Conavirus......

[bae]

There are a lot of unknowns about the long-term effects of COVID (hasn't this been discussed before?), including some troubling indications of brain involvement.

Apparently one of the early stages is Mask Derangement Syndrome :-)

[flowerseverywhere]

reading your posts through the years you are extremely informed, logical and non hysterical. Your info was my initial feeling when Coronavirus news starting coming out. Our medical system is already taxed in many places.
looking at the breakdown of deaths, they are largely skewed towards 60 years old and up.

The cat is out of the bag, so to speak and the known cases are multiplying at frighteningly rapid rates. It is almost everywhere in the world now, with a very high mortality rate.

Besides the obvious health implications, this could have a big effect on the world economy. With large portions of China on lockdown, exports will be strained and as we all know, it is hard to find an article of clothing or any item for that matter made in North America. Retail and other service jobs such as restaurants and truck transport are such huge parts of our economy if people stay home and transport slows down (ie.people are afraid to fly, eat out or go to stores) we could be in for a rough ride.

This was my response the Bae’s initial warning about how big this was going to be 18 months ago. I have not posted on a very long time as I was pretty disgusted with some of the comments. how dare people not care that children are getting sick. That people have died and many have long covid. That people won’t get the shot because some politician or Internet or TV fraudster has put doubts in their mind.
fast onward to today. I was hospitalized with bacterial pneumonia early this summer. The ambulance took me to a hospital with no Covid patients and yet they still allowed no visitors in the ER and very restricted visitors once I was admitted. I had gotten the pneumonia vaccine but it was a bacteria my body was not able to fight against. I don’t remember the first three days at all, but was able to get out of the hospital in a week. It has taken months and I am still not fully recovered. You know what the nurses told me? They were so happy when they saw it wasn’t Covid. They were so burnt out from having multiple patients die a day and they could not even get a patient to the morgue fast enough there were so many patients waiting for a bed.
fast forward to now, I still have some difficulty breathing but can do almost everything I did before, just sometimes not as quickly. I am alive and expected to improve more. There has been a psychological toll on me.

so as a high risk individual living in The Covid capital of the world, Florida I’m going to post next what it is like here now.

[iris lilies]

This was my response the Bae’s initial warning about how big this was going to be 18 months ago. I have not posted on a very long time as I was pretty disgusted with some of the comments. how dare people not care that children are getting sick. That people have died and many have long covid. That people won’t get the shot because some politician or Internet or TV fraudster has put doubts in their mind.
fast onward to today. I was hospitalized with bacterial pneumonia early this summer. The ambulance took me to a hospital with no Covid patients and yet they still allowed no visitors in the ER and very restricted visitors once I was admitted. I had gotten the pneumonia vaccine but it was a bacteria my body was not able to fight against. I don’t remember the first three days at all, but was able to get out of the hospital in a week. It has taken months and I am still not fully recovered. You know what the nurses told me? They were so happy when they saw it wasn’t Covid. They were so burnt out from having multiple patients die a day and they could not even get a patient to the morgue fast enough there were so many patients waiting for a bed.
fast forward to now, I still have some difficulty breathing but can do almost everything I did before, just sometimes not as quickly. I am alive and expected to improve more. There has been a psychological toll on me.

so as a high risk individual living in The Covid capital of the world, Florida I’m going to post next what it is like here now.

So sorry to hear this!

[razz]

So glad to hear from you, flowers, but so sorry to hear of the health challenges you have been going through. The pandemic has taken a psychological toll in so many ways on care providers, families, healthcare in all its forms and so on in addition to the patients themselves often suffering with other health issues.
Take care of yourself.
Just ignore the posts that seem so inappropriate. Rebutting or presenting with scientific facts does not appear to register is my observation.

I have friends who travel south every winter who are struggling with what to do this year. Some other friends bought a Florida condo in May 2021. Not saying or hearing much until they decide what they are going to do this fall.
Snowbirds income is important to the US.

[frugal-one]

It would be cheaper to just build a great big habitable indoors here. Lock the poor riffraff outside in the unlivable reality and let them die.

This post sounds like another person on this site who is constantly saying it is ok to let others die... yada yada yada

[frugal-one]

If they get adequate care, why the panic?

Let's hope it happens to you. Hey, you'd get "adequate" care.

[flowerseverywhere]

Update from Florida. ICU’s and hospitals full. A few evenings ago news showed ambulances waiting outside of ER’s to offload patients. A friend had a cardiac event and went by ambulance. ER was a zoo and she was treated in the hallway and put in a conference room with several other non Covid patients as rooms were full. We have the highest rate of children sick.
Governor Ron Death Sentence has an executive order forbidding mask mandates in schools. A few districts have them and he first said he would deny funding, and now he is trying to work around that illegal idea by subtracting school official and school boards salary from the funding they get. He is selling t shirts that say “don’t Fauci my Florida” on his website, as well as beer cozies that say “ how in the hell am I supposed to drink my beer with a mask on”.
everywhere you go, there are crowds with no masks. Packed bars and restaurants, lots of tourists whooping it up deporting the virus back to their states when they go home. State is around 50% vaccinated.

doctors are pleading with Gov. trying to get him to reverse his decision. Lots of schools already showing increased cases in the second week of school.

when I leave my house I double mask. I was mask shamed the other day, a lady practically screamed at me “ take those filthy rags off your face”. I had to stop in a bank to sign some papers. The other bank patrons were shocked. I asked her if she went to medical school at Tucker Carlson University or the Internet because I was listening to the MD who just saw my latest lung CT and maybe they would be interested in her professional opinion. She stomped off. I don’t leave the house much, but that was not my first mask shaming.

so I don’t want to hear any crap about masks, or people getting adequate care. Children are lying in hospital beds. Over 1,000 people died in Florida last week. Cases keep going up breaking state records. ER’s, ICU’s and hospitals are full.

I would dare any anti-Vax or mask deniers to spend on day caring for these very sick children gasp for breath and possibly have long term symptoms.
This is not anything to be taken lightly. We are 18 months in and should be doing much better. Get the vaccine, social distance, mask up when you are around people inside. There is little difference to me between murderers and people who defy medical advice and put others, especially children, at risk of disease and death.

how can anything be more important (including your so called “Free Dumb” than protecting the welfare and health of children? It gives me nightmares to think of the kids suffering.

[pinkytoe]

It feels like a never-ending circus. When did Americans get so dumb? I am sorry for your illness, Flowers, and for people who would verbally shame someone for wearing a mask.

[happystuff]

flowers, so sorry to hear what you have been going through. Glad you are on the mend, even if very, very slowly! Also, thanks for the first-hand Florida updates! So, so sad.

[jp1]

This post sounds like another person on this site who is constantly saying it is ok to let others die... yada yada yada

Hopefully it came through that that was snark. But true. Whether we decide to colonize another planet or build a mega enclosed habitat here because the planet is no longer livable it’s not going to be poor people who get invited to participate.