote seriousness or audience. If talking to the Chinese then calling it Wuhan virus might resonate but if talking to non-Chinese calling it the Chinese virus might resonate. Kung flu seems less appropriate for anything as its so overtly sensationalist but that might depend on its context in use as to whether its discrimatory or a play on translation. Obviously I prefer technical accuracy and to me it's professional for anyone with an official role to be professional. The virus is called SARS-CoV-2 and the disease caused by an infection of it is COVID-19. Politicians adjust their delivery depending on the audience, and media tend to be sensationalist, but Heads of State these days feel the need to more politician and media manager than figure head.

Though in the social and multi media space, everyone can be the audience... or at least think they are. The concept itself is not new so it's no excuse for people to try to get away with being offensive.

There is a ton of misinformation and this includes media attention. I work as a Healthcare aide (caregiver/front line worker) in a long term care facility. To our knowledge, we have not been hit by the virus in our local facility but its hitting close to home. The coronavirus is droplets, not airborne despite what the media has said. It is best to isolate for 14 days if you have been in close contact with someone/ or yourself who has coronavirus or has recently traveled. Also, isolate if you are experiencing flu-like symptoms.

Wash your hands for 30 seconds with as hot water as your hands can stand.

make good use of hand sanitizer.

know that hand sanitizer is not a replacement for hand washing.

There are many other things that I could say but I want to give solid facts and not what I think may or may not be true.

May the force be with you and keep safe.

Zenith Felwood wrote: There is a ton of misinformation and this includes media attention. I work as a Healthcare aide (caregiver/front line worker) in a long term care facility. To our knowledge, we have not been hit by the virus in our local facility but its hitting close to home. The coronavirus is droplets, not airborne despite what the media has said. It is best to isolate for 14 days if you have been in close contact with someone/ or yourself who has coronavirus or has recently traveled. Also, isolate if you are experiencing flu-like symptoms.

Wash your hands for 30 seconds with as hot water as your hands can stand.

make good use of hand sanitizer.

know that hand sanitizer is not a replacement for hand washing.

There are many other things that I could say but I want to give solid facts and not what I think may or may not be true.

May the force be with you and keep safe.

My understanding Re the airborne issue is that tests of Air in proximity to sufferers has not shown it as aerosol.... but other tests in controlled conditions in a lab show the virus is capable of being at infectious levels as an aerosol. So reality sits somewhere in between probably, worse then droplet but not as bad as airborne. So it seems like it's airborne as in suspended aerosoled droplets for a few hours, but not aerosol suspended at large on the breeze sorta thing.

It is a droplet. for example, if someone sneezes it sprays out like aerosol can. but it does not stay in the air. It does not multiply on a surface. But it can be moved from one surface to another.

"So it seems like it's airborne as in suspended aerosoled droplets for a few hours, but not aerosol suspended at large on the breeze sorta thing."

correct to my understanding.

Please know this is my understanding now and may not be total fact-based.

Rex wrote: Being that many of my friends are at home and on social media more than regular, a recent article came out from my Alma Mater's student pub that decried the US executive branch's usage of "Chinese virus" and "kung flu". One of my friends responded that CNN had referred to it as the Wuhan or Chinese virus in the past, and that the author's criticism wasn't consistent, but rather an opportunistic attack on a White House they dislike. My friend is a lawyer and not just an uninformed hack, so while I responded to it with my opinion a couple hours ago, I'm curious as to what your opinions are of this topic: do naming conventions matter? Is it acceptable for media or politicians to flout those standards?

Depends on how its done. Trump has an overtly contentious manner of speech and frankly, China is a serious pain in the butt. Its a highly repressive regime that is actively attacking American (and other nation’s) interests https://thediplomat.com/2018/11/uncovering-chinese-espionage-in-the-us/
They are earmarked to be the next global superpower and there is no way to predict what the long term consequences of their achieving this will be. It seems more than plausible to me that Trump would deliberately use abrasive and hostile language because thats the kind of person that he is and he wants to highlight the adversarial nature of our relationship with China.

