Just T
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Post by Just T on Mar 31, 2020 16:16:30 GMT
In my area of PA, people are being told that they will get their test results back in 7-14 DAYS. So yes our confirmed positive case count is under 100 and people think that’s great and it’s no big deal and woohoo “no new cases today!” But those samples came in up to two weeks ago. It is not an accurate representation of what the positive numbers are TODAY! It is beyond frustrating for so many reasons. ETA: The case count in our county. Statewide, it is getting pretty up there A friend of mine who is a nurse in Pittsburgh was at home in isolation after she became ill following a patient testing positive for Covid-19. She waited about 8 days for her results to come back - negative thankfully. That was last week. I have posted about my friend's sister. She is a nurse at a St. Louis area hospital who was exposed and is sick. She was tested on Sunday and told it would be 8-10 days to get her results. We hear more and more stories like this, yet Trump is now saying the testing is going perfectly, he hasn't even heard anything bad about testing for 2 weeks. WTF??? And the sad thing is that people believe his lies.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Mar 31, 2020 16:47:59 GMT
Why, New Yorkers, why? Ugh. You can admire the USNS Comfort from the safe distance of your TV screen! This is like peak unintended irony or something. ( source)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2020 16:51:14 GMT
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Mar 31, 2020 16:52:43 GMT
Why, New Yorkers, why? Ugh. You can admire the USNS Comfort from the safe distance of your TV screen! This is like peak unintended irony or something. sooner or later, some of those very same New Yorkers may be admiring the USNS Comfort from INSIDE it... ugh.
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Just T
Drama Llama
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Jun 26, 2014 1:20:09 GMT
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Post by Just T on Mar 31, 2020 16:53:42 GMT
OH no. I really like Chris Cuomo. He's been really great these past few weeks. Even my husband, who HATES watching the news has liked listening to him lately. I hope his case isn't too serious and that he recovers quickly.
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Post by elaine on Mar 31, 2020 17:04:20 GMT
Why, New Yorkers, why? Ugh. You can admire the USNS Comfort from the safe distance of your TV screen! This is like peak unintended irony or something. sooner or later, some of those very same New Yorkers may be admiring the USNS Comfort from INSIDE it... ugh. My understanding is that the USNS Comfort will only be used for non-COVID patients, freeing up more beds inside hospitals on the ground. That said, some of those stupid people will likely be seeing the inside of one hospital or another.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Mar 31, 2020 18:50:25 GMT
Andrew Cuomo: "He's young, he's in good shape, he's strong. Not as strong as he thinks." The Cuomo bros are just heart eyes all around with their public banter and bickering. Hoping for a swift and easy recovery.
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wellway
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Post by wellway on Mar 31, 2020 18:58:33 GMT
The BBC is reporting the following, what a nightmare for all concerned. The captain of a US aircraft carrier carrying more than 4,000 crew has called for urgent help to halt a coronavirus outbreak on his ship. Scores of people on board the Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive for the infection. The carrier is currently docked in Guam. "We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die," Captain Brett Crozier wrote in a letter to the Pentagon. Captain Crozier recommended quarantining the entire crew. His letter was first reported in the San Francisco Chronicle before being confirmed by other outlets. The Chronicle said at least 100 sailors had contracted the coronavirus. In the letter Captain Crozier said the outbreak on board could not be contained, with the spread now "ongoing and accelerating". Cramped, communal conditions on vessels like the Theodore Roosevelt make imposing social distancing measures extremely difficult. "Removing the majority of personnel from a deployed US nuclear aircraft carrier and isolating them for two weeks may seem like an extraordinary measure," Captain Crozier wrote. "This is a necessary risk," he added. Speaking to Reuters news agency, a US Navy spokesman said the service was "moving quickly to take all necessary measures to ensure the health and safety of the crew of USS Theodore Roosevelt". www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52110298
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Post by gar on Mar 31, 2020 19:03:03 GMT
The BBC is reporting the following, what a nightmare for all concerned. The captain of a US aircraft carrier carrying more than 4,000 crew has called for urgent help to halt a coronavirus outbreak on his ship. Scores of people on board the Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive for the infection. The carrier is currently docked in Guam. "We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die," Captain Brett Crozier wrote in a letter to the Pentagon. Captain Crozier recommended quarantining the entire crew. His letter was first reported in the San Francisco Chronicle before being confirmed by other outlets. The Chronicle said at least 100 sailors had contracted the coronavirus. In the letter Captain Crozier said the outbreak on board could not be contained, with the spread now "ongoing and accelerating". Cramped, communal conditions on vessels like the Theodore Roosevelt make imposing social distancing measures extremely difficult. "Removing the majority of personnel from a deployed US nuclear aircraft carrier and isolating them for two weeks may seem like an extraordinary measure," Captain Crozier wrote. "This is a necessary risk," he added. Speaking to Reuters news agency, a US Navy spokesman said the service was "moving quickly to take all necessary measures to ensure the health and safety of the crew of USS Theodore Roosevelt". www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52110298Oh gosh, that’s terrible 🤭 I hope they can take the necessary steps to help them all.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Mar 31, 2020 20:37:57 GMT
