Coronavirus **personal experiences** thread

Here, some Sign Language Interpreters use this mask: https://victoryprotects.com/pt-pt

It is transparent, not so good for protection, but useful enough to use at distance to do the interpreting job. As for the one you linked above, I wouldn’t probably use it or feel confident using it for this pandemic situation.

Still, I’m sure that some people will use it, because it looks like “super heavy duty facial protective gear” rather than with a…mask :person_facepalming: :smiling_imp:

Remember the warnings about holiday travel?

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I live in Riverside county, and our county is leading California in some statistic for COVID-19.

(I don't recall the specific statistic.)

I remember in Spring of 2020, I wished that COVID-19 wouldn't become a huge problem where I live, but it has happened, and I have known it for a while now.

I am disappointed in the situation, and just hope that my family doesn't get sick.

Please take care RC. Stay safe as possible.

Thanks!

I hope you and everyone else on BLF stays safe as well.

My daughter had an onset of internal bleeding, associated with a growth on her ovary. She went in for emergency surgery last Sunday. She had a doctor calling around to hospitals in the area, trying to get her in for surgery, and they all said they were full. But the doc pulled in some favors and got her into a hospital. They took out an ovary and two growths (tumors or cysts, not sure) and took care of the bleeding. DW and I were there in her hospital room to see her when she came out of recovery. Strangely, this “full” hospital had no other patients in that ward. No noises, no sounds. Nurses were sitting around at the station with nothing to do until my daughter was brought over. We’re still trying to figure that one out.

She had a great nurse that night and we left feeling like she was in good hands. But the next shift came on and the day nurse tried to lay a “Covid trip” on her. Said she appeared to not be getting enough oxygen (the machine monitoring her would beep) and must have a breathing problem. Got her to submit to a covid test. Would not give her any water, even when swallowing pills, and harassed her when she didn’t have any urine. Threatened to take away her phone. Wouldn’t let anyone at all into her room, not even someone with power of attorney. In mid-afternoon, the same nurse who’d been in and out all day suddenly came in wearing full PPE. My daughter was afraid they’d move her to the covid ward and she’d really catch it there, so she had them remove the lines, got herself dressed, and checked herself out.

Wishing her the best!

Huh? Nope, I did not write that speculation. Please double-check your attributions and paste your speculations into a Google search before posting them, you may find they’re supported by published facts. Or not.

Huh? Nope, I did not write that speculation.
That came from Coronavirus **personal experiences** thread - #7000 by jon_slider

Please double-check your attributions.
It’s often useful to paste your speculations into a Google search before posting them, you may find they’re supported by published facts. Or not.

It was a wrong addressing when quoting from djozz!
The person who said/asked that was jon_slider here: Coronavirus **personal experiences** thread - #7000 by jon_slider

I belive djozz may have seen the profile photo (white, similar to yours) and copied the sentence, used the quote button and put the wrong username!


I just wanted to say: we did it, finally :exclamation:
It was without time that my country jumped to the top of “number of daily cases per million of habitants” :person_facepalming:

Sorry folks, we are number 1! At least today :weary:

Stupid people, everywhere… :person_facepalming:

Alternative Facts:

this site says Portugal is #18 in cases per million:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/coronavirus/

click on the collumn for cases per million, to sort the list on that category

Portugal is also very low on the percent of case fatalities, less than 2%,
there are at least 60 other countries where the fatality rate is (much) higher.

Portugal is also low on deaths per million of population, there are 30 other countries that are worse.

of course, it is ALL bad

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my present understanding is the vaccine does not prevent testing positive for corona,

the belief is that the vaccine prevents severe symptoms, when testing positive

question
are vaccinated people still contagious, when they test positive?

I should have added daily new confirmed COVID-19 cases per million people, as the chart mentions :zipper_mouth_face: Sorry for the absence of precision!
Overall perspective is a bit less “unfavorable”!
About the deaths, we have passed the 9.000 deaths todau. But we have a constant number between 120-170 deaths per day in the last week, hospitals are on the top of capacity…which will eventually lead to choices on the medical staff, between lifes and deaths…

We are in a “confinement” but I go to the window and seems like is normal as it was before… :person_facepalming:

I think it is difficult for many people to believe in an invisible enemy

especially when mask wearing is voluntary

we are starting to see some countries taking steps to make masks mandatory, with legal penalties

however, there are times when people gather for food and or alcohol, and the the masks come off

In USA half the country believes a guy that does not believe in wearing masks. People have been going to restaurants and bars, to eat food and drink alcohol, in groups, indoors, without masks…

And very large numbers of people traveled by airplane to visit relatives for the holidays…

Here there is an unenforced 14 day quarantine for out of state visitors. But nobody keeps track of who comes here, and the quarantine is voluntary. I see many cars with out of state license plates.

The US has 25% of the total coronavirus cases in the World, but only has 4% of the world’s total population

Iam out of it…iam healthy…But,never again.be careful people.for most is it ok,no big problem…For some is it deadly…Uf,Iam glad,that next three months i should be safe….

Hum, honestly, this is not an invisible enemy. People can look to the common graves digged in NYC (USA), Manaus (Brazil) and eventually in other places where there was no possiblity to put people in cemeteries. Or, empty rooms with a coffin because the family couldn’t go there and bury their own familiar… Sad :frowning:

Also, it is not invisible because everyday there are news showing hospital staff overwhelmed, with bruises in the face, queues of ambulances outside hospitals to bring more people into ICU.

Last but not least, the people that are loosing jobs, closing businesses, the increase of homeless people…

This is only invisible for those that don’t want to see what this virus is causing! So, for me, it is well visible!

Masks here were supposed to be used in “public” spaces. BUT the last days I see more and more people without it. Specially older people, but also middle aged and young…

Here, 14 days are for people that have been in contact with infected people and will not make a test. But many people, the smarta$$es, don’t do it… Gatherings here, outdoor, is less frequent. So what people decided to do was to make indoor parties with hundreds without protection or distancing… :rage:

Now I believe there are some restrictions from people flying from above, still, there is very few verification of their testing or absence of testing…

Honestly, everything is pretty messed up, we have to take care and avoid the potential infecting situations. Some people will not be able to do that, some will not care about that… and in 2022 we’ll still be in this mess…

No clue on this :zipper_mouth_face:

Glad that you feel better vresto! :+1:

Makes me sad and angry

Dr. Drosten from Germany said C19 will probably stay, won’t go away. It will be still a thing next year (2022) . In 10 years newborns must get an infect or vaccine to be save.
:-/

Here is the Coronavirus Update Podcast #70 with Christian Drosten as text in German. From 2021-01-05 Google translate is your friend.

Answer: there is no clear evidence answering this question yet. It was not tested during the vaccine trials. Some preliminary evidence produced by Pfizer/BioNTech and Oxford/AstraZeneca claims to show the vaccine might somewhat reduce the probability of a vaccinated person spreading the disease, but they don’t yet know for sure.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-transmission/fact-check-scientists-do-not-yet-know-whether-the-covid-19-vaccine-reduces-transmission-of-the-virus-idUSKBN29N1UH

The bottom line: vaccinated people still need to do the responsible thing - wear a mask and practice safe distancing around other people. If you are exposed to someone who might be infected, you still need to quarantine yourself.

Mother Nature may have another surprise coming:

https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=9711

About the new variant of the virus, the UK variant,