How has the coronavirus affected your personal life?

[pacu mom]

Unfortunately, smoking doubles one's risk for respiratory infections and doubles the risk of getting sicker from COVID-19. - not to mention the carcinogenic aspects

Covid-19: Medical Experts Warn to Stop Smoking & Vaping - UNDO.org

Smoking and vaping can put you at higher risk for COVID-19. Find out why doctors now recommend quitting now to help ensure you don't fall badly ill with this disease.

tobaccofreeca.com

 

[celebrist]

Yep but he is pretty healthy otherwise and even though he is unvaccinated was able shake it off with few problems

 

[Supergeorge123]

We need tobacco passports. Smoking is way more deadly than covid after all, same thing with alcohol. Killed the same amount of people in the same amount of time. Of course we won't send any water filters to India or Africa to prevent the dysentery outbreaks that kill 1.5 million children every year, that would be crazy.

 

[celebrist]

Let's hope

Delta is Dying

Despite media claims that “We Can’t Turn the Corner on Covid,” the numbers of Covid-19 cases, new hospitalizations, and deaths nationwide peaked and started to decline around the beginning of September. The combination of this milestone, new findings from the Centers for Disease Control and...

www.city-journal.org

 

[pacu mom]

Let's hope

Delta is Dying

Despite media claims that “We Can’t Turn the Corner on Covid,” the numbers of Covid-19 cases, new hospitalizations, and deaths nationwide peaked and started to decline around the beginning of September. The combination of this milestone, new findings from the Centers for Disease Control and...

www.city-journal.org

Hmmmm that would be wonderful. Florida has taken a lot of flak for the way things are being handled and their high COVID-19 numbers and deaths. In August, they changed how they reported deaths, resulting a a temporary artificial decline in recent deaths. In fact, some days, there were zero deaths, but days later the number of deaths for that date would increase.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article253796898.html

According to this site, I don't see a decrease in deaths yet

United States COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer

United States Coronavirus update with statistics and graphs: total and new cases, deaths per day, mortality and recovery rates, current active cases, recoveries, trends and timeline.

www.worldometers.info

8/27 - 1651 deaths
8/28 - 1355
8/29 - 825
8/30 - 970
8/31 - 1567
9/1 - 1630
9/2 - 1812
9/3 - 1719
9/4 - 1195
9/5 - 880
9/6 - 752
9/7 - 1047
9/8 - 1887
9/9 - 2106
9/10 - 1777

Keep in mind that the numbers change every day as the numbers from the states who changed their reporting strategy straggle in and as other states revise their totals. A lot of counties don't report deaths over the weekend, and by late Monday afternoon, the numbers from the different states can change a lot. Tomorrow, if you look at the site I gave, the numbers will probably be different and most likely higher.

 

[altums85]

Off topic, but anyone here invest in the stock market? If u do and been keeping an eye on certain stocks. You'll realize how the media spreads fake news. And how rigg the stock market and the u.s financial market is.

 

[Ulu]

I have been watching the masks steadily vanish in public stores over the past weeks. Employees are wearing them (or at least faking it) but only 1 in 4 shoppers are now wearing a mask.

For about 3 days after the last relaxation of mask rules, they were still asking people to wear them & giving free masks at the door of Walmart. That didn’t last long. (I don’t know if it was every store or just our local one.)

But the California rules are different. A lot of states have different rules, and there is more contention over that issue now than ever.

BTW, I don’t ever reuse masks unless I am forced to. I use the cheapest ones and I toss them like Kleenex. The cost is very low if you buy a box of 100. Maybe the supply is better here? I can buy masks by the 1000s.

If you put a used mask back in a bag, nothing prevents the interior and exterior sides from cross contamination. To me, a mask is not reuseable.

 

[Ulu]

Read the info in the link I provided. Hola…

Thanks, Right off the bat, it’s a world-class trash issue.

Health authorities say the most widespread anti-COVID weapon -- surgical masks -- must be thrown away after a single use, but environmental concerns are pushing some scientists to question this recommendation.

They are mainly all spun polys, from refined crude oil. (We wouldn’t want to use oil and
make more garbage just for our health, eh?)

They made so many masks here that I think it caused the price of gasoline to rise, even though people were commuting much less.

Anyhow, because I’m not sick, I wear a mask in stores etc to protect myself from other people who might be.

If I was sick, I wouldn’t put on a mask and go out, unless it was a big emergency. (I realize not everyone has that luxury.)

To me, if you have stuff in the lungs. sinus, etc, you don’t want to breathe it out into a mask and then rebreathe it. If I was an asymptomatic carrier, I’d expect that to generate some symptoms.

Anyhow, I avoid going out, so therefore I avoid the whole business as much as possible.

 

[RD.]

Hardly any Canadians caught the flu last year. What can we expect this fall? (msn.com)


"Flu season didn’t really happen last year in Canada.


Measurements of flu stayed so low all year that it actually never passed the threshold the Public Health Agency of Canada normally uses to declare the start of the season -- which usually happens in the fall.

PHAC recorded 69 influenza detections in the 2020-21 flu season, in its final FluWatch report on Aug. 28. Normally, around 52,000 cases are detected."


"The personal protective equipment, like the wearing of the masks and the significant effect of social distancing may have had (an effect) on the number or the prevalence of the virus in the community,”

Well, that certainly proved to be the case in the care facilities where I work. As stated previously, last year was the first time in a decade that we did not have an influenza outbreak. All staff & residents also get an influenza vaccine (gasp) every fall, yet in past years we also had influenza outbreaks among the residents, in every building. This usually involved a smaller number of staff, but some staff always got sick as well.

It will be interesting to see what happens this season.

 

[pacu mom]

Anyhow, because I’m not sick, I wear a mask in stores etc to protect myself from other people who might be.

If I was sick, I wouldn’t put on a mask and go out, unless it was a big emergency. (I realize not everyone has that luxury.)



Anyhow, I avoid going out, so therefore I avoid the whole business as much as possible.

My unvaccinated friend spent a month in Mexico visiting family. Through out her visit I sent her texts about what was happening in our community (the high numbers of infections and deaths). She always responded that she was being careful and thanked me for the updates. On Monday two weeks ago, she had a cold and went to the doctor. Her COVID-19 test that she needed three days before flying back to the US was negative. She flew out that Wed. and had to overnight in Oakland. Her son picked her up late Thurs at our little airport. By that time she was very sick, so he took her directly to the ER. She tested positive for COVID-19, and was sent home. The next morning she was really sick and had trouble breathing. She called her friend whose husband has metastatic liver cancer and who really couldn't afford to be deliberately exposed to COVID-19. Sick friend was told that she had to drive herself to the hospital (fortunately, the hospital was just across the road from the mobile home park where she lived. Her friend drove there and followed sick friend to the hospital and they were in communication by phone the whole time to make sure sick friend made it there. Once parked outside the ER, the nurses quickly brought a wheelchair and whisked sick friend inside. With her O2 saturation in the 80s, she was admitted.

"Cold" and a negative test. Three days later very sick with a positive test. Admitted four days after a negative test. No way I'd get on a plane right now. So every one has to wear a mask on a plane except when they are eating. Does the act of eating prevent aerosolized viruses from spewing out mouths and noses? Very scary thought that I could be sitting next to some one on a plane who is infected with COVID-19 and thinks they only have a cold.