Worry for the state of the US (and lack of national guidance) through the coronavirus crisis continues in Europe. Tomorrow's front page for French newspaper Libération reads: "The United States facing the virus, n°1 world powerlessness"
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Post by hop2 on Mar 31, 2020 20:50:49 GMT
Why, New Yorkers, why? Ugh. You can admire the USNS Comfort from the safe distance of your TV screen! This is like peak unintended irony or something. sooner or later, some of those very same New Yorkers may be admiring the USNS Comfort from INSIDE it... ugh. Not if they get Covid 19. The comfort is supposedly for non Covid patients ( obviously that is subject to change as the crap hits the fan as is everything )
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Post by SockMonkey on Mar 31, 2020 21:05:51 GMT
sooner or later, some of those very same New Yorkers may be admiring the USNS Comfort from INSIDE it... ugh. Not if they get Covid 19. The comfort is supposedly for non Covid patients ( obviously that is subject to change as the crap hits the fan as is everything ) Looking at all those fools right now:
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Post by hop2 on Mar 31, 2020 21:17:21 GMT
Not if they get Covid 19. The comfort is supposedly for non Covid patients ( obviously that is subject to change as the crap hits the fan as is everything ) Looking at all those fools right now: I don’t know, I had a great view of it from my couch on my TV. Probably saw more than the people pictured along that wall 🤣
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Post by elaine on Mar 31, 2020 23:11:50 GMT
sooner or later, some of those very same New Yorkers may be admiring the USNS Comfort from INSIDE it... ugh. Not if they get Covid 19. The comfort is supposedly for non Covid patients ( obviously that is subject to change as the crap hits the fan as is everything ) Actually, since it is a ship, I don’t think that will change. If/when COVID patients would be brought on a ship, there would be a lengthy period of time the whole ship would be “offline” while they sanitized everything after the patient(s) was/were discharged. It would render the Comfort useless for a long time. There is already an ongoing crisis with a USN ship (Theodore Roosevelt) with a large number of the crew having come down with COVID-19: www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2020/03/31/theodore-roosevelt-captain-makes-urgent-plea-for-individual-quarantine-sites-as-covid-19-cases-multiply/
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Post by hop2 on Apr 1, 2020 0:00:06 GMT
Not if they get Covid 19. The comfort is supposedly for non Covid patients ( obviously that is subject to change as the crap hits the fan as is everything ) Actually, since it is a ship, I don’t think that will change. If/when COVID patients would be brought on a ship, there would be a lengthy period of time the whole ship would be “offline” while they sanitized everything after the patient(s) was/were discharged. It would render the Comfort useless for a long time. There is already an ongoing crisis with a USN ship (Theodore Roosevelt) with a large number of the crew having come down with COVID-19: www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2020/03/31/theodore-roosevelt-captain-makes-urgent-plea-for-individual-quarantine-sites-as-covid-19-cases-multiply/ yes I agree, but wasn’t going to say never in this situation because really who know what will go down.
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Post by yivit on Apr 1, 2020 1:37:59 GMT
One of my son's two jobs is closing up. Landlord won't work with them on rent (duh, your entire strip is shut down from this and you want to lose tenants, go right ahead and good luck finding anyone right now to lease space), so he's packing everything up tonight. They've been talking about a mobile setup, plus he was in talks with a second venue closer in town, so now he may have the cash flow to start that one up once this subsides. Son still has his other job at house of blues but they're shut down right now too and will be at least through next month.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 1, 2020 1:58:13 GMT
Why, New Yorkers, why? Ugh. You can admire the USNS Comfort from the safe distance of your TV screen! This is like peak unintended irony or something. sooner or later, some of those very same New Yorkers may be admiring the USNS Comfort from INSIDE it... ugh. Nope, not happening NO Covid-19 on the Comfort!!
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Post by Scrapper100 on Apr 1, 2020 2:00:48 GMT
sooner or later, some of those very same New Yorkers may be admiring the USNS Comfort from INSIDE it... ugh. Nope, not happening NO Covid-19 on the Comfort!! When they first mentioned them they said they weren’t set up to isolate people or for any type of infectious disease but are set up to deal with trauma cases. So they will take other patients to reduce the strain.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 1, 2020 2:05:25 GMT
"We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die," Captain Brett Crozier wrote in a letter to the Pentagon. He has risked any future promotion to protect his Sailors! That is doing the right thing! He has great courage!