Thats Trump, though. Rep. Paul Gosar was criticized for calling it “Wuhan virus” even though he was self quarantining because he thought he may have been exposed to it. I personally see nothing wrong with calling it “Wuhan virus”. West Nile virus, Zika virus, Spanish flu, Rocky Mountain fever, St. Louis encephalitis, MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome), the list goes on. Its quite common to name contagious diseases based on where they first appeared. In my opinion, freaking out over such a thing is just the typical virtue signaling and fake outrage that is the hallmark of the left today.

And “kung flu” is just funny.

The World Health Organization has said said that calling it “Chinese virus” may lead to racial profiling against Asians. I think thats ridiculous but they are WHO they are so when i found it i felt i should mention it. Heres a quote which seems reasonable enough and apparently goes back a couple of years: “certain words and language may have a negative meaning for people and fuel stigmatizing attitudes”
I wouldn't personally say “Chinese virus” but “Wuhan virus” seems fine, to me.

Also, i wanted to include this in my last post but i ran out of time:

“The People’s Republic of China....runs the world’s largest concentration-camp network, suppresses religious practice among Christians, Jews, and Muslims, runs a massive organ-harvesting operation among political prisoners and ethnic minorities, and is in the process of creating—with the help of U.S. technology firms—the largest surveillance state in human history.”
https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/14/what-do-u-s-companies-that-do-the-bidding-of-communist-china-owe-to-america/

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@Alethea Thompson (sorry, can't remember how to quote people)

I'm surprised that runny nose is on your list above much more common symptoms; the WHO website indicates that very few people would have a runny nose.

Common symptoms include:

fever
tiredness
dry cough.
Other symptoms include:

shortness of breath
aches and pains
sore throat
and very few people will report diarrhoea, nausea or a runny nose.

It's because it's still listed on the WHO website as a symptom. Many of the essential organizations have said if you can check the box for 3 of the symptoms, you need to stay home and get tested.

Different people get a different mix of symptoms, and severity.

Not saying it isn't real, but I would start questioning things as soon as possible because the things they tell us isn't right. Not everything's as it seems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMXse_Wisyo&lc=UgxZO2Su4zmFy3KW_Wl4AaABAg.975djt_FHLp977ozXp_4w_

I would always be carful what I post and who but ... at the same time - this one will be hard to figure out for our selfs. So much good and bad available - don’t over do it Jedi. I may post piks of my own areas more than some one else’s. I may post more personal that just hear say. Media is hard to gauge because everyone's got a story and everyones got a purpose and none of em are me or mine or ours. It’s theirs.

I may still need to do snooping but this one may be harmful to snoop. Be safe Jedi and be smart. Jedi are smart. May the Force be with you and may it find you where you seek it.

866-462-3821
North Carolina hotline
https://www.dukehealth.org/covid-19-update
These are MY guidelines where I live.
You must tell 911 if you think or have a small change of corona or are calling directly for it.
People here are going to jail because of malice intent. Real real

https://abc7ny.com/6035344/

Where I am - if contacted - you are sent home with hopes and instructions to self isolate. Until the sickness reaches a certain point - they will always send people home. They only keep infected who are terminal.
My hospitals are empty. They have been empty so common folks don’t contact the virus. There is today = there is no cure = hospitals are treating symptoms only. I don’t directly know which actual hospital is working on cures but it ain’t mine.
My local Veterans Clinic -
You have to walk into a tent before you get screened to enter and it’s slow. Not a lot of people there. I know they called every one end Re~scheduled real non essential appointment till further notice. Example : my sleep study is on hold till this is all clear. My mental health appointments are cleared till further notice. Most meds are now delivered by physicians orders. Pharmacy at the VA is closed. You call they bring it out. Duke University’s hospital is not empty but very much less. They are doing the same thing. It has a small number of terminal cases.

By all means - practice your freedoms but at the same time be smart. I don’t want to walk into the one hospital with that few terminal people and act a fool. That’s me. Not even saying others will.

I watched your video and I’m glad I got to. It may not be the best thing for the masses but I HOPE this can validate a few things for those who still don’t know.

Yabuturtle wrote: Not saying it isn't real, but I would start questioning things as soon as possible because the things they tell us isn't right. Not everything's as it seems.

Please do not spread conspiracy. We know nothing about the origin of those videos, nor about those hospitals. A few videos out of context is proof and evidence of nothing. I notice that there were no videos of full hospitals, as we have also been seeing.

Stick to the facts and nothing else.