The Covid-19 Thread: News, Preparation Tips, Etc

Chicoro

5 Year Shea Anniversary: Started Dec 16th, 2016!
I appreciate you all thanking me for being on this thread. I big part of it is, "I've got nowhere else to go. I've got nothing else...but you." I'm alone. Trying to manage my own anxiety. The better way for me to do that historically, is to focus on someone or something other than myself. So there is selfishness in my efforts as well as some selflessness.


Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming!
 
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nycutiepie

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I woke up with a stuffy nose and then the sniffles. Now I feel like my throat is tickling. I’m sipping hot water with lemons and gargled with ACV and drank some.

I’m paranoid as I don’t know what. I did just notice that the heat was coming up in my bedroom so maybe that’s why. I am praying I don’t have this mess. I’m wondering if I should take some meds? This is crazy.
 

discodumpling

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This is OUR shelter and always has been. Glad to be able to have this space with the ladies of LHCF.
I'm gonna be out and about doing my taxes today. Even with the extension...I already made this appt. weeks ago and my tax dude ain't cxling ish! It will give me an opportunity to see how folks in the burbs are coping with this.
I'm going to try to run all my errands and handle all my outside business as quickly as possible and then get back to my house. I'm thankful to be able to freely move around my neighborhood while practicing social distancing. Yesterday I did the laundry and instead of sitting around talking trash with others while clothes were in the washer...I went for a 20 minute walk.
The neighborhood bum sat on a laundry bench preaching to everybody...he ain't never scared. Lol! The more he said "what yall scared for" the more scared I got!
I'm up early cause I'm about to go hunting at Walgreens. Their weekly sale starts today and you gotta be there when the doors open or you get nada!
 

vevster

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I woke up with a stuffy nose and then the sniffles. Now I feel like my throat is tickling. I’m sipping hot water with lemons and gargled with ACV and drank some.

I’m paranoid as I don’t know what. I did just notice that the heat was coming up in my bedroom so maybe that’s why. I am praying I don’t have this mess. I’m wondering if I should take some meds? This is crazy.

I hope you have supplements on hand. Take those.
 

awhyley

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I woke up with a stuffy nose and then the sniffles. Now I feel like my throat is tickling. I’m sipping hot water with lemons and gargled with ACV and drank some.

I’m paranoid as I don’t know what. I did just notice that the heat was coming up in my bedroom so maybe that’s why. I am praying I don’t have this mess. I’m wondering if I should take some meds? This is crazy.

@nycutiepie, I'm going through the same right now. I self-diagnosed that it's just the cold/flu because I don't have a fever or respiratory stress. However, since this has been going on since earlier in the week, yesterday I called our Covid-19 hotline to confirm. They advised to take some meds, which I purchased yesterday at the pharmacist. Wish I had made inroads earlier because I have work on Monday and don't want to be coughing and sniffling around people. Definitely call a doctor to confirm your symptoms and take the meds. Address your symptoms as early as possible. More importantly, do not fear.
 

Chicoro

5 Year Shea Anniversary: Started Dec 16th, 2016!
This Italian doctor has made a comment that may be important for our LHCF health workers:

She said, "I was careful and used protective equipment with the patients. But, I did not use protective equipment when interacting with one[ the other hospital workers ] another. [...] Assume everyone is infected."

She tells health workers to make sure to keep their masks and gloves and eye goggles on when interacting with doctors, nurses, hospital staff and other support staff. She has now contracted the virus and must coordinate from home, under quarantine and in self isolation.

 

discodumpling

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I was on the phone with my fave Auntie. She lives alone but not far from me so we keep in touch...writing this makes me realize I talk to her as much as I talk to my Mommy.
Anyway she drinks some kind of ginger concoction before going out and after she returns to her house. Ill post the recipe later cause I'll be picking up supplies (aka pineapple upside down cake) later.
Keep posting your immune boosting/protecting recipes ladies. They are extremely helpful.
I just doubled my usual supplements for now.
 
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TrulyBlessed

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I wish CNN and other media sources would quit saying there are no studies proven to show xyz supplements work to treat coronavirus. No kidding, it’s a new virus and there are no studies proven to show anything including pharmaceutical drugs work. Let us boost our immune systems in peace.
 

Ganjababy

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There are no reported cases in North Korea. They are not sharing their case but I read that they do have the virus. I searched and found an article below suggesting that one person with the virus was shot.


apparently Trump offered Kim Jong help with the virus?! When I first read the article I thought he was asking for help, but he was offering lol. Some articles don’t post for me.

I saw a sci-fi comedy movie YEARS ago where everyone had turned dumb/slow because they had become so dependent on technology that they stopped thinking and using their brain cells. The doctors in the movie was artificial intelligence.

The smartest guy the could find to be the president had the intellect of a 7 year old. I keep thinking about that movie in the last few weeks.



https://www.techtimes.com/articles/...ng-covid-19-patient-experts-left-doubtful.htm
 
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Layluh

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Wow my boyfriend just sent me a french article correlating the number of icu beds to the number of deaths. Basically the fewer icu beds there are, the more deaths there are. and many countries have cut the number of icu beds to save money. Whats even more interesting is the US has even fewer ICU beds than italy.