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Post by yodutchess on Apr 1, 2020 2:17:05 GMT
DD 1 works retail. She has exhausted her PTO and is officially laid off. DD 2 is working from home, as is DSIL. DS is taking his college courses now online. I asked him how he was adjusting and he let me know he missed today’s class. Just great! His drum corps season was officially cancelled Sunday. He marches Reading Buccaneers. I was to do the 5 Borough Bike Ride in NYC May3 and a Girls Mud Run May 30 and they have been postponed with no new date. Now, waiting on weddings May 24 and June 13 of friend’s children.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 1, 2020 2:41:05 GMT
DD 1 works retail. She has exhausted her PTO and is officially laid off. She needs to apply for unemployment!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 1, 2020 4:01:50 GMT
Snowbirds are trapped.............. ORLANDO, Fla. — Retired Americans and Canadians who spend winters in the southern U.S. are stuck in limbo as the coronavirus pandemic has forced them to re-evaluate where to live the next few months. The group, commonly known as snowbirds, is questioning whether it is safer to stay in their winter homes or head back north as travel restrictions from Florida to Canada go into effect. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) issued a stay-at-home order for South Florida on Monday, which serves as a part-time home for a number of snowbirds. Meanwhile, north of the U.S. border, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called on all Canadians abroad to “come home” earlier this month. Snowbirds face an additional hurdle as individuals over 65 years old are at higher risk for developing serious cases of the disease. “It began to really not be feasible to head north,” Barbara Klipper, a Provincetown, Mass., resident who has been wintering in Sarasota, Fla., for three seasons, told The Hill. “Pretty early on, we realized we weren’t going to go anywhere near airplanes, and it would involve three airports to get us home.” Klipper, 69, said she and her husband had thought about making the four-day road trip back to Provincetown, but ultimately deemed it too risky. “Just going through multiple states, staying who knows where, getting food from who knows where,” she said. “It just seemed to increase the risk exponentially."** However, as snowbirds continue to trickle over the border from the U.S., Canadian officials are urging caution. “Snowbirds and travelers: when you arrive in Canada, you do NOT go to get groceries, drop off your RV, or visit the grandkids,” Jason Kenney, the Premier of Alberta, Canada, tweeted earlier this month. “You go - straight home, for 14 days. This isn’t a hint or suggestion; it’s a public health order.”** Much more at link: thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/490432-snowbirds-in-limbo-as-coronavirus-upends-plans
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 1, 2020 5:05:24 GMT
Shame on this entitled man!! Endangered a whole hospital! A Rochester, N.Y., man admitted he recently entered a hospital to see his wife in the maternity ward even though he knew he was exhibiting coronavirus symptoms.The unnamed man said he knew he had been exposed to the virus but decided to conceal his symptoms from Strong Memorial Hospital staff last week, only admitting to the symptoms after his wife began to display similar symptoms after giving birth, the Democrat & Chronicle reported Tuesday. Since becoming aware of the incident, the UR Medicine system has said it will begin taking the temperature of all visitors to Strong and other affiliated hospitals that offer maternity services, including Highland Hospital. On Monday, the system announced that staff, patients and visitors will be required to wear surgical masks in all public patient-care areas, although the policy is unrelated to the maternity ward incident, the newspaper reported. ** thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/490440-new-york-man-admits-to-hiding-coronavirus-symptoms-to-visit-wife-in
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 1, 2020 5:06:20 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2020 5:24:16 GMT
WA and CA shut down hard and fast. The death rates are slowing. Social distancing WORKS.
NY, LA, FL took longer....
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Post by Scrapper100 on Apr 1, 2020 7:55:18 GMT
I think the numbers would be a lot higher in California if we had more tests. People with symptoms unless really sick and needing hospitalization are just being sent home or told by their doctors to not go for a test but to stay home. While I think the early stay at home has helped so many here are not taking it seriously and I think we are going to have a surge at some point - I really hope I am wrong. I just know I am only going out for food or medical supplies. Getting what I can mailed vs doing pickups when possible as well. I guess we will know in the next two weeks if things are still staying low or not.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2020 9:41:08 GMT
I think the numbers would be a lot higher in California if we had more tests. People with symptoms unless really sick and needing hospitalization are just being sent home or told by their doctors to not go for a test but to stay home. While I think the early stay at home has helped so many here are not taking it seriously and I think we are going to have a surge at some point - I really hope I am wrong. I just know I am only going out for food or medical supplies. Getting what I can mailed vs doing pickups when possible as well. I guess we will know in the next two weeks if things are still staying low or not. What difference would a test make to the ones showing symptoms? If they are showing symptoms they should use their brain and do as they are told - STAY HOME and totally isolate themselves from everything and anyone and advice anyone they have been in touch with over the previous week or so to also self isolate themselves as a precaution for 14 days. If anyone is showing symptoms they shouldn't visit the Doctor's office either risking the spread to others, UNLESS you show more severe symptoms and need hospitalisation, visiting your Doctor isn't going to help you, you need an ambulance. I can't understand how people can be so irresponsible knowing they have symptoms and still go out The stay home advice isn't just to keep you ( general you) from being infected, it also means that you, with symptoms or having possibly been exposed to someone that has, do not infect anyone else. There's not a lot anyone can do with the people that unknowingly carry it, without or prior to having symptoms, unless one is going to test EVERY citizen - an impossible task!
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Post by yodutchess on Apr 1, 2020 11:04:01 GMT
DD 1 works retail. She has exhausted her PTO and is officially laid off. She needs to apply for unemployment! She has applied, thanks!
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