Coronavirus **personal experiences** thread

This pandemic has confirmed my belief that Homo sapiens is the craziest and most irrational life form on planet Earth.

Think of the human brain as being two people.
The most powerful is the sub-conscience. If it’s needs are all met, the conscience is allowed to take control. But the sub-conscience never stops monitoring everything.
Example? Imagine you are researcher, alone at an arctic outpost when your find yourself needing surgery. You take some pain killers and prepare for surgery. But as you prepare to cut into yourself, you sub-conscience sees your intentions and fights back hard. You try to convince your sub-conscience it is necessary for your survival, but he just doesn’t have the capacity to see past the immediate here and now. Will he understand? Depends on the person. But most likely not.

If you apply this to politics, you can see how the sub-conscience craves identifying dangers. It’s your sub-conscience that is watching the nightly news, not your conscience. Your conscience is just along for the ride. Maybe helping translate for the master.

> when you find yourself needing surgery

It’s been done:

On this day in medical history: Self-surgery in Antarctica

https://www.mdlinx.com/article/on-this-day-in-medical-history-self-surgery-in-antarctica/lfc-1633

Good find. Yea, I read about him in high school. I based the example on him. You have to admit, not many people would have successfully removed their own appendix.

Also up for Google grabs, there is a religion that believes a human is an animal possessed by an alien conscience, or something like that.

You are 100% right, peer reviewed journals have been the only way to minimize conflicts of interest and ensure some level of objectivity. The case I was referring to is a total BS field of research anyways, not medical research. And the journals that were involved were mostly pay to play journals. And one of them keeps having regular issues with objectivity and they keep cracking down on people who abuse the pay to play scheme .

On another note, I heard something ridiculous that the most quoted news source on TV is Twitter.

How do you guys calculate mortality rate? I am looking at this CDC chart - Death rate by County-level Population Factors

I chose some of the data points in the last 30 days, that show some particular groups and deaths per 100,000 in the last 7 days:

North Dakota Non-Metro 2.5-3.1
North Dakota Metro 0.9 –1.41
Non-Hispanic, American Indian, Alaskan Native 0.91-1.18
65 or older 0.46-0.50
Average Household size Low 0.5
Average Household size High 0.28

Over 900 of the staff at the Mayo Clinics in the Midwest currently have COVID-19

93% of those were reportedly infected outside the clinic, the remainder were believed to have been infected in the break room.

:person_facepalming: What makes people in the midwest more likely to be infected?
The CDC data I looked at, showed that Rural “non-metro” areas have much higher case numbers and deaths than populated “metropolitan” areas.

In a recent interview on Minnesota Public Radio, the Minnesota Health Commissioner and the state’s Infectious Disease Director were asked about the factors driving the rise in cases in their state. They answered that the data being collected lately shows that it is small gatherings, and the lack of precautions such as distancing and wearing masks at such gatherings, that were driving much of the increase in their state. They contrasted this with the increases in the spring, which were associated with larger groups in places such as factories.

In an interview on CNN this week, the president of the Minnesota Nurses Association said that a large percentage of the nurses in the state have tested positive for Covid-19, and that even in places such as the extreme northeastern, rural, portions of Minnesota, there are hospitals where a large percentage of the nurses have tested positive for the virus. She also stated that nurses in Minnesota still cannot get the personal protective equipment they need to be safe on the job, including masks, and that she has not been able to get tested for Covid-19 since February. They are still reusing masks. She said a lack of support from the federal government has cost lives, among patients and nurses.

I’ve also read of interviews of nurses in the Dakotas and Minnesota saying that many of their patients who die of Covid-19 infection deny they have the virus until the moment they die, telling the nurses that it is a “hoax,” and that it isn’t real.

I guess the small gatherings could explain why there are almost 2 Single people are dying vs large family.
And the denial / hoax could explain why “Non-Hispanic, American Indian, Alaskan Native” and “non-metro” are the dying the most.

There was no data on nurses or any other profession but I wonder why are they getting infected for the first time so late in the year or is it a reinfection?

Well, I know everyone is curious where my ornery ass has been…… not really eh? :frowning:
Anyway, I have been in the hospital with Covid since the end of Sept(7 weeks). I was in a coma intubated in ICU for 3+ weeks After coming out of the coma I begged numerous times to be disconnected and let die but was denied that relief. It was tortuous.
After I left ICU I was sent to the Covid ward for a couple of weeks enjoying that ‘good’ hospital food and was then sent to a ‘swing’ bed for over 2 week for rehab which didnt do anything except more bad hospital food. I dont know how else to say it but I looked death squarely in the eye while in ICU hallucinating, It was truly a frightening experience even seeing the ICU nurses as ‘monkey people’ when I came out of the coma. I lost 50lbs(180 to 130) during the ordeal. Anyway I am now back home but alone and still unable to walk at all without a walker and that is really sketchy. I did fall the other day and couldnt get up into the walker or get to my phone. It seemed forever before someone found me. I am hoping that things get better but have been told that they may not. :exclamation:
Yall please WEAR A MASK unless you want your grandma seeing monkey people… :sushi:
……….This is BAD shit…… believe me you dont want anyone you love getting it.
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Edit(s) - Sorry for the numerous edits but my typing and proof reading have suffered also :person_facepalming: :beer:

Wow, that is truly scary. Good to have ya back though, Coscar.

Whoah Coscar, thanks for sharing your harrowing experiences with us.
Hope you can build your strength back up now that you’ve beaten the virus.

Thanks Yall……… its definitely STILL a work in progress :beer: :beer:

Well that would explain why we haven’t heard from ya—glad to hear you survived all that mess.

You are bound to be weak after such a large weight loss as there is not much muscle left. Fortunately it can build back up over time—just be very careful not to fall as the bones are weak too.

Covid might have hit your body a blow, but you still got your sharp half-wit mind. :beer:

Glad to hear you survived.

Coscar, glad you survived.

Did you receive any of the medicines we hear about on the news?

Was there one you think was especially helpful?

Was your case so severe because you are elderly?

I hope you get some support, old, trouble walking, and home alone sounds very difficult.

My heart goes out to you.

Coscar: I’m glad you made it back from the brink. Hang in there, and keep at it.

Thank you for sharing your experience in this thread - I hope your advice is taken to heart by everyone reading it.

Glad to hear you made it through all that. Sounds terrible. Still there are people denying this thing is real.

:open_mouth: :open_mouth: Wow… Thanks a lot for sharing your experience, and we’re all really glad you survived it. Best wishes for a full recovery, although I can imagine it will probably take time.

Covid is real, all right. And it has (according to numbers which I personally suspect are overstated) claimed almost 1/3 as many people this year as have been killed by cancer. It’s a virus worthy of respect.

The great majority have been people with other health problems, a situation that generally increases with age. Proper nutrition and exercise can contribute to a person’s ability to fight off a respiratory disease, but there’s no foolproof cure by any means. We all have an expiration date.

I have trepidation about physical suffering, but not about death.

Coscar, glad you pulled through. I can understand the desire you felt to give up (I’m a wuss about pain), but hope you’ll continue to get stronger now that you are out of the hospital.