Heres the article if anyones interested, I cant speak french so someone else can feel free to translate.
http://jdmichel.blog.tdg.ch/archive/2020/03/18/covid-19-fin-de-partie-305096.html
 

vevster

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I wish CNN and other media sources would quit saying there are no studies proven to show xyz supplements work to treat coronavirus. No kidding, it’s a new virus and there are no studies proven to show anything including pharmaceutical drugs work. Let us boost our immune systems in peace.
These outlets are not my primary source of info. It is so wrong.......

I went to Trader Joe's this morning. They had everything. I racked up on water and TP. I just had two oranges and am sipping on bone broth.
 

Everything Zen

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This Italian doctor has made a comment that may be important for our LHCF health workers:

She said, "I was careful and used protective equipment with the patients. But, I did not use protective equipment when interacting with one[ the other hospital workers ] another. [...] Assume everyone is infected."

She tells health workers to make sure to keep their masks and gloves and eye goggles on when interacting with doctors, nurses, hospital staff and other support staff. She has now contracted the virus and must coordinate from home, under quarantine and in self isolation.


Essentially universal precautions. :yep:
 

Layluh

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I'm also going to post the rantings of my boyfriend. He has a Ph.d in theoretical physics so there's a lot he understands about this stuff.

One thing he talked about yesterday is the difference between a virus and a bacteria. Bacteria are much more complex than a virus so it's easier to treat. You can basically shut the whole bacteria down by altering one part of the bacteria. But since Viruses are so simple, (and like all simple technologies, they work very well), you almost have to take it apart piece by piece to see what you can do to kill it.



*i feel like I learned some of this in grade school but its been so long lol.
 

nycutiepie

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@nycutiepie, I'm going through the same right now. I self-diagnosed that it's just the cold/flu because I don't have a fever or respiratory stress. However, since this has been going on since earlier in the week, yesterday I called our Covid-19 hotline to confirm. They advised to take some meds, which I purchased yesterday at the pharmacist. Wish I had made inroads earlier because I have work on Monday and don't want to be coughing and sniffling around people. Definitely call a doctor to confirm your symptoms and take the meds. Address your symptoms as early as possible. More importantly, do not fear.
What meds did you take? My sniffling stopped but I’m not taking any chances.
 

Everything Zen

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Thank you for the information.

@Everything Zen ,
The way it doubles globally and the way it doubles locally, are they different 'behaviors' of the virus? Do we count the doubling differently on a global scale than on a local scale?

Sorry for the late response. I figured there was no point since I didn’t have an answer from a global perspective as it’s definitely has public health unique to each country and I had to walk away from all the news bc I was on info overload and it was affecting my mental health.

From what I can see Pritzker put the lockdown in affect, it appears the rate of reported cases has slowed to less than a quarter because on Tuesday- 160, Wednesday - 288, Thursday- 422, Friday- 585, and now 753 as more and more business closed and people started self-quarantining before the lockdown.
 

Chromia

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I went to CVS at 8am today and thank goodness I was the only customer in the store. At my closest CVS the store opens at 8 but the pharmacy doesn't open until 10 on Sundays.

Then I went to my co-op. In the bakery section every bagel, muffin, etc is now individually wrapped in cling wrap.

They also added a clear plastic barrier at every cash register, about 3' x 3', between the cashier and the customer.

Both CVS and the co-op have lines on the floor at the registers, with signs that say to wait behind the line.
 

Chicoro

5 Year Shea Anniversary: Started Dec 16th, 2016!










Update: The field hospital is now operational and receiving patients. Go here for the latest article (as of March 21) on our response in Italy.

The Samaritan’s Purse DC-8 aircraft arrived March 17 in Milan, Italy, and our 32-member disaster response team is already preparing the Emergency Field Hospital to provide medical care during the coronavirus pandemic.


Our staff are quickly organizing medical supplies.

Our 68-bed respiratory unit is being set up in the Cremona Hospital parking lot to help care for an overflow of coronavirus patients. Samaritan’s Purse staff are working with the Italian Air Force and Lombardy Region Civil Protection Volunteers to unload the 20 tons of medical equipment transported by the DC-8 and to prepare the respiratory unit to receive patients.

Cremona Hospital has been forced to suspend all medical care except for maternity and pediatrics due to the overwhelming numbers of people suffering from this terrible disease. To date, no patients in the hospital’s intensive care unit have survived COVID-19.

The city of Cremona sits outside of Milan in the Lombardy region, which has the highest death toll by far of any region within Italy. There are more people needing intensive care in Lombardy than there are ICU beds available. Hundreds have died each day for the past several days.


Who is Samaritan Purse ?
International Crisis Response
Samaritan's Purse stands ready to respond at a moment’s notice whenever and wherever disaster strikes. We specialize in meeting critical needs for victims of conflict, disaster, famine, and epidemics throughout the world, often working through ministry partners on the ground. We provide food, water, shelter, medicine, and other assistance in the Name of Jesus Christ.
(They are associated with TBN)
 

Chicoro

5 Year Shea Anniversary: Started Dec 16th, 2016!
Thank you, @Chicoro for the xylitol nasal spray post! Helpful!

You are welcome, vester. I can say from direct experience that helped me, immediately, this morning. Ideally, if you can get the ready made product, that would be best. If you cannot, the recipes should be a good alternative. I have not made or used the recipe that I posted.
 
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